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Rethinking Learning in Mindfulness Retreats

Background Mindfulness retreats are widely used to support experiential learning through embodied practice and reflective engagement. Increasingly, retreats are offered online, yet little is known about how different retreat contexts shape learning experiences. Purpose This quali...

Task-oriented and relational perceptions of ChatGPT among generation Z students: Implications for higher education and preparation for AI-enabled work

Generative AI is becoming embedded in higher education and knowledge work, yet students may assign different forms of usefulness to conversational AI. This study examines how Generation Z students perceive the current and potential usefulness of ChatGPT across seven functional ro...

Comprehensive budget performance management reform, budget deviation, and local governance effectiveness: an empirical study

The Comprehensive Budget Performance Management Reform (CBPMR), a major initiative to modernize China’s governance system and capacity, has important implications for local governance effectiveness. Using panel data for 30 Chinese provinces from 2007 to 2023, this study treats th...

Gamified Augmented Sensorimotor Feedback During Balance Training Improves Postural Control and Nocturnal RMSSD

Background and Objectives: Augmented sensorimotor feedback may enhance motor learning during balance training, but whether these adaptations extend to cardiac autonomic regulation remains unclear. This study compared wobble-board training with gamified augmented feedback versus c...

Corrigibility and Continuity: A Philosophical Account of Temporally Constrained Revision

Possessing a capacity for revision does not establish that its exercise remains possible in an episode where correction matters. A system may detect discordance, generate alternatives, or modify a policy while lacking the time or resources required for those operations to preserv...

Zero-Shot Water Monitoring from Fixed Drainage Surveillance Imagery Across Day/Night and Rain/No-Rain Conditions: A SAM 3 Benchmark at 25 Urban Sites

Urban drainage systems rely on fixed surveillance cameras that operate continuously under daytime, nighttime-infrared, rainy, and non-rainy conditions, yet most vision-based water-monitoring methods are validated only on daytime imagery and require costly pixel-level annotation....

Unspoken Narratives: The Impact of Neurodivergent Voices Captured Through Photos on Understanding, Empathy, and Attitudes

Date presented: April 23, 2026 Primary Author and Speaker: Elsie Hurtado Pollari, ehpollari@gmail.com

Frost Heave Evolution and Thermo-Hydro-Mechanical Coupling Analysis of Transmission Tower Foundations in Silty Clay of Seasonally Frozen Regions

Frost heave of transmission tower foundations in seasonally frozen regions endangers cold-region power infrastructure and grid security. This study establishes a coupled model to simulate foundation freeze-thaw and frost heave processes, validated via laboratory tests. The result...

Cooperative Agostic‐Type C─H···Cu, Quadrupolar Cu···CO 2 , and C─H···O/π Interactions in an Ultra‐Microporous MOF Enable One‐Step Methane Purification From Quaternary C 3 H 8 /C 2 H 6 /CO 2 /CH 4

ABSTRACT While agostic‐type C─H···metal σ‐interactions are central to organometallic catalysis, their role in gas separation remains elusive. In this study, a robust phosphine‐functionalized ultra‐microporous Cu(I/II)‐organic framework, LIFM‐XYY‐15, featuring open metal sites (OM...

Physically constrained XGBoost model for pseudo-spectral acceleration prediction

This study develops a physics-constrained ground motion model (GMM) for predicting pseudo-spectral acceleration (PSA) across 17 structural periods (0.02–4 s). Leveraging 900 seismic events from Japan’s KiK-net network, the research explicitly incorporating sensor depth and direct...

Functionalized Silica-Coated Metallic Replicas of Intracellular Protein Assemblies

Abstract To replicate hierarchical biological architectures, biotemplating leverages diverse biological structures as templates for inorganic materials. Among the various inorganic materials explored in biotemplating, silica is an attractive material because of its stability and...

Cartographies of Sovereign Resistance: "Human-in-Command" as Boundary Architecture Against Recursive Algorithmic Expansionism

Abstract:This strategic systems and science and technology studies monograph formulates a foundational defense of the "Human-in-Command" governance doctrine against the accelerating, unconstrained expansionism of recursive algorithmic self-improvement and speed-first corporate do...

Qualitative Consciousness Sources Yield No Quantitative Metric — E8 Intelligence Research

FINDING: No quantitative consciousness metric emerges; the sources are qualitative overviews (Brian Cox panel, Global Consciousness Project history, Breakthrough Discuss) with no new equations, constants, or measured ratios. | MATH: None extracted — no formal models, no numerical...

Shear Wave Elastography of the Tibial Nerve and Lower Limb Nerve‐Muscle‐Tendon Complex in Diabetic Peripheral Neuropathy

Objectives To investigate the associations among diabetic peripheral neuropathy (DPN), diabetic tendinopathy, and diabetic myopathy and their respective influencing factors using shear wave elastography (SWE). Methods This study enrolled 65 diabetic patients (22 with DPN [PN‐DM g...

Real-Time Physical-to-Virtual Scene Reconstruction for Dynamic Manufacturing Systems via Semantic—Spatial Mapping

Real-time reconstruction of virtual scenes in response to changing physical conditions remains a challenge in manufacturing digital-twin systems. During manufacturing operations, changes in object positions, orientations, and spatial arrangements require the virtual scene to be u...

Cornus mas L. Ameliorates Hepatic Insulin Resistance in High-fat Diet-induced Diabetic Mice

Background Type 2 diabetes (T2D) remains a prominent chronic metabolic disease characterized by hyperglycemia worldwide. Insulin resistance is the primary risk factor contributing to T2D development. Cornus mas L. is a natural product shown to play a regulatory role in metabolic...

From PCV1 to “PCV5”: Genetic Diversity, Evolutionary Dynamics, and Host Adaptation of Porcine Circoviruses

Porcine circoviruses (PCVs) are among the smallest animal viruses that replicate autonomously. What began in 1974 as a single cell culture contaminant, PCV1, now counts five members, PCV1 to PCV5. The newest of these, PCV5, was reported in 2025. Its genome is larger than those of...

EVALUATION OF CHEESE WHEY FOR ANTIBACTERIAL ACTIVITY AGAINST DIARRHOEAGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI

Diarrhoeal diseases remain a major public health problem and are among the leading causes of morbidity and mortality in children, particularly in developing countries. Among the bacterial pathogens associated with childhood diarrhoea, Escherichia coli is frequently implicated, wi...

Policy, Governance, and Funding Challenges of Implementing the Mandate in Colleges of Education in Nigeria

This paper critically examines the policy, governance, and funding challenges confronting the implementation of mandates in Colleges of Education (COEs) in Nigeria. Drawing on secondary data from policy documents, scholarly literature, and reports from governmental and internatio...

Three-Dimensional Concrete Printing in the Construction Industry: Landscape, Challenges, and Future Opportunities

Abstract The adoption of three-dimensional concrete printing (3DCP) has been transforming the construction industry, offering unique design flexibility and efficiency that conventional methods struggle to match. Despite its potential, a critical lack of research exists for nonmat...