Background/Objectives: Bariatric (or metabolic) surgery is the most effective treatment for severe obesity, resulting in sustained weight loss and rapid improvement in metabolic outcomes. However, it is currently unknown what molecular changes are induced by the surgery, how they rela...

Macroprudential policies have become crucial tools for maintaining financial stability, but their effect on banks’ noninterest income has not yet been examined. This is a paradox in light of results in the literature linking noninterest income to bank performance indicators such as risk...

To address the need for thermally informed tire modeling for handling-oriented force prediction under limited thermal sensing, this paper presents a differentiable physics-embedded sequential framework for thermally informed Neural-UniTire modeling and identification. First, a differentiable radial thermal mode...

Dissimilar metal weld joints (DMWJs) between low-alloy steel SA508 and austenitic stainless steel 316L, fabricated using nickel-based alloy 52M as filler metal, are critically important in the primary circuit of pressurized water reactors (PWRs). The structural integrity of such DMWJs is str...

Management education remains deeply entrenched in colonial and neoliberal epistemic traditions, and privileges Eurocentric managerial paradigms while marginalising alternative knowledge systems. This paper outlines two levels of decolonisation: (a) surface-level interventions that introduce non-Western perspectives witho...

Postcolonial states can organize dispossession through institutions that remain procedurally regular, legally authoritative, and indispensable to citizens’ claims. This article theorizes the legitimation trap as a contingent configuration in which procedural propriety certifies a substantively unjust order and&...

This study critically examines the migration of disclosures regarding global LGBTIQ+ inclusion policies across 47 national Big 4 (Deloitte, Ernst & Young, KPMG, and PwC) professional service firm websites in 2024. Viewed as accounting-relevant artefacts, we draw on Foucauldian discourse analy...

Child welfare and safety depend on a chain of actors: parents and carers, families, communities, frontline professionals and the state. When responsibility is unevenly distributed across this chain, accountability for children erodes even where formal legal protection remains. In Turkey, this...

The impetus to move from aggressive environmentally damaging water management systems to sustainable alternatives is increasingly motivating both governments and investors. However, the economic justification for the often-heavy preliminary capital expenditure becomes a stumbling block. It is found that&#x...