The secondary literature on Hannah Arendt and Eric Voegelin’s 1953 debate on totalitarianism is in general agreement that these two thinkers offer fundamentally irreconcilable accounts of the phenomenon. This article adds to the literature on this debate by employing a broader temporal frame of analysis. I argue that, when viewed over the longer arc of their development, these thinkers converge in how they approach some of the moral questions associated with totalitarianism. This is especially evident in their reactions to resurgent questions of “German guilt” that arose in the early 1960s. Arendt’s “reality as such” and Voegelin’s “first reality” converge on what I call “moral reality.” Both ultimately treated totalitarianism as, in part, a moral catastrophe insofar as it entailed a loss of this sense of moral participation.

The consumption of ultra-processed food (UPF) has been linked to bone metabolism in adults, but its impact on bone mineral density (BMD) in children and adolescents remains unclear.This study analyzed data from 4,809 children and adolescents aged 8 to 19 years, drawn from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) 2011-2018. UPF intake was categorized according to the NOVA classification system, with the percentage of energy derived from UPF divided into quartiles (Q1-Q4). A weighted multiple linear regression model was used to examine the relationship between UPF intake and Lumbar spine BMD(LSBMD) and Subtotal BMD(SBMD). Stratified analyses were conducted to explore associations across various subgroups.The results indicated that UPF intake was positively associated with LSBMD. This association was significant in girls for both LSBMD and SBMD. Positive correlations with LSBMD also emerged in 12-15 years old and specific subgroups. Moreover, mediation analysis showed TC mediated 4.8% of the UPF—LSBMD link, and HDL-C mediated 0.9% of the UPF—SBMD one.These findings indicate that UPF intake is associated with increased BMD in children and adolescents. Future research should further investigate the complex effects of UPF on the health of this population.

Public input can provide state agencies with critical information as they adopt health-shaping rules. However, generating meaningful public input is challenging. State administrative procedure acts set out how state agencies must make rules and establish notice and comment processes to seek input into rulemaking. Notice and comment, though, is not conducive to meaningful public input. To enhance public input into state rules, government entities should not limit their engagement to notice and comment and should deploy, and maybe even amend, rulemaking processes to facilitate public input. Meanwhile, advocates and community members should prioritize state rulemaking, in all its phases, as part of their advocacy efforts.

This article examines the semiotics of epistemic politics surrounding climate change denial on Tangier Island, Virginia, a shrinking inhabited island in the Chesapeake Bay, USA. Using long-term ethnographic field research, the paper analyzes how islanders’ professed disbelief in climate change functions not as ignorance but as political and poetic positioning. Denial is treated as a symbolic act, not reducible to misinformation or scientific illiteracy, but shaped by classed and embodied relations with state knowledge regimes, media discourses, and environmental governance. Drawing on Peirce’s pragmatism and Jakobson’s poetics, the article frames climate denial as both an imposed stereotype from without and an identification strategy from within, connected to multiply indexed relationships. To that end, the article advances a semiotic approach to climate politics that centers affect, professed belief (creed) and epistemic stratification.

The geologically oldest known crinoid pentacrinoid larva is reported from Verulam Formation (Katian) from the Lafarge Cannifton Agg Quarry in Cannifton, Ontario, Canada. The entire specimen (arms, aboral cup, and incomplete column) is ~4.2 mm high with the aboral cup only ~1.3 mm high. The specimen is comparable in size to the early pentacrinoid larva of the living crinoid Metacrinus rotundatus Carpenter, 1885. As known, the morphology of this pentacrinoid larva does not correspond in all details with any adult crinoid in the Cannifton area or from the nearby Brechin Lagerstätte fauna, suggesting that considerable morphological change occurred during ontogeny of this taxon.

We establish a fixed-point theorem for the face maps that consist in deleting the ith entry of an ordered set. Furthermore, we show that there exists random finite sets of integers that are almost invariant under such deletions. Consequences for various monoids of order-preserving transformations of $\mathbf{N}$ are discussed in an appendix.

