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Insights into professional development for junior secondary mathematics teachers viewed as out-of-field – a South African case

Abstract Out-of-field (OOF) mathematics teaching is complex and context-dependent, particularly where formal qualifications do not adequately reflect teachers’ preparedness. Drawing on a longitudinal professional development (PD) programme for junior secondary mathematics teacher...

A Model for Cotton Emergence Based on Thirty Years of Seed Treatment Trials Conducted by the National Cotton Seed Treatment Committee

Over 30 years, the National Cotton Council’s National Cottonseed Treatment program has conducted coordinated seed treatment trials across the U.S., resulting in a comprehensive dataset of over 500 field trials. After data curation compiled from annual reports published in the Cot...

Rationale and design of the: breast cancer, fitness and exercise for heart health (BE-FITTER trial)

As breast cancer (BC) survivorship improves, cardiovascular disease (CVD), has become the leading cause of non-cancer death in older survivors. This risk is driven by cardiotoxic treatments, underlying CVD risk factors, and sedentary deconditioning. Despite the established benefi...

Evaluation of Services of a Multidisciplinary Team for Supportive and Palliative Care for Persons with Advanced Cancer at the Tertiary Hospital in Croatia over First Three years: A Retrospective Study

BACKGROUND: Supportive and palliative care, delivered by a multidisciplinary team, plays a crucial role in improving the quality of life for people with advanced cancer by addressing physical, psychological, and social needs. There are no published data evaluating the work of suc...

What Physics Actually Closes: Causal Closure, Quantum Indeterminacy, and the Interpretive Asymmetry

Abstract: Physicalism's most common implicit defense against consciousness-first frameworks is the appeal to causal closure: if every physical event has a sufficient physical cause, there is no work for consciousness to do. Does physics deliver that closure? It does not. Classica...

Weightflow: Reproducible, recipe-aware survey weighting for official statistics in R

Weighting is a governed, reproducible subprocess in the production of official statistics: design weights are refined through a cascade of adjustments (unknown eligibility, out-of-scope units, within-household selection, nonresponse, and calibration to known totals), after which...

From norms to practice: benchmarking International Sports Federations against the UN anti-corruption framework

Abstract International Sports Federations (ISFs) occupy a structurally unique position in the global governance landscape: private associations incorporated under Swiss civil law that simultaneously exercise binding transnational regulatory authority over their respective sports...

THE PARADIGM -IS. THE SEVENTEEN presents the seventeen- statement unifying formulation

THE PARADIGM — IS: THE SEVENTEEN presents the seventeen-statement unifying formulation.

Pyroxene Ceramics Fabricated from Tailings via Synergistic Oxidation of Converter Slag and Copper Slag: Sintering Behavior, Microstructure Evolution and Mechanical Performance

Converter slag and copper slag represent promising sources for ceramic materials, but their high total iron content leads to waste of iron resources and inferior ceramic performance. To address this issue, we propose a two-step utilization method for converter slag and copper sla...

Möbius Magnetic Topology (MMT) II: A Fully Self-Contained Proof of the Field-Line Interlinking Invariants-The Unified Replacement Theorem and the Wr+Tw Decomposition

This paper is the second in the Möbius Magnetic Topology (MMT) series (MMT-II). It provides a fully self-contained, first-principles proof of the linking-number formula system established in MMT-I (Paper 8, Zenodo DOI 10.5281/zenodo.22653188). All linking-number formulas are deri...

Metabolomic Signatures Uncover Domestication-Driven Hypoxia Tolerance in Common Carp (Cyprinus carpio)

Hypoxia represents a pervasive selective pressure in aquaculture systems, prompting aquatic organisms to develop distinct tolerance strategies through diverse physiological and biochemical responses. The common carp (Cyprinus carpio), a species characterized by extensive geograph...

Disease-activity-linked complement-coagulation interactions and persistent platelet activation in treatment-naïve systemic lupus erythematosus

Background Thrombosis is a major cause of morbidity and mortality in systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). Although multiple prothrombotic pathways have been identified, most have been studied individually or after treatment initiation. We aimed to characterize interactions between...

A Context-Aware Adaptive Reasoning Framework for Dynamic Industrial Embodied Intelligence Systems

In modern industrial settings, flexible production pipelines are increasingly essential to accommodate customized products and small-batch orders under dynamic operational conditions. Traditional execution and reasoning pipelines deployed at edge nodes typically rely on fixed top...

High Aspiration Māori Students Experience of Secondary School

Abstract This study examines the English-medium secondary school experiences of 12 Māori students who identified themselves as having high aspirations and clear goals for further education. Data were collected through individual interviews with seven students and a focus group in...

Genome-wide identification and expression analysis of the ZIP (ZRT, IRT-like protein) family in Solanum lycopersicum

Abstract Iron (Fe), zinc (Zn), manganese (Mn), and copper (Cu) are essential micronutrients for plant growth and development, but their low bioavailability in soil limits crop growth and yield. The ZIP (ZRT/IRT-like protein) family plays critical roles in the uptake and distribut...

Opportunities toward Scalable Domain-Wall-Based Spintronic Devices

Abstract Since its initial proposal in 2004, racetrack memory, which utilizes current-induced motion of domain walls within a magnetic nanowire, has evolved from a conceptual spintronic device into a mature research platform supported by major advances in materials engineering, n...

Bimetallic Silver-Copper Micro Flower Nanozyme-Based Colorimetric Sensor Assisted by Artificial Neural Network for Point-of-Care Uric Acid Detection

Abstract The current investigation aims to offer a ready-to-use biosensor with the aid of an artificial neural network (ANN)-powered point-of-care solution model for the detection of uric acid (UA). This mechanism is based on the enzyme-like activity of a bimetallic silver–copper...

Automated CT-Based Quantification of Pulmonary Fibrosis Using Deep Learning-Based Lung Segmentation

Background/Objectives: To develop and evaluate an automated CT-based framework for the quantitative assessment of fibrotic interstitial lung disease (ILD), including idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF), using a standardised six-level anatomical protocol and deep-learning lung seg...

Ecological Engineering of the Human Gut Microbiome: A Narrative Review and Framework for Next-Generation Therapeutics

The human gut microbiome is a complex adaptive ecosystem whose functions arise from interactions among microbial populations rather than from isolated taxa. Nevertheless, many microbiome-directed interventions still rely on administering individual strains, with limited considera...

Ethical tensions in AI-mediated clinical communication: a mixed-methods study of nursing students’ perspectives

The increasing use of artificial intelligence (AI), particularly large language models (LLMs), is reshaping clinical communication by influencing how patients access, interpret, and act upon clinical information. Recent conceptual work has suggested that AI-mediated communication...