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Regulatory non-compliance with bedroom configuration standards in Portuguese residential long-term care facilities: a national cross-sectional study

This national cross-sectional study reveals that regulatory non-compliance with bedroom configuration standards is widespread in Portuguese residential long-term care facilities, with nearly 38% of providers failing to meet current requirements for single and triple-or-more rooms, a situation strongly associated with lower prices, larger facility sizes, and reduced person-centred care.

Miguel Padeiro, Flávia Borges-Machado, Oscar Ribeiro, Liliana Sousa, Paula Santana2026-07-24
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Simulation Study on Defeat Formation of a Novel Highly Integrated Die- Casting Process

This study utilizes a refined three-dimensional dynamic mesh simulation to elucidate the defect formation mechanisms in a novel highly integrated die-casting (HIDC) process, revealing that a 60% filling percentage and an increased slow injection speed of 0.16 m/s are optimal for minimizing porosity defects in ADC12 aluminum alloy castings.

Bingwei Wu, Bing Ye, Zhiguo Lin, Qiang Gao, Qigui Wang, Wenying Yang, Wenhao Pu2026-07-24
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Barriers and Facilitators to Mental Health Service Utilization Among Asian American Medical Students: Implications for Intervention

This study identifies that Asian American medical students face unique structural and identity-related barriers, such as time constraints, confidentiality concerns, and cultural stigma, which limit their access to mental health services, and suggests that implementing culturally responsive, student-informed interventions could improve utilization rates.

Tiffany Liu, Shubarna Akhter, Hersh Gupta, Meagan Khuu, Priya Nori2026-07-24
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AI-Driven Scan-to-Discovery in 20 Minutes: Automated Segmentation of Synchrotron Micro-CT at Scale

This paper presents an automated AI-driven HPC pipeline that integrates distributed tomographic reconstruction with ensemble foundation models (SAM3 and DINOv3-Seg) to achieve near real-time, 20-minute scan-to-discovery segmentation of synchrotron micro-CT data, demonstrated through the analysis of grapevine xylem structures.

Xiaoya Chong, David Abramov, Pradyumna Elavarthi, Elizabeth Clark, Peter Zwart, Wiebke Koepp, Dilworth Parkinson, Dylan (…)2026-07-24
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Integration of Hematoma Volume and Density Heterogeneity via the Harmonic Mean Is Associated With Improved Early Prediction of Hematoma Progression in Frontal Lobe Contusion: A Multicenter Retrospective Cohort Study

This multicenter retrospective study demonstrates that the Volume-Density Integration Index (VDII), a novel composite imaging marker derived from the harmonic mean of hematoma volume and density heterogeneity, significantly outperforms traditional individual parameters in predicting early hematoma progression in patients with frontal lobe contusions.

GuoQing Jiang, Qinghua Zhang, TAO Wang, Zhanfeng Niu, Shengyu Sun, Xvlei Hu, Li Ma, Lijuan Wang, Xianglong Liu, yu Zhao (…)2026-07-24
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Back-and-forth moribund ethnobotany: Erosion and fragmentation of Local Ecological Knowledge among Afghan returnees in contemporary Afghanistan and perspectives for an ethnobiology of the refugees

This study reveals that forced displacement and prolonged exile have caused a severe erosion and fragmentation of Local Ecological Knowledge regarding wild food plants and herbal teas among Afghan returnees, transforming much of this heritage into "inert knowledge" and highlighting the urgent need for biocultural policies to support its revitalization.

Ajmal Khan Manduzai, Abdul Ghani Karimi, Andrea Pieroni2026-07-24
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An Interpretable Machine Learning Host-Response Score for Postoperative Disease-Free Survival Risk Stratification in Colorectal Adenocarcinoma: A Retrospective Prognostic Modelling Study

This retrospective study developed and internally validated an interpretable lymphocyte-based immune-inflammatory/nutritional score (LINS) using routinely available preoperative data, demonstrating that it adds modest but clinically meaningful prognostic value to conventional clinicopathological predictors for stratifying disease-free survival risk in patients with colorectal adenocarcinoma following curative-intent surgery.

Liyu Shan, Liuyang Yang, Ning Xu, Changlong Yang, Yanghongyu Li, Qin Liu, Youguo Dai, Wenliang Li2026-07-24