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This study investigates the potential association between planetary nebulae and open clusters by reclassifying a candidate central star as a blue supergiant and demonstrating that the nearby clusters HSC 2686 and Lynga 3 are not real, thereby casting doubt on the validity of many newly identified open clusters with few member stars.
This paper introduces SCPP, an open-source Python library that provides a unified, scikit-learn-compatible framework integrating 40 diverse soft clustering algorithms with standardized interfaces, comprehensive benchmarking tools, and extensive documentation to facilitate reproducible research and easy extension within the scientific Python ecosystem.
This study utilizes Quantile Vector Autoregression and R²-based connectedness models to demonstrate that seven major African stock markets are deeply integrated with global geopolitical, oil, energy, and climate policy uncertainties, revealing that these spillovers are asymmetric and regime-dependent, with geopolitical and oil risks acting as dominant shock transmitters while specific African markets like NSE, DSE, and CSE serve as net transmitters amidst varying market conditions.
This study at Lira Regional Referral Hospital reveals a high 40.6% prevalence of vulvovaginal candidiasis among pregnant women, driven by factors such as high parity and antibiotic use, with a significant shift toward non-albicans species and alarming nystatin resistance that underscores the need for Clotrimazole as a preferred treatment.
This paper proposes a conceptual graph-based framework that models scuba dives as temporal social networks, representing divers and their interactions across physical, communicative, and emergency dimensions to lay the groundwork for future research aimed at enhancing diver safety and coordination.
This study integrates classical multivariate stability analyses (AMMI, GGE, GYT) with Bayesian modeling to evaluate 30 forage sorghum genotypes across diverse environments, identifying specific high-yielding and stable varieties (notably G30, G24, G21, and G25) while demonstrating that combining frequentist and probabilistic approaches provides a robust framework for risk-based cultivar selection in climate-resilient forage improvement.
This study provides genomic and transcriptomic evidence that clinical *Mycobacterium tuberculosis* isolates exhibit greater genome plasticity than previously thought, driven by IS6110-mediated recombination that generates diverse fusion transcripts and DNA-level rearrangements across independent datasets.
By reparameterizing the Polyakov-loop extended Nambu--Jona-Lasinio model to align with lattice data and the BES-II energy range, this study demonstrates that a distinct dip in the second-order temperature cumulant along the freeze-out line near 7.7 GeV supports the hypothesis that the non-monotonic transverse momentum correlations observed by the STAR Collaboration are linked to the QCD critical endpoint.
This study provides the first molecular evidence of residual *Brugia malayi* transmission in *Mansonia annulifera* mosquitoes within TAS-III cleared coastal districts of Odisha, highlighting Molecular Xenomonitoring as a critical tool for detecting persistent infection and guiding post-validation surveillance to meet India's 2027 lymphatic filariasis elimination targets.
This paper introduces "jerk-elasticity," a linear time-variant rheological model grounded in interfacial stick-slip physics and thermodynamics, which successfully unifies frictional aging, logarithmic stress relaxation, and power-law creep into a single framework without relying on complex fractional formulations or distributed relaxation spectra.