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["Geriatrics &Gerontology International, Volume 26, Issue 5, May 2026. ", "\nIn older adults without diabetes, higher plasma pentosidine levels are associated with lower skeletal muscle mass and poorer muscle‐related indices. Specifically, elevated pentosidine levels are linked to a reduced skeletal muscle mass index, lower phase angle, and decreased physical performance, with stronger associations observed in women.\n\nABSTRACT\n\nAim\nThis study examined the association between plasma pentosidine concentrations—an advanced glycation end‐product marker—and skeletal muscle morphometric indices, physical function, and sarcopenia among community‐dwelling older adults without diabetes.\n\n\nMethods\nThis cross‐sectional study analyzed data from the 2023 Itabashi Longitudinal Study on Aging in Itabashi Ward, Tokyo, Japan. Participants aged ≥ 70 years were included. Associations between pentosidine concentrations and skeletal muscle morphometric indices and physical function were examined using multiple linear regression adjusted for age, sex, and estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR). To explore sex differences, pentosidine × sex interaction terms were tested. Multivariable logistic regression with the same covariates examined associations with impaired physical function, sarcopenia, and severe sarcopenia defined by the Asian Working Group for Sarcopenia 2019 criteria.\n\n\nResults\nAmong 424 participants (mean age 75.7 years; 48.3% women), the mean plasma pentosidine concentration was 5.59 μg × 10−2/mL, with no sex difference. In quartile‐based analyses adjusted for age and eGFR, higher pentosidine concentrations were associated with lower skeletal muscle mass index (SMI) and slower gait speed in women, but not in men. In multivariable analyses adjusted for age, sex, and eGFR, higher pentosidine concentrations were independently associated with lower SMI, lower whole‐body and limb phase angles, and lower short physical performance battery scores. Pentosidine levels were not significantly associated with grip strength, chair rise performance, sarcopenia, or severe sarcopenia. No significant pentosidine × sex interactions were observed.\n\n\nConclusions\nHigher plasma pentosidine concentrations were associated with lower skeletal muscle mass and unfavorable muscle‐related indices in older adults without diabetes. Although stratified analyses suggested stronger associations in women, interaction testing did not support significant sex‐specific effects.\n\n"]

["Family Relations, EarlyView. ", "\nAbstract\n\nObjective\nThe goal was to examine configurations of racialized attitudes and practices between mothers and fathers in White families with young children to identify distinct couple profiles and investigate how profiles relate to demographic factors and children's anti‐Black attitudes and behaviors.\n\n\nBackground\nThe relation of mothers' and fathers' conjoint racial attitudes and practices to children's racial attitudes/behavior in White families is understudied and relevant for familial socialization and interventions.\n\n\nMethod\nLatent profile analysis was used to examine profiles of mothers' and fathers' (136 non‐Hispanic, middle‐high income White families) racial attitudes and practices and their relations to parents' education and income, and to children's age, sex, implicit anti‐Black attitudes, and cross‐race friends.\n\n\nResults\nProfiles were (a) antiracist parents (25%), (b) racially biased parents (22%), and (c) mixed group, reflecting moderately biased fathers and relatively antiracist mothers (53%). Parents' higher education was associated with a lower likelihood of racially biased profile assignment. Higher income was associated with a higher likelihood of this assignment. Children with antiracist parents had a higher proportion of cross‐race friends compared to racially biased parents.\n\n\nConclusion\nFindings support the disaggregation of education and income in studies of racial attitudes and behaviors and highlight the importance of assessing both adults in a family to contextualize children's racial socialization.\n\n\nImplications\nIntervention and family life educators should consider that parents are often nonaligned in their attitudes and practices regarding antiracism and child socialization and that parental alignment predicts children's cross‐race social interactions.\n\n"]

["JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, EarlyView. ", "\nAbstract\nTo what extent is AI regulation influenced by frames and discourse coalitions? To address this question, we use complex systems and framing theories to analyse public discourse on facial recognition in the European Union (EU) and the United States. Our discourse network analysis of statements between 2000 and 2022 shows that facial recognition has been framed as a legitimate solution for security issues by governments particularly after 9/11. However, these earlier frames have been increasingly contested, and the dominant discourse shifted from security to ethical concerns. As facial recognition became more intrusive, we observe a diffusion of human rights and privacy frames and an associated gradual desecuritisation of the debate in both cases. We argue that desecuritisation and frame diffusion structured which forms of regulation were perceived as feasible, necessary and legitimate, thereby challenging certain applications of AI surveillance. We also show that this shift in the discursive environment influenced the scope and ethos of US state‐level facial recognition policies and EU legislation such as the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the AI Act."]

["Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView. ", "\nABSTRACT\nChanges towards more sustainable livestock production are often evaluated in terms of whether farms abandon environmentally harmful practices. Less attention has been paid to how farms reallocate production across alternative grazing systems and how the composition of production evolves over time. This paper addresses this question by modelling grazing systems as compositional outcomes and examining how financial, institutional and structural factors shape the distribution of livestock across alternative regimes. We use farm level data from the 2007 and 2022 agricultural censuses in Mexico, covering more than 860,000 cattle farms and estimate a fractional multinomial logit model. Financial and institutional support is associated with economically meaningful reductions in free grazing. However, most of this adjustment occurs through confinement rather than controlled grazing. Heterogeneity analysis reveals that small and dairy farms allocate a larger share of production to confinement systems, whereas large and beef‐dairy farms allocate relatively more to controlled grazing. The results indicate that sustainability outcomes depend on how policy instruments interact with farm scale, production orientation and land constraints.\n"]

["Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView. ", "\nABSTRACT\nThe Orinoquía region is one of Colombia's principal agricultural frontiers and has been shaped by long‐standing armed‐conflict dynamics that continue to influence land governance, producer incentives, and investment decisions. Efforts to promote sustainable cattle production emphasize two key practices: sustainable pasture management (including rotational grazing systems) and ecologically appropriate stocking rates. However, their adoption varies widely because of institutional, economic, and biophysical constraints. This study applies a dual binary choice framework to examine the adoption decisions associated with these two practices and to assess whether they operate sequentially or independently. Results show that tenure security, measured through formal landownership, is strongly associated with the adoption of sustainable pasture management. In contrast, access to technical assistance is negatively associated with adoption, suggesting issues of program quality, targeting, or reverse causality. Older and more experienced producers are less likely to adopt, indicating path dependence. For stocking‐rate decisions, rotational and alternating grazing systems exhibit lower probabilities of meeting sustainable thresholds, likely reflecting implementation challenges in extensive systems. Larger finishing areas also tend to be managed less sustainably, and descriptive evidence suggests that unsustainable stocking in our sample is more frequently associated with understocking than overstocking, with 239 producers (70%) below 1 animal per hectare. These findings illustrate how structural and institutional conditions, including those linked to conflict legacies, shape sustainability transitions in the Orinoquía and can inform more tailored policy interventions for frontier livestock regions.\n"]

["Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView. ", "\nABSTRACT\nAs global demand for beef increases, balancing livestock productivity with environmental sustainability has become a policy priority. In response, Uruguay implemented the Sustainable Family Production Programme (PFIS) between 2015 and 2017, providing targeted support for small and medium‐sized cattle farmers to invest in productivity‐enhancing and climate‐adaptive technologies. This study provides the first causal evaluation of a national programme designed to promote these dual objectives in the cattle sector. Using a regression discontinuity design based on a strict eligibility threshold and panel data from 2015 to 2020, we evaluate the programme's effect on five dimensions: (i) the adoption of technology and practices, (ii) engagement in producer organisations, (iii) reported cattle health problems, (iv) beef production per hectare, and (v) greenhouse gas emissions intensity. The intervention significantly increased the application of reproductive and herd management practices, specifically early weaning, controlled mating, and ovarian activity diagnosis, without generating shifts in the other measured outcomes by the 2020 horizon. These results highlight both the potential and the limitations of integrated technology transfer programmes in promoting sustainable intensification of extensive livestock systems. They also suggest the need for longer‐term evaluations to capture potential effects on productivity and emissions that may emerge as these technologies, particularly reproductive ones, influence aggregate outcomes.\n"]

["Pacific Focus, EarlyView. ", "\nABSTRACT\nThis study investigates the influence of perceptions of the United States and China on individual support for democratic and non‐democratic governments in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), set against the backdrop of heightened global power rivalry in public discourse. This study shifts the emphasis from macro‐level patterns of authoritarian dissemination to micro‐level perspectives, evaluating how citizens perceive the governing regimes linked to these principal powers. The analysis, employing data from Arab Barometer Wave 8, explores the relationship between negative perceptions toward America and favorable sentiments toward China about preferences for democratic versus non‐democratic governance. The findings reveal clear correlations: intensified negative attitudes against the United States are associated with reduced support for democracy, whereas elevated positive sentiments toward China are linked to greater receptiveness to non‐democratic alternatives. These developments indicate a wider decline in the normative status of liberal democracy in certain regions of the Global South, where global competition increasingly influences the criteria by which individuals assess political systems. This study advances the existing discussion on authoritarian diffusion and democratic resilience by emphasizing individual‐level attitudes. It demonstrates that international power dynamics intersect with domestic political decisions, affecting voters' evaluations of various regime types.\n"]

Veterinary Pathology, Ahead of Print.
Four dogs with neutrophilic cholangitis were identified with intracholangiocytic apicomplexan protozoa. Two cases were biopsies, and both cases had gallbladder involvement. The other two cases were unexpected findings on autopsy. Immunohistochemistry ...

