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Developing Empathy Quest: A Digital Game Based Learning Tool About Teachers’ Emotional Intelligence

Socio-emotional skills are essential for teachers’ wellbeing, classroom functioning, and promotion of students’ social–emotional development. Digital game-based learning (DGBL) represents a promising approach to promote these competencies through engaging and experiential learnin...

Corpus linguistics in the age of generative AI: practical and theoretical considerations

Abstract Generative AI tools have implications for corpus linguistics from practical and theoretical angles, both of which the current paper addresses. The first part of the paper establishes whether and how generative AI tools – here ChatGPT o3 – can in practice support a corpus...

Perennial Crop Type Discrimination with AVIRIS-NG Hyperspectral Imagery and Machine Learning

Accurate maps of perennial crop types support agricultural monitoring, water-use accounting, and strategic decisions on climate adaptation. Hyperspectral imagery offers the fine spectral detail needed to separate spectrally similar plant species, but its high dimensionality compl...

Simultaneous Bilateral Quadriceps Tendon Rupture After Low-Energy Trauma in a 73-Year-Old Man: A Case Report and Literature Review

Simultaneous bilateral quadriceps tendon rupture is an exceptionally rare injury of the knee extensor mechanism and may present a diagnostic challenge, particularly after low-energy trauma. Prompt recognition is essential to restore knee extension and ambulatory function. We repo...

Integrating Experimental Measurements, WinXCom Calculations and Monte Carlo Simulations to Evaluate the Ionizing Radiation Shielding Performance of UPR/Bi2WO6 Nanocomposites

Lead-free polymer nanocomposites have attracted considerable attention as sustainable alternatives for ionizing radiation shielding. In this study, unsaturated polyester resin (UPR) nanocomposites containing hydrothermally synthesized Bi2WO6 nanoparticles (2.5–10 wt.%) were fabri...

Nanoplastic detection and quantification in high-altitude glacial snow samples from Italy, Switzerland and France

Abstract Plastic pollution is an ever-growing concern around the globe, with current research portraying the presence of contaminants even in previously pristine regions. Especially small particles, micro- and nanoplastics, can be dispersed over long stretches by atmospheric tran...

Energy Evolution and Acoustic Emission Characteristics of Tailings Backfill with Different Fly Ash Content

Abstract In this paper, with the help of acoustic emission (AE) monitoring technology, the mechanical properties of tailings backfill under uniaxial compression with three kinds of fly ash (FA) content, slurry concentration of 70%, and ash-to-sand ratios of <mml:math xmlns:mml="h...

Surface-modified ZnO nanowire arrays ultraviolet photodetector with Cu nanoparticles for enhanced detection performance

The state-of-the-art ultraviolet photodetectors (UV PDs) have been extensively used in environmental monitoring, security checks, and optical communication. The conventional ZnO UV PDs often exhibit low sensitivity and slow response/decay speed. In this study, Cu nanoparticles (N...

Alcohol-Free Futures: Engaging Adolescents in Building Healthier Lifestyles

Adolescence is a critical stage of development characterized by physical, emotional, and social changes. During this period, adolescents are at risk of engaging in harmful behaviors, such as excessive alcohol consumption. Early alcohol use can lead to alcohol dependency, impactin...

Species of the Genus ×Agrotrigia (Hordeeae, Poaceae)—A Case of a Different Pattern of Parental rDNA Elimination

All taxa of plants have undergone several rounds of whole-genome duplication (WGD), accompanying interspecific and intergeneric crosses; subsequently, some part of one or both parent genomes in hybrid plants can be eliminated. The objective of this study was to evaluate the relat...

Finger dynamics in rarefaction-driven single-mode Rayleigh–Taylor instability under high-amplitude conditions

This study examines the finger dynamics of high-amplitude, single-mode rarefaction-driven Rayleigh–Taylor instability (RTI) through rarefaction-tube experiments and numerical simulations. Unlike RTI driven by gravity or mechanical acceleration, rarefaction-driven RTI features a d...

SBNS global fellowships: what can UK trainees learn from Nepal?

Dear Editor,Reducing the burden of surgical diseases worldwide will take global effort; the latest Lancet commission on Global surgery estimated that up to 5 billion people did not have access to s...

Donor Human Milk Implementation in a High-Mother’s-Own-Milk NICU: Impact on Feeding Progression and Clinical Outcomes in Extremely Low Birth Weight Infants

Background: Donor human milk (DHM) is recommended when the mother’s own milk (MOM) is unavailable for extremely low birth weight (ELBW) infants. However, the impact of DHM implementation on NICUs with already high human milk utilization remains incompletely characterized. Objecti...

Seroprevalence Study of Toxoplasma gondii Infection in Psychiatric and Neurological Disorders

INTRODUCTION: Toxoplasma gondii infects one-third of the global human population and invades and chronically persists in the central nervous system of the infected host. Chronic infection in the brain correlates with changes in the neuronal architecture and behavior. To the best...

Curating Visual Thinking: Virtual Exhibitions in Foundation Architecture Design Education

The early design courses engage and hone students’ visual, spatial, and communicative skills so that first-year design students begin to understand composition, abstraction, hierarchy, development of process, and representation through experimental, process-driven exercises. Exhi...

Surveillance of ticks and tick-borne microorganisms in two natural protected areas in Andalusia, South of Spain

Abstract Background Spain has two of the most singular ecosystems of Europe with exclusive habitats and unique biodiversity, Doñana and Los Alcornocales, that are key nodes along the East Atlantic flyway between Europe and Africa. The high biodiversity supports a relevant wildlif...

Asymptotic properties of estimators in heteroscedastic partially linear EV models with ANA errors

This article addresses the estimation problem associated with heteroscedastic partially linear error-in-variables (EV) models. We establish some strong consistency properties for estimators of both the slope parameter and the nonparametric component based on asymptotic negative a...

Moisture Migration and Variation in Pile Shaft Resistance During Hydration-Heat-Induced Thawing–Refreezing Around Cast-in-Place Piles in Permafrost

The shaft resistance of cast-in-place piles in permafrost regions is commonly estimated using the initial moisture content and frozen-soil strength parameters obtained during site investigation. However, concrete hydration heat disturbs the temperature field of the surrounding fr...

Mapping Corporate Harm to Human Rights and the Environment: The Brave Database

Abstract Mapping and measuring corporate harm to human rights and the environment remains difficult due to limited data transparency and inconsistent reporting standards. Yet robust information is essential to understand the magnitude of the problem, track progress and support an...

Theory Choice in Epistemic Networks: Five ways to avoid premature convergence

Abstract In this article, we study difficult theory-choice situations, where division of cognitive labor is needed. Network epistemology models suggest that reducing connectivity is needed to prevent premature convergence on bad theories. We compare how network density, community...