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Adequate tetanus toxoid immunization and its correlates among married women with a recent live birth in Afghanistan: Insights from a national survey

This study aimed to determine the prevalence and correlates of adequate tetanus toxoid (TT) immunization among married women in Afghanistan. This cross-sectional study analyzed data from the 2022-2023 Afghanistan Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey (MICS), focusing on 12,450 marrie...

Lunar surface energy infrastructure: from in-situ resource utilization to deep space exploration

Sustainable, high-power energy infrastructure is essential for lunar bases yet must withstand the Moon’s extreme environment. This review compares power-generation, storage, and grid technologies across performance, environmental adaptation, in-situ resource utilization (ISRU) co...

SNAI2/SLUG: a key regulator of endothelial-to-mesenchymal transition and vascular remodeling in cardiovascular diseases

Snail family transcriptional repressor 2 (SNAI2), also known as SLUG, is a canonical driver of epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT). While its oncogenic roles are well-established, emerging evidence underscores its pivotal involvement in cardiovascular diseases (CVDs). This re...

Home-based digital exercise versus hospital physiotherapy for plantar fasciitis: a propensity-score-matched retrospective cohort study with dual-perspective cost-utility evaluation

OBJECTIVE: To compare the clinical effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of a 12-week home-based digital exercise programme with 12-week hospital-supervised physiotherapy for plantar fasciitis in routine Chinese tertiary-hospital care. DESIGN: Single-centre retrospective cohort st...

Budget impact analysis for albuterol–budesonide fixed-dose combination in the as needed treatment of adult patients with asthma in Kuwait

INTRODUCTION: This study assessed the budget impact, from the perspective of the Kuwaiti healthcare payer, of introducing an as-needed fixed-dose combination of albuterol and budesonide (alb/bud-FDC) compared with albuterol alone and ICS-SABA for the management of asthma. METHODS...

Actor–partner effects of irrational beliefs on marital adjustment in healthy and chronically diseased couples

Although marital adjustment is inherently a dyadic process, and stressors such as chronic illness can be associated with couple functioning, limited research has examined how irrational beliefs are associated with marital adjustment from a dyadic perspective. Therefore, this stud...

The impoverishing effect of tobacco expenditures

Tobacco consumption is a major source of health and financial burden, yet evidence on its association with household poverty remains limited. This study examines how tobacco-related expenditures are associated with both the incidence and depth of poverty in Albania. Using nationa...

From occlusion to 3D: amodal completion-assisted single-view wheat reconstruction

Occlusion is a major factor limiting accurate three-dimensional (3D) wheat phenotyping. In natural growth conditions, overlapping spikes, leaves, and stems often make only partial target regions visible in single-view images, hindering complete and reliable 3D reconstruction. To...

Ethics at the Center: Interpreting Title IX’s Shifts Through the Lens of Professional Duty in Oral Health Education and Practice

Background Title IX is a foundational civil rights law affecting educational environments, including dental education. Ongoing regulatory changes have created uncertainty for institutions, raising questions about whether compliance alone is sufficient to fulfill dentistry’s profe...

A cascaded PID-reinforcement learning-based virtual inertia control in microgrid load frequency control system using electric vehicle energy storage

The islanded microgrids increasingly depend on renewable energy sources for power generation and introduce significant frequency control challenges due to the renewable sources’ intermittent nature and low system inertia. Traditional energy storage systems, though employed and ef...

Raman spectroscopy resolves nitrogen-driven metabolic acclimation to urban air pollution in Quercus ilex

Urban air pollution may alter plant metabolism long before visible damage becomes apparent. Raman spectroscopy was evaluated as a rapid, non-destructive approach to resolve these biochemical adjustments. Mature Quercus ilex L. trees were sampled along a well-defined pollution gra...

Patterns of egg production across the lunar cycle in broiler breeder hens under tropical conditions

1. This study evaluated whether lunar periodicity was associated with variation in productive traits and mortality in commercial broiler breeder hens. Production records from Cobb 500 heavy breeder hens (n = 17,548), collected between 2016 and 2021 on a commercial farm, were anal...

Methodological Reporting Quality of Artificial Intelligence-Based Orthopedic Studies: A Literature Analysis

Objective: We set out to examine how completely artificial intelligence (AI)-based orthopedic studies report their methods. Methods: A PubMed search covering 2023-2025 was run with a predefined strategy. Screening of titles, abstracts and full texts left 280 eligible papers, and...

Enhanced stability and controlled release of mandarin peel bioactives formulation for sustainable nutrition and next generation food system

This study explored the microencapsulation of mandarin (Citrus reticulata) peel extract using ionic gelation and freeze-drying to improve the stability and bioavailability of citrus bioactives. Encapsulation involved sodium alginate, maltodextrin (MD), gum arabic (GA), and Aloe v...

The dialectic tension between traffic and norms: content creators’ participation in vernacular architectural heritage restoration — evidence from the Qing-dynasty Jin-style “Shanxi Old Residence”

The rapid growth of short-video platforms has transformed vernacular architectural conservation from a professional field into mass public discourse, where online content creators act as vital grassroots practitioners that popularize traditional construction culture through intui...

Effects of oil prices agricultural land and employment on agricultural value added in Pakistan using the ARDL approach

Pakistan's agricultural sector plays a fundamental role in ensuring food security, generating employment, and supporting economic growth; however, its performance is increasingly challenged by volatile international oil prices (OIL), changes in agricultural land (AL) use, and shi...

Black Heritage Sites and the National Register of Historic Places: A Snapshot in Time

This article explores the historical underrepresentation and recent revitalization of African American heritage sites within the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP). Historically, Black heritage sites accounted for approximately 2% of total listings, a disparity highlight...

A hybrid semi-analytical and neural network approach for solving nonlinear Kolmogorov and Rosenau-Hyman equations

This paper presents a hybrid semi-analytical and physics-informed neural network framework for solving linear and nonlinear partial differential equations. The proposed approach combines the New Iterative Method (NIM) with Physics-Informed Neural Networks (PINNs): a low-order ana...

A phase II multi-institutional single arm trial evaluating TG4010 vaccine plus nivolumab in non-small cell lung cancer

Immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) have transformed non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) therapy, but only 25% of patients have durable responses. TG4010, a mucin 1 (MUC1) vaccine, has demonstrated activity in NSCLC. We conducted a multi-institutional study to determine the safety...

Peruvian ice has preserved a global methane record

The first record of global methane in the tropics, collected from the summit of the mountain Nevado Huascarán in Peru, fills a crucial gap in historical methane data sets. It improves our understanding of the contribution of tropical sources to the past and current global methane...