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Waterborne polyurethane modified CFBFA cementitious materials properties and mechanism

This study addresses the challenge of directly and efficiently utilising circulating fluidised bed fly ash (CFBFA), which is difficult to employ due to its high calcium, high sulfur, and low reactivity, by introducing environmentally friendly waterborne polyurethane (WPU) as a mo...

Circle-valued phase and the Wallstrom quantization condition in Madelung hydrodynamics

Madelung showed that the Schrodinger equation can be rewritten, away from the zeros of the wave function, as hydrodynamic equations for a density and a velocity potential. Wallstrom [Phys. Rev. A 49, 1613 (1994)] showed that the rewriting is not an equivalence: the hydrodynamic s...

State Viability as a Criterion for the Quality of Domestic and Foreign Policy: Real and Informational Dimensions

This article examines State Viability as a possible complementary criterion for evaluating the quality of domestic and foreign policy within the framework of Vitology. Contemporary policy evaluation commonly considers economic performance, institutional effectiveness, national se...

Between Leaves, Prayers, and Healing Hands: A Cross-Regional Scoping Review of Ritual Healers and Plant-Based Community Knowledge

Plant-based healing practices integrate botanical resources, ritual speech, gesture, faith, spiritual mediation, protection, and social recognition within complex community systems of care. This cross-regional scoping review mapped the traceable literature on plant-based knowledg...

Pediatric Auditory-Perceptual Evaluation of Voice Part I: Voice Stimuli for Children

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to develop and test standardized stimuli for the Pediatric Auditory-Perceptual Evaluation of Voice protocol. The use of these stimuli for cepstral/spectral voice measures was also considered. Method: Three sets of standardized sentences and...

Gravitational Manipulation Theory v1.7: Grid-Native Reconstruction, Symmetron Mutual Screening, and Reproducible Experimental Constraints

Gravitational Manipulation Theory (GMT) v1.7 rebuilds the GMT experimental-constraint pipeline as a grid-native, physics-native, and reproducible framework. This release addresses two remaining provenance dependencies inherited from earlier GMT constraint analyses: an unreleased...

A comparative study on the names of higher education institutions in China and the United States: quantitative linguistic approaches

This study adopts quantitative methods to analyze the linguistic features of the names of higher education institutions in China and the United States (US). The findings reveal both similarities and differences in the university names of the two countries. Firstly, the Zipf-Mande...

Factors associated with completion and improvement following integrative oncology acupuncture in a racially diverse population

Acupuncture is an important integrative therapy in oncology settings as an adjunctive management option for cancer-related adverse effects. However, barriers to utilization of acupuncture in minority populations have been reported. This study sought to assess factors that impact...

Reframing Literacy in the Age of AI: Critical Literacy in Adult and Lifelong Learning

In increasingly digital and AI-mediated educational environments, adult learners are required to navigate complex information landscapes shaped by artificial intelligence, digital platforms, and algorithmically generated content. In such contexts, digital literacy can no longer b...

Skill acquisition specialists in coach learning systems: Coach developer perspectives on roles and tensions

Coaches often rely solely on experiential knowledge to facilitate skill acquisition. Coach developers may offer unique insights on the role of skill acquisition specialists in supporting coach learning in this area. This study explored high-performance coach developers’ reflectio...

The Dual-System Challenge: Human Psychological Evolution in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

The Dual-System Challenge: Human Psychological Evolution in the Age of Artificial Intelligence proposes a conceptual interdisciplinary framework for examining the increasingly coupled relationship between human psychological systems and artificial technological systems. The paper...

CAR T Cells Targeting an Intracellular Leukemia Antigen Promiscuously Presented by Diverse HLA-II Alleles

Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) technology has revolutionized B-cell malignancy treatment by enabling T cells to effectively recognize and target lineage-specific surface antigens. However, CAR T cells show limited efficacy against myeloid neoplasms and solid tumors due to challe...

The Ontological Foundations of H3QM: Emergent Particle Hierarchy from Topological Vacuum Phonons

Modern theoretical physics suffers from the "Background Fallacy," assuming an absolute vacuum container in which particles interact. We present the Ontological Foundations of the Harmonic 3D Quantum Manifold (H3QM), proposing a relational space where tension precedes the vacuum (...

A Unified Geometrical Interpretation of Zitterbewegung and de Broglie Matter Waves

Zitterbewegung and de Broglie matter waves are both phenomena associated with the quantum-mechanical properties of the electron, but they are usually discussed in different contexts. Zitterbewegung is understood as a rapid oscillatory motion appearing in the Dirac equation, where...

Diet, Ultra-Processed Foods, and Food Additives in Crohn’s Disease: A Comprehensive Review

Background and aim: Crohn’s disease (CD) is a chronic inflammatory disorder of the gastrointestinal tract resulting from a complex interplay among genetic susceptibility, immune dysregulation, environmental factors, and alterations in the gut microbiota. Among these, diet has eme...

Cooperative and collective quantum light emission from perovskite superball superstructures

Superfluorescence (SF), the coherent light burst from synchronized quantum emitters, has been demonstrated in perovskite quantum dot superlattices. However, limited control over self-assembly, heterogeneity and emitter properties has hindered systematic exploration of cooperative...

Association of the COVID-19 lockdown and Generalized Anxiety Disorder-7 (GAD-7) in Korean adolescents

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a worldwide pandemic that causes anxiety. Research on possible risk factors for anxiety during the COVID-19 pandemic is scarce. In this study, we examined 54,890 participants’ web-based self-reported data from the Korea Youth Risk Behavior W...

Differential Non-Fiber Agronomic Properties and Biochemically Related Fourier Transform Infrared Spectral Features of Cotton Genotypes with Contrasting Fiber Lengths

Abstract While Fourier transform infrared (FT-IR) spectroscopy is widely used in agricultural research, linking the FT-IR biochemical features to agronomic properties is quite limited. In this work, three cotton mutants with shorter fiber lengths (Li1, Li2, and liy) and two wild...

A Review of Neuroproteomics in Neurological Disorders: The Use of Machine Learning and Deep Learning

Proteomics has emerged as a powerful tool for advancing our understanding of brain disorders by enabling large-scale characterization of protein expression, post-translational modifications, and interaction networks. Neurological conditions are often characterized by complex and...

Predictors of mortality from diarrhea during a cholera outbreak in Haiti’s Artibonite and Centre regions, 2022–2024

Background Haiti reported a resurgence of cholera in October 2022, which caused 88,087 suspected cases and 1,324 deaths through December 2024. There is limited data on the predictors of mortality from cholera during this epidemic period. Methodology/Principal Findings We conducte...