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Pain, cognition, and culture in dementia research: a critical synthesis of empirical and methodological literature

Research examining relationships between pain and cognition in dementia and cognitive impairment has expanded, yet methodological and cultural limitations remain insufficiently explored. This paper critically synthesises findings from two scoping reviews focusing on pain-cognitio...

Associations Between Childhood Sadness and Romantic Relationship Satisfaction in Emerging Adulthood: A Mixed-Methods Exploration Considering Wellbeing and Emotional Dysregulation

There has been extensive research on childhood adverse experiences and their impact on interpersonal relationships. However, most studies have focused on trauma or abuse, and on peer or familial relationships; research examining childhood sadness in relation to romantic relations...

A counterexample to a conjecture of Graffiti.pc on the forest number

Conjecture 66 of Graffiti.pc, listed as open in Written on the Wall II, states that the order of a largest induced forest of a connected graph is at least twice the ceiling of the even mode of the degrees of its complement divided by its average degree. We show that it is false u...

The differences in the Narrow Line Region of nearby QSOs 1 and QSOs 2: II - Signatures of kinetic feedback

Abstract We compare the integrated kinematic properties of the Narrow-Line Region (NLR) of ~1500 type 1 and ~700 type 2 QSOs at 0.4 ≤ z ≤ 0.5 using emission-line profiles from SDSS-IV spectra. The NLR [O iii]λ5007 and Hβ emission lines are fitted using a two-component model compr...

The relationship between evolvability and plasticity under experimental warming across species’ elevational ranges

Phenotypic variation among individuals of a population arises from genetic and environmental effects. These may be correlated if they have similar underlying developmental mechanisms or selection histories. We tested empirically for such links over elevation gradients, on which s...

Spectral inference of arterial stiffness from a single distal velocity waveform

Abstract Arterial stiffness is a key determinant of cardiovascular health and a central quantity in biological wave mechanics. Conventional pulse wave velocity (PWV) measurement requires simultaneous recordings at two spatially separated sites, limiting clinical accessibility. He...

EXAMINING THE POTENTIAL CONSEQUENCES OF GENDER EQUALITY ISSUES AMONG STUDENT YOUTH

Gender equality is a fundamental principle that promotes fairness and equal opportunities for individuals of all genders. However, there are certain potential consequences associated with gender equality issues among student youth that need to be addressed. This article explores...

Informal care outside the household by older people and cardiovascular health of caregivers: A Cross-Sectional Analysis of the SHARE European study

Social isolation is an established cardiovascular risk factor, but the health implications of providing social support remain understudied. We examined whether informal care outside the household is associated with any self-reported cardiovascular disease. We conducted a cross-se...

La Capacidad De No Poder Hacer Milagros: Reflexiones Sobre El Abastecimiento De Las Expediciones De 1715, 1718 y 1720. 1

Today there is a great discussion about the effects that the organization of military expeditions had on the civilian population and the economy of the province of departure. The issue is relevant because in order to carry them out, the State must have a great capacity to mobiliz...

Learning from Unreliable Trajectories: Adversarially-Robust Federated Q-Learning

We study federated reinforcement learning in which multiple agents interact with a common Markov decision process and communicate through a central server to collaboratively learn the optimal stateaction value function. Our goal is to understand whether the sample-efficiency bene...

On the importance of subjective perceptions of safety. Limits of the 2026 UK road safety strategy

This short article offers a critical assessment of the UK Government’s 2026 Road Safety Strategy (RSS). While the strategy sets ambitious targets for reducing road fatalities, we argue that it is unlikely to achieve its broader objective of promoting active travel and reducing th...

Interpretable regularized modelling of domain balanced soil fertility for spatial nutrient prioritization in data limited paddy systems

Abstract Spatially explicit soil fertility diagnosis is still difficult in data sparse paddy cultivated areas because single soil test indicators cannot separate soil chemical condition, primary nutrient supply, micronutrient balance and yield relevance. This study developed a so...

THE REFLECTION OF THE IDEAS OF INTERFAITH AND INTERETHNIC TOLERANCE IN THE VERSES OF THE HOLY QURAN

In this article, the content of the verses on humanity and tolerance in Islam is explained based on scientific sources.

ADAPTING COMMUNICATIVE TEACHING METHODS IN UZBEKISTAN: CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES FOR TESOL PRACTICE

This article examines the adaptation of communicative teaching methods in Uzbekistan, with a focus on the challenges and opportunities they present for TESOL practice. Drawing on the foundational theories of communicative competence and Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) artic...

Dynamics of Policy Agenda Formation for Extending the Retirement Age in the Thai Civil Service (2014–2025)

This study aims to 1) analyze the chronology and status changes of the policy agenda regarding the extension of the civil service retirement age in Thailand during 2014–2025, 2) explain the mechanisms coupling the problem, policy, and political streams under institutional conditi...

Exposure to Environmental Tobacco Smoke: a Modifiable Factor of Hospitalization and Severity of Acute Bronchiolitis

OBJECTIVE: The objective was to evaluate the associations of environmental tobacco smoke exposure with acute bronchiolitis and its severity among hospitalized children. METHODS: This case-control study with prospective follow-up was conducted at a tertiary care hospital (February...

Migration Studies and International Business Scholarship: Toward Mutual Renewal in the Study of High-Skilled Migration

This article introduces a special issue of International Migration Review , aimed at bringing migration studies and international business (IB) scholarship into dialogue. Although both interdisciplinary fields examine processes that are fundamentally interconnected—the movement o...

Semantic Interference From First- and Second-Language Maskers During Speech-on-Speech Listening

PURPOSE: Broad linguistic properties of masker speech (e.g., phonological and prosodic familiarity) have been shown to affect target speech transcription during speech-on-speech listening. However, it is unclear whether the semantic content of the masker impacts listening accurac...

SWT: Self-Supervised Video Object Segmentation via Sliding, Wavelet and Transportation

Video Object Segmentation (VOS) aims to accurately segment target objects from consecutive video frames and track the changes of the objects in each frame of the video. Conventional VOS methods typically demand substantial quantities of pixel-level labeled video sequences for ful...

Constructions with crossed syntactic dependencies show elevated lexical cohesion: the compensatory collocation hypothesis

Abstract Natural languages avoid syntactic structures with crossed syntactic dependencies. To the extent that such structures nonetheless occur, they have been explained as the result of competing motivations, such as dependency length minimization, the facilitation of incrementa...