Youth Development

A New Accessible Six-Strand Flexor Tendon Repair Technique: A Four-Group Comparative Study on a Porcine Model

Background: Six-strand flexor tendon repairs offer superior biomechanical strength, yet commonly used techniques often require looped sutures or proprietary materials that limit global accessibility. The Elsaftawy repair technique was developed as a six-strand construct using uni...

Dual-Weighted Neighborhood Rough Sets for Minimal Winning Coalition Discovery in Online Social Networks

Online social networks increasingly serve as platforms for collective action, yet identifying minimal winning coalitions remains challenging due to heterogeneous user features, noisy behavioral traces, and the strategic ambiguity of swing members. Traditional neighborhood rough s...

Growing Up With Social Robots: Scientific, Ethical, and Theological Anthropological Perspectives on Social Robots, AI Companions, and Child and Adolescent Development

We discuss the increasing presence of social robots (SRs) and artificial intelligence (AI) companions in the contemporary ecology of youth development and the role of parasocial relationships created by youth with these technical artifacts, emphasizing the links between parasocia...

‘No, it is a virus, your body will fight it.’ The value of diagnostic testing for managing respiratory viruses in primary care: an observational study from a post-COVID pilot programme

Introduction International studies suggest that advancing diagnostic technologies have the potential to reduce uncertainty and improve management of acute respiratory infections. Aim This study aimed to observe the impact that laboratory-based polymerase chain reaction testing fo...

Using the Interpersonal Theory of Suicide to Inform Our Understanding of Suicide Risk in Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Scoping Review

Abstract This scoping review is the first to systematically map the literature on suicidality in autistic adults through the lens of Joiner’s Interpersonal Theory of Suicide (ITS). Reviewing 51 studies and distinguishing between those directly assessing ITS constructs and those c...