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Persuasion in marketing for consumer acceptance of edible insect-based foods: exploring past, current trends and future directions

Purpose This paper systematically reviews how marketing persuasion strategies are used to overcome barriers and strengthen drivers of consumer acceptance of edible insect-based foods, particularly in Western markets. Design/methodology/approach Using PRISMA guidelines, a systemat...

Chronic subdural hematoma postoperative thickness and patient outcome – is 10 mm a relevant cut-off measure? A post hoc analysis of the FINISH trial

Abstract Background Postoperative chronic subdural hematoma (CSDH) thickness ≥ 10 mm has been used as an outcome measure in clinical trials. However, the relevance of this radiological threshold for patient outcome and reoperation risk remains uncertain. Methods In this post hoc...

Better roughly right than precisely wrong: Fermi problems in biology curricula

At a time in which humanity's entire knowledge base is-quite literally-at everyone's fingertips, educators must encourage creative problem-solving and critical thinking over memorization of facts more than ever. Fermi problems are a type of question in which students use logical...

Hoof Health in the Parmigiano Reggiano Dairy Production System: A Pilot Epidemiological Study Using Digitally Recorded Hoof-Trimming Data

The aim of this study was to describe the prevalence and distribution of claw lesions in dairy cows from farms producing milk for Parmigiano Reggiano cheese and to evaluate factors associated with their occurrence. Data were collected during hoof-trimming visits performed by four...

Sequential and Decoupled Reliability Analysis applied to time-dependent engineering systems

Abstract Traditionally, reliability analysis neglects the influence of time, leading to inaccurate predictions for systems under progressive degradation and variable loads. However, addressing time dependency is of major significance, as material aging and cumulative damage dynam...

An Attribute-Based Blockchain Reputation Architecture for Counterparty Risk Assessment in Pseudonymous Transactions

Counterparty risk in pseudonymous cryptocurrency transactions is difficult to manage using mechanisms that depend on stable legal identities, trusted intermediaries, reversible payments, or effective post-transaction dispute resolution. This conceptual paper proposes Riskonami, a...

The Illusion of Sufficiency: Is Critical Thinking Skill Enough?

This is the third and final article in the trilogy ‘The Illusion of Sufficiency’. The two earlier articles tested two content areas of critical thinking, logical fallacies and cognitive biases. They showed that knowing the names of these patterns, without applying them, does not...

Performance investigation of new design of single and double axis passive tracking solar still

The problem of low freshwater production of the solar still (SS) is studied in this paper experimentally using two new designs of single and double axis tracking SSs and their performance is compared with the convection solar still (CSS). The first tracked still is single axis tr...

СУВ РЕСУРСЛАРИДАН ТЕЖАМКОР ФОЙДАЛАНИШНИНГ ИҚТИСОДИЙ МЕХАНИЗМЛАРИНИ ТАКОМИЛЛАШТИРИШ

Ушбу мақолада сув ресурсларидан тежамкор фойдаланишнинг иқтисодий механизмлари — тариф–солиқ сиёсати, сув олиш лимитлари ва шартнома тизими, давлат рағбатлантиришлари (субсидиялар, солиқ имтиёзлари), институционал ислоҳотлар ҳамда рақамли ҳисобга олиш инфратузилиси таҳлил қилинга...

When AI Agrees with Me: Disclosure Labels, Confirmation Bias, and the Sharing of AI-Generated Misinformation Among Jordanian Young Adults

This study examines whether AI disclosure labels alter the evaluation and sharing of misinformation when messages align with recipients’ prior beliefs. A randomized mixed-factorial online experiment involved 900 Jordanian young adults who evaluated eight Arabic-language social-me...

Multi-Species Climate Resilience in Regional Landscapes Through Practice-Led Architectural Design Studios

Climate change is intensifying environmental pressures across regional landscapes, requiring architectural approaches that extend beyond anthropocentric models of design. While resilience discourse within architecture has focused largely on technological performance, infrastructu...

From Sequence to Structure: AlphaFold and the AI Revolution in Aquaculture Drug Discovery and Vaccine Design

Global aquaculture faces an escalating disease and antimicrobial resistance (AMR) crisis, exacerbated by climate-driven physiochemical shifts and intensive farming practices. The integration of artificial intelligence (AI) and structural biology, spearheaded by AlphaFold, represe...

From Solution Associates to Crystal Packing: Molecular Origins of Solvent-Dependent Polymorphism in Tecovirimat

Abstract Solvent-dependent polymorphism remains one of the central challenges in pharmaceutical crystallization. The molecular mechanisms governing polymorph selection are often poorly understood. In the present work, molecular dynamics (MD) simulations were used to investigate t...

The Cultural Identity of Schoolchildren: A Psycholinguistic Perspective

The subject of this article is the cultural identity of pupils in a provincial secondary school, with the aim of examining it as a process of identity formation. The school years represent a period when identity reaches its peak, but different societies have different prevailing...

Beyond Quantization: Self-Supervised Speech Representation Learning via Masked Hilbert Envelope Prediction

Current self-supervised speech models typically avoid predicting raw time-domain waveforms directly because fast phase shifts cause instability. To bypass this, popular methods use vector-quantized codebooks, multi-stage clustering, or teacher networks, but these approaches can s...

Evaluation of the brachial plexus and spinal cord with diffusion tensor imaging and synthetic MRI in obstetric brachial plexus palsy: DTI of brachial plexus and spinal cord in OBPP

Obstetric brachial plexus palsy (OBPP) is conventionally staged as a peripheral nerve injury, yet conventional magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) poorly reflects microstructural neural and spinal cord changes.We evaluate whether magnetic resonance image compilation (MAGIC), a form...

Mechanistic Insights Into Noble Metal Nanoparticle Antimicrobial Activity through Correlative SEM–SEI‐XPS Analysis

This article presents a correlative analytical strategy for studying nanoparticle-microbe interactions. Understanding the intracellular transformations of metallic nanoparticles (MNPs) provides critical insights into their antimicrobial mechanisms and informs the design of safe,...

Reframing Our Response to School Non-Attendance: The Neuroaffirmative Participation Framework Centring Students’ Experiences

School non-attendance affects a growing number of students. Their non-attendance is partly a reflection of school systems that fail to accommodate diversity, yet this systemic lens is neglected in most current responses to school non-attendance. This paper describes a participato...

Cross-Field Transfer of UAV-Based Winter Wheat Yield Prediction: Model Transferability and Sample Efficiency

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) remote sensing is widely used for plot-scale crop yield prediction, but model performance may decline when models are transferred across fields with different crop, environmental, management, and sensing conditions. This study evaluated the cross-fie...

Factors Influencing Statutory Duty of Candor Implementation in Victoria, Australia

BACKGROUND: Globally, candor-type legislations, which encourage transparency following a serious adverse patient safety event (SAPSE), exist in various countries, or jurisdictions within them, including the United Kingdom, Canada, Germany, Ireland, and Australia. However, an evid...