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When Bureaucrats Deviate: Mission Motivation, Autonomy, and Policy Implementation in Thai District Governance

Governance, Volume 39, Issue 3, July 2026.
ABSTRACT Drawing on interviews and survey data from street‐level bureaucrats (SLBs) in eight Thai districts, we examine how mission motivation and autonomy combine to shape key SLB behaviors: policy compliance, policy customization, self‐directed action, and pro‐social rule‐breaking.
Dan Honig, Eleanor F. Woodhouse
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An energy‐based aggregate stability method is more management‐sensitive than commercial methods in coarse‐textured, subtropical orchard soils

Agricultural &Environmental Letters, Volume 11, Issue 1, June 2026.
Abstract Aggregate stability impacts important soil functions, including carbon/water storage and soil structure. Macroaggregate stability tests, using rainfall simulation or wet sieving, are commonly used, but microaggregate stability tests may be more applicable to subtropical, coarse‐textured soils.
Yaslin N. Gonzalez, Allan R. Bacon, Sarah L. Strauss, Gabriel Maltais‐Landry   +3 more
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The Ritz method with Lagrange multipliers

, 2013
We develop a general form of the Ritz method for trial functions that do not satisfy the essential boundary conditions. The idea is to treat the latter as variational constraints and remove them using the Lagrange multipliers. In multidimensional problems in addition to the trial functions boundary weight functions also have to be selected to ...
Jovanovic, Vojin, Koshkin, Sergiy
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A Hybrid Semi‐Inverse Variational and Machine Learning Approach for the Schrödinger Equation

Advanced Physics Research, Volume 5, Issue 6, June 2026.
A hybrid semi‐inverse variational and machine‐learning framework is presented for solving the Schrödinger equation with complex quantum potentials. Physics‐based variational solutions generate high‐quality training data, enabling Random Forest and Neural Network models to deliver near‐perfect energy predictions.
Khalid Reggab, Houssam Eddine Hailouf, Kingsley Onyebuchi Obodo, Mireille Megnidio‐Tchoukouegno, Mohammed Benali Kanoun, Souraya Goumri‐Said   +5 more
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Grandmother's pregnancy complications and autism spectrum disorders in grandchildren, a California multigenerational cohort study

JCPP Advances, Volume 6, Issue 2, June 2026.
Abstract Background Pregnancy complications have been associated with offspring autism spectrum disorders (ASD). There has also been increasing evidence for multigenerational risk factors of ASD. Methods In a multigenerational California birth cohort of 1,740,379 mother–child pairs, we investigated pregnancy complications when the grandmother was ...
Ting Chow, Qi Meng, Jingyuan Xiao, Karl O’Sharkey, Zeyan Liew, Beate Ritz   +5 more
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Gram Decay and Intrinsic Dimensions of Krylov Subspaces

Numerical Linear Algebra with Applications, Volume 33, Issue 3, June 2026.
ABSTRACT Krylov subspace methods solve large sparse linear systems Ax=b$$ Ax=b $$ by building a sequence of polynomial approximations to A−1b$$ {A}^{-1}b $$ from successive matrix‐vector products. In finite precision, the number of numerically independent directions that can be extracted from this sequence is bounded by the intrinsic information ...
Stephen J. Thomas
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Finding geodesics with the Deep Ritz method

CoRR
Geodesic problems involve computing trajectories between prescribed initial and final states to minimize a user-defined measure of distance, cost, or energy. They arise throughout physics and engineering -- for instance, in determining optimal paths through complex environments, modeling light propagation in refractive media, and the study of spacetime
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Long‐Term Management Shapes Soil Microbial Communities Primarily Through Modulating Soil Habitat Quality in Swiss Croplands

Journal of Sustainable Agriculture and Environment, Volume 5, Issue 2, June 2026.
ABSTRACT Soil microbial communities are key drivers of soil functioning in agricultural systems. Yet the relative influence of soil properties and cropping practices on their diversity remains insufficiently understood. We investigated 60 cropland sites in western Switzerland, covering a broad range of soil properties and cropping practices, to explore
Alyssa Deluz, Pascal Boivin, Cédric Deluz, Andreas Fliessbach, Johan Six, Martin Hartmann   +5 more
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How Do Management Choices Impact the Performance of Cassava‐Legume Intercropping in Africa? A Meta‐Analysis

Journal of Sustainable Agriculture and Environment, Volume 5, Issue 2, June 2026.
ABSTRACT Intercropping can enable sustainable intensification. In Africa, smallholder farmers rely on Cassava (Manihot esculenta Crantz) as a staple food. Nevertheless, the performance of cassava intercropping emerges from management choices such as legume species selection, planting density, sowing time, and nitrogen (N) fertilisation as well as soil ...
Dorcas I. Aisien, Guillermo Hernandez‐Ramirez, Akim Omokanye   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Estimating Interoceptive Sensitivity from Physiological Breathing Parameters

Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand, Volume 56, Issue 3, June 2026.
Impairments in interoception (the process of sensing, perceiving, and interpreting internal stimuli from the body) are considered characteristic of many mental health conditions. Although there is a growing body of interoceptive research, accounting for the inherent physiological variability associated with interoceptive stimuli is a key challenge ...
Ella McLeod, Faye Gorman, Bruce R. Russell, Phoebe Chin, Olivia K. Harrison   +4 more
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