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- Society & Economics
Looking back over 20 years of research into ‘parkour and urban space’
Parkour is a lifestyle sport that originated in the Parisian suburbs in the 1990s. It has sparked research in various fields, with studies examining either the activity itself or using it as a stage to discuss broader or relatively distinct topics. As no systematic review of the...
- Climate & Environment
Killarney Provincial Park, Ontario suffered extensive aquatic biodiversity loss in the early 1960s from acidification, particularly in the highly sensitive ridgetop lakes. In recent decades, effective North American legislation and emission reductions have resulted in substantial...
- Society & EconomicsOpen access
CHALLENGES ASSOCIATED WITH AGING MUNICIPAL INFRASTRUCTURE IN SOUTH AFRICA: A THEORETICAL REVIEW
Abstract Municipal infrastructure provides the foundation for essential service delivery, economic activity and social development in South Africa. However, the increasing age and deterioration of municipal infrastructure have created significant challenges for municipalities res...
- Society & EconomicsOpen access
ABSTRACT As increasing stakeholder pressure pushes firms to embed sustainability into their strategies, this study explores how corporate venture capital (CVC), a key corporate entrepreneurship instrument, supports corporate parents to learn from sustainable startups. Based on or...
- Physics & SpaceOpen access
FINDING: Photosynthetic energy transfer exhibits quantum coherence, enabling near-perfect efficiency via wave-like superposition over multiple pathways. | MATH: Efficiency η ≈ 0.95–1.0 (near-unity quantum yield); coherence time τ_c ~ 300–600 fs (FMO complex); exciton coupling J ~...
- Society & Economics
Situated at the intersection of the visual and verbal, graffiti serves as an artistic form of political expression, offering marginalized communities a means to assert their voices in the public sphere. Often associated with pride, defiance, and resistance, graffiti functions as...
- BiologyOpen access
Hidden Gut Dysbiosis in Apparently Healthy Adults
(1) Background: Intestinal dysbiosis has been implicated in numerous gastrointestinal, metabolic, and immune-mediated disorders; however, data regarding its prevalence in asymptomatic adults remain limited. This study evaluated the prevalence and integrated profile of microbiolog...
- BiologyOpen access
Smart drug delivery systems have attracted considerable interest in nanomedicine because they enable controlled release of therapeutic agents. Among them, poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) (PNIPAM) nanogels are promising candidates owing to their thermoresponsive behavior. However, the...
- Society & EconomicsOpen access
Background: The rapid expansion of teletherapy services, accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic, has significantly intensified the occupational demands on online counsellors and psychotherapists. Sustained engagement in virtual counselling environments, characterised by high worklo...
- BiologyOpen access
Divergent Proton-Buffering Processes and Acidification Risks in Permanent and Variable-Charge Soils
Soil acidification threatens agroecosystems, yet the coupled, soil-specific proton-buffering mechanisms in permanent-charge soils (PCSs) and variable-charge soils (VCSs) remain insufficiently quantified. This study systematically investigated surface cation exchange, vacant site...
- Society & EconomicsOpen access
Mega water projects and their chain reactions: central-provincial dynamics in Chinese hydropolitics
Scholarship on China’s South-to-North Water Diversion (SNWD) project has examined its motivations, implementation and socio-political and hydrological consequences, yet limited attention has been paid to how mega-projects may generate ‘chain reactions’. This article examines addi...
- Physics & SpaceOpen access
Survival Probability in Waveguides with Delta Barriers: A Study of Tunneling and Resonances
We study resonances and time decay in a quantum waveguide with two semitransparent barriers. The model is first analyzed as a one-dimensional Schrödinger operator with two delta interactions and then extended to a two-dimensional strip, where transverse Dirichlet modes reduce the...
- Society & Economics
Stronger Yet Stretched: Resilience and Stress in U.S. Families Raising Autistic Children
Raising a child with autism presents families with unique challenges and experiences, often characterized by heightened stress but also remarkable resilience. This study utilizes cross-sectional data from the 2022 and 2023 National Survey of Children’s Health administered by the...
- Health & MedicineOpen access
Consumption of Fructose by Cultured Primary Rat Astrocytes
Abstract Fructose has recently gained substantial interest in the context of diseases that are connected with sucrose-rich diets. Several studies have shown that astrocytes are able to metabolize fructose to some extent but less efficiently than glucose. To study whether and how...
- Health & MedicineOpen access
Background: Classical Hodgkin lymphoma (HL) has its origin from the germinal center B cells. Better cure rate have been observed in treatment of hodgkin lymphoma over last few decades with combination chemotherapy 2 2 agents, improvement in radiotherapy techniques, and salvage hi...
- Health & MedicineOpen access
Background/Objectives: Humans are primarily infected by two distinct seasonal influenza A virus (IAV) subtypes, A(H1N1)pdm09 and A(H3N2). Because IAV mutates rapidly, it continuously escapes existing protective antibodies. However, repeated exposure to these evolving strains incr...
- Biology
Abstract Introduction Glioblastoma is an aggressive brain tumour that, despite multimodal treatment, almost always recurs. Infiltrative tumour cells within the brain microenvironment are thought to drive recurrence and are supported by surrounding non-cancerous brain cells. Among...
- BiologyOpen access
Background: β-lactam/β-lactamase inhibitor combinations (BL/BLIs) and siderophore cephalosporin serve as critical polymyxin alternatives for carbapenem-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa (CRPA). However, systematic multicenter clinical data from China and the resistance mechanisms...
- Health & Medicine
20 Design and development of a novel digital shared decision making aid for glioblastoma patients
Abstract Introduction Facilitating shared decision-making (SDM) and incorporating patient decision aids are recommended by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE). However, there is a lack of SDM aids for the specific treatment of high-grade glioma patients....
- Society & EconomicsOpen access
Development and validation of the mathematics anxiety questionnaire for primary school students
Mathematics anxiety is a significant emotional factor that can negatively influence students’ motivation, confidence, and achievement in mathematics learning. This study aimed to develop and validate the Student’s Mathematics Anxiety Questionnaire (SMAQ) for primary school studen...