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Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessBusiness, Management and Accounting

Norms Over Threats and Trends: A Managerial Perspective on the Role of Normative Pressures in Motivating Sustainable Strategies and Positive Outcomes

Alina Marculetiu, Çiğdem Ataseven, Injazz J. Chen · 2025 · Business Ethics the Environment & Responsibility

ABSTRACT This study investigates the effectiveness of institutional pressures in motivating two contrasting sustainability strategies, symbolic and substantive, and their subsequent impact on the triple bottom line (TBL). Using data from…

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Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessMedicine

Silybin A from Silybum marianum reprograms lipid metabolism to induce a cell fate-dependent class switch from triglycerides to phospholipids

Solveigh C. Koeberle, Maria Thürmer, Fengting Su et al. · 2025 · Theranostics

: Our study deciphers the structural features of silybin contributing to hepatic lipid remodeling and suggests that silymarin/silybin protects the liver in individuals with mild metabolic dysregulation, involving a lipid class switch from triglycerides to phospholipids, whereas it may be less effective in disease states associated with severe metabolic dysregulation.

View details →DOI: 10.7150/thno.99562Cited by 9
Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessEngineering

A High-Temperature, High-Voltage SOI Gate Driver IC with High Output Current and On-Chip Low-Power Temperature Sensor

M. A. Huque, Leon M. Tolbert, Benjamin J. Blalock et al. · 2026 · IMAPSource Proceedings

High-temperature power conversion modules (DC-DC converters, inverters, etc.) have enormous potential in extreme environment applications, including automotive, aerospace, geothermal, nuclear, and well logging. Power-to-volume and…

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Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

Challenges in mimicking hypoxia: insights into HIF-regulated MiRNA expression induced by DMOG and CoCl2

Anna Barton, Maciej Jaśkiewicz, Anna Więch -Walów et al. · 2025 · Cell Communication and Signaling

Abstract The cellular and tissue response to acute hypoxia is mediated by a complex adaptive response initiated by hypoxia-inducible factors (HIF) 1 and 2. HIF proteins are key transcription factors that modulate gene expression to adapt cells to the low oxygen tension. Cellular studies of hypoxia have used the low oxygen model by using hypoxia chambers to monitor the gene expression changes, while others have utilized hypoxia mimetics in normoxic conditions. Here, we provide a comparison of the utility and limitations of two hypoxia mimetics by studying the changes in the miRNA and mRNA expre

View details →DOI: 10.1186/s12964-025-02459-7Cited by 9
Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessPhysics and Astronomy

Cosmology with supernova Encore in the strong lensing cluster MACS J0138–2155

S. H. Suyu, Ana Acebrón, C. Grillo et al. · 2026 · Astronomy and Astrophysics

Robust mass modeling of strong-lensing galaxy clusters is crucial for studying cosmology and galaxy evolution. We present and compare seven mass models of the galaxy cluster MACS J0138−2155, constructed using six independent modeling software programs, including parametric and free-form approaches. By conducting a blind analysis where all the mass-modeling teams constructed their models independently without exchanging results, we quantified uncertainties arising from modeling software and assumptions. MACS J0138−2155 is unique as the only cluster found to strongly lens two supernovae (SNe), R

View details →DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202557235Cited by 9
Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessPhysics and Astronomy

Evidence for Neutrino Emission from X-Ray-bright Active Galactic Nuclei with IceCube

R. Abbasi, M. Ackermann, J. Adams et al. · 2026 · The Astrophysical Journal Letters

Abstract Recently, IceCube reported neutrino emission from the Seyfert galaxy NGC 1068. Using 13.1 yr of IceCube data, we present a follow-up search for neutrino sources in the northern sky. NGC 1068 remains the most significant neutrino source among 110 preselected gamma-ray emitters while also being spatially compatible with the most significant location in the northern sky. Its energy spectrum is characterized by an unbroken power-law with spectral index γ = 3.4 ± 0.2. Consistent with previous results, the observed neutrino flux exceeds its gamma-ray counterpart by at least 2 orders of magn

