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Prevalence of 209 chronic conditions by area-level deprivation in England

Abstract Background Accounting for socioeconomic differences in disease prevalence is essential for designing and monitoring targeted prevention and for effective public health service planning. However, detailed condition-specific information is available for only a limited numb...

Sphingolipid signatures at the extremes of energy balance: a comparative study of obesity and anorexia nervosa in women

Background Anorexia nervosa (AN) and obesity (OB) represent opposite extremes of energy balance and are both associated with profound metabolic alterations. Increasing evidence suggests that sphingolipids play a central role in cardiometabolic regulation, inflammation, and insuli...

Exact variance of random return in distributional LQR and its application to mean–variance optimal control

The classical linear quadratic regulator (LQR) minimizes the expected cumulative return but fails to account for performance variability, rendering it inadequate for risk-aware applications. To address this, we introduce the variance of the cumulative return as a risk measure in...

Social comparison shapes the evolution of cooperation in structured populations

Human cooperation unfolds in social environments where individuals influence each other through payoff-based learning and social comparison, the tendency to evaluate fitness relative to others. However, it is still unclear how social comparison and population structure jointly sh...

Association between injury severity and recovery of objective functional measures following adolescent lateral ankle sprain: a secondary cohort analysis

Background/objectives Lateral ankle sprain (LAS) is common in adolescents, but the extent to which structural injury severity is associated with recovery of objective functional measures remains unclear. This study explored the association between Grade I–III injury severity and...

Thermally Resilient Polymeric Antioxidants that Improve PET Stabilization with Reduced Additive Leaching

Abstract Antioxidants are incorporated into plastics to enhance their resistance to oxidative degradation. With rising concerns of leaching of additives and/or their degradation products into packaged goods and the environment, the development of antioxidants that maintain functi...

Drawing boundaries: How creative practitioners navigate precarity in AI-embedded creative work

As generative artificial intelligence (AI) continues to grow within creative industries, existing research has examined its implications for creative labour. However, much of this work emphasises AI’s impact on efficiency gains or creativity, offering limited insight into how pra...

cyto7: an open, vertex-level cortical type atlas of the human cortex

The cerebral cortex is organized along a gradient of laminar complexity, indexed principally by the emergence and granularity of layer IV and by the size of layer III neuron somata, and cortical types are the ordered categories along it. The Structural Model builds on that gradie...

Model-based pupil deconvolution reveals latent attentional dynamics

Changes in pupil size have been widely used as an indirect measure of attention. However, attention engages on a faster timescale than the pupillary response. Therefore, the slow time course of the pupil response makes it difficult to distinguish attentional responses to stimuli...

Early Transition Metal Carbene Complexes as Photocatalysts: Unveiling Dual-Emission and Photo-reactivity

Abstract Photoactive transition metal complexes are playing a pivotal role in synthetic chemistry and application technologies, such as photocatalysis and light-emitting diodes, yet they often depend on precious metals. Early-transition-metal photosensitizers offer a promising, y...

Mitigating Popularity Bias in Recommendation with Global Listwise Learning and Progressive Bi-Weighting

In recommender systems, user feedback typically follows a long-tail distribution, which leads many recommendation algorithms to exacerbate popularity bias by disproportionately favoring popular items. To mitigate this issue, recent studies have employed Inverse Propensity Scoring...

Direct observation of switching-wave dynamics in 20 GHz normal dispersion spiral microresonators

Integrated Kerr frequency combs are powerful tools for microwave photonics, spectroscopy, and optical communications. While traditional architectures rely on the anomalous-dispersion regime, this typically requires thick, highly strained silicon nitride layers that complicate sta...

The Leukocyte Landscape Across Mouse Strains and Tissues

ABSTRACT With widespread use of mice ( Mus musculus ) in immunological research, understanding baseline immune variation between mouse models is critical. While peripheral blood immune profiles have been well‐defined, strain‐ and sex‐specific differences in leukocyte composition...

An early-phase process evaluation of a whole-systems approach to healthy weight among children and families in Wales

Background: Childhood obesity in Wales is a significant public health issue, with prevalence rates particularly high among socioeconomically disadvantaged communities. The Welsh Government has responded to this issue by launching the Healthy Weight: Healthy Wales strategy, which...

Populism and sustainable marketing practices: Insights from consumer-packaged goods manufacturers’ new product launches

Abstract While sustainable marketing practices have traditionally been grounded in stakeholder capitalism, the rise of anti-climate-action populism presents new challenges to firms’ sustainable strategies. Drawing on resource dependence theory, this study argues that anti-climate...

Demographic Decline and Labour-Market Mismatch in Northern Hungary: A Secondary-Data Synthesis

Northern Hungary has experienced prolonged population decline alongside persistent labour-market disadvantage since the post-socialist transition. This article examines how demographic contraction, selective migration and spatially uneven access to employment combine to produce t...

Breaking the Blend: A multi-tracer kinematic decomposition method for IFS data applied to disentangling the AGN outflow and circumnuclear ring in NGC 5728 with JWST

Abstract Integral field spectroscopy (IFS) of the central kiloparsecs of active galactic nuclei (AGN) reveals a mixture of spatially coincident emission from star-formation and AGN feedback exciting the interstellar medium. Disentangling these components remains a challenge, as m...

Aesthetics as boundary work: Art, science, and the pluralisation of expert knowledge for the global governance of sustainability

Abstract Applying a Science and Technology Studies (STS) lens and building on Rancièrian philosophy and the aesthetic turn in International Relations (IR), the article explores the possibilities that the mobilisation of knowledge from the artistic field holds for the pluralisatio...

Observational Validation of Boundary‐Layer Cloud Regimes in Arctic Cold Air Outbreaks

Abstract Arctic cold air outbreaks (CAOs) produce low‐level cloud patterns influencing the surface radiative balance. The stability parameter (boundary‐layer height over Monin‐Obukhov length) is theorized to distinguish shear‐driven roll convection from buoyancy‐driven cellular c...

Beliefs undermining protective action against smart speaker privacy risks: perceived benefits, trust in the manufacturer, and nothing to hide beliefs

The uptake of smart speakers in our homes is steadily increasing. While bringing convenience and access to information, they also bring substantial risks to our privacy. In this study, we investigated which factors undermine taking privacy protective action, drawing on people’s b...