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A Disaster Preparedness Checklist in Construction Project Planning

This study examines the potential for developing a disaster preparedness checklist that can be utilized in construction planning to improve project resilience. To that end, a comprehensive literature study was conducted on various publications related to disaster risk management...

Dirty Entanglements: Corruption, Crime, and Terrorism

Louise Shelley's Dirty Entanglements arrives as a landmark contribution to transnational security studies. Drawing on more than fifteen years of field research across six continents, Shelley, University Professor at George Mason University's Schar School and founder of TraCCC, ad...

Relational Kinetics in Generativity Theory: ΔC, Δ²C and Non‑Inertial Motion

This paper introduces a coherence‑based framework for non‑inertial motion in GenerativityTheory (GT). The model is built on two fundamental operators: ΔC, describing instantaneous velocity reconfiguration, and Δ²C, describing instantaneous directional reconfiguration. These opera...

From Implicit Latents to Explicit Physics: Retained Decoding with Budgeted Supervision in LeWorldModel

Joint-Embedding Predictive Architectures (JEPA) train world models to imagine action consequences in latent space, but the physical quantities they encode remain implicit and unreadable from the outside. We extend LeWorldModel (LeWM) with a shared decoder head on its latent, reta...

Comparative Efficacy of Body Acupuncture, Electroacupuncture, and Auricular Acupuncture in Stroke Rehabilitation

OBJECTIVE: To compare the efficacy of body acupuncture, electroacupuncture, and auricular acupuncture on motor, functional, and neurological recovery after stroke. DESIGN: Systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials. Eligible studies enrolled adult stroke...

Clinical and neurophysiology study of 17 children with epileptic negative myoclonus

BACKGROUND: Epileptic negative myoclonus (ENM) is a clinically underrecognized seizure type, and systematic data on its clinical manifestations and optimal management strategies in pediatric populations remain scarce. This case series aimed to describe the clinical manifestations...

Self-understanding and Family Relationships in Modern Society: A Psychological Analysis

The relevance of this study lies in the growing need to strengthen self-understanding amid globalisation and socio-cultural change in order to improve family relationships and reduce intergenerational conflicts. The study examined the impact of self-understanding on family relati...

Equity in the contemporary oceans governance framework: a stocktake of UNCLOS and its implementing agreements

Abstract Inequity is one of the many challenges ocean governance faces. Equity principles are increasingly receiving attention; for example, the ‘principle of equity and the fair and equitable sharing of benefits’ was included in the Agreement for Biodiversity Beyond National Jur...

Identifying the contours of personal archiving research: a scoping review

Purpose We conducted a scoping review to understand the landscape of literature described as personal archiving research and how it has evolved over three decades. Our objective was to understand how the term personal archiving is conceptualised in research over a 30-year period...

All-Order Polynomial First-Integral Rigidity on the Toda-Compatible Slice of a Chazy-Type Family

We classify, without an a priori degree bound, the polynomial first integrals of the autonomous third-order family $p'''+p p''+k(p')^2+\left(\frac{p^2}{4}-\sigma\right)p'=0, (k,\sigma)\in\C^2.$ This is the constant-shift slice characterized by $2K'(p)=p$ in the more general equat...

Parent Mental Health From Preterm Birth Through the NICU Stay

OBJECTIVES: Preterm birth and neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) admission are not only extremely stressful for the infant itself but can also impact parental mental health. This Dutch national prospective cohort study aimed to describe the trajectory of parental mental health f...

Acromial Stress Fractures in Reverse Total Shoulder Arthroplasty: Diagnosis, Prevention, and Treatment

PURPOSE OF REVIEW: This review critically evaluates the literature on acromial stress fractures (ASFs) following reverse total shoulder arthroplasty (rTSA), with a focus on risk factors, prevention, and treatment. By synthesizing contemporary evidence and highlighting areas of on...

Part IX Independence Within Interdependence: From Differentiated Development to Cooperative Human Action

The preceding parts of this research program examined how a human system may be prepared for demands whose future domain cannot be reliably specified in advance. Part I introduced the Unknown Demand Problem. Part II distinguished the functional domains of Heart, Intellect, and Se...

PrEP awareness, barriers and facilitators in Malaysia in the current landscape of new HIV infections: a review

Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) uptake remains low among key populations in Malaysia despite notable improvements in PrEP awareness. This literature review aims to understand PrEP awareness, barriers and facilitators that influence PrEP utilisation. PrEP awareness ranged between...

Stress Management as a Systemic Process of Psychological Regulation

The aim of this study was to develop an integrated theoretical model of stress management based on a multi-level analysis of the mechanisms of psychological regulation under stress conditions. The research employed a systemic approach and utilised methods of scientific literature...

Identification of specific transcripts for plant heat stress tolerance through genome-wide analysis of SIZ1-dependent alternative polyadenylation

Heat stress (HS) has emerged as a significant environmental factor affecting plant growth and agricultural productivity. Alternative polyadenylation (APA) is a crucial co-transcriptional process that regulates developmental processes and stress responses in plants. However, the d...

Polystyrene microplastics alter the accumulation and elimination dynamics of silver nanoparticles in Daphnia magna

Environmental context Microplastics are widespread aquatic contaminants that can alter the environmental behavior of co-occurring pollutants. This study shows that polystyrene microplastics substantially modify silver nanoparticle bioaccumulation in Daphnia magna, increasing wate...

Development and analysis of a mixed colloid standard with trace elements using AF4-ICP-MS

Environmental context Colloids are small, unstable particles that play important environmental roles in the transport of trace elements and can be analysed using asymmetrical flow field-flow fractionation (AF4) coupled to inductively coupled plasma–mass spectrometry (ICP-MS). A m...

Data-driven residential electricity load forecasting method for virtual power plants

Abstract Virtual power plants (VPP) integrate distributed energy resources and residential loads to enhance the flexibility and reliability of power systems. Accurate residential electricity load forecasting is therefore essential for VPP scheduling and demand-side management. Ho...

Gravitational Manipulation Theory v2.4 — Apparatus-Space Scaling of Information Sufficiency

Gravitational Manipulation Theory (GMT) v2.4 extends the information-sufficiency program from a finite three-class robustness test to a pre-registered apparatus-design space. GMT v2.2 established, for a single Controlled Synthetic Apparatus (CSA), operator sufficiency at (L^*{\ma...