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Profiling the Invisible Insider: A UEBA-Based Machine Learning Framework for Low-and-Slow Data Exfiltration Detection

Low-and-slow data exfiltration by malicious insiders remains among the most operationally difficult threat classes to detect: the behavior is unremarkable in any individual session and becomes recognizable only across weeks of otherwise routine activity. This paper presents a UEB...

The obstacles and changes in Sino-European trade routes in the twenty-first century due to climate change and geopolitical risks

In the 21st century, global climate change and geopolitical risks are interconnected, presenting new challenges and influencing the trade dynamics between China and Europe. This paper investigates the effects of climate change and geopolitical risks on the trade route between Chi...

Fe3O4@Au Magnetic–PlasmonicNanoparticles Self-Assembled into Gammadion-Shaped Nanostructuresin a Gradient Magnetic Field for High-Sensitivity Optical Sensing

Abstract Most of the bottom-up approaches, such as light-induced, capillarity-assisted, and electric or magnetic field-assisted assembly methods, have been carried out in fabricating crystalline structures, which can exhibit unique optical, magnetic, or electrical properties. Amo...

Decentralised Community-Based Hub-Intermediary-Spoke Model for Rapid Cardiac Ultrasound Triage for Early Heart Failure Detection: Findings From the Heart2Miss Initiative

Abstract Aims To evaluate the feasibility and system-level performance of Heart2Miss, a decentralised community-based triage model deploying AI-powered point-of-care ultrasound (AI-POCUS) via a hub-intermediary-spoke approach in diabetes primary care for early heart-failure (HF)...

Glucose Co-Treatment Modulates Caffeine-Induced Transcriptomic Alterations During Embryogenesis in Zebrafish (Danio rerio)

Caffeine exposure during pregnancy has been associated with developmental abnormalities; however, the combined effects of caffeine and glucose on embryogenesis remain unclear. In this study, zebrafish embryos were exposed to caffeine or caffeine plus glucose co-treatment from 3 h...

Colorectal cancer-derived IGFBP2 promotes liver metastasis by driving intrahepatic fibrotic pre-metastatic niche formation

Colorectal cancer (CRC) liver metastasis (LM) is a leading cause of cancer-related death, with pre-metastatic niche (PMN) formation being critical for metastasis. Insulin-like growth factor binding protein 2 (IGFBP2) is overexpressed in metastatic CRC, but its role in intrahepati...

Ensuring Sustainable Development in Arid Regions: Assessing Sustainability Thresholds and Investment Needs in Western Kazakhstan

Western Kazakhstan is one of the most climate-vulnerable macro-regions in Central Asia. Intensifying aridification, acute water scarcity, and active land degradation are already undermining its ecosystems and an economy built heavily on oil and gas. Yet investment in the region i...

Addendum to “on the number of conjugacy classes of zeros of characters and the length of solvable groups”

We improve previous bounds for the sizes of defect groups of blocks of solvable groups.

The Effects of Public Spending in the Care and Green Economies: The Case of South Korea

This article analyzes the impact of public spending in the care economy and the green economy on the employment of men and women and on gross domestic product (GDP) in South Korea using a vector autoregression model. The care economy includes healthcare, social care, education, a...

“That’s kind of racist, I think”: a collective counter-story to the refugee narrative

Global master narratives portray education as a failsafe route to social integration for refugees yet imply that this makes the refugee more civilized (i.e. White) and thus more desirable. In other words, education becomes a pathway to access Whiteness. In Turkey, which hosts the...

In Situ CdS-MediatedOrganic PhotoelectrochemicalTransistor Sensor for Highly Sensitive H2S Detection

Abstract Hydrogen sulfide (H2S) serves as an important gasotransmitter implicated in vascular regulation, neuroprotection, and redox homeostasis, and its aberrant fluctuation is closely associated with diverse pathological disorders. Consequently, the development of sensitive and...

Energy dissipation mechanisms in an acoustically driven slit

We quantify the conversion of incident acoustic energy into vortical motion and viscous dissipation for a plane wave passing through large-aspect-ratio slit geometries. We perform direct numerical simulations over a broad imposed parameter space in incident sound pressure level (...

Prospects of automated driving in different road freight vocations: Why non-driving matters more than driving

Abstract Most truck modeling studies make generalized assumptions regarding driving times, distances, and non-driving tasks, except for loading and unloading, and therefore fail to capture the diversity of freight transport vocations, especially in the context of automated trucki...

Understanding the Impact of Living Situation and Social Satisfaction on Depression and Substance Use in Autistic Young Adults Without Intellectual Disability

Background: Autistic young adults face elevated risks for depression, and emerging evidence indicates that some engage in substance use. Residential status and social satisfaction may be related to these outcomes, yet little research has examined their interplay in autistic popul...

Integrated assessment of coastal socio-environmental vulnerability in the southwestern Colombian Caribbean

Abstract Coastal vulnerability is a critical determinant of risk in littoral systems, particularly in regions where seasonal environmental forcing intersects with persistent socioeconomic fragility. This study assesses the integrated socioeconomic and environmental vulnerability...

Retrofit Optimization of Raised-Floor Plenum Thermal Performance for Energy-Efficient and Sustainable Operation of Non-Standard Campus Data Centers

In response to issues such as disordered airflow distribution and prominent local hotspots in campus non-standard data centers, this study took a non-standard raised-floor air-supply data center at a university in Hangzhou as the research object, and used a combination of on-site...

Agents Through the Ages

Abstract Over several decades, research on socially interactive agents has transformed human–machine interaction, evolving from early script-based systems to today’s generative, multimodal agents. Tracing this development through the ages, this article reflects on major conceptua...

Identifying Ice-Philic Protein Patches to Inform theIce-Binding Sites of Antifreeze Proteins

Abstract Antifreeze proteins (AFPs) inhibit ice growth and recrystallization by binding to ice crystals via specific regions on their surface, known as ice-binding sites (IBS). Although the IBS of certain AFPs display regularly spaced threonine residues that are matched well with...

Contrasting Growth and Physiological Response Profiles of Three Native Alpine Elymus Forage Grasses Under Combined Cadmium and PEG-6000-Induced Osmotic Stress

The co-occurrence of soil drought and cadmium (Cd) pollution represents an important combined-stress scenario in degraded alpine grasslands, yet comparative responses of native Elymus forage grasses remain poorly resolved. Seedlings of E. sibiricus cv. Chuancao, E. breviaristatus...

Enhanced Room-TemperaturePhosphorescence from CarbonDots Embedded in a Robust SiO2 Matrix

Abstract Carbon dots (CDs) represent a rapidly advancing class of fluorescent nanomaterials. Due to the dominant nonradiative decay channels of the triplet excited state of CDs, these materials generally exhibit no observable phosphorescence (PH) or delayed fluorescence. Here, we...