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Virtual influencers in diverse appearances emerged and gained popularity on virtual platforms. However, how the appearances of virtual influencers affect consumers’ attitudes and reactions remained largely unexplored. Through three experimental studies, this paper examines the psychological mechanism and boundary conditions for consumer reactions to virtual influencer transgressions. The results show that consumers are less forgiving and more negative in their reactions to transgressions conducted by human-like virtual influencers compared to anime-like ones, regardless of the type of transgression or the gender of the virtual influencer (Studies 1 and 2). Additionally, the driving mechanism of the virtual influencers has a moderating effect. When consumers are informed that the virtual influencer transgression is driven by a real person rather than AI, the impact of appearance on the reactions to transgressions is aggravated (Study 3). The result shows that appearance and driving mechanism both influence consumer perceptions of the virtual influencers’ agency, thereby determining the degree of reaction to transgressions. Full article

This article analyzes the laboratory discourse in Soviet society during the first third of the twentieth century through the lens of tékhnē—the ancient fusion of making and knowing—arguing that the laboratory became a key site for redefining artistic practice as a form of knowledge production. Drawing on the institutional critique of the laboratory (Bruno Latour), the author raises the question of the potential for mutual influence between different types of laboratories established in the fields of art, technical sciences, and production. The mechanisms of a laboratory’s influence on society, as identified by Latour, allow for a new interpretation of the phenomenology of the All-Russian Theatre Society and its significant internal divisions. The history of the emergence and defeat of the Laboratory of Mass Psychology at the All-Russian Theatre Society (ARTS) in the 1920s–1930s is reconstructed on the basis of archival materials from RGALI (fund 970). Meeting minutes and documents from 1929 to 1932 reveal the main modes of the anthropology of the “laboratory genre” within the ARTS system (1920s–1980s). These are examined within the general experimental context of the era: the laboratory boom of the 1920s–1930s reshaped the boundaries between the natural sciences and the humanities. The second mode is the human experience of being on the threshold between life and death—a transgressive state. The third mode is the laboratory as a site for new forms of labor and technology. Within the laboratory’s work, psychotechnics acquired particular significance, reaching its culmination in 1931–1932. This period, marked by an intense flurry of events and new laboratory practices of psychological influence, was rightly called a “psychosis of activities” by the participants of the ARTS laboratory themselves. Full article

Heterogeneities of Late Cretaceous tropical carbonate platforms of the Middle East are yet to be fully understood. The analysis of carbonate microfacies with materials obtained from exploration wells can contribute to filling the noted gap. The present study focuses on the Coniacian–Santonian deposits near the Kazerun fault in the central part of the southern Zagros. The material from two exploration wells drilled east of this fault was used to establish carbonate microfacies and shale lithofacies and propose a depositional model. Six carbonate microfacies signify the existence of a homoclinal ramp, and inner-ramp environments were especially common. The stratigraphical distribution of the established microfacies made it possible to document a long-term transgression–regression cycle, which looks dissimilar to the global sea-level changes. Another control of this cycle might have been tectonic activity, particularly the activity of the Kazerun fault. The comparison of the lines of evidence from two wells east of this fault and two other wells west of this fault indicates striking differences. Full article

Bioerosive, marine ichnofossils excavated by pholadid and teredinid bivalves and preserved in late Maastrichtian deposits of southcentral Wyoming and southeastern Colorado indicate regional marine influence on fluvial systems and the presence of brackish-water environments as late as 67 Ma. The upper Medicine Bow Formation of southcentral Wyoming and the Vermejo Formation of southeastern Colorado are chronostratigraphically equivalent to the Lance and Hell Creek Formations and are usually interpreted as continental deposits free of marine influence. The recovery of teredinid calcite tubes from heterolithic, fluvial barforms in the upper 240 m of the approximately 2000 m thick Medicine Bow Formation suggests a late phase of marine transgression at ~67 Ma. Similarly, the presence of Teredolites clavatus and T. longissimus in the Vermejo Formation, approximately 5–10 m above the top of the 67 Ma, marine Trinidad Sandstone reveals approximately time-equivalent transgression and marine influence on local fluvial systems 580 km to the south. These ichnofossils add to the growing body of evidence suggesting that late Maastrichtian formations, generally considered to be continental in origin, in fact contain records of varying degrees of marine influence on coastal plain settings. The previously unrecognized phase of sea level rise and transgression indicated by these ichnoassemblages raises questions about the development of a late Maastrichtian, southern land bridge across the Western Interior Sea and the purported paleobiogeographic interchange between eastern North America (Appalachia) and western North America (Laramidia). Full article

