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Beyond numbers: The governance role of data assets in real earnings management
While data assets are increasingly recognized as strategic resources in the digital economy, their implications for financial reporting quality remain underexplored. Employing a textual analysis appro...
Acute effects of high load vs. low load combined with blood flow restriction on explosive performance and muscle-tendon unit mechanical properties
This study examined the acute effects of high-load resistance training and low-load resistance training with blood flow restriction on sprint ability, pennation angle and lower limb muscle stiffness....
Does attending a structured undergraduate nursing research course affect nursing students’ attitudes toward nursing research? A quasi-experimental study
Aim This study investigated the impact of a structured undergraduate nursing research course on Saudi nursing students’ attitudes toward nursing research....
Pharmaceutical Innovation and Drug Policy: The Case of the 1984 Hatch-Waxman Act
This paper examines the effect of the 1984 Hatch-Waxman Act and its 2003 amendment – the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act – on the level of innovation in pharmaceutical f...
Prevalence of undernutrition and its associated factors among pregnant women attending antenatal care service in public hospitals in Mogadishu, Somalia
Introduction Maternal undernutrition remains a major public health concern globally, particularly in Somalia, where conflict, poverty, and food insecurity exacerbate nutritional de...
A piezoelectric electroporator (Piezopen) for enhanced “naked” RNA vaccine delivery
Despite the success of COVID-19 mRNA vaccines, they still face challenges with high costs, complex manufacturing, off-target biodistribution, and systemic reactogenicity stemming from their inflammato...
Development of a COVID-19 Vaccination Anxiety Scale to measure COVID-19 vaccine anxiety in Japanese adults
Although COVID-19 vaccines are widely available and effective, vaccination anxiety remains a significant public health challenge that is distinct from behavioral vaccine hesitancy. While various scale...
Research on fracture mechanism of rock mass with orthogonal cracks under uniaxial compression
The initiation, expansion and penetration of cracks in rock masses are important reasons for rock mass failure. Orthogonal crack is the most typical form of cracks. There is still a lack of in-depth a...
Epidemiological characteristics of amebiasis in Japan from 2001 to 2022
Amebiasis cases in Japan are reported to the government according to the Infectious Diseases Control Law. Previous studies have shown significant reductions in total case numbers after 2018 and during...
Effects of 5D built environment and non-built-environment factors on injury crash risk: An interpretable machine learning analysis
To identify the key determinants of traffic injury risk and clarify the relative roles of built environment factors and crash-context factors, this study develops a traffic injury risk identification...
SST subseasonal-to-seasonal forecasting: A heterogeneous three-path fusion model with wavelet decomposition
El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO), the Earth’s dominant mode of interannual climate variability, is closely linked to sea surface temperature (SST) variability in the central and eastern equatorial...
Enhancing medical Q&A systems with multimodal knowledge graphs and dual-layer attention mechanisms
Medical intelligent question-answering (QA) systems have become important tools for improving the efficiency of healthcare services, and recent research has increasingly emphasized performance optimiz...
Evaluation of plasma neurofilament light chain and glial fibrillary acidic protein in myasthenia gravis: A controlled cohort study
Aims To evaluate plasma neurofilament light chain (NfL) and glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP) as candidate biomarkers in myasthenia gravis (MG)....
Correction: Salivary biomarkers of tactical athlete readiness: A systematic review
A unified framework for interpretable elevator fault diagnosis and predictive maintenance via style-aware CoT fine-tuning
Although Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown potential in industrial applications, they encounter significant hurdles in vertical scenarios like elevator maintenance, including hallucinations, lac...
UAMP: Consistent video object segmentation with uncertainty-aware memory propagation
The Segment Anything Model 2 (SAM 2) has emerged as a robust foundational model for video object segmentation. Nevertheless, it exhibits notable limitations in crowded scenarios, particularly those in...
Bond strength of debonded orthodontic brackets after different reconditioning and priming protocols: An in vitro study
Introduction Although various bracket recycling methods have been studied, the combined influence of bracket reconditioning methods and primer protocols on the bonding performance...
Evaluation of fluorimetric assay conditions for measuring leucine aminopeptidase activity in soils
Leucine aminopeptidase (LAP) plays a crucial role in the hydrolysis of proteinaceous nitrogen in soils. However, existing studies use varying conditions in the fluorimetric assay of soil LAP, which hi...
Assessment of cricket frass as a sustainable organic fertilizer: Effects on seedling establishment, growth and fruit yield of zucchini (Cucurbita pepo)
Inherently poor soil quality, compounded by widespread soil degradation from unsustainable farming practices, continues to constrain agricultural productivity in Madagascar. As a result, fertilizer ap...
Generating solutions for charged compact configurations in f(R) gravity
We present a systematic method for generating solutions of charged, spherically symmetric compact objects in modified f ( R...
Enhancing blockchain technology adoption in governmental operations: A comprehensive framework for user adoption
The purpose of this study is to investigate the factors that affect Blockchain adoption in governmental operations in Sri Lanka and to propose a comprehensive adoption framework for Blockchain technol...
Higher frequency of subclonal anti-EGFR resistance mutations in post-treatment samples from patients with colorectal cancer liver metastases following anti-EGFR-based conversion chemotherapy
Background/aims Initially unresectable colorectal liver metastases may become resectable after chemotherapy. The acquisition of somatic mutations has been demonstrated to indicate...
Strategies to promote safe mobilization of people with obesity in inpatient care settings: A scoping review protocol
Introduction Hospital-associated deconditioning is common during inpatient admissions, particularly among patients with obesity whose mobilization presents added complexity and saf...
Market competition in banking and asset-liability maturity mismatch of non-financial firms: Evidence from Vietnam
This study examines the effect of bank competition on corporate investment-financing maturity mismatch, utilizing a panel dataset of 498 listed firms in Vietnam from 2008 to 2024. Bank competition is...
The load-velocity profiles and exercise-specific velocity zones for seven commonly used weightlifting exercises
Velocity zones (e.g., 1.0–0.75 m·s -1 ) are commonly aligned with terminology such as “starting strength”, ‘speed-strength’, ‘strength-speed’, ‘accelerative str...