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October 2026 (Vol. 12 Issue 5)

Comparative Investigation of Machine Learning Model Performances for Exoplanet Transit Detection Using Kepler Data

Syed Arsal Abbas and Andrew James Wildbridge

15/10/2026

Mankind has been fascinated with discovering new places, and exoplanet detection is no outlier. Exoplanets are planets that are located outside our solar system. The massive volume of data on these exoplanets, gathered by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) missions like Kepler ...

Data-Driven Cooling Energy Prediction Across AI Workload Intensities: Statistical and Regression-Based Comparison of AHU and Chiller Cooling Systems

Shrey Sharma and Yubsan Basnet

15/10/2026

As data centres become the backbone of global digital infrastructure, understanding the energy dynamics of their cooling systems is critical to achieving sustainable computing at scale. The rapid expansion of artificial intelligence (AI) workloads has substantially increased the energy and thermal management ...

Beyond Biology: The Role of Healthcare Infrastructure and Cultural Practices in Hypertension Outcomes

Ramil Muraharisetti

15/10/2026

Hypertension remains a major global health concern, affecting over one billion people worldwide and contributing greatly to cardiovascular disease and early deaths. This study examines and portrays how differences in healthcare infrastructure and cultural practices influence the diagnosis and management of ...

Political Socialization and the Limits of State Authority to Autonomy: State Driven Education in the United States, the United Arab Emirates, and Syria

Alya Canaan

15/10/2026

Often, State driven education is understood from a basic opposition: States socialize, Individuals resist. This paper examines that distinction by analyzing how education simultaneously develops political conformity and also gives the intellectual building blocks to move beyond it. Using qualitative ...

Ecological Trade-Off in Marine Bioremediation: A Comparative Analysis Between Alcanivorax borkumensis and Pseudomonas spp

Amy Ma and Veronika Mantziou

15/10/2026

This literature review examines the ecological trade-off between Alcanivorax borkumensis, a specialist hydrocarbon-degrading bacterium, and Pseudomonas spp., which exhibit broader metabolic versatility. A. borkumensis possesses specialised alkane-degradation pathways that can support rapid hydrocarbon ...

Evaluating the Effectiveness of State and Local Policies Adopted Since 2010 in Supporting Tiny Home Communities as Permanent Housing Solutions in the Pacific States

Agastya Raja

15/10/2026

Since 2010, tiny house villages (THVs) have grown rapidly across the Pacific states in response to two interconnected crises: record homelessness and deepening housing unaffordability. This literature review observes how existing research evaluates the effectiveness of state- and local-level policy in supporting ...

When Should a Molecular Taste Prediction Be Trusted? Evaluating the Reliability of Fingerprint-Based Taste Classification

Elliot Chang

15/10/2026

Accurate molecular taste prediction is important for the development of drugs and the support of research in food science. Despite increasing use of machine learning to predict the taste of molecules, little attention has been paid to determining when those predictions should be trusted. We built and compared a ...

Predictors of Placement Instability in Foster Care: A Machine Learning Analysis of AFCARS Data

William Kang

15/10/2026

Placement instability, when a child in foster care experiences multiple placement changes, is associated with many things, including disrupted schooling, damaged relationships, and compounded trauma. This study makes use of restricted data from the federal Adoption and Foster Care Analysis and Reporting ...

Impact of Microfinance / Self-Help Groups on the Financial Stability and Economic Outcomes of Low-Income Women in India

Araiya Zaveri

15/10/2026

India operates the largest microfinance programme in the world, with Self-Help Group (SHG)–bank linkage now reaching some 17.75 crore (177.5 million) households, the overwhelming majority of them women. Yet scale of access is not the same as financial security, and this study asks to what extent ...

Data Sonification as a Scientific Tool: How Astronomers Turn Light Curves into Music

Wonbin Yoon

15/10/2026

Data sonification, the translation of numerical data into sound, has emerged over the past decade as a serious methodology in astronomy, driven by the fields' dependence on time-series data, the accessibility needs of blind and low-vision researchers, and the sheer scale of astrophysical data. This review ...

An Open-Source Arduino Architecture for Empirical Moisture Calibration of Commercial Soil NPK Sensors

Anish Thota

15/10/2026

As global populations rise and arable land per capita shrinks, widespread adoption of precision agriculture is unavoidable. This means there needs to be accessible, accurate means of measuring soil N, P2O5, and K2O levels quickly and cheaply. Current off-the-shelf soil probes for measuring these three key ...

Allergy Skin Testing Methods Immunological Comparison

Qunzhi Cheng

15/10/2026

This literature review discusses how immunological reactions develop and evaluates which skin testing method for allergies is preferred in clinical settings. This paper explains the different types of allergic reactions and their classification, as well as how the body responds to allergies and why they form. ...

Sectoral Employment Dynamics in India: A Gender- and Region-Wise Analysis Across the Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary Sectors (2017-18 to 2023-24)

Arin Jain

15/10/2026

India’s economic growth has been accompanied by a shift of employment from agriculture towards the secondary and tertiary sectors, but the quality and benefits stemming from that shift remain unequally distributed. This study examines how sectoral employment trends connect to India’s economic ...

Memes as Mobilizational Rhetoric: Emotion, Circulation, and Resistance in the July Uprising

Martine Chen

15/10/2026

This paper examines the rhetorical and circulatory dynamics of internet memes in the July Uprising in Bangladesh, focusing on how these dynamics contributed to political mobilization. Drawing on existing scholarship on multimodality, shared emotional registers, humour, and in-group identification, the paper ...

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