Functional characterization indicated that the two intronic SPAST variants impact splicing. In both families, the variants co-segregated with HSP and symptoms consistent with anorexia nervosa, suggesting a potential association between SPAST pathogenic varian…
Among 74 geriatric inpatients (median age 87 years), the 100% fT>MIC PK/PD target was achieved in 15/35 patients receiving amoxicillin-clavulanate and 33/39 receiving piperacillin-tazobactam. Comorbidity burden (CIRS-G) and estimated glomerular filtration rat…
Among 320 adult ASB consumers, median intake was 372.8 g/day; mean daily ASB consumption was 432.5 g (SD 283.2) in men and 361.4 g (SD 265.4) in women. Higher ASB consumption was associated with younger age, higher proportion of men, higher BMI, greater propo…
A 21-year-old man presented with a 4-day painful priapism and was subsequently diagnosed with sickle cell disease by laboratory testing and hemoglobin electrophoresis. Initial aspiration and phenylephrine injection failed, requiring distal cavernosal shunt su…
The study reports the first complete mitochondrial genome for a marine wood borer specimen from Beihai, China (17,158 bp; 12 protein-coding genes, 22 tRNAs, 2 rRNAs) and provides nucleotide composition. Phylogenetic analysis indicates the Beihai specimen clus…
The XGBoost machine learning classifier predicted smartphone overdependence among older adults with high accuracy (0.925). Key influencing factors included demographic characteristics, time spent on smartphone use, awareness of overdependence, and content use…
Neuromodulation via EMF stimulation at 70-100 Hz led to improvement in EMF waves and showed a non-statistically significant trend toward improved MMSE scores in patients with cognitive impairment.
In >24,000 on-ground measurements in mainland France (2020–2024) in direct view of 5G antennas, broadband exposure at 5G 3500 MHz sites increased by 0.12 V/m on average over the 5-year period, and the 3500 MHz band contribution increased by 0.34 V/m on averag…
The article discusses methodological issues in systematic review and evidence synthesis of animal cancer bioassays assessing RF-EMF and cancer, including statistical inference and the role of exposure levels in interpreting findings. It calls for careful cons…
Using an ExpoM-RF4 portable device (50 MHz–6 GHz) during walking routes in Japan, urban areas showed significantly higher RF-EMF exposure levels than suburban areas. Railway station areas had the highest exposure among measured environments, and exposure leve…
The article discusses increasing thyroid cancer incidence and suggests a possible association with ubiquitous smartphone use and increased RF EMF exposure near the head and neck. It frames EMF exposure from personal electronics as a growing public health conc…
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This paper summarizes presentations and a panel discussion on radiological protection systems for ionizing and non-ionizing radiation from multiple organizations (ICNIRP, ICRP, IRPA, WHO, NCRP). It states that no international framework for non-ionizing radia…
A conformable wearable ultrasound system using lens-assisted acoustic focusing and a Random Forest regression model produced offline bladder-volume estimates that showed good agreement with a benchtop electrical impedance-based measurement system in a pilot s…
The paper proposes a digital coding metamaterial that converts digital control inputs into discrete phase shifts of a 70 GHz TE-mode surface wave, enabling post-radiation modulation as the wave propagates through the metamaterial. With a single broadcast ante…
A fully metallic ridge gap waveguide W-band array antenna is presented and measured. Reported measurements include reflection coefficient below -10 dB across 92.5103.5 GHz, in-band gain exceeding 25.8 dBi with <1 dB fluctuation, radiation efficiency >78%, s…
A compact uniform circular array antenna design is presented and validated to generate a resultant sixth-order OAM beam via superposition of fifth-order OAM from ring patch elements and first-order OAM from the array. The antenna operates at 3.55 GHz, achieve…
The review describes phase-changing vanadium oxides (notably VO2) as enabling tunable, reversible modulation of conductivity and optical properties near room temperature, supporting real-time absorption, shielding, and beam steering across terahertz, infrared…
An eight-port 28.0 GHz mmWave MIMO antenna integrated with a 10×10 frequency-selective surface (FSS) is presented, reporting a peak realized gain of 13.89 dBi with directional 2-D radiation patterns. SAR analysis at 28.0 GHz is reported as 0.0274 W/kg.
The paper proposes a dimensionality-reduced cascaded angle offset phased array (DRCAO-PAA) using singular value decomposition to compress the phase-shift coefficient matrix, reducing the number of active controllers while maintaining beam-steering performance…
In a pilot trial in six healthy participants, wearable electrochemical aptamer-based patches were reported to be safe and nearly pain free and measured vancomycin concentrations in dermal interstitial fluid at 5-minute resolution over 24 hours (with primary d…
