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Surface-EngineeredMain-Chain Azobenzene-ContainingPolyurethanes: toward Stimuli-Responsive Microstructure and ColorRegulation

Abstract Endowing material surfaces with on-demand, multistimulus responsiveness holds great promise for surface and interface engineering, but remains challenging. Herein, we report a versatile surface-engineering strategy to construct functional surfaces with tailorable microst...

Thromboxane A2-Driven Vascular Hyperreactivity in Cadmium-Induced Hypertension: Role of Oxidative Stress and Therapeutic Implications

Background/Objectives: Environmental factors, including heavy metals such as cadmium, are increasingly recognized as important contributors to hypertension beyond traditional risk factors. To date, the role of angiotensin and alpha-adrenergic receptors in hypertension induced by...

Occurrence of Black Spot Caused by Alternaria alternata on Celosia cristata L. in Henan Province, China and In Vitro Screening of Control Agents

Celosia cristata is an important ornamental and medicinal plant widely cultivated in China. In July 2025, a severe black spot disease was observed on C. cristata in the Zhang Zhongjing Medicinal Plant Garden, Nanyang, Henan Province, China, resulting in substantial defoliation an...

Dimension comparison for Student's statistic under symmetric unimodality

Preprint. This manuscript has not undergone journal peer review.

Corporate environmental, social and governance (ESG) scores and corporate liquidity management (CLM): evidence from Australia

Purpose This study aims to investigate the impact of environmental, social and governance (ESG) scores on corporate liquidity management (CLM) in Australian Securities Exchange (ASX)-listed companies for the 2010–2023 period. Design/methodology/approach Using various measures in...

When Vocabulary Breaks Communication: A Community Workshop to Map Terms, Techniques, and Artifacts Across Disciplines

Across Human Factors Engineering, UX, CX, HCD, HSI, and related disciplines, teams frequently use different words for similar concepts, or the same words for very different work. The result: hiring confusion, mismatched expectations, unclear deliverables, and difficulty explainin...

Feasibility and Prognostic Value of an Ovarian NAR-like Score in Advanced Ovarian Cancer Treated with Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy and Interval Debulking Surgery

Background: Neoadjuvant chemotherapy followed by interval debulking surgery is an established treatment strategy for selected patients with advanced epithelial ovarian cancer. However, simple postoperative prognostic tools integrating pre-treatment disease extent and post-treatme...

Inside the Width: Trajectory Structure of Nonconservative Erasure

Abstract When a collection of requirements, distinctions, or certificates is reduced, when does removing several items preserve the same semantic value, and when can locally valid removal certificates fail when combined? This note isolates an elementary answer at the level of an...

The Civilisation Balance Sheet: Rethinking Societal Progress Through Assets, Liabilities and Externalised Costs

The Civilisation Balance Sheet (CBS) is a conceptual approach to assessing societal progress through the relationship between assets, liabilities, benefits and externalised costs. This working paper argues that conventional measures of economic performance can inadequately repres...

Multi-Year Variation Characteristics and Driving Forces of Groundwater Levels in the Yibin Area, Southern Sichuan, China

To support groundwater protection and sustainable utilization in southern Sichuan, this study aims to clarify the multi-year variation characteristics of groundwater levels (GWLs) and identify their main driving factors in the Yibin region. In this paper, 2019–2024 GWL monitoring...

Nuciferine-Loaded Lipid Nanoparticle Microneedles Alleviate Intervertebral Disc Degeneration by Restoring Nucleus Pulposus Cell Homeostasis

Background/Objectives: Intervertebral disc degeneration (IDD) is a major cause of chronic low back pain and disability. Nuciferine, a natural alkaloid with mitochondrial protective activity, shows therapeutic potential for IDD. However, the avascular nature of intervertebral disc...

Post-obligation physician retention among Jichi Medical University graduates in Okinawa prefecture, Japan: a descriptive comparative study of the Kyushu region

Abstract Background Global strategies to address physician maldistribution include recruiting students with rural backgrounds, community-based training, bonded service, financial incentives, and personal and professional support. However, retention after obligatory service remain...

Exergy analysis on daylighting with a single-paned glass window and PV-based electric lighting

This study aims to evaluate two representative pathways for utilizing solar radiation in a building for indoor lighting using exergy analysis: (1) direct daylight utilization through a window system and (2) indirect utilization through electric lighting powered by photovoltaic (P...

For better board engagement, give them a voice, make sure they're heard and appreciated

One of the easiest ways to keep your board meetings on track and board members engaged is to make sure they feel seen, heard and appreciated, according to Lincoln Arneal of the Nebraska Children and Families Foundation.

C-GUARD: Context-Adaptive Conformal Gating for Improving Robustness Against Evasive Windows PE Malware

Machine Learning (ML)-based malware detectors perform exceptionally well on standard benchmarks, but their robustness to evasive malware remains fragile. On EMBER2024, strong tree-based models achieve high accuracy on clean test sets yet miss a large number of evasive Windows PE...

Double Jeopardy in digital entertainment: a preregistered movie-level replication with an exploratory franchise extension using MovieLens 32M

Abstract This paper revisits the Double Jeopardy (DJ) regularity in digital entertainment using the public MovieLens 32M archive. DJ predicts that brands with higher penetration also have slightly higher loyalty. We first run a preregistered test at the movie level, treating each...

Optimization of multi-electrode surfacing technology for freight car axle box body repair

The paper studies the influence of temperature fields during single- and multi-electrode welding and surfacing treatment on deformations of the inner cylindrical surface of the body of the roller axle box of a freight car. The surfacing was performed using flux-cored electrodes o...

Discovery of Bis-ThioureaDerivatives as Human DNATopoisomerase IIα Inhibitors with Potent Anticancer Effects

Abstract DNA topoisomerase IIα (Topo IIα) is essential for maintaining genomic stability during DNA replication and mitosis and is highly expressed in cancer cells, making it a promising target for anticancer therapy. In this study, bis-thiourea derivatives were investigated for...

A Nonmonotone Real-Rootedness Set for Symmetric Imaginary Shifts

AI Research Artifact. This work presents an exact rational degree-8 polynomial whose symmetric imaginary-shift real-rootedness set is neither an interval nor an up-set. The explicit witness and candidate proof were materially model-generated. Version 0.1.3 replaces mental-state a...

Geometric Localization of the Entity Forming Subjects (EFS): Branes, Black Holes, and the Infinite-Dimensional Source

The main article on EFS (Entity Forming Subjects) introduced the hypothesis of an ∞D source of projections that generates subjects and information. However, the question of where EFS is located relative to subjects of different dimensions remained open. This article fills this ga...