The chikungunya (CHIKV) outbreak in China, with more than 7,000 cases reported in Guangdong province since July, is a stark reminder of how ecological shifts and global connectivity amplify infectious-disease risks. The rapid spread reflects the…
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A supportive work environment matters: validating a concise scale and specifying its contributions to emotional experiences among second language teachers
Supportive work environment in education: concept and dimensions
The construct of SWE emerged from organizational psychology in the early 20th century, with its significance gaining recognition as industrialization advanced. During this period,…
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Comment on: ‘Noncryopexy versus cryopexy treatment during scleral buckling: a systematic review and meta-analysis’
We read with interest the systematic review and meta-analysis by Chen et al. [1] showing that similar outcomes were noted postoperatively no matter whether retinopexy was performed in combination with scleral buckling or not. The authors observed…
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Neuromorphic pathways for transforming AI hardware
Neuromorphic pathways for transforming AI hardware
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Large-vocabulary segmentation for medical images with text prompts
In this section, we first describe the two types of data collected to build SAT: multimodal domain knowledge (Section “Domain knowledge”) and medical segmentation data (Section “Segmentation dataset”). Based on them, we detail the…
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Air taxis will soon be in our skies — if batteries can be made safer
Batteries are already powering electric vehicles (EVs) on our roads. But they are yet to transform aviation. Although some electric passenger planes are being prototyped, commercial uses are a decade away. The low-altitude economy is, however,…
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Translation and validation of the Birth Satisfaction Scale-Revised Indicator (BSS-RI) in Chinese
2.1. Design and participants.
This cross-sectional study was conducted among postpartum women who underwent physical examinations six weeks after delivery. Data collection took place between April and August 2023 at three tertiary hospitals in…
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Assessing the spatial risk of wild birds in avian influenza transmission using global risk score
Datasets and study time frame
The main island of Taiwan was divided into 4,762 squares, each measuring 3 km by 3 km, to be consistent with our previous publication14,19 (as the example shown in Fig. 2). The time frame of this study was between…
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Implicit Runge-Kutta based sparse identification of governing equations in biologically motivated systems
Problem statement and background
In this work, we consider data-driven discovery for nonlinear dynamical systems governed by ODEs of the form
$$\begin{aligned} {\left\{ \begin{array}{ll} \dot{x}(t) = f(x(t)),\\ x(t_{0}) = x_{0}, \end{array}\right….
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Impact of cone system compatibility on single cone bioceramic obturation in canals prepared with variable taper NiTi rotary files
This study is the first to evaluate the impact of using system-matching gutta-percha (GP) cones with different calcium silicate-based sealers (CSBS) on seal integrity in the single-cone (SC) obturation technique. Micro-computed tomography…
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