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Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessEngineering

Integrating Computer Vision and GIS for Large-Scale Morphological Mapping and Driving Force Analysis of Vernacular Courtyard Dwellings

Lihua Liang, Xiaodong Li, Shutong Liu et al. · 2026 · Buildings

This study develops and applies an integrated methodology that combines deep learning-based computer vision and spatial statistics to automate the large-scale identification and analysis of morphological features in vernacular courtyard dwellings. Focusing on Liangshuaixiu dwellings in Wu’an, southern Hebei, we trained an HRNetV2 semantic segmentation model on high-resolution satellite imagery to identify and extract contours for 134,280 courtyard spaces. Core morphological parameters (area, orientation) were calculated and analyzed using GIS spatial statistics and the geographic detector mode

View details →DOI: 10.3390/buildings16061118Cited by 9
Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessAgricultural and Biological Sciences

Mycotoxins and the Intestinal Epithelium: From Barrier Injury to Stem Cell Dysfunction

Wenying Huo, Yingying Qiao, Xiangru He et al. · 2025 · Toxins

Mycotoxins are toxic secondary metabolites produced by filamentous fungi that contaminate agricultural commodities, posing risks to food safety, animal productivity, and human health. The gastrointestinal tract is the first and most critical site of exposure, where the intestinal epithelium functions as both a physical and immunological barrier against luminal toxins and pathogens. While extensive research has demonstrated that mycotoxins disrupt epithelial integrity through tight junction impairment, oxidative stress, apoptosis, and inflammation, their effects on the intestinal stem cell (ISC

View details →DOI: 10.3390/toxins17110534Cited by 9
Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessEarth and Planetary Sciences

Comparison of water models for structure prediction

Bálint Soczó, Ildikó Pethes · 2025 · Journal of Molecular Liquids

Describing the interactions of water molecules is one of the most common, yet critical, tasks in molecular dynamics simulations . Because of its unique properties, hundreds of attempts have been made to construct an ideal interaction potential model for water. In various studies, the models have been evaluated based on their ability to reproduce different properties of water. This work focuses on the atomic-scale structure in the liquid phase of water. Forty-four classical water potential models are compared to identify those that can accurately describe the structure in alignment with experim

View details →DOI: 10.1016/j.molliq.2025.127975Cited by 9
Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessPsychology

Impact of family engagement on client participation in coordinated specialty care for first episodes of psychosis

Marielle Demarais, Melissa Fisher, Anne Williams-Wengerd et al. · 2024 · BMC Psychiatry

BACKGROUND: Coordinated specialty care (CSC) programs for first episodes of psychosis are increasingly offered in the United States. A component of CSC programs is active family engagement in treatment, though research on the impact of…

View details →DOI: 10.1186/s12888-024-06126-yCited by 9
Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessNursing

Exploring the use of FTIR Amide I band deconvolution to investigate protein secondary structure and texturisation during high moisture extrusion

Clara Barnés-Calle, P. Gou, E. Fulladosa et al. · 2026 · Spectrochimica Acta Part A Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy

Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) combined with Amide I band deconvolution has been used to investigate protein structural changes occurring during high moisture extrusion processing (HMEP). However, it is a sensitive,…

View details →DOI: 10.1016/j.saa.2026.127509Cited by 9
Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

Human cancer genomes harbor the mutational signature of tobacco-specific nitrosamines NNN and NNK

Michael Korenjak, Nuri A. Temiz, Stéphane Keïta et al. · 2026 · Genome Medicine

BACKGROUND: Tobacco use is linked to multiple cancer types and a quarter of cancer deaths. Tobacco smoke contains numerous mutagenic chemicals such as polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH), however, the mutagenicity of many chemicals in…

View details →DOI: 10.1186/s13073-026-01685-zCited by 9
Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessEngineering

