Over a decade ago, the national "Vision and Change" report articulated the critical need to reform undergraduate biology education. Since its introduction, reform efforts guided by V&C have focused primarily on the biology major, with less attention to the distinct needs of non-major students in General Education (GenEd) life science courses. For most college students, a life science course represents the only opportunity to develop scientific literacy, a critical skill for making informed...

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Tyrannosaurus is viewed as a model organism in vertebrate paleontology, with numerous studies analyzing its feeding biomechanics. Nonetheless, the evolution of this feeding performance has been under-addressed in Tyrannosauroidea, especially in basal tyrannosauroids. Here we used muscle-force reconstruction and finite element analysis (FEA) to quantify the cranial performance of tyrannosauroids and outgroup theropod clades. 2D (planar) cranial models, set to standardized skull lengths and jaw...

CONCLUSIONS: Self-expanding thoracic endografts demonstrated excellent conformability, effective gradient elimination, and early procedural success in the treatment of CoA. Continued follow-up, including protocolized imaging, will be essential to assess mid- and long-term durability and to define the role of this approach in patients with complex aortic anatomy.

Precise delineation of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) in abdominal CT is pivotal for early diagnosis and surgical planning, yet remains challenged by morphological heterogeneity, low contrast in small lesions, and scanner variability. To address these limitations, we propose Prompt-Mamba-AF, a framework tailored for robust HCC segmentation. Our method uniquely integrates anatomy-aware prompts to guide feature extraction within liver regions and leverages Mamba-based state-space modeling to...