A Sociological Approach to the Rights and Dignity of Nature: Towards a Shared Rights Framework See

This article offers a sociological analysis of the global Rights of Nature movement, positioning dignity, repair, and socio-ecological justice at its heart. While Rights of Nature has gained traction across environmental law, Indigenous politics, and ecological science, Sociology has largely over...

Policy Brief: Delivering accessible AI for everyone in public services See

Policy Context: The UK Government’s AI Opportunities Action Plan aims to accelerate AI adoption across public services to improve productivity and service delivery. Public bodies also have legal responsibilities to provide accessible digital services. As AI increasingly shapes how citizens access...

‘The Best-regarded Virgins of Our Clime’: Unseen Black Women, Race, and the Construction of White Femininity in <i>The Merchant of Venice</i> See

Using the tools of premodern critical race studies and whiteness studies, this article brings to critical visibility the Black women Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice evokes in passing, only to leave them on the margins of the text. Unseen and unheard, those women's alleged ...

Multi-Objective Optimization Framework for Reliable Safety Stock Decisions With Intermittent Demand Forecasting See

Safety stock (SS), encompassing reorder point (RP) and maximum stock (MS), is designed to minimize inventory cost while maintaining maintenance safety for manufacturing enterprises. In recent years, advanced computational techniques have been applied to forecast spare parts demand (SPD), enabling ...

Sparsity-Aware Sensor Selection for Privacy-Preserving Zonotopic Fusion Filtering in Cloud-Based Vehicle Tracking Systems See

This article investigates the zonotopic filtering problem for cloud-based vehicle tracking systems under joint privacy and communication bandwidth constraints. Cloud-side tracking platforms improve vehicle state estimation accuracy by fusing multisource measurements collected from roadside nodes. However, during...

Nonfragile Distributed Fusion Filtering for Time-Varying Systems With Sensor Saturations: A Decode-and-Forward Relay-Aided Approach See

In this article, the problem of distributed fusion filtering (DFF) has been studied for discrete-time, time-varying systems affected by sensor saturations, packet losses, and stochastic gain perturbations. The transmission process between sensors and remote filters is carried out via relay channe...

Approximating Signed Distance Fields With Sparse Ellipsoidal Radial Basis Function Networks: A Dynamic Multi-Objective Optimization Strategy See

In this paper, a general learning method is proposed for approximating precomputed signed distance function (SDF) fields of implicit surfaces using a relatively small number of ellipsoidal radial basis functions (ERBFs). The SDF values may be obtained from various sources, including point&#x...

Just deserts: Do students deserve a safe learning environment? See

This conceptual paper critically analyses the notion of safe learning environments in the context of the introduction of a safe learning environment charter within the National Health Service in England. The experience of nursing students within complex ecologies of practice learning is ...

“How can we help our children if no one’s helping us?”: Parent and clinician priorities for mental health support in children with rare genetic conditions who have intellectual and developmental disabilities – a framework analysis See

Background: Next-generation sequencing technologies are now routinely used in the NHS to identify rare genetic conditions (RGCs) in children with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDDs). As such, the proportion of children diagnosed in early childhood (<6 years) is rising rapidly....