Review on Thermal Stimulation in Deep Geothermal Reservoirs: Thermo-Mechanical Mechanisms and Fracture Evolution

Kaituo Li, Lin Zhu, Fei Xiong et al. · 2026 · Processes

Enhanced geothermal systems (EGS) are a key technology for developing deep geothermal resources, yet they face significant challenges in constructing efficient thermal reservoirs within high-stress, high-strength, and low-permeability crystalline rock formations. Traditional hydraulic fracturing (HF) techniques encounter deep challenges in these environments, including excessively high fracturing pressures, limited fracture network patterns, and the risk of induced seismicity. This paper reviews the multi-scale thermal-mechanical mechanisms, fracture evolution patterns, and control strategies

View details →DOI: 10.3390/pr14081199Cited by 9
Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessEngineering

D-π-A sensitized carbon dots as long-lived type-I/Ⅱ photosensitizers for NIR-excited hypoxia-regulated photodynamic therapy

Zhenlin Zhang, Lang Yan, Weiwei Li et al. · 2026 · Nature Communications

In the development of clinically translatable triplet photosensitizers for hypoxia regulated photodynamic therapy (PDT), there is an unmet need for engineering sensitizers as near-infrared (NIR)-responsive, type I/type Ⅱ dual…

View details →DOI: 10.1038/s41467-026-71476-yCited by 9
Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessMedicine

Integration of plasma eMTBR-tau243 and p-tau217 in the diagnosis and stratification of Alzheimer's disease: a prospective cohort study

Niklas Mattsson-Carlgren, Sebastian Palmqvist, Kanta Horie et al. · 2026 · The Lancet Neurology

BACKGROUND: Alzheimer's disease pathology can be accurately identified with blood biomarkers (core 1 biomarkers), including plasma p-tau217 tests. Biomarkers that change longitudinally after diagnosis (core 2 biomarkers) can increase confidence that Alzheimer's disease pathology is contributing to cognitive symptoms. Plasma eMTBR-tau243 reflects tau tangle pathology and is a promising core 2 biomarker. We aimed to examine whether, among patients positive for plasma p-tau217, plasma eMTBR-tau243 improves classification of established Alzheimer's disease and predicts cognitive decline and tau ta

View details →DOI: 10.1016/s1474-4422(26)00029-3Cited by 9
Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessSocial Sciences

Using the Technology Acceptance Model to Measure the Effects of Usability Attributes and Demographic Characteristics on Student Use of Learning Management Systems in Saudi Higher Education

Sami Saeed Binyamin · 2026 · Edinburgh Napier Research Repository (Edinburgh Napier University)

Learning management systems (LMS), which allow education at the student’s choice of place and time, have been widely adopted in higher education worldwide. In the case of Saudi Arabia, LMS have been recently introduced in Saudi…

View details →DOI: 10.17869/enu.2026.2376896Cited by 9
Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessMedicine

Resveratrol in food systems: challenges, innovations, and health potential

Jenny Bouchard, Nicola Gasparre, Thomas Netticadan et al. · 2025 · Journal of Functional Foods

The integration of resveratrol, a naturally occurring, health promoting polyphenolic stilbene, into food systems poses a challenge due to its low water solubility, chemical instability, poor bioavailability, and bitter taste. To address…

View details →DOI: 10.1016/j.jff.2025.107127Cited by 9
Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessMathematics

Strategies to address non-proportional hazards between survival curves - Lessons from phase III trials in hepatocellular carcinoma

Ezequiel Mauro, Tiago de Castro, Marcus Zeitlhoefler et al. · 2025 · Journal of Hepatology

BACKGROUND & AIMS: Non-proportional hazards (NPH) can lead to discrepancies between interim (IA) and final analyses (FA) in randomized controlled trials (RCTs) of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). We assessed the impact of NPH in pivotal HCC…

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Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessMathematics

