May 2026

Brain tumors represent one of the most urgent challenges in medical diagnosis, requiring timely and accurate identification to improve patient outcomes. Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) remains the preferred imaging modality due to its high resolution and non-invasive nature. While MRI offers ...

Neurodegenerative disorders remain the leading cause of disability and illness worldwide; however a true cure that targets the progression and onset of these diseases has not yet been developed. I hypothesized that multiple genes frequently associated with Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s, and dementia would share ...

Neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NAC) is widely used in the treatment of breast cancer, though response significantly varies across patients (Wang et al., 2017; Abidi et al., 2023). Biomarkers such as HER2 status, hormone receptor (HR) status, and MammaPrint risk score are commonly used to predict treatment ...

This paper analyses the connection between urbanisation and mangrove degradation in Mumbai over the period of 2001-2023 with a particular interest in assessing the environmental cost of coastal development. Mangrove ecosystems are of great importance in protecting the coast, maintaining biodiversity and ...

This paper investigates whether China can use the Electro-yuan to achieve geopolitical and financial dominance comparable to that created by the petrodollar. The analysis first identifies the mechanisms that generated petrodollar power, mandatory dollar demand through universal oil pricing, and the recycling of ...

This study investigates the strength of the co-relationships between major semiconductor manufacturers and large technology companies through pair analysis and predicts their relevant future performance using machine learning. In recent years, unpredictable global events—including the COVID-19 pandemic and

This study investigates how the different distributions with varying characteristics and sample sizes converge to the normal distribution at different speeds. Using uniform, exponential, lognormal, and Pareto distributions, we find that the approximation error decreases as the sample size increases, which is ...

Students in secondary schools utilize generative artificial intelligence quite frequently. This paper aims to investigate the effects on students' learning processes, critical thinking, and cognitive effort. The study examines how high school students use AI tools for academic assignments and the connections between ...

Single-person households have become a global phenomenon, especially in industrialized and developed countries, driven primarily by social changes such as decreasing birth rates and rising living costs. As a result, the increase in single-person households has led to a higher demand for single-serving products ...

Bone tissue engineering (BTE) offers an effective solution for skeletal repair, particularly when the body's natural regenerative capacity is insufficient. Central to this field is the development of biomaterial scaffolds that can replicate the structural and functional complexity of bone while supporting cell ...

This study examines how stock markets react to the announcement of FIFA World Cup host countries using an event study based on the Efficient Market Hypothesis. Covering tournaments from 1994 to 2022, it analyzes abnormal returns (ARs) and cumulative abnormal returns (CARs) over both short- and ...

This work explores if persistent homology - a tool from topological data analysis - offers faster, clearer signals of poverty traps compared to threshold-based econometric approaches alongside Random Forest techniques. Drawing on standardized economic metrics across lower- and middle-income nations, such as ...

A major criticism of educational technology initiatives is that they tend to focus solely on obtaining hardware, and there is also concern that intended equity gains may not occur. To gain credibility and support for any large-scale technology-based digital integration effort in a public school system, it is ...

In the aftermath of the September 11th, 2001 attacks, American national identity underwent a dramatic transition from one of optimism amid domestic stability to one of division and eroding government trust. This shift was driven by factors including the Bush administration’s fabrication of evidence for the ...

Tuberculosis (TB) is an infectious disease that affects the majority of the world. The current treatment TB involves a combination of 5 to 6 antibiotics due to the development of resistance to many of these drugs in Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb). These drugs usually consist of first-line drugs like isoniazid and ...

The APOE ε4 allele is the strongest genetic risk factor for late-onset Alzheimer's disease (AD), accelerating both amyloid-β (Aβ) accumulation and tau hyperphosphorylation. Aerobic exercise is a promising strategy for reducing AD pathology. However, its effects on Aβ and tau ...

In today’s political climate, where extreme societal nuclearization are increasingly prevalent, pervasive feelings of loneliness and social disconnection have become prominent and damaging features of American life. While the decay of social capital is extensively documented in contemporary sociology, a ...

In this work we examine the effects of incorporating media bias and its impact on stock prediction. Sentiment analysis finance articles in the field give the model actual news data and from there it forms a sentiment score into an LSTM. There is no indication about what news source this came from and there is ...

Not only does graffiti cleanup costs above $12 billion annually in the United States, it uses over 25,000 tons of carbon globally, requiring large trucks, cranes, and human labor to manually remove illegal graffiti. This shows the need for better and more efficient technology to reduce the cost. Although ...

Youth-led and student-led organizations play an important role in civic engagement, yet empirical evidence on how young people perceive community support for these groups remains limited. To discover more about this underinvestigated topic, an exploratory study was conducted with survey data from 35