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Coregistration of Multimodal Imaging Mass Spectrometry and Optical Images of Tissue Sections at Single‐Cell Resolution

ABSTRACT Accurate alignment of histopathological structures in optical images and imaging mass spectrometry (IMS) datasets is crucial for providing meaningful biological interpretation. Integrating IMS with optical or other imaging modalities remains challenging due to sample‐pre...

School principals' burnout trajectories: Nature, predictors, and outcomes

This study seeks to achieve a dynamic person-centered understanding of the distinct burnout trajectories observed among 1574 Finnish school principals measured five times over a period of four years. Our results revealed that burnout trajectories corresponded to five main profile...

Psychometric Properties of the French Version of the Physical Literacy Self-Description (PLSD) Questionnaire Among Children

This study sought to document the psychometric properties of scores on the French Version of the Physical Literacy Self-Description questionnaire. A sample of 191 French-speaking Canadian and French children, aged 5–12 years, participated in this study. Results from an explorator...

Conflict between farmers and Barbary macaques (Macaca sylvanus) in Northern Algeria: threats and conservation implications

Abstract Human-wildlife conflict is a major challenge in conservation biology with ecological and socioeconomic consequences. The problem is particularly delicate when the animals involved are threatened with extinction and experiencing rapid habitat loss due to climate change an...

Multilevel Latent Profile Analyses: A Comprehensive Guide

The organizational sciences have recently seen an uptake in the use of both person-centered analyses, most typically implemented via latent profile analyses (LPA), and multilevel analyses. Yet their combination remains conceptually underdeveloped and forms the focus of the curren...

Gender Minority Stress, Testosterone, and Blood Pressure Responses to Stress in Transgender and Nonbinary Adults

Trans and nonbinary adults assigned female at birth (TNBF) are at elevated cardiovascular risk, an effect proposed to occur secondary to testosterone use. However, gender minority (GM) stress may also contribute to cardiovascular risk. Therefore, we examined the relative associat...

“Queer Joy in Sex Ed Is an Act of Repair”: Queering Sex Education in New Brunswick, Canada, Through Cellphilm and Zine Production

Sex Education Queer Youth Need (SEQuYN) is a collaborative, arts-based action research project addressing gaps in sexuality education for 2SLGBTQ+ youth in New Brunswick, Canada. The project responds to the exclusion of diverse sexual identities and experiences from school curric...

Varifocal displays reduce the impact of the vergence-accommodation conflict on 3D pointing performance in augmented reality systems

This paper investigates whether a custom varifocal display can improve 3D pointing performance in augmented reality (AR), where the vergence-accommodation conflict (VAC) is known to impair interaction. Varifocal displays have been hypothesized to alleviate the VAC by dynamically...

Human centered artificial intelligence for smart city traffic coordination

Abstract Smart city traffic systems increasingly rely on edge intelligence and distributed learning to coordinate vehicles and infrastructure. However, many existing approaches prioritize system-level optimization while overlooking how humans perceive, interpret, and respond to a...

LLM4Log: A Systematic Review of Large Language Model-based Log Analysis

Software systems generate massive, evolving, semi-structured logs that are central to reliability engineering and AIOps, yet difficult to analyze at scale under drift and limited labels. Recent advances in pretrained Transformer models and instructiontuned large language models (...

Bodies, spaces, and commemoration – racism as a multisensorial event in the context of Hanau, February 19 2020

This article offers a close analysis of three central works that address the racist terror attack of February 19, 2020, in Hanau, Germany: the autobiography by Hashemi (2024), the biography of Gökhan Gültekin written by his brother Çetin Gültekin and Koçak (2024), and the documen...

Genomic catalogue of giant viruses reveals expanded diversity and functional potential

Nucleocytoplasmic large DNA and Mirusviricota viruses exhibit taxonomic richness which continually expands due to metagenomic sequencing. Here we curate a database of giant virus metagenome-assembled genomes (GVMAGs V2), comprising 8,508 species-level representatives from 18,727...

The practical impact of numerical variability on structural MRI measures of Parkinson’s disease

Abstract Numerical variability is rarely quantified in neuroimaging despite many measures relying on subtle morphometric differences across individuals. We instrumented FreeSurfer 7.3.1, a widely used neuroimaging pipeline, to simulate numerical differences across computational e...

A mixed-method in-depth study of test-specific refactorings

Unlike traditional refactorings, research on test-specific refactoring is limited. This paper presents a comprehensive catalogue of 57 test-specific refactoring types, out of which only 33 were previously documented in the literature. We have identified and classified those refac...

Individualization and Purification of Carbon Nanothreads

Notwithstanding the synthesis of many types of carbon nanothreads with different structures, compositions, and theoretical property predictions, the experimental verification of thread properties remains challenging due to a paucity of techniques to disperse as-grown solid-state...

Ferguson effects: libidinal geographies of “police disengagement” and late fascist urbanism

Since the rise of the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement, a prominent form of pro-police backlash has emerged, one that claims the BLM movement has caused police to “disengage” from interventions with Black and other racialized people and caused a corresponding increase in crime r...

Enhancing Resilience of Silty Clay Soils with Basalt Fibers: Evaluating Geotechnical Performance under Freeze–Thaw Cycles and Temperature Variations

Abstract Freeze–thaw (F-T) cycles critically degrade the mechanical performance of fine-grained soils, challenging infrastructure resilience in cold regions. Silty clayey soils in northern Quebec, which have high frost susceptibility and water retention, are particularly vulnerab...

Uncovering the Societal Harm of Cross-Sector Partnerships: An Intervention Perspective

Cross-sector partnerships (CSPs) are widely recognized as vehicles for addressing societal challenges. Yet, their potential to generate harm to communities, the environment, and broader societal systems remains underexamined. Evidence is fragmented and context-dependent, obscurin...