Predictive Modeling of Heterogeneous Treatment Effects in RCTs

Joe V. Selby, Carolien C. H. M. Maas, Bruce Fireman et al. · 2025 · JAMA Network Open

Importance: The Predictive Approaches to Treatment Effect Heterogeneity (PATH) Statement of 2020 proposed predictive modeling for identifying heterogeneity in treatment effects (HTE) in randomized clinical trials (RCTs). It described 2 approaches: risk modeling, which develops a multivariable model predicting individual baseline risk of study outcomes and then examines treatment effects across strata of predicted risk, and effect modeling, which develops a model that directly predicts individual treatment effects using a variety of regression and machine learning methods. Objective: To identif

View details →DOI: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2025.22390Cited by 9
Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

The TEX44-CPT1B axis regulates mitochondrial sheath assembly and fatty acid oxidation in sperm

Erlei Zhi, Haowei Bai, Chuan Ren et al. · 2025 · Nature Communications

Mitochondrial fatty acid β-oxidation (FAO) is essential for energy production and cellular homeostasis, yet its role in sperm function has remained unclear. Through whole-exome sequencing (WES) of 800 patients with asthenozoospermia, we…

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Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessEnvironmental Science

Shedding the mitochondrial blinkers: A long-overdue challenge for species delimitation in herpetology

Wolfgang Wüster · 2025 · Vertebrate Zoology

The advent of molecular methods has revolutionised the field of species delimitation and description, one of the key tasks of systematic biology. In animal taxonomy, one marker, the mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) molecule, has acquired and retained disproportionate influence. This is despite its uniparental, clonal mode of inheritance, as a result of which the entire molecule acts as a single locus, and that precludes its use as a test for admixture between putative lineages, a key consideration in species delimitation. To establish the extent to which the limitations of mtDNA affect present-day ta

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Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessEnvironmental Science

Granulation and stability of microalgal–bacterial granular sludge under single and combined exposure to polycaprolactone microplastics and sulfamethoxazole

Alfonz Kedves, Máté Balogh, Jamsheed Abbas Dar et al. · 2026 · Bioresource Technology

The increasing occurrence of microplastics and antibiotics in wastewater poses emerging challenges for biological treatment processes. Microalgal-bacterial granular sludge (MBGS) has emerged as an efficient algae-based biotechnology for wastewater treatment; however, its response to simultaneous exposure to these contaminants remains largely unexplored. Here, the effects of degradable polycaprolactone microplastics (PCL MPs) and sulfamethoxazole (SMX) were evaluated at 1 mg/L during granulation and long-term operation. PCL alone caused only minor changes, whereas SMX impaired granule stability

View details →DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2026.134820Cited by 9
Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessImmunology and Microbiology

Evaluation of antimicrobial resistance governance across 193 countries to inform the 2026 Global Action Plan update

Weiye Chen, Yige Zeng, Jinxin Zheng et al. · 2026 · Nature Medicine

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) poses a major global health threat, yet the effectiveness of national action plans (NAPs) remains uncertain. Here we developed a multidimensional One Health governance index through a structured Delphi expert…

View details →DOI: 10.1038/s41591-026-04257-1Cited by 9
Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessComputer Science

Confounding factors and biases abound when predicting molecular biomarkers from histological images

Muhammad Dawood, Kim Branson, Sabine Tejpar et al. · 2026 · Nature Biomedical Engineering

Deep learning models that infer clinically relevant biomarker status from tissue images are being explored as rapid and low-cost alternatives to molecular testing. Here we show, through statistical analysis across multiple cancer types, datasets and modelling approaches, that the datasets used to train these models contain strong dependencies between biomarkers and clinicopathological features, which prevent models from isolating the effect of a single biomarker and lead them to learn confounded signals. Consequently, their prediction accuracy varies substantially with the status of codependen

View details →DOI: 10.1038/s41551-026-01616-8Cited by 9
Negative / Null Result ReportMedicine

Adjuvant pembrolizumab plus belzutifan versus pembrolizumab for clear cell renal cell carcinoma (ccRCC): The randomized phase 3 LITESPARK-022 study.

