Background/Objectives: Fear of pain (FoP) is a critical psychological factor influencing the experience of pain, yet the mechanisms behind this relationship remain unclear. HRV, indexed here by resting RMSSD, reflects individual differences in cardiac vagal tone and has been linked to p...

Small-scale concentrated solar power (CSP) systems coupled with micro gas turbines (MGTs) offer a promising solution for decentralised and sustainable power generation. However, CSP–MGT systems are subject to pronounced transient behaviour during start-up and operation due to fluctuating solar irradia...

The second edition of this Special Issue of Metals was supported by various research groups and a final book of eight high-quality peer-reviewed articles (Multi-scale Simulation of Metallic Materials (2nd Edition) | Metals | MDPI). The success of this special issue will be followed...

Introduction and Background: High-grade serous ovarian carcinoma (HGSOC) is notorious for its poor prognosis owing to its inherent biological aggressiveness and development of chemoresistance. The mechanistic target of rapamycin (mTOR) pathway is dysregulated in 55% of epithelial ovarian cancers, repr...

Deposition of amorphous boron (a-B) onto Si substrates via chemical decomposition of B2H6 molecules produces a-B/Si, heterojunctions which are the core parts of photodetectors used in vacuum ultraviolet (VUV) and potentially in extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography. However, fundamental questions ...

Incomplete or faulty MRI sequences are common in clinical practice and can impair AI-based analyses that rely on complete multi-contrast data. The relative effectiveness of classical generative adversarial networks (GANs) versus modern diffusion and transformer-based models for clinically usable MRI&#...

Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) primarily rely on flow rate and occupancy to estimate traffic states. However, in heterogeneous traffic conditions characterized by weak lane discipline and diverse vehicle classes, these conventional metrics fail to capture the true operational efficiency of&#...

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Existing Gigabit Passive Optical Network (GPON) networks exhibit weaknesses in their traffic management abilities, specifically in the dynamic prioritization of data flow according to the policy constraints imposed by network administrators. In legacy GPON, the real-time priority process is achieved&#...