An additive manufacturing approach for fabrication of agarose hydrogel structures for protein sorption application by Feng Cao, Hossein Najaf Zadeh, Klaudia Świacka, Jakub Maculewicz, Dan Bowles, Tim Huber, Don Clucas

“…Compared to peer methods, the shape fidelity of printed structures was improved and errors resulting from the Barus effect were minimized to 1.7 % and 7.1 %, depending on stencil patterns. Mechanical and thermal properties of agarose hydrogels were investigated by considering chemical crosslinking and agarose concentration, and the gelation and melting temperatures were determined. …”
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Microstructured Liquid Metal‐Based Embedded‐Type Sensor Array for Curved Pressure Mapping by Haoyu Li, Chengjun Zhang, Hongyu Xu, Qing Yang, Zexiang Luo, Cheng Li, Lin Kai, Yizhao Meng, Jialiang Zhang, Jie Liang, Feng Chen

“…The embedded LM‐ME‐based sensor elements are fabricated by using femtosecond laser‐induced micro/nanostructures and water/hydrogel assisted patterning method, which enables high sensitivity (7.42 kPa−1 in the range of 0–0.1 kPa) and high stability through an interlinked support isolation structure for the sensor units. …”
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A multilevel social network approach to studying multiple disease-prevention behaviors by András Vörös, Elisa Bellotti, Carinthia Balabet Nengnong, Mattimi Passah, Quinnie Doreen Nongrum, Charishma Khongwir, Anna Maria van Eijk, Anne Kessler, Rajiv Sarkar, Jane M. Carlton, Sandra Albert

“…Together, these two factors are crucial for explaining the observed patterns of behaviors and social networks in the data, outweighing individual characteristics, opinion leaders, and social network size. …”
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Declines in anthropogenic mercury emissions in the Global North and China offset by the Global South by Xinran Qiu, Maodian Liu, Yuanzheng Zhang, Qianru Zhang, Huiming Lin, Xingrui Cai, Jin Li, Rong Dai, Shuxiu Zheng, Jinghang Wang, Yaqi Zhu, Huizhong Shen, Guofeng Shen, Xuejun Wang, Shu Tao

“…Here, we develop a high-spatiotemporal-resolution dataset to comprehensively analyze global anthropogenic mercury emission patterns. We show that global emissions increased 330% during 1960–2021, with declines in developed Global North countries since the 1990s and China since the 2010s completely offset by rapid growth in Global South countries (excluding China). …”
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CHROMOPHOBE HEPATOCELLULAR CARCINOMA: DIAGNOSTIC CHALLENGES by Sana Ben-Slama, Ines Mallek, Eya Ghorbeli, Mohamed Hajri, Taher Labidi, Hafedh Mestiri, Ahlem Lahmar, Dhouha Bacha

“…Histologically, the tumor had focal trabecular or pseudoglandular patterns within a vascularized stroma. The cells were large, with clear to eosinophilic cytoplasm and hyperchromatic and pleomorphic nuclei with focal anaplastic features. …”
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ICESat-2 Reveals Accelerated Global Glacier Mass Loss Except Alaska From 2019 to 2023 by Yubin Fan, Lanhua Luo, Chang-Qing Ke, Genyu Wang

“…Accelerated but contrasting patterns of glacier mass change have been observed, with an accelerated mass loss found in regions such as Svalbard, Russian Arctic, the High Mountain Asia, and the southern Andes. …”
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Multiple FNH-Like Lesions in a Patient with Chronic Budd-Chiari Syndrome: Gd-EOB-Enhanced MRI and BR1 CEUS Findings by Caroline Newerla, Fabienne Schaeffer, Luigi Terracciano, Joachim Hohmann

“…These lesions showed typical patterns in the precontrast images, while there was an arterial and a persistent portal venous enhancement. …”
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Enhancing heat exchanger design using autoencoder model for predicting efficiency and cost in chemical processing by Manimegalai T, Anitha Gopalan, Vanmathi Murugesan, Jayant Giri, Praveen Barmavatu, Praveenkumar T R, Dinesh Mavaluru, Rafath Samrin

“…By learning the underlying patterns and relationships within the data, the autoencoder can effectively capture the nonlinear mappings between design parameters and performance metrics. …”
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Stretchable and High‐Performance Fibrous Sensors Based on Ionic Capacitive Sensing for Wearable Healthcare Monitoring by Jiawei Liu, Yan Yang, Guangchuan Chen, Hongbiao Sun, Xin Xie, Yanfeng Hou, Lishen Zhang, Jinhui Wang, Jiangxin Wang

“…One‐dimensional (1D) stretchable fiber materials serve as vital components in constructing electronic textiles, allowing for rich structural design, patterning, and device integration through mature textile techniques. …”
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When plastisphere and drilosphere meet: Earthworms facilitate microbiome and nutrient turnover to accelerate biodegradation of agricultural plastic films by Caide Huang, Liuwei Wang, Wei-Min Wu, Yvan Capowiez, Yuhui Qiao, Deyi Hou

