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Ozone stratospheric trends from regional Bayesian composite of ground-based partial columns

Large uncertainties and variability in individual ground-based instrument records limit the detection of statistically significant ozone trends, particularly in the lower stratosphere. Available merging studies are typically performed by latitude bands on satellite-based data rec...

Study on the Promotion of Methane Hydrate Formation by Surface Modification of Quartz Sand

Natural gas hydrates, with their vast reserves and high gas storage density, have emerged as a highly promising alternative energy source and technology for gas storage and transportation. Wettability, as a core surface property of porous media, directly influences hydrate nuclea...

RESPONSE OF GARLIC (ALLIUM SATIVUM L.) TO MULCHING MATERIAL AND COW DUNG RATE AT ZARIA, KADUNA, NIGERIA

A field experiment was conducted during the 2024/2025 dry season in the pomology garden of the Agricultural Education Department, Federal University of Education Zaria, Kaduna State, Nigeria, to determine the response of garlic (Allium sativum L.) to different mulching materials...

Praseodymium Without a Licence: Recovery of the Nd/Pr Pair from Magnet Leachates, Magnet-Plant Effluent and Phosphogypsum by Deep-Vacuum Phase Separation

Praseodymium is almost never sold as praseodymium. It leaves the refinery bound to neodymium as the NdPr alloy known as didymium, because praseodymium and neodymium are adjacent lanthanides whose separation factor in solvent extraction is close to unity, and splitting them demand...

Accurate Treatment of Solution and Flux Discontinuities in 2D Time-Dependent Interface Problems via Meshless Method

Interface problems frequently arise in applications including heat conduction with composite materials, fluid flow in porous media, and diffusion–reaction processes across heterogeneous domains. This paper presents a numerical method that combines radial basis functions with a fi...

Rosmarinic Acid Potentiates Cisplatin-Induced Antitumour Activity Through ROS-Associated Apoptotic Signalling in Two- and Three-Dimensional Breast Cancer Models

Triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) remains a highly aggressive malignancy with limited therapeutic options and frequent resistance to platinum-based chemotherapy. Rosmarinic acid (RA), a naturally occurring polyphenol, has attracted considerable interest as a potential chemosen...

Twenty Years of Duration Times Spread (DTS)

We review 20 years of our research on Duration Times Spread (DTS), a measure that has reshaped how many credit investors think about portfolio risk. Introduced as an alternative to the traditional spread–duration approach, DTS connects credit exposure directly to current market p...

Modeling suicidal thoughts and behaviors in university students: integrating suicide theory with interpretable machine learning

University students are at risk of suicidal thoughts and behaviors (STB), with prevalence rates higher than those in the general population. Machine learning (ML) enhances the accuracy of STB prediction and provides new possibilities and explanatory frameworks for this issue. Thi...

Does Government Environmental Spending Crowd in Green Investment? The Role of Carbon Pricing and the Limits of Fiscal Policy Alone

Governments around the world are spending more on environmental protection, but it is far from obvious that this spending pulls private capital into green assets. This paper asks whether government environmental expenditure crowds in green investment at the country level, whether...

Uncertainty-aware personalized estimation of Parkinson’s disease severity from longitudinal speech

Parkinson’s disease (PD) is a progressive neurological disorder characterized by motor impairments whose severity is commonly assessed using the Unified Parkinson’s Disease Rating Scale (UPDRS). Although clinically established, UPDRS assessment is inherently subjective, requiring...

Empowering future nurses – exploring the relationship between higher education-related stress, academic self-efficacy and clinical education experience satisfaction among nursing students in Saudi Arabia: a cross-sectional study

Background: Nursing education is crucial for preparing students to navigate the complexities of healthcare. Aim: The current study aims to investigate the relationships among higher education-related stress, academic self-efficacy (ASE) and satisfaction with clinical education ex...

Impaired but now diagnosable: Combining analytic frameworks for incorporating symptom weighting in the classification of full‐threshold and subthreshold posttraumatic stress disorder

Abstract Individuals with subthreshold posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) often experience significant impairment yet face barriers to care (e.g., insurance denials and exclusion from clinical trials) due to strict Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders ( DSM )–b...

Pesticide exposure and multidomain symptom burden in Parkinson’s disease: a longitudinal triangulation study

Abstract Although pesticide exposure has been linked to worse motor symptoms in Parkinson’s disease (PD), its associations with non-motor burden and with post-diagnostic progression rate remain unclear. We analyzed two large longitudinal cohorts, PPMI Online ( n = 7190) and Fox I...

Chromium‐Catalyzed Stereodivergent Carbonyl Addition Dictated by Non‐Covalent Interactions

ABSTRACT Catalytic stereodivergent synthesis, which accesses the full complement of stereoisomers from a common precursor set, is a paramount objective in drug discovery. However, achieving this control via radical‐involved pathways remains a formidable frontier due to the transi...

Aptamer-Based Fluorescent Biosensors for Kanamycin Detection in Food Systems: Design Strategies, Sensing Mechanisms, and Practical Applications

Kanamycin (KANA), a widely used aminoglycoside antibiotic in animal husbandry, is associated with residue accumulation in foods due to improper use, threatening food safety. Detecting trace KANA in complex food systems such as dairy, meat, and apicutural products remains challeng...

Impact of SDG-Oriented Green Marketing on Consumer Buying Preferences for Personal Care Products: Evidence from North India

Purpose: This study examines how Sustainable Development Goal (SDG)-oriented green marketing translates into consumer buying preferences for personal care products. SDG orientation is operationalized through environmental concern, green-product knowledge, perceived behavioural co...

Environmental Management Systems in Industry: A Carbon‐ and Energy‐Intensive Industrial Sector Review

ABSTRACT Environmental management systems (EMS) are widely recognized across industrial sectors as integrated tools for sustainability and regulatory compliance. Although most studies focus on single‐industry cases, multi‐sectoral EMS assessments are limited. This critical narrat...

Stability‐Enhanced Therapeutic Artificial Cells Based on a Lipid–Polymer Integrated Architecture

ABSTRACT Current artificial cells often lack robustness in the face of the complex physiological milieu. Additionally, the strategies for mimicking natural cargo exchange mostly rely on biological techniques, which involve integrating native channel proteins or adopting intact na...

Liposomal Formulations Containing Amino Acid Menthol Ester Naproxenate: Physicochemical Characterization and Transdermal Delivery Potential

Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), including naproxen, are widely used for the treatment of pain and inflammation; however, their therapeutic application is limited by poor aqueous solubility and low bioavailability. This study aimed to synthesize and characterize a...

CO 2 ‐to‐CO Electrochemical Conversion With an Fe(I) Porphyrin Complex in Water

ABSTRACT Iron porphyrin complexes constitute a well‐established and versatile class of molecular electrocatalysts for the reduction of CO 2 to CO. In both organic and aqueous media, the reaction mechanism is typically proposed to involve the interaction of CO 2 with a formally de...