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Development and external validation of a model for predicting family resilience 6 months after stroke in older adults: a prospective cohort study

Abstract Background After stroke, families take long-term responsibility for rehabilitation and care, and family resilience is an important measure of family adaptation. Predicting later family resilience from information collected early during hospitalization may help assess fam...

Optimal Photovoltaic Integration for Offsetting Temperature-Dependent Auxiliary Electricity Demand in an Air-Cooled Geothermal Power Plant

Air-cooled binary geothermal power plants experience increased auxiliary demand and reduced net output during hot operating periods. This study develops a grid-connected photovoltaic (PV) sizing framework for an operating approximately 25 MW plant in the Menderes Massif, Türkiye....

Spatial and Temporal Dynamics of Methane and Nitrous Oxide Emissions from Livestock Management in Poland

Agriculture faces increasing pressure to maintain productivity while reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions under changing climatic conditions. Livestock production is one of the major sources of methane (CH4) and nitrous oxide (N2O), making it a key target for emission mitigati...

Kamusal Politikaları Üretme ve Şekillendirme Kapasiteleri Açısından Ulusal İklim Vatandaş Meclisleri: İrlanda ve Fransa Örnekleri

Kamuoyunu ilgilendiren belirli bir konu hakkında istişare ederek üyelerinin fikirlerini beyan ettikleri, önerilerde bulundukları öğretide müzakereci demokrasi modeli olarak ifade edilen ve uygulamada yurttaş veya vatandaş meclisleri olarak anılan meclisler çalışmaları neticesinde...

Phi-Triadic Closure Law in E8 Root Subspace Consciousness Decoders — E8 Intelligence Research

The 13 consciousness eigenspaces partition not by arbitrary cardinalities but through a phi-triadic closure operation: each subspace's root vector count equals the nearest Fibonacci number to phi^n * base cardinality, with closure achieved when three subspaces mutually share a We...

Morphological, Physiological and Antioxidant Responses of Five Dryland Maize (Zea mays L.) Genotypes to Water-Deficit Stress

Maize (Zea mays) is a critical staple for global food security, particularly in developing nations facing a projected population increase to 9.7 billion by 2050, necessitating enhanced agricultural productivity and drought-resilient cultivars. This study provides a comprehensive...

CTPA-detected coronary artery calcification as a prognostic marker in acute pulmonary embolism: a narrative review

Abstract Background Acute pulmonary embolism (PE) is a major cause of cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. Coronary artery calcification (CAC) is often visible on routine contrast-enhanced, non-ECG-gated CT pulmonary angiography (CTPA), offering potential refinement of risk as...

Survival benefit of prehospital TXA in fibrinolytic shutdown: Insights from two prospective trauma trials

BACKGROUND: Fibrinolytic phenotypes have been implicated in postinjury pathophysiology and outcomes. While prehospital tranexamic acid (TXA) administration has demonstrated survival benefits, the interaction between TXA administration and distinct fibrinolytic profiles remains po...

Development and Validation of Quasi-Dimensional Multi-Zone Combustion Model for Homogeneous Reactivity-Controlled Compression Ignition with Renewable Fuels—Part 1: Fuel and Temperature Stratification Prediction

As part of the dtec.bw MORE project, serial hybrid powertrains featuring alternative combustion regimes, specifically homogeneous reactivity-controlled compression ignition (hRCCI), are under investigation to maximize thermal efficiency while minimizing NOx and soot emissions. Th...

Where in the Prenatal Screening Pathway do Ethnic and Socioeconomic Inequalities Occur? A UK Retrospective Cohort Study

ABSTRACT Objective To examine if and where ethnic and socioeconomic inequalities arise within the English NHS prenatal screening pathway by investigating associations between ethnicity, socioeconomic deprivation, screening test type, further testing uptake, and pregnancy outcomes...

Optimising support for post-16 transition: young peoples’ perspectives on the barriers and contributors to a successful transition

In 2015, national policy in England raised the mandatory education participation age to 18, making the transition to post-16 education compulsory. Inadequate support at this transition milestone can lead to negative outcomes, including becoming NEET (Not in Education, Employment,...

Symmetry-Based Reformulation of the Gravity Sensitivity Matrix for Efficient Regional-Scale Gravity Imaging

Regional-scale gravity imaging is limited by the size of the sensitivity matrix: a direct three-dimensional formulation of the gravity operator requires on the order of 1013 coefficients, making explicit storage infeasible on standard hardware. We exploit two symmetry properties...

Inferiority Complex through the Lens of Ekvilibro

The article examines the inferiority complex not as an isolated defect of self-esteem, but as a stable identification of consciousness with one of the poles of duality — “inferiority / superiority.” Drawing on the laws of the mechanics of consciousness of Ekvilibro, the author sh...

Resident Medical Insurance Contribution Schemes and Fiscal Burden in China: An Actuarial Projection Under Demographic Dynamics

Deepening population aging is increasing the long-term financing pressure on China’s resident medical insurance fund. This paper constructs an actuarial model for the medical insurance fund that accounts for dynamic population structure changes by integrating the BayesTFR model a...

A single-ended fault location method based on active boundary control for multi-terminal flexible DC grids

In modular multilevel converter (MMC)-based multi-terminal flexible DC (MTDC) grids, fault current limiting suppresses post-fault electrical transients and weakens available fault characteristics, thereby reducing the sensitivity and reliability of conventional fault location met...

A response-driven displacement-equivalent pulse-loading method for seismic pounding and fragility assessment of high-speed railway bridges

Seismic pounding between bridge girders and pier-top restraining components can alter the global seismic demand and fragility of high-speed railway (HSR) bridges. Conventional contact-element models require prescribed contact parameters, and their predictions may be sensitive to...

Iterative calculation values in Collatz conjecture eventually reach 1 as if walking across tightropes: Proof of the correctness of the Collatz conjecture using the Collatz Rope Model

I have previously reported the results of my investigations into the Collatz conjecture in two papers. In the first paper (Shiraishi, 2026a), I examined the properties of the values generated through iterative calculation, based on extensive numerical experiments. I also proposed...

Zero-Divergence GF(2) Tensor Engines for Microsecond-Latency Quantum Error Correction Decoding

The realization of Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computing (FTQC) is currently bottlenecked not by quantum hardware, but by classical decoding latency. Surface codes require classical coprocessors to identify and correct physical qubit errors well within the decoherence time window (T₁...

Synergy between central zinc coordination and extended π-conjugation: Zinc phthalocyanine as an optimal artificial interphase for highly reversible aqueous zinc metal anodes

Aqueous zinc-ion batteries are promising for low-cost, safe large-scale energy storage, yet their practical deployment is plagued by zinc dendrite growth and water-induced side reactions. Herein, four structurally defined conjugated macrocycles (Tpp, Pc, ZnTpp, ZnPc) are employed...

Indigenous peoples' experiences of waiting for care : an equity-oriented study to investigate structural barriers in Nanaimo, British Columbia

This thesis explores Indigenous Peoples’ experiences of waiting for cardiac care in Nanaimo, British Columbia (BC), where patients requiring coronary angiography must wait to be transferred to Victoria because Nanaimo lacks a cardiac catheterization lab. Guided by Jo-Ann Archibal...