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Assessing Energy Security in South Asia: A Composite Index Approach Incorporating Governance, Sustainability, and Socioeconomic Dimensions

Background and Objectives: Energy security extends beyond resource availability and affordability to encompass governance, environmental sustainability, and socioeconomic dimensions that are critical for sustainable development. In South Asia, rising energy demand, rapid populati...

Soundness Without Leverage: What Survives of Verification after Parity

Beyond the parity threshold, the framework this paper belongs to has closed the channels through which a weaker party might still direct a stronger system. Containment dissolves, deference expires, no uptake form holds between evidence and standing, and the coupling's normative a...

What Dose of Methamphetamine Do Regular Consumers Use Daily? Estimating Oral Amphetamine Milligram Equivalents

OBJECTIVES: The purity, accessibility, and affordability of illicit methamphetamine have increased in recent decades, which has been linked to rising rates of methamphetamine-involved overdoses, psychosis, cardiovascular events, and other health consequences. Nevertheless, inform...

SoK: Cryptographic Key Recovery for Cryptoasset Custody and Financial Technologies

This record contains the full version of the paper accepted for publication at the International Conference on Advances in Financial Technologies (AFT 2026). It includes the complete 77-system master matrix and the seven-stage recovery walkthroughs that are not included in the pr...

Provision is not use: Why digital-resource investment underdelivers in African universities, and what libraries and educators should do

Many African universities have invested heavily in digital resources on the assumption that provision drives use, use builds competence, and competence brings ethical practice. Drawing on evidence concentrated in Nigeria, with other African and comparative studies, this review ex...

Charting the diverging paths

Abstract Phrasal verbs (PVs) play an important role in informal and idiomatic communication for learners studying abroad. This multiple-case study tracked four Chinese learners in the United Kingdom over three timepoints in one academic year to investigate changes in their L2 con...

A Survey of Reported Practices and Values of Smaller-Scale Dog Breeders in Canada

Dog breeding has received increasing attention due to concerns about animal welfare and the ethics of companion animal commercialization, yet smaller-scale breeders remain underrepresented in research despite potentially operating under different conditions. A survey of respondin...

Group size and composition of brown howler monkeys (Alouatta guariba) in three fragments of Araucaria Pine Forest in southern Brazil

Brown howler monkeys (Alouatta guariba) are increasingly threatened by habitat loss, sylvatic yellow fever, and negative human interactions. In southern Brazil, brown howlers still inhabit some fragments of the endangered Araucaria Pine Forest (APF), but basic information on thei...

Operationalization of Equity Through a Quantitative Analysis of Stakeholder Salience

The incorporation of human values into software engineering processes is increasingly recognised as crucial, yet there is still a lack of practical methods to ensure their inclusion. A key challenge in this area is to identify a representative set of stakeholders while maintainin...

Medial calcaneal neuropathic pain clinically diagnosed in a child initially considered to have Sever’s disease: a case report

Abstract Background Sever’s disease is a common cause of pediatric heel pain and usually improves with conservative treatment. However, persistent pain with allodynia and difficulty in heel contact may indicate a neuropathic mechanism. Case presentation A 9-year-old boy developed...

Framing Displacement, Forcing Perspective: Black Visual Geographies and the Crisis of Homelessness in Oakland

ABSTRACT While Black and visual geographies have examined the image's racial and spatial power, more work is needed to analyze how racial frames of view become spatially embedded. This paper advances such a practice by analyzing news images of homelessness in Oakland. Methodologi...

CFD Analysis of Drag and Internal Volume Tradeoffs in a Compact AUV with a Myring Forebody and Flat Stern

Low-slenderness-ratio, flat-ended autonomous underwater vehicles must balance hydrodynamic resistance against internal volume retention, yet classical slender-body criteria do not fully represent their coupled forebody wake response. A generalized Myring forebody was assessed for...

Pyramidal cell types and circuit organization of the mouse insular cortex reveal functional specializations

Abstract The insular cortex integrates interoceptive and exteroceptive information to mediate bodily homeostasis, emotion and learning. However, the cellular and circuit substrates governing insular functions are poorly understood compared to primary cortices. Here we quantify de...

Optimization of surface roughness and tool life during the milling of zirconium alloy using response surface methodology and machine learning model

Abstract Commercially, zirconium alloys are beneficial for nuclear power generation with the capacity to increase electricity output. This study employed the Response Surface Methodology (RSM) and Machine Learning (ML) model validated by physical machining experiments to investig...

Impact of granulocyte colony-stimulating factors on cytokine release syndrome during bispecific antibody initiation in relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma

Bispecific antibody (BsAb) treatment in multiple myeloma can be associated with adverse events including cytokine release syndrome (CRS), cytopenias, and infections. While granulocyte colony-stimulating factors (G-CSF) can be used to treat neutropenia, little is known about their...

Helicase Mutations in United States Isolates of SARS-CoV-2 Altered Protein Stability and Binding Dynamics

Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus-2, which causes Coronavirus 2019, has resulted in the deaths of more than 7 million people. The helicase, encoded by non-structural protein-13 in the virus genome, plays a critical role in the virus's life cycle and is at the heart of...

Double Pair – Double Impair: An Educational and Strategic Board Game Combining Mathematics, Strategy, and Ivorian Cultural Discovery

Double Pair – Double Impair is an original educational and strategic board game designed to transform mathematical learning into an interactive, engaging, and meaningful experience. The game is based on the concepts of even and odd numbers, numerical comparison, logical reasoning...

Isolation, Characterization and Reverse Genetic System Establishment of a Highly Virulent PEDV Strain

Porcine epidemic diarrhea virus (PEDV) G2c variants have recently emerged, posing significant challenges to swine health management. As a major coronavirus affecting the swine industry, PEDV exhibits extensive genetic variability, which has greatly complicated disease control. Cu...

Optimizing Motor Skill Acquisition in Laparoscopic Surgery With Automated Gaze-Based Feedback

Gaze-based training has shown promise for laparoscopic surgery, but personalized gaze feedback to support skill acquisition remains underexplored. This study recruited 30 college students to practice the peg transfer task across two sessions using a prototype system delivering pe...

The COM Essay Assessor

Providing timely and actionable feedback on student writing is a known challenge in large English as a Second Language (ESL) classrooms, where instructor workload often limits the depth and consistency of feedback. This article presents the development and calibration of the COM...