This article examines Martha Graham’s radical reception of the women of Greek tragedy across her performing career, from the early 1930s to her retirement from the stage in 1969. I argue that Graham repeatedly turned to Greek tragic heroines—Electra, Medea, Jocasta, Clytemnestra, Alcestis, Phaedra, and Hecuba—with two interlocking aims: to stage archetypal human emotion, and to confront and make sense of her own personal experiences of love, jealousy, aging, and loss. Inspired by psychoanalysis, Jungian archetypes, and the abstract art of collaborator Isamu Noguchi, Graham was drawn to Greek tragedy’s direct engagement with human suffering. What makes her reception radical is its consistent relocation of tragic conflict from the civic sphere to the psyche: rather than framing female transgression through public judgment, Graham turns the drama inward, giving visible form to what ancient texts leave unstaged—Jocasta’s embodied reckoning with unbearable knowledge, Clytemnestra’s interior logic of injury and justice, Phaedra’s unruly desire brought into full view. The article also introduces the public-facing initiative “Martha Graham & Greek Myth,” which extends this scholarship to broader audiences through presentations that integrate live dance with scholarly discussion, making Graham’s reception of these tragic women accessible beyond the academy. Full article

The prediction of thin-bedded, favorable sand bodies within the Middle-Lower Jurassic braided river delta–lacustrine succession of Block S (Amu Darya Right Bank) is challenging because of strong spatial heterogeneity, deep burial, and limited seismic resolution near the acoustic basement. To address this, we propose an integrated workflow that combines sedimentological characterization with geologically constrained seismic inversion. The study uses core, grain-size data, wireline logs, and 3D seismic surveys. Core–log–seismic integration first delineates three subfacies and nine numbered microfacies (MF1–MF9), with the delta front dominated by underwater distributary channels (MF1), mouth bars (MF2), and interdistributary bays (MF3). Planar microfacies distribution maps and electrofacies boundaries are then used as geological constraints for reservoir prediction. Steerable pyramid enhancement ($K=4$ scales, $N=6$ orientations) improves channel-reflection continuity, and PDF-regularized stochastic optimization inversion ($\lambda =0.8$) is performed to identify thin sand reservoirs. Sand-ratio and GR cutoffs were validated against 412 core–log contacts in five wells. Discretization sensitivity tests confirm stable inversion under 2 ms and 4 ms sampling. The results show that (1) favorable Type I and Type II reservoirs occur preferentially in MF1 and MF2 (average porosities of 12.7% and 10.1%, respectively); (2) vertically, two sand-rich progradational intervals (Lower Member and late Upper Member) are separated by a transgressive mud-prone middle–early Upper Member; and (3) inversion low-impedance anomalies delineate strip-like and lobate channel–mouth-bar sand belts with thickness up to 14 m, consistent with well control. Fault-controlled graben–horst paleotopography influenced sand fairway distribution. The workflow highlights the value of integrating sedimentary microfacies boundaries as geological constraints in seismic inversion for heterogeneous deep clastic gas reservoirs. Full article

Moral injury has been gaining increasing prominence as a means of understanding psychological suffering in response to moral transgressions. Despite repeated evidence of exposure to moral transgressions among those detained in forensic services, moral injury as a construct within this population has not been widely explored. This research aimed to explore the lived experience of moral injury in service users detained in a forensic healthcare setting. Interviews with six service users and eight practitioners were conducted. Three themes were identified using multi-perspective interpretive phenomenological analysis: the mutuality of moral injury, pathways to harm, and a road to healing. Findings identified a complex trajectory towards moral injury, which significantly affected service users’ cognitive and emotional processes. Results also highlighted the impact of moral injury on risk to self and others. Implications for practice and policy are considered. These include: the need for wider recognition of moral injury and its effects within formulations and assessments, collective responsibility to reduce feelings of shame, and greater opportunities to seek forgiveness and generate a sense of purpose. Full article

