Volcanic monitoring in Antarctica provides dual benefits by facilitating the study of highly volcanically active yet underexplored regions and by serving as an essential tool for maintaining the safety of both national and international Antarctic bases. Deception Island, one of the most volcanically active areas on the Antarctic continent, is now equipped with an enhanced monitoring system, modernized by the Spanish National Geographic Institute (IGN), which assumed its management in September 2020, pursuant to a protocol established between the Spanish Ministry of Transport, Mobility, and Urban Agenda and Ministry of Science and Innovation. In order to meet the challenging conditions of the polar region, six permanent stainless-steel shelters have been installed over the course of the last four Spanish Antarctic campaigns. Each shelter is outfitted with batteries, solar panels, Wi-Fi and data acquisition systems for seismic and Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) stations. This monitoring network also comprises a station dedicated to measuring temperature within a thermal located where there is the anomaly on the island, a visual surveillance camera, seven seismic stations and six GNSS stations. All data collected are transmitted in real time to IGN headquarters in Madrid through Gabriel de Castilla Base, operated by the Spanish Army. Due to the growing volume of recorded data, it became necessary to upgrade transmission systems, leading to the installation of a next-generation satellite telemetry system during the 2023–2024 campaign. All seismic information is continuously and immediately analysed by the IGN’s National Seismic Network and is stored at the National Polar Data Center, housed within the Marine Technical Unit of the Spanish National Research Council, in accordance with the guidelines of the Spanish Polar Committee. The establishment of this infrastructure on Deception Island delivers a robust operational model that can be replicated in other polar settings, thereby contributing to the advancement of volcanic monitoring across the continent.

Electronic monitoring emerged as a common practice in the post pandemic telework. Whereas existing research has mainly focused on the effects of this work model on individual performance and well-being, it has overlooked how specific circumstances, such as new control dynamics, can influence employees’ behaviors. We cover this gap by investigating the relationship between electronic monitoring in telework – including its clarification by the organization and the access to data by employees – and psychological safety, which is associated with key performance behaviors such as learning, voice and knowledge-sharing. Quantitative data collected through an online survey with 382 hybrid and remote workers were analyzed. Results indicate no statistically significant differences in psychological safety levels between monitored and unmonitored groups. However, additional analyses suggest that how monitoring is implemented can be key to keeping psychological safety levels, resulting in actionable recommendations for managers and organizations to enhance telework implementation.

Relapse following electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) remains a significant clinical challenge despite continuation of pharmacotherapy. We performed a systematic review and meta-analysis (PROSPERO CRD420251000113) of the efficacy and acceptability of continuation ECT (cECT) combined with pharmacotherapy compared to pharmacotherapy alone for relapse prevention following an acute course of ECT for depression. We searched PubMed, Embase, Web of Science, and CENTRAL databases for randomized controlled trials enrolling adults diagnosed with a unipolar or bipolar major depressive episode, who met remission or response criteria after an acute course of ECT and who were subsequently randomized to cECT with pharmacotherapy versus pharmacotherapy alone. The efficacy outcome was the cumulative relapse rate at 6-month follow-up. Data were synthesized using random-effects meta-analyses with effect sizes expressed as relative risks (RRs) with 95% confidence intervals (CIs). Four trials (n = 254) met the inclusion criteria. cECT combined with pharmacotherapy significantly reduced relapse compared to pharmacotherapy alone (RR = 0.57, 95% CI = 0.37–0.88; I2 = 0%; number needed to treat = 7). Sensitivity analyses consistently supported the superiority of cECT under all examined dropout scenarios and analytic approaches. Acceptability, measured by all-cause dropout, was similar between the groups (RR = 1.12; 95% CI = 0.48–2.62; I2 = 0%). cECT combined with pharmacotherapy significantly reduces the RR of relapse by 43% compared to pharmacotherapy alone without compromising acceptability. These findings reinforce the role of cECT as a valuable relapse prevention strategy following successful acute ECT and highlight the need for larger, multicenter trials to further optimize post-ECT prophylaxis.

Thick concepts have both descriptive and evaluative dimensions to their meaning. Some have argued that because the descriptive and evaluative dimensions cannot be separated (they are “blended”), the implicit values influence the confirmation of any “mixed claims’’ containing the thick concept. Using the development of the concept of hypersegregation as a case study, we argue for a distinction between the semantic function of definitions and the epistemic function of indicators. While thick concepts are semantically blended, the evaluative meaning of a thick concept does not influence the function of epistemic indicators. Therefore, mixed claims can and should be tested impartially.

We present ASP Chef Mustache, an extension of ASP Chef that enhances template-based rendering of answer set programming (ASP) solutions using a logic-less templating system inspired by Mustache. Our approach integrates data visualization frameworks such as Tabulator, Chart.js, and vis.js, enabling interactive representations of ASP interpretations as tables, charts, and graphs. Mustache queries in templates support advanced constructs for formatting, sorting, and multi-stage expansion, facilitating the generation of rich, structured outputs. We demonstrate the power of this framework through a series of use cases, including data analysis for the Italian VQR, visualization of blocking sets in graphs, and scheduling problems. The result is a versatile tool for bridging declarative problem solving and modern web-based visual analytics.

