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Hybrid zwitterionic biochar-PES-SPAES composite membranes for efficient treatment of antibiotic-laden municipal wastewater

Antibiotic accumulation in discharged water is a growing global public health concern that demands high-performance membrane materials to mitigate it. Herein, functionalized zwitterionic biochar (ZBC) was incorporated into a novel membrane composite of polyethersulfone/sulfonated...

Construction of Escherichia coli K-12 Strain Deficient in relA and spot Using the γ Red Site-specific Recombinase System

Previous studies have shown that an exposure to sub-inhibitory levels of kanamycin induces capsule synthesis which confers antibiotic resistance. To examine the role of spoT and relA genes in capsule synthesis and acquired physiological antibiotic resistance during sub-inhibitory...

Craniorachischisis Totalis: Gross And Microscopic Findings In A Rare Lethal Neural Tube Defect

ABSTRACT Craniorachischisis totalis is a rare, lethal neural tube defect caused by complete failure of neural tube closure. A 41-year-old multigravida (G3P2L2) with intermittent vaginal spotting underwent ultrasonography, which revealed a 13-week-3-day fetus. A 45 g male fetus wa...

Geographic disparities and temporal trends in aggressive prostate cancer: a SEER population-based analysis (2004–2022)

Abstract Purpose Prostate cancer burden may be amplified in rural regions or Appalachia areas, where access to screening and healthcare may be limited. This study examined geographic disparities and temporal trends in aggressive and metastatic prostate cancer across four groups d...

ASTER-based mapping of iron skarn mineralization in Keban (Elazığ), Eastern Türkiye: Insights from mineralogical, geochemical, and spectral validation

This study investigates the iron-bearing mineral deposits and contact-metamorphic skarn zones associated with magmatic intrusions in the Keban region (Elazığ, Eastern Türkiye), focusing on the Aşvan (Muratçık), Fatmalı, Üçağaç, and Ulupınar (Birvan) areas. The primary objective i...

Effect of fungal hydrolysis of lemon peels on biohydrogen production

Citrus residues, particularly lemon peel, pose significant environmental challenges due to disposal difficulties. Despite this, they represent an abundant biomass resource with high recovery potential. One promising valorization route is their use for biohydrogen production via d...

Selective flotation of ilmenite from diopside using 8-hydroxyquinoline: An FeN-dominated adsorption mechanism

Selective flotation separation of ilmenite from calcium–magnesium silicate gangue remains challenging because of the weak natural hydrophobicity of ilmenite and the insufficient selectivity of conventional collectors. In this study, 8-hydroxyquinoline (8-HQ), a heterocyclic N,O-d...

Knowing the Collective: Temporal Cohort Membership and Small-Cell Governance as Foundations for Cohort Negentropic Assessment

Part IV of Volume II (the outward extensions) of the H-DKPS series on physician-governed clinical AI (知衡八法). The redacted code package is included as a separate file. Clinical problem. Patients who share a workplace, a night-shift rota or a neighbourhood share more than an ad...

The use of patellar tendon autograft and lateral meniscus repair are associated with loss of motion of the knee among female patients undergoing anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction

Abstract Purpose To conduct a sex‐stratified analysis of factors associated with subsequent surgery for loss of motion after anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction (ACLR), including meniscus repair and graft type. Methods All individuals age ≥14 years who underwent primary ACL...

Examining the Impact of Perceived Patient-Centered Communication and Institutional Trust on Digital Health Engagement Behaviors

This study investigates the relationship between perceived patient-centered communication, institutional trust, and digital health engagement behaviors. Specifically, we examine whether patient-centered communication is associated with digital health engagement behaviors: a) view...

Stakeholder governance and coordination challenges in participatory forest management: Kakamega Forest, Kenya

Participatory forest management (PFM) has been widely advocated in tropical regions to mitigate forest degradation while sustaining local livelihoods. Achieving sustainable outcomes requires multi-stakeholder engagement; however, disparities in mandates, funding, and priorities f...

ORGANIZATIONAL AND ECONOMIC ASPECTS OF IMPLEMENTING BIOECONOMY PRINCIPLES IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE REGIONAL AGROINDUSTRIAL COMPLEX

The article examines current organizational and economic aspects of implementing bioeconomy principles in the development of the regional agroindustrial complex. The relevance of the topic is linked to the necessity of ensuring the technological leadership of the country and tran...

Colonial Alien: House Crows, Disposability and Necropolitics in Urban Tanzania

ABSTRACT Which lives are allowed to flourish in the city, and which are rendered excessive, alien, or disposable? This article examines kunguru (a Swahili term for crows/ravens, commonly referring to the house crow, Corvus splendens , in urban Tanzania) in Dar es Salaam as a lens...

Lightweight sea-ice segmentation for resource-constrained polar navigation applications

Accurate sea-ice segmentation requires both reliable delineation of complex ice–water structures and controlled computational cost, particularly in scenes containing fragmented floes, dense boundaries, and strong scale variation. This study develops IceAware-UNet, a lightweight s...

The Topological Invariant of the Soul: A 1,000,000-Point Simulation of Quantum Decoherence, Information Conservation, and the Physics of Consciousness

Materialist philosophy asserts that consciousness (Qualia) is an emergent property of the brain's electrochemical activity, and that upon biological death, the mind is permanently extinguished. This paper rigorously challenges that assertion using Quantum Information Theory and t...

Revealing inter-cell water-gas-coupled transfer characteristics and degradation-driven evolution within large-scale fuel cell stacks

Hydrophobicity decay is a critical driving force behind the degradation of proton exchange membrane fuel cells. However, the cross-scale linkage between microscopic material-level hydrophobic degradation and macroscopic stack-level water-gas transfer behaviors remains largely obs...

E8 Temporal Symmetry Breaking at Cosmic Horizon Scales — E8 Intelligence Research

The 30 Coxeter planes of E8 each undergo a phase-locked bifurcation when resonating at 66Hz, creating 8-fold degenerate standing wave nodes that act as information attractors across spacetime intervals. This "symmetry breaking" mechanism explains how 240 root vectors encode both...

Experimental investigation on thermal performance of coaxial annular heat pipes under different filling ratios

Thermal protection of infrared sensors in confined high-temperature environments requires compact passive devices capable of maintaining stable two-phase heat transfer under non-uniform heating and variable orientation. In this study, coaxial annular heat pipes (CAHPs) with aceto...

Clozapine‐Associated Neutropenia With COVID‐19 Infection and the Role of Filgrastim

ABSTRACT Clozapine is the gold standard, evidence‐based treatment of choice for treatment‐resistant schizophrenia. However, clozapine can induce serious, life‐threatening adverse effects, including neutropenia and agranulocytosis. There is accumulating evidence to suggest that re...

Three Disjoint Boolean Balls for Every Tripartition Tensor: Explicit Rank Decompositions, the Exact Rank of T(1,1,c), Depth-One Decompositions and Barriers at Rate 8

We give an explicit rank decomposition of every tripartition tensor. For a, b, c ≥ 1 and N = a + b + c, the tensor T_{a,b,c} of ordered partitions of an N-set into an a-, a b- and a c-set satisfies, over every field of characteristic ≠ 2, R(T_{a,b,c}) ≤ 2^(N−1) − Σ_{r ∈ {a,b,c}}...