September 2026 (Vol. 11 Issue 5)

17/09/2026

In mixed-language settings, NLP models face challenges because of intertwined grammatical structures and language discrepancies. This paper analyses a Part-of-Speech tagger used on Hindi-English code-mixed (Hinglish) data and compares it with monolingual English and Hindi data. The model ...

17/09/2026

Powered wheelchairs are essential to many, and lithium-ion batteries are commonly used in powered wheelchairs. This means long-lasting batteries are important for powered wheelchair users to reduce costs and increase sustainability. This study investigates how depth of discharge affects the cycle life of ...

17/09/2026

After the sovereign debt crisis of Greece, the real GDP per capita dropped roughly by 26% and unemployment was 27.5% by 2013 (Andriopoulou et al., 2020, p. 5, 9). Although these aggregate figures have improved greatly, with unemployment falling to 8.9% (European Commission, 2026) and GDP per ...

17/09/2026

This study aimed to investigate the ability of the intensity of physical activity measured with an accelerometer to predict three physiological signals, which are typically considered stress indicators in wrist-worn wearables. The 100 participant-session recordings in a public wearable-sensor dataset of an ...

17/09/2026

Social media has become a cornerstone of society in the 21st Century, with billions of users around the world logging on to platforms each day. Due to social media’s rise to ubiquity, modern literature has examined countless facets of the technology, including but not limited to its relationship with psychiatric ...

17/09/2026

Digital platforms coordinate production and exchange through data, prediction and algorithms, while recent work on socialist planning combines computation with consumer feedback. This paper uses a focused conceptual review to assess how far similarities in the use of market signals and computational ...

17/09/2026

Most studies of myocardial infarction (MI) complications report a single performance metric, usually ROC-AUC, and identify a single winning model, yet under severe class imbalance, the best-ranking model is often not the one that would raise a clinical alert at a usable threshold. This paper presents a ...

17/09/2026

The scientific understanding of memory has changed substantially over the past centuries. It has shifted from the philosophical disputes of Plato and Aristotle to the more biologically evident case of patient H.M. Early experiments on various cases have helped shape the fundamental principles of memory, ...

17/09/2026

As artificial intelligence (AI) becomes increasingly integrated into everyday communication, questions surrounding the ethics of human–AI interaction have gained growing philosophical significance. This paper examines whether politeness toward AI possesses genuine moral value despite AI's inability to ...

17/09/2026

The need for sustainable energy storage has prompted the study of bio-derived electrolytes as a substitute for traditional battery systems. This paper compares aloe vera and orange peel extracts as natural electrolytes in a 3-compartment copper-zinc electrochemical cell. Voltage output and stability of the ...

17/09/2026

Large wildfires impose substantial ecological and societal costs, motivating simplified models that isolate when small ignitions escalate into large burns. We study a two-dimensional stochastic forest-fire model with regrowth and lightning ignition, in an event-based formulation where each lightning event is ...

17/09/2026

Microbial fuel cells (MFCs) have gained attention as a sustainable technology because they can simultaneously generate electricity and treat organic waste through the metabolic activity of electroactive bacteria. This study developed a modified Nernst-Monod computational model to investigate how ...

17/09/2026

Taiwan has one of the lowest fertility rates in the world and is aging rapidly, which makes it important to understand the socioeconomic factors behind its declining births. To move beyond the familiar observation that economic conditions affect childbearing, this study borrows the cognitive systems ...

17/09/2026

This paper provides an evaluation of the incompatibility of the Axioms of Choice and Determinacy within the Zermelo-Fraenkel set theory. This paper explores this discrepancy via observation of Gale-Stewart games on the Baire Space. By analyzing the effects caused by this discrepancy on multiple major fields of ...

17/09/2026

This paper estimates the informal-economy Gross Value Added (GVA) for Bengaluru during the Fiscal Year 2025–26 through a bottom-up income approach. While India’s informal economy constitutes the majority of its workforce, it remains unrepresented in official output data, with no data available for ...

17/09/2026

This paper reviews academic research and policy reports on the design and implementation of general-purpose retail central bank digital currencies (CBDCs). It examines how differences in technical architecture and legal governance shape three contested outcomes: financial privacy, monetary-policy ...

17/09/2026

This study fabricates an hBN-encapsulated monolayer graphene nano-device and uses Lorentzian-Gaussian fitting of its gate-dependent four-probe resistance to extract quantitative metrics describing the charge neutrality peak. Method papers provide best practices for graphene device ...

17/09/2026

Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) disclosure is increasingly becoming a mandatory component of the corporate governance framework. This study explores the relationship between ESG scores and stock market valuation using panel data of 333 S&P 500 firms. Data has been collected for the ...

17/09/2026

Diverse cultural representation within menus is crucial within healthcare due to its connection to patient satisfaction, dietary intake, and overall patient health. This study focuses on identifying patterns in the representation of cultural cuisines across hospital menus in urban and suburban Texas counties. ...

17/09/2026

This paper examines how jurisprudential discourse shapes the constitutional and moral boundaries of capital punishment in cases involving mental illness and cognitive impairment. With a focus on the insanity defense and Atkins v. Virginia, it argues that the foundation of Western legal thought has long ...

17/09/2026

Informal employment remains a defining feature of India’s labour market, accounting for close to 90% of the workforce, though estimates vary by definition and period. Women engaged in informal employment face particular economic vulnerabilities arising from unstable incomes, limited social protection and ...

17/09/2026

This study examined how adult American Women describe their psychological responses to horror films in relation to terminal illness-based horror films and death anxiety. While existing research has explored the general reactions to horror, there is limited data on illness based horror and its relationship to death ...

17/09/2026

Adolescent friendships are often viewed as protective sources of emotional support, especially during developmental periods when anxiety and depressive symptoms begin to increase. However, less attention has been given to the psychological experiences of adolescents who consistently provide this support. ...

17/09/2026

With the issue of climate change continuing to influence global policy and development, large U.S. airlines are currently under pressure to address their significant environmental impacts. However, while airlines have made efforts to improve their overall environmental sustainability, onboard products ...

17/09/2026

Neurodegenerative diseases remain among the leading causes of disability worldwide, yet effective disease-modifying therapies capable of slowing or halting disease progression remain largely unavailable. RNA therapeutics have emerged as a promising disease-modifying modality through their ability to ...

16/09/2026

The purpose of this paper is to examine ways in which Korean historiography has informed the meaning of the color red across material, political, and cultural registers. The paper traces the history of red from its regulated use in Joseon royal clothing to its mass adoption during the 2002 FIFA World Cup, and ...

16/09/2026

Much existing research on immigrant entrepreneurship focuses on enclave economies in coastal metropolitan areas. However, this study examines a population outside of that setting and seeks to uncover the behavior and characteristics of these individuals. ...

16/09/2026

The paper examines the changing nature of consumer behaviour in the digital business age, and how digital platforms, marketing approaches, and behavioural economics are influencing the relationship between the youth entrepreneurs and contemporary consumers. While prior research has largely examined ...

15/09/2026

This literature review examines how maladaptive daydreaming (MD) has been conceptualized in adult psychological and psychiatric research from 2002 to 2025. MD was initially described as excessive, immersive fantasy activity associated with distress and functional impairment (Somer, 2002), and ...

15/09/2026

This article examines whether contemporary multipolarity is structurally more vulnerable to great-power war than the international systems of the twentieth century. It develops a qualitative comparative historical analysis of four periods: pre-1914 multipolarity, Cold War bipolarity, post-Cold War unipolarity, ...