The rapid expansion of artificial intelligence has accelerated its adoption across organizational functions. However, existing reviews often adopt sectoral or technology-focused perspectives, limiting understanding of its implementation within core firm activities. This study addresses this gap through a systematic review of articles published in Web of Science and Scopus up to December 2025, following established methodological guidelines. A total of 160 peer-reviewed articles met the inclusion criteria. Findings reveal convergent patterns of adoption in human resources, marketing and customer services, logistics, and finance. Artificial intelligence enhances analytics, automates routine tasks, personalizes interactions, and supports decision-making. Human resources applications focus on recruitment and workforce planning; marketing relies on predictive analytics and conversational interfaces; logistics improves forecasting and supply chain resilience; finance strengthens risk assessment and process efficiency. The study proposes an integrative conceptual model and research propositions, highlighting cross-functional challenges in governance, organizational capabilities, socio-technical alignment, and responsible implementation.

The global order is undergoing significant transformations with far-reaching implications for international criminal justice. These shifts pose an existential challenge to core crimes accountability while re-shaping its pursuit. As the liberal order recedes, the International Criminal Court (ICC) faces a crisis driven by absolute sovereignty’s reassertion, weakened multilateral governance and increasing political and coercive pressures from powerful states. Simultaneously, these developments promote decentralised accountability, fostering the emergence of a polycentric system of international criminal justice. Trends in re-nationalisation, hybridisation and regionalisation align accountability with a more pluralistic, fluid global order. In this context, the ICC is not obsolete but requires a redefined role. While no longer the apex of international criminal justice, its existence remains crucial to addressing the risks of decentralised accountability. The Court, particularly its Office of the Prosecutor, should reconfigure strategies around positive complementarity, repositioning itself as a co-ordinating hub within this polycentric system.

Community-based archaeology does not always arrange itself cleanly into standard frameworks of practice. As archaeologists, our relationships with communities are situated and emergent. It stands to reason that our methods should be as well. Several years ago, as a graduate student at the start of a community-based project, I remember my anxious desire for a roadmap—a prescribed set of methods that would guide my work with and in community. Actual practice, however, demonstrated that roadmaps have little utility on this type of terrain. Community-based archaeology is rooted in relationship building as much as research design, and relationships push us to reorient how we do (and write about) archaeology. This article examines my on-the-ground and emergent experiences using three methods during a community-based project: (1) working with oral histories as narrative sources, (2) navigating community archives in the field, and (3) learning and applying close-range photogrammetry. I argue that examining how methods emerge and change during community-based projects is a valuable aspect of archaeological practice and that a narrative approach to discussing methodology allows us to interrogate how specific challenges push us to develop creative and interdisciplinary ways to do archaeology with others.

This article examines contemporary expressions of human to more-than-human interaction through the lens of technoenvironments, understood as evolving networks that bind non-animate and animate life together, shaped by mutual agency, care, and resistance. We relate technoenvironments both to multinatural cosmologies recounting mythical origins of human society in Southeast Asia through the union of mountains and the sea, and to modern approaches derived from contemporary feminist political ecology. We explore performative practices which express and shape understandings of the co-becoming of humans and more-than-humans at case studies in Indonesia and Vietnam. The first analyses an art performance in Yogyakarta Indonesia, where participants from different classes, genders, and educational backgrounds co-create mandalas articulating their imaginaries of organic agriculture. Beans, plantlets, soil and plastics became actants in their own right. The second case studies performative protests by diverse citizens of Hanoi - students, families with children, artists, and members of the LGBTQIA+ community - in response to plans to fell more than 6,000 trees. This challenged the hegemony of science-based discourse by affirming the mutual affective relationships between humans and trees. In both cases, living matter such as trees, plants, seeds, and soil becomes agents in the performative representation of people’s entanglements with their more-than-human environment. We compare the performativity of environmental protest and art along the dimensions of 1) representation, 2) creative expression, and 3) multispecies relations. To conclude, we reflect on how the cosmologies of Southeast Asia inform current multispecies relationships in the context of technoenvironments both in Indonesia and Vietnam.

This paper explores the inductive logic associated with exponential smoothing, the most widely used predictive rule that manifests the idea that more recent observations have a stronger influence on predictive probabilities than more remote ones. The main result shows that exponential smoothing can be derived from a set of plausible qualitative invariance assumptions about conditional probabilities. I discuss various aspects of the resulting inductive logic, including its connections to exchangeable processes, to Bayesian predictive inference and kernel methods in machine learning, as well as the philosophy of probabilistic invariance conditions and symmetries.

The southwestern Atlantic margin plays a crucial role in understanding ocean circulation, with the Brazil Current (BC) driving surface flow and various water masses (TW, SACW, AAIW, UCDW, NADW, LCDW) influencing different depths. The Santos Basin, a marginal basin formed following the breakup of Gondwana, remains understudied with respect to late Quaternary sedimentary processes, and the recent literature offers conflicting interpretations of sediment sources and depositional processes. Additionally, radiocarbon data for this region are scarce, and calibration uncertainties and regional reservoir effects have limited previous studies. This study compiles a comprehensive radiocarbon dataset (264 datings from 70 sediment cores) for the upper to middle slope of the Santos Basin (120–2000 mbsl), combining published and unpublished data (69 new ages). Previously published ages were recalibrated using Marine20 and SHCal20 curves, applying a regional ΔR correction. The dataset, showing minimal age inversions, provides a robust foundation for future research on late Quaternary sedimentary and paleoenvironmental dynamics in the southwestern Atlantic.

