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‘Doing adoptive family’ in contemporary India – A qualitative exploration of adoptive parents’ narratives
Full text linkThis article discusses adoptive family practices in India, where biological connections are often seen as more important than social ties and legal recognition in building family relationships. It shares insights from a unique, in-depth study of 11 adoptive parents, connecting their experiences to the concept of ‘family practices’. The article highlights two main points. First, it shows thatadoptive families vary in how they create their family lives, especially in response to everyday challenges. These families seek to socially legitimise their understanding of kinship. Second, a continuous process of negotiation and renegotiation is required to create and redefine relationships to demonstrate their familial relationships. While the small group of families studied does notrepresent all adoptive families in India, the findings reveal the complexities of adoptive family life in a contemporary context. This study provides a strong springboard for further research and can improve social work policy and practice
Towards Logically Sound Natural Language Reasoning with Logic-Enhanced Language Model Agents
No full textLarge language models (LLMs) are increasingly explored as general-purpose reasoners, particularly in agentic contexts. However, their outputs remain prone to mathematical and logical errors. This is especially challenging in open-ended tasks, where unstructured outputs lack explicit ground truth and may contain subtle inconsistencies. To address this issue, we propose Logic-Enhanced Language Model Agents (LELMA), a framework that integrates LLMs with formal logic to enable validation and refinement of natural language reasoning. LELMA comprises three components: an LLM-Reasoner, an LLM-Translator, and a Solver, and employs autoformalization to translate reasoning into logic representations, which are then used to assess logical validity. Using game-theoretic scenarios such as the Prisoner’s Dilemma as testbeds, we highlight the limitations of both less capable (Gemini 1.0 Pro) and advanced (GPT4o) models in generating logically sound reasoning. LELMA achieves high accuracy in error detection and improves reasoning correctness via self-refinement, particularly in GPT-4o. The study also highlights challenges in autoformalization accuracy and in evaluation of inherently ambiguous open-ended reasoning tasks
Firm–education–industry association linkages:Driving the territorial embeddedness of business services multinational corporations in Romania?
Full text linkThis study examines the nature and implications of linkages between multinational corporations and local institutions across peripheral regions. Analysing the development of outsourced and offshored business services in Romania, the study highlights the role of firm–education–industry association linkages in driving the territorial embeddedness of multinational corporations into host country regions. Firm–education–industry association linkages facilitated changes in higher education curricula to supply firm-specific skills, the development of advanced technical and management skills, and a programme of state policies privileging foreign capital. While this industrial and institutional transformation facilitated Romania’s move up the value chain into more advanced business services, it simultaneously drove forms of corporate capture and dependency, reproducing a flexible, co-opted workplace labour regime
Navigating the Unspoken:The Impact of Socio-Institutional Factors on Pakistani Employees’ Perceptions of Implicit Promises
Full text linkExploring AI-powered Digital Innovations from A Transnational Governance Perspective: Implications for Market Acceptance and Digital Accountability
Full text linkENHANCED RECOVERY OF METEORITE SAMPLES ON UK TERRAIN USING DRONES, MULTISPECTRAL SENSORS AND MACHINE LEARNING
Full text linkTowards a decolonial heat-health nexus:Disrupters, enablers and energy properties of heat from the 19th century to the present day
Full text linkMeta-analysis finds large variation but no general patterns in the relationship between climate and parasitism in terrestrial animals
Full text linkClimate can vary spatially and temporally and is becoming increasingly unpredictable due to climate change. It can have a large impact on host–parasite interactions and investigating this effect is vital both for understanding current parasite distribution and epidemiology, and predicting how this will change in the future. Here, we conducted a meta-analysis to determine whether temperature and precipitation have an overall effect on parasite prevalence and infection intensity in terrestrial animals. This is a phylogenetically controlled quantitative synthesis to assess parasite prevalence and infection intensity in terrestrial animals across contrasting temperatures and precipitation. We found large variation in the effect of temperature on parasite prevalence, precipitation on parasite prevalence, and temperature on infection intensity. This provides robust quantitative evidence against the controversial “warmer sicker world” hypothesis. There was no effect of climate on parasitism, irrespective of whether the parasite was an endoparasite or ectoparasite, or across different parasite lifecycles. Although some host and parasite taxa were understudied, we found no consistent taxonomic patterns. Importantly, we revealed large gaps in the literature, including the relationship between humidity, prevalence, and infection intensity. Ectoparasites and reptile hosts were also very underrepresented, and deserve further study. Focusing future research on these gaps will help to confirm whether certain types of host–parasite interactions are more or less sensitive to changes in climate, with implications for conservation
Testing the Geochemical Feasibility of Subsurface Storage of Electrolytes for Use in Redox Flow Batteries
Full text linkThis study aims to outline the viability of aquifer and salt cavern storage for use in redoxflow batteries. A comprehensive detailing of the past literature was outlined, with a focus onthree broad topics: the feasibility of various redox couples, the composition of formationwaters in the North Sea, and the geochemical modelling that will take place utilising thesetwo factors. Furthermore, the mechanisms of electrolyte removal were explored, withemphasis on unwanted microbially mediated redox reactions as well as adsorption.Utilising the Geochemist’s Workbench program ‘React’, solubility-speciation modelling wasconducted on the effects of electrolyte injection into the North Sea subsurface, using threeof the most widely researched redox couples as well as formation water samples from astudy conducted by Warren, Smalley and Howarth (1994). A paper was then written,outlining the steps and results collected from this modelling. It was ultimately found that, ofthe electrolytes tested, none of them were viable for subsurface storage in the brines tested,unless other measures, such as barrier gases or chemically altering the brine wereimplemented.Finally, a critical review of the paper was presented, providing a brief summary of the datacollected from the geochemical modelling, as well as outlining the significance of theresearch as a whole
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