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- Health & MedicineOpen access
Alzheimer’s Disease is the most common cause of dementia and is characterized by progressive cognitive decline and memory impairment. It mainly affects elderly individuals and accounts for nearly 60–70% of dementia cases worldwide. The disease is associated with neuronal degenera...
- Health & MedicineOpen access
ASSESSING DIETARY HABITS AMONG PREPARATORY SCHOOL STUDENTS IN KARBALA CITY / 2025
Introduction: Adolescents face growing global health risks from unhealthy eating behaviors, and Iraq is no exception. Years of conflict, economic pressures, and social change have altered the diets of Iraqi teenagers, leading to both undernutrition and rising levels of overweight...
- BiologyOpen access
Abstract In heart failure, β-adrenergic receptor (β-AR)-Gsα-cAMP-protein kinase A (PKA) signalling predisposes to delayed-afterdepolarisation-mediated arrhythmias. Phosphodiesterases (PDEs) hydrolyse cAMP, and PDE3 restrains β 1 -AR, β 2 -AR-mediated inotropic responses in failin...
- Society & EconomicsOpen access
Family emotional support plays an important role in shaping students' learning experiences and academic development. However, limited research has examined how students' perceptions of family emotional support relate to their academic outcomes in the Nepalese secondary school con...
- Health & Medicine
Neonatal Point-of-Care Lung Ultrasonography: Techniques and Normal Findings
Point-of-care lung ultrasonography (POC-LUS) has become a routine bedside tool for evaluating respiratory status in many neonatal intensive care units. This article walks neonatologists through the fundamentals of its application-probe selection, system setup, and image acquisiti...
- Health & MedicineOpen access
CLINICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF PATIENTS WITH PRECOCIOUS PUBERTY ATTENDING ENDOCRINE UNITS IN MOSUL CITY
Background: Precocious puberty is the abnormal early onset of puberty, defined by the appearance of secondary sexual characteristics before age 8 in girls and before age 9 in boys. It results from either independent sex hormone secretion (peripheral/gonadotropin-independent) or p...
- Engineering & TechnologyOpen access
A HYBRID XGBOOST–GRAPH NEURAL NETWORK FRAMEWORK FOR POWER SYSTEM VOLTAGE STABILITY PREDICTION
The increasing penetration of distributed generation and the dynamic, nonlinear nature of modern power systems have rendered traditional model-based voltage stability assessment methods inadequate, particularly because they cannot capture both feature-level nonlinearities and top...
- BiologyOpen access
JACOBEA MARITIMA: BEAUTIFUL AMBIVALENT NATURE'S GIFT
Jacobaea maritima (Dusty Miller or Silver Ragwort) is a perennial ornamental plant belonging to the family Asteraceae and is native to the Mediterranean region. Besides its decorative value, the plant possesses significant medicinal properties due to the presence of bioactive com...
- Health & MedicineOpen access
PREVALENCE OF SMOKING AND ITS DETERMINANTS AMONG MEDICAL STUDENTS IN MOSUL CITY
Background: Tobacco use remains a major global public health concern, particularly among young adults. Medical students are considered at higher risk of smoking due to academic and psychological pressures, and understanding the prevalence and determinants of smoking in this group...
- Engineering & Technology
Recovery Improved by Subsea Sulfate Removal and Low-Salinity Water Injection
_ This article, written by JPT Technology Editor Chris Carpenter, contains highlights of paper SPE 231579, “Improving Recovery With Subsea Sulfate Removal and Low-Salinity Water Injection,” by Ojonimi S. Haruna, SPE, and Bruno C. Kahn, NOV. The paper has not been peer-reviewed. _...
- Climate & Environment
CO2 Injection Model Accounts for Joule-Thomson Cooling, Heat Exchange
_ This article, written by JPT Technology Editor Chris Carpenter, contains highlights of paper SPE 230576, “Joule-Thomson CO2 Cooling Under Different Regime Heating by Adjacent Layers,” by Christina Chesnokov, SPE, University of Adelaide; Rouhi Farajzadeh, SPE, Shell and Delft Un...
- Engineering & Technology
Palliative Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation Decannulation: An Ethical, Evidence-Based Approach
BACKGROUND: Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, although lifesaving, is invasive. Complications affecting all body systems mandate reevaluation of goals of care. When extracorporeal membrane oxygenation is nonbeneficial, planning for de-escalation/decannulation to allow natural...
- Materials & EnergyOpen access
In degenerate, compensated and viscous - crystalline alloy, , the Global Einstein -and- Van Cong relations, as those given in Equations (24, 31), and various optical-electrical-thermoelectric laws, enhanced by: the optico-electrical phenomenon (O-EP) and the electro-optical pheno...
- Climate & EnvironmentOpen access
MANAGEMENT OF PHARMACEUTICAL WASTE
Pharmaceutical products are vital for disease prevention and treatment, but their rising production and consumption have generated significant pharmaceutical waste from households, farms, healthcare facilities, and industries due to routine use, damage, or expiry. Improper dispos...
- BiologyOpen access
Abstract Background & aims Forest productivity and resilience are influenced by soil conditions; however, the mechanisms linking soil properties, isotopic signatures, and tree growth remain incompletely understood. This study evaluated whether soil carbon (δ 13 C) and nitroge...
- Engineering & Technology
Case Study: Closing the Loop on Fracture Execution With Real-Time Subsurface Measurements
_ Hydraulic fracturing execution has historically relied on surface treating pressure as the primary information source for evaluating a stage. However, treating pressure is a composite signal that blends pipe friction and perforation friction, limiting its usefulness for diagnos...
- Climate & EnvironmentOpen access
A living scientific program map for the Standard Coherence Fidelity Layer (SCFL) and the Upstream Coherence Measurement Stratum (UCMS) research canon. This document distinguishes explicitly between established parent literatures (critical transitions, cascading failure, resilienc...
- Health & MedicineOpen access
Alzheimer’s Disease is the most common cause of dementia and is characterized by progressive cognitive decline and memory impairment. It mainly affects elderly individuals and accounts for nearly 60–70% of dementia cases worldwide. The disease is associated with neuronal degenera...
- Health & Medicine
Aims: Forefoot deformities are common in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and often impair quality of life. Patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs), including the Self-Administered Foot Evaluation Questionnaire (SAFE-Q), are increasingly used to assess surgical outcomes;...
- Health & MedicineOpen access
Resveratrol has been extensively investigated as a natural compound with promoising anticancer properties. the present study evaluated whether resveratrol modulates IL-6R gene expression in the AML derived KG-1 a cell line. cells were exposed to different concentrations of resver...