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Placental Growth Factor in Diabetic Retinopathy: Disease-Selective Signaling and Mechanistic Rationale for Targeted Therapy

Chronic hyperglycemia disrupts the retinal neurovascular unit, making diabetic retinopathy (DR) the leading cause of adult vision loss. The hallmarks of DR include pathological angiogenesis, vascular leakage, and neurodegeneration. Although vascular endothelial growth factor A (V...

Informal Economy Measurement with Satellite Data: Night-Light and Activity Indicators

Research article: Informal Economy Measurement with Satellite Data: Night-Light and Activity Indicators

Unified Constraint Theory (UCT): An Effective Constraint-Space Framework for Coupled Complex Systems

Unified Constraint Theory (UCT) is formulated as an effective constraint-space representation for coupled macroscopic systems and as a theoretical bridge within the Planetary Common State (PCS) research program. PCS defines the observable common state from heterogeneous data, whi...

THE EFFECTIVENESS OF RESTORATIVE JUSTICE IN THE RESOLUTION OF JUVENILE CRIMINAL CASES: A VICTIM, OFFENDER, AND LAW ENFORCEMENT PERSPECTIVE

Restorative justice has emerged as an alternative approach to resolving juvenile criminal cases by emphasizing restoration, reconciliation, and the recovery of relationships between victims, offenders, families, and the community. This study aims to analyze the effectiveness of r...

Who holds, who harms? The effect of creditor composition on Tanzania’s financial stability

Purpose This study aims to examine the impact of public debt composition by creditor type on financial stability in Tanzania, using quarterly data and an autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) model. Specifically, the analysis focuses on the roles of debt held by the central bank,...

The Prisoner's Dilemma of Global Industrial Policies: Evolutionary Analysis of Interventionism from the Perspective of Excessive Transition Costs and Positive Cognitive Feedback

Mainstream trade economics interprets global industrial subsidies and state intervention through a static prisoner's dilemma framework, assuming fixed institutional rules and stable actor beliefs. This static paradigm fails to explain the dynamic resurgence of interventionism, th...

Variation in apparent wood density of Tachigali vulgaris as affected by tree diameter, height, forking, and soil conditions in Amazonian plantations

Abstract Tachigali vulgaris has potential for energy purposes in the Amazon, but the relationship between several silvicultural factors and wood quality requires further investigation. This study evaluated the variation in the apparent density of T. vulgaris wood in two pure plan...

RDA-ANN Based Real-Time Selective Harmonic Elimination in Multilevel Inverter Fed by PV Panels

This work presents a novel method known as the Red Deer Algorithm-Based Artificial Neural Network (RDA-ANN) for managing real-time voltage and harmonic control in a cascade H-bridge multilevel inverter (CHB-MLI) that is fed by photovoltaic (PV) panels. The RDA-ANN technique propo...

A zero-sequence-enhanced 7-channel MTF-ResNet18-MSA framework for transmission line fault diagnosis

Abstract Accurate transmission-line fault diagnosis is important for reliable power-system protection. Existing deep learning methods often rely on phase-domain voltages and currents, which may be insufficient to distinguish severe three-phase faults with and without a ground pat...

Innovative School Leadership Approaches to Bullying Prevention and Conflict Management in Greek

Abstract : School bullying remains one of the most critical challenges facing secondary education, affecting students’ well-being, academic engagement, and the overall school climate. As school leaders play a pivotal role in creating safe and inclusive learning environments, this...

How to ride the equity bandwagon without ever leaving the parking lot: A practical guide for academics

Academic equity has become a dominant theme in global health and research discourse, yet meaningful structural change often lags behind increasingly sophisticated rhetoric. Through satire, this commentary examines the gap between declarations of commitment and everyday academic p...

Generative Latent Space Modeling of Stamping Sound for Anomaly Detection and Predictive Maintenance

Abstract Operational condition monitoring for predictive maintenance is crucial to enable early detection of abnormal behavior and prevention of costly downtime. In industry settings, normal operation data are abundant, whereas abnormal or failure data are rarely available, limit...

The Jar: Diasporic Finance in Everyday Practice, Black Women's Financial Solidarity, and Cooperative Survival in the Beauty Economy

Rotating savings and credit associations (ROSCAs) are central to African diasporic economic life, yet their contemporary operation within African American entrepreneurial sectors remains insufficiently examined. This article analyzes a cooperative financial practice known as the...

Developing a just 15-minute city framework: insights from a Delphi panel

The 15-minute city is promoted as a model for resilient, equitable and sustainable urban futures, yet it may reproduce socio-spatial inequalities. Drawing on the ‘just city’ concept, this paper co-develops a framework for defining and evaluating a ‘just 15-minute city’. The frame...

Simulated Realities: Scorsese, the Modern Media Machine, and the Illusion Industry

This article examines the epistemological crisis of the digital epoch, arguing that the modern media apparatus controls society not by suppressing truth, but by mass-producing hyper-personalized algorithmic illusions. Utilizing Martin Scorsese’s Shutter Island (2010) as a primary...

Stakeholder relationship challenges and prospects in talent management: the case of the Jamaican business process outsourcing industry

Purpose While talent management (TM) is widely considered a driver of competitive advantage, emphasis on tangible outcomes often ignores the unintended consequences for stakeholder relationships. Drawing on psychological contract (PC) theory, this article explores how TM practice...

It Is About Young People: How Poverty, Demographic Structure, Cultural Participation, Creative Labour and Digital Engagement Shaped the Recovery of London’s Performing Arts Institutions Following the COVID-19 Pandemic

Drawing on borough-level socio-economic and demographic data matched with organizational financial records, we analyse the moderating role of average age in the relationship between local poverty and the performance of performing arts institutions following the COVID-19 pandemic....

The Serious Business of Political Humor

When one starts opining on political communication, hearers may anticipate a dry discourse about other dry discourses. Perhaps there’s a logic to this, because politics involves very serious matter...

Compression Deformation Characteristics of Frozen Soil Containing Ice Lenses Under an Asymmetric Temperature Field

Frozen soil on alpine slopes is influenced by inclination and aspect-induced differential solar radiation effects, resulting in non-uniform temperature fields and inclined layered ice lenses that enhance anisotropy and degrade mechanical properties. This study investigates the de...

Subspace Langevin Monte Carlo

Abstract. Sampling from high-dimensional distributions has wide applications in data science and machine learning but poses significant computational challenges. We introduce subspace Langevin Monte Carlo (SLMC), a novel and efficient sampling method that generalizes random-coord...