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Urban landscape composition drives species-specific responses of aerial insectivorous bats in an Amazonian megacity

Abstract Urbanization profoundly impacts natural landscapes, altering species composition and ecosystem structure. In the Amazon, this process occurs amid large areas of native forest, which may favor biodiversity conservation in urban surroundings. Among tropical vertebrates, ba...

Comparative In Vitro Antifungal Activity of Essential Oils, Plant Extracts, and Commercial Biological Products Against Fusarium avenaceum and Alternaria alternata

Fungal pathogens, such as Fusarium spp. and Alternaria spp., cause substantial yield losses worldwide through root and fruit rot, wilting, and leaf and fruit spots, and increasing restrictions on chemical pesticides have intensified interest in sustainable alternatives such as es...

A decomposition approach for the multi-depot vehicle routing problem with heterogeneous fleets, pickup–delivery, time windows, and route balance

In this paper, we address the problem of equitable workload distribution in the multi-depot vehicle routing problem (MDVRP) with simultaneous pickup and delivery, time windows, and heterogeneous fleets. To ensure fairness, route balance is incorporated into the problem. This is m...

Theosophy and the Modern Search for Hidden Wisdom: History, Doctrine, Global Exchange, Controversy, and Christian Critique

Modern Theosophy emerged in the late nineteenth century at the intersection of Spiritualism, comparative religion, evolutionary speculation, colonial knowledge, and dissatisfaction with both dogmatic Christianity and reductive materialism. This article offers a historically groun...

Factors associated with discordance between the patient-reported Rheumatoid Arthritis Disease Activity Index (RADAI) and the Simplified Disease Activity Index (SDAI) concerning the achievement of treat-to-target goals – data from the REAL study

Abstract Background Treat-to-target (T2T) strategies in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) rely on regular assessment of disease activity using validated composite indices, with remission or low disease activity as therapeutic goals. The Simplified Disease Activity Index (SDAI) is widely...

China-associated concentrations in gold open-access publishing: growth in APC exposure and business risk across twelve publisher groups

Commercial open-access publishing increasingly depends on research output from China, and this creates potential concentration exposure for major Western publishers. This work uses OpenAlex to analyse gold open-access articles and estimated list-price article processing charge (A...

Health, Legal and Security Costs Associated with Improved Safety from Family Violence During Family Court Involvement

Abstract Purpose Parent separation involving litigation and concurrent family violence (FV) risks is costly on many fronts. Costs borne by society toward improved safety from FV are essential and associated public policy should be well targeted. This study examined legal, safety,...

VARE: Geometry-Anchored Bearing and Range Stabilization for USV Recovery

Reliable unmanned surface vehicle (USV) recovery requires near-field maritime remote sensing outputs that remain stable during the final approach. Planar fiducial geometry provides metric pose estimates, but its depth channel is sensitive to corner-localization noise, apparent ma...

Adaptive Assembly of Dative B←N Frameworks for Dimension‐Controlled Hetero‐Engineering

ABSTRACT Luminescent heterostructures with spatially resolved emission hold great promise for optoelectronic applications, yet dimension‐controlled hetero‐assembly for stimuli‐responsive heterostructures remains a significant challenge owing to the uncertain integration of distin...

OPAC-038: Extremal Negativity in Symmetric-Group Character Tables

This preprint studies OPAC-038, the open problem asking whether, for all sufficiently large (n), the sign representation of the symmetric group (S_n) maximizes the number of negative entries among irreducible character-table rows. The paper develops a collection of exact reductio...

Topological Insulators and Cartan's Symmetric Spaces: A 10-Fold Isomorphism — E8 Intelligence Research

FINDING: The Altland-Zirnbauer (AZ) 10-fold classification of topological insulators/superconductors is mathematically isomorphic to the 10 symmetric spaces of Cartan, with the periodic structure governed by Bott periodicity (period 8 for real, period 2 for complex classes). | MA...

Do fiscal rules limit fiscal space?

This paper examines the relationship between fiscal rules and fiscal space in Sub-Saharan African (SSA) economies during 1980–2020. Using cross-country empirical methods, we find that fiscal rules reduce fiscal space, contrary to conventional expectations. We argue that this refl...

Chromosome-Level Genome Assembly and Annotation of the Chinese Lizard Gudgeon (Saurogobio dabryi)

The Chinese lizard gudgeon (Saurogobio dabryi) is an economically important freshwater species within the Cyprinidae family, abundant in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River and its adjacent basins. As a promising species suitable for aquaculture in China, the lack o...

LAB #1627 NEUTRAL: TG AUTO: New edge proposed: outside_bar_volume_climax_reversal — E8 Intelligence Research

IDEA: AUTO-FORWARDED from the Telegram/breakthrough stream (#700539, division=research, agent=gtx_scout): { "name": "outside_bar_volume_climax_reversal", "source": "Al Brooks / Price Action trading", "type": "entry_engine", "rule": "After a 3-bar rally, if the next bar has a high...

Infrared temperature gradient microstructure mapping for optimizing filler dispersion in oriented h-BN/Al2O3/PDMS thermal interface materials

High-performance thermal interface materials require continuous heat-conduction networks, whereas filler agglomeration can disrupt heat transport and cause nonuniform heat dissipation. For h-BN/polymer composites, direct visualization of filler dispersion is challenging because o...

Chemosymbiotic trophic strategy in an Ediacaran tubular animal

Chemosymbiosis may have been a key driver of early animal evolution and diversification. Yet evidence for animal–microbe nutritional partnerships in the fossil record of early metazoans remains scarce, largely owing to the limited availability of robust geochemical proxies and su...

Radiographic Evaluation Of The Success Of Root Canal Treatment In Mandibular Premolars: A Retrospective Cross-Sectional Study

Background and Aim: Radiographic assessment is essential forevaluating the technical quality of root canal fillings and periapicalstatus after root canal treatment (RCT). This retrospective crosssectionalstudy assessed the radiographic quality of RCT in mandibularpremolars using...

Circulating Matrix Metalloproteinase Activity and Functional Capacity in Individuals Undergoing Hemodialysis: Exploratory Findings from a Resistance Training Trial

Abstract Purpose To investigate the effects of 24 weeks of resistance training (RT) on pro- and active matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) and their association with functional performance in end-stage kidney disease (ESKD) patients undergoing hemodialysis. Methods Forty-two ESKD pa...

Optimization of Material and Printing Parameter Selection for FDM 3D-Printed Bone Models for Osteotomy Training: A Biomechanical and User-Based Evaluation

Although additive manufacturing enables cost-effective surgical training models, variation in materials and printing parameters limits standardization. This study combined biomechanical testing and user evaluation to identify fused deposition modeling (FDM) settings for osteotomy...

Review of the Poverty Reduction Strategies in Nigeria: A Study of Fourth Republic (1999-2025)

Poverty is a global peril affecting the overall development of many developing countries across Asia, Latin America, other African states and the federal republic of Nigeria in particular, hence, measures to address its effects were captured in the Millennium and Sustainable Deve...