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Investigating the barriers to basic school enrolment among Muslim girls in a Zongo community in the Nkwanta North District of Ghana

This study explored the factors predicting the low enrolment of Muslim girls in basic schools in the Zongo community of Kpassa in the Nkwanta North District of Ghana. A qualitative research approach employing a phenomenological design was adopted to examine participants’ lived ex...

Assessing the Ease of Doing Business in Odisha: Performance, Challenges and Future Prospects

Economic development not only sustains larger entrepreneurs and attracts significant investments for faster long-term economic growth, but also supports small and medium-sized enterprises, which boost economic sustainability, affordability and efficiency of the means of productio...

Low‐intensity focused ultrasound neuromodulation for drug‐resistant epilepsy: A randomized, sham‐controlled crossover trial

Abstract Objective This study was undertaken to evaluate the safety, feasibility, and efficacy of low‐intensity focused ultrasound (LIFU) as a noninvasive neuromodulation technique in patients with drug‐resistant epilepsy (DRE). Methods In this pilot, single‐blind, randomized sha...

8.18 Galaxy Rotation Curves and Falsification of Dark Matter

Starting from the ℳ𝒞ℐ Three-Sector and Coding Orbit compactification, combined with the Permeation Function elliptic PDE framework, this article establishes the nonlinear correction to gravity at galactic scales induced by three-dimensional coherent leakage of the Information Fie...

6.3 Constraint Release Effect

This article analyzes the relaxation effect of Completeness constraints—Constraint Release. When certain constraints of the three-field coupling are relaxed (e.g., the high-temperature limit), spectral interlock is partially lifted, allowing more parametric degrees of freedom. Th...

Obinutuzumab Induces Histological Remission and Deep Kidney Parenchymal B-Cell Depletion in Patients with Lupus Nephritis: Exploratory Analyses of the Phase III REGENCY Trial

Objectives The REGENCY trial ( NCT04221477 ) demonstrated superiority of obinutuzumab (OBI) plus standard therapy (+ST) vs placebo (PBO) +ST in achieving complete renal response (CRR) at Week 76 (W76) in adults with active lupus nephritis (LN). These exploratory analyses aimed to...

Forecasting Somalia’s total fertility rate: a comparative analysis of time series models in a post-conflict context

Somalia has to be properly prepared to plan its post-conflict operations because the country is in the midst of a major demographic transition. This paper is driven by the fact that there is a dire need to have accurate forecasting frameworks that can guide the regional policy an...

MERLIN SCIENCE — Penrose Tiling's Golden Ratio Inflation Links Aperiodic Order to Quant — E8 Intelligence Research

The finding is this: Penrose tiling's inflation symmetry generates self-similarity governed by Fibonacci numbers and the golden ratio, linking aperiodic order to five-fold crystallographic symmetry and quantum oscillator hierarchies. You already know the field context. Quasicryst...

Seven Trajectories, One Curve: Cross-Grid Evidence for a Graded Coherence Response

This record reports a graded, cross-grid dose-response relationship in a coherence-based stress measurement across seven independent power-grid events on two U.S. transmission systems (ERCOT, PJM). Using a single, fixed coherence formula — C_ij(τ) = 1 − |x_i(τ) − x_j(τ)| / σ_ij —...

When Time Stands Still: The Destructive Experience of Ambiguous Loss among Mothers of Combat Soldiers

What happens when stories refuse coherence? This article examines ambiguous loss among mothers of combat soldiers, focusing on how prolonged waiting and uncertainty infiltrate everyday life, eroding sensemaking. Drawing on ethnographic interviews, it explores how mothers experien...

Formal Reliability Analysis of Multi-Layer Deterministic Verification in Clinical AI: A Fault Tree Approach to Quantifying Hallucination Probability

This monograph establishes the quantitative reliability bound for the anti-hallucination architecture of the DeepSensi Cognitive Medical OS. The derived bound is an engineering-grade safety characterization of a multi-layer verification cascade based on IEC 61025 (Fault Tree Anal...

Unpacking the Comparator: Mapping “Usual Care” in Non-Surgical Knee OA Trials

Objectives “Usual care” is a common comparator in randomized trials (RCTs) evaluating interventions for knee osteoarthritis (OA), but it lacks a standardized definition. This scoping review aimed to systematically map how usual care has been defined and reported in knee OA RCTs,...

Design, implementation, and evaluation of an integrated PBL bridge course in basic medical sciences: a seven‑year project evaluation with longitudinal follow‑up

Traditional discipline‑based medical curricula often separate basic sciences from clinical training, leaving students struggling to integrate knowledge when faced with complex clinical problems. Existing integration strategies, such as organ‑system-based curricula or early clinic...

From Ocean Dynamics to Plural Normative Orders Stratification, Localised Mixing, and the Governance of Interfaces: A Preliminary Discussion with Multilingual Democracy and International Organisations as Cases

A polity holding several orders of value contains parties whose claims are checkable on different time scales and by different observers, and arrangements of that kind are commonly assessed by measures computed on the whole. This paper takes the ocean as a worked case of a system...

7.6 Spectral Unification of Coupling Constants

This paper proves that the running indices of the four coupling constants — electromagnetic, weak, strong, and gravitational — are uniformly determined by the Jacobian eigenspectrum of the Birkhoff Mixing Matrix . The eigenvalues of the Hessian matrix of the Algebraic Action at t...

BLOCKCHAIN TECHNOLOGY-BASED TRACEABILITY FOR COUNTERFEIT MEDICINE PREVENTION IN COMMUNITY PHARMACIES IN BAYELSA STATE, NIGERIA

Counterfeit and substandard medicines remain a major global public health threat, with the World Health Organization estimating that up to 10% of medicines in low- and middle-income countries are falsified or substandard, exceeding 20% for some therapeutic classes in sub-Saharan...

DE BROGLIE RELATION IN THE TVM FRAMEWORK Derivation of the Wave Nature of Particles from First Principles and the Initial State of the Universe

This paper rigorously establishes the De Broglie relation from the first principles of the Theory of Time Modulation (TVM), without introducing subsequent hypotheses, postulated quantum conditions, or empirical parameters. In standard quantum mechanics, the De Broglie relation wa...

Mind the Gap: Evaluating Forensic Accounting Training in Hong Kong Undergraduate Accounting Programmes

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Uncovering the Societal Harm of Cross-Sector Partnerships: An Intervention Perspective

Cross-sector partnerships (CSPs) are widely recognized as vehicles for addressing societal challenges. Yet, their potential to generate harm to communities, the environment, and broader societal systems remains underexamined. Evidence is fragmented and context-dependent, obscurin...

From undifferentiated to defined: a mixed-methods, data-driven investigation of the acculturation of culturally undifferentiated majority members

Abstract In increasingly diverse societies, people in intercultural contact must navigate cultural diversity to find their place and sense of belonging. Yet, research on acculturation has largely focused on minority groups, leaving majority group responses to cultural change unde...