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“An Even Playing Field”: Non-Clinical Simulation for Leadership Development Among Pediatric Interns

Background Graduate training programs are tasked with preparing trainees to lead clinical teams. Currently, there is little consensus on how to develop their interpersonal leadership skills, and pediatric programs tend to focus on senior residents. Targeting pediatric interns wit...

Learning the Influence of the Chemical Environment on Epoxy-Amine Cure Kinetics

Accurate modelling of polymer-network formation requires describing reaction kinetics in a continuously evolving chemical environment. Epoxy-amine networks are a challenging model system: epoxy groups react successively with primary and secondary amines, while hydroxyl groups for...

CL-SCCA: multi-byte contrastive learning for side-channel collision attacks on cryptosystems

Abstract Side-channel collision attacks (SCCA) are a classical method for recovering key differences by detecting collisions between intermediate values. Traditional SCCA methods usually rely on manually designed statistical distinguishers to measure the similarity between traces...

Identification of Immune-Related Hub Genes as Candidate Biomarkers for Preeclampsia: Integrative Transcriptomic and Machine Learning Approaches

Abstract Preeclampsia (PE) is a major cause of maternal and perinatal morbidity and is increasingly recognized as a disorder involving immune dysregulation. However, reliable candidate biomarkers and key molecular alterations associated with PE remain unclear. We integrated multi...

Evaluating a Near-Peer Facilitation Model for Simulation-Based Education in Occupational Therapy

Date presented: April 23, 2026 Primary Author and Speaker: Malachy James Clancy, malachy.clancy@jefferson.edu

Three novel ACAD8 variants in newborn-screening-positive Chinese individuals with suspected isobutyryl-CoA dehydrogenase deficiency: six genetically characterized cases and one biochemically suspected case

Abstract Background Isobutyryl-CoA dehydrogenase deficiency (IBDD) is a rare autosomal recessive organic acidemia. Here, we present the clinical, biochemical, and molecular findings from seven newborn-screening-positive individuals, of whom six were found to harbor biallelic ACAD...

Photocatalytic Performance of TiO2-Based Nanomaterials for Water Remediation

Photocatalytic water treatment using titanium dioxide (TiO2)-based nanomaterials has emerged as a promising green technology for removing organic and inorganic contaminants. However, the translation of laboratory-scale photocatalysts into industrial applications remains limited b...

Lossy Distance-Shell Tomography on Paths: Recovery from Mean and Covariance

This preprint studies recovery of nonnegative integer populations from anonymous hop-count histograms under independent relay failures. Failed relays are bypassed by attaching surviving descendants to their nearest surviving ancestor, while targets on failed relays are silent. Fo...

Enhanced Functional Independence Score for Haemophilia (E‐FISH) for Early Detection of Musculoskeletal Changes

BACKGROUND: The functional independence score in haemophilia (FISH) is a widely used performance-based assessment tool designed to evaluate musculoskeletal function in children with haemophilia (CWH). Nevertheless, FISH exhibits a ceiling effect in children who are undergoing ear...

Structural Softness–Rigidity Mediation Enables Multicolor Emission and Long‐Lived Phosphorescence in Hf/Zr Halides

ABSTRACT Multicolor fluorescence, typically favored by soft environments, and phosphorescence, which relies on rigid lattices to stabilize triplet excitons, are fundamentally incompatible and hard to coexist within a single material. Here, we report a crown–ether–directed lattice...

Comparative Remineralization Efficacy of Different Physical Forms of Chitosan in a Newly Developed Olive Leaf Extract-Containing Artificial Saliva

Plant-derived bioactive compounds and natural biopolymers are increasingly investigated as components of multifunctional remineralization systems. This in vitro study compared the remineralization efficacy of chitosan film, gel, and solution on bleached human enamel within an oli...

The Relationship between Social and Emotional Wellness in College Students: A Mixed Method Exploratory Study

Date presented: April 24, 2026 Primary Author and Speaker: Barbra Katerberg, barbkaterberg@gmail.com

Macroeconomic drivers of climate performance: public procurement, financial fragility and institutional asymmetry

Purpose The study examines how public procurement, financial conditions, fiscal position and energy-market factors are associated with climate performance in European economies. It focuses on whether these relationships differ across the climate-performance distribution and betwe...

Prevalence and screening features of scoliosis among adolescents aged 7 to 18 years in Shanghai China

Abstract Background Adolescent scoliosis is an important school-health concern, but local screening evidence from large urban communities remains limited. Methods We conducted a population-based school screening analysis using a de-identified dataset of 7979 students aged 7 to 18...

Perioperative Hospital‐at‐Home Program: A Scoping Review

BACKGROUND: Hospital-at-Home (HaH) is an established model of care for medical patients, particularly following rapid expansion during the COVID-19 pandemic. In contrast, perioperative HaH remains in its early stages, with limited understanding of appropriate care delivery models...

Transformer architecture incorporating discrete wavelet transform for fully automated baseline correction of near-fault ground-motion records

Baseline correction of near-fault ground motions (NFGMs) is essential for characterizing permanent displacement and pulse-like features, but remains challenging because low-frequency noise must be removed without distorting physically meaningful components in integrated velocity...

ANTIOXIDANT AND ANTI-INFLAMMATORY EFFECTS OF ORIDONIN ON DEXAMETHASONE-INDUCED HEPATOTOXICITY IN RATS

Background: Glucocorticoids are widely used for their anti-inflammatory and immunosuppressive effects but are associated with oxidative stress- and inflammation-driven hepatic injury following prolonged administration. To date, oridonin (a bioactive diterpenoid isolated from Isod...

Association of dexmedetomidine use with stroke-heart syndrome in critically ill patients with ischemic stroke: a MIMIC-IV study

Background Stroke-heart syndrome (SHS) is associated with poor outcomes after ischemic stroke (IS), but the relationship between dexmedetomidine (DEX) use and SHS remains unclear.Objective To evaluate the association between DEX use and SHS in critically ill patients with IS.Meth...

Esophageal cancer burden across 48 Asian locations, 2009–2023: demographic decomposition and exploratory projections

Asia carries most of the global esophageal cancer burden, but trends in rates may differ from changes in service demand. We assessed burden across 48 Asian locations during 2009–2023. We analyzed Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study (GBD) 2023 estimates of...

Evolutionary and Functional Conservation of Topologically Associating Domain Boundaries in Rice Genomes

Traditional evolutionary analysis has relied primarily on one-dimensional (1D) sequencing data, but recent advances in three-dimensional (3D) genomics allow for deeper investigation of how genome architecture shapes evolutionary divergence. In this study, we analyze conserved and...