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Acting on the Voicelessness Challenge to Democratic Deliberation: A Six‐Actor Framework

Political philosophers have long recognized that key stakeholders in policy decisions-children, future generations, nonhuman animals, and individuals with severe cognitive impairments-are structurally unable to participate in the deliberative processes meant to legitimate those d...

ANALYSIS OF INDICATORS OF HUMAN CAPITAL UTILIZATION AND LABOR RELATIONS EFFICIENCY IN THE SMALL BUSINESS SECTOR

The article provides a statistical and economic analysis of the system of indicators characterizing the utilization of human capital and the efficiency of labor relations in the small business sector of Uzbekistan. A methodological distinction is made between the existing stock o...

Bridge jobs and retirement identities: Gendered life course approach to workforce exits among Early Boomers

Abstract Objectives The prevalence of bridge jobs, post-career work that bridges between career jobs and workforce exit, has obfuscated the isomorphic link between older adults’ role identities as retirees, named ‘retirement identities’, and their actual labor force status in way...

‘Vulnerable but Happy?’ Exploring Older People’s Wellbeing in the UK During the FirstCOVID-19 Lockdown

This paper focuses on the wellbeing of a sample of older and predominantly middle-class UK individuals drawn from the Mass Observation Project (MOP) participant panel in 2020, covering the first months of the global COVID-19 pandemic and first UK national lockdown. It finds that...

The Association Between Muscle Strength, Thigh Circumference, and Serving Efficiency in Elite Male Volleyball Players: A Prospective Observational Longitudinal Study

Background and Aim: The identification of factors that optimize competitive performance is a primary focus for athletes and coaches in any sport, particularly variables that are modifiable through tailored nutritional and training strategies. Since data regarding volleyball remai...

The Empty Vertical: Toward a Theory of the Technological Folly — Programless Systems, Institutional Display, and the Architecture of Nothing

A research paper naming the technological folly as a distinct object of architectural, organizational and technical analysis: a substantial, institutionally maintained computational architecture whose structural identity is independent of a validated operational program, and whos...

Safety Climate Surveys, Maturity Models, and Triangulated Safety Culture Assessment: A Scoping Review of Diagnostic Methodologies

Safety culture has become a central construct in occupational safety management due to its recognized influence on organizational performance and accident prevention. However, the absence of a universally applicable assessment methodology has contributed to substantial methodolog...

DISCLAIMERS AND LIMITATIONS OF LIABILITY IN DIGITAL CONTRACTS: THE CASE OF CLOUD COMPUTING AND SOFTWARE AS A SERVICE (SaaS) CONTRACTS

This article analyses the legal limits of clauses excluding or limiting civil liability in cloud computing and Software as a Service (SaaS) contracts. The study focuses on the tension between the private autonomy of technology providers — who rely on standardised form contracts t...

Conditional cooling from large-scale urban afforestation: ecosystem functioning and planning implications

Large-scale urban afforestation is increasingly promoted as a Nature-Based Solution for reducing urban heat. Yet afforestation does not cool cities uniformly, and the conditions under which it delivers sustained thermal benefits remain poorly understood. This uncertainty limits t...

Fear of death increases nocebo-prone behavior in people with headaches during covid-19. A longitudinal observational survey

BACKGROUND: The nocebo effect greatly affects pain management. We investigated the nocebo-prone behavior in people with headaches during and after the COVID-19 pandemic, for which there is clear evidence that the nocebo effect increased. METHODS: Individuals with headaches comple...

From Strings to Desynchronized Times: 8 Coils at 43.515 deg as 8 Temporal Axes -- Unified Field Equations, Origin of kappa_crit=1e-78, k_early=0.967, R_geom=0.2791, 7 percent and 3.3 percent -- Final Conceptual Note v9 (Replaces v7)

This version v9 REPLACES v7 (UAT-UCP Conceptual Note v7) in the same repository under a new DOI. v7 is kept as historical archive of the 36+1 coil phase with LISA 0.005-0.045 Hz Hilbert pipeline. v9 unifies 50+ technical notes Nov 2024-Sep 2026 that showed inconsistent values bec...

Molecular dynamics based study on the effects of cation size on the local structure and diffusion in polymerized ionic liquids

We have used coarse-grained molecular dynamics simulations to understand the effect of cation size on ion diffusion in polymerized ionic liquids at temperatures well above the glass transition temperature of the polymers. We investigated dependencies of the diffusion constant on...

Insiders and Outsiders: The Historiography of Immigration in France

Abstract The history of immigration has become a dynamic subfield of French history since the 1970s. We examine its origins in both academic and activist milieus, and we consider its development in relation to some of the most important civic debates that have animated the French...

Integrating 3D-printed sclero-corneal models into Rigid Gas Permeable contact lens training: A pilot study

Purpose Rigid gas permeable contact lenses provide excellent optical quality and oxygen permeability, but their fitting process is complex. Traditional teaching methods, such as student-to-student practice, present limitations regarding safety and corneal geometry diversity. A ki...

Carbon-Fiber Structural Batteries: From Multifunctional Integration to Retained Reliability

Carbon-fiber structural batteries represent a class of multifunctional energy-storage systems that integrate electrochemical energy storage with mechanical load-bearing capability. Unlike conventional batteries, which are mainly evaluated based on cell-level energy density, struc...

Balloon-assisted radial release for retrieval of a surgically suture-fixed inferior vena cava filter: a case report

The retrieval of an inferior vena cava (IVC) filter is essential for preventing complications related to the filter. Surgically induced suture fixation is an extremely rare cause of filter entrapment and presents unique technical challenges. This case describes a balloon-assisted...

Gut Microbiota and Aldosterone Regulate Natriuretic Peptide B Expression to Drive Mitophagy and Metabolic Reprogramming in Sepsis‐Like Model of Myocardial Injury

BACKGROUND: Myocardial injury is a major contributor to mortality in sepsis, yet the mechanisms underlying gut-heart communication in sepsis-induced myocardial injury remain insufficiently defined. Natriuretic peptide B (NPPB) is a cardiac stress-responsive gene, but its involvem...

Beyond Sigma - The Resonance Principle

How to measure the markets and risk more properly.

Stock assessment of American Samoa bottomfishes, 2026 update

In American Samoa, the bottomfishes occurring in federal waters (3 to 200 miles from shore) are currently managed by the Western Pacific Regional Fishery Management Council (WPRFMC) under the “Fishery Ecosystem Plan for the American Samoa Archipelago” (FEP; WPRFMC, 2009). This FE...

Therapeutic Plasma Exchange for Eculizumab-refractory Peripheral Cyanosis in Pediatric Anti-factor H Atypical Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome: A Rare Case Report

Background/aim: Atypical hemolytic uremic syndrome (aHUS) is a rare complement-mediated thrombotic microangiopathy characterized by dysregulation of the alternative complement pathway, leading to microangiopathic hemolytic anemia, thrombocytopenia, and acute kidney injury.Anti-co...