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Tartaric acid (TA), a valuable organic acid with widespread applications in food, pharmaceutical, and chemical industries, is predominantly found in grapes and winery by-products. This study investigates the physical ext...

In this study, an Entropy Transformed Pareto Distribution (EnTrPD) was proposed to provide improved flexibility in modelling heavy-tailed behavior observed in data, and was subsequently applied to assess wealth inequalit...

Abstract Background Under pressures of health insurance cost containment and high-quality development, diagnosis-related groups (DRGs) and other case-based payment schemes have become a major direction of China’s inpat...

BackgroundTar-rich coals serve as an important coal-based oil and gas resource in China, while their pyrolysis product distribution is governed by the coupling effects of coal properties and reaction conditions. Therefor...

Abstract Physical sciences are essential to the predictive modeling of complex environmental systems, particularly environmental monitoring and sustainability applications, as they provide the deterministic foundation re...

The paper deals with modeling three-dimensional illumination distribution from light sourсes using artificial neural network (ANN). This problem is especially relevant in greenhouse irradiation systems due to the design...

Developing effective drugs for Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) is critically limited by insufficient brain exposure. To address this, structural optimization was employed to balance physicochemical properties and enhance bloo...

Abstract Background Equitable access to healthcare depends not only on the overall availability of medical professionals but also on their fair geographic distribution. Physicians are central to patient care and health s...

Rich in multiple strategic rare metals, deep-sea manganese nodules constitute an essential mineral resource for balancing terrestrial resource supply and demand and facilitating the global energy transition. Accurate pre...

Introduction. The fractional composition of the stone filler in asphalt concrete mixtures and the preparation modes of the binder in the "bitumen – mineral powder" system have a significant impact on the performance ...

Introduction and aims: Skeletal Class II malocclusion is heterogeneous, and conventional two-dimensional cephalometry may not fully capture relevant three-dimensional (3D) craniofacial variation. This study aimed to iden...

Abstract Nanofluids have emerged as promising heat transfer media due to their superior thermal performance associated to conventional fluids, yet their behavior under mutual impacts of radiation, heat source/sink, and m...

ABSTRACT The formation of stray grains (SGs) remains a critical and pervasive challenge hindering the additive manufacturing (AM) of single crystals for high‐temperature aerospace applications. Here, we elucidate the m...

In blasting design, blasting parameters poorly match the actual blast area, while manual adjustments result in low efficiency and suboptimal borehole layout. This study therefore proposes a borehole layout optimization a...

Environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) remains a significant public health concern in Chile despite the implementation of comprehensive smoke-free policies. This study aimed to identify sociodemographic, behavioral, and bioch...

This study addresses the issue of nanoparticle agglomeration and the resulting inhomogeneous structure and performance degradation in Cu–Al₂O₃ composite coatings prepared by jet electrodeposition. To improve partic...

Background: Long COVID is associated with elevated inflammatory and antibody levels. Elevated plasma proteins can increase blood viscosity and decrease blood flow. Our aim is to evaluate if blood viscosity is associated ...

Tsunami-like waves pose a serious threat to coastal infrastructure, necessitating effective mitigation measures to reduce inundation and associated damage. This study uses a numerical wave tank (NWT) to investigate the h...

The photon-counting laser altimeter onboard the Ice, Cloud, and Land Elevation Satellite-2 (ICESat-2) offers a new opportunity for bathymetric mapping in nearshore extremely shallow waters (0–5 m). However, its single-...

This study employs molecular dynamics (MD) simulations to systematically investigate the effects of the degree of polymerization (DP 10, 20, and 35) on the mechanical and tribological properties of nitrile butadiene rubb...

Abstract This study investigates the nexus between income inequality and health outcomes in Ethiopia over the period 1970–2024 using a Co-Integrated Vector Autoregressive (CVAR) approach. Employing time series data fro...

To fully exploit the advantages of GNSS-R small satellites (large quantity, short revisit cycle) and address key challenges of multisource GNSS-R data—track-wise distribution, uneven spatial coverage, and observat...

IntroductionMenotropins is a mixture of gonadotropin glycoproteins extracted from the urine of postmenopausal women. Its composition is complex, with active components including follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH), lutein...

ObjectiveSensory gait ataxia is a core feature of chronic peripheral vestibular disorders, leading to impaired mobility, reduced quality of life, and increased fall risk. Quantitative gait metrics capturing this deficit ...