August 2026 (Vol. 10 Issue 5)

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Reinforcement learning is the process by which animals change their behaviour from experience. When an action leads to a better-than-expected outcome, the animal becomes more likely to repeat that action. Here, I review studies that use self-stimulation, electrophysiological recordings, and fibre photometry to ...

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Acquired thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura(aTTP) is a disorder caused by a lack of the ADAMTS13 enzyme, which acts as a blood-clot regulator. Caplacizumab is a nanobody treatment for this disease and interacts with the A1 domain of von Willebrand factor (vWF) to prevent pathological clot formations. ...

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Anaemia remains a critical public health challenge in India, affecting more than half of women of reproductive age. While biological determinants are well-documented, the relationship between socioeconomic empowerment indicators and anaemia burden across Indian states remains incompletely ...

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This study looks at how reflected wireless signals affect signal stability. We built a two-dimensional computer simulation with one transmitter, one moving receiver, one direct path, and several reflected paths from objects in the environment. At each receiver position, the program adds direct and reflected ...

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Autosomal Dominant Kidney Disease (ADPKD) is the most common gene disorder affecting the kidney. It is thought that the disease needs at least two factors for it to appear. This literature review aims to showcase the current and upcoming disease therapies to show the outlook of this disease. This literature ...

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This study investigates how sweet and spicy snack consumption influences short-term recall during fantasy film viewing through a controlled angle-subject experiment among 16-18-year-old high school students in North Texas. This research is pivotal to the existing scholarly background as sweet and spicy ...

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The rapid development of gene-editing technologies has introduced new possibilities for preventing disease and enhancing human traits. From TALENs to CRISPR-Cas9, scientific abilities have stretched beyond what was once thought possible. Nevertheless, the emergence of these innovations raised ...

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This article analyzes the crisis of social reproduction through the concept of the operational cost of the social reproduction system itself and gives a different perspective than “care crisis”. It reveals the operation of family and its functions, which is to transfer the cost of social reproduction to people. Also, it ...

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Performance anxiety is commonly experienced through the physical impacts of stage fright: racing heart, shallow breathing, trembling hands, muscle tension, voice instability, panic sensation, and difficulty thinking clearly under pressure. Although performance anxiety is often described as fear, nervousness, or ...

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This paper explores the complicated symbolism of a rose as an important symbol in the short story “The Nightingale and the Rose” and the novel The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde. While a rose is traditionally a universal symbol of love and beauty and could be described as so in Wilde’s work, this ...

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Most widespread fitness calculators calculate basal metabolic rate (BMR) using total body weight, use fixed deficit/surplus amounts, employ a fixed thermic effect of food (TEF) regardless of macronutrient breakdown, and do not account for training experience. This ubiquitous methodology largely differs from ...

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The introduction of the Goods and Services Tax (GST) in India in July 2017 was one of the country’s largest indirect tax reforms, intended to simplify the tax system, remove the cascading ‘tax on tax’ effect, and create a single national market. Most existing research on GST looks at its effects on the formal ...

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The Mars Sample Return Mission, a collaborative effort by NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA), aims to return Martian soil and rock samples to Earth for the first time. A key aspect of the mission involves retrieving sample tubes dropped by the Perseverance rover on the Martian surface, ...

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The legal protection of biodiversity is increasingly recognized as a matter of international concern. Nevertheless, the accelerating decline of biodiversity raises significant concerns regarding the effectiveness of existing legal frameworks, exposing structural limitations. This paper argues that the ...

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In this investigation a model is constructed in order to determine whether there exists a correlation between GDP growth in a given European nation and national stock index growth in that same European nation. The model investigates three potential cases: a correlation between GDP growth and national ...

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Concrete production contributes substantially to global carbon emissions, mineral extraction, and construction waste. This narrative literature review evaluates mycelium-based composites (MBCs) as lower-carbon materials for selected non-structural construction applications. It examines their biological ...

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The rapid integration of GenAI (Generative AI) into high school education has emphasized the need to improve current understanding of its pedagogical role. This paper aimed to explore how the brand of GenAI used is associated with students' perceived academic impact. A survey (n=114) was conducted to ...

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The research paper explores the significant role of youth organization regarding post- flood governance in 2025. Further, the study not only highlights the nature of their involvement in recovery planning but also identifies key factors that both hinder and promote their active participation. Besides government-led ...

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Introduction: Uncontrolled bleeding is one of the leading causes of preventable deaths in the world, especially in low-resource and emergency settings. In Palestine, the West Bank, where access to hospitals and immediate healthcare is very limited, civilians can only hope to get access to basic first aid. Hence, ...

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This study is dedicated to the analysis of psychological operations (PSYOP) in the digital environment on the YouTube and Facebook platforms, using the Russian-Ukrainian war of 2021–2022 as a case study. The aim of our research is to track which specific strategic narratives were used during the conflict, as ...

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The transition towards sustainable energy systems signified electrochemical energy storage technologies; the electrode materials of these devices are of key importance. Metal-Organic frameworks (MOFs) have emerged as a potential candidate as electrode material for these devices due to their tunability and ...