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- Health & Medicine
Spinal cord injury (SCI) affects far more than motor and sensory function, disrupting identity, mental health and relationships. Healthcare providers (HPs) delivering rehabilitation face systemic constraints and interpersonal challenges, especially around communication and relati...
- Health & MedicineOpen access
Glaucoma and age-related macular degeneration are the leading causes of irreversible vision loss in individuals over 60 years of age. This review consolidates current data on the epidemiology, shared genetic factors, and pathophysiological mechanisms underpinning their coexistenc...
- Physics & SpaceOpen access
From Finite-Contact Hamiltonian Dynamics to an Emergent Hydrodynamic Propagator
How can a local hydrodynamic response emerge from reversible Hamiltonian many-body dynamics without viscosity, a constitutive law, or a diffusion operator being introduced microscopically? We address this question in the transverse shear sector of a frozen finite-contact Hamilton...
- Society & EconomicsOpen access
The Symbolic Mechanics of the Cosmic Churning: A Reinterpretation of the Samudra Manthan
The traditional narrative of Samudra Manthan has long been received through the lens of ancient mythology as a singular, historical event occurring in a celestial ocean. This paper presents a rigorous reinterpretation of the churning of the milk ocean as an absolute, immutable, a...
- Health & Medicine
Type I interferons (IFNs) are induced by pattern recognition receptors (PRRs) of the innate immune system to protect against foreign pathogens and malignant transformation, and their production must be tightly regulated to balance antiviral defense with tissue homeostasis. To def...
- Climate & Environment
Abstract The role of plain–lake–mountain mixed terrain surfaces on fine particle (PM 2.5 ) pollution is still unclear. Here, a Weather Research and Forecasting model coupled with Chemistry modeling study was designed for a winter PM 2.5 pollution episode in Central China with two...
- Physics & SpaceOpen access
Evoltropic Theory: Evolution as a Fundamental Physical Process
This paper develops a phenomenological Evoltropic framework in which physical Evolution, rather than time as an independent primitive, is taken as the fundamental process underlying observable change. A dimensionless Evolution Rate Field E(x) is introduced, together with a radial...
- Materials & EnergyOpen access
TP-Agent: A LLM Agent for Frontier Theoretical Physics Research
We present TP-Agent, an autonomous LLM-based agent utilizing a Plan–Execute–Reflect architecture and external computational tools (Python, Mathematica) to assist in theoretical physics research. We evaluate it on two benchmarks: the comprehensive TPBench and the frontier-level PR...
- Society & EconomicsOpen access
Contemplative Practice and Responses to Mortality Salience: Evidence from Long-Term Sufi Meditators
Mortality salience research has played a central role in understanding responses to death awareness and existential threat. At the same time, relatively little research has examined whether long-term contemplative practice may shape affective, cognitive, and implicit responses to...
- Engineering & Technology
Mind the Sign: Engaging Green Building Communications for Campus Building Interiors
Amid rapid expansion of the global green building market, sustainable built interiors present compelling opportunities for informal environmental education. Signage systems remain the dominant approach to communicating green building innovations to building users, with the potent...
- Engineering & Technology
Abstract A method for forming highly porous poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene) polystyrenesulfonate (PEDOT:PSS) composite particles with an excess nonconductive PSS component via spraying into liquid nitrogen, followed by freeze-drying, was proposed. The additional PSS content both...
- BiologyOpen access
A Recursive, Permissioned Architecture for True Global Superintelligence
Modern artificial intelligence is built from weighted networks. In a neural model, intelligence does not reside in any single neuron; it emerges from the learned pattern of influence among many computational units. IAN begins from the hypothesis that the same organizing principle...
- Health & MedicineOpen access
Deceased donors with diabetes have been considered suitable for kidney transplant recipients without diabetes. The aim of this study was to identify transcriptomic signatures associated with donor diabetes in zero-hour kidney biopsies, and their changes after transplantation into...
- AI & ComputingOpen access
Sharp Asymptotics for Abelian Covers of Groups with Bounded Noncommutativity
We determine the sharp exponential growth rate of the minimum number of abelian subgroups required to cover a group with bounded pairwise noncommutativity. Let ω(G) denote the largest size of a pairwise noncommuting subset of a group G, let a(G) be the least size of an abelian co...
- Health & MedicineOpen access
Population aging and the high prevalence of multimorbidity contribute to the increasing complexity of hospitalized older adults’ care pathways. These pathways, characterized by rapid clinical changes and social and functional needs, make hospital stays more difficult to plan. Pro...
- Health & MedicineOpen access
Predicting Brain Function from Structure with MRI and Supervised Machine Learning
The main goal of this thesis is to develop machine learning based tools that can be used to investigate the relationship between brain structure, with a focus on white matter tracts, and function. In particular, this work introduces novel methodologies that enhance our ability to...
- Climate & EnvironmentOpen access
Removing wolves did not reliably prevent domestic animal losses
Abstract Humans usually try to kill wild animals that they perceive as threats. However, many scientific findings have raised doubts that killing solves wildlife damage to property. With scant, low‐quality data, uncertainty persists. We reviewed recent studies of killing gray wol...
- Health & MedicineOpen access
EFAU-Net: efficient feature-enhanced U-Net for early pregnancy ultrasound segmentation
Early-pregnancy ultrasound images often contain gestational sac, yolk sac, and embryo regions with blurred boundaries, variable shapes, and small target sizes, which makes accurate segmentation difficult. In addition, many existing segmentation networks have high computational co...
- BiologyOpen access
Abstract Immune checkpoint blockade (ICB) has revolutionized head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC) treatment. Yet, a major barrier to response is that tumor cells are epigenetically reprogrammed to resist immunogenic cell death, particularly pyroptosis. To elucidate how t...
- Society & EconomicsOpen access
Online-Initiated Contact and Child Sexual Abuse Severity: A Forensic Cross-Sectional Study
Background/Objectives: Digital technologies have created new pathways through which perpetrators can initiate contact with children, yet evidence directly comparing child sexual abuse (CSA) cases according to the mode of first contact between the victim and the perpetrator remain...