Melatonin regulated through GhTDC5 enhances tryptophan decarboxylase against drought stress in cotton by Xin Yu, Xiugui Chen, Ning Wang, Maohua Dai, Zhining Yang, Yapeng Fan, Yuping Sun, Xinrui Zhang, Ruize Song, Menghao Zhang, Hao Lan, Fange Wu, Hui Huang, Xiao Chen, Lidong Wang, Xuke Lu, Shuai Wang, Lixue Guo, Junjuan Wang, Lanjie Zhao, Keyun Feng, Jing Jiang, Wuwei Ye

“…Abstract Tryptophan decarboxylase (TDC) is the rate-limiting enzyme in the biosynthesis of melatonin and plays a crucial role in melatonin production in plants. …”
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Antibiotic resistance of biofilm-forming bacteria causing urinary tract infections: A systematic review by Abigail Anne Ferrer, Samson Decasa, Juliana Carlidy Elauria, Jalen Rose Esguerra, Earl Adriane Cano, Angela Nole Shayenne Coderos, Denise Alexandra Cruz, Den Marc Exala

“…Furthermore, biofilm formation rates ranged from 36.5% to 100%, with a median prevalence of 75.5%. …”
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Comparative analysis of data transformation methods for detecting non-technical losses in electricity grids by Maria Gabriel Chuwa, Daniel Ngondya, Rukia Mwifunyi

“…The high accuracy and low false positive rates enable utilities to recover unbilled revenue and reduce inspection costs, amplifying savings compared to raw data or traditional approaches. …”
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Importance of hospital-specific antibiotic policy for ensuring maternal quality of care in India: A narrative review by Arijit Banerjee, Jhuma Biswas

“…Implementing hospital-specific antibiotic policies effectively reduces infection rates and improves maternal-neonatal outcomes through standardized regimens prioritizing narrow-spectrum antibiotics and utilizing local antibiograms. …”
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Proactive Data Placement in Heterogeneous Storage Systems via Predictive Multi-Objective Reinforcement Learning by Suchuan Xing, Yihan Wang

“…The system incorporates a sophisticated reward mechanism that balances performance gains against migration overhead, while employing prioritized experience replay and adaptive learning rates to handle non-stationary workload characteristics. …”
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Residential solar adoption—main determinants and the future of small-scale photovoltaics by Severin Reissl, Luis Sarmiento, Johannes Emmerling

“…We present a data-driven microsimulation model analyzing residential photovoltaic adoption in Germany to address uncertainties in future adoption rates. We develop and calibrate a technology adoption model incorporating economic, financial, and behavioral factors to replicate historical adoption patterns from 2007 to 2020 and project future scenarios. …”
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Comparison of Microbiological Profiles of Primary Hip and Knee Peri-Prosthetic Joint Infections Treated at Specialist Centers Around the World by Emin Suha Dedeogullari, Pablo Slullitel, Isabel Horton, Bulent Atilla, Saif Salih, Paul Monk, Ahmet Mazhar Tokgozoglu, Michael Goplen, Bonita Tsang, Martin Buljubasich, Hesham Abdelbary, Simon Garceau, George Grammatopoulos

“…However, most studies are limited to single-center or intra-country multicenter analyses, often including mixed cohorts of primary and revision PJI cases, with limited data regarding global antibiotic resistance patterns. This study compared the microbiological characteristics, polymicrobial culture rates, prevalence of culture-negative infections, and antibiotic resistance patterns in PJI cases across five referral centers from five continents. …”
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Legacy Pipes Unearthed: Decrypting the Enigma of Pressure Dynamics and Burst Events in Limburg, The Netherlands by Mohamad Zeidan, Bram Hillebrand, Mirjam Blokker

“…The results indicate a consistent pattern of higher real positive percentages compared to random detection rates across the years tested. …”
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From School to School: Examining the Contours of Within-Field Switching in the Special Education Teacher Labor Market by Andrew Pendola, Frank Perrone

“…Results show that SETs switch schools at much higher rates, associated with experience, salary, and student demographics, yet generally transfer shorter distances than their peers. …”
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Publication bias in the social sciences since 1959: Application of a regression discontinuity framework. by Julia Jerke, Antonia Velicu, Fabian Winter, Heiko Rauhut

