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Audit Quality and Financial Reporting in African Emerging Markets: Challenges and Opportunities in the 2020s

This article examines Audit Quality and Financial Reporting in African Emerging Markets: Challenges and Opportunities in the 2020s with a focused emphasis on Kenya within the field of African Studies. It is structured as a mixed methods study that organises the problem, the stron...

Missingness Has a Universe: A Typed and Compositional Foundation for Missing-Data Research

Version 1.1 is a vocabulary revision, content-preserving: aligned with The Theory of Data, Version 4.0 — a measure is the governed family; a member of a measure is a governed series; a series is a typed binding of datums over one anchor. Nothing is altered in substance.Modern mis...

No Zombie Can Ask: The Self-Excluding Question and the Symmetry of Unanswerability

The zombie argument treats the unanswerability of “why is there experience?” as evidence against physicalism. This paper grants conceivability and poses the inverse question — given that experience exists and is metabolically expensive, what would have made it necessary? — showin...

Reproductive Strategies Across the Freshwater-Estuarine-Marine Continuum in Coastal Elsmobranchs: Insights from Comparative Life-History Patterns

The freshwater–estuarine–marine continuum represents one of the most dynamic ecological gradients occupied by aquatic vertebrates, yet the reproductive significance of habitat connectivity across this environmental mosaic has rarely been evaluated from a broad comparative perspec...

Global Realism: Spacetime Vacuum as the Unique Physical Reality and Quantum Mechanics as Its Topological Dynamics

We propose a unified physical framework in which four-dimensional spacetime vacuum is the unique physical reality, and all quanta are its localized topological excitations. Matter particles correspond to stable knot-like configurations, while radiation quanta correspond to weak p...

Being by Proxy

Doctrine page of the Ethical Ontology programme, stating the thesis of ontological substitution: focality becomes ontological substitution when the primary case holds the derivative's title to count as a being on the derivative's behalf, so that the derivative appears in the onto...

Morality, Power, and the Problem of a Self-Sufficient God

A structured synthesis arguing that human moral and religious authority remains historically entangled with power and has never been authenticated in a way that distinguishes revelation from human assertion — so obedience cannot be justified by claiming divine warrant alone. The...

An Empirical Constraint on the Hubble Constant from the Relation Ω_γ = α²

This is an editorial revision — no change to the physics, the arithmetic, or the predicted H₀ = 68.15 km/s/Mpc. I removed an unused equation for the CMB temperature that duplicated the main result without adding anything, and rewrote the step that derives the Hubble constant so i...

Belimumab in refractory lupus serositis: a multicenter case series highlighting pleural, pericardial and rare peritoneal involvement

Abstract Background Serositis is a well-recognized manifestation of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), most commonly affecting the pleura and pericardium, while lupus peritonitis remains a rare and underreported entity. Management of refractory cases remains challenging, particu...

Verified Heuristic Memory Management for Long-Context Language Models

This manuscript proposes Verified Heuristic Memory Management (VHM), a theoretical framework for governing memory in long-context language models. Candidate token spans receive dynamic eligibility weights based on salience, recurrence, utility, consistency, freshness, and evidenc...

Identification of a Major QTL Controlling Maize Lateral Root Branching Number Through Integrated BSA-Seq and Transcriptome Analysis

Maize lateral roots play essential roles in plant anchorage, mechanical support, and water and nutrient acquisition. However, the genetic mechanisms underlying lateral root development remain unclear. In this study, an F2 population was generated by crossing the inbred lines B111...

Research on Spatial Equity of Urban Residential Areas and Its Association with Summer Thermal Environment Risk: A Case Study of Wuhan, China

As global warming intensifies and extreme heat events occur frequently, the human thermal environment is under severe threat. In this study, the thermal environment risk and spatial equity issues in residential areas of humid and hot summer cities have become increasingly promine...

A systematic scoping review of transformative potential and contextual challenges of integrating AI and collective intelligence in African higher education

The integration of artificial intelligence (AI) into African higher education is characterized by a critical tension between its transformative potential and profound contextual constraints. This systematic scoping review addresses this disjuncture by synthesizing available evide...

Building Sustainable Workplaces: The Synergistic Role of Human Capital Sustainability Leadership, Green HRM and Altruism in Promoting Employee Green Behaviour

Using social exchange theory, this study investigates how human capital sustainability leadership (HCSL) promotes employee green behaviour through green human resource management (Green HRM), and whether employee altruism, being a boundary condition, strengthens these relationshi...

Talismanic posthuman childhood in Tales of Arcadia

The conceptual fluidity of narrative in the children’s contemporary fantasy television series Trollhunters , from the Tales of Arcadia universe, emerges from techno-magic and non-human modes of being. Uncontainability and monstrous and object-mediated transformation define both a...

Optimizing the removal of color and impurities from sugar beet syrup using bentonite/iron oxide nanocomposite

Abstract Efficient removal of colorants and impurities is a crucial step in the sugar industry to ensure high-quality final products and to minimize operational costs. This study investigates the performance of a magnetic bentonite/iron oxide nanocomposite for removing color-form...

Influence of cyclodextrin structure on the thermo-oxidative aging resistance of asphalt binder

Thermo-oxidative aging of asphalt is a key challenge facing modern road surfacing technology. The aim of this study is to evaluate zeolite–cyclodextrin hybrid fillers as functional asphalt modifiers, with a focus on their ability to mitigate short- and long-term oxidative aging....

Throw, sweep, thrive and belong: A small story narrative analysis of sense of community meanings for elite curler mothers on Instagram

To advance understanding of socially constructed motherhood and sport, researchers are exploring elite athlete mothers’ sporting comebacks on social media (e.g. Instagram). The role of community aspects (e.g. belongingness, trust) linked to athlete mothers’ sporting career negoti...

Spindle Cell Predominant Anaplastic Pleomorphic Xanthoastrocytoma (WHO Grade 3) With Focal Piloid Features: A Rare Case Study With Comprehensive Molecular Profiling

Pleomorphic xanthoastrocytoma (PXA) is a rare astrocytic tumor of the central nervous system. The typical form demonstrates relatively low-grade histologic features, whereas an anaplastic variant shows more aggressive behavior, including increased mitotic activity and necrotic ch...

Water memory and moral ecologies in adaptive hydrosocial futures

Indigenous nature-cultural practices often embody sustained environmental wisdom but remain underused in contemporary climate adaptation planning. This paper investigates the role of cultural communication particularly Uli songs, rituals, proverbs, and local language practices in...