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What “Digitization” Means for the Limbe Deep Sea Port (Cameroon) Project: Definitions, Components, Pathways, and Implications

Digitization in the deep sea port context is often invoked as shorthand for technological modernization, yet its operational meaning and implications vary widely by place. This paper explicates what “digitization” means for the Limbe Deep Sea Port in Cameroon by situating the con...

An Integrated Preventive Maintenance Transformation Framework Combining Lean Practices, Autonomous Maintenance and Digital Traceability

Despite the widespread adoption of Lean and Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) methodologies, many manufacturing companies still struggle to operationally integrate preventive maintenance, workplace organization, autonomous maintenance, and digital traceability into a coherent an...

Differential diagnosis of ovarian growing teratoma syndrome and immature teratomas after chemotherapy based on CT imaging

Abstract Background To differentiate ovarian growing teratoma syndrome (OGTS) from immature teratoma (IMT) based on semantic CT imaging features and provide an adjunct imaging tool to support preoperative assessment and treatment planning. Materials and methods Patients with path...

Hospital variation in antibiotic utilization intensity across discharge diagnostic tiers

Among 737,384 stays in Veterans Health Administration wards, antibiotic days of therapy per days present and days of antibiotic spectrum coverage per days present decreased stepwise across discharge diagnoses that always (tier 1), sometimes (2), or never require antibiotics (3)....

Meeting lifestyle recommendations among cancer survivors – a cross-sectional descriptive analysis from the Swedish CArdioPulmonary BioImage study (SCAPIS)

PURPOSE: This study aimed to describe lifestyle patterns in relation to recommendations -including physical activity, diet, smoking, alcohol consumption, and sleep quality-among Swedish cancer survivors, stratified by sex and age. METHOD: A descriptive cross-sectional study was p...

Organizing healthcare delivery in the era of disease-modifying therapies for Alzheimer’s Disease: an Italian RAND/UCLA consensus

BACKGROUND: Alzheimer's disease (AD) poses a growing clinical and organizational challenge, requiring coordinated, multidisciplinary care models. In Italy, significant regional variability in resources and access to diagnostic services persists, while the implementation of commun...

Respiratory syndromic surveillance for monitoring infection trends in long-term care facilities

OBJECTIVE: To assess the surveillance characteristics of respiratory syndromic surveillance criteria and their usefulness for monitoring infection trends in long-term care (LTC) facilities. DESIGN: Retrospective observational study. SETTING: Two wards caring for children and adul...

Structures and objectives of day hospices – Design of a logic model

Abstract Background Day hospices represent a new component of outpatient palliative care in Germany. They focus on improving the quality of life and symptom control for patients with advanced, incurable diseases and aim to relieve the burden on family caregivers. However, a unifo...

CAN-Promoted Boc2O-Mediated Cascade Conversion of Aziridines to Oxazolidinones

Abstract An efficient CAN-promoted Boc2O-mediated cascade conversion of aziridines to oxazolidinones has been developed. The transformation proceeds under mild, CO2-free conditions and provides structurally diverse oxazolidinones in 16–99% yields (46 examples), with gram-scale re...

Copper-Catalyzed Regioselective Synthesis of Fluorescent Indazolo[2,3- a ]quinazolines and Their Photophysical Studies

Abstract A regioselective copper-catalyzed one-pot cyclization of 3-aminoindazoles with 2-bromobenzyl bromides has been developed under ligand-free conditions for the efficient synthesis of indazolo[2,3-a]quinazolines. This reaction proceeds through initial site-selective nucleop...

Off-line Ehrhart roots for complete multipartite symmetric edge polytopes

We disprove the 2016 conjecture of Higashitani, Kummer and Michałek that the Ehrhart polynomial of every complete multipartite symmetric edge polytope has all its roots on the line Re z = −1/2. The graph with six parts of size two gives an eleven-dimensional example with exactly...

Therapeutic Horseback Riding for Youth With Autism and Psychiatric Comorbidities: A Randomized Trial

OBJECTIVE: Autism spectrum disorder care is often complicated by co-occurring psychiatric symptoms. Equine-assisted services show promise for improving behavioral outcomes in this population. We aimed to examine benefits of equine-assisted services for youth with autism at higher...

Further Redefining Motivation with Situated Cognition, Power, and Belonging

Abstract This article contributes to a growing convergence across educational psychology, the learning sciences, and culturally responsive education by further redefining motivation as an interactional and socially situated phenomenon. We review and extend ongoing efforts to chal...

Coreopsis tinctoria and its bioactives in the prevention and management of diabetes and diabetic complications

Abstract Diabetes, one of the major metabolic diseases, has become a major public health concern worldwide leading to chronic lesions in various organs such as kidney and cardiovascular disease, severely impacting quality of life and life expectancy. Current drug treatments for d...

Two Complementary Methods for Weil Positivity at a=3

This paper investigates two complementary approaches to Weil positivityat Fourier support a = 3: the Zero-Gram method, based on verified zerosof the Riemann zeta function, and the exact-phase Positive-Part method,based on the arithmetic structure of the Weil quadratic form. On th...

Adapting to Technological Shifts: Evolving Skill Requirements for Journalists in Bangladesh

Media convergence theory suggests that digital platforms increasingly require journalists to work across multiple media formats rather than within specialised, single-medium roles. In the United States, Europe, and Latin America, digital competencies have complemented rather than...

Sending Loxodromic Elements of Right-Angled Artin Groups to Pseudo-Anosov Mapping Classes: A Partial Answer to Problem 2.28 of the K3 List

Problem 2.28 of the list K3: A New Problem List in Low-Dimensional Topology (Baykur, Kirby and Ruberman, eds., 2026), recorded by T. Koberda, asks: if Γ is a finite graph that is not a join, is there an injective homomorphism from the right-angled Artin group A(Γ) to the mapping...

Probability Is Exact Only in Theory: How Real-World Variables Break the Model

Probability theory is exact as mathematics, but its statements about the world are conditional on assumptions about the mechanism, independence, stability, the set of outcomes, and who knows and does what. This preprint reviews documented violations in coins, dice, cards, roulett...

All even logarithmic differences of Boros–Moll coefficients

We prove a conjecture posed by Chen and Gu in 2008 by showing that every admissible even-order difference of the logarithms of a Boros–Moll coefficient row is strictly negative. The fourth-order case gives the conjectured ratio log-concavity, including the endpoint ratios. We est...

Combined Residues of Frequently Detected Herbicides are Stronger Predictors of Soil Resistome and Virulence Potential than Single Residues

Abstract Overuse of herbicides has resulted in a global epidemic of evolved resistance in soil ecosystems. While single herbicide risk has been documented, the impact of multiple herbicide residues on the soil resistomes remains poorly understood. Our study quantified the residue...