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AFS is ONE Society

I would like to start by saying how honored I am to be your AFS President. I hope to weave together several themes from my plan of work in this space over the next year, primarily focused on highlighting the American Fisheries Society (AFS) as ONE SOCIETY. I have spent the past 3...

The Social Function of Property and Real Estate Abandonment: Between Property Law and Environmental Protection

Abstract This article explores the relationship between the social function of property and the abandonment of real estate, arguing that factual abandonment may amount to a form of ‘negligent non-use’ of property. Although the social function of property is both an external limit...

A proposed E 8 × E 8 kinematic scaffolding for the standard model with pre-gravitation

Abstract We present a proposed E 8 × E 8 kinematic scaffolding for the standard model with pre-gravitation. The notation E 8 × ωE 8 used below records a split-complex exchange grading of two factors; it is not a tensor product of groups. Each factor branches through SU (3) × E 6...

Evaluating the costs of developing a digital supervision tool for task-shared depression care: findings from a multi-site study in India

BACKGROUND: Task-sharing with non-specialist providers offers a promising solution to the mental health workforce shortage in low-resource settings. Supervision is essential to ensure treatment quality, but is often constrained by limited specialist availability. AIMS: This study...

Analysis of barriers to self-monitoring of blood glucose among community-dwelling elderly patients with diabetes mellitus: a cross-sectional study integrating artificial intelligence-based risk prediction

Self-monitoring of blood glucose (SMBG) is essential for diabetes management, yet elderly patients face multiple barriers that compromise adherence and glycaemic control. This study aimed to assess barriers to SMBG among community-dwelling elderly patients with diabetes mellitus,...

Remission of long-term conditions among adults with multiple long-term conditions in England primary care: A retrospective cohort study of 4.7 million people

Abstract Background Multiple long-term conditions (MLTC) are increasingly prevalent among UK adults, yet the extent to which remission of long-term conditions is recorded in routine primary care remains poorly understood. Accurate documentation of remission has implications for c...

“What Should I Do?” 10 Steps to Making an Ethical Decision as a Coach or Athletic Director

The notion of ethical coaching exists within many current coaching frameworks, such as the United States Center for Coaching Excellence (USA), the International Council for Coaching Excellence (International), and the Chartered Institute for the Management of Sport and Physical A...

Grazing abandonment in Iceland: unearthing the consequences for root biomass and community-level root functional traits

Abstract Background and aims In northern ecosystems, plants allocate biomass predominantly to roots, which are central to the transfer of recent photosynthate from plants to soil and thus soil carbon accumulation. Grazing typically modifies above-ground vegetation composition and...

Serum anti-POTEE antibodies as a novel serological biomarker for early detection and prognostic stratification in gastrointestinal cancers

Abstract Background Given the highly aggressive nature of gastrointestinal cancers, the identification of novel biomarkers for diagnosis and prognosis is of considerable clinical importance. Methods Candidate cancer-testis (CT) antigens were first screened using RNA-sequencing da...

Nutrient/ TOR signaling controls adipose mitochondrial transcription factor A ( TFAM ) to regulate organismal growth in Drosophila

Animals must adapt their growth to fluctuations in nutrient availability to ensure proper development. While nutrient-sensing tissues coordinate organismal growth through interorgan signaling, the metabolic changes within these tissues that mediate whole-body growth control remai...

Is There a Relationship Between Aortic Valve Annular Plane Systolic Excursion and Left Ventricular Rotational Mechanics in Healthy Adults? Insights from the MAGYAR-Healthy Study

Background/Objectives: During the cardiac cycle, the left ventricle (LV) exhibits not only a complex contraction–relaxation pattern, but also a wringing-like motion known as LV twist or rotational mechanics. Concurrently, the aortic valve and its annulus (AVA), representing the L...

Enhanced oxidative bioleaching of Cd-bearing ZnS concentrate in moderately thermophilic conditioning, comparing additives effects at high pulp density

The study aimed to enhance the dissolution rates of zinc (Zn) and cadmium (Cd) in sphalerite concentrates through bioleaching using moderately thermophilic bacteria. The research explored the impact of various additives, such as silver ions (Ag + ), L -cysteine, pyrite, elemental...

Thermal Processing and Fortification with Ayocote and Quintonil Flours Affect Blue Maize Tortilla and Tortilla Chip Properties

Modern food systems face the challenge of improving nutritional quality while reducing environmental impact and conserving agrobiodiversity. This study evaluated the effects of thermal processing and fortification with ayocote (Phaseolus coccineus) and quintonil (Amaranthus hybri...

Explaining Urban Recovery after Tropical Cyclones: A Bibliometric-Systematic Review of Research Trends, Drivers, and Future Directions

Tropical cyclones increasingly threaten coastal cities, yet why recovery outcomes diverge across places remain poorly synthesized. Here we examine the determinants of post-cyclone urban recovery through a bibliometric-systematic review of 117 peer-reviewed empirical studies publi...

Scaling analysis of the pressure distribution in shock wave/boundary layer interactions on convex surfaces with extended free-interaction theory

Predicting the pressure distribution in shock wave/boundary layer interaction (SWBLI) over convex surfaces is critical for hypersonic vehicle design, yet a unified theoretical model remains absent. This work extends the classical free-interaction theory by introducing two dimensi...

Clifford(11,1) String Theory I: Geometry

Abstract This paper explores tachyonic, open bosonic string theory in which fermions are not strings, but rather reside on the D-brane boundary of open strings. The open-string tachyon is identified with a Higgs field transforming in the adjoint representation. The fermions of a...

Machine learning-based prediction of subjective cognitive impairment levels in cancer survivors using demographic predictors

Objectives Cancer-related cognitive impairment is a decline in cognitive functioning following cancer treatment that negatively affects survivors’ quality of life. Self-report tools such as the Cognitive Failure Questionnaire (CFQ) offer a rapid and cost-effective method for earl...

Becoming a Polyphonic Individual: Chinese Female Doctors’ Working and Family Experience

The scholarship on Chinese womanhood has highlighted a split female subjectivity and fostered an enduring image of Chinese women as victims. Going beyond this image, the current study sought to explore how Chinese female doctors construct a polyphonic individual selfhood through...

Transcatheter atrial flow regulator implantation in children with pulmonary arterial hypertension in resource-limited settings: a single-centre experience

Abstract Pulmonary arterial hypertension in children remains a progressive disease marked by right ventricular failure and early mortality despite advances in targeted therapy. In resource-limited settings, access to parenteral prostacyclin is often constrained by cost, infrastru...

MRU-YOLO: Marginal-Utility-Guided Selective Local Re-Observation for Small-Object Detection in UAV Imagery

Small-object details in high-resolution unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) imagery are weakened when wide-area scenes are resized for detector input. Increasing input resolution or exhaustively processing local regions can recover spatial detail, but allocate computation without disti...