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128627 work(s)
- AI & ComputingOpen access
Packing a finite number of congruent polyhedra inside a polyhedral container produces pronounced changes in required container size as the number of pieces increases. Some adjacent counts share a construction scale, while other additions require a substantial expansion. We study...
- Society & EconomicsOpen access
Different Campaigns, Similar Totals: Republican and Democratic Senate Candidates on Facebook in 2020
Facebook is often said to reward the American right. I test the claim on matched pairs: the Facebook pages of the Democratic and Republican nominees in 20 contested 2020 US Senate races, over the final eight weeks before 28 October 2020 (8,125 posts from CrowdTangle). Democrats p...
- AI & ComputingOpen access
We describe an open computational framework for placing congruent regular polyhedra in the smallest homothetic regular-polyhedral container found by numerical search. A cube-packing procedure introduced by Yohei Nakajima is generalized by replacing a convex piece P, with a center...
- Society & EconomicsOpen access
Ahead of the Polls? Sinn Féin, Facebook and the 2020 Irish General Election
Sinn Féin's first place in the Irish general election of February 2020 surprised most observers. The party had lost half its council seats in May 2019 and polled at about 14% in October and November. I ask whether Facebook saw the surge coming. Using 297,790 posts from 357 Irish...
- Health & MedicineOpen access
Evaluation of Drains versus no Drains in Minor Oral Surgery -An Original Research
Introduction: The various minor oral surgical procedures performed are mostly related to the dental and the facial structures and the related trauma and infections. Drains are used in majority of the minor surgical procedures where there may be a necessity to flush the area afte...
- Society & EconomicsOpen access
“Migrant labour regimes and the regulation of temporary labour migration in Europe”
This special issue develops the concept of “migrant labour regime” (MLRs), to analyse the regulatory infrastructure of labour migration. MLRs involve complex networks of actors, institutions, norms, and expectations, that facilitate migration, and regulate the labour processes in...
- Society & EconomicsOpen access
OBJECTIVES: This study examined whether the components of hope (agency and pathways) and self-compassion (self-warmth and self-coldness) moderate the relationship between poorer perceived physical health and depressive symptoms, and whether these moderating effects are conditiona...
- Health & MedicineOpen access
Urinary incontinence (UI) is a common but neglected health problem in older women, and its association with physical and sexual activity remains uncertain. This study aimed to assess this association in older women participating in the Amirkola cohort study. This secondary cross-...
- Society & EconomicsOpen access
Academia-industry skills collaboration: A design blueprint for campus space interaction
Universities are under increasing pressure to design campus environments preparing graduates for industry. This research is topical in analysing campus space design underpinning meaningful skills collaboration between academics, students, employers and professional, statutory and...
- Society & EconomicsOpen access
This study examines the role of lexical relations as a semantic–discursive system in the Qur’anic narrative of Prophet Muhammad ﷺ. While previous scholarship has explored Qur’anic semantics and exegetical interpretation separately, limited attention has been given to their integr...
- Society & EconomicsOpen access
The July 2021 'Free Zuma Protest in South Africa was triggered by an intricate intersection of sociopolitical factors that transcended the arrest of former President Zuma. Migrant communities, who operate small businesses in South Africa, were vulnerable during the looting and vi...
- Society & EconomicsOpen access
The study assessed the significance of psychological empowerment dimensions on innovative work behavior (IWB) for public university academics in Uganda. The specific objectives were: (1) to analyze the effect of self-determination on innovative work behavior among academic staff;...
- Society & EconomicsOpen access
This study investigates the relationship between corruption and child trafficking along the Nigeria–Benin border. The study places a particular emphasis on how informal governance structures shape border operations and facilitate illicit mobility. The research is grounded in Rout...
- Society & EconomicsOpen access
Cette recherche a été conçue dans le but d'examiner de près l’impact de l'usage de « l'infographie » sur l’amélioration des compétences de la production écrite à la lueur de la théorie du double codage chez les futurs-enseignants de français de la deuxième année fondamentale à la...
- Climate & EnvironmentOpen access
Intensification of near-inertial currents in the Atlantic Ocean over the past two decades
Near-inertial currents (NICs) play a key role in surface material redistribution and ocean mixing, yet their long-term variability remains poorly known. Using in situ current measurements from surface drifters, we provide observational evidence for a pronounced intensification of...
- Health & MedicineOpen access
Background Temporomandibular disorders (TMD) display a marked female predominance and fluctuate across reproductive stages, suggesting hormonal and neuroendocrine contributions.Objectives To map the evidence on hormonal imbalances and neuroendocrine influences in TMD across six d...
- Society & EconomicsOpen access
Equality Law Taken Out of Context: An Analysis of For (Some) Women Scotland
Abstract The judgment of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom in For Women Scotland v Scottish Ministers (FWS) in 2025 has created significant ripple effects for trans persons. Departing from dominant interpretations of the Equality Act 2010 (EA 2010), the Court decided that “...
- Engineering & TechnologyOpen access
Superquadric primitive decomposition of 3D point clouds via geometric-aware inlier refinement
The decomposition of 3D point clouds into interpretable geometric primitives remains a longstanding challenge in Computer Vision and Computer Graphics. Among the available representations, superquadrics offer a compact and expressive model capable of capturing a wide range of sha...
- Society & EconomicsOpen access
Less Care, More Respect: Low Concern About Social Evaluation Signals Competence
This project examines how concern about social evaluation shapes interpersonal impressions. Across two preregistered studies, we tested whether appearing less concerned about social evaluation increases perceived competence and respect, and whether this effect generalizes to indi...
- Materials & EnergyOpen access
An ‘Empty’ [Fe 16 ] Cage and its Transformation into [Fe 17 ] and [Fe 30 ]
ABSTRACT Polymetallic clusters of Fe III constructed without organic bridging ligands are an emerging class of molecules with structures akin to iron oxide minerals, possessing large spin ground states and/or displaying spin frustration effects. All previous examples, [Fe 8 ], [F...