Importance: Progress in vestibular implantation offers hope for patients with bilateral vestibulopathy. However, surgically opening the semicircular canals risks breaching the membranous labyrinth, which may induce sensorineural hearing loss. A robotic drill sensing force and torque might prevent&#x...

Third Sector Sports Organisations (TSSOs) play an increasingly important role in England’s sport and physical activity landscape, particularly in delivering community-based programmes that contribute to a range of social outcomes. Operating within a context of prolonged austerity, these organisations ...

We study how bots contribute to open-source discussions in the Ethereum ecosystem and whether they influence developers’ emotional tone. Our dataset covers 36,875 accounts across ten repositories with 105 validated bots (0.28%). Human participation follows a U-shaped pattern, while bots engage&#x...

Accurate modelling of interference and coverage in optical wireless communication (OWC) systems remains challenging due to the limitations of conventional approaches, which typically rely on infinite-network assumptions or simplified disc-shaped cell models. In practical deployments, OWC networks are finit...

Context: Open-source software (OSS) development is often studied as a decentralized process driven by technical goals. However, mature OSS projects operate under external constraints such as security advisories, release deadlines, and ecosystem dependencies. These pressures shape technical decisions...

Potassium mining activities result in the discharge of highly saline wastewaters, creating severe environmental impacts in water and soil. This study evaluates the environmental performance of a novel pilot system developed in the framework of the LIFE Brine-Mining project. The system compri...

Despite the listing of HBCDD in Annex A of the Stockholm Convention, the environmental contamination and human health impact of HBCDD is predicted to last for decades due to HBCDD remaining in global in-use products, the waste stream and various consumer products due to...

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