“…We conclude that these changes are influenced by increasing computational possibilities as well as changes in the acceptance rates of scientific top journals.…”
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Experimental Reconstruction of a Nineteenth Century Lower Limb Prosthetic Peg Leg – The Box Leg by Charlotte Waller-Cotterhill

“…However, that all societies (past and present) follow a single technological trajectory just at different rates of progress would be an inaccurate assumption (Pfaffenberger, 1992). …”
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Decoding Phthorimaea operculella (Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae) in the new age of change by Silvia I. RONDON

“…Scenarios of climate variation have increased the possibility of changes in pests' biological and ecological patterns by increasing or reducing overwintering length, changes in population growth rates, number of generations, crop-pest relationship, and therefore affecting their expansion. …”
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Full spectrum of novelties in time-dependent urn models by Alessandro Bellina, Giordano De Marzo, Vittorio Loreto

“…Systems driven by innovation, a pivotal force in human society, present various intriguing statistical regularities, from the Heaps' law to logarithmic scaling or somewhat different patterns for the innovation rates. The urn model with triggering (UMT) has been instrumental in modeling these innovation dynamics. …”
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Criminal Law Challenged by Crossing into Virtual Reality by Mahdi Karimi

“…This information includes behavioral patterns, interests, preferences, biometric and physiological data such as heart rate, body energy consumption, etc., which are comprehensively collected to create a complete and accurate user profile, potentially resulting in severe violations of users' mental privacy. …”
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Estimating medium-term (40 years) carbon uptake in living biomass from Life Terra’s afforestation and reforestation actions: challenges and recommendations by Jorge Palmero-Barrachina, Petr Blazek, Santiago Sabaté, Santiago Sabaté, Teresa Sauras-Yera, Samuel Allasia-Grau, Daniel Nadal-Sala, Daniel Nadal-Sala, Sven Kallen, Tiago de Santana, Emil Cienciala, Emil Cienciala

“…By year 40, individual tree biomass estimates ranged from 0.08 to 0.20 t/tree across regions and species types (conifers and broadleaves), with survival rates varying between 22.0 and 49.7%. This translated to stand-level biomass estimates of 54.7–232.6 t/ha at age 40 years. …”
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Targeted screening and single-cell analysis of genetic variants in melanoma using Mendelian randomization by Shi Li, Kaijiong Zhang, Guiji Zhang, Min Shi, Xing Yin, Bo Wang

“…Methods We combined SNP data from GTEx V8 eQTL and FinnGen databases for Mendelian randomization analysis, and performed single-cell analysis on melanoma samples. Results Melanoma rates were higher in men than women and increased with age. …”
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PathCare: Integrating Clinical Pathway Information to Enable Healthcare Prediction at the Neuron Level by Dehao Sui, Lei Gu, Chaohe Zhang, Kaiwei Yang, Xiaocui Li, Liantao Ma, Ling Wang, Wen Tang

“…PathCare employs an auxiliary sub-network that models future visit patterns to capture temporal health progression, coupled with a neuron-level filtering gate that adaptively selects relevant features while filtering out redundant information. …”
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Mitigating side channel attacks on FPGA through deep learning and dynamic partial reconfiguration by Sesibhushana Rao Bommana, Sreehari Veeramachaneni, Syed Ershad, MB Srinivas

“…Abstract This paper introduces a framework that combines Deep Learning (DL) models and Dynamic Partial Reconfiguration (DPR) in Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA) to mitigate Side Channel Attacks (SCA). …”
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From access to reserve: antimicrobial resistance among etiological agents of central line-associated bloodstream infections in the view of WHO’s AWaRe antimicrobial spectrum by Anand, Gargee, Lahariya, Rijhul, Priyadarshi, Ketan, Sarfraz, Asim

“…Furthermore, a fluctuation in CLABSI rates was also observed, with a significant reduction in infection rates in 2024 after the implementation of enhanced infection control practices. …”
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Parsimonious and explainable machine learning for predicting mortality in patients post hip fracture surgery by Fouad Trad, Bassel Isber, Ryan Yammine, Khaled Hatoum, Dana Obeid, Mohammad Chahine, Rachid Haidar, Ghada El-Hajj Fuleihan, Ali Chehab

“…Abstract Hip fractures among the elderly population continue to present significant risks and high mortality rates despite advancements in surgical procedures. …”
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