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Weak Acceptors Abnormally Reinforce Urethane Networks while Enabling Glassy-State Healability

Abstract Hydrogen bonds are versatile motifs for designing repairable materials. The current preconception is that while weak hydrogen bonds lead to rapid exchanging dynamics beneficial for healing, they compromise mechanical properties by reducing the overall cohesion of the mat...

Nitrogen deprivation differentially alters lipid accumulation and pyrolysis-derived volatile profiles in three microalgal species

Nitrogen deprivation (N−) is widely used to induce lipid accumulation in microalgae. However, its impact on the relationship between lipid accumulation and thermochemical behavior remains poorly understood. In this study, a comparative experimental approach was used to evaluate t...

Social Capital and Willingness to Pay for Community-based Health Insurance in Rural Communities of Delta State, Nigeria

Abstract Background: The amount of social capital in a community can be an asset for the breakthrough and sustainability of community-based health insurance (CBHI), thereby contributing to the demand for it at the community level. Aims: This study aimed to assess the relationship...

AI in Journalism Education: Curriculum Development and Implementation of Journalism in BRICS Universities

This study employs content analysis and semi-structured in-depth interviews to examine how journalism education across BRICS countries has responded to the rise of AI and adjusted its core paradigms. In this study, BRICS refers to the expanded BRICS grouping, comprising Brazil, R...

Function evaluation and simulation optimization of production-living-ecological space in Fuzhou City, China: a multi-source data and multi-model coupling approach

Rapid urbanization and socioeconomic growth have unprecedentedly driven spatial restructuring and functional conflicts in territorial space. Fine-scale identification, functional assessment, and multi-scenario simulation of production-living-ecological space (PLES) are essential...

The Symbiotic Bandwidth Bound: Low-Rank Shared Channels Cannot Remove Worst-Case Thermodynamic Speed Limits

Proof-reconciled generated exploration of low-rank shared mobility channels under a bounded quadratic model. This public working-corpus release includes the reviewed manuscript and paired Lean evidence. It is not peer reviewed or empirically validated; significance and novelty ha...

Lithium-associated hyperparathyroidism: a systematic review of prevalence and surgical outcomes

Abstract Purpose Lithium remains one of the most effective maintenance treatments for bipolar disorder. However, disturbances in calcium homeostasis including hypercalcemia and lithium-associated hyperparathyroidism (LHPT) have increasingly been recognized as endocrine complicati...

Coronal Plane Alignment of the Knee (CPAK) in children and adolescents

Aims: The Coronal Plane Alignment of the Knee classification (CPAK) describes nine knee phenotypes by defining arithmetic hip-knee-ankle angle (aHKA) and joint line obliquity (JLO). In this study, the CPAK classification was used to analyze the development of lower-limb alignment...

Semantic-guided 3D Gaussian splatting for sparse-view reconstruction in industrial digital twins

Novel view synthesis, which is essential for three-dimensional (3D) reconstruction, traditionally requires dense image sets and pre-calibrated camera parameters. However, in industrial digital twin applications spatial constraints often limit data acquisition to sparse views that...

Pendrin inhibitor PDSinh-C01 reverses salt-sensitive hypertension and metabolic acidosis in the 5/6 nephrectomy rat model

Abstract Pharmacological inhibition of the chloride-bicarbonate exchanger pendrin with PDSinh-C01 potentiates the diuretic action of furosemide in healthy mice. Because pendrin contributes to acid-base regulation and blood pressure control, it may represent an attractive therapeu...

Spatial Stochastic Resonance: Autonomous Blind Signal Recovery across High-Dimensional Potential Landscapes

Executive Summary In traditional signal processing, capturing sub-threshold signals buried deep beneath the noise floor (SNR < 0 dB) represents an insurmountable wall for linear filters and digital Fourier estimators. While classical Stochastic Resonance (SR) has long promised a...

Consciousness, Timelessness and the Structure of Experience: A Philosophical Essay

The brain lives in time. Consciousness does not — and that difference changes everything. The brain is a temporal, entropic organ embedded in spacetime; consciousness is a timeless, unified field that does not fragment, decay, or age. These two structures cannot belong to the sam...

Molecular characterization and spoilage potential of yeasts isolated from traditional Egyptian Karish cheese

Traditional soft cheeses are susceptible to microbial contamination, particularly when unsterilized flavoring additives are used during production or retail handling. This study aimed to quantify and molecularly characterize the yeast flora associated with spiced Karish cheese, a...

Bridging Resource Gaps in Toxic Epidermal Necrolysis Management: A Case Report Highlighting Innovative Care

Abstract Toxic epidermal necrolysis (TEN) is a rare but potentially life-threatening dermatological condition. It is characterised by diffuse exfoliation of &gt;30% of the skin and mucous membranes due to immune-mediated destruction of the epidermis. It is thought to be due to a...

Therapeutic Equivalence, Immunogenicity, and Safety of Euvichol Oral Cholera Vaccine Formulations Compared with WHO-prequalified Shanchol vaccine in Healthy Children and Adults: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Randomised Controlled Trials

Preprint Description Background: Global demand for oral cholera vaccines (OCVs) has increased substantially, while the discontinuation of Shanchol has increased reliance on Euvichol-based formulations. This systematic review and meta-analysis evaluated the immunogenicity and safe...

Collaborative optimization framework of battery charging/swapping stations for eVTOLs based on closed-loop supply chain and space-time network

Electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft, by virtue of their advantages such as high efficiency, environmental friendliness, and low noise, are regarded as an effective means of alleviating urban traffic congestion. Although eVTOLs have policy support, industrial f...

Attention-Enhanced Bi-LSTM Ensembles with Frozen ESM-2 Embeddings Achieve Competitive Performance in Protein Subcellular Localization

Predicting protein subcellular locations computationally is crucial for analyzing large protein datasets. A key issue is that similar sequences in training and test sets artificially inflate accuracy estimates. This study investigates whether Protein Language Model (PLM) features...

Token Economy Optimization: Reducing LLM API Costs Without Sacrificing Output Quality

Research article: Token Economy Optimization: Reducing LLM API Costs Without Sacrificing Output Quality

Agreement and Performance of Intermittent and Continuous Vital Signs in Critically Ill Children

BACKGROUND: Intermittent vital sign (VS) documentation is the standard of care in pediatric wards and pediatric intensive care units (PICUs). However, intermittent capture of VS values may miss important trajectories and extreme values, particularly for patients at risk of organ...

The Superfluid Vacuum Substrate (SVS): A Causal Continuum Mechanics Framework for Physical RealIty

The Superfluid Vacuum Substrate (SVS) framework introduces a scale-invariant, causal continuum mechanics model of physical reality. Free space is modeled as an active, incompressible fluid medium governed by classical hydrodynamic properties: permittivity as elastic compliance, p...