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Optimizing cyanobacterial pellet formulations to enhance dryland restoration

Abstract Introduction Biocrusts, complex communities of microorganisms closely associated with soil, are essential components of drylands, supporting soil stability, water availability, and nutrient cycling. Inoculation with biocrust‐forming cyanobacteria has emerged as a promisi...

Fairy tales to fairer tales: Generative AI-supported critical multimodal literacy in pre-service preschool teacher education

This study investigates how pre-service teachers can use generative artificial intelligence (AI) to retell classic fairy tales in a way that challenges the biases that they frequently contain. A qualitative action research study involving 60 pre-service preschool teachers (46 fem...

Soft life as feminine resistance to digital productivity culture: a multi-platform netnographic study of Gen Z women on TikTok and X

Since the mid-2020s, young women on short-video platforms have increasingly turned from the ‘girlboss’ ideal of relentless productivity towards the sensibility known as ‘soft life’. Soft life is understood here as a mediated sensibility in which rest, emotional safety and freedom...

Design Approaches for Oxygen Reduction Systems for Warehouse Storage Applications

ABSTRACT Oxygen reduction systems (ORS) are protection systems, with a design protection objective to limit fire spread beyond the point of ignition. Research has shown that the prescriptive design methods, in VdS 3527, EN 16750, and ISO 20338, are not appropriate as prescriptive...

Intermittent hypoxia interventions for inducing ventilatory acclimatization to high altitude?

Accumulation of ∼200 h of hypoxia exposure (pre-acclimatization) has been suggested to prevent the development of acute mountain sickness when a person is subsequently exposed to high altitude. These pre-exposures are typically undertaken intermittently at or near the place of re...

Unified Ontology: The Complete Topological Residual Spectrum of Vacuum, Fields, Particles, Dark Matter, and Dark Energy

6.1 Core Synopsis of This Chapter Within the GDUM pre-geometric axiomatic framework, all microscopic, mesoscopic, and macroscopic effective phenomena in the universe are entirely of the same origin, all derived from the unique ℝ₂ two-sheeted topological residual backflow dynamics...

When inclusion is not enough: reconstructing physiological models from female trajectories

Physiological models are often built on populations that no longer accompany them, and female data are then read as deviations from those models. Most existing frameworks act on objects and categories already constituted. We propose an additional operation, applied one domain at...

Spectral-Gap Corrections in Finite Open SU(2) Plaquette Strips: Second- and Fourth-Order Results for Two to Five Plaquettes

This preprint investigates perturbative spectral-gap corrections in finite open SU(2) plaquette-strip Hamiltonians. An analytical second-order effective Hamiltonian is developed for finite strips, yielding an explicit positive second-order correction to the gap. Fourth-order corr...

Heterogeneous Treatment Effect Estimation with Distribution Shift and Unmeasured Confounding

Heterogeneous treatment effect (HTE) estimation is vital for understanding how treatment effects vary across individuals or subgroups. Recently, numerous HTE models, such as balancing methods and instrumental variable (IV) methods, have been developed to eliminate confounding bia...

Independent Arborescences in Acyclic Digraphs: The Path Condition Suffices for All Roots and All Convex Sets

Let D be a finite acyclic digraph with root-nodes r_1, ..., r_k, not necessarily distinct, and convex node sets U_1, ..., U_k with r_i ∈ U_i. The EGRES Open collection lists as open the question, proposed by S. Fujishige, N. Kamiyama and N. Katoh, whether there are independent r_...

Zulfia Gap Based Theory of Economic Stability : A Universal Framework via Intelligence Tunnelling

We develop a universal theory of economic stability based on Zulfia Gap (Gz). Let Ebe economic state, IT be Intelligence Tunnelling Flow, k > 0 be system constant. Thefundamental dynamical equation isdEdt = −k(Gz − IT )Stable economy is defined by dEdt = 0, giving universal condi...

Enhancing Coherence Length in Tailored Chiral Hybrid Polymer‐Wrapped Single‐Walled Carbon Nanotube Superstructures

ABSTRACT Quantum interference governs the transport behavior of low‐dimensional conductors, where the phase coherence of scattered electrons gives rise to phenomena such as weak localization (WL) and weak anti‐localization (WAL). Understanding how molecular environments influence...

Social Network Theory in Behavior Change Interventions with Black Women to Reduce Inequities in Cardiovascular Health: A Scoping Review of Application and Measurement

Abstract Background Black women in the United States face disproportionate rates of hypertension and cardiovascular disease, driven by the compounding effects of structural inequity and socially embedded stress. Social networks are a critical and underutilized lever for health pr...

Comparison of pooled and Bayesian approaches for the analysis of paediatric pharmacokinetic data leveraging prior adult knowledge: A simulation case study for monoclonal antibodies against soluble targets

Aims Population pharmacokinetic (popPK) modelling is widely used to support paediatric dose optimization, yet consensus on appropriate modelling approaches remains limited. This study compared pooled and Bayesian popPK approaches for paediatric pharmacokinetics (PK) analysis usin...

Effects of Physical-Cognitive Exercise on Attention and Serum Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor in Male University Esports Athletes

This study investigated the effects of combined physical–cognitive exercise on attentional performance and serum brain-derived neurotrophic factor (serum BDNF) levels in male varsity esports athletes. Thirty-two participants were allocated into four groups: physical–cognitive exe...

New Insights About the Psychometric Properties of the Montgomery‐Asberg Depression Rating Scale

ABSTRACT Objectives This study aimed to comprehensively investigate the psychometric properties of the Montgomery‐Åsberg Depression Rating Scale (MADRS) in a sample from Northeast Brazil. Methods Data were obtained from a cross‐sectional study of 303 participants with depressive...

Computational Study of Gas-Phase Reactions to Produce Sulfite Esters: A New Class of Sulfur Containing Molecules in the Atmosphere?

Abstract We use computational quantum chemistry to study gas-phase reactions of aldehydes with water and sulfur dioxide. We find that a new reaction leading to the formation of previously nearly unstudied sulfite esters is possible with a comparatively low barrier. The reaction c...

scGEN: Leveraging an Adaptive Weighting Strategy for Challenging Cell Clustering in Single‐Cell RNA‐seq

ABSTRACT Recent advancements in single‐cell RNA sequencing (scRNA‐seq) have greatly enhanced our ability to dissect cellular heterogeneity. However, unsupervised clustering often struggles to identify transitional or developmental boundary cells, as existing methods rely on highl...

Embodied Biographical Alignment (EBA) v0.2.3: Plural Biography as a Determinant of Future Learning

Embodied Biographical Alignment (EBA) proposes that some alignment-relevant consequences of learning may depend on temporally extended, causally structured developmental histories rather than on descriptions or terminal outputs alone. EBA v0.2.1 introduced biography as a temporal...

Long‐Term Brightness Variations of Quiescent Dwarf Novae

ABSTRACT Dwarf novae (DNe) are true laboratories for accretion physics, since their gas disks can be observed and modeled during both outburst and quiescence in the same star. Most of past research was dedicated to DNe outbursts while their quiescent state was widely neglected. W...