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Is Proton Therapy Superior to Gamma Knife Radiosurgery for Sporadic Vestibular Schwannoma?

With changing practice patterns, radiation therapy for vestibular schwannomas has become an increasingly utilized treatment modality with high tumor control rates. Gamma-Knife radiosurgery remains a well-established and readily accessible option with good rates for tumor control,...

Safety, feasibility, and palliative benefit of HIFU combined with PD-1 inhibitors for elderly patients with advanced pancreatic cancer: a real-world retrospective study

BACKGROUND: Pancreatic cancer remains largely refractory to immune checkpoint inhibitors. High-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) may modulate the immunosuppressive tumor microenvironment via immunogenic cell death, yet clinical evidence on HIFU combined with programmed cell dea...

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...

Orbital Decomposition of the Wronskian and Orbital Vandermonde Polynomials

This paper introduces an orbital decomposition of the Wronskian determinant induced by the right action of the cyclic subgroup CnC_nCn on the symmetric group SnS_nSn. For functions f1,…,fnf_1,\ldots,f_nf1,…,fn of class Cn−1C^{n-1}Cn−1 on an interval, the n!n!n! terms in the Leibn...

novum: A Training-Free Structural Operator for Prediction and Generation

We introduce novum, a training-free structural operator that reads and generatesdirectly from a table's structure. Worlds sit on typed axes and are related bycoincidence: agreement across a set of intrinsic gaps rather than closeness in ametric. Every act obeys a single invariant...

Greater Mediterranean Diet Adherence Is Associated with Lower Odds of Chronic Migraine: A Retrospective Observational Study

Background: Dietary factors may influence migraine burden, but the relationship between Mediterranean diet (MD) adherence and migraine chronicity remains unclear. This study aimed to investigate whether higher MD adherence is associated with a less severe migraine phenotype, part...

AI-Assisted Modeling and Coding: The Overlooked Contribution of Generative AI to Chemistry

In the context of artificial intelligence in chemistry, the first applications that come to mind are widely discussed ones, such as building surrogate models to replace costly numerical simulations or designing new compounds. However, one area where generative AI truly stands out...

Employee exposure to HRD and training transfer: the mediating role of formal training evaluation and the moderating role of informal learning behaviors

Purpose This study investigates the mechanisms underlying the association between employee exposure to Human Resource Development (HRD) and training transfer, focusing on the mediating role of formal training evaluation and the moderating role of informal learning behaviors. Buil...

Year-long exploratory assessment of a horizontal subsurface-flow constructed wetland containing locally sourced zeolite and planted with Cyperus alternifolius for greywater treatment in Jordan

Context In arid environments such as Jordan, greywater treatment and recycling should be decentralized for better water resource management.Objective This study tests a lab-scale Horizontal Flow Constructed Wetland (HFCW) using locally supplied natural zeolite (Aritayn region) as...

Immunohistochemical Expression of RhoJ Protein in Breast Carcinoma

BACKGROUND: Breast cancer is the most common form of cancer diagnosed in women. Breast cancer cells gain the expression of mesenchymal-specific genes in a process known as epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT). RhoJ, a small Rho GTPase, is a key regulator that promotes resistan...

Multi-sensor continuous-flow bioreactor for dynamic and scalable cell culture

Abstract Bioreactors are essential tools in tissue engineering and advanced cell culture because they provide dynamic environments that support cellular growth, organization and tissue maturation. However, most existing systems lack integrated real-time monitoring and feedback co...

Fatty Acid-Based(Deep) Eutectic Solvents ThermodynamicBehavior and Thermal Properties for Low-Temperature Thermal EnergyStorage

Abstract The mismatch between heat supply and heat demand can be resolved by better utilization of low temperature waste heat with the help of low-temperature thermal energy storage (TES). In this work, binary mixtures of thymol (THY) with decanoic acid (C10), undecanoic acid (C1...

Nanoconfinement Engineering Enables Pt Nanocrystals in MOF-on-MOF Derived Nanoporous Carbon Microspheres for Hydrogen Evolution

Abstract Developing Pt-based catalysts with maximized atomic utilization and optimized electronic structures remains crucial for accelerating the cathodic hydrogen evolution reaction (HER). Herein, we develop a MOF-on-MOF-derived confinement strategy to construct a defect-mediate...

EFFECT OF Organisational CULTURE ON EMPLOYEE PERFORMANCE IN HEALTHCARE INSTITUTIONS: A Structured Literature Review with Implications for David Umahi Federal University Teaching Hospital (DUFUTH)

Organisational culture shapes how employees interpret institutional expectations, interact with colleagues, respond to leadership, share knowledge and perform assigned responsibilities. This review synthesises the literature compiled in the source manuscript on the relationship b...

Simulation of Particle Structure Rearrangement and Reaction in Wall-Flow Filters at High Flow Velocities with Lattice Boltzmann Methods

Wall-flow filters are used in exhaust gas after treatment systems to reduce particulate matter emissions from internal combustion engines. The particles accumulate on the filter surface during operation, forming a layer that progressively increases the flow resistance and thus th...

Gate-to-Gate Benchmarking of Electricity Use and Electricity-Related CO2 Emissions in Mechanical Cable Recycling: A Descriptive Industrial Case Report from Poland

Cable scrap is a high-grade secondary copper resource, but transparent plant-scale evidence on the operational energy and emissions performance of mechanical separation lines remains limited. This descriptive industrial case report presents a non-replicated comparison of complete...

THE STRUCTURAL EMERGENCE OF SELF‑AWARENESS

This paper proposes a minimal structural model of consciousness in which awareness develops into self‑awareness through four sequential layers: minimal awareness, embodiment, continuity, and recursive self‑recognition. The model reframes self‑awareness as a cognitive structure ra...

Producing public rental housing towers in Chongqing: how regulations and cost discipline standardize height, type and Façade

Purpose This paper explains why Chongqing’s public rental housing towers converge in height, plan type and facade treatment. It examines how a national fire-safety height threshold, municipal daylight-spacing rules and cost-disciplined delivery narrow design choices into a repeat...

Patterns of Autonomous and Conditional Neural Specification for the Brain and Ventral Nerve Cord in Annelida

ABSTRACT Evolution of central nervous systems is a long‐debated topic. Similar mechanisms of conditional neural specification linked to dorsal‐ventral (D–V) axis formation have been used to support homology across several taxa. We tested for autonomous versus conditional neural s...

Predicting disciplinary infractions and recidivism with PICTS spiked profiles in an effort to determine whether sentimentality is a genuine criminal thinking style

In an effort to ascertain whether sentimentality (justifying criminal behavior by engaging in ostensibly positive actions and carrying out presumably good deeds) qualifies as a criminal thinking style several analyses were performed on subgroups of a larger sample of 3,039 male f...