Deep-sea trawling is concentrated  on assessing fisheries, or in fishing; a combination of long hauls and a large mesh size results in a rather poor collection of soft-bodied invertebrates. In this contribution, we report upon the finding of the French-New Zealand Halipro 2 expedition, along the Norfolk and Loyalty Ridges, especially regarding the proposal of a new genus and description of a new species of polynoid polychaetes, Jimipolyeunoa richeri gen. n., sp. n. Jimipolyeunoa has over 50 body segments, with 21 pairs of elytra; it resembles Parapolyeunoa Barnich, Gambi and Fiege (2012), but they differ because in Jimipolyeunoa the prostomium lacks cephalic peaks (present in Parapolyeunoa), and its neurochaetae are unidentate or finely bidentate (clearly bidentate in Parapolyeunoa). Further, a parasitic copepod was found in one of the specimens, and it is described as Herpyllobius pleurotumoris sp. n., being unique by having the right side of ectosoma with single bulging tumour-like process on posterior third, adjacent to genital swellings.

In this paper, we build a theoretical framework to better understand the polycentric governance of global socio-ecological challenges through the lenses of meso-institutional analysis. Climate change, deforestation, pollinator decline, and loss of soil fertility are examples of complex socio-ecological challenges caused by anthropic pressures at a global scale. These challenges result in intractable social dilemmas and absent or weak macro-institutions, posing questions on how subsidiary mechanisms of coordination can be adopted in a polycentric governance approach. Building on the meso-institutional framework and socio-ecological systems framework, we investigate the emergence and establishment of multi-stakeholder partnerships (MSPs), where businesses, governments, and civil society organizations try to address global challenges. Recognizing meso-institutional functions in MSPs allowed us to expand our theorizing of the polycentric governance of global socio-ecological challenges, looking at nested, interrelated, and multi-layered relations between multiple actors and organizations.

Many of the most significant goods in human life are fleeting, fragile, and subject to loss. But this aspect of such goods, what I call their preciousness, is undertheorized. Here I provide an account of the nature of precious goods, and argue that this category of goods is significant. I argue that while the preciousness of goods is not a consistent contributor to their intrinsic value, preciousness nevertheless calls for a distinct attitudinal response on the part of rational agents: a focused, joyful attention I refer to as cherishing.

Previous studies on a variety of languages have demonstrated that manual gesture is temporally aligned with prosodic prominence. However, the majority of these studies have been conducted on languages with word-level stress. In this paper, we investigate the alignment of manual beat gestures to speech in local varieties of Standard Indonesian, a language whose word prosodic system has been the subject of conflicting claims. We focus on the varieties of Indonesian spoken in the eastern part of the archipelago and Java. Our findings reveal that there is a strong tendency to align gesture to penultimate syllables in the eastern variety and a tendency to align gesture to final syllables in the Javanese variety. Additionally, while the eastern patterns appear to be word based, the Javanese pattern shows evidence of being phrase based. Surprisingly, the penultimate syllable emerges as a gestural anchor in the eastern variety even for two of the three speakers who showed little to no regular prosodic prominence on this syllable. This suggests that gestural alignment may serve to uncover prosodic anchors even when they are not employed by the phonology proper.

This study investigates the influence of workplace conditions on job satisfaction, focusing on environmental, occupational safety, and social factors, paying particular attention to gender interactions. Drawing on the European Survey on Workplace Health, Wellbeing, and Quality of Work Life, data from 514 employees in local companies and public organizations across six Southern European countries were analysed using discrete choice regression models. The empirical findings identify ventilation, ergonomics, social spaces, and safety training as the strongest positive drivers of job satisfaction, while repetitive work negatively affects it. The results show that women, highly educated employees, and those with permanent contracts report higher job satisfaction, with female workers benefiting most from ergonomic improvements and safety equipment. Managers should therefore prioritize improvements in workplace conditions – particularly ventilation, ergonomics, safety training, and job stability – while integrating gender-sensitive approaches to strengthen both employees’ well-being and organisational performance.

