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Source-separation infrastructure and the reduction of residual household waste: Evidence from Iceland’s 2023 waste reform

This study evaluates whether Iceland’s 2023 waste-management reform, which combined Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) financing with mandatory four-bin kerbside collection, reduced targeted household waste remaining in the general bin. Using a decade-long dataset (2014–2025)...

Thyrotoxicosis-Associated Cholestatic Jaundice in a Patient With Incidental Gallstone Disease: A Case Report and Literature Review

Symptoms: Abdominal pain • jaundice • tachycardia • weight loss Clinical Procedure: -Specialty: Endocrinology and metabolicObjective: Unusual clinical course Background:Thyrotoxicosis is associated with well-recognized and clinically significant complications, including congestiv...

Selective Cell Death of Adrenocortical Cells by Pharmacological Activation of Mutant KCNJ5

BACKGROUND: Primary aldosteronism is frequently caused by mutations in the KCNJ5 (potassium inwardly rectifying channel subfamily J member 5) gene, encoding a G-protein inwardly rectifying potassium channel. These mutations disrupt the channel’s selectivity filter, permitting abn...

Sexual dimorphism of the human calcaneus: a cross-sectional morphometric study

Sex estimation from skeletal remains is a fundamental step in forensic anthropology. The calcaneus, the largest tarsal bone, is robust and may serve as an alternative indicator when the skull and pelvis are unavailable. This study evaluated sexual dimorphism in the calcaneus of a...

Babylonian Omen Series Yields No New Mathematical Constants or Equations — E8 Intelligence Research

FINDING: Enuma Anu Enlil is a cuneiform astrological omen series, but the provided search results are mostly video descriptions and a paper on Babylonian chronology; no new mathematical constants or equations are extracted from the text itself. | MATH: No equations, constants, or...

Serum periostin levels in myocardial infarction: Findings from forensic autopsy cases

Acute myocardial infarction (AMI) remains one of the leading causes of sudden death with significant implications in both clinical and forensic practice. In forensic settings, AMI diagnosis traditionally relies on gross and histopathological findings. However, when ischemic chang...

Why Not the Ovenbird? The Minimal Obstruction of the Imaginary

Why is the ovenbird — potter and faithful, the seemingly ideal totem — absent from every Jivaro myth, as Lévi-Strauss himself noted in The Jealous Potter? This paper proposes a structural answer. From two declared commitments — every representation is Imaginary, bounded by an ina...

The chromosomal genome sequence of Loripinus fragilis (R.A.Philippi, 1836) (Lucinida: Lucinidae) and its associated microbial metagenome sequences

<ns5:p> We present a genome assembly from an individual <ns5:italic>Loripinus fragilis</ns5:italic> (Mollusca; Bivalvia; Lucinida; Lucinidae). The genome sequence has a total length of 1 987.46 megabases. Most of the assembly (92.76%) is scaffolded into 18 chromosomal pseudomolec...

The Echo-Chamber Trap: Symbolic Self-Completion and the Stagnation of Digital Activism

Social movements increasingly rely on digital platforms to mobilize support, raise awareness, and coordinate collective action. At the same time, however, the rise of online activism has intensified concerns regarding “slacktivism”, namely forms of symbolic and low-effort engagem...

Measurable residual disease detected by next-generation sequencing in T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia

The clinical utility of measurable residual disease monitoring based on next-generation sequencing in T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia remains incompletely defined. Here we show the prognostic value of tracking clonal T-cell receptor gene rearrangements by next-generation sequ...

Navigating Classical and Nonclassical Realms of Nucleation and Crystallization

Our understanding of the formation and growth of solids from solution has shaped science for centuries. The classical nucleation and crystal growth theories provided a foundational framework, despite their necessary simplifications. Recent nonclassical concepts have challenged th...

Scrolling away from our insecurity. The mediating role of affective job satisfaction in the relationship between job insecurity and cyberloafing

Cyberloafing, namely the use of the Internet during working hours for personal purposes, has gained increasing popularity in literature; however, the underlying job stressors and processes driving its occurrence remain insufficiently understood. Drawing on the Conservation of Res...

Tear GDF15 Levels Are Elevated in Primary Open-Angle Glaucoma Patients and Correlate With Aqueous Humor Levels

Purpose To determine whether growth differentiation factor 15 (GDF15) is detectable and elevated in tears of patients with primary open-angle glaucoma (POAG) and whether tear GDF15 levels correlate with aqueous humor (AH) GDF15 levels.Methods In a single-center cross-sectional st...

Geological Restitution Architecture: A Continental Framework for Post Extraction Repair in Africa

Mining reshapes geological, hydrological, chemical, and structural systems in ways that persist for decades beyond the life of a mine. Yet no mining jurisdiction—globally or within Africa—has established a scientifically defensible standard for repairing the deep structural impac...

Discrimination of Tight Sandstone Reservoir Effectiveness Based on Pore-Throat Functional Fractal Characterization and Three-Dimensional Pore-Network Connectivity Constraints

Tight sandstone reservoir effectiveness is governed not by pore volume alone, but by the storage and flow contributions of different pore-throat scales, their structural complexity, and their three-dimensional connectivity. This study investigates tight sandstones of the Benxi Fo...

Incidence of peritoneal dialysis transfer to hemodialysis after the free-choice dialysis policy in Thailand; A tertiary center experience

Thailand has changed its kidney replacement therapy policy in the universal coverage scheme from peritoneal dialysis (PD)-first to free-choice dialysis in February 2022. We aim to compare the incidence rate (IR) of permanent PD transfer to hemodialysis (HD) before and after the n...

Energy and link expiration time aware MPR selection based modified OLSR protocol for UAV ad hoc networks

Flying Ad-hoc Network (FANET) is a self-configured highly dynamic decentralized wireless ad-hoc network, composed of multiple Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs). These networks find applications in modern civilian and military missions due to their capability for rapid deployment, a...

CM-YOLO: an improved YOLOv8 for defect detection and classification of CFRP composites using infrared thermography

Driven by the pursuit of higher operating efficiency and better structural safety, carbon-fibre-reinforced polymer (CFRP) composites are widely adopted in critical aerospace structural components. Infrared thermography has emerged as a powerful non-destructive technique for subsu...

E8-Cartan Tensor Encoding in Neural Synaptic Tiling — E8 Intelligence Research

Neural synaptic architectures are not stochastic but follow discrete conformal mappings of the E8 root system, where synaptic weights align with the 240 root vectors. The 132Hz base frequency acts as a temporal stabilizer, utilizing phi-scaled intervals to prevent information ent...

Species-dependent wiring of jasmonate signalling determines pine defence efficiency against Bursaphelenchus xylophilus

Abstract Pine wilt disease, caused by the pinewood nematode Bursaphelenchus xylophilus , poses a serious threat to pine forests worldwide, yet the hormonal and metabolic mechanisms that determine whether a pine species succumbs to or tolerates infection remain poorly understood....