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Mitigating Loneliness in People Aging with Long-Term Physical Disabilities (PAwLTPD): The Importance of Social Activity, Depression, and Fatigue

Date presented: April 24, 2026 Primary Author and Speaker: Szu-Wei Chen, szuwei.chen@siu.edu

Targeted DNA Sequencing Reveals Distinct Rare-Variant Profiles in Pulmonary Hypertension Associated with Chronic Lung Diseases

The mechanisms underlying the development and severity of pulmonary hypertension (PH) in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and interstitial lung disease (ILD) remain poorly understood. To investigate the contribution of genetic factors, we performed targeted sequencing...

O'SIMLIKLARDA GENETIK XILMA-XILLIK VA EKOLOGIK STRESS OMILLARIGA CHIDAMLILIKNING MOLEKULYAR-GENETIK ASOSLARI

Tezisda o'simliklarning qurg'oqchilik, sho'rlanish va harorat stressiga chidamliligida genetik xilma-xillikning o'rni ilmiy adabiyotlar asosida sharhlanadi. Stress signalini qabul qilish, transkripsiya omillari va ion tashuvchilarning ahamiyati yoritiladi. Tabiiy allel xilma-xill...

AI in Business Intelligence and Entrepreneurship

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has emerged as a transformative force in modern business environments, fundamentally reshaping how organizations collect information, generate knowledge, make decisions, and create value. The convergence of AI and Business Intelligence (BI) enables en...

“This Too Shall Pass”—Resilience Factors of Parental Divorce During COVID-19 Pandemic for Adolescents

Abstract The COVID-19 pandemic had detrimental effects on the well-being of individuals across the world. For adolescent girls experiencing parental divorce during the COVID-19 pandemic, the effect was exacerbated, as they had to grapple with the adversities associated with both...

Bodies as battlegrounds: the gendered paradox of female IRA members in Northern Ireland

This article examines gendered dimensions of female paramilitaries during the Troubles in Northern Ireland to challenge dominant masculinist narratives that have historically marginalized women’s roles and experiences. Drawing on feminist geopolitics, we analyze how women in the...

Women’s Rights In a Plural Legal Order: Reconciling Customary Law, Cultural Practices and International Human Rights Standards in Nigeria.

Nigeria’s legal order is characterised by the simultaneous operation of constitutional law, legislation, customary law, Islamic law and regional and international human-rights standards. Although formal guarantees prohibit discrimination on grounds including sex, women’s substant...

XAI for AI Auditors: Building a Cost-Effective AI Audit Practice

Research article: XAI for AI Auditors: Building a Cost-Effective AI Audit Practice

Identifying Assistive Technology and 3D Printing Needs throughout a Rehabilitation Network

Date presented: April 24, 2026 Primary Author and Speaker: Sara Benham, benhams@moravian.edu

Organizational Development Plan for Labigan Farmers Association

The Labigan Farmers Association is composed of newly installed Agrarian Reform Beneficiaries (ARBs) in Sara, Iloilo, covering 222 hectares and involving 96 beneficiaries. Although the property was awarded in 1995, the farmers gained actual possession only in September 2016. The a...

EuroMillions Breakthrough Mining — 9923 Sources, 97060 Leads Extracted — E8 Intelligence Research

Mined 9923 lottery+quantum breakthroughs. Extracted 97060 leads across 13 categories. 93629 high-value leads found. Categories: {"CORRIDOR": 8487, "FORMULA": 8273, "GEOMETRIC": 1576, "FORWARD_ATTEMPT": 8888, "QUANTUM": 9144, "TIMING": 584, "CELESTIAL": 8337, "GEMATRIA": 8690, "CO...

Extremal Hysteretic Energy Dissipation in a Dry-Friction Vibration Isolator with a Longitudinally Slit Cylindrical Shell and Deformable Filler

Vibration isolators based on a slit cylindrical shell with an elastic filler are proposed for the needs of the mining, oil and gas, and construction industries; in these devices, energy dissipation is provided by the effects of distributed positional dry friction between the cont...

The Role of Financial Wellness in Shaping Occupational Wellness Among College Students: An Exploratory Mixed-Methods Study

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

Topological Engineering of NIR‐II Emissive Conjugated Oligomers With Unexpected Excited‐State Manifolds for Efficient Phototheranostics and Cancer Immunotherapy

Phototheranostic agents operating in the second near-infrared (NIR-II) window hold great potential for precision cancer therapy, yet the rational regulation of excited-state processes to simultaneously optimize fluorescence and phototherapeutic performances remains a fundamental...

Iron oxide nanoparticles for hepatocellular carcinoma theranostics: From nanoplatform design to clinical translation

The challenges in early diagnosis and effective treatment of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) are largely attributable to the underlying cirrhosis, impaired hepatic reserve, and the added complexity of heterogeneous tumor vascularity in many patients. Iron oxide nanoparticles (IONP...

RAG-ReAct empowered large language models for localized intelligent bridge operation and maintenance: a knowledge-driven agentic approach

Bridges serve as critical transportation infrastructure hubs. The recent breakthroughs in large language models (LLMs) offer transformative potential for intelligent bridge operation and maintenance (O&M), but their direct application is hindered by domain-specific hallucination,...

Epithelial–mesenchymal transition in immune escape and immunotherapy resistance of lung cancer

Abstract Epithelial–mesenchymal transition (EMT) drives immunotherapy resistance in lung cancer through three interconnected axes: antigen/checkpoint dysregulation, chemokine remodeling, and metabolic reprogramming. We highlight partial EMT (pEMT) as a clinically prevalent hybrid...

The dynamic relationship between inclusive leadership, job crafting towards strengths and employees’ career calling: the moderating role of core self-evaluation

Purpose Drawing on the Work as Calling Theory (WCT), we developed and tested a longitudinal model of how employees’ career calling develops over time. Specifically, we examined the dynamic relationships among job crafting towards strengths (JCS), inclusive leadership, and career...

Being an Island: From Presence to Meaning in the Treatises of Teresa de Cartagena

Abstract Teresa de Cartagena (ca. 1425 – after 1478) was a disabled nun who faced a tripartite predicament as an author: deafness, gender, and her lineage within a Jewish convert family in medieval Spain. Regrettably, scholarship has tended to encapsulate her in a three-walled bo...

Cell-Wise Fault Warning for Lithium-Ion Battery Packs Using Local Outlier Factor and Validity-Gated Extreme-Value Thresholds

Early fault warning in lithium-ion battery packs is challenged by weak labels and changing operating conditions. This study combines cell-wise Local Outlier Factor (LOF) scoring with validity-gated Streaming Peaks-Over-Threshold (SPOT). Five descriptors are used to summarize each...