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Soil Microsclerotial Density Is Strongly Associated with Olive Wilt Severity in Tunisian Orchards

Introduction/Objective Verticillium wilt, caused by Verticillium dahliae, is a persistent soilborne constraint to Mediterranean olive production. This cross-sectional study evaluated the association between culturable soil microsclerotial density and ordinal wilt stage across fiv...

Low-level of mitochondrial DNA alterations during direct-acting antiviral treatment in leukocytes of people who inject drugs living with HCV

Direct-acting antivirals (DAAs) have revolutionized hepatitis C virus (HCV) treatment, offering high cure rates and favorable safety profiles. However, concerns remain regarding their long-term mitochondrial safety, particularly among vulnerable populations such as people who inj...

Spatiotemporal Evolution and Driving Factors of County-Scale Land Surface Temperature on the Northern Slope of the Tianshan Mountains, China, 2005–2024

Against the background of global climate change, understanding land surface temperature (LST) variations and their driving mechanisms in arid oasis regions is essential for regional thermal environment management. This study investigated daytime and nighttime LST on the northern...

Study on the Strength Characteristics of Frozen Salt-Rich Red Clay

Abstract In low-temperature environments, water and sulfates in red clay crystallize into ice and salt crystals, respectively, triggering a synergistic effect of frost heave and salt heave. Saturation and salt content significantly influence the strength and structural evolution...

Integrative bioinformatics analysis of Lianmei granules in diabetic nephropathy

Diabetic nephropathy (DN) is a severe complication of diabetes mellitus, leading to end-stage renal disease and significant morbidity. Current therapies are limited by efficacy and side effects, highlighting the need for novel treatments. Lianmei granules (LMG) show potential for...

Factors associated with oral health behaviours during pregnancy in high-income countries: a systematic literature review

Oral health is a critical component of overall health and well-being, with particular importance during pregnancy due to the bidirectional relationship between oral health and pregnancy outcomes. Despite this increased vulnerability, studies consistently report low uptake of prev...

Temporally Robust Rainfall Classification from Radiosonde-Derived Atmospheric Instability Indices: A Machine Learning Approach with SHAP Interpretability

We evaluate binary rainfall occurrence classification in southern Thailand using 00 UTC radiosonde profiles from Phuket Airport and rainfall observations at Phuket, Krabi, Takua Pa (Phang-nga) and Nakhon Si Thammarat. Of 2631 soundings from 2011 to 2021, 1487 met quality-control...

Atom‐Precision Synthesis of MoS 2 /WS 2 Lateral Heterostructures for Prolonged Excitonic Lifetime

ABSTRACT Transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) lateral heterostructures provide unique platforms to study nanoscale physics, but progress is limited by the difficulty of producing high‐quality interfaces, which require atomic‐precision growth rather than simple stacking. We repor...

Push-Car Railways, Camphor, and Coal in the Imperial Hinterland

Abstract This article examines the push-car railway industry in colonial Taiwan from 1895 to the 1930s. It argues that this human-powered transportation resolved a colonial dilemma between the colonial government's economic ambition and its limited capacities as shaped by Taiwan'...

An Intelligent Framework for Tooth Segmentation and Classification Through Fusion of Transfer Learning with Advanced Optimization Algorithms Using Biomedical Images

Background/Objectives: Dental health is an important component of overall well-being, and accurate tooth analysis supports several applications in dental imaging. Tooth segmentation is a crucial stage in digital dental workflows, particularly for orthodontic diagnosis, treatment...

Beyond Hill-Type Models: Aligning Experiments and Modeling to Understand Dynamic Muscle Function

Muscle models underpin how exercise, rehabilitation, and human-movement sciences infer muscle force during activity, yet profound gaps remain between traditional measures and models of muscle function and the dynamic features of muscle in natural movement. We review evidence for...

Valorization of Industrial Mill Scales into Multiphase Iron Oxide Nanostructures for Alkaline Water Splitting and Photocatalytic Dye Degradation

Herein, value-added iron oxide nanostructures are successfully synthesized directly from industrial steel mill scale via a simple precursor-free planetary ball milling technique for sustainable hydrogen production and environmental remediation. Comprehensive XRD analysis confirms...

Concurrently Achieving Excellent Anti‐Thermal Quenching and Ultrahigh Light Yield in Scintillation of Hybrid Manganese Halides

ABSTRACT Simultaneously achieving high thermal stability and excellent scintillation performance in Mn‐based organic inorganic hybrid metal halide (Mn‐OIMH) scintillators remains a highly challenging task. Through the rational substitution of the monocation by asymmetric dication...

Metabolic dysfunction is associated with non-eosinophilic asthma phenotype: a retrospective cross-sectional study

Aim: Asthma is a heterogeneous airway disease comprising distinct inflammatory phenotypes with variable clinical characteristics and treatment responses. Increasing evidence suggests that obesity-related metabolic dysfunction contributes to asthma pathogenesis; however, its relat...

A Unified Scalar-Field Mechanism for the H0, S8 and Evolving Dark-Energy Tensions

I investigate whether one minimally coupled canonical scalar field can generate, in a single continuous cosmological history, the correlated changes in the sound horizon, late-time expansion, and structure growth that are relevant to the H0, evolving dark-energy, and S8 tensions....

‘Context in a Textbox’: How Textbooks Erase Place and Reproduce Curriculum Authority

South African curriculum transformation is lived through teaching decisions: what gets prescribed, what becomes ‘basic’ and what students can realistically access. This paper examines prescribed textbooks as epistemic infrastructure in Industrial and Organisational Psychology (IO...

Relationships between meteorological factors and mosquito vector density in an Urban District of Shanghai, China (2018–2024)

Weather-based early warning systems for mosquito-borne diseases require quantitative understanding of the non-linear and delayed effects of meteorological factors on vector dynamics, yet these remain poorly characterised for Aedes albopictus in subtropical urban settings. We anal...

Dynamical Criticality and Statistical Regime Transitions: A Unified Theory of Structural Stability Boundaries, Bifurcation Transitions, Observation Pushforwards, and Critical Scaling

Problem. Statistical regime transitions are often represented directly as parameter changes in observed sequences or as discrete hidden states, but such a statistical description does not by itself explain why a regime should change under continuously varying external control. St...

Not All Credentials Are Equal: A Within-Subjects Comparison of Student Responses to Google Analytics And Hubspot Certifications in Marketing Education

Micro-credentials have become standard components of marketing curricula, yet educators typically select credentialing platforms based on employer recognition alone, without evidence about how students experience different platforms. This study provides, to our knowledge, the fir...

From phase-space entropy to coherent-state error: mode-uniform Rényi–Wehrl stability

Abstract When can a quantum optical source be replaced by a coherent state with controlled error in every subsequent experiment? We turn its Husimi phase-space entropy excess into an error bound for the entire quantum state. For every fixed Rényi order $p>0$ and every density ope...