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Community health intervention through musical engagement (CHIME) in South Africa: A formative exploration of the feasibility and development of a music-based intervention to support perinatal mental health
No full textIn South Africa, perinatal depression, stress or anxiety affect an estimated 16% to 50% of women posing serious concerns for both mothers and infants. The vast majority of women receive no perinatal mental healthcare through the public health system, partly due to high levels of stigma and a lack of culturally sensitive mental health care. South African musical traditions such as group singing are culturally significant for supporting social connection and coping with challenges experienced in everyday life. However, there is little research on how group music making could be used to support perinatal mental health in South Africa. This study aimed to explore the potential for developing a culturally embedded, music-based intervention to support women in the perinatal period. Using Community-Based Participatory Research, we held five focus group discussions with: 1) community health workers, 2) music experts, 3) traditional healers, 4) professional healthcare workers, and 5) the management team of a rural health NGO. Through thematic analysis, four themes were identified. Theme 1 encompasses the various challenges that contribute to perinatal mental distress, including social determinants of mental health, unhelpful coping strategies, stigma, and isolation. Theme 2 reflects existing community music practices: the way music is embedded in culture, processes of cultural change, and musical practices associated with perinatal health. Theme 3 encompasses the perceived benefits of music making in supporting social connections and effecting transformation in relation to individual mood and spiritual experiences. Theme 4 includes consideration of factors that are important for the development of a music-making intervention to support perinatal mental health. The findings suggest strong potential for implementing music-based mental health interventions in South Africa, adaptable to various facilitators and community contexts. [Abstract copyright: Copyright: © 2026 Sigwebela et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Dynamic Subsidy Design for Sustainable Fresh Agricultural Supply Chains: A Differential Game Approach
Full text linkFresh agricultural products are highly perishable, and inadequate preservation leads to food loss and supply chain inefficiency, undermining sustainability. This study develops a continuous-time differential game model to analyze dynamic pricing and cold-chain investment decisions in a two-echelon fresh agricultural produce supply chain under government intervention. Two subsidy regimes are examined: one targeting suppliers’ cold-chain investments and another supporting the retailer based on sales volume. By explicitly modeling the dynamic evolution of product freshness, we analyze how subsidy intensity and allocation influence firms’ strategies, market outcomes, and social welfare over time. The results show that when initial freshness is low, firms consistently adopt a penetration pricing strategy and increase cold-chain investment irrespective of subsidy intensity. In contrast, when initial freshness is high, a critical subsidy threshold emerges: Below this threshold, firms employ skimming pricing and reduce investment, whereas above it, they switch to penetration pricing and raise investment. Under equal government expenditure, supplier subsidies achieve higher product freshness but raise retail prices, while retailer subsidies lower prices and stimulate demand, albeit with more modest freshness improvements. Welfare effects are non-linear: supplier subsidies are more effective at low intensities, whereas retailer subsidies become superior beyond a specific threshold. These findings provide actionable insights for designing sustainable, targeted subsidy policies in fresh agricultural supply chains
The ‘forum effect’: how does participation in online forums affect student retention and academic performance at a distance learning university?
