by Hatef Pourrashidi Alibogloo

Received: 02 November 2025;  Published: 18 May 2026;  doi: 10.21926/obm.neurobiol.2602337

This review explores the integration of cognitive neuroscience principles into communication education, focusing on how neuroscience-informed curricular designs enhance skill acquisition and transfer. A comprehensive literature search was conducted across primary scientific databases, including PubMed, Scopus, Web of Science, and ERIC, to identify relevant studies published between 2014 and 2025. Following a multi-stage screening process based on predefined inclusion and exclusion criteria, 15 peer-reviewed scienti [...]

by Hicham Bouchahta  , Nada Benyahya  , Zhour EL Amrani  , Fatima Ouboukss  , Thomas Liehr  , Siham Chafai Elalaoui  , Isabel Marques Carreira  , Yassamine Doubaj  , Abdelhafid Natiq  and Laila Sbabou

Received: 06 February 2026;  Published: 19 May 2026;  doi: 10.21926/obm.genet.2602341

Isolated duplications of the long arm of chromosome 3 (3q) are rare chromosomal abnormalities. To date, approximately 32 pure cases have been documented. Most reported 3q duplications arise from unbalanced translocations or inversion-loops mechanisms and are associated with additional chromosomal imbalances, making pure duplications particularly valuable for genotype-phenotype correlations. We report a 17-year-old female with a de novo pure tandem duplication of 3q26.33-q28 (~10.945 Mb). The clinical course was mar [...]

by Veronica L. Martinez-Marignac  , Jose Luis Favant  , Leonel Mondragon  and Gloria Oertlin

Received: 17 December 2025;  Published: 21 May 2026;  doi: 10.21926/obm.icm.2602019

ESSIAC tea is a traditional multi-herb infusion or decoction widely used by cancer patients as a complementary therapy. Originally employed in traditional Ojibwa medicine, it was later reformulated by a Canadian nurse. The classic ESSIAC infusion contains four main botanicals: burdock root (Arctium lappa), Turkish rhubarb root (Rheum palmatum), sheep sorrel (Rumex acetosella), and slippery elm bark (Ulmus rubra). Commercial variations (e.g., FlorEssence® and Genuine ESSIAC™) expand this list to include blessed this [...]

by Keith Tudor  and Maria Haenga-Collins

Received: 20 November 2025;  Published: 18 May 2026;  doi: 10.21926/obm.icm.2602018

Positive mental health frameworks in Aotearoa New Zealand have largely been shaped by Western individualist assumptions and have given limited attention to Indigenous and bicultural understandings of wellbeing. This article examines positive mental health and its promotion in Aotearoa New Zealand, through a bicultural lens grounded in Te Tiriti o Waitangi. It reports on two cross-cultural mental health searches and discusses several models of health from te Ao Māori (the Māori world). Based on the view that positiv [...]

by Rupesh Kumar Gupta

Received: 12 February 2026;  Published: 19 May 2026;  doi: 10.21926/aeer.2602009

Rapid urbanization has remarkably altered land surface characteristics and thermal environments in Indian metropolitan cities, thereby increasing ecological pressure and urban heat risk. This study integrates assessments of land use and land cover (LULC) change and LST, and the UTFVI for Bangalore, India, using multi-temporal Landsat imagery and geospatial techniques, along with machine learning methods. LULC changes were studied and analyzed for 2000 and 2020, and a simulation to 2024 was performed, employing a Ra [...]

by José A. Cedeño-Escudero  , Luis A. Sotillo-Bent  , Evelyn Medina-Batista  and Luis A. Méndez-Rosado

Received: 26 January 2026;  Published: 20 May 2026;  doi: 10.21926/obm.genet.2602342

Hereditary Cardiomyopathies (HCs) are defined as genetically determined cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) that frequently exhibit a familial inheritance pattern. These conditions include cardiomyopathies (CMs), arrhythmias (ARs), and other inherited cardiovascular syndromes. In Panama, the national incidence of Hereditary Cardiomyopathies remains unknown. The objective was to identify genetic variants in Panamanian patients diagnosed with HCs or cardiac arrhythmias and subsequently to identify carrier families to prov [...]

by Xiaying Wang  , Xiaoying Lv  , Kushal Malla  , Bingjun Chen  , Saroj Pradhan  , Ralf Bauder  , Yiming Li  and Michael Furian

Received: 24 November 2025;  Published: 18 May 2026;  doi: 10.21926/obm.icm.2602017

Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) is often applied in isolated TCM practices, making rigorous research and standardized real-world data collection challenging. The purpose of this study was to implement the general consent (GC) in TCM practices, investigate the issue and the acceptance rate of the GC, and the influencing demographic factors. GC forms were distributed to patients before appointments and collected during their first visits. Logistic regression analyses were performed to investigate demographic facto [...]

by Pham Van Dinh  , Pham Van Toi  , Tuan-Dung Hoang  , Leu Tho Bach  and Pham Tuan Hung

Received: 24 December 2025;  Published: 25 May 2026;  doi: 10.21926/aeer.2602010

Municipal solid waste (MSW) landfills remain a major source of greenhouse gas emissions, leachate pollution, and land degradation, particularly in low- and middle-income countries where many sites operate beyond their design capacity. This study proposes an integrated and low-cost framework combining unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) photogrammetry with environmental assessment to support landfill closure planning. Using the Da Mai landfill (Vietnam) as a case study, high-resolution orthomosaics and a digital surface m [...]

by Alessandro Menotti  and Paolo Emilio Puddu

Received: 12 December 2025;  Published: 26 May 2026;  doi: 10.21926/rpn.2602005

To study the relationship of dietary score versus age at death (AD) in an extinct cohort at 61 years of follow-up, based on an “inverse” procedure. Data from the Italian Rural Areas (IRA) of the Seven Countries Study of Cardiovascular Diseases, made up of 1712 middle-aged men followed for 61 years, were used. The “direct” approach means applying a dietary score to each subject of a cohort and, by means of a model, estimating the probabilities of events for different dietary score levels. The “inverse” approach, ins [...]

by Duong Binh Tran  , Sinh The Pham  , Binh Xuan Luong  and Thi Cao

Received: 16 November 2025;  Published: 26 May 2026;  doi: 10.21926/obm.transplant.2602271

Aseptic femoral shaft nonunion represents a biologically compromised state in which impaired osteogenesis, insufficient vascularity, and inadequate mechanical stability prevent healing. Although mechanical revision is essential, achieving union often requires effective autologous bone tissue transplantation and biologic stimulation. This study evaluated a multimodal revision strategy integrating structural and cancellous autografts with mechanical reconstruction to restore both biological viability and stability at [...]