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From iron to sugar: How aerated drip irrigation increases soluble sugar content in citrus fruit through soil microbial communities

Root-zone hypoxia is common in citrus orchards on red soils and limits sugar accumulation in fruit. Aerated drip irrigation (ADI) may improve the soil redox environment, but whether it regulates fruit soluble sugar through microbially driven iron transformation is unclear. A fiel...

Tool-grounded large language models for decision-level fusion in fault diagnosis

Modern condition-monitoring systems generate heterogeneous information, such as high-rate sensor streams, derived health indicators, and discrete event histories, that must be combined into actionable diagnostic statements. Large language models (LLMs) are attractive as a decisio...

An orientation-sensitive dynamic model for urban tunnel access-zone luminance: Integrating solar position and landscape geometry using 3D-printed model

The tunnel entrance represents a critical visual-environment interface, where tunnel access-zone luminance L 20 S directly impacts driver safety and overall tunnel lighting energy consumption. However, the L 20 S index is typically estimated using static values or simplified assu...

Integrated characterization of the gut microbiome and metabolome in female Père David’s deer (Elaphurus davidianus) across a reproductive transition

Although the gut microbiota plays a critical role in energy harvesting in ruminants, the restructuring of the microbiome–metabolome axis during the transition from late pregnancy to the postbreeding season remains poorly understood in the endangered Père David’s deer ( Elaphurus...

A MAM-targeted integrated atomic-precision MnSe janus nanozyme platform inhibits pyroptosis and ferroptosis for intervertebral disc degeneration therapy

Aberrant endoplasmic reticulum (ER)–mitochondria crosstalk at mitochondria-associated ER membranes (MAMs) drives oxidative stress, calcium dysregulation, pyroptosis, and ferroptosis in nucleus pulposus cells, accelerating intervertebral disc degeneration (IVDD). Nanozymes that mi...

U-shaped association of platelet-to-lymphocyte ratio with all-cause and cardiovascular mortality in hypertension: mediating role of renal dysfunction in a nationwide cohort (NHANES 2005–2018)

To evaluate the association between the platelet-to-lymphocyte ratio (PLR) and all-cause and cardiovascular mortality among adults with hypertension in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES). We conducted a prospective cohort analysis using NHANES 2005–2018...

Mediating Soviet architecture in China, 1930s–1940s: translation, intermediation, and knowledge circulation

The paper examines the introduction and representation of Soviet architecture in Chinese mass media and professional journals during the 1930s and 1940s. It analyzes how Soviet experiences in urban construction and architectural theory were translated, interpreted, and integrated...

Causality-driven hybrid intrusion detection with entropy-aware feature learning and federated intelligence

Modern IDSs should be capable of detecting and recognizing new forms of attack traffic (including both attacks from known adversaries) and to do so in ways that remain computational feasible when deployed across multiple, geographically distributed sites. Rule based, representati...

Confucian ethical spirituality and meaning in life: a longitudinal study of the mediating role of moral identity

Meaning in life is a core component of eudaimonic well-being. Dominant spiritual frameworks in psychology are mostly Western-centric and underrepresent Confucian-based ethical spirituality. Confucian Ethical Spirituality (CES) emphasizes moral self-cultivation, relational harmony...

Perinatal Outcomes of Pleuro-Amniotic Shunting in Isolated Pleural Effusions: Systematic Review and Meta-analysis

Pleuro-amniotic shunting has been proposed for fetal pleural effusion, although its safety and efficacy remain uncertain. Therefore, we aimed to evaluate the perinatal outcomes of the fetal therapy for isolated pleural effusion through a systematic review and single-arm meta-anal...

Stabilization of 3.5-valent vanadium electrolytes via thermodynamic phase-boundary mapping

Despite the potential of vanadium flow batteries (VFBs) for large-scale energy storage, their commercialization is still hindered by the poor thermal stability of VO 2 + in the positive electrolyte. Additives have improved the electrolyte to some extent, yet they are usually intr...

Diagnostic interpretation of CFH expression in pan-cancer analyses: the importance of factor H–like 1 isoform resolution

Recent pan-cancer analyses have identified Complement Factor H (CFH) expression as an immune-related and prognostic biomarker. However, interpretation of CFH transcriptional data requires consideration of isoform specificity. The CFH gene encodes both full-length factor H (FH) an...

Keep the Runtime, Derive the JIT Compiler: Runtime-Preserving Meta-Tracing with Two Coexisting Garbage Collectors

Meta-tracing frameworks derive a tracing JIT compiler from an interpreter, but implementations built with them commonly reimplement the object model and core library of an existing runtime as well. Meta-tracing constrains only the interpreter, not the values it manipulates. In ru...

Study on a macro–micro damage evolution model for plant-reinforced microplastic-contaminated tailings in seasonally frozen regions

To investigate the damage evolution of plant-reinforced microplastic-contaminated tailings under freeze–thaw cycles, this study designed four test conditions: pure tailings, microplastic–tailings, root exudate–tailings, and microplastics-contaminated tailings stabilized with root...

Viscoelastic and transfusion effects of residual cardiopulmonary bypass circuit blood reinfusion after coronary artery bypass surgery: a randomized controlled trial

Cardiac surgery with cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) is associated with perioperative blood loss, coagulation disturbances, and increased allogeneic red blood cell (RBC) transfusion requirements. This study evaluated whether postoperative reinfusion of residual CPB circuit blood red...

Colchicine as adjunctive therapy in heart failure: a pooled analysis

Colchicine has shown anti-inflammatory benefits in cardiovascular disease, but its role in heart failure (HF) remains unclear. This systematic review assesses the efficacy of colchicine as an adjunct therapy in heart failure. A systematic search identified randomized controlled t...

Therapy-induced senescence in cancer: from detection to intervention

Therapy-induced senescence (TIS) has emerged as an important contributor to treatment resistance and poor prognosis in clinical cancer therapy. Senescence initially acts as a tumor-suppressive mechanism by enforcing stable cell-cycle arrest, while the senescence-associated secret...

Fully coupled large-strain consolidation and contaminant transport model for PVD-treated dredged sludge under vacuum-surcharge preloading

Installing prefabricated vertical drains (PVDs) combined with vacuum-surcharge preloading promotes contaminant transport and leads to solute redistribution. This process is governed by complex interactions among soil deformation, water flow and solute transport. Simplified uncoup...

Asymmetric bloom lengthening drives high-latitude ocean chlorophyll accumulation imbalance

Terrestrial ecosystems maintain a stable time-allocation budget between growth and senescence, but whether this applies to the ocean remains unclear. Using fused satellite LiDAR and ocean-color data (2007–2022), we show that marine phenology is variable and asymmetric. In high la...

Beyond words: symbolic interpretation and implementation principles of expressive arts in children’s life education

This study explores how expressive arts can be translated into children’s life education and implemented as meaningful teaching activities that support children’s emotional expression and understanding of life and death. While discussions of death and life are often considered di...