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The Blind Spot Reconsidered: Historical Legacies and European Entertainment Monitoring

European institutions examine entertainment through several distinct lenses: cultural production, market participation, legal compliance and strategic communication. A gap between those forms of observation is not evidence that entertainment escapes institutional scrutiny altoget...

An adaptive neuro-fuzzy blockchain–AI framework for secure and intelligent FinTech transactions

Abstract Financial systems increasingly rely on digital and distributed infrastructures, exposing FinTech services to sophisticated and rapidly evolving cyber threats. Conventional rule-based security mechanisms and static machine-learning models may struggle to detect complex fr...

Interest in and Feasibility of a Dementia Prevention Program Among Community‐Dwelling Older Adults: A Questionnaire Survey

ABSTRACT Aim Despite accumulating evidence regarding dementia prevention strategies, disseminating research findings to the public is often challenging. Therefore, this study examined potential strategies to support sustained engagement in dementia prevention activities. Methods...

Design of Deep Learning-Based Beamforming for mm-Wave Massive MIMO Systems

Millimeter waves (mmV) communication has emerged as a key enabler for wireless networks to the next generation, due to the support of ultra-high data rate with large antenna arrays. However, its practical deployment is hindered by challenges such as limited radio frequency (RF) c...

Emergency management protocols for major complications after oral and maxillofacial surgery: emphasis on airway and bleeding control

Abstract Background Major postoperative complications following maxillofacial surgery, particularly severe bleeding and airway obstruction, remain life-threatening events despite advances in surgical trechniques and perioperative care[1, 2]. Delayed response to these events can l...

The Domain Loop Model: Grounding Consciousness Science in Whole-Body Homeostatic Computation

Contemporary theories of consciousness—including Integrated Information Theory, Global Workspace Theory, Higher-Order Thought theories, and active inference frameworks—have advanced the modelling of conscious experience. Although some frameworks are substrate-neutral in principle...

Impact of Rotating Detonation Combustor Shock Wave Patterns on Supersonic Inlet Turbine Stage Performance

Abstract Rotating Detonation Engines (RDEs) offer a promising path toward more efficient and compact propulsion and power systems. However, the highly unsteady and transonic outlet flow generated by the detonation process, characterized by oblique shock wave patterns, introduces...

Cyclic deformation regimes in liquefiable sands and sheet-pile systems

Liquefiable sands under undrained cyclic loading exhibit two distinct deformation regimes: cyclic mobility and residual deformation accumulation, corresponding to fundamentally different mechanisms of shear-stiffness degradation and strain accumulation. In boundary value problems...

Demand, Competition, and Public Policy in the Automobile Industry

We review the flourishing literature on the automobile industry since the seminal work of Berry, Levinsohn, and Pakes (1995), or briefly BLP. Their work provides a structural equilibrium framework that forms a basis for conducting policy counterfactuals in several key areas of in...

Symbolic Immortality, Mental Health, and Addictions: A Terror Management Perspective

Abstract Terror Management and Anxiety Buffer Disruption Theories suggest that socio-cultural psychological resources, such as self-esteem, attachment security, meaning in life, and group identity, can buffer against death-related anxiety and related psychological problems, by pr...

Context-dependent genetic regulation of gene expression in pigs

Abstract Production livestock provide a natural system for studying gene regulation under physiologically demanding conditions shaped by rapid growth, environmental exposure, and immune challenges. Using farm pigs from the PigGTEx resource, we apply quantile regression to reveal...

Arp2/3 complex-dependent actin remodeling is required for efficient RSV uncoating in A549 cells

ABSTRACT Productive human respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) cell entry requires coordinated interactions between viral proteins and host-cell factors at the plasma membrane-actin cortex interface. Branched actin networks remodel this interface, but their precise contribution to t...

Regulatory Gap: Why Model Risk Management Is Structurally Ill-Suited to Govern AI-Driven Code Transformation

Model Risk Management (MRM), set out in the Federal Reserve's SR 11-7 and OCC Bulletin 2011-12, governs quantitative models in banking. AI vendors now offer tools for rewriting production code, including COBOL-to-Java modernization, raising a scope question for the estimation-ori...

Outcomes of total joint arthroplasty in patients with a history of native hip or knee septic arthritis: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Abstract Background Whether a history of native hip or knee septic arthritis is associated with an increased risk of periprosthetic joint infection (PJI), aseptic revision, or reoperation after total joint arthroplasty (TJA) remains unclear. This meta-analysis aimed to evaluate w...

The ongoing oleoylethanolamide story: Therapeutic implications in the control of obesity and its comorbidities

The global burden of obesity continues to rise, demanding effective pharmacological strategies for individuals in whom prevention alone is insufficient. Recent incretin‐based and multi‐agonist therapies have delivered unprecedented weight loss, demonstrating that the simultaneous...

Virtual intraoperative CT (viCT): sequential anatomic updates for modeling tissue resection throughout endoscopic sinus surgery

Abstract Purpose Incomplete dissection is a common cause of persistent disease and revision endoscopic sinus surgery (ESS) in chronic rhinosinusitis. Current image-guided surgery systems typically reference static preoperative CT (pCT) and do not model evolving resection boundari...

Work patterns and time allocation in multidisciplinary home hospice: a time-motion study

Abstract Introduction : The delivery of home hospice care involves complex logistical and clinical demands. Standard administrative metrics fail to capture the nuanced workload of this distributed ecosystem. This study aimed to characterize the workday structure and identify oper...

Efficient coding predicts synaptic conductance

Abstract Retinothalamic and thalamocortical synapses are efficient in the sense that each synapse conveys as many bits per Joule as possible, but efficiency falls rapidly if synaptic conductance deviates from its natural value Harris et al. (2015, 2019). However, the manner in wh...

Cloud-based Electronic Health Records (EHR) adoption rate in Nigeria: barriers and performance bottlenecks

Abstract Background While cloud-based Electronic Health Records (EHRs) are crucial to improving service quality and operational efficiency, uptake is still variable across low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs). There is a significant research gap in Nigeria in terms of e...

Asymptotics of ruin probabilities in a subordinated Cramér-Lundberg model

We study a dynamic model of a non-life insurance portfolio. The foundation of the model is a compound Poisson process that represents the claims side of the insurer. To introduce clusters of claims appearing, e.g. with catastrophic events, this process is time-changed by a Lévy s...