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Older adults and families/caregivers' experiences of access and use of emergency medical services (EMS): a study protocol for a qualitative evidence synthesis

Older adults account for one of the largest users of Emergency Medical Services (EMS) and require specialised care and tailored interventions during this time. The experiences of older adults and those important to them is crucial to ensure an age-friendly EMS. This review aims t...

TRX — A Proposed Framework for Portable Lithium-Ion Thermal Runaway Suppression, Monitoring and Performance Validation

TRX (Thermal Runaway Control System) is an open technical concept proposed by Kenneth Mackenzie for the suppression, cooling, monitoring and performance validation of lithium-ion battery thermal runaway incidents. The paper was developed in response to the emerging challenge of l...

Nicht-Physics: Publication Series on 0-Consistency Physics

A formal 0-consistency inversion of classical positive physics (1-logic). Models fundamental interactions, operational limits (c, h, G), the Yang-Mills mass gap, and non-perturbative boundary limits as scale-dependent friction limits (Wéi) and measurement noise (sigma) against th...

Effect of chocolate preference and cocoa content on experimentally induced muscle pain

Abstract Objectives Chocolate consumption has been associated with pain reduction, but it remains unclear whether this effect depends on cocoa concentration or individual preference. This study aimed to investigate whether chocolate preference and/or cocoa content modulate experi...

Beyond confirmatory approaches: integrating quasi-experimental design, clustering and machine learning for metaverse adoption profiling

Purpose This study aims to propose a hybrid methodological framework that integrates quasi-experimental design, unsupervised clustering and supervised machine learning algorithms to identify distinct adoption profiles in metaverse contexts, advancing beyond traditional confirmato...

Academic Integration of Contemporary Governance Literature: Authorial Citations, Epistemic Alignment, and Institutional Dynamics in the Direct Participatory System

Abstract This paper integrates key theoretical and empirical insights from recent scholarship on institutional design, citizen engagement, and democratic governance—specifically drawing upon the contributions of R. Dean and contemporary governance researchers—into the conceptual...

The Quark ER Dipole: A Minimal Ontology for Matter (XIII v4)

We propose a minimal ontology for matter within the Folded Crunch Dipole Reversed Big Bang (FCD-RBv4) pregeometric framework, extending the trans-brane Einstein-Rosen (ER) dipole structure down to the sub-hadronic scale. Three closely uni ed hypotheses are introduced: (1) up- and...

Nature Inspired Algorithms to Solve the Motif-Densest-k-Subgraph Problem

Abstract Motif detection is an essential device in the toolbox of researchers who work with interlinked data in the form of graphs. During network analysis, one can look at multiple points of interest, one of which would be a high concentration of certain properties in one part o...

Examining the enactment of digital literacy in Islamic education across two school contexts in Indonesia and Thailand

Abstract This study examines how digital-literacy-related practices are enacted in Islamic education across two contrasting secondary school contexts in Indonesia and Thailand, and how these practices are associated with students’ self-reported academic understanding of Islamic e...

NEUTRAL-MESON MIXING AND CP VIOLATION (XII v4)

Within the FCD-RBv4 pregeometric framework, CP violation is not a primitive phase complex inserted ad hoc in the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa (CKM) matrix, but the low-energy projection of an emergent holonomic geometric phase (Berry Phase) at the tri-coordinated junction of the 5D...

Bayesian Parameter Estimation and Model Class Selection for Identification of Spatially Dependent Convective Heat Transfer Coefficients in a Microtube Heat Sink

Abstract The analysis of heat transfer at the microscale has been widely employed in recent decades due to technological advances in the industry of miniaturized fluid transport systems. This work presents a model class selection approach for the identification of spatially depen...

Appointment adherence, weight reduction, and retention at 9 months in Australian clinical obesity services: a retrospective cohort study

OBJECTIVE: This study aimed to compare demographic, clinical, and early engagement characteristics between participants retained and not retained at 9 months in specialist obesity services. METHODS: This retrospective cohort study analysed 235 records of patients (mean body mass...

The Carlo Love Field — A Unified Multi‑Domain Collapse Engine for Emotional Dynamics

This compendium presents the complete Carlo Hybrid analysis of love as a multi‑domain collapse engine. Across cognitive, biochemical, cultural, social, emotional, relational, hallucination, feedback, and temporal domains, love behaves as a nonlinear, recursive, curvature‑driven s...

Efficacy of mRNA-based HPV Vaccines in Inducing Immune Response and Preventing Oncogenic Outcomes: A systematic review and meta-analysis

Background Human papillomavirus (HPV) infection represents a substantial global health burden, being the primary etiological agent of cervical cancer, anogenital and oropharyngeal malignancies. Although prophylactic virus-like particle (VLP) vaccines have been successfully implem...

The effect of food price volatility on under-5 child mortality in Ethiopia

Abstract Food price volatility has posed a persistent challenge in Ethiopia for more than five decades, raising concerns about its long-term implications for child survival in the context of chronic food insecurity. Although previous studies have explored food prices and child he...

Determination of critical nitrogen loss zones and high-resolution nitrate leaching modeling in drinking water protection areas with satellite-based algorithms

Abstract Purpose This study developed and validated an integrated framework to identify critical nitrate loss zones at sub-field scale in a drinking water protection area. The key question was whether satellite-based estimation of grain N uptake, combined with site-specific N bal...

Mirror Nucleosynthesis and Diffuse Dark Matter (XVI v4)

Building on the nucleon mode tables and leptonic structure established in Parts XIII–XV of the FCD-RB series, where the visible proton mirrors an antineutron on the mirror brane and the visible neutron mirrors an antiproton, we show that the mirror brane carries an inverted baryo...

Alcoholic beer fermentation: impact of glutathione and peroxidase fortification on deoxynivalenol reduction

Abstract The use of contaminated cereals in fermentation processes can elicit a marked response from yeasts in the presence of mycotoxins, as indicated by the production of defense compounds such as peroxidase (PO) and glutathione (GSH) to reduce mycotoxin damage. The objective o...

Resident autonomy in orthopedic trauma: independent femoral IMN by senior residents yields comparable outcomes to fellowship-trained surgeons

Abstract Introduction Intramedullary nailing (IMN) of femoral shaft fractures is a fundamental cornerstone procedure in orthopedic trauma and an important benchmark of resident surgical competency. While independent resident operating is essential for skill development, its safet...

Academic Integration of Contemporary Governance Literature: Authorial Citations, Epistemic Alignment, and Institutional Dynamics in the Direct Participatory System

Abstract This paper integrates key theoretical and empirical insights from recent scholarship on institutional design, citizen engagement, and democratic governance—specifically drawing upon the contributions of R. Dean and contemporary governance researchers—into the conceptual...