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How to Diagnose Prisons' Failures: Three Perspectives on Officers' Responsibilities

open access: yesJournal of Applied Philosophy, Volume 43, Issue 1, Page 16-33, February 2026.
ABSTRACT Prison officers play a vital role in shaping prison conditions. Assessing their responsibility for, and potential role in reforming, the prison's failures is an urgent and important task in corrective justice efforts. This article takes up this task, with a focus on the US prison context, by applying and critically examining two general ...
Candice Delmas
wiley   +1 more source

Neurocognitive and Autonomic Signatures of Performance Under Motivational Stress: An Integrated Psychophysiological Analysis of Reward and Punishment in Shooting Performance

open access: yesScandinavian Journal of Medicine &Science in Sports, Volume 36, Issue 2, February 2026.
ABSTRACT Motivational framing—such as reward and punishment—critically shapes performance under pressure, yet the underlying neurocognitive and autonomic mechanisms remain unclear. Guided by the cognitive–affective–motor (CAM) model and psychomotor efficiency theory (PET), this study examined how motivational context modulates brain–body dynamics ...
Ming‐Yang Cheng   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

The use of Diathermic Syncope® for stunning cattle

open access: yesEFSA Journal, Volume 24, Issue 2, February 2026.
Abstract The EFSA Panel on Animal Health and Welfare (AHAW) was asked to deliver a scientific opinion on the use of Diathermic Syncope® (DTS) for stunning cattle. A dossier was provided by the applicant as the basis for an assessment of the extent to which the method is able to provide a level of animal welfare at least equivalent to that ensured by ...
EFSA Panel on Animal Health and Welfare (AHAW)   +22 more
wiley   +1 more source

Data‐Driven Implementation Trials: Realizing Their Full Potential in Achieving the Promise of Learning Health Systems

open access: yesLearning Health Systems, Volume 10, Issue 1, January 2026.
ABSTRACT The digital transformation of healthcare has generated unprecedented volumes of routine clinical data, enabling health system leaders, including quality improvement (QI) efforts, to optimize care using real‐time analytics. However, health system QI typically focuses on changes within localized environments; it is often limited in its ability ...
Charis X. Xie   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

“Actual” and “Constructive” Possession in Alaska: Clarifying the Doctrine [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
In two cases, one recent and one now nearly a decade old, Judge David Mannheimer has raised important questions about Alaska’s jury instruction on “possession.” In particular, Judge Mannheimer has expressed a worry that Alaska’s definition of ...
Flanders, Chad
core   +1 more source

Crime Prevention on Farms: Experiences from Victoria, Australia [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Whilst rural offending has hitherto been largely overlooked, the canon of scholarly examination of rural crime – including farm crime literature – is slowly growing.
Harkness, Alistair
core   +1 more source

Fear and Challenging Behaviour: A Phenomenological‐Hermeneutic Study of Public Mass Shooting Attacks During the COVID‐19 Pandemic in Thailand

open access: yesNursing Open, Volume 13, Issue 1, January 2026.
ABSTRACT Aim To explore the lived experiences of Thai participants of public mass shooting during the COVID‐19 pandemic. Design A phenomenographic research approach was used. Methods Fifteen participants were recruited using purposive and snowball sampling.
Ek‐Uma Imkome
wiley   +1 more source

Predictive Understanding of Wildfire Ignitions Across the Western United States

open access: yesEarth's Future, Volume 14, Issue 1, January 2026.
Abstract Wildfires have increasingly affected human and natural systems across the western United States (WUS) in recent decades. Given that the majority of ignitions are human‐caused and potentially preventable, improving the ability to predict fire occurrence is critical for effective wildfire prevention and risk mitigation.
Yavar Pourmohamad   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Grip-Pattern Recognition for Smart Guns [PDF]

open access: yes, 2003
This paper describes the design, implementation and evaluation of a user-verification system for a smart gun, which is based on grip-pattern recognition. An existing pressure sensor consisting of an array of 44 x 44 piezoresistive elements has been used.
Bazen, A.M.   +3 more
core   +2 more sources

Distribution modelling for Neotropical freshwater stingrays Potamotrygon brachyura and Potamotrygon motoro (Myliobatiformes, Potamotrygonidae) in the Uruguay River basin

open access: yesJournal of Fish Biology, Volume 108, Issue 1, Page 43-56, January 2026.
Abstract This study aimed to identify geographical distribution patterns of the giant short‐tailed river stingray Potamotrygon brachyura and the motoro stingray Potamotrygon motoro in the Uruguay River basin. Data on presence/absence of stingrays were based on fishers' knowledge accessed by interviews through expeditions in Brazil, Argentina and ...
Danilo Araujo Soares Pereira   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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