October 2026 (Vol. 12 Issue 1)

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 ...