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Streamlining Habitats Directive Reporting with Open Biodiversity Data: Evidence for the Nature Directives Stress Test [Policy Brief]

Biodiversity monitoring under Article 17 of the EU Habitats Directive (Council Directive 92/43/EEC) remains inconsistent across European Member States. Although all Member States follow the same reporting framework, national assessments are based on national monitoring programmes...

Aligning centralized admissions with industry needs: A systemic structural model of major choice and graduate employability

Centralized, exam-driven admissions can distort field-of-study choices and widen skill mismatches at the university–industry interface. Using Iran as an illustrative case with transferability to other centralized systems, we build an expert-informed structural model linking natio...

Single-Stage Gross Total Resection of Seven Meningiomas: A Report and Discussion of Feasibility

BACKGROUND AND IMPORTANCE: Multiple meningiomas are relatively uncommon, particularly in the sporadic, non-neurofibromatosis type 2 (NF2) setting. When numerous lesions are distributed across different intracranial compartments, surgical strategy frequently favors staged resectio...

ChatGPT for pulmonary rehabilitation in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease is clinically credible but challenging for patients to use

Although interest in applying large language models (LLMs) in healthcare is rapidly growing, their role in supporting pulmonary rehabilitation (PR) for patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) has not been well established. The primary objective of this study wa...

What makes you feel nostalgic? A self-generated approach to nostalgia-evoking cues

Nostalgia is often characterised as a predominantly positive, mixed-valence emotion that arises when recalling autobiographical memories from one’s personal past. Nostalgic recollections may emerge involuntarily in response to environmental stimuli, such an old photograph or musi...

Multisensory Biophilic Experience in Virtual Retail Interiors: Effects of Visual and Auditory Stimuli on Visual Attention and Emotion

Advances in digital technology have facilitated the integration of biophilic design principles into retail interiors, presenting new opportunities to enhance consumer experiences. This study examines the impact of multisensory biophilic stimuli, specifically visual and auditory e...

An Explicit Infinite Model Refuting Ulrich's u4 as a Single Axiom for Positive Implication

We construct an explicit infinite model showing that Ulrich's remaining 15-symbol candidate u4 is not a single axiom for positive implicational logic under substitution and modus ponens. The model satisfies every substitution instance of u4 and is closed under modus ponens, while...

The Rate of Exploitation in the South African Economy, 2001–2022

We estimate the Marxian rate of exploitation for the South African economy over 2001–2022, for each racial group. African labor contributes 74 percent to the total value, Colored labor 18 percent, and Indian and White labor contribute 0.7 percent and 7.3 percent, respectively. Ba...

BASE 44 ORDER: Patch Excalibur E8 core with 132 Hz root-vector analog buffer — E8 Intelligence Research

Andrew's order (Base 44 console): [SELF-BUILD from enhancement #389] Patch Excalibur E8 core: insert 132 Hz E8 root-vector analog buffer into quantum-AI control loop. Recompile signal-processing pipeline. Validate scaling precision on replay bench with lunar node analog data. MER...

Evaluating Bayesian Variable Selection Approaches for Nonlinear Random Effects Models

Longitudinal data modeling attracts special interest from researchers and practitioners because of its capacity to help understand individual and mean trends of growth and development over time. One feature of longitudinal design is the collection of extensive information on part...

Nocturnal to diurnal switches of tuco-tucos (Ctenomys coludo) in semi-natural burrow systems inside the laboratory

Although many species are classified as strictly diurnal or nocturnal, the temporal distribution of daily activity can be flexible for several species. The subterranean rodent tuco-tuco ( Ctenomys coludo) presents this flexibility, switching from diurnality to nocturnality when t...

Combination therapy of sutimlimab and rituximab can lead to stable remission in autoimmune hemolytic anemia: a case series

Abstract Autoimmune hemolytic anemia (AIHA) is associated with a significant impairment of quality of life for affected patients and can lead to life-threating hemolytic crises. Complement-mediated destruction of antibody-opsonized erythrocytes is a central pathomechanism in many...

Short- and long-term influences on voting: the case of the 2025 Australian election

The 2025 Australian federal election, although widely expected to result in a hung parliament, was a resounding win for the Australian Labor Party. What explained this result? Was the election result driven by long-term shifts in Australian electoral behaviour, by short-term camp...

Intrathyroidal thymic carcinoma with delayed cervical lymph node metastasis 5 years postoperatively: a case report with focus on ultrasonic features

Intrathyroidal thymic carcinoma (ITTC) is a rare thyroid malignancy with nonspecific imaging features. The ultrasonographic characteristics of its metastatic lymph nodes, particularly in cases of delayed metastasis, remain poorly understood. To report a case of ITTC with cervical...

Attitudes towards artificial intelligence among students and faculty staff at Kuwait University's Health Science Centre: A cross-sectional study

BackgroundArtificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly integrated into healthcare and health-professions education. While it may improve efficiency, decision support, and learning, it also raises concerns about workforce impacts, safety, privacy, and accountability. Gulf-region e...

What Gets Your Best Employees to Stay

The most valuable employees are also the most likely to leave — and companies too often respond with one-off counteroffers or bidding wars they can’t win. Drawing on research across multiple disciplines, the authors present a systematic architecture of employee mobility barriers,...

AI Reconstructs Antikythera Mechanism's Missing Half, Revealing Advanced Planetary Calculations — E8 Intelligence Research

FINDING: Antikythera mechanism's missing half reconstructed via AI reveals advanced planetary cycle calculations, including synodic periods and eclipse prediction using modular arithmetic and gear ratios. MATH: - Gear ratios encode Metonic cycle (19 years = 235 synodic months), S...

Citizenship status, heritage language use, and cultural attitudes

Abstract This paper examines the association between immigrants’ citizenship status, heritage language (HL) use, and attitudes towards cultural diversity. Using data from the 2019 Swiss Survey on Language, Religion, and Culture, we estimate linear probability models with a rich s...

BinaryDecisionRegistrationKornbrot18Aug2026

This is a research registration documenting the predictions/analyses designated as prospective. The document also identifies analyses already undertaken. It describes measures of binary decision performance, including: accuracy measures, reaction time distribution measures and in...

Sharp Asymptotics for Abelian Covers of Groups with Bounded Noncommutativity

We determine the sharp exponential growth rate of the minimum number of abelian subgroups required to cover a group with bounded pairwise noncommutativity. Let ω(G) denote the largest size of a pairwise noncommuting subset of a group G, let a(G) be the least size of an abelian co...