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Smoking in the Context of Westernized Diets is Associated with a More Volatile Microbiome and Predicted Gut Function

With the growing consumption of a high-fat Westernized diet in Latin America, a similarly Westernized microbiome is becoming predominant. Such a microbiome brings associations of dysbiosis and harmful metabolic products, as well as the risk of cardiometabolic disease – symptoms a...

Why Resist Even a Benevolent Order? Human Agency and the Limits of Algorithmic Authority

Resistance to an oppressive technological order is readily intelligible. Its justification becomes more demanding when an algorithmically organized society provides security, prosperity, and widespread satisfaction. Taking Max Tegmark’s future scenarios as a point of departure, t...

Study on the Mechanical Properties and Chloride Ion Penetration Resistance of a PCCP Fine-Aggregate Concrete Protective Layer Modified with Nanosilica

Abstract Increasing the durability of the prestressed concrete cylinder pipe (PCCP) protective layer effectively protects prestressed steel wires from chloride corrosion. Appropriate nanosilica (NS) dosage strengthens the long-term properties of the fine-aggregate concrete applie...

A Review of Human-Centric Construction Manufacturing: Current Practices and Research Opportunities

Abstract The industrialization of the construction industry has transformed traditional practices by streamlining construction processes in controlled, factory-based environments through construction manufacturing production systems, in which building components are produced in f...

Neurosymbolic approach improves robustness of deep learning models for semantic segmentation of MII human oocyte images

Morphology-based assessment of metaphase II (MII) oocytes remains an important component of intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) workflows, but it is affected by inter-operator variability and limited reproducibility. Deep learning approaches have shown promise for automated s...

The Role of Information Systems in Improving Business Performance and Managerial Decision-Making

This research paper examines the critical role of information systems in enhancing organizational performance and improving the quality of managerial decision-making. As modern businesses operate in highly competitive environments, the effective collection, processing, storage, a...

Promoter Mapping Analysis Using a GFP Reporter Plasmid Suggests that the lac Promoter May Drive brka Expression on Plasmid pDO6935 in Escherichia coli

Autotransporters (AT) are a class of bacterial proteins that play a crucial role in bacterial virulence and pathogenesis. Understanding these proteins is essential to advance research in infectious disease and identify possible targets for therapeutic interventions. Bordetella pe...

EuroMillions Breakthrough Mining — 10499 Sources, 102242 Leads Extracted — E8 Intelligence Research

Mined 10499 lottery+quantum breakthroughs. Extracted 102242 leads across 13 categories. 98523 high-value leads found. Categories: {"CORRIDOR": 8941, "FORMULA": 8677, "GEOMETRIC": 1739, "FORWARD_ATTEMPT": 9402, "QUANTUM": 9656, "TIMING": 674, "CELESTIAL": 8742, "GEMATRIA": 9177, "...

MERLIN SCIENCE — Golden Ratio Unifies Penrose Tilings and Spin Networks via Robinson Tr — E8 Intelligence Research

Here is the narration for a MERLIN SCIENCE video. --- Here's the finding in one clean sentence: The golden ratio, acting as a unit in a specific number ring, is the common arithmetic engine that forces both the aperiodic order of Penrose tilings and the discrete angular momentum...

Construction of the Escherichia coli DL11w-3 Strain with spoT relA Double Deletions

Stringent response, a form of cellular reprograming when encountering environmental stress, has been link to several physiological changes in Escherichia coli cells. The effector molecules that activate the stringent response, (p)ppGpp, are made by relA and spoT. These two genes...

Diagnostic performance and energy consumption of deep learning models for dermoscopic image classification

Deep-learning models for dermoscopy are usually chosen on the basis of accuracy and discrimination, with limited attention to the energy and carbon costs that accompany model development, retraining, and clinical use. If clinical AI is to be governed responsibly, these operationa...

Associations among alien fish dominance, biodiversity, and spatial variability of native fish assemblages in Plateau Rivers

While plateau river environments shape native fish diversity, they inherently constrain species' spatial distribution patterns; however, this equilibrium, forged through long-term evolution, may be disrupted by the introduction of alien species. Integrating spatial distribution s...

Patterns of Stakeholder Participation in Advance Care Planning for Older Adults With Alzheimer's Disease in China: A Cross‐Sectional Study

ABSTRACT Aims To examine advance care planning (ACP) participation among older adults with Alzheimer's disease (AD), their family caregivers, and healthcare professionals in China, and to identify key influencing factors and challenges from a stakeholder perspective. Design A cro...

Trust in artificial intelligence at the bedside: a qualitative interview study with neonatologists

Abstract Background Artificial Intelligence (AI) promises to improve patient outcomes, increase efficiency, and reduce healthcare costs. While AI has demonstrated success in imaging fields like radiology, its application is expanding into other data-rich medical domains, includin...

Reduced Tetracycline Resistance when RpoS is Over-produced through Heat Shock in Escherichia coli

The stationary phase sigma factor, RpoS, present in Escherichia coli is responsible for the phenomenon known as cross-protection where the cell acquires secondary resistance to a stress factor once exposed to an unrelated primary stress. Previous studies have shown contradictory...

Lietuva ir lietuviai latvių literatūroje

At the end of a short story by the Latvian writer Jānis Akurāters, a character who has survived a string of misfortunes philosophically compares love – the central imperative of her life – to a mar...

Thermal nanoconduits inside catalyst particles enable efficient and durable steam methane reforming

Catalyst particles often develop internal temperature gradients – both spatially and between components (active phase vs. support) – that limit rates and accelerate coking and sintering during highly endothermic reactions. We treat intraparticle heat transport as an engineerable...

Whose transition is being evaluated? How should the evaluator position themselves in practice?

The European Union Green and Just Transition is a contested process in which technical and policy outcomes are inseparable from questions of fairness, inclusion and legitimacy. This article reports an exploratory, practice-based inquiry in Ireland using Soft Systems Methodology a...

SEA-RAFT-DIC: displacement-field measurement under degraded speckle conditions based on a laplacian probability distribution

Digital image correlation (DIC) is widely used for full-field displacement measurement, but image degradation caused by occlusion, texture blurring, and speckle contamination, as well as rapid local correspondence variations induced by high displacement gradients and nonuniform d...

Association of Lipid Profile and Atherogenic Indices With Dietary Adherence in Paediatric Coeliac Disease

ABSTRACT Aim The association of adherence to a gluten‐free diet (GFD) on lipid metabolism and cardiovascular risk markers in paediatric coeliac disease (CD) remains incompletely understood. This study aimed to evaluate lipid profile parameters and atherogenic indices according to...