Views and practices on gifted education in primary schools: A comparative study of England and Türki̇ye See

Gifted education encompasses the pedagogy, procedures, and theories for educating gifted and talented (G&T) children. Globally, the recognition of G&T children's needs has underscored the significance of this field. Governments typically adopt one of two policy approaches: one ...

The impact of polygenic risk for alzheimer’s disease on neurotransmitter-related grey matter atrophy in the alzheimer continuum See

Alzheimer’s disease (AD) pathology has been recently shown to accumulate in multiple brainstem nuclei in pre-cortical disease stages. However, the impact of neurotransmission alterations on brain atrophy and their genetic correlates in AD remain unexplored. This study investigated (1) associations...

“Space invaders” revisited: counter-narratives of two (b)older south Asian female academics See

In this paper, we revisit Puwar’s concept of “space invader” as two (b)older South Asian female academics at a later stage in their professional lives. Drawing on Critical Race Theory and a counter-storytelling approach, we reflexively narrate our analysis of a series of research&#...

Enhancing crime prediction with machine vision: Convolutional neural network approach See

Crime significantly challenges socio-economic development, hindering societal progress and stability. This PhD Thesis focuses on training and comparing YOLOv4 with SSD models for classifying high-risk perpetrators. The annotated training dataset comprises approximately 3,118 images, including common weapons suc...

Women's Self-Objectification and Strategic Self-Presentation on Social Media See

In four studies, we tested whether higher trait self-objectification was associated with more strategic and less authentic self-presentation on social media among cisgender women, and whether these links could be attributed to heightened approval motivation among those having higher levels of...

Narcissists don’t care about approval: the role of narcissism and status motives in explaining the relationship between self-objectification and approval motivation See

Prior research has established that women who self-objectify seek approval from others more strongly than women who self-objectify less. Yet the boundary conditions of this link remain largely unexamined. Building on hierometer theory, which postulates that narcissism tracks social status and...

A 2-stage vision-based localization methodology for efficient automatic charging of electric vehicles in uncertain environments See

Automatic visual localization of electric vehicle (EV) charging ports presents significant challenges in uncertain environments, such as varying surface textures, reflections, lighting and observation distance. Existing methods require extensive real-world training data and well-focused images to achieve robust...

A comprehensive safety architecture for human–robot collaboration in confined workspaces using improved artificial potential field See

Collaborative robotics in manufacturing introduces a new era of seamless human–robot collaboration (HRC), enhancing production line efficiency and adaptability. However, guaranteeing safe interaction while maintaining performance objectives presents significant challenges. Integrating safety with optimal robot performanc...

Heat release performance of water-phase change material mixture under periodic heat sink condition See

This paper reports the construction of a composite phase change energy storage unit that incorporates water and phase change material (PCM). The presence of water expedited the solidification process of the PCM above it while serving as a sensible heat medium. The influence of ...