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Evolutionary adaptation and mitogenomic diversity of spiders associated with Nepenthes smilesii Pitcher Plants in Thailand
Symbiosis is a close physical interaction between organisms, shaped by species-specific traits and environmental factors. The tropical pitcher plant, Nepenthes...
Giant trees enhance zoochorous plant dispersal in sacred groves and human settlements of the Western Ghats, India
In India and other countries, large and ancient trees that persist in sacred groves and human-dominated landscapes support ecosystem services, including frugivore-mediated seed dispersal. In this stud...
Life expectancy and mortality of people with and without diabetes in Aotearoa | New Zealand: A national cohort study
Background Diabetes mellitus (DM) is a significant driver of excess morbidity and premature mortality, though few contemporary or locally-derived data quantify this impact on New Z...
Organizational happiness and its association with organizational commitment: A mixed-methods study among private school teachers in Türkiye
Background Teaching is demoralizing, challenging, and stressful for many teachers. Greater student achievement requires better teacher performance and happiness. An effective schoo...
Gender differences in the association between adverse childhood experiences and impulsivity in Saudi Arabian adults: A cross-sectional study
Background Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) are linked to impulsivity, a transdiagnostic risk factor for psychopathology. However, gender differences in ACE-impulsivity pathway...
Stress contagion in school: A multiverse analysis of social influence on school-related stress
Introduction Studies have found that behaviors, beliefs, and emotions can be socially contagious and spread between students. Qualitative research suggests that this may apply to s...
Increasing young people’s use of sexual and reproductive health services in government health facilities in rural Kenya
Young people in sub-Saharan Africa, especially in rural areas, face numerous daunting geographic and psychosocial barriers to accessing sexual and reproductive health (SRH) services and information. A...
Association between hemoglobin dynamic trajectories and 28-day mortality in elderly patients with sepsis: A retrospective cohort study using the MIMIC-IV database
Background Anemia is a common complication in sepsis and is associated with poor prognosis. However, there are few studies on the dynamic changes in hemoglobin (Hb) levels and thei...
Automated counting of prostate cell types with image processing and machine learning
Traditional cell counting in clinical and research settings often relies on hemocytometry, a manual technique that is labor-intensive and prone to human error. These limitations in precision and throu...
Triggered chain reaction: The meanings of symptom clusters for patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: A cross-sectional qualitative study
Purpose Symptoms in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) commonly co-occur as ‘symptom clusters’, yet little is known about how patients interpret and make sense of these e...
Genetic variants and polygenic risk scores associated with paroxysmal atrial fibrillation in the Japanese population
Early-stage diagnosis of paroxysmal atrial fibrillation (PAF) is challenging owing to its asymptomatic nature. However, the genetic factors underlying PAF and predictive utility of polygenic risk scor...
Optimizing Black Soldier Fly frass fertilizer rates for maize and soybean production in Madagascar
In low-yield regions, yield intensification rather than land extensification offers the most efficient pathway to increase production and meet rising food demand. Yet, limited access to fertilizers re...
Reducing annotation burden in medical imaging with ADGNET: A semi-supervised deep learning strategy
We propose ADGNET, a semi-supervised framework for Alzheimer’s disease (AD) diagnosis that jointly optimizes image reconstruction and classification through shared feature representations. The archite...
ATF-MGIAM: Medically-guided interpretable attention mapping for robust pertussis cough sound recognition
To address the challenges of complex acoustic patterns and limited interpretability in pertussis cough sound recognition, this study proposes an interpretable deep learning framework based on adaptive...
A political spectrograph: High-resolution examinations of the United States’ ideological landscape
The concept of ideology is central to political discourse and dynamics, and is often cast as falling primarily on a one-dimensional scale from “left-wing/liberal” to “right-wing/conservative”, but the...
Beyond Templates and BERT: Headword-centric parsing for semantic question answering in non-english financial domains
Recent advances in semantic question-answering (QA) systems struggle with linguistic variability, particularly in non-English domains like German finance. This work presents INAGQA, a novel QA system...
Association between serum platelet level and dermatitis rash: Results from the China Health and Nutrition Survey
Dermatitis rash (DR), a prevalent inflammatory skin disorder marked by erythema, pruritus, and scaling, poses diagnostic challenges due to overlapping phenotypes with atopic dermatitis and psoriasis....
Stigma and depression among heterosexual men and women living with HIV in the UK: Investigating a conceptual framework
Background Examining the relationship of HIV stigmatisation in different social settings with internalised HIV stigma, loneliness and depression among people with HIV, may help in...
A retrospective review of sagittal split ramus osteotomy: Incidence and risk factors for neurosensory disturbance of the inferior alveolar nerve
Sagittal split ramus osteotomy (SSRO) is the most commonly performed mandibular procedure in orthognathic surgery. Although generally safe, neurosensory disturbance (NSD) of the inferior alveolar nerv...
The impact of non-pharmaceutical interventions on the socio-economic and demographic determinants of COVID-19 incidence: A spatial analysis of the pandemic in Toronto, Canada
Socio-economic and demographic variables have been identified as determinants of transmission of, and susceptibility to, COVID-19. In this study, we analyse the heterogeneous impacts of non-pharmaceut...
Distribution and seasonal abundance of medically important flies in Sharkia Governorate, Egypt and their associated bacteria
Due to the medical importance of flies as mechanical vectors of numerous pathogens, accurate information on their distribution, abundance, and associated bacterial communities is essential. This study...
Joint power-time resource optimization for multi-tag RFID wireless power transfer via model predictive control and ADMM
This paper presents a comprehensive optimization framework for long-range radio frequency identification (RFID)-based wireless power transfer (WPT) systems operating in the 915 MHz ISM band. Unlike co...
Trends in river herring environmental DNA in two North Carolina river systems
River herring (Blueback Herring [ Alosa aestivalis ] and Alewife [ A. pseudoharengus ]), were once abundant in North Car...
Development and evaluation of an ontology for non-invasive respiratory support in acute care
Managing patients with respiratory failure increasingly involves non-invasive respiratory support (NIRS) strategies to support respiration, often preventing the need for invasive mechanical ventilatio...
Study on the adhesion performance of basalt fiber and polypropylene fiber based on unified phase-field theory and cohesive zone model
In recent years, mixing an appropriate amount of flexible fibers(e.g., basalt fibers, polypropylene fibers, etc.) into concrete has become a common practice. Numerous engineering applications have sho...