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Exploring the association between stress-related hormonal changes, behaviours and facial movements after an interval training exercise in French Standardbred
Physical exercise can act as a physiological and a mental stressor. Monitoring exercise-induced stress is therefore essential to understand racehorses ‘responses to effort and to ensure their welfare....
Correction: Use of a humanoid robot for auditory psychophysical testing
Cultural distortion risk and tourist loyalty at silk road heritage: The mediating roles of perceived value and satisfaction
As the core carrier of cross-cultural communication, World Cultural Heritage sites along the Silk Road face challenges from cultural distortion risk. However, the specific mechanisms linking this risk...
Morphological and chemotaxonomical characterization of some species of the genus Euphorbia L. in Jazan region, KSA
This study decisively evaluates the classification of four species of Euphorbia : Euphorbia ammak ,...
Practice beyond performance stabilization increases the use of online adjustments to unpredictable perturbations in an interceptive task
In recent decades, research has focused on motor adjustments in interception tasks within predictable environments. However, emerging studies suggest that continued practice beyond performance stabili...
GCMS profiling of bioactive phytocompounds from Curculigo orchiodes Gaertn. root extract and evaluation of antioxidant, and antidiabetic activities: A computational drug development approach
Curculigo orchioides (C. orchioides), a traditionally valued medicinal plant, has been utilized for centuries in the management of various ailments, but its full spectrum of therap...
Empathy in undergraduate medical students: A multivariate cross-sectional study in China
Context Investigate the impact of various factors on medical students’ empathy scores, and provide constructive ideological and political education strategies to enhance their empa...
Ionizing radiation leads to exosome secretion in macrophages through MYC-mediated pathways
Exosomes are cell-derived vesicles that play a crucial role in intracellular communication and are promising biomarkers for therapeutic applications. Despite their significant potential, the applicati...
RETRACTED: Optimization of house price evaluation model based on multi-source geographic big data and deep neural network
The real estate market requires effective and precise house price prediction, as conventional models often face difficulties in generalization, computational efficiency, and interpretability. The rese...
Economic evaluation of dialysis treatment in end-stage renal disease patients with fluid and sodium overload: Evidence from a randomized controlled trial in Thailand
Given the lack of cost-effectiveness information, continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis (CAPD) with icodextrin (CAPD+ICO) has not yet been included in the Universal Health Coverage (UHC) scheme. T...
Quantum-topological meta-learning for tire-road contact stability and multi-modal road prediction in autonomous driving
This paper addresses the critical challenge of tire-road contact dynamics in intelligent transportation systems, particularly for Level 4 autonomous driving. Traditional empirical models fail to accur...
Metascientific replication project with the advanced meta-experimental protocol of the transparent psi project procedures for testing the precognitive effect claimed by Bem
This metascientific project studied the replicability of Bem Experiment 1, which had claimed a precognitive effect, i.e., the ability to successfully guess the outcome of future random events (Bem. J...
Report from MDE practice: An interview-based evaluation of model-driven engineering uses
In this study, we investigate the usability of Model-Driven Engineering (MDE) through interviews with fifteen practitioners from diverse roles (e.g., developers, researchers, architects) and domains,...
Evaluating machine learning approaches for host prediction using H3 influenza genomic data
Background H3 influenza A viruses (IAV) have been shown to frequently cross the species barrier which can be an important factor in sustained transmission and spread. Machine learn...
Evaluating continuous nanosecond pulsed electric field (nsPEF) treatment as a non-thermal alternative for human milk pasteurisation
This study investigated the application of nanosecond pulsed electric field (nsPEF) treatment as an alternative pasteurisation method for donor human milk (DHM). A 0.1% saline solution was identified...
Impact of agricultural subsidy on chemical fertilizer use: Empirical evidence of China’s Organic-Substitute-Chemical-Fertilizer policy based on double machine learning
The sustainable development of agriculture hinges on effective fertilizer management, and China’s experience with chemical fertilizer overuse highlights the challenges and opportunities in this domain...
An exploratory machine learning study on paediatric abdominal pain phenotyping and prediction
Background The exact mechanisms underlying paediatric abdominal pain (AP) remain unclear due to patient heterogeneity. This preliminary study aimed to identify AP phenotypes and de...
Experiences of accessing primary care by those living with long Covid in New Zealand: A qualitative analysis
Background Long Covid is the persistence of symptoms beyond 12 weeks following acute Covid-19 infection. It is estimated to affect one in ten people and can be extremely debilitati...
Barriers and enablers to help-seeking for common mental disorders among young people in low-income settings: Perspectives from Zimbabwe
Common Mental Disorders (CMDs), such as depression and anxiety are highly prevalent, particularly among young people globally. In Zimbabwe, contributing factors like poverty, unemployment, and the COV...
Evidence for an indigenous female mouse urobiome
Mice have been used as a valuable model for understanding pathophysiological mechanisms of urinary tract infection for almost six decades. Mice offer many advantages including genetic manipulation to...
Testing semantic compositionality in baboons (Papio papio) through relearning and generalization
This study investigates whether baboons are capable of semantic compositionality, specifically, whether they can apply compositional rules to new situations (generalization). In language, semantic com...
Retraction: Mycobacterium indicus pranii (Mw) Re-Establishes Host Protective Immune Response in Leishmania donovani Infected Macrophages: Critical Role of IL-12
Demographic influences on trust in artificial intelligence across cognitive domains: A statistical perspective
As artificial intelligence (AI) systems become increasingly integrated into decision-making across various sectors, understanding public trust in these systems is more crucial than ever. This study pr...
Picoplankton nitrogen guilds in the tropical and subtropical oceans: From the surface to the deep
Ecological guilds quantify the incidence and extent of resource transformation functions, irrespective of the species involved. Therefore, tackling the microbial nitrogen guilds is key to our understa...
Best practice guidance for recreational and professional drones near colonial breeding birds
Drone use has increased sharply worldwide over the past decade, leading to more frequent interactions with wildlife. The rapid advancement of drones for ecological monitoring and research has further...