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Gender mainstreaming in climate change policy: opportunities and challenges for gender justice in Mauritius

Climate change is intrinsically linked to gender. Evidence shows women face the greatest impacts of climate change due to higher poverty presence, reliance on land, family responsibilities, and less societal power. Our study uses Carol Bacchi’s "What is the Problem Represented to...

Altered Volatile Emissions and Incomplete Photosynthetic Recovery after Heatwave-Associated Drought and Rewetting in the Woolly Feather-Moss Tomentypnum nitens

Abstract Mosses dominate ground cover in many ecosystems and are central to carbon and nutrient cycling, water regulation, and surface energy balance. Their poikilohydric physiology, without stomatal control or vascular transport, couples metabolism closely to moisture. While cli...

Layered Spin‐Crossover Metal‐Organic Frameworks for Light‐Induced Control of Two‐Dimensional Quantum Materials

ABSTRACT Metal‐organic frameworks (MOFs) are widely explored for gas separation, catalysis, or energy storage, yet their integration with other electronically functional materials remains largely unexplored. Here, we integrate the layered Hofmann‐type spin‐crossover (SCO) MOF {Fe...

Heterogeneous Observer Collaboration (HOC)

Different Observer Intelligences may possess different perceptual and representational advantages with respect to the same object of observation. Rather than converging those differences into a common perceptual form or Shared Interpretation, this paper proposes that the differen...

The Ability of Generative Artificial Intelligence to Evaluate the Quality of Scholarly Output

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly being considered as tools to support the peer-review process. However, we currently have a limited understanding of their capabilities and biases in this area. In a set of three studies, we examined how out-of-the box LLMs evaluate sc...

Debt Aversion: Theory and Measurement

ABSTRACT We propose a model of debt aversion and conduct an experiment with real debt and saving contracts to jointly elicit debt aversion and preferences over time, risk, and intertemporal losses. We find that 89% of participants are debt averse, which strongly influences their...

How social status shapes U.S. children’s beliefs about social mobility

Children grow up within social hierarchies that shape their everyday lives. Social mobility is a core mechanism through which societies either challenge or maintain existing inequalities. The present study examined how U.S. children’s social status—both experimentally manipulated...

Short telomeres, but not accelerated epigenetic or proteomic age, increase fibrotic lung disease risk: Mendelian randomisation with pleiotropy dissection and independent replication

Background. Short telomeres are an established cause of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF), but the genetic evidence rests on seven instruments, six of which lie at telomere-maintenance loci, and so cannot separate an effect of telomere length from an effect of the telomerase pa...

Unraveling the Mechanism for Phonon Based Heat Transport in Metal‐Organic Frameworks

ABSTRACT Heat transport is a crucial process for many applications of metal‐organic frameworks (MOFs), including gas adsorption, catalysis, and bio‐encapsulation. A prerequisite for designing MOFs with optimal thermal conductivities is developing a profound understanding of the u...

ScopeNovo: a De Novo Peptide Sequencing Method Using Spectrum-Spectrum Similarity to Refine the Prediction Accuracy

Abstract Motivation De novo peptide sequencing from tandem mass spectra is essential for characterizing unknown proteins, identifying novel post-translational modifications, and analyzing samples without reference databases. While recent deep learning models have improved the pre...

Simulation analysis of the dynamic balance of the reed part in the beating-up mechanism of a loom to study effective parameters.

This paper focuses on the development and optimization of crepe fabric production using advanced weaving techniques. Crepe fabric is highly valued for its unique texture and elegant appearance. Producing this fabric requires precise control of yarn tension and mechanical paramete...

IMPROVING TACTICAL COORDINATION IN DOTA 2 ESPORTS THROUGH RAPID IN-GAME COMMUNICATION

Effective tactical coordination in team-based esports depends largely on the speed and clarity of communication among players. In Dota 2, where the game environment changes rapidly, delayed communication may negatively affect players’ ability to coordinate attacks, defensive acti...

Motivation in third sector co-production settings: A Self-Determination Theory perspective on sequential co-production

IMPACTThe article shows how third sector organizations can move beyond the repeated recruitment of volunteers and instead develop a renewable pipeline of co-producers. The concept of ‘sequential co-production’ explains how beneficiaries can be motivated to become future co-produc...

Platelet reactivity in frail older women: integrating phenomic and proteomic analysis

Abstract The impact of altered platelet responsiveness associated with disease or ageing is poorly understood. In this study, we sought to determine whether frailty in old age, which is itself associated with an increased risk of cardiovascular disease, is associated with altered...

Structural Principles of Inter-Intelligence Intermediary Syntax (SP-IIIS)

This paper clarifies what should be shared across different Observer Intelligences in Inter-Intelligence Intermediary Syntax (IIIS), and what should remain open to each Observer’s interpretation. EchoScript (ES) is treated as a flat, open-ended shared structure that retains corre...

Targeting the MLN64/STARD3-cholesterol axis disrupts tight junction remodelling and attenuates gastric cancer aggressiveness

Introduction Gastric cancer remains a major cause of cancer-related mortality, largely due to invasion, metastasis, and therapeutic resistance. Dysregulated cholesterol metabolism is increasingly recognised as a driver of gastric cancer progression, but how intracellular choleste...

АНГЛОРУСКИ И АНГЛОСРПСКИ: ОДРАЗ БУДУЋНОСТИ У ЛЕКСИЧКИМ СИСТЕМИМА РУСКОГ И СРПСКОГ ЈЕЗИКА

Утицај страних језика, у првом реду енглеског, на друге језичке системе акту елно је и важно лингвистичко питање. Англоглобализација, како се неретко назива ова појава, огледа се у преузимању великог броја речи из енглеског језика чиме се доприно си ширењу хибридног ‘језика’. Сав...

О БУДУЋНОСТИ УТОПИЈЕ ЖОРИС-КАРЛА УИСМАНСА

У раду се осветљава вишеслојност утопије у одабраним делима Жорис-Карла Уисманса: насупрот (À rebours, 1884), Тамо доле (Là-bas, 1891), и на путу (En route, 1895). Преиспитује се релевантност Уисманса као „писца бекства и тражења спаса” у нашем веку за будуће генерације, кроз ана...

ЛУДОПОЕТИКА ПРОСТОРА: О ИГРИ, ПРИЧИ И КОРАКУ

Пошавши од хипотеза на којима Башлар заснива своју поетику простора, Јун говог архетипско-архитектонског модела психе, те Рикерове феноменолошке онто-нара тивне теорије субјективитета, у раду настојимо да испитамо семиотички и лудонаратив ни потенцијал видео-игре Шта остаје од ид...

THIS THING OF DARKNESS: SHAKESPEARE’S DUALISMS AND THEIR IMPLICATIONS

It was in Shakespeare’s age – now usually referred to as the early modern period pre cisely for this reason – that many of our own current cultural patterns were shaped, and Shake speare’s works certainly served as one conduit. A concept that has proved to be highly influential i...