August 2026 (Vol. 10 Issue 3)

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Wake turbulence is a phenomenon generated by strong counter-rotating vortices trailing from an aircraft’s wingtips, created by the pressure difference between the upper and lower surfaces of the wing. These vortices produce induced drag, reduce aerodynamic efficiency, and pose safety risks to following aircraft ...

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Mental health issues have been rising in prevalence among people today, being more widespread in teens, which can lead to social isolation or even death from suicide. People are turning to artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots as tools to ask for advice. The use of AI chatbots can result in the amplification of the ...

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Over 2.2 billion people in the world lack access to water security. This study investigates the feasibility of atmospheric water harvesting using Metal-Organic Frameworks (MOFs), specifically MOF-303, to generate water in two distinct climatic zones: Niamey, Niger and Lagos, Nigeria. By analyzing the ...

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This study investigates whether consumer-grade ECG hardware can produce physiologically meaningful cardiac metrics through optimized signal processing. A complete real-time ECG acquisition and analysis pipeline was designed, implemented, and evaluated using a SparkFun AD8232 analog front-end and ...

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The process of yeast fermentation plays a huge role in many of the aspects of our world today, but most recently in the way it has more been found to have a profoundly positive impact on wastewater remediation, as well as in biofuel production. The process requires the use of carbon sources, most ...

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During the Iran-Iraq War, Saudi Arabia and Iran turned classrooms into instruments of sectarian mobilization. Saudi Arabia never formally entered the war, yet the Saudi state treated Khomeini’s revolution as a direct challenge to both Wahhabi religious authority and monarchical legitimacy. In ...

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Although amyloid-beta plaques and tau tangles are typically used to characterize AD, synapse loss is commonly regarded as the final common pathway leading to cognitive decline. Cognitive symptoms can emerge as synapses and circuits deteriorate, even before significant neuronal loss occurs ...

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Private credit has grown from approximately $2 trillion in assets under management in 2020 to an estimated $3.5 trillion in 2025, yet academic literature has failed to keep pace with the asset class's structural transformation of corporate finance. This paper examines how private credit evolved from a ...

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This study investigates the relationship between the sports infrastructure investment made by the Khelo India program and youth sporting success across Indian states using data from the Khelo India Youth Games of 2022, 2023, and 2025. The study employs a quantitative research design using secondary data ...

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UAV swarms generally rely on multi-hop communication systems to perform remote sensing and relay-based tasks. These communication systems involve 3D geometry, radio signal propagation, and various physical and environmental constraints. This paper presents a 3D Ant Colony Optimisation-based ...

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Wildfires are dangerous threats to ecological systems, infrastructure, livestock, and human life. Therefore, reliable and scalable fire detection methods are required to mitigate their impact. This study proposes a deep learning-based framework for fire segmentation using RGB images. A U-Net convolutional neural ...

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This study tests whether NHL teams that use Long-Term Injured Reserve (LTIR) to exceed the salary cap are associated with better playoff performance. Using eleven seasons of regular-season cap data and playoff results (2015–16 through 2025–26, excluding the 2019–20 COVID bubble), a linear regression ...

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The Cluster Redevelopment Scheme (CRS) is a flagship urban renewal project by the Thane Municipal Corporation to replace the dense informal settlements with planned high-rise residential complexes with better infrastructure, sanitation and formal housing rights. The policy is designed to address the ...

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There have been many statistical correlations found between cancer patients and individuals diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease (AD), where cancer survivors have shown a decrease in their risk to develop AD by 35-51% relative to other individuals of the same age (Braithwaite et al., 2025; Catalá-López et al. ...

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The ability to make quick decisions and execute fast movements is essential in lawn tennis and is difficult to assess accurately through visual observation and subjective coaching. Current racquet-mounted and wearable sensing systems can collect stroke information, but many require racquet modifications, are ...

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Governments remain the world’s largest funders of scientific research and exercise significant influence over its direction. In doing so, they must make consequential choices about the scale, focus, and momentum of research investment. While debates over public science funding have traditionally ...

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The increasing popularity of short-form social media platforms has transformed the way young adults engage with digital content, advertisements, trends, and consumer-related information. The rapid and engaging nature of such platforms may influence psychological processes associated with instant ...

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Space travel is often imagined in science fiction through dramatic scenes involving hyperspace, faster-than-light travel, and shortcuts across the universe. Movies such as Star Wars show spaceships moving through hyperspace to cross huge distances in a short amount of time. While this idea may seem ...

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Oceanic plastic pollution has significantly increased over the past decades and has accumulated into ocean gyres creating great garbage patches, including the North Pacific Garbage Patch (NPGP), South Pacific Garbage Patch (SPGP), North Atlantic Garbage Patch (NAGP), South Atlantic Garbage Patch ...

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Magnetoplasmadynamic (MPD) thrusters are a class of electric propulsion devices capable of producing high exhaust velocities and thrust through the control of magnetic fields and electric currents. These thrusters are of particular interest for deep-space missions due to their ability to operate effectively for ...

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Stroke rehabilitation in the United States faces major delivery challenges because many survivors require repetitive therapy that is long-term but experience barriers related to transportation, cost, therapist availability, and adherence. Virtual reality rehabilitation has become a potential solution because it can ...

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Large language models are being increasingly integrated into tasks involving numerical estimation and decision-making. However, due to their training on human-generated text, they may be susceptible to various cognitive biases. This includes anchoring bias, a well-documented phenomenon in humans where ...

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Dementia presents a significant public health challenge, with a majority of long-term care residents experiencing cognitive and motor impairments that hinder their engagement in meaningful activities. Prolonged inactivity and a lack of brain stimulation can accelerate cognitive decline, promote isolation, ...

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Tuberculosis (TB) remains a significant public health challenge for California, being the state with the highest TB case count in America. The following narrative literature review analyses TB trends in California between 2020 and 2025. It reviews peer-reviewed articles, surveillance reports and ...

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Rather than the unquestionable charter of freedom it is often characterized as, the Declaration of Independence is a contingent political document that underwent multiple rounds of revisions before ratification. Using comparative textual and reception-history analysis, my paper examines why Congress ...

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This paper investigates whether stronger Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) performance translates into superior financial outcomes among large Consumer Staples firms. Grounded in perspectives that treat ESG as a signal of firm quality and a mechanism for risk reduction, the study ...

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TOM1-like protein 2 (TOM1L2) is an adaptor protein that is associated with vesicular transport and endosomal transport that is essential in maintaining cellular signaling and homeostasis. Despite the possibility of TOM1L2 to be involved in a regulation role in the intracellular transport pathways, the ...

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This pilot study investigates structural healthcare disparities affecting children with congenital heart disease (CHD) in rural China, examining how economic, geographic, cultural, and communicative barriers restrict equitable access to diagnosis, treatment, and post-operative care. Using a mixed-methods ...

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This study examines the relationship between minimum wage increases and unemployment in Korea using data from 2010 to 2025. The analysis focuses on overall unemployment, demographic-specific unemployment rates, employment structure, and changes in labor market outcomes before and after the ...

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Pulmonary Fibrosis (PF) is a subtype of ILD (interstitial lung disease) characterized by a chronic and progressive disease causing lung tissue to become thick and stiff due to the overactivation of fibroblasts in the lung tissues. Relating to pulmonary fibrosis, metformin has shown to have antifibrotic effects and in ...