Rising Socio-Economic Costs of PM2.5 Pollution and Medical Service Mismatching

Rising Socio-Economic Costs of PM2.5 Pollution and Medical Service Mismatching

Academic Background As global population ageing intensifies, the impact of air pollution on public health becomes increasingly significant. Fine particulate matter (PM2.5) pollution is recognized as a major factor contributing to health issues such as cardiovascular diseases, chronic respiratory illnesses, and cognitive impairments. Particularly in...

Electrochemical Lithium Recycling with Electricity Generation

Electrochemical Lithium Recycling with Electricity Generation

Academic Background With the global transition to a low-carbon society, the demand for lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) as an important energy storage technology is rapidly increasing. However, the limited availability of lithium resources and the disposal of spent batteries have become pressing issues. Traditional lithium recycling methods, such as py...

Analyzing Content of Paris Climate Pledges with Computational Linguistics

The Paris Agreement is a crucial framework for global climate action, with countries outlining their climate goals and strategies through Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs). While existing research has primarily focused on assessing the mitigation targets within NDCs, the broader textual content of these documents has received little system...

Targeting ADAR1 with a Small Molecule for the Treatment of Prostate Cancer

Academic Background Prostate cancer (PCA) is one of the most common malignancies in men, particularly in Western countries, where it is the second leading cause of cancer-related deaths among males. Although androgen signaling therapy is effective in the initial treatment of prostate cancer, most patients eventually relapse, and there is currently ...

Microbiome Dysbiosis, Neutrophil Recruitment and Mesenchymal Transition of Mesothelial Cells Promotes Peritoneal Metastasis of Colorectal Cancer

Background Introduction Colorectal cancer (CRC) is one of the most prevalent malignancies worldwide, with high incidence and mortality rates. According to statistics, approximately 1.87 million new cases of CRC were diagnosed globally in 2020, resulting in 915,000 deaths. Peritoneal metastasis (PM) is a common metastatic pathway of CRC, with about ...

Neutrophils Physically Interact with Tumor Cells to Form a Signaling Niche Promoting Breast Cancer Aggressiveness

Academic Background Breast cancer is one of the most common malignant tumors among women worldwide, with a complex pathogenesis involving interactions among multiple cell types and signaling pathways. In recent years, the role of the tumor microenvironment (TME) in cancer progression has gradually gained attention. Neutrophils, as an essential comp...

Online Signature Watermarking in the Transform Domain

Academic Background With the rapid growth of digital content, the importance of digital signatures in identity verification and content authentication has become increasingly prominent. However, the security and integrity of digital signatures face significant challenges. To protect the authenticity of signatures and prevent tampering, digital wate...

A Communication-Efficient Distributed Frank-Wolfe Online Algorithm with an Event-Triggered Mechanism

Academic Background In the era of big data, distributed learning has become an effective method for solving large-scale online machine learning problems. However, frequent communication and projection operations in distributed learning incur high communication and computational costs. Especially in high-dimensional constrained optimization problems...

Rain Streak Removal Using Improved Generative Adversarial Network with Loss Function Optimization

Academic Background In the field of computer vision, rain streaks are a common interference factor, especially in outdoor surveillance, autonomous driving, and intelligent transportation systems. Rain streaks significantly degrade image quality, affecting the recognition and analysis capabilities of visual systems. Traditional rain streak removal m...

Three-Way Decision Approach Based on Utility and Dynamic Localization Transformational Procedures within a Circular Q-Rung Orthopair Fuzzy Set for Ranking and Grading Large Language Models

Academic Background With the rapid development of artificial intelligence (AI) and natural language processing (NLP), large language models (LLMs) have made significant progress in both academia and industry. However, despite the outstanding performance of LLMs in multiple NLP tasks, no single model has been able to simultaneously meet all task req...