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Mindfulness meditation does not make people more present-biased

One essential aspect of mindfulness practice is to help people focus on the present moment. Although this present-focused attention has been linked to several positive outcomes, it also raises the possibility that mindfulness could increase present bias, with potentially negative...

Improving Harvesting Efficiency and Sustainability Through Lightweight Visual Perception: COS-DETR for Resource-Constrained Tea-Harvesting Robots

Visual perception is a key challenge for tea-harvesting robots because tender buds must be distinguished from dense foliage under variable illumination and localized rapidly enough to support grasping on embedded hardware. We developed COS-DETR, a detector based on RT-DETR that i...

A quantitative framework for evaluating overburden disturbance and surface subsidence induced by coal seam mining

Abstract Coal seam mining inevitably causes varying degrees of disturbance to the overlying strata and surface environment, necessitating the establishment of a scientific and systematic quantitative assessment framework for overburden disturbance. This study introduces a compreh...

A directional instability criterion for surrounding rock of rectangular roadways driven by deviatoric stress gradient

Rectangular roadways in underground rock engineering frequently exhibit directional instability under non-uniform in-situ stress. Conventional criteria primarily focus on stress magnitude and plastic zone morphology, but fail to quantitatively characterize directional evolution i...

Resolving the Performance Feedback Puzzle: CEO Psychopathy, Heterogeneous Emotional Responses to Aspiration Gaps, and Risk-Taking

Theoretical perspectives provide conflicting predictions regarding how firms adjust risk-taking in response to performance–aspiration gaps. The behavioral theory of the firm attributes increased risk-taking to problemistic search under negative gaps, whereas threat–rigidity theor...

Folk Theories of Journalistic Authority in the Wake of the 2024 Valencia Floods

This paper uses discourse analysis to analyze folk theories of journalistic authority—that is, lay beliefs about when and why journalism should be listened to (Carlson, 2017)—that circulated on TikTok in the wake of catastrophic floods in 2024 in Valencia, Spain. Many citizens to...

China’s dual circulation strategy and its impact on European industry: the case of the electric vehicle

Abstract In recent years, the Chinese economy has been hit by several shocks that have heightened the country’s economic security imperative. However, Beijing’s search for greater ‘self-reliance’ is not entirely new. China has often shifted its attention between domestic and glob...

Coal wall stability and top-coal failure mechanisms under thick and hard roof conditions in a fully mechanized top-coal caving face: a case study

Fully mechanized top-coal caving mining in extra-thick coal seams under thick and hard roof conditions is often accompanied by prominent problems such as severe coal wall spalling, insufficient top-coal fragmentation, delayed caving, large-area hanging roof, and strong ground pre...

Objective–Subjective Socioeconomic Status Configurations, Self-Acceptance, and Adolescent Prosocial Moral Reasoning: A Response Surface Analysis

Background: Objective and subjective socioeconomic status capture distinct aspects of adolescents’ socioeconomic experience, but their joint associations with prosocial moral reasoning and self-acceptance remain unclear. This study examined objective–subjective socioeconomic stat...