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- Society & EconomicsOpen access
Digital reading, analog foundations: reading literacy in the digital age
Abstract Background Digital reading has become an essential component of contemporary literacy, yet questions remain about whether digital reading assessments measure a construct distinct from traditional paper-based reading. This study examined whether variance unique to ePIRLS...
- Engineering & TechnologyOpen access
Rural houses in cold regions of China usually have high energy demands, particularly for space heating and domestic hot water. Passive design can reduce building energy demand, but additional renewable energy systems are still needed to improve on-site energy supply. This study e...
- Engineering & TechnologyOpen access
Abstract Exposure of cathode active materials (CAMs) to ambient air is particularly detrimental for Ni-rich CAMs, leading to accelerated performance degradation. Upon storage, H2O and CO2 from ambient air react with the CAM, leading to a build-up of contaminants and the formation...
- Health & MedicineOpen access
Heyde syndrome is characterized by the association of aortic stenosis, gastrointestinal bleeding from angiodysplasia, and acquired von Willebrand syndrome. We report two contrasting cases illustrating how lesion distribution and therapeutic accessibility may influence immediate b...
- Climate & Environment
I2O2: High level theoretical studies and a benchmark of DFT functionals
Increasing iodine emissions over recent years have led to new interest in atmospheric iodine chemistry. The primary species involved include iodine oxides and oxyacids-precursors to atmospheric particle formation. Four isomers of the simplest iodine oxide belonging to the I2Ox fa...
- Health & MedicineOpen access
Multidimensional Experimental Characterization of Lumbar Spinal Deformity
PURPOSE: Spinal deformities and motions of the spinal joints are rarely confined to a single anatomical plane. Yet diagnosis of such deformities and characterizations of their biomechanical behavior under load are often limited to two-dimensional methods of analysis. This study p...
- Materials & EnergyOpen access
Abstract Glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) analogs (GLPA) exist primarily as micelle-like associations when free in aqueous solution. The results here indicate that anisotropic electrostatic interactions play a central role in the instability and aggregation, which appear to arise...
- BiologyOpen access
Estradiol and Social Withdrawal in Addiction: A Sex-Specific Neuroendocrine Perspective
Abstract Addiction models have traditionally emphasized drug rewards while often underestimating the role of social processes in relapse vulnerability. Converging evidence from preclinical and clinical studies suggests that social withdrawal during substance use and abstinence ma...
- Engineering & TechnologyOpen access
In recent years, multimodal medical image fusion (MMIF) has attracted significant attention due to its ability to integrate complementary information from different medical imaging modalities and provide more comprehensive information for clinical analysis. By combining anatomica...
- AI & ComputingOpen access
Lightweight Asymmetric Convolutional Residual Network for Efficient Motion Image Deblurring
Motion image deblurring remains challenging because many existing models rely on complex architectures, leading to high computational cost and parameter redundancy, particularly under non-uniform blur in real-world scenes. To mitigate these limitations, we propose a Lightweight A...
- AI & ComputingOpen access
Sequence labeling tasks such as part-of-speech (POS) tagging and named entity recognition (NER) have advanced significantly in high-resource languages and well-structured texts. However, low-resource languages, such as Urdu, face unique challenges due to limited annotated resourc...
- Society & EconomicsOpen access
When enough is enough: Understanding saturation in qualitative research
ABSTRACT Despite its widespread use in qualitative research, saturation is often improperly stated or loosely used in the methods section and cited as a methodological checkbox to persuade editors and peer reviewers that research methodology is robust. This narrative review sheds...
- Climate & EnvironmentOpen access
Redistributed, Not Reduced: The Role of International Trade in Global Food Supply Sustainability
Global food systems must balance productivity with environmental sustainability amid climate change, geopolitical shocks, and unevenly distributed natural resources. This study introduces the Food Supply Sustainability Index (FSSI), a transparent, composite measure of the sustain...
- Engineering & Technology
ABSTRACT Ni‐rich layered oxides (LiNi x Co y Mn 1− x − y O 2 , x ≥ 0.8) are indispensable for high‐energy‐density lithium‐ion batteries, yet they suffer from severe chemomechanical degradation driven by the synergy of internal microcracking and interfacial parasitic side reaction...
- Climate & EnvironmentOpen access
Sector-specific clean water scarcity and competition under global change
Abstract While the impact of future climate change on physical water availability has been extensively studied, the interplay with water quality and the associated impact on water scarcity—particularly the ensuing competition among sectors (domestic, irrigation, livestock, manufa...
- Engineering & TechnologyOpen access
Carbon fiber reinforced plastic (CFRP) composites have been widely adopted in the aerospace industry due to their excellent mechanical and physical properties. However, their anisotropy and weak interlaminar bonding make them prone to defects such as delamination and fiber pull-o...
- AI & Computing
Android operating system has taken over the mobile ecosystem across the world and thus is a prime target of more advanced malware that uses its ability to obfuscate, dynamically load code, encrypted communications and even environment aware evasion behaviors. These properties sev...
- BiologyOpen access
The bovine IFIH1 gene, which encodes melanoma differentiation-associated protein 5 (MDA5), is a major part of antiviral innate immunity in cattle and mediates recognition of long, double-stranded viral RNA. To elucidate the functional significance of naturally occurring IFIH1 var...
- Health & MedicineOpen access
In this study, we aimed to investigate the association between heart rate variability (HRV) and quality of life (QoL) in patients with gynecological cancer and examine whether continuous HRV monitoring may help identify QoL deterioration. This multicenter, prospective, observatio...
- Engineering & TechnologyOpen access
Engineered nanomaterials have been increasingly proposed for the treatment of contaminated soils. Nevertheless, most available evidence has been obtained in water, artificial substrates or short-term laboratory experiments, and performance in real soil is substantially more varia...