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Advanced Multimodal X-ray Visualization Techniques for Unraveling Catalytic Performance and Degradation Mechanisms of Metal Nanoparticles in Fuel Cells

Abstract This Account highlights the transformative advances enabled by the world-first BL36XU beamline dedicated to in situ and operando characterization of metal nanoparticles and adsorbed species in polymer electrolyte fuel cells (PEFCs). While PEFCs hold great promise for sus...

Dried blood spot 3-year stability suitability for biomarker discovery and biobanking initiatives in companion animals

Dried blood spot (DBS) sampling is a rapid, cost-effective, and sustainable method that requires minimal processing. It can be performed using remnant blood samples from clinics or via pinprick at home. The DBS metabolome has similar discriminatory potential to the plasma metabol...

Initial implementation of a cancer health literacy questionnaire among owners of pet dogs and cats attending a primary veterinary healthcare service: Part II. Item difficulty and discrimination

Abstract Background Health literacy (HL) describes the capacity of individuals to obtain, process, and understand healthcare-related information, and to apply that information to healthcare decision-making. In human oncology, cancer health literacy (CHL) is recognised as a determ...

Buddy Wire–Augmented Intravascular Lithotripsy in Refractory Calcified Coronary Lesions: A Five‐Case Series

Heavily calcified coronary lesions remain a major challenge in percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), often limiting the effectiveness of intravascular lithotripsy (IVL). We report a five-case series in which IVL failed to achieve adequate lesion modification but was successfu...

A Review of Research on Electric Chassis for Agricultural Machinery

Agricultural machinery is rapidly developing toward electrification, intelligence, and autonomy, and the electric drive chassis has become a key technology for improving power transmission performance, operational efficiency, and energy utilization. This paper presents a review o...

CPPAtools: a computation toolset for chimera protein prediction and analysis

Genetic or non-genetic frameshifting can increase the production of erroneous proteins, with far-reaching impacts on cellular phenotypes, including cancer. While the presence and impact of genetic alterations cannot be foreseen and are often defined clinically following phenotypi...

Digital Use Matters More than Access: Socioeconomic Inequality and Mathematics Achievement in the Context of Sustainable Education (PISA 2022)

This study examines the relationship between socioeconomic status (SES), digital access, and different forms of digital use in relation to mathematics achievement using PISA 2022 data. The analysis draws on the PISA 2022 student dataset, with the fully specified models based on 2...

Study of Anisotropic Polytropes in the Presence of Cloud of Strings and Quintessence

This manuscript probes the generic formulation of anisotropic polytropic stars in General Relativity, with special attention to the quintessence and cloud of strings. The stellar model is constructed by employing a static spherically symmetric interior spacetime matched to an app...

PineSegNet: A Deep Learning Method for Fine-Grained Wood-Leaf Segmentation of Masson Pine Point Clouds

Masson pine (Pinus massoniana) is a core timber species in the subtropical regions of Southern China, and the precise monitoring of its growth status and phenotypic characteristics is crucial for forest resource management. To address the segmentation challenges caused by intertw...

Board of directors and innovation efficiency: a necessary condition analysis

Purpose This study examines whether corporate governance mechanisms constitute necessary conditions for achieving innovation efficiency in the healthcare industry. Building on the view that boards are not merely control bodies but strategic resources that enable the implementatio...

An Edge-Optimized Vision-Based System for Smart Classroom Attendance Automation and Dynamic Crowd Analytics Using YOLOv8 and Deep Face Embeddings

This work focuses on the development of an intelligent vision-based framework that would enable automating the process of classroom attendance and environment monitoring using edge computing. The current attendance procedures face problems caused by delays in processing and insuf...

Spatial Variation in Soil Erosion and Potential Pattern of Soil Nutrient Loss in the Southeastern Low Mountains and Hills of the Daxing’anling Mountains

Soil erosion and the nutrient loss it causes are core issues threatening sustainable land use in arid and semi-arid regions. In this study, our aim was to reveal the spatiotemporal differentiation characteristics of soil erosion and soil nutrients in an ecologically fragile area...

The Relationship between Democracy and Human Rights in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

헌법원리로서의 민주주의와 인권은 자유와 평등을 매개로 하여 서로의 영역이 교차된다. 그렇기에 민주주의 내에서 자유와 평등이 인간의 존엄을 실현한다는 의미는, ‘민주주의는 인간의 존엄이라는 헌법의 최고이념을 실현하는 데 적합한 질서이자 원리’라는 의미가 된다. 민주주의 이념으로서 자유와...

Targeting PPAR-Regulated Pathways to Treat Cholestatic Liver Diseases: Novel Applications of Liquid Biopsies

Primary biliary cholangitis (PBC) and primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC) are chronic cholestatic liver diseases with limited therapeutic options. First-line therapy for PBC is ursodeoxycholic acid, although up to 40% of patients respond incompletely, and there is no effective t...

WHERE THE INTERSECTIONS WEAVE — III Observational Search for Projection Inversion in Type Ia Supernova Residuals

Version 2 update:This version preserves the original Version 1 text and adds an addendum evaluating the redshift-dependent sign-reversal structure as a whole. Using the positive and negative redshift bands identified in the original analysis, a 4,000-realization permutation test...

Putting children at the heart of climate change adaptation policies via Allyship, Bias Recognition and Child Centeredness: A global qualitative interview study

Human-induced climate change significantly impacts human health, with children being particularly susceptible to its impacts. National Adaptation Plans serve as the main framework for countries to establish targets and strategies to tackle the health impacts of climate change. Ho...

Weft: Evidence-Gated Version Control for Autonomous Agent Swarms

Version control systems assume that a human reads each change before it is integrated. Commit messages are prose for a reader; pull requests exist to partition work into human-reviewable units; branch protection encodes “someone approved this.” Autonomous coding agents violate th...

Explainable artificial intelligence–driven SHAP-based feature selection for interpreting black-box fuzzy modeling: an autonomous decision-making framework

Purpose Integrating explainable artificial intelligence (XAI) for water quality assessment (WQA) is necessary to protect human health, ensure the availability of clean water and sustainable conservation of the environment. Black-box machine learning (ML) models perform well but l...

Phytoextraction of Cadmium Using Solanum nigrum and Bidens pilosa: Comparative Evaluation and Effect of Planting Distance in Theobroma cacao L. Producing Areas in Northeastern Peru

Cacao (Theobroma cacao L.) is a crop of great economic importance in Peru; however, the presence of cadmium (Cd) in cacao-growing soils limits its production and international trade. The objective of this study was to evaluate the effect of Solanum nigrum (black nightshade) and B...

The power of technology: corporate internet technologies adoption and family firm succession choice

Purpose This study aims to examine whether and how corporate Internet technologies adoption affects family firm succession choice. Design/methodology/approach Based on the data from the nationwide survey of Chinese private firms, the study conducts multiple regressions to examine...