Organized youth sport has considerable potential to promote young people’s physical health, well-being, and personal and social development. However, these positive outcomes are not guaranteed. When sport environments are poorly structured, excessively performance-oriented, or inadequately supervised, participation may also lead to exclusion, excessive pressure, and other harmful experiences. Creating genuinely youth-centered sport environments is therefore essential, both to foster positive developmental outcomes and to prevent transgressive behavior. Despite growing attention to these issues, the field of youth sport lacks an overarching framework for the development of pedagogically sound, development-oriented, and socially safe sport environments. This study aimed to develop an overarching framework that integrates the developmental, motivational, and safeguarding dimensions of youth sport into one coherent model for creating optimal learning environments. Through an iterative process, a practice-based framework was developed, theoretically grounded, and initially operationalized. Early versions of the framework were subsequently examined for conceptual alignment through expert opinions, focus groups, and group discussions with existing European youth sport initiatives. This process resulted in the development of the Youth Sport Compass (YSC), a coherent conceptual and practical framework designed to support youth-centered and socially safe sport environments. Experts from different countries and disciplines considered the framework highly relevant, conceptually robust, and broadly applicable in practice. The YSC provides a strong conceptual and practical foundation for coaches, sport organizations, and policymakers seeking to create pedagogically sound, youth-centered, and socially safe sport environments. Although the YSC is firmly grounded in theory and practice, it has yet to be empirically validated. Further research is needed to assess its validity and practical effectiveness. Full article

Background: Heat exposure is a leading climate-related health threat, yet whether the heat–disease burden relationship is moderated by national adaptive capacity remains poorly quantified at the global level. We examined associations between heat exposure and cause-specific disability-adjusted life year (DALY) burden across climate vulnerability strata and projected future burden to 2050 under IPCC AR6 warming scenarios. Methods: We constructed a country–year panel spanning 187 countries and 34 years (1990–2023) by merging ERA5 reanalysis temperature data; GBD 2023 DALY rates for cardiovascular diseases (CVD), chronic kidney disease (CKD), and chronic respiratory diseases (CRD); ND-GAIN adaptive-capacity scores; and WHO GHO health system indicators. Countries were stratified into adaptive-capacity tertiles (Low: n = 63; Medium: n = 62; High: n = 62). We used two-way fixed-effects panel regression with country-clustered standard errors, a formal Chow test of slope equality, lagged exposure models, and a benefit-of-adaptation counterfactual. Future DALY burden was projected to 2030, 2045, and 2050 using country-specific ERA5 warming trends scaled to IPCC AR6 SSP scenario multipliers. Findings: The heat–CVD dose–response was 26 times larger in Low versus High adaptive-capacity countries (β = −346.2 vs. −13.1 DALY years per 100,000 per °C). The Chow test confirmed statistically significant slope heterogeneity across tertiles for all three outcomes (CVD: F = 22.0, p < 0.0001; CKD: F = 14.9, p < 0.0001; CRD: F = 9.4, p < 0.0001). CKD burden rose 47·8% globally between 1990 and 2023, with the strongest within-country heat–CKD association in Medium adaptive-capacity countries (β = −61.5, p < 0.0001). These findings were robust to lagged exposure specifications. Under SSP5-8.5 by 2050, Low adaptive-capacity countries face a projected CVD DALY rate change 23 times larger than High adaptive-capacity countries (−16.2% vs. −0.7%). Upgrading Low adaptive-capacity countries to High tertile standards would avert 15.6% of projected CVD DALY burden under SSP5-8.5 by 2050. Conclusions: Adaptive capacity substantially moderates the health consequences of heat exposure. The quantified benefit of adaptation investment—expressed as averted DALY burden—provides a direct metric for health-system strengthening and climate adaptation financing, particularly in low-income settings facing the steepest projected burden increases. These results position adaptive capacity as a critical social determinant of planetary health, linking Earth-system boundary transgression to inequitably distributed human disease burden across the global community. Full article