Despite sophisticated pre-market scientific assessment frameworks, the EU lacks systematic post-market surveillance for botanical food supplements, creating a critical regulatory imbalance. This analysis examines real-world safety incidents that demonstrate how fragmented national responses and inadequate monitoring systems fail to protect consumers effectively. Several Member States have developed nutrivigilance initiatives yet remain uncoordinated and insufficient for union-wide risk detection. The existing framework exhibits a fundamental contradiction: Article 8 procedures under Regulation (EC) no 1925/2006 require scientific evidence of harm to justify restrictions, but no harmonised mechanism exists to systematically collect such evidence. Current tools like RASFF capture acute compositional violations but cannot monitor chronic health effects or supplement–medicine interactions that characterise modern botanical supplement risks. This paper argues that mandatory EU-wide nutrivigilance represents the missing institutional link needed to transform reactive crisis management into proactive risk prevention. A harmonised system built on centralised reporting, standardised causality assessment, and formal regulatory follow-through mechanisms would provide the evidence base necessary to develop Union-wide restrictive lists and support coherent enforcement under existing legal frameworks. Such reform would address the most glaring gap in EU food safety architecture and provide legal certainty for industry operators across the internal market.

This contribution presents a perceptual dialectology study conducted with 123 Albanian-speaking participants, who rated the correctness and pleasantness of speech around Albania. We investigate how ratings were modulated by three factors: a well-established dialectal division within Albania, relative urbanization across the country, and the participants’ dialect backgrounds. These three factors were found to interact in the correctness and pleasantness ratings given by the participants, which is generally consistent with previous perceptual dialectology studies conducted in other linguistic settings but also highlights some nuances and complexities in this relationship. While heavily urbanized centers in central Albania were rated as highly correct and pleasant independently from prior dialect descriptions or dialect background of the participants, in one dialect area, less urbanized counties were rated more pleasant. We argue that these insights from non-linguists could serve as starting point for future scientific inquiry.

We study generalised automata (in the sense of Adámek and Trnková) in Joyal’s category of (set-valued) combinatorial species, and as an important preliminary step, we study coalgebras for its derivative endofunctor $\partial$ and for the ‘Euler homogeneity operator’ $L\circ \partial$ arising from the adjunction $L\dashv \partial \dashv R$. The theory is connected with, and in fact provides relatively nontrivial examples of, differential 2-rigs, a notion recently introduced by the author putting combinatorial species on the same relation a generic (differential) semiring $(R,d)$ has with the (differential) semiring $\mathbb{N}[\![ X]\!]$ of power series with natural coefficients. The desire to study categories of ‘state machines’ valued in an ambient monoidal category $(\mathcal{K},\otimes )$ gives a pretext to further develop the abstract theory of differential 2-rigs, proving lifting theorems of a differential 2-rig structure from $(\mathcal{R},\partial )$ to the category of $\partial$-algebras on objects of $\mathcal{R}$ and to categories of Mealy automata valued in $(\mathcal{R},\otimes )$, as well as various constructions inspired by differential algebra such as jet spaces and modules of differential operators. These theorems adapt to various ‘species-like’ categories such as coloured species, $k$-vector species (both used in operad theory), linear species (introduced by Leroux to study combinatorial differential equations), Möbius species and others.

How did the Swedish labour movement – the Social Democratic Party (SAP) and the blue-collar union confederation, Landsorganisationen i Sverige (LO) – respond to the rise of the radical right-wing party (RRP) the Sweden Democrats (SD) between 2007 and 2018? To address this question, we conduct a chronological, qualitative analysis of textual sources to analyse not only the external responses but also the intra-organizational process that accompanied these responses. The article highlights the role of timing, as well as that of intra-organizational learning for understanding the nature, and indeed the efficacy, of externally observable responses by political actors to RRPs. The SAP and LO learned to acknowledge the outcomes of their past choices and then used this knowledge to adjust their future strategies. We argue that changes to strategy are therefore best understood as a chain of events rather than discrete episodes, and that securing internal consent for such strategic shifts represents a central task in this process.