Toni K. Choueiri, R Motzer, Jose A. Karam et al. · 2026 · Journal of Clinical Oncology

LBA418 Background: Adjuvant pembrolizumab is a standard of care for patients with ccRCC at increased risk of recurrence following nephrectomy based on the phase 3 KEYNOTE-564 study (N Engl J Med 385:683; N Engl J Med 390:1359). Combination…

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Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessImmunology and Microbiology

Endothelial STING and STAT1 mediate IFN-independent effects of IL-6 in an endotoxemia-induced model of shock

Nina Martino, Erin Sanders, Ramon Bossardi Ramos et al. · 2025 · Journal of Clinical Investigation

Severe systemic inflammatory reactions, including sepsis, often lead to shock, organ failure, and death, in part through an acute release of cytokines that promote vascular dysfunction. However, little is known about the vascular endothelial signaling pathways regulating the transcriptional profile in failing organs. Our work focused on signaling downstream of IL-6, due to its clinical importance as a biomarker for disease severity and predictor of mortality. Here, we show that loss of endothelial expression of the IL-6 pathway inhibitor SOCS3 promoted a type I IFN-like (IFNI-like) gene signat

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Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessSocial Sciences

Prebunking and credible source corrections increase election credibility: Evidence from the US and Brazil

John M. Carey, Brian J. Fogarty, Marília Gehrke et al. · 2025 · Science Advances

We investigate how to counter misinformation about voter and election fraud using data from the US and Brazil. Our study first compares two types of messages countering claims of widespread fraud: (i) retrospective corrections from…

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Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessPhysics and Astronomy

Unraveling the Relaxation Dynamics of Uracil: Insights from Time-Resolved X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy

Davide Faccialà, M. Bonanomi, Bruno Nunes Cabral Tenorio et al. · 2025 · Journal of the American Chemical Society

High Resolution Image Download MS PowerPoint Slide We report a study of the electronic and nuclear relaxation dynamics of the photoexcited RNA base uracil in the gas phase using time-resolved core-level photoelectron spectroscopy together with high-level calculations. The dynamics was investigated by trajectory surface hopping calculations, and the core ionization energies were calculated for geometries sampled from these. The molecule was excited by a UV laser and dynamics probed on the oxygen, nitrogen, and carbon sites by core electron spectroscopy. We find that the main de-excitation chann

View details →DOI: 10.1021/jacs.5c04874Cited by 9
Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessEnvironmental Science

Kriging prior regression: A case for kriging-based spatial features with TabPFN in soil mapping

Jonas Schmidinger, Viacheslav Barkov, Sebastian Vogel et al. · 2025 · Computers and Electronics in Agriculture

Machine learning and geostatistics are two fundamentally different frameworks for the prediction and spatial mapping of soil properties. Geostatistics leverages the spatial structure of soil properties, whereas machine learning models capture the relationship between available environmental features and soil properties. We propose a hybrid framework that augments machine learning with spatial context through the engineering of ‘spatial lag’ features derived from ordinary kriging. We call this approach ‘kriging prior regression’ (KpR), as it reverses the logic of regression kriging by incorpera

View details →DOI: 10.1016/j.compag.2025.111352Cited by 9
Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessNeuroscience

ComparativeProfiling and Chemogenomics Applicationof Chemical Tools for NR4A Nuclear Receptors

Sabine Willems, Vasily Morozov, Julian A. Marschner et al. · 2025 · Journal of Medicinal Chemistry

The ligand-activated transcription factors of the NR4A family are implicated as promising drug targets with neuroprotective and anticancer potential and attract strong attention in drug discovery. Several NR4A modulators have been…

View details →DOI: 10.1021/acs.jmedchem.5c00459Cited by 9