Background/Objectives: Advanced implant anchorage techniques are increasingly used to manage severe maxillary bone deficiency and to avoid extensive bone augmentation procedures. This case series report aimed to describe the canine bypass anchorage technique and to evaluate the short- to medium-term clinical outcomes and survival of implants placed using this approach. Materials and Methods: Thirteen patients presenting with missing maxillary premolars or posterior segments and insufficient alveolar bone height for conventional axial implant placement were treated using the canine bypass technique. A total of 19 long one-piece implants were inserted palatally to the canine root, engaging distant cortical bone of the nasal cavity and/or palatal alveolar process. Pre- and postoperative cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT) examinations were performed to assess implant positioning and anchorage. Patients were followed up to 3.5 years. Results: The mean follow-up period was 26.1 ± 10.8 months. Nasal cortical anchorage was achieved in 84.2% of implants, and palatal cortical anchorage in 73.7%; both anchorage types were obtained simultaneously in 57.9% of cases. The mean distance between the implant and canine root was 1.27 ± 1.4 mm (range: −1.0 to 4.5 mm), including cases of direct implant–tooth contact and periodontal ligament space transgression. All implants remained functional throughout the observation period, yielding a cumulative survival rate of 100%. Canine pulp vitality was preserved in all non-endodontically treated teeth. Conclusions: Within the limitations of this case series report, the canine bypass anchorage technique appears to be a feasible and minimally invasive treatment option for maxillary rehabilitation with implant-supported restoration in selected patients with severe bone deficiency, potentially allowing avoidance of sinus augmentation procedures. Further prospective studies with larger patient cohorts and longer follow-up periods are required to confirm the long-term safety, predictability, and clinical applicability of this approach. Full article

The Late Triassic Bolila Formation in the central Qiangtang Basin is a typical carbonate buildup deposited during a regional transgression in the eastern Tethyan realm. Understanding its sedimentary evolution and reservoir-forming mechanisms is crucial for hydrocarbon exploration. This study integrates petrology, detrital zircon U-Pb geochronology, carbon-oxygen isotopes, and reservoir property analysis of the Quemudongda section. The results show: (1) detrital zircon dating provides a maximum depositional age of 225.7–235.7 Ma (Carnian–Norian), correcting the previous Jurassic misassignment on the 1:250,000 geological map. Carbon-oxygen isotopes (average δ¹³C = +3.2‰, δ¹⁸O = −11.1‰) are consistent with the global Carnian–Norian positive δ¹³C excursion. (2) The section reveals a platform-margin reef (hexactinellid and calcareous sponges) and slump breccia (seven layers) association, representing a steep-rimmed carbonate platform margin. The sedimentary evolution comprises three stages: reef initiation, reef flourishing with frequent slumping, and reef decline with dolomitization. (3) Reservoirs are mainly breccia and reef dolostones, with intergranular, intercrystalline, and fracture-related pores. Porosity averages 2.8% (0.8%–7.2%), permeability averages 0.35 mD (0.001–8.5 mD), defining a low-porosity, ultra-low-permeability fracture-pore reservoir. Breccia dolostone has better properties (porosity 3.71%, permeability 2.412 mD). (4) Reservoir formation is controlled by sedimentation (platform-margin facies), diagenesis (dolomitization generates pores, but high-temperature recrystallization causes densification), and tectonics (microfractures enhance permeability). High-quality reservoirs occur where breccia dolostone and fractures overlap. (5) The Bolila reef-shoal complex and the overlying Bagong Formation source rocks form a “lower reservoir—upper source” assemblage, representing a new exploration target in the Tuonamu area. The breccia dolostone–fracture overlap zone is the core “sweet spot”. Full article

