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35527 work(s)
- Climate & EnvironmentOpen access
Rapid post-earthquake landslide mapping is critical for emergency response, yet the quantitative hierarchy of architectural choices in U-Net-based segmentation remains unresolved. Using the Globally Distributed Coseismic Landslide Dataset (GDCLD; nine earthquakes, four continents...
- Engineering & Technology
Purpose The combined effect of graphene and ceramic reinforcements on the mechanical properties, microstructural characteristics, strain-hardening behavior and Hollomon parameters of AA2024 hybrid composites was systematically investigated. Design/methodology/approach A hybrid me...
- Society & Economics
A Multimodal Framework for Analyzing Engagement With Green Social Media Influencers
ABSTRACT In light of growing concerns about environmental degradation and unsustainable consumption patterns, effective communication about sustainability has become crucial in encouraging more environmentally conscious behavior. With their ability to connect with large audiences...
- BiologyOpen access
What Will It Be Like When AI Becomes Second Nature?
Artificial intelligence is moving from an occasional instrument toward an ambient layer of capability available through objects people carry, wear, inhabit, and encounter. Under present trajectories—not as an inevitable, uniform, or necessarily benign future—AI may become availab...
- AI & ComputingOpen access
Collatz Conjecture and MATH Dataset: No New Mathematical Insight Found — E8 Intelligence Research
FINDING: No unsolved competition problem identified; results show viral clickbait, the unsolved Collatz Conjecture, and the MATH dataset paper. | MATH: Collatz Conjecture: f(n) = n/2 if n even, 3n+1 if n odd. No known closed-form solution or proof. | CONNECTION: None. No geometri...
- Materials & Energy
ABSTRACT Nitrate electroreduction (NO 3 RR) powered by solar energy offers a sustainable platform for ammonia (NH 3 ) synthesis. However, the variability of solar energy, leads to fluctuating voltages and frequent start‐stop of the system, presents significant challenges for cata...
- Engineering & TechnologyOpen access
Developing Cu-based composites with excellent electrical and mechanical properties under multiphysics-coupled service conditions remains challenging. Novel Cu-Nb-Gr composites were fabricated by high-energy ball milling and High-pressure Multi-field Assisted Rapid Sintering. Expe...
- BiologyOpen access
Personalized Medicine for the Management of Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs)
Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) are the leading cause of death worldwide and are among the major drivers of healthcare expenditure, particularly in societies undergoing progressive population aging [...]
- Engineering & TechnologyOpen access
Fuel cells (FCs) are critical for decarbonizing the transport industry, with Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) serving as the standard evaluation framework. However, existing literature exhibits severe methodological heterogeneities and divergent system boundaries that introduce deep e...
- Physics & SpaceOpen access
A short version, The voice of the Universe, is available on this platform: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21486180 . This presentation challenges the Big Bang paradigm (BBP). According to our observations, the history of the universe did not unfold as it describes. To put it simp...
- Society & Economics
Learning Technologies and Satisfaction
In online higher education, the quality of learning technologies is often treated only as a technical property of the platform; however, students ultimately evaluate these systems according to their own learning dispositions. Prior research has examined learner traits and technol...
- Health & Medicine
Occupational strain and post-retirement rehabilitation among older factory workers
Background Long-term factory work involves repetitive, physically demanding tasks that contribute to musculoskeletal degeneration in later life, particularly affecting the knee and cervical spine among ageing workers. Qualitative evidence on how retired industrial workers perceiv...
- Health & MedicineOpen access
Constipation is common and managed as benign; however, refractory disease can progress through fecal impaction to stercoral colitis, perforation, and sepsis. The national mortality trends are unmapped. Serial cross-sectional CDC WONDER multiple-cause analysis, US adults ≥ 25 year...
- Society & EconomicsOpen access
Re‐evaluating the Rise of Anglophone Malaysian Historical Fiction in the Twenty‐First Century
ABSTRACT Since the turn of the century, anglophone Malaysian historical fiction has gained significant global recognition, so much so that it has become the dominant genre. However, notwithstanding this enviable evolution in the country's English‐language literature, it is not wi...
- Society & EconomicsOpen access
Purpose The purpose of this study is to evaluate the interrelatedness between online impulse buying behavior and post-purchase dissonance, while examining the impact of social media and credit cards using the Stimulus–Organism–Response (S-O-R) framework. Design/methodology/approa...
- Society & Economics
Abstract The California State University, Fullerton (CSUF) professor is one of the newest members of the Significance editorial board
- Materials & EnergyOpen access
ABSTRACT Mg 3 (Sb, Bi) 2 ‐based thermoelectric materials have shown considerable potential for low‐grade waste‐heat recovery near room temperature. However, their thermoelectric performance remains limited by the strong coupling among electrical conductivity, Seebeck coefficient,...
- Materials & EnergyOpen access
Chalcogenophosphiniteswith a Cyclic Oligosilane Backbone
Abstract A structurally authenticated series of chalcogenophosphinites, R2P(ChPh) (Ch = S, Se, Te), supported by a compact tetrasilaphosphacyclopentane backbone, is presented. The parent secondary phosphane is obtained in two scalable steps from a dichlorohexasilane via substitut...
- Health & Medicine
O.L. is a named inventor on patents held by Boston Children's Hospital related to vaccine adjuvants and antigens as well as human in vitro systems that model the safety and immunogenicity of vaccines and immunotherapeutics. O.L.’s laboratory receives sponsored research support fr...
- Health & MedicineOpen access
Abstract Background Construction workers face substantial occupational heat exposure, but little is known about whether heat-related symptoms form distinct co-occurring profiles or which modifiable workplace and behavioral factors characterize workers with greater symptom burden....