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BEFORE THE 1936 EXHIBITION: TENSIONS AND CONTRADICTIONS IN THE EXPORT OF ANTIQUITIES ON THE EVE OF THE KNOSSOS EXCAVATIONS

This paper revisits a seemingly straightforward question: why were the early excavations at Knossos not conducted under the auspices of the British School at Athens? It argues that a key factor lay in the exportation of antiquities, a practice with which the School was reluctant...

Regularized interpolation in 4D neural fields optimizes geometric fidelity in 3D printing

While additive manufacturing (AM) enables unprecedented design freedom, process-induced geometric defects often limit its use in high-precision applications. Consequently, the ability to predict and correct these deviations by dynamically adjusting process parameters remains a cr...

Linear Saturation for \(\mathcal{N}\) via Butterflies

Abstract. Given a finite poset [Formula: see text], how small can a family [Formula: see text] of subsets of [Formula: see text] be such that [Formula: see text] does not contain an induced copy of [Formula: see text], but [Formula: see text] contains such a copy for all [Formula...

Strongmen and warmaking

This essay asks whether warmaking can discipline the contemporary strongman regimes, as Tilly's account of European state formation might suggest it once did absolutism. To probe this question, it briefly revisits two non-European cases: New Kingdom Ancient Egypt and Warring Stat...

The influence of temperature on river fly phenology based on historic records

Abstract First appearance dates of three river flies (Mayfly, two caddis flies: Grannom and Welshman’s Button) for 1834–1931 were abstracted from the records of a chalk river fly fishing club in southern UK. First appearance dates of the terrestrial invertebrates Mole Cricket and...

Trapped in time: the problem of crip time in the workplace for chronically ill and disabled people

In this paper, the relationship between the meaning of time and employment from perspective of Black disabled people with an invisible disability is examined. The qualitative study was co-produced with people living with sickle cell. Two focus group discussions and forty-seven in...

Receptor tyrosine kinase targeted therapies in glioblastoma: a systematic review

Introduction Glioblastoma is the most common primary central nervous system malignancy and has a median survival of 14.6 months. Receptor tyrosine kinase (RTKs) signalling consitutes one of the three major pathways driving glioblastoma, implicating them as a therapeutic target. H...

Ballistic projectile hazard of major explosions and paroxysms at Stromboli (Italy) with uncertainty quantification – Part 2: Conditional and temporal probability maps

This study presents the first probability hazard maps of the areas potentially affected by ballistic fallout from major explosions and paroxysms at Stromboli, based on mathematical analyses of the extensive historical and recent records of its explosive activity. This novel appro...

Gas absorption of soft X-rays strongly impacts the redshift distribution of dark Fast X-ray Transients

Abstract The progenitors of many Fast X-ray Transients (FXTs) and those of γ-ray bursts (GRBs) are strongly linked. Given that ”dark” GRBs are typically found to be events suffering from enhanced extinction in the host galaxy, we investigate the nature of ”dark” FXTs. However, un...

Inferring network-level alarm influence pathways for cellular infrastructure reliability

Large-scale telecommunication infrastructure, such as Radio Access Networks (RANs), is a critical component of the modern digital industry. To ensure infrastructure intelligence and operational reliability, it is essential to understand how alarms influence one another across bas...

Real-Time Prediction of Lower-Limb Joint Kinematics, Kinetics, and Ground Reaction Force Using Wearable Sensors and Machine Learning

Walking is a key movement of interest in biomechanics, yet gold-standard data collection methods are time- and cost-expensive. This paper presents a real-time, multimodal, high sample rate lower-limb motion capture framework, based on wireless wearable sensors and machine learnin...

The Many Faces of the Parasite

The introduction to this special issue describes the ‘parasite’ as a concept through which to understand the problems and possibilities of cohabitation, with its attendant strategies of shelter and expulsion, its affects of gratitude and resentment. Building on the work of Michel...

Towards the Vision-Sound-Language-Action paradigm: The HEAR framework for sound-centric manipulation

Humans and animals use sound as a crucial cue for interacting with the physical world, as acoustic events can reveal contact, completion, hidden contents, or process state. Embodied agents should similarly benefit from auditory awareness during manipulation, yet existing Vision-L...

Association between preoperative radiographic osteoarthritis severity and patient-reported outcomes after total hip arthroplasty: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Abstract Purpose Although total hip arthroplasty (THA) reliably improves pain and function in patients with hip osteoarthritis (OA), a subset of patients experience limited postoperative benefit. The association between preoperative radiographic OA severity and postoperative pati...

Prophage and metabolic determinants of Staphylococcus aureus survival to vancomycin identified via TraDIS screening

ABSTRACT Reduced vancomycin susceptibility phenotypes in Staphylococcus aureus contribute to treatment failure, yet the genetic determinants of survival under inhibitory vancomycin exposure remain incompletely defined. We performed transposon-directed insertion-site sequencing (T...

Structural and functional insights into a Zn2+-transporting P-type ATPase

Abstract Zinc is essential for life yet toxic in excess, rendering homeostatic control vital for all organisms. Transition metal transporting P-type (P IB -) ATPase proteins are critical for this balance but remain poorly understood at the molecular level. Here, we present the in...

International Protocol for the Study of Amorphous Charred Objects in Archaeology (IPSACO 1.0)

Abstract Archaeobotanists around the world increasingly recognise that, alongside commonly studied materials such as seeds, fruits, wood charcoal, and chaff, archaeobotanical samples also contain fragments of carbonised organic (and sometimes inorganic) matter that vary in shape...

Psychological interventions for harmful gambling: Systematic review and network meta-analysis

Abstract Background and aims Gambling causes harms for the individual, their families and wider society. Psychological interventions have been shown to improve gambling severity, but their relative effectiveness is not well understood. Methods Systematic review and network meta-a...

Electrically controllable superconducting memory effect in UTe2

Abstract Multiphase superconductors—materials that host two or more distinct superconductive phases—are exceptionally rare. Examples include heavy-fermion CeRh 2 As 2 alongside some uranium compounds such as UPt 3 and URhGe (refs. 1,2,3 ). In the multiphase p -wave superfluid 3 H...

Can discussions with patients and the public clarify missing data mechanisms for digital outcome measures?

Abstract Background Analysis of clinical trials with missing data requires statistical assumptions. When novel digital outcome measures are used, it is particularly important to understand trial participants’ experiences with the device. This can illuminate the reasons for and sp...