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- Climate & EnvironmentOpen access
Biodegradable Plastics as Carbon Sources: DOC Release and Temperature-Driven Microbial Succession
The accumulation of biodegradable plastics (BPs) in wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) presents a novel environmental concern, while carbon deficiency concurrently limits advanced biological denitrification. Herein, this research explored the fate of BPs and their viability as s...
- Climate & EnvironmentOpen access
The Upper Rhine Graben (URG) has been a key area for subsurface energy activities for decades, with a focus on hydrocarbons during the mid- to late 1900s and a gradual shift toward energy transition applications such as geothermal energy and, potentially in the future, undergroun...
- Engineering & TechnologyOpen access
Understanding Photon-Counting CT: Physics, Detector Technology, and Image Reconstructions
Photon-counting computed tomography (PCCT) represents a detector-level transformation in CT imaging. Unlike conventional energy-integrating detectors, photon-counting detectors directly convert individual X-ray interactions into electrical pulses and classify them according to en...
- Engineering & TechnologyOpen access
Wafer-edge uniformity in semiconductor etching is a key quality metric directly linked to device yield and is strongly governed by the local sheath structure near the wafer edge-focus ring boundary. However, the relative effects of focus ring geometry, dielectric material, and ap...
- Society & EconomicsOpen access
From Task Management to Self-Actualization: Enhancing Behavioral Intention in Digital Goal-Setting
Goal planning is central to personal development, yet users often struggle with self-motivation in digital environments that rely on extrinsic rewards. To explore how design can better support meaningful, self-actualizing goals, we conducted a three-part mixed-methods study: a qu...
- Health & MedicineOpen access
Background: In Parkinson’s disease (PD), gait and balance impairments severely reduce patient independence. This exploratory study compared a multimodal Adapted Physical Activity (APA) protocol, a tango-based program (Riabilitango®, RT), and standard care (Control), while examini...
- BiologyOpen access
Group living can make animals more resilient or more susceptible to human-induced rapid environmental change. Freshwater and coastal habitats are becoming increasingly turbid because of human activity, which limits the availability of visual information and hence responses to cri...
- Climate & EnvironmentOpen access
This study examines social media communication in Kenya to assess how dryland pastoral concerns are represented in national climate policy dialogues. Approximately 80% of Kenya’s land area consists of drylands that support pastoral livelihoods, yet recurring droughts and increasi...
- AI & ComputingOpen access
Segmentation of mining-disturbed land is of great significance for eco-geological environment monitoring. Although existing methods possess strong segmentation capabilities, mining-land exhibits irregular edges, different spatial size, and global texture variability, which lead t...
- Materials & EnergyOpen access
Background Olive ( Olea europaea L.) breeding initiatives rely heavily on the extensive and correct characterisation of genetic resources to successfully achieve their goals, such as addressing climate change and emerging diseases challenges. However, the historical lack of stand...
- Materials & EnergyOpen access
Quantum-well metasurface for free-space-accessible enhanced nonlinear polarization
Abstract Nonlinear frequency conversion underpins important technologies such as telecommunications and quantum computation; however, weak nonlinearities and architectures that resist miniaturization currently limit devices’ efficiency and widespread adoption. Here we combine a b...
- BiologyOpen access
Sleep architecture alterations are consistently reported across major psychiatric disorders, but the contribution of demographic factors to between-study heterogeneity remains insufficiently characterized. Age and sex have not been systematically examined as study-level moderator...
- Health & MedicineOpen access
Abstract Background Pertussis, an acute respiratory infection caused by Bordetella pertussis ( B. pertussis ), has resurged in China. Biofilm formation has recently been associated with the pathogenesis of B. pertussis . This study aims to analyze the biofilm formation capacity o...
- AI & ComputingOpen access
On Integral Invariants and Dralls for a Dual Lorentzian Closed Strip
In this paper, a dual Lorentzian closed strip {X˜(s),N(s)} is considered within the context of Lorentzian 3-space, with a real parameter s, a timelike moving frame {A(s),G(s),N(s)} is defined, which moves along the curve of this dual Lorentzian closed strip. A timelike vector D,...
- Health & MedicineOpen access
‑mediated toxicity, microbial imbalance, and developmental disorders of Chinese cordyceps.
- Climate & EnvironmentOpen access
The Moroccan littoral stretches on 3,500 km, including 500 km on the Mediterranean side; this explains the considerable extent of the country’s coastal wetlands. The great variability in the geology and morphology of these littorals has led to a wide diversity of coastal landscap...
- Physics & SpaceOpen access
New insights on mutual information in the island approach to the Page curve
Abstract In this article, we have presented one of the very important observations, regarding the behavior of mutual information of two different sets of subsystems in the after Page time scenario. This provides us with some deep insights about the redistribution of geometrical c...
- Society & EconomicsOpen access
Abstract Although virtual laboratories (VLs) have been widely promoted as tools for expanding inquiry-based science learning, their potential for supporting dialogic inquiry in limited resource areas remains underexplored. This study investigates how the affordances of VLs are en...
- AI & ComputingOpen access
Extending the computational reach of quantum annealing using reverse annealing
Abstract Quantum annealing is a promising heuristic for combinatorial optimization, but on current hardware its solution quality degrades for larger and more complex problems due to noise and small energy gaps. Reverse annealing has been established as a refinement strategy, yet...
- Engineering & TechnologyOpen access
Complex-Valued HRU-Net with Cross-Gated Attention for PolSAR Semantic Segmentation
In recent years, U-Net-based architectures have been widely applied to polarimetric synthetic aperture radar (PolSAR) semantic segmentation. However, successive downsampling may lead to the loss of fine spatial details, while conventional U-Net-style decoder directly concatenates...