October 2026 (Vol. 12 Issue 1)

Traditional interpretations of Homeric heroism have glorified manly ideals of physical force (biē), military skill, and the odyssey towards kleos, while women’s images remained on the sidelines. This paper reexamines female agency in the Iliad and the Odyssey. It argues that female figures occupy a ...

The relationship between multinational corporations (MNCs) and human rights in the Global South has generated significant academic debate, yet one structural barrier is underdiscussed: national sovereignty. Frameworks like the International Labor Organization Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights ...

This paper examines the role of female sexual virtue in the Homeric epics through the concept of “honor-currency.” It argues that women’s chastity and marital loyalty attain social value through reputation. The preservation, contestation, and violation of this reputation can affect male prestige and ...

This paper argues that American literary realism functions not as a neutral reflection of reality, but as a vehicle for critique. Emerging from the epistemological rupture of the Civil War, where unprecedented mass death rendered the world unknowable, realist writers developed techniques that exposed the fault ...

This paper treats a single family of cubic equations lying at the intersection of two standard topics in elementary algebra: the quadratic discriminant b^2 - 4ac and the roots of the cubic. For any real y and any nonzero real w, the difference-of-cubes factorization of ...

Following the Green Revolution, the use of synthetic fertilizers became widespread, but their environmental impacts are immense. Consequently, compost became an increasingly popular substitute. Many scientists sought to analyze the effects of synthetic fertilizers versus natural fertilizers. However, no ...

An individual’s trust in health information can be influenced by their perception of cancer information. This study tests the association between political ideology, sociodemographic characteristics, and trust in doctors, scientists, and government for cancer information among U.S. adults. The data were taken from ...

Semiconductors are crucial to computing, healthcare, military, and transportation industries. The deposition step in semiconductors– wherein thin layers of materials are applied onto the surface– is critical, requiring a liner with similar hydrophilicity to incoming materials that are required to be ..

Engineering components used in the fields of aerospace, automotive, and biomedical engineering need to exhibit lightness and strength. Balancing lightness and mechanical strength is necessary to improve performance while reducing total system weight and energy consumption. Additive Manufacturing (AM), ...

Orthodontic treatment is primarily associated with cosmetic purposes; however, its effects extend beyond aesthetics. Treatment often involves choosing between intervening early in the mixed dentition stage and delaying treatment until the permanent dentition is fully developed. This paper investigates the research ...

The literature review examines how administrative burdens within the United States healthcare system function as systemic barriers that reinforce existing inequities, utilizing Herd & Moynihan’s framework of learning, psychological, and compliance costs. The purpose of this paper is to synthesize how facially ...

In the modern era, achieving social health is increasingly shaped by systemic inequalities. This literature review analyzes the extent to which economic disparities in digital infrastructure and early childhood resources are strongly associated with the epigenetic development of social health. By examining ...

Children continue to be one of the most vulnerable populations to environmental harm due to their fragile physical development and dependence on stable living conditions. This literature review examines how children’s environmental rights are inconsistently implemented and weakly enforced by analyzing ...

While gender stereotypes surrounding musical instruments have been shown to influence musicians’ advancement, prior research has largely examined the gender distribution of music ensembles within a single level, such as the middle school or collegiate level. Thus, little is known about how gender ...

GLUT1DS is a disease in the body that affects the human Glucose Transporter 1 protein (hGLUT1), it involves a missense mutation in the SLC2A1 gene and as a result one of the amino acids in the GLUT1 protein is translated incorrectly causing the structure to be misfolded and dysfunctional. GLUT1 ...

Advances in medical diagnostic technologies have resulted in an increasing number of diagnostic reports being available on digital channels; however, technical jargon, numerical results and reporting in a foreign language (English) can still be hard for participants to understand. This becomes an important question in ...

Zhao Yang Calvin Weng

It’s been nearly eight decades since the Indian constitution abolished untouchability and instituted reservation policy for communities who were the victims of historical marginalization, caste still remains a statistically robust predictor of occupation, wages, land ownership, and access to public employment. ...

Although millions of Indian women now access formal micro-credit through the government's Pradhan Mantri MUDRA Yojana (PMMY), it remains empirically unclear whether this finance produces women-run enterprises, or why its effect varies so widely across states. This study estimates the ...

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly being used to provide advice on a wide range of areas in life, yet little is known about how their advice changes when users supply neurodivergence-related context. Drawing on the author’s positionality as a student with autistic experience, this study examines a ...

France extensively colonized countries in Africa, the Caribbean, the Americas, and the Indian subcontinent. However, the impact of French colonization on language was significantly different across these countries. French remains highly prevalent in Gabon, moderately prevalent in Senegal, and far less ...

The printing press is frequently credited with standardising musical notation by replacing the variability of manuscript transmission with mechanically reproducible texts. Scholarship on sixteenth-century Italian music printing, however, reveals a more complex process. Technical difficulties delayed the typographical ...

Social media platforms have become primary sources of public health education, yet they are highly susceptible to medical misinformation spread by non-experts. Particularly on Instagram, board certified dermatologists have the capability to counter this misinformation, but the educational quality of their ...

Consumers in e-commerce environments increasingly rely on social proof, the tendency to look to others’ behavior when making decisions under uncertainty, rather than independent product evaluation. However, existing research often treats social proof as a single construct without distinguishing how its different ...

Lead (Pb) contamination in water is a major environmental problem and necessitates efficient and economical treatment techniques. This study was designed to investigate the removal of Pb by chemical precipitation at different pH and precipitant dosage using sodium carbonate (Na₂CO₃), sodium sulphate ...

Specialized childhood sports have become increasingly common through family and coach encouragement, raising concerns about how higher expectations and pressure may affect adolescent mental health. This study examines how early sport specialization influences stress, burnout, and ...

Congenital heart disease (CHD) encompasses many types of cardiovascular abnormalities, making image-supported diagnosis particularly challenging. In this study, we evaluated whether anatomy-derived hemodynamic-proxy features could improve machine learning classification of CHD subtypes (healthy, ...

This paper examines grammatical mood as a rhetorical resource in modern Romance political speech, focusing on French, Spanish, and Italian. It addresses a gap between mood theory, which mainly studies semantic, diachronic, and complement-clause patterns, and political discourse analysis, which more often ...

This paper investigates whether the U.S. can achieve 100% carbon pollution-free electricity consumption by the year 2035 in the context of rapidly accelerating electricity demand driven by artificial intelligence and data center expansion. Employing a compound annual growth rate methodology, this paper uses 2024 ...

China’s 55 recognized ethnic minorities pose a challenge to the state’s vision of national unity, but not the one historical precedent suggests. Because China faces neither the wartime collapse nor the demographic balance that broke apart the Ottoman and Russian empires, this paper argues that the principal danger to ...