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主権的報復のスペクタクル:生中継される死刑執行・憲法規範の侵食・近代刑罰学の歴史的逆行 The Spectacle of Sovereign Retribution: Televised Capital Punishment, Constitutional Erosion, and the Regression of Modern Penology

概要 / Abstract(日本語) 本批判的法学論考は、米国防長官ピート・ヘグセスにより提唱されたニダル・ハサン元少佐の銃殺執行の公衆中継構想を対象とし、その憲法規範的および刑罰史的帰結を厳密に解明する。国家による致死力行使の映像化および視覚的拡散は、近代刑罰学が数世紀にわたり構築してきた身...

Chitosan‐assisted dyeing of cotton with sodium copper chlorophyllin: Effects of process parameters on colour yield and fastness

Abstract Sodium copper chlorophyllin (SCC), a food‐grade green pigment, offers potential for sustainable textile coloration; however, its application to cotton is hindered by electrostatic repulsion with the negatively charged cellulose surface. In this study, chitosan was used t...

Assessing Arctic ship navigability: Divergence between international rules and local regulations

Arctic ship navigability is affected by both international rules and local regulatory frameworks. When differences arise between the two frameworks from policy and practical perspectives, issues inevitably arise, yet they remain insufficiently addressed in the existing literature...

Maxillomandibular Advancement Guided by the Barcelona Line, a Facial Soft-Tissue Reference, in Patients with Obstructive Sleep Apnea: A Feasibility Study

Maxillomandibular advancement (MMA) represents an effective surgical treatment for individuals with obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) when conservative therapies fail. However, variability in surgical planning methods limits predictability and standardization of outcomes. This retros...

Exogenous Myo-Inositol Enhances Drought Tolerance in Potato by Modulating Jasmonic Acid Signaling and Flavonoid Antioxidant Pathways

Drought is the major abiotic stress restricting potato seedling growth and tuber yield formation. Exogenous myo-inositol (MI) has been reported to alleviate stress effects in various crops. However, the optimal foliar MI concentration for potato and its underlying transcriptional...

Calibrated Prediction of Students’ Next Responses in Digital Mathematics Learning: A Completion-Ordered and Cold-Start-Aware Framework

Digital mathematics platforms support probabilistic prediction of subsequent student responses, but temporal ordering, score comparability and calibration affect the validity of evaluation. We evaluated AdaptiveMath-AI on a deterministic cohort of 385,037 Eedi interactions from 2...

“We would love to offer everything:” findings from a qualitative study of syringe exchange program staff on integrating sexual and reproductive health care into New York State syringe exchange programs

Abstract Background People who use drugs (PWUD) are a marginalized population who face barriers seeking reproductive health care in a culture that stigmatizes both drug use and reproductive health care. Syringe Service Programs (SSPs) were created to slow the spread of HIV among...

Selective wake-up based partial networking for battery life extension in two-wheeler ECU architectures

Modern two-wheeled vehicles increasingly integrate multiple Electronic Control Units (ECUs) for both critical safety functions and non-critical comfort features. In traditional Controller Area Network (CAN) bus architectures, any message transmission wakes up all connected ECUs r...

“Strangely Familiar”: Tolkien’s Notion of Fantasy, Creation, and the Anthropocentric in Tarkovsky’s Solaris

J. R. R. Tolkien’s notion of fantasy is intriguing and invites conversation with other art forms and theologies of art. For Tolkien, fantasy is the art of using one’s imagination to create a “secondary world”—or “sub-creation”—that has “‘the inner consistency of reality’” and tha...

Bloom-Blueprinted Multiple-Choice Assessment in First-Year Chemistry: Item Performance, Attainment, and Student Perceptions

Abstract Chemistry departments increasingly require summative assessments that are scalable, reliable, and capable of evaluating more than factual recall. This study examines an assessment transition from traditional Short-Answer Questions (SAQs) to Bloom-blueprinted Multiple-Cho...

Study on the influence of chordwise position of bionic fish scale structure on the cavitation flow characteristics of a hydrofoil

To enhance cavitation resistance of fluid machinery, inspired by crucian carp scales, a bionic hydrofoil physical model was established. Numerical simulations of cavitation characteristics were performed using the RNG k-ε turbulence model and ZGB cavitation model. Analyses were c...

Hardware-Aware Quantization and Pruning for Ultra-Low Power Environmental Anomaly Detection on Edge Nodes

Running artificial intelligence directly on low power sensor chips eliminates the need to transmit data to cloud servers, but standard microcontrollers feature less than 500 kilobytes of memory. While compression techniques enable edge classification, autoencoder anomaly detectio...

Neuromonitoring of perioperative microembolization and its association with postoperative stroke after carotid endarterectomy

Abstract Purpose This study aims to assess whether perioperative microembolization can identify patients at risk for postoperative stroke. Methods A total of 257 carotid endarterectomy procedures in 254 patients were analyzed (154 symptomatic, 103 asymptomatic). Neuromonitoring,...

Entrepreneurial public support mechanisms: developing a neo-institutional comprehensive evaluation scale

Entrepreneurial success is often evaluated based on financial metrics such as revenue growth, profitability, and market expansion. However, these indicators fail to capture the institutional and procedural dimensions of public support mechanisms that significantly shape entrepren...

Village-Level Institutional Capacity and Farmers’ Willingness to Participate in Agricultural Water Governance

Insufficient farmer participation constrains sustainable agricultural water governance and collective action. Village-level agricultural water governance organizations connect institutional provision with farmers’ behavioral responses, but evidence on the association between thei...

“You can't get high if you don't pick it up:” Assessing how incarcerated men with substance use disorders plan for abstinence post-release

Prior research demonstrates that substance use disorders increase recidivism risk and impede reentry success across domains. Yet research has not assessed how incarcerated individuals plan for abstinence from substances post-release, a critical research gap given high rates of re...

Exploring University Ranking Stability and Predictability: Cross-Ranking Consistency, Persistence Baselines, and Machine Learning

Global university rankings differ in methodology, yet their published positions are frequently compared across systems and monitored over time. This study examines two dimensions of ranking stability: cross-sectional consistency across ranking systems and temporal persistence wit...

Does health facility infrastructure predict performance? Disconnects between service readiness, process quality, and client experience in Ethiopia

Expanding healthcare access without guaranteeing care quality fails to improve population health. Although health systems in low- and middle-income countries frequently rely on structural readiness as a proxy for healthcare quality, whether readiness associates with actual clinic...

The law won? – Maritime courts, the labour market and seamen's litigation in early modern Holland and Zeeland (1641–1692)

In the second half of the seventeenth century, three cities in Holland and Zeeland established maritime courts. While their competence included adjudication over all maritime disputes, they were specifically designed to resolve disputes between crews and their skippers over wages...

Can Psychological Readiness Predict Successful Return to Sports After Patellar Stabilization Surgery in Adolescent Patients? A Retrospective Cohort Study

Background: While many metrics are used to subjectively assess a patient’s knee function with patellofemoral instability (PFI), psychological readiness to return to sport (RTS) after patellar stabilization surgery is not well established in this population. The Anterior Cruciate...