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A Comprehensive County-Scale Dataset for Geohazard Risk Assessment of House Construction via Cutting Slope (HCCS)

House construction via cutting slope (HCCS) is an increasingly important driver of geohazards in the granite weathering regions of southeastern China. In these areas, frequent intense rainfall and the rapid growth of self-built rural housing together contribute to recurring lands...

Examining the Role of Visionary Leadership in Unveiling the ‘Singapore Dream’ for Economic Transformation and Political Expediency in Kenya: A Critical Review

This review explores how visionary leadership has supported Singapore’s rapid and resilient economic transformation and evaluates the adaptation of such leadership to the Kenyan context. It identifies leadership elements crucial to Singapore’s success, assesses how political expe...

Caste Reservation and Identity Politics : A Sociological Analysis

Caste Reservation and Identity Politics : A Sociological Analysis Neeti Kumari* Dr. Nawal Kishore Singh** Caste and class are viewed as the most significant dimensions of social stratification. They are considered as closely interrelated, almost in-separable, basic processes of s...

“ Women are more encouraged to apply ”: The disconnect between the gender equality agenda and young women’s employment practices in urban Sierra Leone

In recent decades, increasing female labor market participation has emerged as a key political priority both nationally and internationally. However, existing studies reveal that its increase alone is insufficient to tackle deeply rooted gender-based inequalities, as a substantia...

Changes in hepatic functional reserve and renal function during hospitalization in patients with chronic liver disease

Evidence regarding inpatient rehabilitation for clinically complex patients with chronic liver disease (CLD), including those with advanced cirrhosis, remains limited. We aimed to describe real-world inpatient rehabilitation practice and unadjusted in-hospital changes in hepatic...

Structural modifications of grain boundaries due to vacancy segregation

Vacancies show strong tendencies to segregate towards grain boundaries (GB), where they interact with them. In general, this process changes the GB structure and reduces the vacancy concentration in the bulk which is relevant for non-equilibrium vacancies found e.g. in highly def...

Bridging Collaboration and Sustainability: The Role of Digital Strategy at the Organizational Level

ABSTRACT Supply chain management research indicates that collaborations should be explored from both the demand and supply perspectives. To accomplish this, the present paper investigates the relations among collaborative performance management, digital strategy, and sustainabili...

“Even if you have the right, it won't be an easy path”: Challenges and potentials of primary health care for legal abortion care in Brazil – a qualitative study

Access to legally permitted abortion depends not only on the legal framework, but also on policy implementation, health system organisation, and professional practices. In Brazil, abortion is legally permitted in specific circumstances, but access remains highly limited. This qua...

Coronary bypass outcomes in chronic limb-threatening ischemia are significantly worse than in patients with non-critical lower extremity arterial disease

Abstract Purpose Lower extremity arterial disease (LEAD) is a risk factor in patients undergoing coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG); however, the impact of chronic limb-threatening ischemia (CLTI), its most advanced stage, remains unclear. We evaluated early and long-term out...

Transforming diet in the workplace: effectiveness of a stage of change–based dietary intervention for sedentary office workers in Southern Sri Lanka – a cluster randomised trial

Abstract Background An unhealthy diet is a key risk factor for increasing non-communicable diseases (NCDs) among office workers and causes a significant health and economic burden. Interventions based on the stage of change theory are becoming more effective, and the effectivenes...

Lights, Camera, Abuse: A Scoping Review of Scholarly Perspectives on Intimate Partner Violence in Cinema

Intimate partner violence (IPV) is a pervasive global issue disproportionately affecting women. Films often portray IPV in ways that influence societal perceptions, either raising awareness or perpetuating harmful stereotypes, romanticizing abuse, and overlooking intersectional e...

Synthesis of Chiral α-Aminophosphonate Derivatives through Copper(I)-Catalyzed Enantioselective Alkylation

Abstract Efficient methodologies for the catalytic asymmetric synthesis of α-aminophosphonic acid derivatives remain limited, particularly those involving carbon-carbon (C-C) bond formation. Herein, we report a copper(I)-catalyzed enantioselective alkylation of N-protected aminom...

PLEKHA5-targeted photothermal-gene combination therapy via mPDA@DMEA@siRNA nanoparticles suppresses melanoma progression

Melanoma is an aggressive skin malignancy characterized by high metastatic potential and resistance to current systemic therapies, highlighting the need for novel molecularly targeted and minimally invasive treatment strategies. Photothermal therapy enables localized tumor ablati...

Efficient dual-attention fusion with gated feed-forward learning for image restoration under compound degradations

Image restoration is a fundamental task in computer vision, widely applied to low-light enhancement, image denoising and compression artifact reduction. Transformer-based restoration methods are effective at capturing long-range dependencies and modeling global features, but they...

Soft Density Profiles Do Not Determine Vacant Percolation

For any packing of unit balls in three-dimensional Euclidean space, we construct two fixed modifications preserving its upper and lower soft-density profiles at every fixed outer radius. One modification has an unbounded vacant component at every finite radius. The other has infi...

Medical School Performance Evaluations (MSPEs) Lack Objectivity: A Challenge in the Surgery Residency Selection Process

IMPORTANCE In the past several years, the methods used to evaluate medical students have undergone significant shifts. The United States Medical Licensing Examination Step 1 grading has become pass/fail, as has clinical grading at many institutions. Residency program directors ha...

Current Evidence on Late-Onset Hypogonadism in Primary Care: A Scoping Review Protocol

Fatigue, loss of energy, low sexual desire and erectile dysfunction are common in primary care, and late-onset hypogonadism (LOH), defined according to symptoms and low testosterone levels, is one possible explanation. Its symptoms are non-specific, and terminology and diagnostic...

A multimodal deep learning-driven model for assessing drawing composition quality

In recent years, digital art education, computerized evaluation systems, and aesthetic computing have prioritized drawing composition quality assessment. Traditional assessments have relied on subjective judgment or single-modal analysis, limiting scalability and uniformity. Exis...

Revealing tax evasion: Experimental evidence from a representative survey of Indonesian firms

Measuring tax evasion by firms is notoriously difficult: direct questions yield biased responses while administrative data captures only detected violations. This paper examines the prevalence of reported tax non-compliance in Indonesia through a randomized, double-list experimen...

Language- and Activity-Specific Associations Between English and Chinese Home Literacy Activities and Receptive Vocabulary Among Chinese–Canadian Children: A Repeated Cross-Sectional Study

This repeated cross-sectional study examined how English and Chinese home literacy activities were associated with receptive vocabulary among Chinese–English bilingual children in British Columbia, Canada. The study included 123 children in Grade 1 and 126 children in Grade 2. Ch...