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It's a Match, Isn't It? Developing a Checklist on Matching Secondary Data at the Example of Job Control

Few datasets simultaneously capture occupational exposures and health outcomes in a general working population. To understand associations between occupational exposures and health, researchers often combine existing datasets. As occupation codes are available in many datasets, c...

Historical Development of Women's Rights Movements in Malaysia

Abstract This article examines the historical trajectory of the women’s rights movement in Malaysia, analyzing its evolution within the structural complexities of a multi-ethnic, multi-religious society governed by a pluralistic legal framework comprising civil and Syariah law. B...

Matriarchy, Patriarchy, Feminism, Egalitarianism: Who sits where on humanity's spectrum?

Why do patriarchal governance structures prevail across history? Genetic data (X chromosome and mitochondrial DNA) prove they are not biologically warranted. UN studies increasingly show they risk human welfare. My study introduces 'Overarchy', an equitable governance framework,...

Enhance food plant diversity conservation and use through greater coordination between genebanks and botanic gardens

Societal Impact Statement Food plants are vital to human and planetary health, but their diversity is threatened, making food security, nutrition, and environmental goals more difficult to achieve. Food plant diversity conservation, research, and education can be enhanced through...

Dynamic federated multi-agent planning under partial observability and network instability for real-time edge applications

Abstract In recent years, the proliferation of autonomous systems at the edge—including robotic swarms, autonomous vehicles, and intelligent sensor networks—has highlighted the urgent need for resilient multi-agent planning under uncertain, decentralized conditions. Traditional m...

Negative Tasks, Termination Incentives, and Local Completion in Safety Practice

Authorial clarification and practical-use notice For the author's current definition of a Negative Task, its conditions of activation, evidential cautions, and conditions for faithful practical use, see Negative Tasks: Authorial Clarification and Conditions for Faithful Use in th...

Townsend’s poverty ‘threshold’ revisited: an analysis that utilises his critics’ insights and all 60 of his deprivation indicators

Abstract Peter Townsend’s influential 1968/69 poverty study is still lauded. Yet controversy surrounded his claim that it established a meaningful poverty ‘threshold’ at an income level equivalent to 140 per cent of means-tested state benefit rates, below which deprivation increa...

Existential Clinical Psychology—Subjectivity, Meaning, and Action

This preprint presents a theoretical framework for existential clinical psychology organized around subjectivity, meaning, and action. It distinguishes symptom control from the restoration of existential agency and proposes the concept of adaptive finite freedom: freedom belongs...

Designing and undertaking research for the Single Noongar Claim

Abstract This commentary concerns the design of research undertaken for the Single Noongar Claim in southwestern Western Australia. It draws attention to the benefits that innovative research approaches can bring to native title research generally, and the opportunities that the...

LANDSCAPE ARCHAEOLOGY OF THE ERIDU REGION: DISCOVERING THE IRRIGATION SYSTEMS OF ANCIENT FARMS

This paper presents the results of an interdisciplinary study of water management around the site of Eridu in southern Iraq, using remote sensing, field survey and scientific dating to investigate the chronology of irrigation technologies. Our area of interest (AOI) encompasses s...

Loophole Capitalism: Theorizing the History of Tax Havens and the Offshore Economy

This article develops and historicizes the concept of loophole capitalism to explain how tax havens and the offshore economy have become structural to global capitalism. We define loophole capitalism as a system in which multinational firms and professional services firms identif...

Group cognitive behavioural therapy for hoarding disorder: outcomes from ten closed groups

Abstract Background: A group cognitive behavioural therapy (GCBT) protocol was developed for people with hoarding disorder (HD) as part of routine clinical care in a tertiary mental health Obsessive Compulsive service in Southwest London in 2014; to date 10 groups have been facil...

The Riemann Hypothesis in Its Original Form: A Completed Formal Proof of the Locus and the Crossing: Riemann's Fixed-Line Statement Restored, Proved in Lean 4, Executed in Fortran, and Sealed at the Act by One Supplied Bit

Riemann stated his hypothesis as a fixed-set statement: the roots of the symmetric function xi(t) are real. This paper restores that statement as Z subset Fix(tau), tau(s) = 1 - conj(s), removing the chart-dependent address and strip coordinates, and proves in core Lean 4, with n...

The Riemann Hypothesis in Its Original Form: A Completed Formal Proof of the Locus and the Crossing: Riemann's Fixed-Line Statement Restored, Proved in Lean 4, Executed in Fortran, and Sealed at the Act by One Supplied Bit

Riemann stated his hypothesis as a fixed-set statement: the roots of the symmetric function xi(t) are real. This paper restores that statement as Z subset Fix(tau), tau(s) = 1 - conj(s), removing the chart-dependent address and strip coordinates, and proves in core Lean 4, with n...

Your voice matters: using participatory film to engage people with chronic pain in public involvement and research

BACKGROUND: People living with chronic pain (≥ 3-months) often struggle to participate in valued activity (for example, family life, work and in their community) and are under-represented in public involvement and research. We aimed to broaden awareness and encourage engagement i...

Why Colonoware? Exploring Functional Variations in Hand-Built Coarse Earthenwares across the Historical Upper Southeast

Abstract Colonoware, a hand-built, low-fired coarse earthenware, appears on archaeological sites occupied from the mid-seventeenth to the mid-nineteenth century throughout the southeastern United States. Although colonoware is highly variable in appearance and abundance, it is ev...

The hidden redundancy in psychological trait measures: A general factor of personality (GFP) perspective

In psychology there is a plethora of different measures and constructs. However, the literature also shows that many of these measures overlap and may even sometimes be redundant. Recognizing such overlap in measures is essential for consolidation and for moving the field forward...

Entanglement–Algebraic Spacetime: Notes on Scope, Terminology, and Use

This document accompanies a collection of papers developing the Entanglement-Algebraic Spacetime (EAS) framework. It does not present new results or summarize individual papers. Its purpose is limited to clarifying scope, terminology, and the manner in which the papers relate to...

Encounter fields: exponentials, Lambert-type inverses, and an exact algebraic boundary

This article establishes local algebraic foundations for Encounter Arithmetic, a research programme on states, composition, and continuation. For each nonzero polynomial g with g(0) = 0, let J_g be the normalized local inverse at the origin of P_g(t) = t exp(g(t)). The paper stud...

Conserved Quadratic Content and Higher-Spectral Mobility in a Closed Relational Matrix Dynamics

We study the finite-dimensional state space of complex Hermitian positive-semidefinite correlation matrices with unit diagonal for n = 4. We identify a closed matrix dynamics that combines a free commutator sector with an intrinsic correlation-dependent response. The flow preserv...