We continue our investigation of the fractal uncertainty principle (FUP) for random fractal sets. In the prequel Eswarathasan and Han [‘Fractal uncertainty principle for discrete Cantor sets with random alphabet’, Math. Res. Lett. 30(6) (2023), 1657–1679], we considered the Cantor sets in the discrete setting with alphabets randomly chosen from a base of digits so the dimension $\delta \in (0,\frac 23)$. We proved that, with overwhelming probability, the FUP with an exponent $\ge \frac 12-\frac 34\delta -\varepsilon $ holds for these discrete Cantor sets with random alphabets. In this paper, we construct random Cantor sets with dimension $\delta \in (0,\frac 23)$ in $\mathbb {R}$ via a different random procedure from the previous one used in Eswarathasan and Han [‘Fractal uncertainty principle for discrete Cantor sets with random alphabet’, Math. Res. Lett. 30(6) (2023), 1657–1679]. We prove that, with overwhelming probability, the FUP with an exponent $\ge \frac 12-\frac 34\delta -\varepsilon $ holds. The proof follows from establishing a Fourier decay estimate of the corresponding random Cantor measures, which is in turn based on a concentration of measure phenomenon in an appropriate probability space for the random Cantor sets.

Auditory hallucinations (AH) frequently persist in schizophrenia spectrum disorder despite antipsychotic treatment. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) remains an established psychological intervention, whereas AVATAR (Audio Visual Assisted Therapy Aid for Refractory auditory hallucinations) therapy has recently been introduced as a novel approach integrating interactive digital avatars. This meta-analysis compared the efficacy of AVATAR therapy with CBT for medication-resistant AH. A systematic search of five major databases up to June 1, 2025 identified randomized controlled trials (RCTs) that evaluated either therapy. The primary outcome was AH severity, and secondary outcomes included psychotic symptoms, mood measures, and all-cause discontinuation. Twenty-six RCTs (n = 2273; 65.0% male; mean age 39.3 [SD 4.1] years) met inclusion criteria. Compared with CBT, AVATAR therapy showed no significantly greater reduction in AH severity (standardized mean difference [SMD] = −0.23, 95% confidence interval [CI] = −0.55 to 0.10). However, it demonstrated superior sustained improvement three months post-treatment (SMD = −0.37, 95% CI = −0.69 to −0.05) and greater reduction in overall psychotic symptoms (SMD = −0.41, 95% CI = −0.75 to −0.06). No significant differences were observed in positive, negative, depressive, anxiety, or quality-of-life outcomes, and discontinuation rates were comparable. Interpretation should be cautious given evidence of small-study effects (Egger’s tests p < 0.01 for AH severity) and predominantly moderate-to-high risk of bias across included trials. AVATAR therapy therefore shows lasting efficacy, comparable or slightly superior to CBT, and may serve as an alternative for patients with medication-resistant AH.

Over a decade of conflict has ruptured protective layers for children, adolescents and caregivers in Syria, resulting in heightened mental health and psychosocial support (MHPSS) needs. Despite growing recognition of the potential of MHPSS in conflict zones, there are few documented cases of integrated, intergenerational programmes that work with children and their caregivers in parallel to strengthen child socio-emotional skills and the caregiving environment at scale. This study examines two nationally implemented MHPSS programmes, Sawa (“Together”) for children aged 6–17 years and Sanadi (“My Rock”) for their caregivers, co-created with families and delivered across Syria. Through a mixed-methods approach, early results suggest strong potential for intergenerational, trauma-informed, community-based MHPSS interventions in strengthening emotional regulation, relational communication and responsive caregiving among families living through armed conflict and protracted crisis.

The ventral structure of the trilobite family Lichakephalidae has hitherto been mainly inferred. A new discovery of a nearly complete internal mold of Archikainella vomerinus Liu, 1982, from the Sandu Formation (Cambrian, Furongian) of South China, shows its rostral plate and conterminant hypostomal condition. It is the first identified lichakephalid rostral plate. The conterminant hypostomal condition of this lichakephalid specimen is similar to that of the more derived Lichidae and supports the hypothesis that lichakephalid trilobites are a primitive group of lichids.

In a well-known scene from Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo (1958), the audience discovers that one of the main characters, Madeleine, closely resembles an imaginary character in a painting, allegedly portraying her maternal great-grandmother, Carlotta. Madeleine believes she is possessed by Carlotta, a conviction that arouses the curiosity of John – a former lawyer and police officer – hired by Madeleine’s husband to secretly follow her. Other than the portrait, Carlotta never appears physically on screen; her spectral presence is conveyed solely through composer Bernard Herrmann’s haunting musical theme. In other words, a non-diegetic element – the musical score – assumes an indirect diegetic function, as it emerges whenever Carlotta’s ‘presence’ is suggested in the scene. Herrmann’s music cannot be heard by the characters within the filmic world, but it exists in a liminal space: it translates into audible music for the audience the inevitable spectral energy felt by Madeleine and John. The painting of Carlotta functions as a gravitational centre around which multiple storylines unfold. It also offers the music an opportunity to play an active narrative role. Something similar happens in Lydia Goehr’s Red Sea, Red Square, Red Thread, which likewise takes a story about a painting as a starting point for intermedial narrative interplay. In the books under discussion here, the visual returns time and again as an anchor for the relationship between operatic fantasy and quotidian life.

A review of the material within the detached seals (Sceaux détachés) section of the Archives nationales (Paris) recently led to the discovery of a well-preserved, detached impression of the seal of Edward the Confessor. Although the impression in question was already known to scholars, it had been registered as missing since the 1980s and presumed lost. The authors take the opportunity of its felicitous rediscovery to discuss the impression, its iconography and its wider documentary context. As a pendant majesty seal, the impression attests to the adoption of new iconographic motifs and sealing practices in England in the immediately pre-Conquest years. Yet in adjusting these for use on the writ-charter – itself a distinctively English innovation – the seal is also highly innovative, pointing toward future developments in both British and continental European diplomatic.