A cohort study found that infant weight status had poor predictive value for later health-nurse-recorded concerns about language, development and well-being, despite some category-specific associations.
The study found reports of blurrier, more saturated and more dynamic vision after low-dose LSD, but no measurable change in its behavioral test of surround suppression.
A randomized colonoscopy trial reported lower anxiety with pink noise and lower pain with both noise types than with control, but it did not give numerical effect sizes.
A comparison of four Sub-Saharan African cases argues that evidence-informed policy depends on who helps shape, interpret and carry evidence into government, and on whether institutions create room for outside input.
Evidence & policy : a journal of research, debate and practice4 min read
The study found that physical-somatic complaints shaped depressive symptom scores after spinal cord injury, while changes in clinically relevant symptoms showed no apparent association with neurological or functional recovery.
Participants described a supportive group setting, while knowledge scores were higher after the sessions; the results offer short-term evidence about acceptability, not proof of lasting benefit.
Journal of intellectual disabilities : JOID4 min read
Teachers in France and Australia reported the strongest self-efficacy when professional-learning supplies exceeded their stated needs, while well-being was more closely tied to combining confidence with a strong sense of teaching’s social value.
Adolescents who reported more parental communication also reported fewer anxiety and depression symptoms, while paternal neglect was linked to more symptoms. The study also identified cognitive flexibility as the most consistent possible statistical pathway.
A review of 18 studies found low energy availability common among university athletes and often accompanied by disordered-eating indicators. Evidence for anxiety and depression was thinner, and the mostly cross-sectional research could not establish cause or direction.
A community-led web toolkit about crystal methamphetamine was viewed positively by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander beta testers, but the study measured acceptability rather than whether it changes health outcomes.
A Chongqing survey of 10,112 workers found wide industry differences in reported depressive, anxiety and combined symptoms, with physical pain and occupational stress showing the strongest adjusted associations.
Parents and caregivers in and around York described local mental-health support as insufficient, difficult to navigate and sometimes harmful, while calling for joined-up help for parents and children.
A PCD questionnaire found that social participation often involved extra planning, changes to free time and decisions about whether to disclose symptoms.
A theoretical economics paper develops a common-unit framework for interpersonal utility comparisons. Its results are conditional on mathematical assumptions, and an illustrative tax example gives different policy choices under two welfare criteria.
A theoretical preprint develops a PDE-based hedge for general one-dimensional diffusion markets and reports minimum hedging capital when an equivalent local martingale measure exists, while a no-ELMM simulation does not establish minimality.
A model of a local service economy finds that payroll-supported demand can make firms' technology choices reinforce one another, leaving expectations to shape whether automation or augmentation takes hold.
A theoretical preprint gives equivalent ways to recognize weak acyclicity in finite pure-strategy games, while showing that some perfect-information games can cycle under best-improvement moves yet still reach equilibrium along another path.
A preprint analysis links dual-class recapitalizations with higher valuation and patent-citation output, while unification is associated with lower valuation and declining citation output.
A formal two-trader economy produces exact equilibrium and convergence results, but its welfare claims are tied to a narrow feasible set and an unproved conjecture about trading order.
The paper models strategic altruism as Berge equilibrium and reports that it rules out some social choice goals on an unrestricted preference domain, while a restricted matching domain provides an exception.
A methods preprint compares data-compression model selection with standard criteria across simulations and three economic reanalyses, finding different recovery rates and model rankings.
A theoretical economics preprint examines whether a principal can delegate robustly when an agent's information distribution is unknown but its mean is known. It finds that a randomized upper cap can beat deterministic caps in the model, while the result remains conditional on quadratic loss, constant bias and the paper's stated assumptions.
A theoretical analysis says directed Kullback–Leibler divergences can characterize dominance between finite binary experiments when stopping depends on observed evidence, but it does not settle the same question beyond two states.
The study reports an intraspinal feedback circuit associated with zebrafish swimming synchronization and cohesive schooling, while simulations and a robot reproduced the pattern when feedback was enabled.
An arXiv preprint reports that the pace of change in S&P 500 co-movement is associated with the paper’s noncanonical volatility-premium measure. The relationship appears first in implied variance and later in realized variance, but the index did not improve the study’s timing comparison or act as a crash hedge.
An arXiv preprint offers a formal characterization of objective functions for ordinal or interval-scaled data. Under a common affine transformation rule, it says an adequate function must rely on one unique component, while city block and Euclidean dissimilarity measures remain adequate under a narrower transformation group.
A preprint reports that a daily LLM importance score could not affect later forecasts after calibration set all four weights to zero. A post-hoc signed repair found no familywise-corrected improvement, while headline count improved one SPY variance endpoint.
A qualitative study of Finnish health and social care leaders describes ethical leadership as a shared, context-dependent practice shaped by self-awareness, trust, organisational culture and the authority to act.
Leadership in health services (Bradford, England)4 min read