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81853 work(s)
- BiologyOpen access
From Development to Cancer : How One Protein Controls the Fate of Liver Cells
Katrina Jewell was a finalist in the 2026 UBC Three Minute Thesis (3MT) Competition. Katrina presented the research titled “From Development to Cancer: How One Protein Controls the Fate of Liver Cells.” Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is one of the leading causes of cancer related...
- Engineering & TechnologyOpen access
Making Wearable Data Trustworthy
Jason Fu was a finalist in the 2026 UBC Three Minute Thesis (3MT) Competition. Jason presented the research titled “Making Wearable Data Trustworthy.” Wearable devices like smartwatches are increasingly used to track heart rate, sleep, and physical activity. In healthcare, these...
- Engineering & TechnologyOpen access
Before the Crash : Real-time Crash Risk and Its Applications
Tarek Ghoul was a finalist in the 2026 UBC Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition. Tarek presented the research titled “Transportation Before the Crash: Real Time Crash Risk and Its Applications.” Every year, over one million people are killed on roadways worldwide. Yet road safet...
- Engineering & TechnologyOpen access
Evolving an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle : A Bio-Inspired Approach
Griffin Staples was a semi-finalist in the 2026 UBC Three Minute Thesis (3MT) Competition. Niko presented the research titled “Evolving an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle: A Bio-Inspired Approach.” Autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) are increasingly used for ocean monitoring, in...
- BiologyOpen access
The Heart Disease You've Never Heard Of; And the Blood Test That Could Stop It
Sogand Golshahian was a finalist in the 2026 UBC Three Minute Thesis (3MT) Competition. Sogand presented the research titled “The Heart Disease You’ve Never Heard Of; And the Blood Test That Could Stop It.” Millions of people around the world are infected with a disease that can...
- Health & MedicineOpen access
Navigating Endometriosis Treatment Decisions in the Context of Future Pregnancy Planning
Jalisa Karim was a finalist in the 2026 UBC Three Minute Thesis (3MT) Competition. Jalisa presented the research titled “Navigating Endometriosis Treatment Decisions in the Context of Future Pregnancy Planning.” Endometriosis is a chronic condition where tissue similar to the lin...
- Society & EconomicsOpen access
The Sound of Movement and the Brain : What you Hear can Amplify Pain and Fear
Christopher Lamb was a finalist in the 2026 UBC Three Minute Thesis (3MT) Competition. Christopher presented the research titled “The Sound of Movement and the Brain: What You Hear Can Amplify Pain and Fear.” Knee osteoarthritis (KOA) is a disabling and painful chronic joint cond...
- Society & EconomicsOpen access
<ns5:p>The Indonesian government has invested heavily in digital transformation to address persistent challenges in public service delivery, financial accountability, and bureaucratic efficiency. Despite growing adoption of technologies such as artificial intelligence, big data a...
- BiologyOpen access
The Collective Bayesian Updating framework assumes that agents' beliefs will converge toward truth if sufficient evidence is collected. Using the system framework of Kosmisentrisme Nauraes, this paper shows that this assumption requires an additional necessary condition to pass t...
- Society & EconomicsOpen access
Mate choice copying in non-human animals: an update of two meta-analyses
Mate choice copying, the use of social information from the mating decisions of others, is a taxonomically widespread form of social learning with the potential to shape sexual selection. Two meta-analyses concluded that social information moderately and positively biases mate ch...
- Physics & SpaceOpen access
Spectral Geometric Prism Model: A Unified Field Framework via Finite-Action Constraints
We propose the Spectral Geometric Prism Model (SGPM), a unified field framework built upon finite-action topological constraints to resolve infrared divergences arising from noncompact physical spacetime. Single compactification via finite Yang–Mills action yields a topological h...
- Health & MedicineOpen access
Background: Patients with coronary artery disease (CAD) receiving dual antiplatelet therapy (DAPT) after percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) remain at risk of early ad-verse outcomes, including in-hospital mortality. Simple risk stratification based on rou-tinely available v...
- Engineering & TechnologyOpen access
Assembly Theory: Optimal Joint Assembly Spaces and Assembly Space Energy
Assembly theory measures a string by the shortest history that builds it. We sharpen this picture in two directions. First, we attach a discrete Dirichlet energy to an assembly space and show that it splits into the size of the space and a secondary energy charging each step vert...
- Society & EconomicsOpen access
Sports Injuries and Mental Health in Child and Adolescent Athletes: A Systematic Review
Background: Sports injuries in children and adolescents may affect physical health, emotional well-being, sleep, quality of life, confidence, sport participation, and readiness to return to sport. Objective: This systematic review synthesized evidence on the relationship between...
- Biology
Abstract The development of smart biomaterials that mimic the native extracellular matrix forms the basis for many innovations within the field of regenerative medicine. Elastin-like polypeptides (ELPs) are widely used in biomaterials due to their unique physicochemical propertie...
- Society & EconomicsOpen access
Traffic as a social dilemma? Viewing road user behavior through a prosocial lens
Traffic serves as a context where road users engage in various interactions, with the outcomes of these bearing significant implications for the safety of all involved. While traditional research on road user behavior has predominantly focused on risky behaviors, there has been a...
- Society & EconomicsOpen access
Perceived parental acceptance–rejection is associated with adolescent psychological adjustment, but evidence from Central Europe remains limited. Guided by IPARTheory, this cross-sectional study examined associations between perceived maternal and paternal acceptance–rejection an...
- Society & EconomicsOpen access
Flow: an ecocritical analysis of post-apocalyptic aesthetics
Abstract The global climate crisis, one of the most pressing challenges of our era, reverberates across scientific, cultural, and artistic domains. Cinema is frequently enlisted to make the climate crisis perceptible and intelligible at the societal scale. In this context, the ar...
- BiologyOpen access
Background In semi-arid, data-scarce regions, the convergence of climate change and rapid urbanization poses a severe threat to groundwater-dependent cities. This study evaluates the impact of hydro-climatic stressors and demographic growth on urban water security and aquifer dep...
- Climate & EnvironmentOpen access
Understanding the mechanisms by which predators select their prey can help us understand the evolution of ecological interactions and community-level patterns and can also have conservation implications. Grass snakes (Natrix spp.) are predators specialising on amphibians and fish...