Contemporary health cultures increasingly promote disciplined eating and bodily optimisation, contributing to growing interest in orthorexia nervosa (ON), a pattern of restrictive eating characterised by an obsessive focus on food purity and health. While ON has been widely studied in relation to dietary restriction and health anxiety, less attention has been given to how individuals themselves construct meaning around these practices. The present qualitative study aimed to explore how individuals displaying orthorexic tendencies construct moral identity and self-worth through their dietary practices. Eighteen participants (13 women, 5 men; aged 19–58) living in the United Kingdom who self-identified as “healthy eaters” took part in semi-structured interviews. Data were analysed using reflexive thematic analysis within a social constructionist framework. Four themes were generated: (1) The Disciplined Self, describing how strict dietary practices were framed as evidence of personal control and self-regulation; (2) The Body as Evidence of Purity and Health, where physical appearance and bodily feelings were interpreted as confirmation of moral and dietary correctness; (3) Ethical Eating and Moral Positioning, illustrating how participants positioned their food choices as ethically superior; and (4) Guilt and Moral Repositioning, highlighting the moral emotions that followed perceived dietary transgressions. These findings suggest that orthorexic eating practices function not only as health behaviours but also as moral performances through which individuals construct disciplined, responsible, and virtuous identities. Understanding these moral and identity dimensions may help situate orthorexic tendencies within broader sociocultural narratives surrounding health, morality, and self-discipline. Full article

This study examines the transformation of religiosity among individuals who leave traditional Eastern madrasas in Turkey unfinished, focusing on the existential rupture between traditional religious education and modern secular life. While the madrasa institution has historically served as a primary site of religious formation and cultural production in the region, the transition to civil life has led to a significant reshaping of the relationship between faith and practice. Utilizing a qualitative research design, in-depth interviews were conducted with 13 male participants in Batman to explore the impact of institutional departure on individual belief systems. The findings suggest that a curriculum weighted toward grammar and the presence of intense social pressures can affect perceptions of the sacred, triggering a shift in the individual’s attitude toward religious boundaries. Crucially, not being in a position that represents the religious status relieves individuals of the burden of representation, fostering a sense of conscientious flexibility toward abandoning worship. The study identifies a post-secular typology of believing but indifferent, in which belief persists as an ontological comfort zone while losing its regulatory power over daily life. These results indicate that, in the context of madrasa dropout, secularization manifests as the ineffectiveness and worldliness of belief rather than its outright rejection. Full article

Contemporary bioethical debate over biotechnological enhancement, genetic engineering, prosthetics, and neuroenhancement largely takes place within a metaphysical framework inherited from post-Cartesian European philosophy. In this framework, humanity is essentially something received or given, and biotechnological intervention is a transgression against that givenness. This paper argues that medieval Islamic philosophy, particularly Ibn Tufail’s account of human environmental agency in Hayy Ibn Yaqzan and Maimonides’ integration of body and soul into a single moral–physical economy, offers conceptual resources that reframe this debate. According to the viewpoint developed here, the human is constitutively a self-shaping being whose formation is mediated through bodily and environmental conditions that the human reciprocally shapes. Biotechnology is therefore not a rupture in the human story but the latest expression of a perennial human practice. This reframing does not dissolve bioethical concern but relocates it: the question is not whether to engage in self-shaping (as we always have), but what forms of self-shaping conduce to the integrated flourishing of an embodied person. Full article

Genetic diversity analysis can contribute to comparing the relationships between different germplasm resources. Self-recombination is one of the main strategies for the innovation of germplasm resources. In this study, a total of 588 accessions, including two parents and their 586 F_2:4 recombinant individuals originated via the single seed descent (SSD) method, were used to explore the genetic diversity of 17 phenotypic traits. The results indicated that most traits of the recombinants represented continuous distribution and transgressive segregation, with their minimum and maximum values exceeding the parental ranges. Correlation analysis shows that 17 phenotypic traits could be roughly divided into three clusters. There was a significant correlation between traits in the same cluster, such as primary stem height, plant height, and plant canopy diameter in Cluster I; transverse diameter of fruit, fruit shape of apex, node pubescence density, and lamina transverse section morphology in Cluster II; and internode anthocyanin pigmentation, immature fruit color, and leaf color in Cluster III, respectively. The 586 recombinant individuals and two parents were generally clustered into three groups, Group I, Group II, and Group III, which contained 320, 226, and 42 recombinants, respectively. In addition, six principal components were extracted from the 17 phenotypic traits, which could explain 62.97% of the cumulative variance contribution. Importantly, ten recombinants with both purple and long fruit were screened as breeding materials. Overall, this study provides useful information and breeding materials for the utilization and innovation of pepper germplasm resources as well as genetic improvement of pepper. Full article