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Assembly Theory: Optimal Joint Assembly Spaces and Assembly Space Energy

Assembly theory measures a string by the shortest history that builds it. We sharpen this picture in two directions. First, we attach a discrete Dirichlet energy to an assembly space and show that it splits into the size of the space and a secondary energy charging each step vert...

Sports Injuries and Mental Health in Child and Adolescent Athletes: A Systematic Review

Background: Sports injuries in children and adolescents may affect physical health, emotional well-being, sleep, quality of life, confidence, sport participation, and readiness to return to sport. Objective: This systematic review synthesized evidence on the relationship between...

An UndergraduateBiochemistry Lab Exploring Elastin-LikePolypeptide Behavior and Degradation: From Purification to Proteolysis

Abstract The development of smart biomaterials that mimic the native extracellular matrix forms the basis for many innovations within the field of regenerative medicine. Elastin-like polypeptides (ELPs) are widely used in biomaterials due to their unique physicochemical propertie...

Traffic as a social dilemma? Viewing road user behavior through a prosocial lens

Traffic serves as a context where road users engage in various interactions, with the outcomes of these bearing significant implications for the safety of all involved. While traditional research on road user behavior has predominantly focused on risky behaviors, there has been a...

Parental Acceptance–Rejection and Psychological Maladjustment Among Slovenian High School Students: Gender and Contextual Correlates

Perceived parental acceptance–rejection is associated with adolescent psychological adjustment, but evidence from Central Europe remains limited. Guided by IPARTheory, this cross-sectional study examined associations between perceived maternal and paternal acceptance–rejection an...

Flow: an ecocritical analysis of post-apocalyptic aesthetics

Abstract The global climate crisis, one of the most pressing challenges of our era, reverberates across scientific, cultural, and artistic domains. Cinema is frequently enlisted to make the climate crisis perceptible and intelligible at the societal scale. In this context, the ar...

Hydro-demographic drivers of aquifer depletion and urban water insecurity in Borama, Somaliland: a mixed-methods assessment

Background In semi-arid, data-scarce regions, the convergence of climate change and rapid urbanization poses a severe threat to groundwater-dependent cities. This study evaluates the impact of hydro-climatic stressors and demographic growth on urban water security and aquifer dep...

A trait based-approach to the diet of grass snakes (Colubridae:Natrix): opportunists with preferences

Understanding the mechanisms by which predators select their prey can help us understand the evolution of ecological interactions and community-level patterns and can also have conservation implications. Grass snakes (Natrix spp.) are predators specialising on amphibians and fish...

Terrain‐Adaptive Quadrupedal Locomotion Using Model Predictive Control With Impedance Control and SINDy Model Enhancement

ABSTRACT Quadrupedal robots operating in unstructured environments require adaptive control systems that can handle diverse terrain conditions without prior surface characterization. This paper presents an integrated control architecture that combines Model Predictive Control (MP...

Impacts of climate and reduced ice cover on trophic structure and community dynamics in a high latitude lake

Abstract Climate-driven environmental change can alter both the structural and dynamic properties of ecological communities. With ongoing warming, high-latitude lakes experience reduced ice cover, higher growing-season temperatures, and altered hydrology, potentially triggering c...

Iron Isotopes Reveal Fe Export Driven by Change of Tropical Weathering Regime

Abstract Unraveling paleoenvironmental signals recorded in laterites is crucial for quantifying weathering‐driven elemental fluxes at the Earth's surface. New stable iron isotope data (δ 56 Fe), combined with (U‐Th)/He ages in Fe‐oxides from a ferruginous duricrust from French Gu...

Establishing anthropometric growth references for school-going children aged 3–13 years in southern Thailand using GAMLSS

Version 1.1.0 adds figure generation (Figures 3–5), the sensitivity analysis behind Supplementary Table S2, and the AICc and HQIC criteria reported in Table 2. No results from version 1.0.0 are altered.

Global experiences, intelligent technologies: the development of an AI-enabled customer experience (AICX) scale

Purpose This study introduces artificial intelligence–enabled customer experience (AICX) conceptualised as distinct, multidimensional form of customer experience arising from interactions with AI-enabled technologies and develops and validates a novel scale to measure the phenome...

Digital Divide and Educational Inequality in Asia: A Cross-Country Secondary Data Analysis of Connectivity, Access, and Student Achievement

The increasing reliance on digital technologies in education has intensified concerns regarding unequal access to digital resources across countries, particularly in developing regions. While digital connectivity has the potential to enhance learning opportunities, disparities in...

Machine Learning-Based Prediction of Sleep Quality in Patients with Multiple Sclerosis

Background/Objectives: Sleep disturbances are common but frequently underrecognized in multiple sclerosis (MS), independently predicting reduced quality of life and worsening fatigue, cognitive impairment, and depression. While pain, nocturia, fatigue, and mood symptoms are estab...

Arming the archipelago: explaining A2/AD divergence in the South China Sea

How do secondary powers develop anti-access/area denial (A2/AD) capabilities when facing asymmetric threats? This article explains variation in Southeast Asian maritime defense strategies through a novel framework that distinguishes between anti-access (A2) and area denial (AD) b...

Not the whole picture? Modern slavery crimes recorded and charged by the police

Since 2013 the British government has repeatedly promised to eradicate modern slavery. Far from diminishing as a social problem, the number of cases of modern slavery officially recorded has grown every year. We analysed 3,304 suspected modern slavery incidents reported to two po...

Learned vs. Heuristic Thresholds for Cascade Retrieval Routing in Indian Legal Question Answering

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems for legal question answering increasingly combine dense vector retrieval with knowledge-graph retrieval to support both direct information lookup and citation-heavy relational reasoning. In cascade retrieval, vector search is performed...

Global Continuation Across the Kerr Ring: Axiom Sets, Junction Data, and Disk-Crossing Geodesics

With the stationary Killing field continued from $r>0$, the fixed-$M$ Boyer--Lindquist continuation of Kerr has a second asymptotically flat end with ADM mass $-M$. We separate this metric statement from signed Komar conventions and organize the data required for other continuati...

Surface Biofunctionalization of Additively Manufactured Medical-Grade PEEK by GelMA Grafting for Maxillofacial Reconstruction

Polyetheretherketone (PEEK) is increasingly attractive for patient-specific maxillofacial reconstruction because its elastic modulus approximates cortical bone, it is fully radiolucent, and it is compatible with additive manufacturing; its principal limitation is bioinertness, as...