Vascular Medicine, Ahead of Print.

Update: Applications of Research in Music Education, Ahead of Print.
This descriptive study examined elementary music teachers’ perceptions of their preparation and implementation of general music approaches. Missouri elementary music teachers (N= 142) participated via email survey. Kodály and Orff Schulwerk were most ...

Tropical Doctor, Ahead of Print.
A 51-year-old woman previously treated for multibacillary leprosy presented with polyarthritis of wrists, ankles and small joints of the hands, resembling rheumatoid arthritis. She had completed multidrug leprosy therapy in 2014 and had a previous history ...

Tropical Doctor, Ahead of Print.
Musculoskeletal ultrasound (MSK-US) has been widely incorporated by clinical rheumatologists since its first description in inflammatory arthropathies in the late 1970s. Yet, the percentage of rheumatologists performing MSK-US remains low. Nevertheless, ...

Tropical Doctor, Ahead of Print.

Trauma, Ahead of Print.
PurposeThis study evaluates upper limb vascular injuries (ULVIs) at Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital (CMJAH, South Africa) to describe clinical features, in-hospital outcomes, and factors associated with poor outcomes.MethodsA retrospective ...

Transformation, Ahead of Print.
This article presents the reconciliation and forgiveness model of conflict resolution in Genesis 45:1–18 and its lessons for the resolution of herders-farmers conflict in Benue State, Nigeria. The herders-farmers conflict has not only been intractable and ...

Transactions of the Institute of Measurement and Control, Ahead of Print.
To address the challenges of low computational efficiency, poor trajectory smoothness, and delayed adjustments in intelligent vehicle obstacle avoidance, an improved trajectory planning algorithm is proposed which integrates iterative optimization of path ...

Therapeutic Advances in Endocrinology and Metabolism, Volume 17, January-December 2026.
Type 2 iodothyronine deiodinase (DIO2) plays a central role in regulating thyroid hormone (TH) metabolism in the brain by catalyzing the conversion of thyroxine (T4) to the active triiodothyronine (T3), thereby ensuring adequate local TH signaling in ...

Therapeutic Advances in Drug Safety, Volume 17, January-December 2026.
Background:There has been a growing trend of combining traditional Chinese medicine and Western medicine, but the safety of co-prescribingSalvia miltiorrhiza(Danshen) and anticoagulants remains uncertain.Objectives:This study aimed to evaluate the ...

Therapeutic Advances in Drug Safety, Volume 17, January-December 2026.
Background:Medication errors (MEs) and their underreporting compromise patient safety in Ghana, but the landscape of error types, reporting systems, and barriers has not been comprehensively synthesized.Objective:This systematic review aims to map ...

Television & New Media, Ahead of Print.
This article expands production studies by centering audiences, specifically Latinx audiences, as critical agents within media production ecosystems. UsingCoco(2017) andEmilia Pérez(2024) as case studies, I argue that digital audience engagement can ...

Space and Culture, Ahead of Print.
This study analyzes how street clowns (badut jalanan) are normatively constructed within urban public spaces in Samarinda, Indonesia. Rather than treating public perception as homogeneous, the research conceptualizes stigma as a socially stratified and ...

Science Communication, Ahead of Print.
To address the challenge of scalability in fact-checking, we report two parallel experiments examining which message features may boost communicative engagement with AI-facilitated observed correction of misinformation related to human papillomavirus (HPV)...

RELC Journal, Ahead of Print.
Listening in second language education has long been conceptualised and operationalised with an overwhelming focus on one-way, non-participatory listening. Although this is necessary for the development of cognitive dimensions of second language listening,...

Rehabilitation Counseling Bulletin, Ahead of Print.
This study examined the mediating role of psychological inflexibility in the relationship between resilience and marriage satisfaction among parents of children with developmental disabilities in a Turkish sample using Bayesian structural equation ...

Qualitative Social Work, Ahead of Print.
This article explores the quality of working life (QoWL) of people with intellectual disabilities (PWID) employed in Work Integration Social Enterprises (WISEs). WISEs are hybrid organizations that combine social and commercial goals and provide important ...

Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part M: Journal of Engineering for the Maritime Environment, Ahead of Print.
Current knowledge regarding the assessment of forward and sideways accelerations on human safety onboard the high-speed craft (HSC) remains limited, and most conventional shock mitigation seats for these vessels are designed primarily to mitigate vertical ...

Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part L: Journal of Materials: Design and Applications, Ahead of Print.
High-entropy alloy (HEA) coatings are emerging as promising surface engineering materials for enhancing corrosion resistance in aggressive chloride-containing environments; however, a clear correlation between aluminium (Al) content, microstructural ...

Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part C: Journal of Mechanical Engineering Science, Ahead of Print.
This article focuses on the degradation of sealing performance faced by the sealing cylinder of the carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS) downhole packer under multi field coupling conditions of high temperature, high pressure, and CO2corrosive ...

Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part C: Journal of Mechanical Engineering Science, Ahead of Print.
Biodiesel is a good renewable source as a substitute of the traditional diesel, but the oxidative stability is low limiting its extensive use in storage. This analysis compares oxidative stability and storage of soybean biodiesel (BS100) and macauba ...

Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part C: Journal of Mechanical Engineering Science, Ahead of Print.
Reasonable assembly is crucial for reducing dynamic motion errors and enhancing the structural stability of large computer numerical control (CNC) machine tools. During the assembly of the machine bed, anchor bolts must be tightened with uniform preloads ...

Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part C: Journal of Mechanical Engineering Science, Ahead of Print.
To improve the modeling accuracy of the tapered roller bearing-spindle system under various operating conditions, this paper proposes a bearing modeling method based on a 5 + 3n-DOF formulation, combined with one-dimensional finite element theory to ...

Phlebology, Volume 41, Issue 5, Page 455-458, June 2026.

Phlebology, Ahead of Print.
BackgroundLipedema is a chronic and progressive disorder of subcutaneous adipose tissue that predominantly affects women and is frequently misdiagnosed as obesity, lymphedema, or venous disease. Increasing evidence indicates that lipedema represents a ...

Perfusion, Ahead of Print.
BackgroundExtracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) is an essential life-support modality for children with severe cardiac and respiratory failure. Although its global use has expanded, ECMO remains resource-intensive, requiring specialized training, ...

Palliative Medicine, Ahead of Print.
Background:Reiki and Therapeutic Touch are complementary therapies sometimes used in palliative and end-of-life care.Aim:To examine the available evidence regarding the effects of Reiki and Therapeutic Touch, compared to usual care, in palliative and end-...

Nursing Science Quarterly, Ahead of Print.

Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Ahead of Print.

New Labor Forum, Ahead of Print.

New Labor Forum, Ahead of Print.

New Labor Forum, Ahead of Print.

Mobile Media & Communication, Ahead of Print.
Through the lens of agents, this article situates mobile artificial intelligence (mobile AI) in relation to earlier and ongoing developments with mobile media and communication, including mobile telephony and mobile broadband. With mobile telephony, ...

Mathematics and Mechanics of Solids, Ahead of Print.
Among non-destructive testing techniques, ultrasonic guided waves have been shown to be a very effective diagnostic tool. This diagnostic strategy aims to use Lamb mode information contained in dispersion curves to infer the elastic and structural ...

Marketing Theory, Ahead of Print.
This paper explores the concept of Black Joy within the context of marketplace exclusion during the heightened racial capitalism of the COVID-19 pandemic. Using Lefebvre’s conceptualization of the production of space as an analytic framework and a ...

Lighting Research & Technology, Ahead of Print.
Lamps based on LEDs often introduce temporal light modulation (TLM). TLM consists of fluctuations in the emitted light over time and can lead to the perception of temporal light artefacts such as flicker and the stroboscopic effect. Due to the widespread ...

Lighting Research & Technology, Ahead of Print.
Little is known about the impact of lighting in rooms designated for critical conversations in counselling or policing contexts, such as therapy, clinical interviewing and police interviews. Lighting may affect bodily stress, discomfort, nervousness, ...

Lighting Research & Technology, Ahead of Print.
Direct flicker is a perception effect causing discomfort generated from lighting systems. While the short-term flicker indicator,PstLM, is most widely used, perceptual modulation (MP) is also a perception-based direct flicker metric used in many ...

Lighting Research & Technology, Ahead of Print.
In daily life, we frequently encounter an abrupt decrease in background luminance. Although most real-world objects exhibit compound colours containing both luminance and chromaticity information, visual performance for such stimuli remains insufficiently ...

Law, Culture and the Humanities, Ahead of Print.
The proposed article addresses crisis, emergency and normalcy as legal and socio-legal phenomena framing our perception within collective constitutional memories. In this way, it aims to bind together two strands of constitutional research: the analysis ...

Language Teaching Research, Ahead of Print.
Drawing on self-determination theory, this study examined the relationships between after-class emotions (enjoyment, anxiety, and boredom) and intrinsic motivation across four Spanish language skills in a self-directed L3 learning context. Participants ...

Language Teaching Research, Ahead of Print.
Few teacher education courses address the psychology of language learning and teaching explicitly, despite considerable evidence showing just how important such factors can be in determining the effectiveness of language teaching and learning. In this ...