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This paper proves that RNA targets with at most two maximal helices of length 2 and no helices of length 1 remain designable under the four-letter Watson-Crick model, extending existing modulo- separability guarantees through a combination of local coloring transfers and global counting arguments, with the formal proof verified in Lean 4.
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View all from today →Differences in Diabetes Care Among Healthcare-Seeking Participants in Damascus and Homs, Syria: A Facility-Based Cross- Sectional Comparative Study
This facility-based cross-sectional study reveals that despite shorter travel times and better oral medication availability in Homs compared to Damascus, Syrian diabetic patients in Homs face significantly higher rates of untreated diabetes and missing HbA1c monitoring, highlighting that geographic disparities in care extend beyond physical access to include critical gaps in treatment continuity and diagnostic capacity.
Beyond Direct Savings: Administrative Productivity, Dual Workflows and Risk-Adjusted Assessment of Healthcare Digitalization in Kazakhstan
This study of a Kazakhstani university hospital reveals that while healthcare digitalization significantly boosted administrative productivity, it failed to generate immediate direct budgetary savings due to a dual-workflow effect where digital and paper-based processes coexisted, resulting in a conditional ROI that turns negative under risk-adjusted scenarios.
Explore the Opportunity of Utilizing Some Wastes as an Antibacterial Materials in Construction Applications
This study demonstrates that low-cost waste-derived antibacterial materials, particularly copper-based waste, eggshell powder, and zinc oxide, effectively inhibit bacterial growth in construction applications when incorporated into either cementitious composites or epoxy coatings, thereby enhancing the durability and sustainability of infrastructure.
Rainfall structure and modelled surface drying in relation to crop response in degradation prone rainfed lands of eastern Sudan
This study evaluates long-term rainfall patterns and a newly developed Daily Rainfall-Structure Risk Index (DRSRI) in eastern Sudan's rainfed agricultural lands, demonstrating that unfavourable rainfall structures significantly increase surface drying and negatively impact sorghum harvested-area anomalies, thereby offering a tool for screening agricultural exposure to degradation.
Energy-Efficient Hybrid Approximate Radix-8 Multiplication Architecture for Adaptive Acoustic Feedback Suppression in Wearable Hearing Aids
This paper presents an energy-efficient adaptive acoustic feedback suppression architecture for wearable hearing aids that utilizes a hybrid approximate Radix-8 multiplier and an approximate SAR ADC to achieve significant power reduction and low latency while maintaining high speech quality, as validated by FPGA implementation results showing superior performance compared to existing methods.
Dry Season Chemical Properties and Nutrient Status of Agricultural Soils in Gopalganj District Bangladesh
This study evaluated the dry-season chemical properties and nutrient status of agricultural soils in Gopalganj District, Bangladesh, revealing that while the soils are generally suitable for cultivation, they face moderate fertility constraints due to low organic matter and insufficient nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium levels.
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