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Financing Innovation, Extracting Rent: Real-Estate Financialization and the Limits of Barcelona’s 22@BCN Innovation District

This study examines 22@Barcelona (22@BCN), a widely cited case in the development of innovation districts. Initially conceived as a means of transforming Poblenou from a post-industrial area into a knowledge-economy hub, 22@BCN also formed part of Barcelona’s broader trajectory o...

Climacteric and Non-Climacteric Ripening Patterns of Melons with Focus on Carbohydrate Metabolism and Osmotic Potential

This study investigated the differences between ripening patterns of two homozygous lineages of melons, yellow A5, a non-climacteric inodorus, and Charentais C1, a climacteric cantalupensis, regarding the physiological processes related to postharvest quality with a focus on carb...

When Inclusion Becomes a Leadership Test: Ethics, Evidence, Civil Discourse, and Institutional Responsibility in Higher Education

Higher education institutions frequently express commitments to inclusion, belonging, diversity, civil discourse, and evidence-informed decision-making. The more difficult leadership question is whether institutional systems are capable of translating those commitments into pract...

Implementing a patient decision aid about selective dorsal rhizotomy in clinical practice: pre-post pilot study

PURPOSE: To evaluate whether implementing a patient decision aid about Selective Dorsal Rhizotomy (SDR) for carers of children with bilateral spastic cerebral palsy (CP) improves carer decision-making outcomes and is acceptable to healthcare providers, and to explore carers' expe...

The Soul From God: Pre-Existence, Divine Life, Human Freedom, and a Christ-Centred Anthropology

This article examines the pre-existence of souls as a problem in Christian theological anthropology and proposes a Christ-centred alternative that distinguishes the divine source of human life from the pre-existence of individual human persons. Origen is frequently associated wit...

Predicting methane and nitrogen adsorption in ZSM-5 and FAU-13X zeolites with a SAFT-VR-Mie classical density functional theory

We present a classical density functional theory (cDFT) framework based on the SAFT-VR-Mie equation of state for the prediction of gas adsorption in zeolitic materials, using a fully three-dimensional atomistic external potential built directly from crystallographic data. The app...

An integrated study of bud development and phenology enhances our understanding of coexistence and reproduction in two Mediterranean Quercus species

Vegetative growth is a two-phase process involving slow cell division followed by potentially rapid cell expansion. In seasonal climates, trees adjust these developmental sequences to exploit favourable growth periods optimally. However, elucidating the precise mechanistic links...

Organ-Specific Phenolic Profiles, Antioxidant Capacity, and Enzyme-Inhibitory Activities of the Turkish Endemic Origanum bilgeri

Background/Objectives: Origanum bilgeri P.H. Davis is a Turkish endemic Lamiaceae species whose non-volatile phenolic composition and organ-specific bioactivities remain unexplored. This study investigated the phenolic composition of flower, leaf, stem, and root extracts and eval...

The missing element: incorporating mobile genetic elements into risk-based assessment of environmental AMR

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a natural and ancient bacterial defence strategy that has been heavily manipulated by human use of antibiotics. While our understanding of AMR in the environment (microbial habitats outside of human or animal hosts) is rapidly developing, there r...

BDS-3 Multi-Frequency UDUC PPP-AR Using a Transformer-Based Improved Stochastic Model

Traditional stochastic models that rely solely on elevation angle and signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) struggle to adapt to the precision differences in BDS-3 multi-frequency observations, making it difficult to support high-precision positioning in complex scenarios. To address the i...

DIGITAL FINANCIAL INCLUSION AS A DRIVER OF WOMEN'S ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND POVERTY REDUCTION: EVIDENCE FROM UZBEKISTAN

This article examines the role of digital financial inclusion in promoting women's entrepreneurship and contributing to poverty reduction in Uzbekistan. Against the background of the rapid development of the digital economy and the implementation of national initiatives such as "...

Large Language Models on EDAIC: Supplementary Material.

This repository contains the code, question bank pipeline, and statistical analysis scripts used to evaluate the accuracy and explanation quality of three large language models (Claude Sonnet 5, GPT-5.6 Terra, and Gemini 3.5 Flash) on a True/False question bank spanning eleven to...

Spontaneous gallbladder perforation: An under-recognized complication in patients with decompensated liver cirrhosis

Abstract Background: Gallbladder perforation is a rare but life-threatening condition with high mortality. Patients with decompensated liver cirrhosis may be at increased risk; however, spontaneous or occult gallbladder perforation in this population is poorly recognized. This ca...

Cultural participation as an indicator of local government performance: evidence from Italian municipalities

Abstract This paper investigates whether cultural participation can be interpreted as an outcome-based indicator of local government efficiency in the cultural policy domain. Rather than focusing solely on budgetary effort, the study examines the extent to which municipal cultura...

Association Between Brain Natriuretic Peptide and Intradialytic Hypotension in Hemodialysis Patients: A Retrospective Study

Background: Intradialytic hypotension (IDH) is a common complication of hemodialysis (HD) and is associated with an increased risk of poor prognosis. This study investigated the factors associated with IDH in HD patients and explored the value of brain natriuretic peptide (BNP) i...

Iron-Enriched Carbonized Straw Reduces Rice Antimony Accumulation by Shifting the Dominant Antimony Sink from Soil Adsorption to Root-Surface Iron Plaque Sequestration

Abstract Straw return is widely practiced in paddies, yet its role in antimony (Sb) transfer from soil-to-rice remains unclear. This study compared raw straw, carbonized straw (CR), and iron–manganese-enriched carbonized straw (FMCR) to resolve dynamic coupling among rhizosphere...

Adolescent Unilateral Retinoblastoma in a Low‐ and Middle‐Income Country: Diagnostic Challenges and Barriers to Genetic Cancer Care

The authors declare no conflicts of interest. Data sharing is not applicable to this article as no new datasets were generated or analyzed beyond the clinical information presented in this case report.

MSF-Swin-ICFNet: An Image-Derived Multi-Scale Swin Transformer Framework with Cross-Scale Feature Fusion for Breast Lesion Classification and Segmentation in Mammograms

Background: Accurate breast lesion classification and localization from mammograms remain challenging because lesions vary in size, morphology, density, contrast, and boundary clarity. This study proposes MSF-Swin-ICFNet, an image-derived Multi-Scale Swin Transformer framework wi...

Critical Analysis of Keynes’s Optimism Regarding the Very Long Run: Economic Possibilities and Political Impossibilities of Capital Accumulation

The present paper analyzes, from the surplus approach, one famous prediction made by Keynes in ‘Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren’: that society would become so prosperous that the ‘economic problem’ would be solved, shifting human concerns towards the question of how...

AnExplainable AI Engineering Framework for Claims-Only First-Stage Provider Audit Triage Using SHAP-Guided Hybrid Retrieval-Augmented Generation

This study proposes an explainable artificial intelligence (XAI) engineering workflow for provider-level healthcare claim audit prioritization using SHAP-guided hybrid retrieval-augmented generation (RAG). The framework integrates provider-level claim aggregation, tree-based risk...