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To Buy or Not to Buy Under Brand Image Transgression? Consumer Behavior and Underlying Mechanisms from a Power Distance Belief Perspective

Brand image transgression occurs when a brand-caused change in a brand’s current image, relative to its original image, creates a marked incongruence between consumers’ self-image and the brand image—a change that is negative for the brand’s original customer base. Compared with...

Mechanistic Study of a Thermal- and Light-Driven Single-Crystal-to-Single-Crystal Transformation of an Organocerium Complex

Abstract In crystallo synthetic and analytical methods are remarkably effective for stabilizing and structurally characterizing otherwise reactive compounds, and elucidating transient intermediates in catalytic cycles. In this work, we investigate the mechanism of the ring-openin...

HIV Awareness and Stigma Reduction Through Immersive Theatrical Drag Storytelling: A Mixed-Methods Pilot Study of Community Members in Western United States

ABSTRACT: HIV stigma remains a barrier to testing, prevention, and health care access among LGBTQ+ communities. Theatrical drag storytelling is a promising, culturally relevant approach to HIV awareness, stigma reduction, and prevention. A convergent mixed-methods pre-post survey...

Refining Geometric Langlands via Limit Categories on Cotangent Stacks — E8 Intelligence Research

FINDING: The geometric Langlands conjecture (GLC) is being actively refined and proven via derived categories of D-modules on the moduli stack Bun_G, with a dual equivalence to coherent sheaves on the Langlands dual stack Loc_G; recent work (arXiv:2508.19624) introduces "limit ca...

Fractional optimal control of hantavirus transmission between rodents and humans

This paper studies a fractional optimal control problem for a hantavirus transmission model involving interactions between rodent reservoirs and human populations. The model is formulated through a modified SIR–SIR structure, where both humans and rodents are divided into suscept...

A Hierarchical Semantic Knowledge-Distilled Belief Rule Base for Interpretable Fault Diagnosis

Fault diagnosis is essential for the safe and reliable operation of industrial equipment. Deep learning models provide strong fault recognition capabilities, but offer limited transparency, while belief rule bases (BRBs) provide explicit reasoning, but face challenges in represen...

Buckling analysis of thin‑walled composite cylinders under hydrostatic external pressure

This study investigates the primary and secondary buckling behavior of thin-walled composite cylinders subjected to external pressure using analytical formulations and finite element (FE) modeling. A refined analytical model is developed to estimate the primary buckling pressure,...

Between Journalism and Justice: Disciplinary Humility in Open-Source Investigations

Open-source investigations (OSI) have become an increasingly influential method for reporting on conflict, documenting human rights violations, and supporting justice and accountability efforts. As the field has matured, OSI practitioners have increasingly operated across journal...

Diverse genetic pathways drive convergent fluconazole and caspofungin resistance phenotypes in Candida albicans

The emergence of antifungal resistance in Candida albicans is a major worldwide public health threat, particularly for immunocompromised patients. Antifungal resistance may arise through uniform resistance mechanisms or through variable evolutionary routes. The aim of this study...

Registered expectations about Dune: Part Three (2026), deposited before its release

Two predictions about Denis Villeneuve's Dune: Part Three (release 18 December 2026), deposited before the film's release so that the film can test them. Prediction A: Paul Atreides will say in his own voice that he had no choice, and the film will undercut that claim. Prediction...

Design, Synthesis, and Biological Evaluation of Novel Dithiocarbamate-Based Human Carbonic Anhydrase IX/XII Inhibitors as Potential Anti-Glioblastoma Agents

To develop human carbonic anhydrase (hCA) IX/XII-targeted therapeutics for glioblastoma multiforme (GBM), novel dithiocarbamate (DTC)-based compounds were synthesized and evaluated for their inhibitory activity against hCA I, II, IX, and XII isoforms. The most potent hCA IX/XII i...

EUPopLink Country report - Greece

This report examines the overlap of Populism and Euroscepticism at the party level in Greece from the 1980s to today. It provides a longitudinal description of populist parties and their political platforms. While early populism was primarily represented by PASOK, it later became...

Use of Anticoagulation Among Patients With Atrial Fibrillation or Atrial Flutter in the United States

BACKGROUND: Oral anticoagulation (OAC) remains underused in patients with atrial fibrillation or flutter at high risk of ischemic stroke. We aimed to characterize documented OAC prescribing at diagnosis and during 1-year follow-up and identify factors associated with baseline OAC...

Monte Carlo Simulation for Trip Rate Estimation Using Genetic Algorithm-Based Stratified Sampling: Application in Low-Population Areas

Transport planning requires an accurate estimate of household trip rates to evaluate transportation needs. However, it has been believed that high accuracy is associated with large sample sizes, which hinders low-population local government units from conducting household travel...

The Empirical Impact of Social Investment on the Corporate Cash Holdings of South African Financial Institutions

This study examined the effect of social investment on corporate cash holdings in South African financial institutions, addressing a gap in the existing literature, which has largely concentrated on developed countries and non-financial industries. The research provides empirical...

Die Panne by Friedrich Dürrenmatt: A Trial for the Concept of Justice

This essay critically examines Friedrich Dürrenmatt’s Die Panne as a profound metaphor for the complexities and perversions of justice in modern society. Dürrenmatt constructs a narrative that subverts traditional detective story conventions, presenting a reverse trial in which t...

Self-Congruence in Ridesharing: Service-Embedded Products and the Moderating Role of Materialism

This cross-country research examines how congruence with service-embedded products influences consumers’ ridesharing intentions in the U.S. and India. Conceptualizing vehicles as tangible service elements, we position self-congruence as an antecedent condition for service access...

Can reason defeat right-wing populism? Political liberalism and the limits of the duty of pressure

Can reason defeat right-wing populism? And what duties do ordinary citizens have when liberal democracy comes under pressure from within? In this commentary, I engage with Gabriele Badano and Alasia Nuti’s Politicizing Political Liberalism , focusing on their account of the ‘duty...

Individual-level health inequalities in breast cancer stage and survival in Northern Ireland: a population-based cohort study

Abstract Background Understanding the impact of health inequalities on breast cancer presentation, treatment and survival is important. This study investigated individual-level health inequalities on stage at diagnosis and mortality. Methods Women newly diagnosed with breast canc...

The collaborative economy from a service-dominant logic lens: a conceptual typology

Purpose Despite the rise of collaborative, peer-based exchanges that have reshaped service provision, there remains a need for research that (1) accounts for the complexity of collaborative service systems, (2) explicates submarkets and exchange behaviors, (3) addresses theoretic...