“…Earthworms influenced the microbial assembly within the plastisphere by increasing both bacterial and fungal biodiversity, as well as their network complexity. The time-decay patterns in the abundance of keystone degrader taxa, including the genera Noviherbaspirillum, Rhizobacter, and Mortierella, were mitigated by earthworms over the 60-day period. …”
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Vegetation structure and soil organic carbon storage across northern forest-tundra ecotones in continuous permafrost by H. Travers-Smith, N.C. Coops, T.C. Lantz, M. Hamp, D. Ignace, M.A. Wulder, J. van der Sluijs

“…Instead, topography and landscape drainage patterns, rather than vegetation structure may be more important predictors of SOC storage. …”
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Noninsulin Antidiabetic Drugs for Patients with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: Are We Respecting Their Contraindications? by Irene Ruiz-Tamayo, Josep Franch-Nadal, Manel Mata-Cases, Dídac Mauricio, Xavier Cos, Antonio Rodriguez-Poncelas, Joan Barrot, Gabriel Coll-de-Tuero, Xavier Mundet-Tudurí

“…There is a need to increase awareness of potential inappropriate prescribing and to monitor the quality of prescribing patterns in order to help physicians and policymakers to yield better clinical outcomes in T2DM.…”
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Mechanically Twisting‐Induced Top‐Down Chirality Transfer for Tunable Full‐Color Circularly Polarized Luminescent Fibers by Xiaoxiao Yu, Linfeng Chen, Qin Liu, Xiaoqing Liu, Zhenduo Qiu, Xinhai Zhang, Meifang Zhu, Yanhua Cheng

“…Moreover, the weavability of CPL fibers greatly extend their applications in anti‐counterfeit encryption, as demonstrated by using embroidery techniques to design multilevel encryption patterns.…”
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Expression Analysis of Sugarcane Aquaporin Genes under Water Deficit by Manassés Daniel da Silva, Roberta Lane de Oliveira Silva, José Ribamar Costa Ferreira Neto, Ana Carolina Ribeiro Guimarães, Daniela Truffi Veiga, Sabrina Moutinho Chabregas, William Lee Burnquist, Günter Kahl, Ana Maria Benko-Iseppon, Ederson Akio Kido

“…Two targets (SsPIP1-1 and SoPIP1-3/PIP1-4) were selected for validation via RT-qPCR and their expression patterns as detected by HT-SuperSAGE were confirmed. …”
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Lipid-lowering Efficacy of Plant Proteins and Their Application Potential by Yue WANG, Chunhua GUAN, Hong BI, Fengyating WU, Yanqin SHEN, Liang TAO, Yang TIAN

“…In recent years, there has been a gradual increase in the prevalence of obesity, hyperlipidaemia, coronary atherosclerosis, non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, and other conditions attributed to shifts in dietary patterns. These chronic ailments resulting from disruptions in lipid metabolism present a significant risk to human health and longevity. …”
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Development and implementation of EcoDecibel: A low-cost and IoT-based device for noise measurement by Ling-Jyh Chen, Sakshi Saraswat, Fu-Shiang Ching, Chih-Yi Su, Hsin-Lan Huang, Wen-Chi Pan

“…Results: EcoDecibel demonstrated strong correlation, yielding R2 values of 0.948 and 0.983 in comparison with Class 1 and Class 2 sound level meters and was able to monitor and forecast daily noise patterns effectively. The system performed well across different environments and was capable of continuous real-time monitoring. …”
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Dual-channel near-field holographic MIMO communications based on programmable digital coding metasurface and electromagnetic theory by Rui Wen Shao, Jun Wei Wu, Jiachen Li, Shengguo Meng, Yifan Xu, Zheng Xing Wang, Wankai Tang, Qiang Cheng, Shi Jin, Tie Jun Cui

“…The orthogonal holographic patterns on the transmitting and receiving apertures are firstly obtained using the Hilbert-Schmidt decomposition of the radiation operator. …”
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Climatic variability as a principal driver of primary production in the southernmost subalpine Rocky Mountain lake by Anna Shampain, Jill S. Baron, Peter R. Leavitt, Sarah A. Spaulding

“…We analyzed a sediment core representing a 270-year record from Santa Fe Lake, New Mexico, to constrain the southern margin of Rocky Mountain lakes and quantify patterns of change in lake biogeochemistry, production, and diatoms since 1750. …”
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Unfolding cascading impacts of changing South Asia monsoon on a Hindu Kush Himalayas basin by Surendra Maharjan, Wenzhao Li, Shahryar Fazli, Arshad Ansari, Suraj Tiwari, Roma Thakurathi, Rejoice Thomas, Hesham El-Askary

“…New hydrological insights for the region: The study reveals significant shifts in the IRB's hydrological patterns, including an extended rainy season—most pronounced under SSP 5-8.5 in the MF scenario—and an increase in annual discharge, especially during the South Asian Monsoon. …”
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Identifying Risk Factors Associated with Inappropriate Use of Acid Suppressive Therapy at a Community Hospital by Amandeep Singh, Vijay Bodukam, Kirit Saigal, Jaya Bahl, Yvette Wang, Alexandra Hanlon, Yinghui Lu, Michael Davis

“…By examining the prescribing patterns and inappropriate use of acid suppressive therapy (AST) during hospitalization and at discharge we sought to identify the risk factors associated with such practices. …”
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