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Temperature-Associated Differences in Mortality Timing in WSSV-Exposed Penaeus monodon Under Additional AHPND and WSSV Challenge

Water temperature can affect the clinical expression of white spot syndrome virus (WSSV) disease. However, mortality patterns under the influence of directional temperature change remain unclear. Here, we evaluated 576 specimens of Penaeus monodon from a WSSV-positive cohort in a...

Density functional theory study of native point defects in CaO

We investigate the structural, electronic, and optical properties of native point defects in CaO using first-principles density functional calculations. Oxygen vacancies (VO) are favored under O-poor conditions, whereas calcium vacancies (VCa) dominate under O-rich conditions. Ca...

Mutation Is Noise: The Information-Theoretic Impossibility of Undirected Macroevolution from Shannon Theory, Quantum Information, and Thermodynamics

We formally classify biological mutations as noise in the precise technical sense defined by Shannon's mathematical theory of communication and derive five independent information-theoretic impossibility results for undirected macroevolution—the generation of new specified biolog...

Metabolic Profiling of Mammary Vein Blood and Coccygeal-to-Mammary Vein Ratios for Assessing Udder Health in Dairy Cows

Inflammation of the mammary gland alters substrate utilization and metabolite trafficking between the systemic circulation and mammary tissue, leading to metabolic adaptations that affect udder function and milk composition. This study investigated mammary metabolic alterations i...

The Tenocyte from Atom to Cell: A Critical Multiscale Synthesis Linking Collagen Chemistry, Tissue Mechanics, Cell Mechanobiology and Mathematical Modelling

The tenocyte builds, maintains, senses and degrades one of the most mechanically demanding extracellular matrices in vertebrates, yet the chemical, physical, biological and mathematical descriptions of this system have developed in largely separate literatures. This review examin...

Life in motion: residential trajectories of internal migrants in Cameroon

Urbanization in Cameroon is driven largely by internal migration, yet the micro-level dynamics of migrants’ residential moves in an African context remain understudied. This article seeks to answer the research question ‘What characterizes residential trajectories of Anglophone m...

All in the same boat? Exploring the micromechanics of transition phases in hybrid teams

This study examines the micromechanics of transition phases in hybrid teams, focusing on how team behavioral processes and cognitive states evolve over time and how they are influenced by guided team-reflexivity. Drawing on Marks et al.’s team process framework, we conceptualize...

Triple Genetic Alterations (EGFR Mutation, ALK Fusion, and MET Polysomy) in Gynecological Metastasis of Lung Adenocarcinoma Patient with Acquired Resistance to Furmonertinib: A Case Report

For advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) with epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) mutations, targeted therapy is the standard first-line treatment, but acquired resistance and disease progression are inevitable. Identification of resistance mechanisms is crucial for gu...

Standing in the Breach: A Sermon on 2 Corinthians 5:16–21

Written to a divided church, Paul’s imperative in 2 Cor 5:16–21 insists the believers in Corinth be reconciled, through Christ, and live as ministers of reconciliation. In like manner, amid today’s various divisions, perhaps our biblical roots and theological imagination, such as...

Evaluation of DeepSeek with a RAG-based knowledge base in preoperative assessment for arthroplasty to improve the decision-making accuracy of junior physicians

Abstract Background Patients undergoing elective joint replacement are mostly elderly individuals with multiple chronic diseases. These patients have a higher risk, so preoperative assessment for joint replacement is vital for surgical safety but remains challenging for junior ph...

Natural capital: the boom and bust of a metaphor? Insights from Scotland

Despite a fifty-year academic history, the concept of ‘natural capital’ has only been translated into national policy and practice more recently. Since the early 2000s, global initiatives like The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity and the UN System for Environmental Econom...

MEVALI BOG'LARDA KENG TARQALGAN SO'RUVCHI ZARARKUNANDALAR BIOEKOLOGIYASI VA QARSHI KURASH CHORALARI

Ushbu tezisda mevali bog'larda keng tarqalgan so'ruvchi zararkunandalarning bioekologik xususiyatlari, mevali daraxtlarga yetkazadigan zarari va ularning tarqalishiga ta'sir qiluvchi omillar yoritilgan. Shuningdek, shiralar, qalqondorlar, o'rgimchakkana va boshqa so'ruvchi zarark...

Associations Between Early Warning Message Completeness, Reception Mode, and Protective Action Across Four At-Risk Communities in Ethiopia and South Africa

Abstract Despite the expansion of early warning systems, the content and delivery of early warning messages remain understudied in resource-constrained settings. This mixed-methods cross-sectional survey examined early warning message (EWM) awareness, completeness, reception mode...

When the state becomes the entrepreneur: ethical failures in New Haven's chapel square redevelopment

Purpose We discuss the role of ethics in both the entrepreneurial state and governments' development of entrepreneurial ecosystems. This is a topic to which scholars have paid little attention in the scholarly literature despite the negative impact that policy can have on general...

A statistical learning framework for explainable forest disturbance-agent attribution with provable guarantees and theoretical foundations for spatial transfer

Abstract We develop the mathematical foundations of a framework that attributes a disturbance agent, namely wildfire, harvest, insect defoliation, windthrow, or drought, to each disturbance event detected in standardized satellite time-series change metrics. The attribution task...

Ionic-Liquid-Catalyzed Depolymerization of PET: BHET Recovery and Re-Polymerization

The accumulation of polyethylene terephthalate (PET) waste presents significant environmental challenges due to its extensive usage and low global recycling rates. Among the available recycling routes, chemical depolymerization by glycolysis offers a promising way to recover high...

Do AI and Lexicon-Based ESG Scores Converge? Evidence from IPO Prospectuses in an Emerging Market

The growing use of artificial intelligence (AI) to evaluate Environmental, Social, Governance (ESG) scoring from corporate disclosures raises questions about alignment with conventional lexicon-based scores. Such alignment can be problematic as a lexicon-based approach quantifies...

Immunohistochemistry vs Molecular Breast Cancer Subtyping Among African Populations

Importance Breast cancer subtyping based on immunohistochemistry (IHC) guides systemic therapy where gene expression profiling assays are unavailable, yet its validity against molecular reference standards remains poorly characterized in African populations, where laboratory infr...

Right Answer, Wrong Reason: Testing Source References and Responses to Evidence Changes

An AI system can extract the right value from the wrong place in a document. When a bank relies on that value, checking the answer alone can miss the source error. This article proposes a separate source check followed by controlled changes to relevant and irrelevant evidence. Th...

Enzymatic Hydrolysate of Red Yeast Rice Accelerates Diabetic Wound Healing in Mice: Association with Modulation of Inflammatory, Matrix-Remodeling, and Angiogenesis-Related Markers

Delayed healing of diabetic wounds arises from a self-sustaining pathological microenvironment featuring persistent inflammation, excessive matrix degradation, impaired angiogenesis, and insufficient collagen deposition, and current single-process interventions remain unsatisfact...