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Shared Leadership in Schools: A Systematic Literature Review and Future Research Agenda

Effective leadership is increasingly recognized as emerging from mutual understanding and shared responsibility. Shared leadership places greater emphasis on the sharing of leadership roles and influence. However, current understandings of shared leadership in the school context...

Perioperative outcomes and predictors of mortality after pericardiectomy for constrictive pericarditis in Africa: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Abstract Background Constrictive pericarditis remains a significant cause of heart failure in Africa, predominantly due to tuberculosis; however, pericardiectomy outcomes across African settings have not been systematically synthesised. This review aimed to determine the pooled p...

Isotope Co-Production and 14\,MeV Materials Qualification at a Spherical-Tokamak Breeder

Isotope co-production and 14 MeV materials qualification at the spherical-tokamak breeder. The same fusion-spectrum source provides a high-flux materials-qualification volume many times the reference dedicated facility, and breeds shortage-prone medical isotopes such as molybdenu...

Acute Myocardial Infarction Following Intravenous Immunoglobulin Therapy in a Young Patient with Guillain–Barré Syndrome

Abstract Intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIG) is widely used for the treatment of autoimmune disorders such as Guillain–Barré syndrome (GBS) and is generally considered safe. However, rare but severe complications such as thromboembolic events, including myocardial infarction (MI),...

The role of response format in reverse-keying method effects : a comparison of bipolar and unipolar Likert-type response scales

Reverse-keyed items are widely used in self-report psychological measures to reduce response bias, but they often introduce psychometric complications commonly described as method effects. Previous research has focused primarily on item wording or respondent characteristics to ex...

A Copula‐Based Regression Method to Predict Sediment Concentration and Load in Rivers Using Streamflow Data

Abstract Pollution and deposition of sediments in rivers and streams are critical environmental, ecological, navigational, and recreational concerns. While several well‐known watershed models such as SWAT (Soil and Water Assessment Tool) and HSPF (Hydrological Simulation Program‐...

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AI-Guided Systems Neurogenomics in Neurodevelopmental Disorders

Despite substantial advances in genomic testing, many individuals with neurodevelopmental disorders remain without a molecular diagnosis, while others receive a genetic diagnosis that does not fully explain phenotypic variability, developmental trajectory or tissue-specific conse...

H-GEMA: Hybrid Geo-stochastic Error-Mitigating Architecture for GPU Cluster Scheduling

This work presents H-GEMA (Hybrid Geo-stochastic Error-Mitigating Architecture), a five-phase scheduling architecture for heterogeneous GPU clusters designed to balance real-time inference latency, batch/training throughput, topology-aware GPU placement, and starvation prevention...

Sociodemographic factors and career growth as determinants of staff retention among nurses in a military hospital in Saudi Arabia

Nurses are the backbone of healthcare systems, and their retention remains a critical global challenge, as high attrition leads to a loss of expertise, continuity of care, and patient trust. The main objective of this study is to examine whether sociodemographic factors and caree...

PLI Full Archive v2.3: Pure Locking Inference Physical Framework

We present the complete archive of PLI (Pure Locking Inference), a physical framework grounded in the axiom that measurement is the establishment of relational locking between two intrinsically locked structures. The framework derives a stability criterion γ > Γ and three physica...

Calibrated Closure-Epoch Covariance Does Not Imply Memory-Specific Reachability

A truth-known memory simulator can distinguish whether a reachability calculation is numerically calibrated from whether it makes a memory-specific directional claim. Previous work calibrated one-step latent covariance propagation and separately recovered properties of a six-step...

Controllable student engagement recognition system : from modular vision pipelines embedding-aware, class-balance-tunable contrastive learning

Automated student engagement recognition supports adaptive online learning, but current sys tems face two challenges. First, visual cues of engagement (face presence, facial affect, and head pose) must be extracted reliably. Second, naturally collected data are severely imbal anc...

Semi-automated strain engineering and screening in the thermophilic fungus Myceliophthora thermophila for recombinant protein production

ABSTRACT Thermophilic filamentous fungi are widely used for cellulase production at elevated temperatures; however, efficient recombinant protein production in these organisms remains limited because construction and screening of large transformant populations remain difficult. H...

The vertical logic of party competition in federal systems

Party competition impedes local service delivery when parties collude. This article argues that the type of competition matters more than its mere intensity. Vertical competition – between national and regional parties – constrains collusion and improves service delivery, whereas...

Where Mechanism Meets Normativity: Predictive Processing in Search of Explanatory Constraints

Abstract Predictive Processing (PP) is commonly described as a mechanism sketch—an incomplete, primarily mechanistic representation of cognitive processes. While this characterization rightly emphasizes PP’s structural and causal explanatory aspects, I argue that it tends to over...

Safety and Effectiveness of Inebilizumab in Patients with Neuromyelitis Optica Spectrum Disorder: Interim Analysis of a Post-marketing Surveillance in Japan

Inebilizumab is used in Japan for relapse prevention in aquaporin-4 (AQP4) antibody-positive neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorder (NMOSD). Nationwide post-marketing surveillance (PMS) is underway to evaluate the real-world safety and effectiveness of inebilizumab in Japanese pa...

Paliperidone-induced diabetes mellitus presenting with hyperosmolar hyperglycemic state: a case report

BACKGROUND: Second-generation antipsychotics (SGA) have been associated with adverse metabolic effects, including the development of diabetes mellitus (DM) and, in rare cases, life-threatening hyperglycemic emergencies such as diabetic ketoacidosis and hyperosmolar hyperglycemic...

The Answerability Calculus

Abstract The Answerability Calculus develops a general mathematical theory of Answerability as a constituted, typed relation and establishes laws governing its lawful transformation, resource representation, repair, composition, activation, obstruction and conservation. Its gover...

Machine Learning approaches for the detection of disease-causing variants in whole-genome data need to address the expression of functional genes

Gene-dosage combinations have been recognised as leading factors of disease. Given that those combinations may include dozens of genes, it is hypothesised that machine learning (ML) approaches may be useful in the classification of cases and controls and the identification of cau...