Precision applications are gaining interest as a sustainable approach to managing turfgrass pests. For instance, controlling turfgrass weeds with precision application could effectively reduce herbicide volume without sacrificing weed control. Machine learning models have been a common method for precision application, but machine learning requires intensive labor and expertise to collect and label imagery. The objective of this study was to develop and test a new system utilizing the Dark Green Color Index (DGCI) for precision application of glyphosate to detect and spray winter weeds in dormant bermudagrass systems. For this study, a sprayer prototype was constructed that utilized machine vision and DGCI. The prototype consisted of three primary components: 1) a camera that streamed video frames, 2) a control system that stored computer code focused on the integration of DGCI, and 3) solenoid valves that activated upon detection of winter weeds in dormant bermudagrass. Four field trials with different weed species and weed densities were established to test the DGCI system amongst traditional application methods (i.e., broadcast application and manual spot application with a backpack sprayer). In the lowest weed-density scenario, the DGCI system accurately detected and sprayed 90% of the weed population, reducing herbicide volume by 62% compared to a broadcast application. Additionally, the DGCI system required less time for treatment than the spot application with a backpack sprayer. The results from these trials suggest that vegetative indices, such as DGCI, have potential in dormant bermudagrass systems to optimize herbicide volume.

Vietnam’s foreign policy – centred on multilateralisation, diversification, and international integration – has transformed the country’s economic fortunes and elevated its international standing. Throughout the Doi Moi era, Vietnam has cultivated a strong network of bilateral and multilateral frameworks to further its economic aspirations and protect its national sovereignty. It has leveraged astute diplomacy to navigate challenges and seize opportunities. Since the Thirteenth National Party Congress, which set a goal for Vietnam to become a developed nation by 2045, these challenges have become increasingly pronounced. Protectionism, great-power politics, an undermining of the rules-based order, ever-present tensions in the South China Sea, as well as pandemic- and war-related disruptions to supply chains, have complicated Vietnam’s quest for national security and its effort to ensure peace and stability in pursuit of its economic targets. Amidst such a fraught environment, strategic autonomy has become a buzzword among smaller states that seek to maintain the benefits of interdependence while actively alleviating the risks associated with heightened geopolitical tensions and dependent relationships. Scholars of Vietnamese foreign policy likewise argue that Vietnam’s foreign policy seeks to bolster its strategic autonomy. However, little effort has been made to clarify what exactly this entails. The present study defines the concept in the Vietnamese context by asking, “Where and how does Vietnam seek to strengthen its strategic autonomy?” It argues that Vietnam’s pursuit rests on three core components, which it examines through Vietnam’s responses to US–China rivalry, the Russia–Ukraine war, and the country’s evolving approach to infrastructure development, energy security, and foreign direct investment.

Phenomenon-based research involves uncovering context-specific mechanisms underlying complex organizational realities and, when applied to Chinese contexts, offers valuable potential to extend and refine global management theories. Drawing on three illustrative studies on person–environment fit (Chuang, Hsu, Wang, & Judge, 2015), CEO humility (Ou, Waldman, & Peterson, 2014), and authoritarian leadership (Huang, Chiu, Lam, & Farh, 2015) respectively, this editorial highlights how each exemplifies different stages in the evolution of theories, from indigenous, middle-range insights to universal, general frameworks. In doing so, it addresses challenges and potential solutions for publishing phenomenon-based Chinese management research in premier journals. Across these cases, several recurring challenges emerge, including difficulties in positioning context-specific findings within existing theoretical frameworks, translating culturally embedded constructs for international audiences, and balancing cultural authenticity with global understanding. The authors also reflect on practical challenges such as building research partnerships and gaining organizational support within Chinese contexts. By comparing experiences across these studies, this editorial offers guidance on how phenomenon-based research can deepen theoretical innovation while maintaining methodological rigor and practical relevance. Lastly, it argues that Chinese management research plays a vital role in advancing universal management knowledge and offers opportunities for future research.

