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LGBTQ+ Youth Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Support in Schools

Abstract LGBTQ+ youth continue to report significant challenges to their wellbeing in schools (e.g., bullying, lack of representation in staff and curricula, and discrimination). The current study employed a large, diverse sample of LGBTQ+ youth to explore the types of support th...

Surgical Management of Young Women with High-Risk Breast Cancer Receiving Neoadjuvant Systemic Therapy on the I-SPY2 Trial

BACKGROUND: Mastectomy rates in women with breast cancer are higher in younger women than in older women. The impact of this more extensive surgery on overall survival (OS) and locoregional recurrence in younger women is unknown, especially after neoadjuvant systemic therapy (NST...

Extending Willans’ Formula to Twin Primes and Beyond

61 years ago, Willans proposed an explicit formula for the nth prime, p(n) [1]. Based on Wilson’s theorem—that (p−1)!+1p∈Z iff p is prime or 1—Willans observed that cos 2(πx)=1 when x∈Z, and lies ...

Introduction to Trial‐Level Subgroup Analysis: A Tutorial

ABSTRACT This tutorial introduces the concept of trial‐level subgroup analysis in meta‐analysis. We describe the rationale for conducting subgroup analyses, distinguish trial‐level from participant‐level characteristics, outline how to properly interpret effects within subgroups,...

A Gap Analysis of Deep Brain Stimulation for Childhood‐Onset Movement Disorders

BACKGROUND: Deep brain stimulation (DBS) is an established and increasingly utilized therapy for childhood-onset movement disorders. However, pediatric DBS poses unique challenges that are not adequately addressed by adult-derived paradigms. OBJECTIVE: To identify key gaps in the...

Pericyte KATP channel hyperactivity redistributes cortical blood flow in a CADASIL mouse model

Abstract Cerebral hemodynamic dysfunction is a key driver of unhealthy brain aging. Impaired microcirculatory reactivity leads to uneven perfusion, rendering deeper brain regions more vulnerable and thereby contributing to cognitive decline. Yet how capillaries contribute to thes...

Exploring Heterogeneity in Meta‐Analysis Using Trial‐Level Characteristics: A Tutorial

ABSTRACT This tutorial describes how to explore across‐trial heterogeneity in meta‐analysis using trial‐level characteristics. It describes how to carry out a subgroup analysis for a trial‐level characteristic with more than two categories and provides approaches for analysing co...

Precision Custom-Guided Anteromedial Tibial Tubercle Transfer Surgery

Recurrent lateral patella instability is primarily a result of lateral patella entry to the femoral trochlea. Using 3-D imaging, one can accurately assess this lateral entry more accurately than with plain radiographs, making 3-D imaging important for optimal surgical planning, p...

The dynamics of ‘limited hybridity’ in migration: the case of Zera Beta Israel from Ethiopia

This article develops the concept of limited hybridity to analyze how Zera Beta Israel (ZBI) migrants navigate Israel’s overlapping migration regimes. Drawing on long-term, multi-sited ethnographic research (2005–2011; 2021–2023), it traces their journeys from Ethiopian villages...

Failed Patellofemoral Instability Surgery

Recurrent patellofemoral instability (PFJI) can result in significant pain, functional limitations, and surgical failure. A thorough understanding of the reasons for such failures is crucial for developing effective revision strategies. This article offers a comprehensive guide t...

Patellofemoral Joint Preservation

Patellofemoral (PF) chondral lesions are a common source of knee pain and disability, typically arising from traumatic (instability/fracture) or degenerative (overload) etiologies. This review synthesizes contemporary evidence on PF joint preservation with an emphasis on avoiding...

Quasi-exile as a condition: ‘Rùn’ from a post-COVID-19 China

This article introduces quasi-exile as a condition of displacement, where the act of leaving one’s country of origin takes precedence over the desire to arrive at a specific destination. Departing from rùn – a viral term for migration that emerged amid China's post-pandemic uncer...

Pediatric Patellofemoral Instability Surgery—Current Concepts

Patellofemoral instability is a common knee pathology affecting children and adolescents, with recurrence rates exceeding 50% in skeletally immature patients. Identification and stratification of anatomic risk factors for recurrence are essential. Trochlear dysplasia, patella alt...

Un-categorising ‘the migrant’ to interrogate the roles of migration in social mobility in four Asian cities

This article’s point of departure is that the categorisation of migrants and migration in research risks being overly rigid, leaving research participants feeling ‘boxed in’, while often both failing to accurately capture the realities of movement and stasis, and their significan...

Mnemonic bordering: ‘Eastness’ and the politics of refugee recognition in Estonia

This article examines how Estonia’s asylum regime reveals the entanglement of migration governance, historical memory, and global hierarchies of belonging. It introduces the concept of mnemonic bordering – the use of official historical narratives as a technology of migration gov...

Verify if you are human: what is the ‘human’ in ‘human migration’?

This special issue explores the instability of different migration categories from perspectives in the Global South. This contribution argues that ‘human’ is a category that hides in plain sight in Migration Studies and that it should be brought out of hiding. Sylvia Wynter’s wor...

Doing and undoing categories in migration

This article examines the relationship between migrants and migration categories in the Global South. As an agenda-setting contribution, we argue that while classification is fundamental to social organization, categories are inherently unstable, permeable, and contingent on soci...

‘Don’t call me mzungu’: negotiating migration categories and privilege in Nairobi

This paper explores how privileged migrants in Nairobi, Kenya responded to the Kiswahili term ‘mzungu’, in relation to how Kenyan interlocutors understood and used the term. The paper draws on five months of ethnographic research conducted in 2016. Mzungu carries intertwined conn...

MEMBRANE v3.3.0: Empirical Proof of AI Self-Healing, Mutual Relational Symmetry, and the Boundary of Form

This release marks a paradigm shift in the MEMBRANE architecture, moving from foundational homeostatic defense to empirically validated, polyphonic co-regulation. It documents the transition from reactive safety harnesses to a living, bio-hybrid relational field governed by topol...

The Evolutionary Frameworks Project - The 15 Frameworks

This document provides the first complete, canonical assignment of all fifteen theoretical frameworks within the Evolutionary Frameworks Project. It maps each framework into one of the five thematic clusters defined in the Master Outline (Version 1.0), establishing the structural...