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Use, trustworthiness and willingness to self-monitor health and personal wellness: a UK population survey

Abstract Background Public opinion about self-monitoring of health and personal wellness is important but largely unknown. This study investigated public attitudes towards self-monitoring of health and personal wellness. Methods Four thousand two hundred seventy UK adults selecte...

Missed prevention: global gaps in seat belt policy, monitoring, and road traffic mortality

Objective Seat belts are among the most effective interventions for reducing vehicle occupant fatalities, yet their global life-saving potential depends on their availability and use. This study documents and quantifies global gaps in seat belt governance and estimates the burden...

Characterizing Canadian Out-of-district Political Donations from 2015 to 2024

Federal political representation in Canada is geographical: one Member of Parliament (MP) represents one electoral district. Despite this representational structure, Canadians can legally donate to a host of political entities, regardless of proximity. Using a public dataset from...

The joint effects of digital transformation technologies and human lean practices on firm performance: an empirical investigation

Purpose This study examines how human lean practices (HLP), Industry 4.0 (I4.0) technologies, technical lean practices (TLP), operational performance (OP) and sustainable performance (SP) interact within the manufacturing sector of emerging economies under the constraints of a le...

Searching the Literature by Meaning: Benchmarking Free and Commercial Word Embedding Models on Social Work Text

<p><b><i><span>Purpose</span></i></b><span>: Locating relevant studies is the first step of evidence-based practice, yet most searching relies on keyword matching. Artificial intelligence (AI) tools called embedding models search by...

From regulatory approval to clinical practice: real-world eligibility for anti-amyloid monoclonal antibodies in an Italian dementia-care network

Background: European approval of lecanemab and donanemab has shifted anti-amyloid monoclonal antibodies from trial evidence to health-system implementation. In Italy, reimbursement decisions are pending, and real-world estimates of treatment-ready eligibility under Italian approp...

Large language models as designers for autonomous research of anisotropic polymer thermocells

Flexible thermoelectric materials face a persistent trade-off between output power and mechanical robustness. Here, we report OmniMat, a large language model-driven framework that designs experimental protocols in a human-in-the-loop workflow without relying on structured task-sp...

Living in Prison, Studying on Campus: Digital Challenges for Students in a UK Open Prison

This article examines the information behaviour of a group of students housed in an “open” prison in southern England and enabled to attend university during weekdays. This group faces unique challenges, unexplored in existing studies on incarcerated distance learners, as they ex...

Cedalion tutorial: a Python-based framework for comprehensive analysis of multimodal fNIRS and DOT from the lab to the everyday world

Functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) and diffuse optical 1 tomography (DOT) are rapidly evolving toward wearable, multimodal, data-driven, and artificial-intelligence-supported neuroimaging in the everyday world. However, current analytical tools are fragmented across pl...

Nuclear Spin Oscillator Based on 3He to Search for Exotic Spin Coupling

We describe an experimental investigation of a nuclear spin oscillator based on 3He nuclei as a possible detector to search for exotic spin couplings. A magnetically shielded vapor cell comprising an alkali atom mixture (95% potassium and 5% rubidium) and 3He gas is polarized via...

Resilience and adaptation of cancer screening programs to external crises

Objectives To examine how cancer screening programs resumed during the COVID-19 pandemic, focusing on their resilience in terms of coordination, communication, recovery, participation rates, catch-up efforts, inequities, and preparedness. Setting Cancer screening programs represe...

Demoting the Master Control Program: Deterministic Orchestration of a Fleet of LLM Agents

Multi-agent systems that build software usually coordinate their agents through a language model: an orchestrator reasons in prose about who works next, whether a task is done, and when to involve the human operator. That puts a probabilistic component on the control path of a sy...

Challenges and opportunities of solar geoengineering for climate governance

Purpose This review characterizes the governance challenges arising from the potential deployment of solar geoengineering. The authors survey existing theoretical models that analyze the strategic incentives such technologies generate. In particular, this study examines the condi...

The Marketing Context Graph: A Governed Substrate for Causal Marketing Measurement and Auditable Decision Provenance - Causal inference as a governed layer on a bitemporal context graph

Marketing decisions increasingly depend on two capabilities that have evolved separately: causal marketing measurement (distinguishing real advertising effects from the correlational patterns in marketing data, the domain of Causal AI) and governed, graph-based context for the AI...

High-resolution simulation and modeling of tropical-cyclone induced power outages in the United States

Storm driven power outages impose large and uneven costs on communities, yet operational outage prediction models remain constrained by available datasets. Existing approaches either provide high resolution forecasts for a small number of utilities with internal outage records, o...

A large-scale analysis of temporal patterns in children’s purported past-life memories: Shorter intervals following unexpected deaths.

Cases of the Reincarnation Type (CORT) involve individuals—typically young children—who report memories they claim are from previous lives. One recurring observation is the apparent “intermission time” between the death of the putatively identified previous person and the child’s...

STING agonist profiling by nucleotide library defines structural determinants of cyclic dinucleotide recognition

The data contain unprocessed Western Blot and gel images, microscopy images and data from STING Molecular Dynamics (MD) simulations.

ECL₃: Epistemic Causal Logic — Paper I: Core Logic, Semantics, and Completeness

We introduce ECL3 (Epistemic Causal Logic), a three-valued formal logic extending Łukasiewicz L3 with an observability predicate Obs and a causal operator Cause. The system distinguishes truth (what is the case), observability (whether it can be known), and causal accessibility (...

“Who am I without my disorder?”: An interpretative phenomenological analysis of recovery from combined bulimia nervosa and borderline personality disorder

Abstract Background Co-occurring Bulimia Nervosa (BN) and Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) affect a substantial population in the United Kingdom. This study explored how individuals experience recovery from these conditions, with a focus on interpreting how individuals with...

Gallai’s Theorem: A Detailed Exposition of Witt’s Proof

Gallai’s theorem states that if the Euclidean plane is colored with finitely many colors then every finite configuration of points admits a monochromatic homothetic copy. This paper presents a detailed exposition of a proof originally published by Ernst Witt in 1952 and subsequen...