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Integrating psychosocial health into disaster risk management: Insights from COVID-19 in Durán, Ecuador
The COVID-19 pandemic and intensifying climate-related disasters have highlighted the necessity of integrating psychosocial health and disaster risk management strategies. In the post-pandemic context...
Emission-reduction cooperation among technologically complementary manufacturers under a carbon cap-and-trade mechanism with price competition
In recent years, driven by emission reduction targets, an increasing number of manufacturers producing similar products have been compelled to seek emission reduction cooperation even while competing...
STING pathway contributes to Steroid-Hyporesponsive Lung Inflammation in DSS-induced colitis mice model
Background Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), a chronic inflammation of the gastrointestinal tract, is well recognized for triggering extraintestinal manifest...
Mapping digital popularity: Analyzing the network attention patterns of national forest parks based on Douyin (Tiktok) data
The study measures the Network Attention of national forest parks based on user data from the Douyin platform, utilizing the rank-size rule and Jenks natural breaks method to analyze their spatial dis...
Beyond Blueprints: Exploring the influence of social science factors on engineers’ flood infrastructure design decisions
Communities rely on infrastructure for daily activities, and when assets are damaged during a disaster, they face significant costs, both in physical damages as well as quality of life disruptions. Mo...
Food safety in urban informal market food environment: A social practice perspective on coping strategies of vendors in Dhaka, Bangladesh
Informal food vendors in the Global South face challenges in managing food safety, necessitating strategies that address consumer concerns and market sustainability. This paper examines how informal v...
On the self-management ability of peritoneal dialysis patients: a cross-sectional study with a mixed approach
Objective To understand the current status and influencing factors of self-management ability in peritoneal dialysis (PD) patients....
Attitudes and participation in fall risk management: A tripartite, multicenter cross-sectional study of physicians, nurses, and patients
Objective This study aims to explore the attitudes and involvement of physicians, nurses and patients in fall risk management, focusing on the factors influencing physicians’ parti...
Predictability beyond accuracy: A correlation-based evaluation of survey forecasts of the Chilean exchange rate
Floating exchange rates are widely considered difficult—if not impossible—to predict. While traditional evaluations focus on out-of-sample accuracy measures such as Mean Squared Prediction Error (MSPE...
Pharmaceutical marketing and patient trust: How do doctor-targeted campaigns affect patients?
Background In the context of pervasive pharmaceutical marketing directed at doctors, it is crucial to understand whether patients notice these activities and, if so, what impact th...
Factors associated with wheezing in Indigenous children and adolescents: A systematic review of the global literature
Background Wheezing episodes are common in childhood and can occur due to different health conditions. Globally, Indigenous children are particularly affected, with a high burden o...
Evaluating markerless biomechanical analysis in a real-world pole vault competition setting
This study evaluated a purpose-trained markerless motion capture system for biomechanical analysis in elite pole vault competition. The aim was to determine whether a markerless approach could produce...
Valorization of waste pharmaceutical residues via pyrolysis: Simultaneous production of biochar for Cd2+ removal and high-quality bio-oil/syngas
For the efficient utilization of pharmaceutical waste resources, tuber biochar (TB) and herbal biochar (HB) were prepared via oxygen-limited slow pyrolysis at 500 °C for 3 h, using residues from tuber...
Unpacking lithic assemblage variability in the Early Upper Palaeolithic: A multivariate approach to the structure of the Iberian Aurignacian
The Aurignacian technocomplex of the Early Upper Palaeolithic remains a long-standing focal point for understanding the expansion of modern humans across Europe. Diagnostic assemblages occur across va...
Incidence of pelvic fractures after definitive radiotherapy for cervical cancer: A retrospective multicenter cohort study (The IPFAR study)
Objective This multicenter study aimed to identify the risk factors for pelvic insufficiency fractures (PIFs) in women who received definitive radiotherapy (RT) as the initial trea...
Establishment of an in vitro hairless guinea pig dermal model
Hairless guinea pigs (HGP) make a desirable model for percutaneous exposure because they do not need to be clipped and are lower in cost and less sentient than swine. Current data leaves gaps in data...
Identification of autophagy-related key biomarkers in caerulein induced acute pancreatitis: In silico and in vivo study
Background Dysregulated autophagy is known to play a crucial role in the pathogenesis of Acute pancreatitis (AP). However, its specific mechanisms remain unclear. The present study...
A natural probioenzyme strategy as an effective alternative to antibiotics against multidrug-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae in broilers: Benefits for growth, immunity, and organ health
The rise of multidrug-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae poses a serious threat to poultry health and food safety, necessitating sustainable alternatives to antibi...
The mega-structure at Stăuceni-‘Holm’, Botoşani county, Romania and the debate about the governing of Cucuteni-Trypillia-settlements
2021 to 2024, the Cucuteni A3 settlement of Stăuceni-‘Holm’, Botoşani County in north-east Romania was surveyed geophysically and by systematic field collections. According to the geomagnetic results,...
Glucocorticoid-Induced alterations in DNA methylation in the H19 promoter of Bone Marrow-Derived Mesenchymal Stem Cells are associated with the pathogenesis of osteonecrosis
Background Glucocorticoid (GC)-induced osteonecrosis of the femoral head (ONFH) involves bone marrow-derived mesenchymal stem cell (BMSC) apoptosis and dysre...
Safeguarding against external intrusions utilizing adaptive bio-inspired multi-population anomaly detection for IoT network
The rapid growth of Internet of Things (IoT) devices has dramatically increased demand for robust, adaptive security solutions capable of countering the growing sophistication of cyberattacks. Despite...
Exploring immersion through a fMRI-compatible multi-finger handheld haptic display
This research presents the development and evaluation of a functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI)-compatible, handheld, multi-finger haptic display, designed to augment and quantitatively measur...
On performance evaluation of NOMA-aided SIMO multi-hop schemes using energy harvesting and fountain coding based information accumulation
In this paper, we propose a new non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA)-aided Single-Input Multiple-Output (SIMO) multi-hop relay scheme using wirelessly energy harvesting (EH) and Fountain Codes (FCs)....
Arabic translation, cross-cultural adaptation, and validation of the Expectation for Treatment Scale (ETS) in patients with musculoskeletal disorders
Purpose To translate, culturally adapt the Expectation for Treatment Scale (ETS) into Arabic and evaluate its psychometric properties in patients with musculoskeletal disorders....
Transcriptional regulation in skeletal muscle and adipose tissue of lean and obese colony cats
This study analysed gene expression profiles in white adipose and skeletal muscle tissues of cats genetically predisposed to obesity and wildtype cats to uncover molecular mechanisms regulating obesit...