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Addendum to “on the number of conjugacy classes of zeros of characters and the length of solvable groups”

We improve previous bounds for the sizes of defect groups of blocks of solvable groups.

The Effects of Public Spending in the Care and Green Economies: The Case of South Korea

This article analyzes the impact of public spending in the care economy and the green economy on the employment of men and women and on gross domestic product (GDP) in South Korea using a vector autoregression model. The care economy includes healthcare, social care, education, a...

“That’s kind of racist, I think”: a collective counter-story to the refugee narrative

Global master narratives portray education as a failsafe route to social integration for refugees yet imply that this makes the refugee more civilized (i.e. White) and thus more desirable. In other words, education becomes a pathway to access Whiteness. In Turkey, which hosts the...

In Situ CdS-MediatedOrganic PhotoelectrochemicalTransistor Sensor for Highly Sensitive H2S Detection

Abstract Hydrogen sulfide (H2S) serves as an important gasotransmitter implicated in vascular regulation, neuroprotection, and redox homeostasis, and its aberrant fluctuation is closely associated with diverse pathological disorders. Consequently, the development of sensitive and...

Energy dissipation mechanisms in an acoustically driven slit

We quantify the conversion of incident acoustic energy into vortical motion and viscous dissipation for a plane wave passing through large-aspect-ratio slit geometries. We perform direct numerical simulations over a broad imposed parameter space in incident sound pressure level (...

Prospects of automated driving in different road freight vocations: Why non-driving matters more than driving

Abstract Most truck modeling studies make generalized assumptions regarding driving times, distances, and non-driving tasks, except for loading and unloading, and therefore fail to capture the diversity of freight transport vocations, especially in the context of automated trucki...

Understanding the Impact of Living Situation and Social Satisfaction on Depression and Substance Use in Autistic Young Adults Without Intellectual Disability

Background: Autistic young adults face elevated risks for depression, and emerging evidence indicates that some engage in substance use. Residential status and social satisfaction may be related to these outcomes, yet little research has examined their interplay in autistic popul...

Integrated assessment of coastal socio-environmental vulnerability in the southwestern Colombian Caribbean

Abstract Coastal vulnerability is a critical determinant of risk in littoral systems, particularly in regions where seasonal environmental forcing intersects with persistent socioeconomic fragility. This study assesses the integrated socioeconomic and environmental vulnerability...

Retrofit Optimization of Raised-Floor Plenum Thermal Performance for Energy-Efficient and Sustainable Operation of Non-Standard Campus Data Centers

In response to issues such as disordered airflow distribution and prominent local hotspots in campus non-standard data centers, this study took a non-standard raised-floor air-supply data center at a university in Hangzhou as the research object, and used a combination of on-site...

Agents Through the Ages

Abstract Over several decades, research on socially interactive agents has transformed human–machine interaction, evolving from early script-based systems to today’s generative, multimodal agents. Tracing this development through the ages, this article reflects on major conceptua...

Identifying Ice-Philic Protein Patches to Inform theIce-Binding Sites of Antifreeze Proteins

Abstract Antifreeze proteins (AFPs) inhibit ice growth and recrystallization by binding to ice crystals via specific regions on their surface, known as ice-binding sites (IBS). Although the IBS of certain AFPs display regularly spaced threonine residues that are matched well with...

Contrasting Growth and Physiological Response Profiles of Three Native Alpine Elymus Forage Grasses Under Combined Cadmium and PEG-6000-Induced Osmotic Stress

The co-occurrence of soil drought and cadmium (Cd) pollution represents an important combined-stress scenario in degraded alpine grasslands, yet comparative responses of native Elymus forage grasses remain poorly resolved. Seedlings of E. sibiricus cv. Chuancao, E. breviaristatus...

Enhanced Room-TemperaturePhosphorescence from CarbonDots Embedded in a Robust SiO2 Matrix

Abstract Carbon dots (CDs) represent a rapidly advancing class of fluorescent nanomaterials. Due to the dominant nonradiative decay channels of the triplet excited state of CDs, these materials generally exhibit no observable phosphorescence (PH) or delayed fluorescence. Here, we...

Beraprost Attenuates Starvation‐Induced Apoptosis and Protects Feline Endothelial Cells

OBJECTIVES: This study aimed to establish an in vitro model of feline endothelial cells (FECs) undergoing apoptosis when cultured under various nutrient deprivation (starvation) conditions to investigate the protective effects of beraprost and its stereoisomers on endothelial cel...

(Co2+,Pd2+)2SiO4Pd0 Olivine: Influence of Lewis Acids on Heterogeneous Heck–Mizoroki Catalysis

This study investigates the influence of Lewis acids on a novel stratified (Co2+,Pd2+)2SiO4-Pd0 olivine catalyst for the Heck–Mizoroki coupling of iodobenzene and methyl acrylate. Comprehensive characterization (ICP-OES, Raman, P-XRD, XPS) confirms the successful synthesis of a m...

Spectroscopic profiling of cell free supernatant from Lactocaseibacillus rhamnosus and Limosilactobacillus fermentum and evaluation of their antibacterial activity against Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria under varying conditions

Spoilage microorganisms and food borne pathogens are major public health concerns causing enormous economic losses globally. The organoleptic qualities of food products are frequently altered in an undesired way by conventional food preservation techniques. Lactic acid bacteria (...

Forced Surrogacy as a Crime Against Humanity: Expanding the Scope of the International Criminal Court

The 2025 human egg farm case in Georgia, where Thai women were kidnapped, forcibly subjected to repeated egg harvesting, and held under coercive medical control, exposed a disturbing form of reproductive exploitation: forced surrogacy. This article defines forced surrogacy as the...

Impacts of quiz format on student learning and experience in a flipped technical writing course for engineers

While both in-class and out-of-class assessments have identified advantages and disadvantages, there is no clear consensus in the literature regarding which format best supports student outcomes and engagement with content in a flipped classroom. To explore the impacts of quiz fo...

Assessment of Liver Stiffness in a Rat Model of Type 2 Diabetes Using Shear Wave Elastography

Background/Objectives: Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) is associated with progressive hepatic alterations, including steatosis and fibrosis, which may affect liver mechanical properties. Shear wave elastography (SWE) is a non-invasive imaging technique that enables quantitative a...

Association of Serum Vitamin D Levels With the Severity of Chronic Heart Failure: A Retrospective Study

Background Chronic heart failure (CHF) is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. Although vitamin D insufficiency has been implicated in its pathophysiology, its association with CHF severity remains uncertain. Therefore, this study primarily evaluated the associat...