A handful of planetary systems hosting a Hot Jupiter have been subsequently found to also host long-period giant planets. These “cold Jupiters,” giant planets residing beyond the snow line (∼3au), play an important role in the dynamical evolution of the system as a whole. In this work, we investigate the detectability of cold Jupiters around a sample of 28 well-studied Hot Jupiter host stars to estimate the occurrence rate of this distinctive system architecture. We perform extensive simulations using the combination of all publicly available radial velocity (RV) data for those stars with synthetic RV data. The synthetic data test observing strategies along three axes: cadence, duration, and measurement precision. For each scenario, we determine detection limits based on the semi-major axis at which a 1 Jupiter mass planet would be recovered 50% of the time. We find the following: 1) the existing RV data are remarkably insensitive to these Hot Jupiter/Cold Jupiter pairs; 2) the total baseline over which an observational campaign is carried out is the dominant factor in our ability to detect cold Jupiters; and 3) the results are relatively insensitive to the individual RV measurement precision. We conclude that metre-class telescopes with lower RV precision are ideally suited to surveying Hot Jupiter-cold Jupiter systems.

Armed conflicts in biodiversity hotspots across Africa significantly threaten conservation efforts. The incursion of armed groups since 2017 in the W–Arly–Pendjari Complex in Benin, Niger and Burkina Faso poses a severe threat to conservation efforts in one of West Africa’s largest transboundary natural World Heritage sites. Local conservation managers often have no clear strategies to address such threats. A better understanding of the key drivers of the armed conflict would help them to respond quickly and effectively using adaptive management approaches. We used the participative Delphi technique to identify the factors driving the conflict, the key players contributing to security threats in the region and the stakeholders who could contribute to solving the conservation issues linked to the security crisis. A panel of 20 experts identified the main drivers of the insecurity to be political, economic and social, especially the vulnerability and marginalization of local communities as a consequence of weak government control and limited resources. Violent extremist groups, particularly Jama’at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin, pose significant threats to conservation efforts in the region, which our results suggest would be best addressed through military action and regional cooperation to combat terrorism. We recommend that conservation managers adopt a community-focused strategy to reduce the vulnerability of forest-dependent communities and counter local alliances with Jama’at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin. Our findings contribute to a wider understanding of how the growing threat of violent extremist groups can negatively affect protected areas and what steps should be taken to counter this.

The emerging field of critical forest studies necessitates more-than-human approaches to knowledge creation with forestscapes that makes their complex and expansive relationships sensible. This calls for a new ecological reading of the research image, and in turn, a new image of research which attends to Indigenous and place-based connections across bodies, geographies and temporalities. This paper explores this new political ontology of the image as a process of ecologisation that works towards decolonising ends. By putting machine imaging technologies such as drone footage, thermal imaging and spectrograms into conversation with Indigenous painting and storytelling practices, we endeavour to express ecological processes which often go unseen within forests. Our speculative analysis of these images disrupts modernist separations of difference from sameness, body from environment, myth from science and imagining from empirical fact, proposing pedagogies which connect material and metaphysical dimensions of sensing and learning with forests.

Despite extensive research on discrimination, little is known about how disclosing invisible attributes, such as religion, socio-economic class, and sexual orientation, affects others’ discriminatory attitudes. This study examines the case of Zainichi Koreans in Japan, descendants of Korean migrants who remained in Japan after World War II under special permanent residency status. Zainichi Koreans face a dilemma: whether to disclose their ethnic identity by using a Korean name (honmy$\bar o$) or attempt to conceal it with a Japanese pseudonym (ts$\bar u$mei). Using two conjoint experiments with hypothetical job applicants, we find strong discriminatory attitudes against Zainichi Koreans based solely on their names. However, these biases are significantly reduced among individuals with frequent social contact with Zainichi Koreans. Our findings underscore the need to further move beyond visible attributes in research on discrimination and social contact. More broadly, this study provides a framework for examining bias against invisible identities in diverse global contexts.