Research works

Governance disclosure regimes and investor confidence: evaluating comply-or-explain mechanisms in African capital markets

Purpose This study aims to investigate how governance disclosure regimes, particularly comply-or-explain mechanisms, affect investor confidence across African capital markets. Focusing on South Africa, Nigeria and Egypt, it examines whether high-quality governance disclosures enh...

An interpretable frequency-domain matrix rank transformation and time-domain spatial graph attention enhancement network for rolling bearing fault diagnosis under strong noise environment

Extracting weak fault features obscured by environmental noise is a critical challenge. However, existing fault feature enhancement methods ignore the low-rank distribution of feature correlation structures, making it difficult to effectively extract critical fault information. T...

Clinical practice variation in chronic spine pain care: A multispecialty study

Objectives: Chronic spine pain is a highly prevalent condition that requires coordinated, guideline-concordant care integrating pharmacological management, psychosocial assessment, and appropriate diagnostic evaluation. However, variations in clinical practice across physician sp...

The Entity That Forms Subjects (EFS): Ontological Status, Properties, and Place in the Hierarchy of Forms of Matter

Title: The Entity That Forms Subjects (EFS): Ontological Status, Properties, and Place in the Hierarchy of Forms of Matter --- Important note: The title correctly translates as "The Entity That Forms Subjects" – not "Subjects Forming Entities". This is crucial: the entity is the...

Measurements of Japanese cedar growth on rough surface using spectral imaging analysis

Abstract Accurate measurement of tree-ring increments on rough wood surfaces in the field is essential for evaluating forest productivity and merchantability. Conventional imaging approaches are hindered by intensity non-uniformity across the cross-section, particularly between t...

Security Analysis of Temporal Convolutional Network-Based Side-Channel Attacks for AES Cryptographic Implementations

Profiling side-channel attacks based on deep learning can recover cryptographic information from power-consumption traces, but their effectiveness may be reduced when desynchronisation displaces informative leakage across temporal positions. This study investigates whether Tempor...

Mechanism of Autophagic Extracellular Vesicles Revealed

Recent work by Mao and colleagues identifies a distinct class of small extracellular vesicles, termed autophagic extracellular vesicles (AEVs), generated from amphisomes upon autophagy induction. In this commentary, we discuss how this study provides important mechanistic insight...

Choreographic Leadership Competencies in AI-Integrated Practice: Toward an Exploratory Conceptual Framework

As artificial intelligence (AI) systems become increasingly embedded in movement generation and aesthetic decision-making processes, the choreographer’s role in dance performance becomes more complex. This study examines how choreographic leadership can be reconsidered when nonhu...

From Imperial Communication to Autonomous Script: Two Hypotheses on the Emergence and Social Transformation of West Semitic Writing

What if the first alphabet was not simply invented — but commissioned?This paper explores whether the emergence of early alphabetic writing in the Egyptian sphere may have been connected to the practical needs of imperial administration, military coordination, and control over mu...

Leg Autotomy and Regeneration in Crab Spiders Ebrechtella tricuspidata (Araneae: Thomisidae)

Arachnids evade predation by intentionally sacrificing body parts, with leg autotomy playing a crucial role in their survival and reproductive strategies. Our study primarily employed field surveys and laboratory experiments to examine the frequency of autotomy and its effects on...

ECL₃^Q as an Instance of a General Logical Framework: Preliminary Results

This note reports preliminary results from an ongoing effort to place ECL₃^Q — a three-valued epistemic causal logic with an ontological (not epistemic) third value U, developed independently in Paper I — inside a more general classificatory framework for many-valued and non-clas...

Bridging Gaps in Menstrual Health: A Review on Specially-Abled Adolescent Girls

Menstrual health and hygiene (MHH) is a most important but under-researched aspect of adolescent health, particularly in girls with physical and mental disabilities. These girls have secondary social, cultural and structural hindrances. Menstrual health among Indians is influence...

Selected ethical challenges in the EU project and program evaluation: differences between evaluators from public and private sectors, the view from the Czech Republic

Purpose This study aims to examine the ethical challenges faced by evaluators of European Union (EU)-funded programs and projects in the Czech Republic, with a focus on misreporting, incompleteness or inaccuracies in reporting results. Design/methodology/approach The research use...

The Golden Arc Program: Story as a Committed Wave

This paper states, in brief, a research program developed across three companion papers. The model: narrative is a signed waveform of dramatic charge whose decisive structural point is not the climax but the fold, the moment the space of possible endings closes, and one recursive...

Affordable and Clean Energy: CO 2 Emissions, Resilience and Inequality

ABSTRACT Sustainable development means building the resilience of both people and the planet. It includes implementing strategies which reduce emissions while also enabling more vulnerable households to transition to clean and affordable energy. This paper examines household CO 2...

QbD BASED UV AND RP-HPLC METHOD DEVELOPMENT AND VALIDATION OF VILDAGLIPTIN IN BULK API

Abstract The present study aimed to develop and validate UV-Visible spectrophotometric and QbD-based RP-HPLC analytical methods for the quantitative estimation of Vildagliptin in bulk drug. UV spectrophotometric analysis was performed using Methanol:Water (60:40 v/v) as solventan...

HydrateMorphological Evolution and Its Relation withHigh Permeability Characteristics in Hydrate-Bearing Sediments

Abstract Permeability is a key parameter that reflects the flow capacity of the hydrate-bearing sediments. Permeability decreases with increasing hydrate saturation (Sh), as predicted by conventional permeability reduction models. Our previous research proposed that hydrate-beari...

Topographic and Climatic Determinants of Soil Organic Carbon Across Landscapes: A Meta‐Analysis

ABSTRACT The soil is the greatest natural store of organic carbon, holding between 1500 to 1550 Pg C of organic carbon at the top 100 cm of the soil globally—roughly twice the carbon pool in the atmosphere. The spatial distribution of this stock is controlled by a complex chain o...

Measurement and comparative analysis of owner-occupied housing services in China

Purpose This paper aims to address the historical underestimation of China’s owner-occupied housing services (OOHS) scale and the 2024 accounting reform by the China’s National Bureau of Statistics – which adopted the market rent approach for urban areas but did not revise histor...

Epicardial Fat Thickness and Nighttime Systolic Blood Pressure Variability in Healthy Young Adults

Abstract Background We recognise epicardial fat thickness (EFT) as a biomarker for cardiometabolic risk and blood pressure variability (BPV) as an independent risk factor for cardiovascular morbidity. While studies link them in hypertensive patients, data for healthy young adults...