The Cabinet customarily appoints Supreme Court Justices based on recommendations from the legal professional bodies in Japan. Previous studies have debated whether and to what extent the Cabinet has respected these recommendations or whether it has made political appointments based on its own preferences. This study examines all appointment cases to identify the extent to which the Cabinet followed or rejected these recommendations. It reveals that the Cabinet disregarded them in 25 out of 192 cases. Accordingly, the author argues that appointing Justices in Japan can be political and that the Cabinet has occasionally exercised its discretion to reject candidates.

For each of the four particle processes given by Dieker and Warren, we show the n-step transition kernels are given by the (dual) (weak) refined symmetric Grothendieck functions up to a simple overall factor. We do so by encoding the particle dynamics as the basis of free fermions first introduced by the first author, which we translate into deformed Schur operators acting on partitions. We provide a direct combinatorial proof of this relationship in each case, where the defining tableaux naturally describe the particle motions.

The organisation and financing of services dominate long-term care policy and research. This article argues for reorientation towards the social determinants of long-term care and the inequalities they generate. Building on Dahlgren and Whitehead’s influential equivalent for health, the article offers a framework for understanding how inequalities in long-term care need, access and experience are shaped by social networks, living and working conditions, services and policies, social norms, and political, economic and environmental conditions. International evidence on inequalities in need, access and experience is reviewed, and new analysis is presented for England, based on analysis of the Health Survey for England and the Adult Social Care Survey. Socio-economic inequalities are associated with steep gradients in need. Combined with unequal access to formal services, this results in more unmet need among disadvantaged people and a greater weight of responsibility on their family and friends. The final section explores the implications of a social determinants’ perspective for long-term care: addressing ‘upstream’ drivers of need (including social protection, housing and neighbourhood regeneration); inclusion and empowerment agendas; and ensuring that services effectively compensate for, rather than re-enforce, inequalities.

The present study examines how L1-English learners acquire Korean subject honorification – a system that is socio-pragmatic in interpretation but syntactically constrained. Using a multi-method design (corpus analysis, politeness ratings, and self-paced reading), we find that learners show increasing sensitivity to politeness norms yet limited awareness of morphosyntactic constraints. In corpus analysis, learners used subject honorification almost exclusively alongside addressee honorification, indicating limited functional differentiation. In politeness ratings, learners consistently associated the subject honorific suffix with greater politeness, regardless of subject type, diverging from native speakers’ judgments. In self-paced reading, learners were sensitive to semantic anomalies (e.g., inanimate subjects) but not to morphosyntactic violations. Together, these findings suggest that learners interpret the subject honorific suffix as a general politeness marker, likely due to its low cue validity and frequent co-occurrence with pragmatically salient features. Our results highlight how cue reliability and competition shape L2 acquisition pathways under conditions of noisy linguistic representations.

This article situates the Manchukuo Red Cross Society (MRCS) within the historiography of the Kwantung Army’s project to create an independent state in Northeast China, friction with Japanese interest groups already established in Manchuria, and the participation of ordinary Manchurians in state-sponsored organizations. It argues that the Kwantung Army’s sponsorship of a Manchukuo “national” Red Cross society reflected the accelerating pace of the Shinkyō government’s institutional development and pursuit of international recognition as a sovereign state. It also shows that the MRCS project encountered, and only partially overcame, opposition from on the one hand, the Japanese Red Cross Society (JRCS), which, since the Russo-Japanese War had established a strong institutional presence in Manchuria that it was reluctant to relinquish and, on the other hand, from the Geneva-based International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), whose president deferred to the Swiss Foreign Ministry and overrode senior staff in refusing the MRCS membership status. Nevertheless, once established, the MRCS developed into a multi-ethnic and multi-national humanitarian organization that mobilized both the Chinese population and the Japanese immigrant community, engaged with local governing authorities, and enlisted thousands of common people in the movement, and to this extent, furthered the Kwantung Army’s nation-building project.