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The Effectiveness of Cluster vs. Rest-Redistribution Set Configurations to Maintain Movement Velocity During Resistance Training: A Systematic Review and Bayesian Network Meta-analysis

Alternative set structures such as cluster sets (CS) and rest-redistribution (RR) are often used as a more effective method for preserving movement velocity during resistance training than traditional sets (TS). However, only a limited number of studies have directly compared CS...

Widespread endocrine-disrupting pollutant alters male courtship behavior in a livebearing fish

Abstract Sexual selection is a potent evolutionary force shaping both pre-copulatory courtship behavior and post-copulatory sperm traits, with male reproductive effort often adjusted to social and mating context. Endocrine-disrupting contaminants are predicted to alter how males...

Water insecurity, socio-environmental stress and everyday peace in urban Bangladesh

Urban drinking water insecurity is an increasing challenge in climate-vulnerable secondary cities across the Global South, where hydro-climatic variability intersects with weak infrastructure, uneven governance and socio-economic inequality. This article examines how water insecu...

Expansion planning of an existing grid-connected microgrid via coordinated solar and hybrid storage: A study on Deakin University township toward net-zero target

Existing renewable microgrids often require expansion to accommodate rising demand and more stringent decarbonization objectives, yet most sizing studies focus on new systems rather than upgrades to operating assets. This study develops an optimization-based framework for expandi...

How artificial intelligence transforms the feedback ecosystem in higher education

Artificial intelligence (AI) is often presented as solving longstanding challenges of feedback in higher education. Research and commentary tend to focus on how AI can replace educator labour by providing feedback information at scale but this substitution risks simplifying a com...

Four new species of Unixenus Jones, 1944 (Diplopoda: Penicillata: Polyxenidae) from the mid-central coastal region and two islands off the coast of Vietnam

Summary. Four new species of Unixenus Jones, 1944, U. binhdinhensis sp. nov., U. lysonensis sp. nov., U. phanrangensis sp. nov. and U. phuquyensis sp. nov., are described from grassland habitats in the mid-central coastal region of Vietnam and two offshore islands. All four speci...

Down and staying down (mostly): Mental health trajectories of emerging Australian adults through the COVID-19 pandemic, 2017–2024

Abstract Objective The purpose of this study was to examine the mental health trajectories of Australia’s emerging adults in the years prior, during and post the COVID-19 pandemic. Methods Participants ( n = 4,983) were from the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia...

Heuristics for managing rework-related safety risks in construction: An ecological rationality approach

Rework during construction often heightens exposure to safety incidents. It frequently stems from decisions made under epistemic uncertainty, when incomplete knowledge of design, site conditions, or task interactions leads to outcomes that require later correction. These situatio...

Global incidence of chronic lymphocytic leukemia: A systematic review and meta-analysis

Background Chronic lymphocytic leukemia/small lymphocytic lymphoma (CLL/SLL) is a slow-growing cancer, which requires substantial resources for monitoring and management. CLL is most common among older people; however, there is a lack of understanding of its incidence in some reg...

Toward Fluorine-Free Electrolytes: Physicochemical Properties and Ionic Interactions in Acesulfame-Based Ionic Electrolytes

Abstract Fluorine-free ionic liquids and salts are attracting growing interest as safer and more sustainable electrolyte components for Li-ion batteries, addressing both the flammability of conventional carbonate-based electrolytes and the environmental persistence of fluorinated...

Diagnostic accuracy of a malaria rapid diagnostic test compared with polymerase chain reaction in Lao People’s Democratic Republic: a secondary data analysis

Abstract Background Malaria rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs) are widely used in malaria endemic countries in both clinical and community settings for timely diagnosis, case management and surveillance. Since Greater Mekong Subregion countries approach malaria elimination with residu...

Voices from the Global South: international postgraduate study aspirations of Ghanaian students

This qualitative paper scrutinises the international postgraduate study aspirations of Ghanaian students through nineteen in-depth, semi-structured interviews, scaffolded by a reflective conversation led by author three, a postgraduate applicant from Ghana. Through these intervie...

Understanding the Career Aspirations of Australian Criminology Students

A desire to make a difference is one of the most common motivations for criminology students when explaining their choice of degree. A growing body of scholarship examines how this informs students’ career aspirations, but rarely by tapping into their moral and crime attribution...

Training Machine Learning Models at the Edge: A Survey

Edge computing has gained significant traction in recent years, promising enhanced efficiency by integrating artificial intelligence capabilities at the edge. While the focus has primarily been on the deployment and inference of Machine Learning (ML) models at the edge, the train...

A systematic interactome of Saccharomyces cerevisiae SET1C expands its functional landscape and identifies candidate regulatory connections

Set1 is the catalytic subunit of SET1C or COMPASS, which methylates histone H3K4 and serves as a scaffold for the association of seven tightly bound polypeptides. We have employed yeast two-hybrid screenings to determine the interactome of Set1 and each subunit, providing a uniqu...

Advancing equitable and sustainable school-based nutrition interventions

Schools are key settings for improving children’s nutrition, but interventions often focus narrowly on classroom education. This Collection highlights the value of whole-school action addressing food environments, implementation, equity and sustainability. We aimed to attract res...

In Situ TEM Study of the Size-Dependent Solubility of Metals in Liquid Metal Nanodroplets

Abstract Characterizing metal solubilities in post-transition-based liquid metals remains challenging due to their inherent opacity to conventional light-based analytical techniques. In this work, we present an in situ heating methodology within a transmission electron microscope...

International Travel for Organ Transplantation: 2024 Multinational Survey of Routes, Organs, and Donor Types

BACKGROUND: International travel for organ transplantation (ITOT) reportedly affects ≥2% of global solid organ transplant activity, yet detailed information about ITOT participants, organ types, travel configurations, and clinical settings remains scarce. Previous research has fo...

Number-Projected Coherent-State Kernels for Variational Bose-Field Dynamics

Reproducibility package for the paper "Number-projected coherent-state kernels for variational Bose-field dynamics" submitted to New Journal of Physics (2026). Contains the LaTeX manuscript source, Python benchmark scripts, numerical data (CSV), and publication-quality figures. S...

Changes in breeding periodicity of a long-lived vertebrate over 30 years

Abstract Changes in breeding periodicity in vertebrates can highlight important trends in population demographics that have conservation implications. Following widespread conservation measures, some previously endangered species have shown population recoveries across their rang...