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The Posterior Scrotal Artery Adipofascial Flap for Rectourethral Fistulae

INTRODUCTION: Acquired rectourethral fistulas (RUF) are uncommon but challenging problems in colorectal and urologic surgery. They are most commonly iatrogenic or secondary to trauma, inflammatory bowel disease, or infection. Standard management consists of colonic diversion, fis...

Advocacy around abortion in a politically charged climate

PURPOSE OF REVIEW: To examine the evolving role of clinician advocacy in abortion care and to highlight key domains through which obstetrician-gynecologists can influence policy, clinical practice, and patient outcomes. RECENT FINDINGS: Increasing state-level abortion restriction...

Beyond Supply Security: Territorial Service Security for Regional Science in an Age of Compound Shocks

Contemporary regional shocks are no longer experienced primarily as isolated supply interruptions. They are increasingly lived as disruptions to essential services: cooling during heatwaves, mobility during fuel or transit disruptions, digital connectivity during infrastructure f...

Oral Sodium Butyrate Is Associated with Altered Tissue Bacterial Antigens and Innate Immune Marker Expression Across Different Organs in Athymic Mice

Background: Butyrate is a microbiota-derived short-chain fatty acid with established roles in maintaining intestinal barrier integrity and regulating immune responses. Although its effects have been extensively investigated in immunocompetent models, systemic immune homeostasis i...

Bimodal Speech Emotion Recognition Using a Hybrid CNN-LSTM Architecture with Sentiment Fusion

Speech emotion recognition (SER) is a fundamental task in affective computing; however, traditional unimodal approaches often struggle to capture the complex emotional cues present in spontaneous conversational speech. Bimodal frameworks that integrate acoustic and textual inform...

29. Face Validity of Neuropsychological Assessments in Traumatic Brain Injury Populations

Abstract Purpose Neuropsychological testing underpins return-to-play and return-to-duty decisions following traumatic brain injury (TBI). Yet, the face validity of performance and symptom validity tests (PVTs and SVTs) remains unexamined in TBI populations. In performance-driven...

Objective–Subjective Socioeconomic Status Configurations, Self-Acceptance, and Adolescent Prosocial Moral Reasoning: A Response Surface Analysis

Background: Objective and subjective socioeconomic status capture distinct aspects of adolescents’ socioeconomic experience, but their joint associations with prosocial moral reasoning and self-acceptance remain unclear. This study examined objective–subjective socioeconomic stat...

Moisture Monitoring in Historic Buildings: A Coordinated Image-Based Protocol for Time-Lapse Thermal and Visual Data

Moisture is one of the main deterioration agents affecting historic buildings, yet current diagnostic approaches based on visual and thermal imagery mainly rely on one-off surveys. To address this gap, this study proposes a coordinated image-based protocol for periodic moisture m...

Montage-agnostic federated learning for privacy-preserving Alzheimer’s disease classification from heterogeneous multi-site EEG

Federated learning (FL) lets institutions train shared models without moving raw data, attractive for clinical electroencephalography (EEG), where cohorts are small and privacy-sensitive. Two obstacles persist: clinical sites record EEG with different electrode montages, so input...

An Accurate Vision-Based Dynamic Propagation Measurement Method for Simple Concrete Cracks

To measure dynamic crack evolution under sustained service loads during infrastructure defect inspection and structural condition assessment, a machine-vision-based methodology for high-accuracy measurement of simple crack propagation is proposed in this paper. A dynamic crack pr...

Mode variation in clausal complexity in German and Persian

Abstract This paper revisits the question of mode as an influencing factor for variation in clausal complexity. In a comparative corpus study using the Lang*Reg corpus, clausal embedding is compared between the phonic and graphic mode produced by the same language users with the...

Residential Context and Survival Disparities in Black and White Women With Ovarian Cancer

Importance: Black women with epithelial ovarian cancer (EOC) have significantly worse survival than White women. How residential context contributes to these disparities is unclear. Objective: To examine whether there is an association of residential context with racial dispariti...

Antimicrobial resistance in Ecuador, 2000–2024: a systematic review within a One Health framework

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a major global public health threat, particularly in low- and middle-income countries. In Ecuador, AMR research has expanded during the last two decades, but evidence remains fragmented and largely restricted to the human health sector. We system...

Supercharged penguins—supplementary feeding reshapes tawaki/Fiordland penguin winter migration

Migration in a species is primarily a response to resource availability, shelter, thermoregulation, predator avoidance, or seasonal environmental change. Tawaki/Fiordland penguins ( Eudyptes pachyrhynchus ) have earned the nickname “marathon penguins” as they migrate 2,500 km fro...

Simultaneous Voltammetric Determination of Neurodegenerative Biomarkers at Nanomolar Levels Using a Fe3O4 Nanoparticle-Decorated Glassy Carbon Microsphere Nanocomposite

Abstract The precise monitoring of dopamine (DA), serotonin (5-HT), and L-tryptophan (L-Trp) is a critical challenge for the early diagnosis and management of neurodegenerative disorders, such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases. This work describes the development of a high-...

Photon-counting CT iodine maps for late iodine enhancement: a retrospective feasibility study of image quality and reader confidence

OBJECTIVE: Myocardial scar assessment is clinically relevant in advanced coronary artery disease, but late iodine enhancement (LIE) CT remains limited by image contrast and validation requirements. This study aimed to evaluate quantitative image quality and reader confidence of p...

Determinants of Unsafe Abortion Practices Among Young Women in the Bongo District, Ghana

BackgroundUnsafe abortion remains a critical public health challenge among young women in Ghana, persisting despite the provisions of PNDC Law 102 permitting abortion.AimThis study examined the determinants of unsafe abortion among women aged 15-25 years in the Bongo District, Up...

Youth migration crisis of the 21st century: a comprehensive moderated mediation analysis

The 21st century has witnessed a profound youth migration crisis, particularly in developing countries, where brain drain disrupts all sectors of society. This study examines the factors influencing youth migration, focusing on the mediating role of political factors and the mode...

Late Adolescents' Beliefs About Parental Monitoring of Online and Routine Behavior

INTRODUCTION: Despite the amount of time adolescents spend online, relatively little research has focused on parental monitoring of adolescents' online behavior. The present study examined late adolescents' retrospective evaluations of parental rules and their right to know about...

Incidental Removal of an Aspirated Tooth During Routine Endotracheal Suctioning: A Case Report

Background/Objectives: Foreign body aspiration is a potentially life-threatening emergency that commonly requires bronchoscopic removal. Dental aspiration in elderly patients may occur following trauma, seizures, or altered mental status and can lead to airway obstruction and res...