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- Health & MedicineOpen access
Background: Biofilm-associated microbial burden is a major barrier to wound healing and is increasingly difficult to control in the era of antimicrobial resistance. This translational study evaluated the antimicrobial performance and tissue compatibility of a commercially availab...
- BiologyOpen access
Partial Reproducibility and Pleiotropic Epigenetic QTLs in Arabidopsis Recombinant Inbred Lines
Unlike conventional genetic polymorphisms, many induced epigenetic polymorphisms can be reset across generations, raising uncertainty about how consistently the same epigenetic loci and associated phenotypic effects can be recovered among independent studies. To address this prob...
- Materials & EnergyOpen access
Mitochondria-Targeted Lonidamine Hydrogels for Postsurgical Elimination of Glioblastoma
The high recurrence rate of glioblastoma after surgical resection and conventional chemotherapy remains a major obstacle to effective treatment. Mitochondria-targeted long-acting local chemotherapy represents a promising therapeutic strategy to tackle this dilemma. In this study,...
- Health & MedicineOpen access
Sleep and obesity—known interactions and open questions
Abstract Sleep and obesity are tightly interconnected, with bidirectional relationships that influence cardiometabolic health and the development and progression of sleep disorders. In this review, we synthesize current evidence linking insufficient sleep, insomnia, obstructive s...
- Health & MedicineOpen access
BACKGROUND: Spinal cord infarction (SCI) is a rare stroke subtype with no established acute treatment guidelines. Thrombolytic therapy has been used empirically based on extrapolation from cerebral stroke protocols, but comparative effectiveness data are lacking. We compared outc...
- Health & MedicineOpen access
Physical exercise is beneficial for older adults, but little is known about inter-individual response variability or whether its effects reach clinical significance. We analyzed individual clinically meaningful responses to exercise in older adults. This is an ancillary analysis...
- BiologyOpen access
Hydrogen Sulfide-Regulated NF-κB Signaling via Persulfidation: A Review
Hydrogen sulfide (H2S) is an important endogenous gaseous signaling molecule that regulates diverse physiological and pathological processes through protein persulfidation. As a central regulator of inflammation and immune responses, NF-κB signaling is precisely controlled by pos...
- Society & Economics
The hyphenated link between discretionary spendings and product market competitive threats
Purpose This study studies the connection between product market competitive threats with R&D and advertising spending, which is still a hotly contested and inconclusive research topic. We try to fill this research gap by empirically examining this relationship. We also docum...
- BiologyOpen access
Evaluating Biostimulant Products for Wheat Production in Weathered Soils and Dry Environments
ABSTRACT The need to reduce reliance on synthetic fertilisers has intensified interest in biostimulants and organic amendments as sustainable alternatives in cereal production. This study assessed the performance of three commercially available biostimulants in wheat ( Triticum a...
- Biology
Alternative Food Networks (AFNs) are widely understood as responses to the sustainability crises of the conventional food systems. AFNs in Scotland also build upon long-standing local food traditions that predate these crises, yet little attention has been given to understanding...
- AI & ComputingOpen access
Improving Function-Hiding Functional Commitments
Function-hiding functional commitment schemes allow one party to commit to a private function f and later prove f(x)=y for public x and y without revealing additional information about the function. We construct efficient function-hiding functional commitment schemes for arithmet...
- Materials & EnergyOpen access
Argan oil (Argania spinosa L.) is a culturally and economically significant product in North Africa, yet little is known about how extraction practices shape its nutritional and sensory qualities. The present study compares mechanical cold pressing with solvent extraction (diethy...
- Climate & EnvironmentOpen access
ABSTRACT Physicochemical data acquisition was carried out within the northeastern Bay of Bengal (BoB), adjacent to the newly declared Naf Marine Protected Area (Naf MPA) of Bangladesh. A total of 21 sampling locations were covered over shallow coastal water for the study during t...
- Materials & Energy
Cracks in functionally graded nanobeams used in MEMS/NEMS devices can significantly reduce stiffness and reliability, and identifying multiple cracks at the nanoscale is challenging because nonlocal effects and bidirectional material gradation must be accounted for. To address th...
- Health & MedicineOpen access
Based on the three fundamental axioms of the ternary steady-state theory—closed-loop, scale, and bottom-boundary axioms—this study constructs a coupled dynamic system of essence, qi, and spirit to realize the standardized mathematical reconstruction of the traditional Chinese lif...
- Society & EconomicsOpen access
This work presents an educational innovation project developed in a rural public school in the Brazilian Amazon. The project combines flipped classroom methodology, gamification, active learning strategies, and project-based learning to increase student engagement and promote mea...
- Health & MedicineOpen access
Abstract Objective This study aimed to explore the effects of the modified Mini-Clinical Evaluation Exercise (Mini-CEX) combined with the Situation-Background-Assessment-Recommendation (SBAR) model in the experimental teaching of Health Assessment course. Background The Mini-cex...
- Society & EconomicsOpen access
The EU’s evolving strategic priorities in the world order: normalising the resilience narrative
Abstract This article evaluates the way the dominance of a resilience narrative has shaped the evolution of the EU’s strategy in the world order. It employs the concept normalisation to explore how the resilience narrative displaced previously mainstream narratives at the centre...
- Health & MedicineOpen access
Recombinant measles virus (rMeV) vectors are promising platforms for vaccine development against emerging infectious diseases due to their safety, stability, and potent immunogenicity. However, conventional rMeV rescue systems frequently exhibit low efficiency, thereby constraini...
- BiologyOpen access
Unpacking trust in gene editing: the role of food system actors in shaping consumer perceptions
New food technologies, like gene editing, rely on and pose challenges to consumer trust. Despite growing calls to better understand trust in gene‑edited foods (GEFs), there has been insufficient research on how trust in food system actors is formed. This study addresses this gap...