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Warming Accelerates and Intensifies Meteorological-to-Agricultural Drought Propagation in the Northern Great Plains

Drought propagates from atmospheric water deficits into root-zone soil–moisture stress, yet the extent to which warming will alter the severity and speed of this transition in cold, semi-arid regions remains poorly quantified, and most propagation studies rely on a single linkage...

Multi-scale fracture network simulation and stimulated reservoir volume evaluation of multi-stage fractured horizontal wells in low-permeability coal reservoirs based on physics-enhanced deep operator learning

Prediction of hydraulic-fracture growth and evaluation of stimulated reservoir volume (SRV) are important for optimising multi-stage fracturing in low-permeability coal reservoirs, where geological heterogeneity and inter-stage interference make repeated numerical analysis expens...

Microbial and Biogeochemical Responses to Streamwater Fecal and Nutrient Contamination

Abstract Lindsay Creek, a tributary of the Clearwater River in north-central Idaho, USA, is impaired by elevated nitrate and Escherichia coli(E. coli) levels. However, the relative contributions, spatiotemporal patterns, and ecological effects of known contamination sources remai...

Genomic Characterization of Clinical Group B Streptococcus Isolates from Zhejiang, China: Serotypes, Clonal Complexes, and Predicted Antimicrobial Resistance and Virulence Gene Profiles

This study aimed to characterize the population structure, predicted antimicrobial resistance gene profiles, and virulence gene repertoire of Group B Streptococcus (GBS) in Zhejiang Province, China, using whole-genome sequencing (WGS). Forty GBS isolates from clinical specimens u...

Identification and Characterization of a Previously Uncharacterized Metagenome-Derived Chitinase and Its Application in N -Acetyl- d -Glucosamine Production from Crayfish Shell Waste

Abstract The generation of agricultural and food-processing byproducts has increased rapidly, highlighting the importance of their high-value utilization. In this study, a putative chitinase gene was identified from a metagenome-assembled genome. The enzyme plays a key role in ch...

A TWAS Method Calibrated for the Uncertainty of Predicted Expression

ABSTRACT The transcriptome‐wide association study (TWAS) is a powerful approach to identifying novel genes associated with complex phenotypes. Standard TWAS approaches build a prediction model for the genetic component of expression based on reference transcriptome data. Next, an...

Non-Invasive Brain Stimulation for Central Neuropathic Pain: An Exploratory Randomized Sham-Controlled Crossover Trial

Background/Objectives: Central neuropathic pain (CNP) is difficult to manage, and comparative evidence for non-invasive brain stimulation is limited. We explored the short-term efficacy and safety of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) and transcranial direct curr...

EXPRESS: Dissociating attentional and working memory load in memory for emotional faces

There is evidence that both general attention load and face-specific working memory load modulate the processing of emotional faces, but the contribution of each remains uncertain. Here, we investigated how these resources modulate the recognition of emotional faces in working me...

Love It, Hate It, Can't Quit It: Mapping the Duality of Social Media Use

ABSTRACT Social media use (SMU) is increasingly central to consumer–brand engagement; however, consumers routinely describe it as both a source of connection and utility and a driver of loss of control and diminished well‐being. This research advances an integrative duality frame...

Pharmacological prophylaxis for venous thromboembolism in hospitalized surgical patients at a secondary teaching hospital: a best practice implementation project.

INTRODUCTION: Thromboprophylaxis reduces venous thromboembolism (VTE) in hospitalized patients. However, despite robust evidence, financial constraints, structural barriers-including limited access, socioeconomic inequalities-alongside patient complexity and diagnostic challenges...

Development and validation of a multi-tier diagnostic test on the water footprint concept

Purpose Conceptual understanding is essential for effective sustainability education, yet students often hold alternative conceptions about key environmental issues. The water footprint (WF), a multifaceted indicator of water use, is increasingly included in sustainability curric...

Bladder wash as an alternative biological matrix for postmortem toxicology: A critical mini-review

Bladder wash has recently emerged as a potential alternative specimen in postmortem toxicology when urine is unavailable due to agonal bladder emptying, trauma, decomposition or other autopsy-related limitations. This critical mini-review evaluates the forensic relevance, analyti...

Photosynthesis: Nature's Answer to Climate Change?

This article explains the connection between photosynthesis and climate change in simple scientific language. It covers how plants, algae and bacteria absorb carbon dioxide, why forests and oceans act as carbon sinks, how deforestation worsens global warming, and how heat, drough...

Replication data and code for: How much fossil generation fills hydro and wind shortfalls? Monthly evidence from 81 countries

This record contains the data and code that reproduce every table and figure in the article “How much fossil generation fills hydro and wind shortfalls? Monthly evidence from 81 countries” (submitted to Applied Energy). The work has two stages. build_data_from_raw.ipynb construct...

Value of Left Ventricular Low Voltage Area and Ejection Fraction in Predicting End-Stage Heart Failure Outcomes After Ventricular Tachycardia Ablation in Patients With Non-Ischemic Cardiomyopathy

BACKGROUND: Patients with nonischemic cardiomyopathy (NICM) and ventricular tachycardia are at increased risk for adverse HF outcomes, and abnormal left ventricular (LV) substrate identified by endocardial unipolar and bipolar low-voltage areas (LVAs) may aid in risk stratificati...

Membrane electrochemistry for whey processing and lactulose production

A second branch of Ilyan Kan's documented inventive work concerns process equipment for dairy biotechnology. Patent RU2837844C1 names Ilyan Chankhovich Kan and Dmitry Cherepkov as inventors of a flow-type membrane electrolyser designed for a single-stage whey-processing operation...

Convection in a fluid layer driven by internal dielectric heating

This study investigates the convective behaviour of two dielectric fluids with different Prandtl numbers under microgravity, each of which is confined between two parallel electrodes at a given temperature, and subjected to internal dielectric heating. Three-dimensional direct nu...

BMI-C as a predictor of hepatic steatosis: validation in the NHANES 2017–2023 cohort with liver elastography

AbstractIntroduction: Metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD) affects30–40% of adults globally. BMI, the primary anthropometric screening tool, does notdistinguish fat mass from lean mass and fails to detect steatosis in individuals with normalBMI (lean N...

EuroMillions Breakthrough Mining — 9778 Sources, 95757 Leads Extracted — E8 Intelligence Research

Mined 9778 lottery+quantum breakthroughs. Extracted 95757 leads across 13 categories. 92391 high-value leads found. Categories: {"CORRIDOR": 8369, "FORMULA": 8169, "GEOMETRIC": 1534, "FORWARD_ATTEMPT": 8759, "QUANTUM": 9014, "TIMING": 564, "CELESTIAL": 8235, "GEMATRIA": 8566, "CO...

Odd‐even effects in molecular junctions: A Solomonic resolution of conflicting reports on conductance trends, metal specificity, and microscopic origin

Abstract Odd–even conductance alternation in alkanethiol (CnT, –12) self‐assembled monolayers has been debated for two decades, with conflicting reports on trends, metal dependence, and microscopic origin. Using conducting probe atomic force microscopy (CP‐AFM) with Ag, Au, and P...