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Routinising Catastrophe: Camus's The Plague and the Order That Follows Crisis

Routinising Catastrophe: Camus’s The Plague and the Order That Follows Crisis Ajay Kumar* Shambhu Sharan Sharma** Catastrophe is commonly understood as a rupture of ordinary life. Albert Camus’s The Plague, however, shows that rupture does not remain exceptional once it acquires...

Health literacy and successful aging among elderly patients at Kasr Alainy Hospital: a cross-sectional comparative study

Abstract Background Population aging and chronic disease burden are increasing in Egypt. Health literacy (HL) may play a key role in promoting successful aging (SA), but evidence is limited. Aim To assess HL and SA and examine their association among elderly patients at Kasr Alai...

Dataset-Driven Exploratory Deep Reinforcement Learning Using SINDy-Based Data Augmentation from Limited Indoor Thermal Measurements

This study examines the feasibility of combining Sparse Identification of Nonlinear Dynamical Systems (SINDy)-based data augmentation with an Actor–Critic deep reinforcement learning (DRL) model in a dataset-driven exploratory policy-learning configuration under limited-data cond...

Uncertainty-aware bilevel energy storage planning for active distribution networks: A fixed-topology DistFlow-based MISOCP framework with voltage-security assessment

Historical renewable-load variability, voltage-security risk, and investment-operation coupling can materially change the assessed value of distribution-level energy storage. This study develops an uncertainty-aware bilevel energy storage system (ESS) planning framework in which...

Identification and validation of biomarkers related to integrated stress response in ischemic stroke based on transcriptomics

Abstract Ischemic stroke (IS) is a prevalent cerebrovascular disorder. Integrated stress response (ISR) plays an important role in multiple cerebrovascular diseases, its specific involvement and associated biomarkers in IS remain incompletely understood. This study aimed to ident...

EuroMillions Breakthrough Mining — 9853 Sources, 96414 Leads Extracted — E8 Intelligence Research

Mined 9853 lottery+quantum breakthroughs. Extracted 96414 leads across 13 categories. 93014 high-value leads found. Categories: {"CORRIDOR": 8431, "FORMULA": 8221, "GEOMETRIC": 1558, "FORWARD_ATTEMPT": 8828, "QUANTUM": 9082, "TIMING": 575, "CELESTIAL": 8286, "GEMATRIA": 8629, "CO...

In Case You Haven't Heard…

To the ever constant complaints that methadone is hard to get because patients have to go to the clinic every day, this is a reminder: They don't. For years, patients have been able to access the medication on a take‐home basis for a month, and even for up to two weeks, even if t...

Against the Odds? Lessons from Establishing a Clinician Educator Career Track in a Non-Academic Medical Centre

Teaching and learning are often positioned as secondary to patient care, research, and leadership. In non-academic medical centres (NAMCs), this can make it difficult to justify investments in faculty development, as educational activities may be perceived as peripheral, even dis...

Sensory processing sensitivity strengthens the relationship between impactful negative work events, hypervigilance, and daily fatigue

In their daily work, employees encounter negative work events that evoke negative emotions and can disrupt functioning. This study investigates how the perceived impact of daily negative work events relates to employees’ daily fatigue, focusing on hypervigilance as a potential co...

Factors associated with the unmet need for spacing and limiting family planning: Evidence from a national survey

Traditional binary frameworks tend to combine the various aspects of unmet family planning needs into one general category. This study evaluates unmet family planning needs by first using conventional multinomial logistic regression to determine baseline demographic risk profiles...

Do Flower-Rich Windbreak Margins Enhance Predator Communities in Citrus Orchards?

Conservation biological control is central to sustainable pest management; however, its effectiveness depends on providing natural enemies with adequate floral resources and habitat structure. In Florida citrus, living windbreaks offer potential for improvement through floral res...

Association between the leuko-glycemic index and adverse outcomes in traumatic brain injury patients admitted to the intensive care unit: a cohort study from the MIMIC-IV database

Abstract Background Among the major global health burdens, traumatic brain injury (TBI) stands out as a significant source of death and long-term disability, characterized by intricate pathophysiological mechanisms. As an emerging inflammatory biomarker, the leuko-glycemic index...

Split Versus Single Applications of Solid and Liquid Vermicompost: Impacts on Growth, Chlorophyll Content and Soil Characteristics of Tea (Camellia sinensis L.) Seedlings

Limited information is available on how vermicompost form, form-specific dose, and application schedule jointly affect tea seedling development. This 135-day humid outdoor nursery study evaluated solid and liquid vermicompost applied at two doses as either single or three split a...

A Holistic Lifecycle-Oriented Analysis of High-Performance Lithium-Ion Batteries: Aging, Advanced Diagnostics, Thermal Management, and Digitalized Education

Lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) have become central to modern energy storage systems, yet their increasing material and electrochemical complexity introduces significant challenges across their entire lifecycle. During first-life operation, high-performance applications such as fast...

Dexamethasone versus triamcinolone acetonide for the management of postoperative inflammation following cataract surgery

Background: Cataract remains the leading cause of reversible blindness worldwide, particularly in low-resource settings. Effective control of postoperative inflammation is essential to prevent complications such as cystoid macular edema and raised intraocular pressure. Dexamethas...

How Industry Types Shape Commuting and Non-Commuting Network Centrality: A Geographical Detector Analysis of Shanghai and Its Adjacent Areas

The polycentric spatial structure of metropolitan areas has become a frontier topic in urban studies. Yet existing research has largely remained descriptive regarding commuting networks, with limited investigation into how different industry types are associated with commuting an...

Mild Chemical Cleaning of Corroded Bronze Using an APP-Based Composite Solution: Improved Post-Cleaning Corrosion Behaviour and Mechanistic Interpretation

The corrosion of copper alloys in buried or atmospheric environments is driven by the anodic dissolution of the copper matrix, a chloride-mediated autocatalytic cycle, and the accumulation of insoluble corrosion products, among which basic copper chlorides such as paratacamite (C...

An RT‒qPCR Assay for Rapid Detection of Coxsackievirus A4

Coxsackievirus A4 (CV-A4) is a major cause of hand, foot, and mouth disease and herpangina in children, and has been linked to severe complications. However, current detection methods, including commercial RT-qPCR kits, suffer from false-negative and false-positive results. This...

Regret Aversion and Market Provision of (Cyber)Security

This paper studies the effect of market structure on cybersecurity under alternative behavioral models of consumer risk preference. I show that consumer regret aversion can reverse the competitive effect on security provision. If consumers are expected utility maximizers, competi...

An FXR-dependent cellular program for Kupffer cell pool restoration fuels liver regeneration

Abstract Liver transplantation and partial hepatectomy represent the most effective therapeutic strategies for end-stage liver diseases. However, persistent donor organ shortages have intensified clinical interest in interventions that enhance liver regeneration. The farnesoid X...