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Financing ownership: How capital design determines who can acquire, hold, and transfer assets

Before an asset can be owned, it must be financed. The terms of that financing decide who can acquire it, on what conditions, and whether ownership survives the first transition. This is the sixth paper in IIBD's Community Wealth Infrastructure series. It examines the capital tha...

Machine learning-based fusion and downscaling of multi-sensor satellite data for urban heat island analysis in Damascus, Syria

Effective climate and environment monitoring requires high-resolution land surface temperature (LST) data, while satellite-derived LST data have coarse spatial and temporal resolutions that pose major challenges to detailed analysis. This study attempts to overcome this gap by in...

Developmentof a FRET-Based Assay for Human NeutralSphingomyelinase 2

Abstract Neutral sphingomyelinase 2 (nSMase2) is a membrane-bound enzyme that hydrolyzes sphingomyelin (SM) into ceramide and phosphocholine. By generating the bioactive lipid ceramide, nSMase2 plays a critical role in cell stress responses and in regulating exosomes that package...

Narrating mellowness? Political soundness of “Chinese schools” of international relations

Abstract The rise of China has sparked growing scholarly interest in its political and philosophical thought, including the “Chinese schools” of international relations (IR). With this article, we add to the scholarship by asking two questions: which of these schools are mobilise...

Bridging theAIDivide in Drug Discovery: PracticalLessons from Capacity Strengthening in Africa

Abstract Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become an integral part of drug discovery in high-income countries. However, these advances have yet to be broadly adopted by research ecosystems in many low- and middle-income countries in Africa, where understudied infectious diseases,...

Magnitude of adverse neonatal birth outcomes and associated factors among babies born from adolescent mothers in East Hararghe zone, Oromia region, Eastern Ethiopia

Abstract Background The pregnancy rate among adolescents is increasing, particularly in developing countries, with higher adverse health outcomes. There are limited studies conducted to assess the adverse neonatal birth outcomes of adolescent pregnancy and associated factors for...

SOCIETAL AGEING: WHAT IS HAPPENING IN MALAYSIA AND WHAT SHOULD BE DONE

Abstract Malaysia is a rapidly ageing country. Relative to the United Kingdom, its social protection systems are underdeveloped. What is more, its political structure and social practices are different from those of the United Kingdom. Accordingly, the political economy of ageing...

The Effect of Environmental Management Accounting on Profitability, with Firm Size as a moderating variable at coal companies in Indonesia

ABSTRACT : This study aims to examine and analyze the effect of Environmental Management Accounting, proxied by Eco-Efficiency, on Profitability, with Firm Size as a moderating variable. The main focus of this research is to understand how environmental management efficiency cont...

Wealth is designed: How rules, institutions, and public decisions shape ownership

Ownership is not an accident at the edge of public policy. It is produced through institutional design — and what was designed can be redesigned. This is the second paper in IIBD's Community Wealth Infrastructure series. Working Paper No. 1 established that Canada has an ownershi...

E8‑Golden‑Ratio Quantum Lattice Communication Protocol (E8‑GQCP) — E8 Intelligence Research

By mapping each of the 240 E8 root vectors to a distinct sub‑carrier at 132 Hz and locking their phase relationships through the golden‑ratio coupling (φ), the protocol creates a self‑referential interference lattice that can simultaneously transmit orthogonal quantum information...

3D Path Planning for UAVs Based on an Improved DOA

Three-dimensional (3D) path planning for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) presents a challenging multi-objective optimization problem that necessitates a balanced trade-off among path length, flight safety, and trajectory smoothness, especially in complex environments such as moun...

High genetic connectivity and weak spatial structure in the ghost crab Ocypode stimpsoni (Ortmann, 1897) across Northeast Asia: insights from microsatellite and mtCO1 loci

The dataset includes allele-size microsatellite genotypes for Ocypode stimpsoni individuals (n = 167) collected from seven coastal localities across Northeast Asia, including South Korea, Japan, and Taiwan. These data were used to evaluate population genetic structure, genetic co...

CosmoBeating • Fungal Geometry and Topology — Paper III: Symbiosis and System Interface Ontology

CosmoBeating — Fungal Geometry and Topology (CB-FGnT)A Complex-Systems Reading of Fungal Networks This is a short, non-technical companion to the 15-paper CB-FGnT series. It is written for readers with a background in mycology, network science, or complex systems — not for reader...

Optimization of Poly-γ-Glutamic Acid Production by Moderate Electric Field-Assisted Fermentation in a Haematococcus pluvialis-Based Medium

Moderate electric field (MEF) fermentation was investigated as a nonthermal stress strategy to enhance the formation of extracellular polymeric substances (EPS; mucilage) by Bacillus subtilis HA in a Haematococcus-based medium. Response surface methodology (RSM), combined with a...

Pathwise Roughness of Bitcoin Realized Volatility: Stability Across Time, Sampling, and Volatility Measures

This paper examines whether Bitcoin realized volatility admits a measurable pathwise roughness index and how stable that estimate is across time and measurement designs. Using one-minute BTC/USD close prices from Bitstamp between 2017 and 2024, realized-volatility paths are const...

Teacher-Mediated Digital Game-Based Learning and Children’s Emotional Intelligence in Inclusive Classrooms: A Systematic Review and Critical Narrative Synthesis

Digital game-based learning is increasingly used to support children’s engagement, interaction, and social–emotional development. However, its contribution to emotional intelligence, particularly in inclusive classroom contexts, remains theoretically underdeveloped and methodolog...

A Bilingual Benchmark for Evaluating Diagnostic Performance of Multimodal Large Language Models in Radiology (RadM-Bench): Evaluation Development and Validation

Abstract Background Multimodal large language models are increasingly used in radiological diagnosis, but their performance has not been systematically evaluated across volumetric (3D) imaging, real-world clinical versus public teaching cases, and bilingual contexts. Objective Th...

Prevalence of mental disorders and syndromic mental distress in patients with chronic dermatoses: A cross-sectional epidemiological study

Objective. To evaluate the prevalence and clinical structure of comorbid mental disorders among patients with chronic dermatoses, to identify associations with specific nosological forms of skin diseases, and to perform a differential analysis of subsyndromal mental distress. Mat...

Creating smart industrial corridors in India: Need for innovative policy approaches

India’s impressive growth needs to be accompanied by significant job creation to ensure that its benefits flow to the widest possible sections of society. State governments in India should frame long term policies for setting up “smart” manufacturing corridors or zones, especiall...

Multi-rate sampled-data control for T-S fuzzy systems with mismatched fuzzy basis functions

This paper investigates a multi-rate sampled-data (MRSD) stabilization criterion for T-S fuzzy systems with the consideration of mismatched fuzzy basis functions (FBFs). To fully exploit the system information under a MRSD mechanism, we incorporate an improved looped-functional a...