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Metabolomic signatures of functional recovery during petroleum bioremediation in a Niger Delta farmland

This study demonstrates that integrated LC-MS and ¹H-NMR metabolomics effectively track the functional recovery of petroleum-contaminated Niger Delta farmland by revealing distinct metabolic reorganizations, such as increased amino acid and central carbon metabolism, that accompany successful bioremediation beyond simple contaminant reduction.

Emmanuel Oliver Fenibo, Matambo Sylvester Tonderayi2026-07-24
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MonitorVLM-v2: A Deployed Vision-Language Framework for Real-Time Safety Violation Detection

MonitorVLM-v2 is a deployed framework that transforms open-ended vision-language reasoning into efficient, single-step symbolic predictions via symbolic policy optimization and entropy-driven triage, achieving a 19.45-fold speed increase and significantly higher violation detection rates in real-time industrial safety monitoring compared to manual inspection.

Jiang Wu, Sichao Wu, Yinsong Ma, Lifang Zheng, Jingliang Duan2026-07-24
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RGBA-Net: Reliability-Gated Asymmetric Fusion with Boundary Awareness for Lightweight RGB-D Salient Object Detection

RGBA-Net is a lightweight, state-of-the-art RGB-D salient object detection framework that employs an asymmetric dual-stream encoder, a depth reliability gate, and a boundary-aware fusion module to achieve high accuracy with only 3.49 million parameters while effectively mitigating depth noise and complexity.

Tianlun Yuan, Mengchun Yu, Yongfeng Jin, Qinglin Huang, Jing Li2026-07-24
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Formaldehyde Inhalation Reduces Regional Parvalbumin Immunoreactivity and Modulates Glial Activation in the Rat Brain

Chronic formaldehyde inhalation in rats mimicking occupational exposure leads to region-specific neurodegeneration of parvalbumin-expressing interneurons, neuroinflammation, and cognitive-motor deficits, highlighting significant neurological risks for individuals working in anatomy dissection settings.

Ifukibot Levi Usende, Bashir Abdullahi Muhammad, Idris Nurudeen Abdullahi, Mobolaji Abdulateef Ayoola, James Clinton Sha (…)2026-07-24
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A Residual-Certified Product-Integration Method for Nonlinear Caputo–Volterra Equations

This paper proposes and analyzes a residual-certified implicit product-integration method for nonlinear Caputo–Volterra equations that ensures discrete existence and uniqueness under a computable diagonal condition, provides a posteriori error bounds separating iteration and discretization errors, and achieves second-order convergence on graded meshes for solutions with initial singularities.

Thokchom Chhatrajit Singh2026-07-24
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What does immersive virtual reality actually teach? A performance–knowledge dissociation in a blinded cluster randomized trial of catheterization skills in nursing students

This blinded cluster randomized trial demonstrates that immersive virtual reality produces large but selective performance gains in nursing catheterization skills that are strictly aligned with rehearsed scenario components, while knowledge benefits remain smaller and more consistent, suggesting that VR's efficacy is largely dependent on the match between training scenarios and assessment criteria.

María del Carmen Agüera-Bolea, Pablo Fernández-Molina, Felipe Jesús Portillo-Castaño, Eloina Valero-Merlos, Paula García (…)2026-07-24
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Mechanical plasticity as a unifying axis for the thermodynamics of biological information machines

This paper introduces a unifying mechanical parameter based on the softness of functional coordinates relative to thermal noise to resolve biological information machines into collective modes, thereby deriving consistent thermodynamic limits for capacity and energy costs while successfully predicting empirical behaviors across ribosomes, ion pumps, and synapses.

Pablo Garcia Tello2026-07-24
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Cross-Lingual Transfer Learning and Autonomous Data Bootstrapping for VLM-Based Ottoman Turkish Handwritten Text Recognition

This paper introduces Azra, a Vision-Language Model framework for Ottoman Turkish handwritten text recognition that achieves state-of-the-art performance through LoRA fine-tuning on curated data and demonstrates that autonomous data bootstrapping can effectively match curated approaches while significantly reducing annotation costs.

Gökhan Usta, Oğuz Alpoğlu, Fatih Günaydın2026-07-24
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A 3-year follow-up study of a CD19 CAR-T cell therapy in relapsed/refractory primary cutaneous diffuse large B-cell lymphoma, leg type

This 3-year follow-up study of seven patients with relapsed/refractory primary cutaneous diffuse large B-cell lymphoma, leg type, demonstrates that while CD19 CAR-T cell therapy achieved a 71.4% overall response rate, long-term disease control remains challenging with significant recurrence and mortality risks, highlighting the need for post-therapy maintenance strategies and close monitoring for local cytokine release syndrome in high tumor burden patients.

Ziwen Bai, Xin Li, Jia Wang, Yao Qi, Rui Cui, Jingyi Li, Qi Deng2026-07-24