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An improved neural network state observer-based optimized control for time-delay robotic manipulator system under deception attacks

Robotic manipulators have become the critical equipment in contemporary industrial applications due to remarkable path tracking robustness and enduring mission execution capabilities. This paper proposes an optimized tracking control strategy for time-delay n-link robotic manipul...

VAFB-1988-05b: The Testing and Evaluation of Fourteen Archaeological Sites on South Vandenberg Air Force Base, Santa Barbara County, California - Appendices A, B, D

This document includes the technical appendices to the Testing and Evaluation of Fourteen Archaeological Sites on South Vandenberg Air Force Base Report (VAFB-1988-05a). Appendix A is the Faunal Assemblage Analysis Appendix B is "Marine Over-Exploitation on the Prehistoric Califo...

The Moral (Un)Desirability of New Biomedical Technologies as Potential Techno‐Fixes

ABSTRACT The techno‐fix argument, used to argue against technological interventions that address the consequences of social problems instead of their underlying causes, is increasingly invoked in biomedical discussions. However, especially in biomedicine, the techno‐fix argument...

A Descriptor and Tool for Guiding Composition Design toward Developing Single- or Mixed/Hybrid-Phase “Layered” Transition Metal Oxide Cathode Materials for Na-Ion Batteries

Abstract The structure type and phase assemblage of “layered” Na-transition metal (TM) oxides dictate their performance as cathode materials, resulting in an impetus toward developing biphasic or hybrid Na-TM-oxides. However, a fundamental understanding as to what drives the form...

EuroMillions Breakthrough Mining — 1937 Sources, 14762 Leads Extracted — E8 Intelligence Research

Mined 1937 lottery+quantum breakthroughs. Extracted 14762 leads across 13 categories. 12678 high-value leads found. Categories: {"CORRIDOR": 1231, "FORMULA": 1071, "GEOMETRIC": 762, "FORWARD_ATTEMPT": 1303, "QUANTUM": 1515, "TIMING": 223, "CELESTIAL": 1156, "GEMATRIA": 1238, "CON...

Development and Validation of the Sharenting Behavior Scale Among Parents

Due to the proliferation of social media, sharenting has become a widespread parental behavior. Its prevalence, combined with its potential impact on children’s privacy and well-being, highlights the need for a parent-specific psychometric instrument. The present study aimed to d...

Mapping mindfulness: a systematic review and a framework for developing organizational mindfulness capability

Purpose This study aims to synthesize workplace mindfulness literature, identify research gaps, and propose a future agenda. Design/methodology/approach A systematic review of 53 peer-reviewed articles was conducted to examine the antecedents, mechanisms and outcomes of mindfulne...

Voices from the Global South: Myanmar educators' ethical considerations in using generative AI in teaching, learning and assessment

Purpose The rapid integration of artificial intelligence (AI) in education presents many opportunities but also raises critical ethical and cultural challenges. This study aims to explore the current application of AI in education in Myanmar and investigates the conflicts between...

FROM FOLK TRADITION TO CONTEMPORARY STAGE: REIMAGINING CENTRAL ASIAN DANCE THROUGH CHOREOGRAPHIC INTERPRETATION

Central Asian folk dance represents a significant component of the region's intangible cultural heritage, preserving collective memory, cultural identity, and embodied knowledge through movement traditions transmitted across generations. While existing scholarship has extensively...

Religious consumerism: conceptualisation, scale development and validation

Purpose Although the intersection between religion and consumerism is multifaceted, complex and dynamic, this study aims to offer a new insight into the amalgamation of religion and consumerism through conceptualising religious consumerism. It also develops and validates a scale...

The reproductive matrix: regulating transmasculine pregnancy and parenthood

This article develops the concept of the reproductive matrix as a material-discursive regime that regulates who can reproduce, through which bodies, and under what conditions of parental recognition. Extending Butler’s account of the heterosexual matrix, and drawing on Barad’s ma...

Beyond family involvement: distinguishing open dialogue from guideline-based family interventions in schizophrenia and psychosis care

Background Open dialogue is sometimes understood by practitioners as a version of family involvement or family intervention. This assumption is understandable because contemporary schizophrenia guidelines recognise the importance of family, carers and other members of the person’...

Validity conditions for an exponential escape law in throughflow-driven systems

An escape law of the form p_b = exp(−1/χ_b), with χ_b the ratio of the free energy delivered to a system within one relaxation time to the barrier separating it from an adjacent configuration, has been proposed for transitions in systems held away from equilibrium by sustained th...

Cultural Color Codes in Animal-Focused Children's Literature: How Vietnamese and Japanese Perceptions of Color Shape Emotional Response and Brand Messaging

This research explores the impact of culturally embedded color meanings, character-based color–emotion linkages, and color branding on children’s emotional reactions to animal characters in picture books, drawing comparisons between young readers in Vietnam and Japan. Grounded in...

Właściwości przeciwbakteryjne i grzybostatyczne modyfikowanych folii polietylenowych

Wydawnictwo SIGMA-NOT wydaje czasopisma fachowe informujące swoich czytelników o najnowszych osiągnięciach naukowych i nowoczesnych rozwiązaniach technicznych w Polsce i na świecie, popularyzuje problemy techniczne oraz poszerza wiedzę i kulturę techniczną.

Disparities in COVID-19 Vaccination and Implications for Hospital-Based Interventions

Abstract Structural inequities and social determinants influence vaccination rates and related health outcomes. In 2025 in the USA, reduced federal funding for state and local vaccination programs and revised FDA COVID-19 vaccine policy have created new logistical and financial b...

Uniqueness of the Canonical Half-Iterate

A companion note (Existence of a Half-Iterate of the Exponential Map) stated, withoutproof, the Trappmann–Kouznetsov criterion singling out a canonical holomorphic half-iterateof exp, and remarked that its uniqueness half has been independently re-derived by twostructurally diffe...

Novel chimeric PD-L1::PD-L2 fusion and immune evasion in lymphoma

We report a novel in-frame CD274::PDCD1LG2 fusion in primary mediastinal B-cell lymphoma. Functional studies using expression constructs and CRISPR-engineered lymphoma cells confirmed formation of a PD-L1::PD-L2 chimeric protein and marked upregulation of PD-L1 surface expression...

Emerging and Re‐Emerging Viral Pathogens in Oncolytic Virotherapy: A Comprehensive Review

Oncolytic virotherapy has recently emerged as a promising immuno-oncological strategy, utilising the natural cytolytic potentials of viral pathogens to selectively target and destroy malignant cells. Although various engineered viruses, such as adenoviruses, vaccinia virus, and h...

EuroMillions Breakthrough Mining — 1962 Sources, 15022 Leads Extracted — E8 Intelligence Research

Mined 1962 lottery+quantum breakthroughs. Extracted 15022 leads across 13 categories. 12935 high-value leads found. Categories: {"CORRIDOR": 1254, "FORMULA": 1094, "GEOMETRIC": 764, "FORWARD_ATTEMPT": 1326, "QUANTUM": 1540, "TIMING": 223, "CELESTIAL": 1179, "GEMATRIA": 1261, "CON...