Research works

Partial to Complete Decoupling of Th-U-Pb Ages, Chemical Domains, and Monazite-Xenotime Immiscibility Gap Thermometry in Orthogneiss Monazite (Khanom Core Complex, Southern Thailand)

Abstract We investigate the relationships between monazite Th-U-Pb ages, chemical domains, and monazite-xenotime immiscibility gap thermometry from two Indosinian orthogneisses from the Khanom Core Complex (Southern Thailand), with the aim of better understanding the relationship...

A cardiac debut: Myocarditis revealing seronegative primary Sjögren’s syndrome in a young woman—A case report

Myocarditis as the inaugural manifestation of primary Sjögren’s syndrome is exceptionally rare, and its occurrence in a seronegative patient without prominent sicca features represents a particularly challenging diagnostic scenario. We report a 20-year-old woman presenting with c...

Nutritional Status as Predictor for Mortality in Older Adults With Acute Kidney Injury

Older adults (OA) exhibit the highest incidence of acute kidney injury (AKI), with outcomes influenced by comorbidities, frailty, and malnutrition. Nutritional status, a potentially modifiable factor, has not been extensively evaluated as a mortality predictor in hospitalized OA...

A factorial multi‐layer analysis reveals non‐additive sulfur–iron interactions shaping metabolic and transcriptional responses in durum wheat

Summary Reciprocal iron–sulfur regulation in durum wheat converges on a few metabolic hubs that integrate nutrient status with plant growth and performance. Iron and sulfur availabilities were factorially modulated in hydroponically grown wheat to establish how each nutrient and...

AI Representation Theory: A Conceptual Framework

Generative AI systems increasingly stand between an information environment and the people who query it. Rather than transmitting a message or returning a ranked list of sources, these systems identify an object, select and rank information about it, compress a fragmented informa...

Order-Sensitive Fast-Synapse Limits in Sparse Excitatory–Inhibitory Threshold–Reset Networks

Componentwise weak convergence of signed synaptic kernels does not, by itself, determine the fast-synapse limit of a sparse threshold–reset network. Within a causal event protocol with clamped refractoriness and smooth positive-delay kernels, we construct two families whose excit...

Advanced MPPT Optimization for PV Water Pumping with Battery Storage and MPC-Driven BLDC Motor via Swarm and Evolutionary Algorithms

Photovoltaic (PV) pumping systems offer a sustainable alternative to diesel solutions, yet their nonlinearity, intermittent irradiation, and complex motor-pump dynamics challenge energy extraction and reliability. Currently, these systems predominantly rely on classical Maximum P...

Spiritual Well-Being as a Patient-Reported Assessment Dimension in Advanced Cancer: Clinical Validation and Quality-of-Life Implications

Background: In advanced cancer care, routine clinical assessment often focuses on symptoms, treatment tolerance, and disease status, while spiritual well-being remains insufficiently explored despite its relevance to quality of life (QoL). Standardized patient-reported tools may...

Mapping the health management journey of allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation: a qualitative study

Abstract Background Allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation serves as a curative therapy for various hematologic disorders. However, existing care models often lack a holistic perspective on patients' entire journey from diagnosis to long-term survival. Objective This...

Nuclear equation-of-state at high density and multi-messenger astronomy: contribution of heavy-ion collisions

Abstract In the past decades, heavy-ion collisions (HIC) at intermediate energies have allowed to probe the nuclear equation-of-state (EoS) of both symmetric and asymmetric nuclear matter over a broad range of densities. In particular, flow has proven to be a powerful observable....

Diagnostic Utility of Complete Blood Count Indices in Ferritin‐Defined Microcytosis Among United States Women Aged 18–49 Years

ABSTRACT Introduction Complete blood count (CBC) discrimination indices are widely used as low‐cost triage tools for microcytosis, but their diagnostic utility in population‐based samples with ferritin‐defined iron status is uncertain. We evaluated whether commonly used indices d...

The Stone Coat Protocol: Global Folklore of Lithic-Armored Entities as a Signature of Robust Archaic Hominins

This preprint presents a systematic analysis of the global "stone man" / lithic-armored entity motif in world folklore, conducted as part of the Hominin Mythology Project (OSF: https://osf.io/mdb84/). Using the Berezkin thematic classification database, North American ethnographi...

Effects of Zinc Supplementation on Glycemic Control, Insulin Resistance, Inflammation and Oxidative Stress in Diabetes: A Systematic Review and Meta‐Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials

ABSTRACT Objectives Diabetes mellitus (DM) is a chronic metabolic disorder characterized by insulin resistance, impaired insulin secretion, and increased cardiometabolic and inflammatory burden. Zinc plays a key biological role in insulin synthesis, storage, signalling and antiox...

A cross-sectional study on identification and prevalence of hard ticks parasitizing large and small domestic animals

Ticks are blood-sucking ectoparasites transmitting pathogens that cause anemia, skin damage, weight loss, reduced meat and milk production, morbidity, and mortality in livestock. This study identified tick species and their prevalence on buffaloes, sheep, cows, and goats in Multa...

Gut microbiota dysbiosis and plasma lipidomic signatures in systemic lupus erythematosus

Objectives Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is a major autoimmune disease. Recent studies have found that changes in lipid metabolism and gut microbes are associated with the pathogenesis of SLE. However, the coordination of gut commensal bacteria and SLE lipid metabolism is no...

Uncertainty propagation and its impact on earth-fill dam failures

Dam failures represent a significant hazard to downstream, particularly when combined with extreme hydrological inputs and uncertainties in breach development. In this study, a comprehensive hydrological and dam breach modeling framework was applied to the Kanlikoy Dam in Cyprus....

The competition and cooperation mechanism of policy goals in China’s diagnosis-related group: a quantitative analysis based on the BERTopic and Lotka-Volterra models

Aiming at the practical problems such as upcoding and decomposing hospitalizations emerging in China’s Diagnosis-Related Group (DRG) reform, existing studies mostly attribute such issues to aspects like behavioral motivations, which fail to explain the root causes of the problems...

Effect of Electrolyte,Applied Voltage, and DNA Concentrationon the Translocation Dynamics of a Single-Stranded DNA through a Solid-StateNanopore

Abstract Solid-state nanopores enable label-free detection of biomolecules by monitoring ionic current modulations during molecular translocation. However, reliable measurements are often limited by rapid, poorly controlled translocation dynamics producing short, low-resolution s...

Using cell‐free RNA to identify B‐ and T‐cell clonality for diagnosis and monitoring of B‐ and T‐cell neoplasms

Cell‐free RNA (cfRNA) is emerging as a supplemental approach for liquid biopsy (LBx). Given that lymphoid cells and plasma cells express substantial quantities of immunoglobulin (Ig) and T‐cell receptor (TCR) RNA, we investigated the utility of using cfRNA for detecting B‐cell an...

Perspectives on Drug Treatment Among Indigenous Peoples in Recovery Residing in the Northern Midwest United States

Objective: Evidence-based drug treatment is a vital component of an effective response to substance use inequities in the United States (US). Unfortunately, many drug treatment models were developed in western contexts and may fail to account for Indigenous cultures and values. T...