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Resilience and adaptation of cancer screening programs to external crises

Objectives To examine how cancer screening programs resumed during the COVID-19 pandemic, focusing on their resilience in terms of coordination, communication, recovery, participation rates, catch-up efforts, inequities, and preparedness. Setting Cancer screening programs represe...

Demoting the Master Control Program: Deterministic Orchestration of a Fleet of LLM Agents

Multi-agent systems that build software usually coordinate their agents through a language model: an orchestrator reasons in prose about who works next, whether a task is done, and when to involve the human operator. That puts a probabilistic component on the control path of a sy...

Challenges and opportunities of solar geoengineering for climate governance

Purpose This review characterizes the governance challenges arising from the potential deployment of solar geoengineering. The authors survey existing theoretical models that analyze the strategic incentives such technologies generate. In particular, this study examines the condi...

The Marketing Context Graph: A Governed Substrate for Causal Marketing Measurement and Auditable Decision Provenance - Causal inference as a governed layer on a bitemporal context graph

Marketing decisions increasingly depend on two capabilities that have evolved separately: causal marketing measurement (distinguishing real advertising effects from the correlational patterns in marketing data, the domain of Causal AI) and governed, graph-based context for the AI...

High-resolution simulation and modeling of tropical-cyclone induced power outages in the United States

Storm driven power outages impose large and uneven costs on communities, yet operational outage prediction models remain constrained by available datasets. Existing approaches either provide high resolution forecasts for a small number of utilities with internal outage records, o...

A large-scale analysis of temporal patterns in children’s purported past-life memories: Shorter intervals following unexpected deaths.

Cases of the Reincarnation Type (CORT) involve individuals—typically young children—who report memories they claim are from previous lives. One recurring observation is the apparent “intermission time” between the death of the putatively identified previous person and the child’s...

STING agonist profiling by nucleotide library defines structural determinants of cyclic dinucleotide recognition

The data contain unprocessed Western Blot and gel images, microscopy images and data from STING Molecular Dynamics (MD) simulations.

ECL₃: Epistemic Causal Logic — Paper I: Core Logic, Semantics, and Completeness

We introduce ECL3 (Epistemic Causal Logic), a three-valued formal logic extending Łukasiewicz L3 with an observability predicate Obs and a causal operator Cause. The system distinguishes truth (what is the case), observability (whether it can be known), and causal accessibility (...

“Who am I without my disorder?”: An interpretative phenomenological analysis of recovery from combined bulimia nervosa and borderline personality disorder

Abstract Background Co-occurring Bulimia Nervosa (BN) and Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) affect a substantial population in the United Kingdom. This study explored how individuals experience recovery from these conditions, with a focus on interpreting how individuals with...

Gallai’s Theorem: A Detailed Exposition of Witt’s Proof

Gallai’s theorem states that if the Euclidean plane is colored with finitely many colors then every finite configuration of points admits a monochromatic homothetic copy. This paper presents a detailed exposition of a proof originally published by Ernst Witt in 1952 and subsequen...

Effects of Salinity on Bacterial Spot Disease, Physiology, Growth, Fruit Quality, and Transcriptomic Responses in Tomato Plants

Soil salinity and bacterial spot of tomato (BST), caused by Xanthomonas perforans, are major abiotic and biotic stresses limiting tomato production, particularly in Florida. While their individual effects are well documented, the impact of soil salinity on BST has not yet been in...

Efficacy and Cost-Effective Treatment of Isometric Resistance Training for Blood Pressure Control: A Narrative Review in Healthy Individuals and People with Cardiovascular Diseases

Background: Isometric resistance training (IRT) has emerged as a promising non-pharmacological intervention for blood pressure (BP) management. Although current hypertension guidelines primarily recommend aerobic and dynamic resistance exercise, growing evidence indicates that IR...

Targeting Bioenergetic, Redox and Prostaglandin Pathways in Long COVID-Associated Post-Exertional Malaise and Brain Fog: A Nutraceutical Translational Hypothesis

Post-exertional malaise (PEM) and cognitive dysfunction (“brain fog”) are among the most disabling features of Long COVID, yet approved disease-modifying treatments remain lacking. Emerging evidence implicates interacting disturbances in mitochondrial bioenergetics, redox regulat...

Soil Microbial Co-Occurrence Networks Along a Grassland Degradation Gradient: Nonlinear Thresholds, Divergent Bacterial–Fungal Responses, and Environmental Drivers

Grassland degradation is a global ecological crisis that profoundly alters aboveground vegetation and soil properties, yet its impacts on soil microbial co-occurrence networks remain poorly understood. Here, we investigated soil bacterial and fungal communities along a well-defin...

Are circular innovations disruptive? An analysis of the role of inventor networks in the European semiconductor industry

The expansion of advanced technologies is intensifying demand for energy, materials, and efficiency of production systems, with semiconductors exemplifying the tension between rapid technological progress and resource sustainability, and the development of circular innovations. Y...

Experimental Results of A Novel Two-Phase Water Ejector Design for High-Temperature Heat Pump Applications

Abstract High-temperature heat pumps (HTHPs) are a key technology for decarbonizing industrial process heat. Within such systems, two-phase water ejectors offer a promising opportunity to function as secondary steam compressors. By entraining hot steam with high-pressure water, t...

Modulation of gastric activity using appetizing and disgusting images.

Interoception is the nervous system’s integration of internal bodily signals, including gastrointestinal inputs. This process is crucial for regulating homeostasis, cognition and emotion, and depends on bidirectional brain-body communication. Given recent evidence of brain-stomac...

Phylogenetic structure of conifers in regional floras in relation to climate and environmental heterogeneity worldwide

Despite having only about 670 species worldwide, conifers are one of the ecologically and economically most important plant groups. They have a rich fossil record and previous studies have shown that their current diversity is the result of past radiations, extinction, and disper...

Impaired effort perception, not reward sensitivity, impacts the effort-reward trade-off in Parkinson’s disease

Deciding whether and how to act depends on a trade-off between the effort required to execute a given action and the potential reward for completing it. Impairments in this effort-reward trade-off have been proposed to underlie reduced movement vigor, or bradykinesia, in Parkinso...

Two Earliest Optical-UV Tidal Disruption Events Hidden in the SDSS DR7 Catalog Unveiled by the Transformer-based Spectrum Classifier

Abstract Optical spectroscopic features are decisive in the current identification of optical-UV tidal disruption events (TDEs). Regarding that the TDE estimated occurrence rate is 10 −5 –10 −4 galaxy −1 yr −1 by both theoretical and observational methods, large optical spectrosc...