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Educational Materials for Health-Related Discrete Choice Experiments: A Theory-Driven Approach

Background: To make informed choices in health-related discrete choice experiments (DCEs), respondents need to understand the choice scenarios, alternatives, attributes, and attribute levels presented to them. Respondent populations are often highly diverse in knowledge and exper...

Brief video-feedback training enhances childcare professionals’ interaction skills: A cluster randomized controlled trial

High-quality caregiver–child interactions are central to children’s development in early childhood education and care (ECEC) settings. Professional development programs have been shown to improve caregivers’ interactional skills, but evidence from large randomized controlled tria...

High-Throughput Screening of a Lipid Nanoparticle (LNP) Library Identifies Lead Formulations for CRISPR-Cas9 Ribonucleoprotein Delivery and Gene Editing

Abstract Delivery of CRISPR-Cas9 ribonucleoprotein (RNP) using synthetic materials can bypass the host translational machinery and limit the duration of genomic exposure, minimizing the risk of off-target mutations. Despite their advantages, lipid nanoparticle (LNP) platforms for...

It’s not who you know: sociometric position did not shape children’s innovation or imitation propensities

Introduction The capacity for cumulative culture depends on the interplay between social learning and innovation, yet the social-ecological factors that shape individual variation in these processes remain poorly understood. Children’s position within peer networks has been theor...

Unemployment Insurance for All? Social Preferences Evolution in Europe Since the Lifting of the Iron Curtain

ABSTRACT This paper examines the evolution of social preferences over government unemployment insurance in Europe. We find an ‘East‐West divide’ in attitudes towards this role of government policy, with lower support in Eastern Europe for government action to correct adverse labo...

Wavelength-Dependent Photoluminescence Mapping of Depth-Dependent Degradation Under Thermal Stress in Phenethylammonium Tetrafluoroborate Treated Perovskite Solar Cells

Abstract Studying real-time degradation in perovskite semiconductors remains an important challenge. Conventional methods often cannot separate interfacial and bulk processes or rely on destructive analysis. Here, we demonstrate multiwavelength excitation photoluminescence (PL) a...

DNA methylation is associated with transcriptional variability and transposon-driven trans-regulation under drought in wheat landraces

Abstract Background Bread wheat (Triticum aestivum) is essential for food security, but increasingly frequent droughts threaten yields. While wheat’s transcriptional responses to drought are well characterised, DNA methylation’s role remains poorly understood. Wheat landrace pane...

SOX10 Expression in Primary Salivary Gland Tumors: A Meta-Analysis

Abstract Purpose Primary salivary gland tumors form a heterogeneous group with diagnostic challenges. Sex-determining region Y-related homeobox 10 (SOX10) is a transcription factor studied in primary salivary gland tumors for over a decade. To date, no systematic review or meta-a...

Circulating Zonulin in Irritable Bowel Syndrome: A Systematic Review of Conflicting Evidence and the Critical Impact of Assay Specificity

Background: Increased intestinal permeability is a proposed pathophysiological mechanism in irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), and zonulin, a putative regulator of tight junctions, has been investigated as a non-invasive serum biomarker. However, the diagnostic utility of circulatin...

A method to assess wind and wave extreme statistics at offshore wind farms exposed to tropical and extratropical cyclones

Abstract. Offshore wind turbines deployed in tropical-cyclone-exposed regions require reliable estimates of extreme wind and wave conditions for structural design. Existing engineering practices often rely on different methodologies for wind and wave assessments, resulting in des...

Realignment of ferroelectric nematic by photoinduced electric field

Liquid crystal displays (LCDs) use thin pixels of a paraelectric nematic, confined between two glass plates with transparent indium tin oxide (ITO) electrodes. A voltage applied to the electrodes realigns the molecules, changing optical appearance of the pixel. Here, we demonstra...

The advice guidance boundary review and targeted support – the challenges of addressing the “advice gap”

Purpose Under its Advice Guidance Boundary Review (AGBR) initiative, the Financial Conduct Authority has introduced “targeted support”, a new regime that has become the focal point of a proposed “continuum of support” being developed through the AGBR. It is expected targeted supp...

Work Engagement in an Always-On Work Culture: A Systematic Literature Review

Digital connectivity, remote and hybrid work, and expectations of constant availability have made “always-on” work cultures a central feature of contemporary organising, yet work engagement research has only partially incorporated these conditions into its core theoretical framew...

Symbolic Translation: Psychoanalysis, Race, and the Korean/American Subject

This dissertation introduces ‘symbolic translation’ as a new critical framework, developed through Lacanian psychoanalysis, to theorize Korean/American subjectivity as a condition of structural misrecognition, symbolic illegibility, and forced assimilation. I define symbolic tran...

Examining the Impact of a Cross-Cultural Exchange on U.S. Choral Directors

Despite demographic shifts in the U.S. that indicate an increase in ethnic and cultural diversity among youth (Frey, 2020), Western classical music and its respective pedagogical practices continue to dominate music education (Kindall-Smith et al., 2011). In response, new perspec...

Life Cycle Assessment of Virgin and Recycled Polypropylene Kitchenware in the UK: Impacts of Domestic Recycling, International Supply Chains, and Consumer Use

This study evaluates the cradle-to-grave environmental performance of polypropylene (PP) kitchenware in the United Kingdom (UK), addressing critical gaps in understanding how material choices, global supply chains, domestic recycling, and consumer use-phase practices interact. Fo...

To tip or not to tip: How tip jars impact tipping in the digital tipping era

Digital tipping has become more prevalent in limited-service environments such as coffee shops, yet an interesting phenomenon is observed: many businesses still use physical tip jars while digital tipping prompts already exist. But why is that? This dissertation investigates tip...

International best practice in the cessation of vaping and non-combustible nicotine use, and barriers, facilitators and treatment preferences: A rapid review

Introduction: Increasing use of e-cigarettes and forms of non-combustible nicotine consumption, especially among children and young people who do not smoke, is an emerging challenge for traditional services oriented to stop smoking care. However, as services struggle to manage th...

Jordan-like invariant representations of scalar-tensor gravity and the return of imperfect-fluid thermodynamics

It has been shown that the thermodynamics of frame-invariant scalar-tensor gravity admits an Einstein-frame-like invariant representation, in which the scalar sector is minimally coupled and behaves as a perfect fluid with vanishing temperature. We show that this is not the only...

Measuring Organizational Constructs in Large-Scale Text: An interpretive framework combining topic modeling and BERT

Measuring organizational constructs in large-scale unstructured text requires methods that preserve interpretive depth while enabling systematic, per-document classification. Structural Topic Modeling (STM) supports interpretive depth by surfacing patterns that inform construct o...