Founding Issue Special Edition (Nov 2025 - Dec 2025)

In an era of growing dominance of visual media, it is increasingly important to critically examine themes and imagery presented on-screen. As children are primarily socialized through media consumption, animated content plays a significant role in helping them understand social norms and identities. Within ...

Adolescence is a formative period for identity development, emotional regulation, and relationship skills. For that reason, social-emotional learning (SEL) is often considered an essential part of both education and development for adolescents. One potentially effective pedagogical method to ...

Cancer is the second leading cause of death in the United States overall and the leading cause among individuals younger than 85 years. T lymphocytes (T cells) are important for regulating and directing immune responses in the adaptive immune system to keep the body healthy and functional. However, ...

Glioblastoma Multiforme (GBM) is an aggressive, treatment-resistant brain tumor that uses metabolic plasticity to support its survival and progression. This paper explores how the glycolytic enzymes PKM2, ENO1 and GAPDH take on non canonical functions outside of its primary metabolic role in glycolysis in ...

Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) have emerged as highly tunable nanomaterials with significant promise for biomedical applications, but their cytotoxicity profiles vary considerably across structural variants. This review synthesises comparative studies of structurally similar MOFs to establish structure-toxicity relationships, where such MOFs variants are defined as frameworks differing only by one key ...

Educational inequity is a significant issue in the American education system, with Black, Hispanic, and economically disadvantaged students facing disproportionate barriers to post-secondary success. This exploratory quantitative research investigates how the Fort Bend Independent School District's overall ...

Winemaking is a complex process coming from the very old days. It still continues to evolve since 6000 BC. Fermentation is an important process in white wine where the sugar of grape juice is converted to alcohol. It is a complicated chemical process which involves different chemical methods, different ...

India is positioned as second only to China and Brazil apropos tobacco consumption and production, respectively. This paper examines India's tobacco epidemic - affecting 270 million users and imposing over USD 35 billion in annual economic costs through health, social, and environmental burdens; ...

This literature review will examine how contemporary and historical Pakistani female artists construct counter-histories through visual storytelling in the face of repression and erasure. Rather than focusing solely on state law or religious decrees, as existing literature does, it highlights the deeper social ...

This survey-based study (N = 100 survey participants) examines how hyper-personalized AI features in Dominican financial apps influence user trust and adoption. Descriptive and regression analyses reveal that transparency and perceived control significantly predict trust, which in turn predicts whether users ...

Whales are extraordinary examples of evolutionary adaptation, having developed a range of specialized morphological traits that enable survival and reproduction in extreme marine environments. This review dives into five major categories of whale adaptations (cardiovascular, feeding, depth related, sensory ...

This research addresses the inefficiency of piece captures in automated chess, where current systems typically use the same mechanism for both standard movement and piece capture, resulting in significantly increased time, energy, and calculation. This study aims to offer a faster alternative by ...

This paper synthesizes current literature on the current challenges of CAR T-cell therapy in treating solid tumors and potential solutions. The findings in the study establish limitations and challenges, including how the Tumor Microenvironment (TME) suppresses the functionalities of T-cells and ...

Nearly 1 in 6 adults in the US were diagnosed with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) between 2021 and 2023. Excess sugar consumption among diabetics adversely affects numerous metabolic pathways and processes. The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommends ≤10% of daily ...