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136583 work(s)
- Materials & EnergyOpen access
Abstract The design of amphiphilic thermoresponsive block copolymers enables the development of nanostructured systems for controlled drug delivery. In this context, we report the synthesis of a well-defined triblock copolymer, poly( N -isopropylacrylamide)- b -poly(3-hydroxybuty...
- Health & MedicineOpen access
Abstract Background Understanding the needs of family caregivers of patients with cancer and providing appropriate support are essential to ease the burden of illness, facilitate family management, and reduce the risk of adverse health outcomes. Currently, the unmet supportive ca...
- Engineering & Technology
To promote high-value reuse of decommissioned rigid pavements, a synergistic treatment for recycled rigid pavement coarse aggregate was developed and its suitability for airport pavement lower-layer concrete was evaluated. The treatment combined mechanical grinding with sodium si...
- Health & MedicineOpen access
Abstract Purpose Weight loss after bariatric surgery is commonly reported using anthropometric parameters; however, these measures do not distinguish between changes in fat mass, lean tissue, and body water. Bioelectrical impedance analysis (BIA) enables a more detailed assessmen...
- BiologyOpen access
Abstract The quarantine root-knot nematodes Meloidogyne chitwoodi and Meloidogyne fallax pose a significant phytosanitary risk to agricultural production, yet little is known about their ability to reproduce on strawberry. This study evaluated the host status of cultivated and wi...
- AI & ComputingOpen access
TU-GAN: A Cooperative Game Theory Framework with Transferable Utility for Stable GAN Training
This repository contains the official implementation of the paper "TU-GAN: A Cooperative Game Theory Framework with Transferable Utility for Stable GAN Training". It includes:- Standard GAN and Cooperative GAN (TU-GAN) implementations- WGAN and Cooperative WGAN (TU-WGAN) implemen...
- Health & MedicineOpen access
Waterhouse-Friderichsen syndrome (WFS) represents a fulminant septic condition characterized by bilateral adrenal hemorrhage and rapid clinical deterioration. Although classically associated with meningococcal infection, fatal cases occur across multiple infectious etiologies and...
- Physics & SpaceOpen access
WE ARE NOT SEPARATE FROM NATURE: From Microbial Life to Humanity and the Question of Human Supremacy
Description This research paper examines humanity’s place within the long evolutionary history of life on Earth. It explores the continuity between humanity and the ancient history of cellular life, including the scientific significance of universal common ancestry and the Last U...
- Engineering & Technology
Levee stability can be compromised by internal erosion associated with culvert defects, yet early-stage erosion may not produce visible surface deformation. This study investigates the hydro-mechanical response of levees subjected to defect-driven internal erosion using four 20g...
- Engineering & TechnologyOpen access
On the Discrete Optimization of x ^(n−x) and its Upper Bounds via the Lambert W Function
This paper investigates the discrete optimization of the exponential function g(x) = x^(n−x) subject to a fixed integer n While the continuous relaxation of this problem can be approached via classical differential calculus, determining the absolute maximum over the domain of nat...
- Society & EconomicsOpen access
Abstract Everyday happiness can be described more informatively by considering both the situations surrounding happiness reports and how people engage with and respond to everyday experience over the relevant assessment interval. The present research examined activity–companion c...
- Materials & EnergyOpen access
Complexity of disconnection dynamics during grain boundary migration
Abstract The Interfacial Line Defect Analysis (ILDA) method is used to fully resolve the time-evolving disconnection network governing migration of the Σ 5(210)[001] symmetric-tilt grain boundary in Al. Rather than proceeding by smooth glide of largely straight disconnections, as...
- BiologyOpen access
Temporary double vision (diplopia) experienced during adaptation to new optical lenses or a change in the focal power of the natural lenses or sudden pupillary aperture shifts is classically misattributed to binocular muscular fatigue or image-size disparity. This paper redefines...
- AI & ComputingOpen access
Palindromicity of Antichain Polynomials of Three-Dimensional Boxes
For the antichain generating polynomial of the product poset [a] x [b] x [c], this preprint gives a complete palindromicity classification. After sorting a ≤ b ≤ c, the polynomial is palindromic exactly for (a,b,c)=(1,r,r) or (2,r,r+1). The new higher-layer theorem excludes every...
- Engineering & TechnologyOpen access
AI governance frameworks increasingly assign organizational actors the authority to restrict, suspend, override, or modify AI-enabled capabilities. Existing disciplines already provide methods that can support and assure those decisions. Safety engineering addresses safe-state tr...
- BiologyOpen access
In behavioral ecology, male-male pair bonds in black swans (Cygnus atratus) have frequently been dismissed through anthropomorphic framing or as stochastic errors in operational sex ratios. However, given that male-male pairs account for approximately 25% of all pair bonds within...
- Health & MedicineOpen access
Astrocytes contribute to amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) through non-cell-autonomous and inflammatory mechanisms, yet disease-associated astrocytic heterogeneity remains difficult to summarize with discrete cluster labels alone. Here, we reanalyzed two independent public huma...
- Health & MedicineOpen access
Abstract Purpose The aim of this study was to investigate the different dentin surfaces produced following their modification using Er, Cr: YSGG and Er: YAG lasers under different operating parameters. Methods Thirty-three sound, caries-free human third molars were collected and...
- Engineering & TechnologyOpen access
This volume develops an iterated outer-functional framework for harmonic analysis. Native functions, distributions, measures, and kernels form the base level; harmonic observations acting on these objects form the first functional level; and sharp constants, extremizer moduli, co...
- AI & ComputingOpen access
ALGORITHMIC TRACKING AND PROBABILISTIC HEURISTICS OF THE KIMBERLING SEQUENCE
This preprint investigates the Kimberling Expulsion Conjecture (associated with OEIS A007063), which asserts that every positive integer is eventually expelled from the main diagonal of Kimberling's expulsion array under deterministic iterative repositioning. While the underlying...