Rudd (2025) submitted a comment on our recent editorial, which highlights the widespread lack of access to evidence-based psychological treatment (EBT) in psychiatric inpatient care and encourages increased efforts to study adaptations of existing EBTs for this setting (Hawes, Marcello, & Kleiman, 2025). In our editorial, we specifically call for investment in inpatient group therapy, as this is the dominant mode of psychological treatment in psychiatric hospitals due to limited staff availability coupled with a lack of reimbursement incentives for individual therapy. Rudd offers a compelling case for the consideration of problem-specific and strategic treatment add-ons adapted from existing EBTs for inpatient care, such as his adaptation of brief cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) for suicide prevention for inpatient care (BCBT-I). BCBT-I is an abbreviated version of a one-on-one outpatient EBT that produced comparable reductions in posttreatment suicide risk to the full protocol (Diefenbach et al., 2024). We agree that existing EBTs that can serve as efficient add-ons to traditional care, such as BCBT-I, can offer a compelling avenue for improving inpatient care. We view adaptations of EBTs for group therapy and strategic add-on formats as complementary and overlapping strategies that together address the ongoing crisis in inpatient care. In this article, we elaborate on the challenges in adapting EBTs for acute settings and how nontraditional treatment models, like strategic treatment add-ons and open, stand-alone single-session groups, can address these challenges.

Using data from 74 countries, we uncover important differences in the association between financial literacy and preferences by the level of economic development. Patience is salient and positively associated to financial literacy in wealthier countries, i.e., countries with GDP per capita above the sample median. This association is not driven by a multitude of institutional or cultural factors known to be related to financial literacy. In impoverished countries, we document a higher level of financial literacy in countries with higher levels of risk-taking but lower levels of trust, positive reciprocity, and altruism. Countries’ legal origin drives most of the association with risk-taking, trust, and positive reciprocity while their religious composition drives the association between altruism and financial knowledge. Our findings underscore that financial education programs need to be tailored to the cultural aspect of group preferences and suggest what type of traits policies and programs ought to be reinforced in poorer countries.

Scholars who have deliberated on trade union density decline have paid scant attention to the diminished importance of organised labour’s capacity to stabilise markets by harmonising wage growth and total factor productivity. We underscore the significance of this omission by documenting how interwar US scientific management theorists and practitioners enhanced unions’ ability to stabilise markets in an era of high productivity growth, and in so doing helped build union numbers and influence. We argue, moreover, that once the productivity wave ended, employers and the US state came to view unions as a source of stagflation, conflict, and inefficiency. This development was particularly pronounced in nations with adversarial pluralist industrial relations regimes rather than the democratic corporatist agenda advocated by Frederick Taylor and his acolytes. We conclude that in an era characterised by revitalised support for knowledge-intensive reindustrialisation, revisiting the scientific managers’ agenda might assist trade union renewal.

This article reconstructs the mining practices and social activities of Chinese migrants in Maliwun, a tin-rich Burmese village on the Siam-Burma border between the 1840s and 1890s. Despite its natural resources and repeated mining attempts by various stakeholders, Maliwun could not materialise its potential and was slow in tin production and community development throughout this period. By focusing on the internal dynamics among its Chinese miners, especially around the rivalling Chinese “secret societies,” this article situates the frontier mining settlement within a larger regional network of the Southeast Asian Chinese and traces its Chinese community’s evolving relationships with fellow countrymen along the southern Siamese and northern Malayan coastlines. It argues that grassroots organisations played a crucial role in the early formation of this frontier Chinese migrant community, which was sitting at the intersection of political, labour, resource, gender, and ethnic frontiers and exhibited key features of fluid boundaries and transnational networks. Yet, these impacts should not be overstated, individually or collectively. The slow development of Maliwun calls for a careful reassessment of the limitation of roles played by porous borders, hybrid interactions, and transnational networks at a historic frontier.

The transformation of the Birnirk culture into the Thule culture is essential in reconstructing the emergence of modern Inuit across Alaska and the larger Bering Strait. To this end, two adjacent semi-subterranean houses of late Birnirk and early Thule affiliation, respectively, at the Rising Whale (KTZ-304) site at Cape Espenberg were recently excavated and dated by radiocarbon and tree-ring measurements. We present the Bayesian analysis of the resulting large series of dates, demonstrating the lack of contemporaneity between the two features: the Birnirk house was occupied in the late twelfth to early thirteenth centuries AD, whereas the occupation of the Thule house occurred in the second half of the thirteenth into the early fourteenth century. With the increased precision made possible by coupling dendrochronology with radiocarbon, our results place the Birnirk-Thule transition more that 200 years later than the generally accepted date of AD 1000. A transition in the second half of the thirteenth century has major implications for the timing of Thule presence along the coast of Alaska and for their migration into the Alaska interior. It aligns with a thirteenth-century migration into the western Canadian Arctic and farther east and a brief early or “initial” Thule period.