No full textThe Long Death of Adolf Hitler:An Investigative History
No full textAdolf Hitler has taken a long time to die, despite the lethal efficiency of the gun he put to his head in April 1945. Although eagerly anticipated around the world, there were no available witnesses to his suicide—and his corpse was not put on display. This created the perfect vacuum for myth and survival legends, while rival intelligence agencies and propaganda further confounded the investigations of successive historians. This book explores the aftermath of events at the Führerbunker in the first cultural account of this decisive yet elusive moment. Hitler’s death was widely anticipated, and the news elicited a huge range of emotions as governments and secret services scrambled to verify what they heard. The search for proof of death led to an outpouring of conspiratorial thinking, and the final moments of Hitler’s life have been reimagined ever since.<br/
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Inositol hexakisphosphate kinase 1 is implicated in the insulin response to protein ingestion in older adults
No full textAge-related muscle mass is driven by a reduction in insulin sensitivity partly mediated by reduced amino acid and anabolic signalling kinetics. Insulin activates Akt-mTORC1 signalling in skeletal muscle, with inositol hexakisphosphate kinase 1 (IP6K1) shown to inhibit this signalling pathway in pre-diabetic humans. We aimed to compare muscle and plasma IP6K1 in young vs older adults and the possible role of IP6K1 in the anabolic response to protein and protein plus resistance exercise (RE). Nine young (24.9 ± 0.4 years) and nine older (66.2 ± 0.5 years), moderately active adults received primed continuous infusions of L-[ring- 2H 5]phenylalanine in basal and postprandial state. Blood and muscle biopsy samples were collected prior to and following ingestion of 25 g whey protein with or without knee extension exercise to examine skeletal muscle protein signalling and whole-body phenylalanine kinetics. Young adults had greater plasma IP6K1 at all time points. Older adults had reduced muscle IP6K1 at 120 min post-exercise. Muscle IP6K1 decreased 240 min postprandially in young adults compared with basal and there was no effect of exercise in either group. Older adults presented with reduced plasma and muscle IP6K1 in both postprandially and post-RE states, as well as reduced phenylalanine rate of disappearance for the same comparisons. IP6K1 may be involved in the reduction in amino acid metabolism , and the insulin-mediated response to protein and RE. </p
FDI Spillovers, Innovation and the Role of Industrial Clusters: Evidence from Innovative Indian Manufacturing Firms
No full text© 2025, Elsevier B.V. The attached document (embargoed until 08/09/2026) is an author produced version of a paper published in Economic Modelling uploaded in accordance with the publisher’s self-archiving policy. The final published version (version of record) is available online at the link. Some minor differences between this version and the final published version may remain. We suggest you refer to the final published version should you wish to cite from it
Evaluating the Requirements Engineering Process in Model Transformation Development: A State of Practice Analysis
Full text linkModel Transformations (MT) are a central element of Model-Driven Engineering (MDE) methods. As MT adoption increases in both industry and academia, there is a growing need for systematic software engineering practices, particularly in Requirements Engineering (RE) for MT development.This paper investigates the state of RE in MT through two complementary empirical studies: semi-structured interviews with industry practitioners and a systematic literature review (SLR) analyzing published transformation cases. Both studies address the same research questions but differ in the populations they cover. The interviews focus on industrial settings, while the SLR reviews published work, the majority of which comes from academic sources. Our findings reveal that the RE processes used in MT development tend to be largely informal and lack structured methodologies. While some RE techniques such as prototyping and scenario-based generalization are used, they are typically applied in an ad-hoc manner based on personal experience rather than through a well-defined RE framework.Our studies highlight challenges in stakeholder engagement in MT RE, particularly limited access to stakeholders, which restricts the effective application of RE techniques. Furthermore, our analysis identifies a predominant focus on MT implementation, with limited MT specification and systematic RE activities, which often leads to requirements being implicitly defined rather than explicitly documented. Despite these shared findings, the interview study and SLR differ in their perspectives: the interview study reflects real-world industrial constraints on requirements engineering, while the SLR reflects more research-driven RE practices.These findings underscore the gap between research and practice in model transforma- tions, and highlight the need for lightweight, structured RE frameworks tailored to MT development. Future work should focus on bridging this gap by integrating agile RE techniques with structured methodologies to support flexibility, traceability and stakeholder collaboration in MT projects
Factors related to Internet Gaming Disorder: Comparing reports of adolescents and their parents in Türkiye and the United Kingdom.
No full text©2025, Taylor & Francis. The attached document (embargoed until 18/08/2026) is an author produced version of a paper published in European Journal of Developmental Psychology uploaded in accordance with the publisher’s self-archiving policy. The final published version (version of record) is available online at the link. Some minor differences between this version and the final published version may remain. We suggest you refer to the final published version should you wish to cite from it
