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Polyamorphism in glassy network materials

One dramatic feature of network liquids is the emergence at low temperatures and high pressures of polyamorphism, where multiple distinct liquid phases are accessed in a single material. Polyamorphism can arise from the competition between distinct local structures corresponding...

Biodegradation of Reactive Red-111 by a novel multi-enzyme producing bacterial consortium: optimization through RSM and kinetics study

This study presents the efficient biodegradation of synthetic dye Reactive Red-111 (RR-111) using a newly developed multi-enzyme producing bacterial consortium comprising of Lysinibacillus boronitolerans, Lysinibacillus macroides, Brevundimonas diminuta and Acinetobacter indicus....

Semi-solid-state electrochromic devices based on poly(3-hexylthiophene) thin films and commercial UV-curable resins for low-power applications

Electrochromic devices (ECDs) that combine low power consumption with fast, reversible optical modulation are critical for advancing smart window and display technologies. Here, we report semi-solid-state ECDs based on regioregular poly(3-hexylthiophene-2,5-diyl) (P3HT) thin film...

Brick kilns across India: A temporal analysis of brick kiln distribution and technology types

Thousands of brick kilns operate across India, significantly contributing to air pollution and CO 2 emissions due to outdated practices and non-compliance with environmental standards. Regulations promoting cleaner kiln technologies have been introduced, yet detailed information...

Unlocking bipolar electrode-electrolyte solid-solid conversion in aqueous zinc-halogen batteries for high Zn utilization across various cell formats

The increasing demand for high-energy-density batteries pushes practical aqueous Zn-based batteries. However, high Zn utilization achieved in coin symmetric cells is unable to translate to full cells, especially large pouch cells, due to the poor reversibility of Zn and capacity...

Assessment of SafeCare healthcare quality improvement program for sustainable scaling in Ghana

The Christian Health Association of Ghana (CHAG) with technical assistance from a Non-Governmental Organisation, PharmAccess is implementing a quality improvement programme in selected health facilities using the SafeCare international standards and methodology. The programme is...

Sharing the Blame: How Political Ideology Affects Reactions to Service Failures in the Sharing Economy

ABSTRACT When service failures and transgressions occur, consumers often look for someone to blame. In contexts like the sharing economy, are consumers more likely to attribute responsibility and blame to the individual gig worker or the organization? This research argues that re...

The Posterior Scrotal Artery Adipofascial Flap for Rectourethral Fistulae

INTRODUCTION: Acquired rectourethral fistulas (RUF) are uncommon but challenging problems in colorectal and urologic surgery. They are most commonly iatrogenic or secondary to trauma, inflammatory bowel disease, or infection. Standard management consists of colonic diversion, fis...

Advocacy around abortion in a politically charged climate

PURPOSE OF REVIEW: To examine the evolving role of clinician advocacy in abortion care and to highlight key domains through which obstetrician-gynecologists can influence policy, clinical practice, and patient outcomes. RECENT FINDINGS: Increasing state-level abortion restriction...

Beyond Supply Security: Territorial Service Security for Regional Science in an Age of Compound Shocks

Contemporary regional shocks are no longer experienced primarily as isolated supply interruptions. They are increasingly lived as disruptions to essential services: cooling during heatwaves, mobility during fuel or transit disruptions, digital connectivity during infrastructure f...

Oral Sodium Butyrate Is Associated with Altered Tissue Bacterial Antigens and Innate Immune Marker Expression Across Different Organs in Athymic Mice

Background: Butyrate is a microbiota-derived short-chain fatty acid with established roles in maintaining intestinal barrier integrity and regulating immune responses. Although its effects have been extensively investigated in immunocompetent models, systemic immune homeostasis i...

Bimodal Speech Emotion Recognition Using a Hybrid CNN-LSTM Architecture with Sentiment Fusion

Speech emotion recognition (SER) is a fundamental task in affective computing; however, traditional unimodal approaches often struggle to capture the complex emotional cues present in spontaneous conversational speech. Bimodal frameworks that integrate acoustic and textual inform...

29. Face Validity of Neuropsychological Assessments in Traumatic Brain Injury Populations

Abstract Purpose Neuropsychological testing underpins return-to-play and return-to-duty decisions following traumatic brain injury (TBI). Yet, the face validity of performance and symptom validity tests (PVTs and SVTs) remains unexamined in TBI populations. In performance-driven...

Objective–Subjective Socioeconomic Status Configurations, Self-Acceptance, and Adolescent Prosocial Moral Reasoning: A Response Surface Analysis

Background: Objective and subjective socioeconomic status capture distinct aspects of adolescents’ socioeconomic experience, but their joint associations with prosocial moral reasoning and self-acceptance remain unclear. This study examined objective–subjective socioeconomic stat...

Moisture Monitoring in Historic Buildings: A Coordinated Image-Based Protocol for Time-Lapse Thermal and Visual Data

Moisture is one of the main deterioration agents affecting historic buildings, yet current diagnostic approaches based on visual and thermal imagery mainly rely on one-off surveys. To address this gap, this study proposes a coordinated image-based protocol for periodic moisture m...

Montage-agnostic federated learning for privacy-preserving Alzheimer’s disease classification from heterogeneous multi-site EEG

Federated learning (FL) lets institutions train shared models without moving raw data, attractive for clinical electroencephalography (EEG), where cohorts are small and privacy-sensitive. Two obstacles persist: clinical sites record EEG with different electrode montages, so input...

An Accurate Vision-Based Dynamic Propagation Measurement Method for Simple Concrete Cracks

To measure dynamic crack evolution under sustained service loads during infrastructure defect inspection and structural condition assessment, a machine-vision-based methodology for high-accuracy measurement of simple crack propagation is proposed in this paper. A dynamic crack pr...

Mode variation in clausal complexity in German and Persian

Abstract This paper revisits the question of mode as an influencing factor for variation in clausal complexity. In a comparative corpus study using the Lang*Reg corpus, clausal embedding is compared between the phonic and graphic mode produced by the same language users with the...

Residential Context and Survival Disparities in Black and White Women With Ovarian Cancer

Importance: Black women with epithelial ovarian cancer (EOC) have significantly worse survival than White women. How residential context contributes to these disparities is unclear. Objective: To examine whether there is an association of residential context with racial dispariti...

Antimicrobial resistance in Ecuador, 2000–2024: a systematic review within a One Health framework

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a major global public health threat, particularly in low- and middle-income countries. In Ecuador, AMR research has expanded during the last two decades, but evidence remains fragmented and largely restricted to the human health sector. We system...