Research works

Estradiol and Social Withdrawal in Addiction: A Sex-Specific Neuroendocrine Perspective

Abstract Addiction models have traditionally emphasized drug rewards while often underestimating the role of social processes in relapse vulnerability. Converging evidence from preclinical and clinical studies suggests that social withdrawal during substance use and abstinence ma...

A Comprehensive Review of Multimodal Medical Image Fusion: Techniques, Evaluation, and Future Directions

In recent years, multimodal medical image fusion (MMIF) has attracted significant attention due to its ability to integrate complementary information from different medical imaging modalities and provide more comprehensive information for clinical analysis. By combining anatomica...

Lightweight Asymmetric Convolutional Residual Network for Efficient Motion Image Deblurring

Motion image deblurring remains challenging because many existing models rely on complex architectures, leading to high computational cost and parameter redundancy, particularly under non-uniform blur in real-world scenes. To mitigate these limitations, we propose a Lightweight A...

Sequence Labeling in Urdu Social Media Texts: Data Annotation and Transformer-Based Deep Learning Models

Sequence labeling tasks such as part-of-speech (POS) tagging and named entity recognition (NER) have advanced significantly in high-resource languages and well-structured texts. However, low-resource languages, such as Urdu, face unique challenges due to limited annotated resourc...

When enough is enough: Understanding saturation in qualitative research

ABSTRACT Despite its widespread use in qualitative research, saturation is often improperly stated or loosely used in the methods section and cited as a methodological checkbox to persuade editors and peer reviewers that research methodology is robust. This narrative review sheds...

Redistributed, Not Reduced: The Role of International Trade in Global Food Supply Sustainability

Global food systems must balance productivity with environmental sustainability amid climate change, geopolitical shocks, and unevenly distributed natural resources. This study introduces the Food Supply Sustainability Index (FSSI), a transparent, composite measure of the sustain...

Holistic Inside‐Out Reconfiguration of Ni‐Rich Cathodes via a Thermally Self‐Driven Strategy for Exceptional Chemomechanical Stability

ABSTRACT Ni‐rich layered oxides (LiNi x Co y Mn 1− x − y O 2 , x ≥ 0.8) are indispensable for high‐energy‐density lithium‐ion batteries, yet they suffer from severe chemomechanical degradation driven by the synergy of internal microcracking and interfacial parasitic side reaction...

Sector-specific clean water scarcity and competition under global change

Abstract While the impact of future climate change on physical water availability has been extensively studied, the interplay with water quality and the associated impact on water scarcity—particularly the ensuing competition among sectors (domestic, irrigation, livestock, manufa...

Defect Suppression Mechanism of CFRP in Longitudinal-Torsional Coupled Ultrasonic Vibration-Assisted Drilling

Carbon fiber reinforced plastic (CFRP) composites have been widely adopted in the aerospace industry due to their excellent mechanical and physical properties. However, their anisotropy and weak interlaminar bonding make them prone to defects such as delamination and fiber pull-o...

Ioc-Mldroid: a Hybrid Approach for Detection of Android Based Malicious Applications Using Indicators of Compromise (Iocs) and Machine Learning

Android operating system has taken over the mobile ecosystem across the world and thus is a prime target of more advanced malware that uses its ability to obfuscate, dynamically load code, encrypted communications and even environment aware evasion behaviors. These properties sev...

Structural and evolutionary insights into deleterious nsSNPs in bovine MDA5 suggest their role in viral dsRNA recognition

The bovine IFIH1 gene, which encodes melanoma differentiation-associated protein 5 (MDA5), is a major part of antiviral innate immunity in cattle and mediates recognition of long, double-stranded viral RNA. To elucidate the functional significance of naturally occurring IFIH1 var...

Smartphone-measured heart rate variability and quality of life in patients with gynecological cancer: a multicenter prospective study

In this study, we aimed to investigate the association between heart rate variability (HRV) and quality of life (QoL) in patients with gynecological cancer and examine whether continuous HRV monitoring may help identify QoL deterioration. This multicenter, prospective, observatio...

Nanotechnology-Enabled Remediation of Contaminated Soils: Mechanisms, Soil Constraints, Environmental Risks, and Implications for Sustainable Land Management

Engineered nanomaterials have been increasingly proposed for the treatment of contaminated soils. Nevertheless, most available evidence has been obtained in water, artificial substrates or short-term laboratory experiments, and performance in real soil is substantially more varia...

Osteoporotic fracture, diagnostic activity, and treatment in patients with gout

BACKGROUND: Patients with gout may be at high risk for developing osteoporosis and osteoporotic fractures, but osteoporosis may be under-recognized and inadequately managed for patients with gout. We aimed to describe osteoporotic fractures and diagnosis, DXA utilization, and bon...

Risk Factors for Stereoacuity Impairment in Intermittent Exotropia: Results from a Nationwide Korean Study

Purpose: To identify clinical factors associated with stereoacuity impairment in patients with intermittent exotropia (IXT), with an emphasis on perinatal, refractive, motor, and sensory parameters. Methods: This nationwide cross-sectional study analyzed 5,385 Korean patients wit...

Determinants of Pregnancy‐Related Misconceptions Among Pregnant Women in Urban Bangladesh: A Cross‐Sectional Study

ABSTRACT Introduction Pregnancy‐related misconceptions are common in low‐ and middle‐income countries and may adversely influence maternal behaviours. Evidence from urban populations is limited. This study assessed the prevalence and determinants of pregnancy‐related misconceptio...

Skewed Criterion-Weight Distributions for Spatially Regularized Selection of IoT-Enabled Environmental Monitoring Nodes

This work presents a spatially regularized modelling framework for selecting IoT-enabled environmental monitoring nodes within smart-lighting infrastructures. The study does not claim novelty in CRITIC, TOPSIS, mixed-integer programming, or Voronoi tessellation as isolated method...

Examining Sex-Based Inequities in Pediatric Sports Medicine Research: A Systematic Review

BACKGROUND: Inequalities in the inclusion of male and female athletes have been documented in the sports medicine literature. However, the extent to which this phenomenon exists in studies of pediatric athletes remains poorly defined. The purpose of this study is to characterize...

(Re)Tracing borders: A critical discourse analysis of the research on Latinx mental health impacts of U.S. immigration enforcement

Social science research has documented the adverse mental health outcomes of U.S. immigration enforcement activity on Latinx immigrant individuals and families. Though informative, decolonial scholars have underscored the importance of contextualizing adverse mental health, parti...

The salience of the stop signal affects triggering and latency of response inhibition across species: findings from a Bayesian approach

The visual salience of a stop signal influences inhibitory performance. In Stop Signal Task, increasing stop signal salience decreases the latency of the inhibitory process (Stop Signal Reaction Time, SSRT). However, traditional SSRT estimation methods do not account for trigger...