September 2026 (Vol. 11 Issue 7)

Iron-deficiency anemia (IDA) remains a significant public health concern among adolescent girls in Kazakhstan, driven by increased physiological iron demands during puberty, menstrual iron losses, and unequal access to nutritious food. While national anemia rates have declined over the past decade, the ...

Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) is a growing global health concern, with obesity and socio-economic factors contributing to differences in disease prevalence between populations. Body mass index has a strong relationship to diabetes and insulin resistance; in obese individuals, the ...

Patients respond to a course of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) for depression in very different ways, and much of this variability is unexplained. Homeostatic synaptic scaling, which in cultured and rodent neurons adjusts excitatory synaptic strengths over hours to days to return activity ...

Lebanon's 2019 economic collapse left the country's electricity sector in crisis. The state utility, Électricité du Liban, provides only around three to four hours of power per day, forcing households to depend on private generator cartels that charge unregulated prices, while solar energy has begun to emerge as an ...

This study examines the closed-loop recycling of 3D-printed components that have reached the end of their service life within a student robotics context. While additive manufacturing is naturally material-efficient, many functional parts lose their utility following seasonal competitions, such as the ...

This paper analyzes Canada's Feminist International Assistance Policy (FIAP) through a Global South lens, considering whether Canada's application of FIAP represents a genuine aid framework or functions instead as a form of political branding. Drawing on Afghanistan as a case study, the paper explores the ...

This exploratory mixed-methods study examined high school students’ perceived mental health experiences in relation to the duration of their participation in after-school programs (ASPs). Rather than testing whether ASP participation causes long-term changes in mental health, the study described ...

Entrepreneurship is a difficult field where the rate of failure is high, but for those that succeed, it's another test of its own. Having to manage a business requires dealing with finances, customers, but most importantly, yourself. Some founders turn to VC funding to make it easier, which is the focus of this ...

ApoE4 is the major genetic factor in Alzheimer’s disease(AD), causing different malignant phenomena such as tau tangles and amyloid plaques. The alleles of the ApoE gene researched in the paper are ε2 and ε4, where the latter one is linked with a higher AD risk. The paper comprises the background research ...

Climate change has intensified debates over who should bear responsibility for the environmental impacts of carbon-intensive industries, particularly when production is increasingly spread across national borders. The paper examines whether ownership structure influences environmental compliance in India by ...

Wormholes are governed by theoretical observations reliant on astrophysical signatures that distinguish them from other phenomena, such as black holes. This paper features the investigation of the thermodynamic evolution of a dual throat wormhole by examining the Hawking-like radiation via the ...

This structured literature review examines how project-based learning (PBL) is associated with academic achievement, motivation, and independent learning skills among middle- and high-school students, and what implementation conditions appear to support positive outcomes. Sixteen studies reporting empirical ...

Intercropping is an effective practice for enhancing crop productivity, resource efficiency, and pest control, yet its full potential in Pakistan and other developing countries remains underutilized. This review emphasizes how modern technologies—such as precision agriculture, remote sensing, the Internet ...

Metal-Organic Frameworks (MOFs) are defined as porous materials utilized for the molecular adsorption, offering exceptionally high surface areas, tunable pore structures, and chemical versatility that make them promising adsorbents for post-combustion carbon capture. Nevertheless, pristine MOFs often exhibit ...

This small-scale exploratory study examines how gender norms and media portrayals influence young people’s expression in politics in Peru and the United States. By analyzing grey literature, TikTok political videos and campaign ads from the months before recent presidential elections, I find ongoing ...

In this paper, we examine the use of punitive medicine against dissidents in the USSR in 1970–1980, particularly in the Ukrainian context, where fighters for human rights and opponents of the regime became some of the main targets of repression. While the Helsinki Accords opened space for human ...

The purpose of this paper is to examine whether the introduction of monthly tests in lower secondary education is associated with differences in students' final academic performance, and to investigate associations between students’ self-reported behavioral and motivational factors and final GPA among ...

Pediatric patients commonly experience anxiety before surgical procedures, which can negatively affect both their emotional well-being and the healing process. Art therapy has been widely used in healthcare settings as a non-pharmaceutical method for reducing anxiety and promoting emotional stability in ...

This structured review examines the interaction between the exposure to social media financial influencers (finfluencers) and Fear of Missing Out (FOMO) in making investment decisions among retail investors in the 5 economies of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN): Indonesia, ...

Child abduction is routinely treated as a discrete criminal event, investigated and counted one case at a time. This paper argues that, in Central Asia, such a framing obscures more than it reveals, because the conditions under which a child is abducted, forcibly married, or trafficked are shaped by durable ...

Compact linear microphone arrays provide a practical approach to beamforming, but their performance depends strongly on array geometry, microphone directivity, and beamformer design. Independent reproduction of published beamforming methods is therefore important for verifying reported ...

Egypt is going through a period of rapid urban expansion, requiring enormous quantities of concrete to sustain. Yet, Ordinary Portland Cement (OPC) presents two significant problems. The first is environmental; OPC accounts for roughly 7-8% of global CO₂ emissions. The second is technical: in ...

Emotional expression remains a significant challenge in text-based brain-computer interfaces (BCIs), which often struggle to convey the nuances of interpersonal communication. This study proposes a seemingly new pipeline that integrates affective BCIs (aBCIs), ...