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Young children as cultural, spiritual and global beings: Counter narratives of early childhood literacies in culturally diverse homes in a northern English town

This paper describes an ethnographic study of home literacy practices of families with children aged under 4 years in a northern English town. We critically engage with the tendency of dominant approaches to early childhood education in England to work from a Eurocentric, develop...

Federated Flight Anomaly Detection with Self-Supervised Forecasting: A Flight-Disjoint Evaluation

Reliable anomaly detection is essential for the safe operation of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), particularly in distributed settings where flight telemetry is generated across multiple vehicles or operational sessions and cannot always be centrally collected. This work investi...

Repressed mTORC1 signaling and transient dendritic pruning support axonal regeneration in adult zebrafish

Dendrite degeneration is an early pathological feature following axonal damage, yet its role during successful axonal regeneration remains poorly understood. Using sparse labeling of retinal ganglion cells in adult zebrafish, we show that axonal regeneration is accompanied by a t...

Acute postoperative dietary intake in older adult hip fracture patients: An exploratory three-day weighed food diary observational study

BackgroundOlder adults recovering from hip fracture surgery are at risk from poor outcomes that can impede dietary intake, delay recovery and exacerbate comorbidities. Adequate nutrition is critical to recovery in this group, yet acute postoperative intake is poorly understood. M...

Simultaneous PSF Matching via Dual Kernel Optimization

Abstract Standard point spread function (PSF) matching algorithms consider one image as the reference and aim to find a convolution kernel such that, when applied to the reference image, the PSFs of the reference and non-reference images are matched. This method works well if one...

Bought, Not Built: the South African schoolboy rugby market.

Elite schoolboy rugby in South Africa has become a professional talent market in which every player is a child. Leading schools are reported to spend around R6 million a year each on their first teams. Matches are streamed to more than a million registered users, schools are rank...

Determining the Partial Molar Volume of the Hydrated Electron from First-Principles Simulated Solution Volumes

Abstract The microscopic solvation structure of the hydrated electron remains difficult to characterize directly despite extensive experimental and theoretical efforts. The partial molar volume,V¯e−, provides an indirect thermodynamic probe, but quantitative agreement with experi...

Underprepared or competent? Pre-service teachers’ positions on approaching climate change in a systemic and critical way

These anonymized data describe the attitudinal profiles of 984 Spanish pre‑service preschool and primary teachers (Varela‑Losada et al., 2026), assessed with the validated Critical and Systemic Thinking Scale (Pérez-Rodríguez et al., 2026), and derived through hierarchical and k‑...

Neural network-based multipartite entanglement classification with prior guidance from quantum uncertainty relations

Quantum entanglement is a crucial resource in quantum information processing, yet its efficient, scalable and robust classification in multipartite systems remains theoretically challenging. Although supervised machine-learning has been applied to this task, most existing methods...

Alternative development in a post-aid world

In 2020, Liberian scholar-activist and author Robtel Neajai Pailey re-invigorated a debate about the colonial underpinnings of mainstream development and their racist logics with an influential journal article entitled ‘De-centering the “White Gaze” of Development’. She has since...

Self-Replicating Neural Cellular Automata: Quantifying Emergent Phenotypic and Genotypic Diversity in an Open-Ended Substrate

We study an in silico substrate in which every pixel of a two-channel cellular-automata grid carries a tiny neural network (an agent) that senses its Moore neighbourhood. A cell persists only by self-replication: a living neighbour is cloned, and its weights are mutated by a unif...

Context shapes action understanding in social interactions

This repository contains processed data from dyadic interaction tasks (rock-paper-scissors), including classified hand poses and corresponding wrist movement trajectories for all valid games in each session. Each session folder contains: A) The MAT file wrist_trajectories.mat con...

Evaluating a Lightweight Neural Network for Aggregate Isotope Distribution Prediction

Abstract Isotope distribution prediction is an important part of mass spectrometry data analysis. A variety of strategies have been developed, including brute-force polynomial methods and Fourier-transform (FT) convolution methods. Here, we present a novel neural network (NN) app...

Symbolic ensemble learning enables discovery of fast accurate physics-based interatomic potentials

Machine learning has transformed materials simulation by delivering force fields with ab initio accuracy, yet bridging the gap between high-dimensional regression and physical interpretability remains a grand challenge. Conventional analytical potentials offer transparency but of...

The Depositary of Last Resort

Abstract What are the consequences of making central bank deposits accessible to actors beyond the banking sector? We collect novel micro data on deposit accounts historically held with the Bank of England by individuals and firms other than banks to study their role in the finan...

Child health service coverage estimation using routine health data from Ghana’s Eastern Region

Abstract Background Suboptimal resource allocation limits uptake of essential health services in sub-Saharan Africa. Reliable population denominators and coverage estimates are needed to better match health facility resources to local demand. An estimation approach utilising rout...

BKT-like Correlation Scaling and Twist Responses in a One-Dimensional Fractional U(1) Ginzburg–Landau Model

We study a one-dimensional fractional U(1) Ginzburg–Landau model whose quadratic part has Fourier multiplier |k|σ, focusing on the marginal case σ=1. This dispersion yields logarithmic spin-wave fluctuations, suggesting BKT-like behavior despite the one-dimensional setting. We sa...

Turning points of subtropical forest carbon sinks in southern China: spatiotemporal dynamics and management insights

Forest carbon sequestration faces the risk of critical transitions under ongoing climate change; however, identifying turning points remains challenging because existing early-warning signal approaches are largely limited to retrospective historical analysis. This study examines...

Morality and climate policy attitudes

This paper studies the moral roots of climate policy attitudes. We fielded a survey with a representative sample in the US to study the predictive power of moral universalism in explaining heterogeneity in specific climate policy attitudes. Our results reveal that universalism is...

Nuclear Wrinkles Result From Geometric Adaptations to Cellular and Nuclear Morphological Changes in Epithelial Cells

Mechanical cues influence cell behavior and fate and are frequently accompanied by changes in nuclear shape; however, how epithelial nuclei accommodate such deformations remains incompletely understood. In this article, we investigated the formation and regulation of nuclear wrin...