Modeling Flood-Induced Cascading Disruptions in the Indian Electronics Supply Chain Using Influence Network Analysis

This study investigates flood induced disruptions in the Indian electronics supply chain using influence network analysis. Monsoon floods are recurring hazards that significantly impact economic activities, logistics, and industrial productivity. This study integrates district-level rainfall data (2020 to 2025) with supply chain network models to quantify cascading failures. The methodology applies rainfall thresholds (≥ 300 mm/month) to identify flood-prone districts and constructs a stochastic influence matrix representing inter-firm dependencies. Flood propagation dynamics are modeled iteratively with a propagation coefficient (α = 0.6) and convergence threshold (ε = 10⁻⁴). The resulting disruption profiles are mapped onto company-level revenues calibrated to India-specific scales, adjusted for disruption durations (two months per year). This approach produces district and company-level economic loss estimates consistent with observed flood impacts (e.g., Chennai 2015 flood losses of USD 3 to 5 billion). Key contributions include linking meteorological hazards to systemic supply chain failures, demonstrating economic vulnerabilities at district and sectoral scales, and providing a framework for resilience planning

Regional Drought Modulation by ENSO and IOD as Indicated by the Standardized Precipitation Index

Understanding the modulation of drought by large-scale ocean–atmosphere teleconnections is crucial for strengthening drought prediction and resilience in India. This study investigates the influence of the El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO) and the Indian Ocean Dipole (IOD) on meteorological drought characteristics across India from 1950 to 2024 using the Standardized Precipitation Index (SPI) at a 12-month timescale. Drought events were quantified in terms of frequency, duration, severity, and intensity and linked to ENSO–IOD variability through composite, correlation, and mediation analyses. Results reveal that El Niño events consistently correspond to widespread and severe droughts, particularly over central and southern India, with drought frequency exceeding 30% and SPI \u3c −1.5. Conversely, La Niña phases enhance monsoon rainfall and alleviate drought conditions across much of the subcontinent. Spatial correlations demonstrate that ENSO exerts a stronger, more coherent influence on both rainfall and SPI than the IOD, while positive IOD phases can partly offset El Niño-driven drought in limited regions. Mediation and wavelet coherence analyses confirm ENSO’s dominant control at interannual (4–8 year) timescales and reveal secondary, episodic modulation by the IOD. These findings highlight the complex, evolving dynamics between Pacific and Indian Ocean drivers in shaping India’s hydroclimate variability. The study underscores the need for integrated ENSO–IOD monitoring and inclusion of multi-ocean indicators in India’s drought early warning and seasonal forecast frameworks

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Can Palm Logs Float? Evaluating the Physical Viability of Raft Transport for Rapa Nui Moai

Recent suggestions that palm log rafts may have transported moai statues on Rapa Nui require evaluation of whether fresh palm wood can provide sufficient buoyancy for multi-ton cargo. This analysis integrates experimental flotation tests, structural analyses of palm stem anatomy, and buoyancy calculations using modern palm analogs to reconstruct the extinct Rapa Nui palm. Fresh palm logs sink when placed in water because of their internal structure: stems consist of approximately 20% liquid by volume, contained within thousands of water-filled vascular tubes, surrounded by a thin, brittle cortex. This yields effective densities of 800-1,200 kg/m³ that approach or exceed seawater density. Even logs that barely float provide essentially zero freeboard for cargo, while concentrated statue loads cause structural failure through the cortex. These physical constraints, the absence of sunken moai, the rapid decomposition of palm wood, and Polynesian watercraft capacity limits that preclude moving average-sized statues, together demonstrate that water transport of moai was physically impossible. Overland transport was the sole viable mode of transport on Rapa Nui

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Watching the Watchers: Redefining Privacy and Human Rights in Correctional Surveillance

Incarcerated individuals exist in a space where security and privacy constantly clash. This study examines how surveillance technologies—biometric monitoring, video surveillance, and electronic tracking—in correctional settings impact the privacy rights of those incarcerated. Through a review of peer-reviewed literature, and insights from informal conversations with incarcerated individuals at Broome County Jail, this research examines the ethical, legal, and social implications of surveillance in carceral facilities, focusing on how constant monitoring impacts privacy, relationships, and mental well-being. Expanding beyond jails, the study considers surveillance in state and federal prisons, evaluating its implications under the United Nations International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. This research aims to inform policy, advocating for equitable surveillance practices that balance security with human rights. Ultimately, it raises critical questions about the broader societal impact of surveillance in heavily monitored environments

Enhancing OT-Classroom Staff Collaboration: A Usability Study of a Formalized Sensory Communication Process

Addressing students’ sensory-based behaviors can be challenging when there are no team-based and student-centered approaches in place, making it essential to create an interdisciplinary framework where OTs and classroom staff communicate consistently to blend supports. Effective communication and collaboration involve carryover, explanation, education, and training of sensory processing and sensory-based interventions (SBI) as crucial components in a knowledge translation process

Collateral Damage: Parental Incarceration as Family Punishment

The United States stands alone among UN members in refusing to ratify the Convention on the Rights of the Child. That absence reflects a deeper failure: the American legal system continues to allow parental incarceration to inflict punishment on children who have committed no crime. This paper explores how the structure of U.S. mass incarceration—especially within Black and Native American communities—conflicts with both domestic legal ideals and international human rights standards. It calls for legal and policy reform that recognizes families as indivisible social units and restores justice to those most affected by incarceration’s collateral damage

Advancing Pharmacoequity Globally: Reflections from the ASCPT Development, Regulatory, and Outcomes Network

ASCPT has a mission to advance clinical pharmacology and translational sciences to reduce health disparities. The development, regulatory, and outcomes (DRO) network within ASCPT strives to advance pharmacoequity globally. Pharmacoequity, coined by Utibe Essien (2021), is the principle that all individuals, regardless of race, ethnicity, geography, or socioeconomic status, should have access to high-quality and evidence-based therapies. This perspective spotlights the network\u27s contributions toward this goal and identifies priority areas to build equitable health outcomes

ARUM–D Nexus: Adaptive Reflexive Urban Metabolism for Complex Construction and Demolition Waste Governance in Bengaluru

Urban material systems exhibit nonlinear dynamics governed by feedback, adaptation, and emergent coupling among institutions, markets, and behaviors. Construction and demolition (C&D) waste in Bengaluru is a great example of such complexity, where fragmented regulation, informal actors, and digital asymmetries coalesce into unstable waste flows and resource leakages. This study conceptualizes Bengaluru’s C&D waste system as a Complex Adaptive System (CAS), where institutional, market, behavioral, and metabolic subsystems co-evolve through nonlinear feedback interactions. A meta-analysis of secondary literature combined with benchmarking of government datasets is used to evaluate two key complexity indicators, i.e., response speed and feedback density. The advancement of a new systems model—ARUM–D Nexus (Adaptive Reflexive Urban Metabolism with Digital core) positions the Digital Urban Material Passport (DUMP) as a reflexive sensing mechanism to reduce causal latency and synchronize adaptive responses. Results demonstrate that feedback-rich digital coupling and reflexive institutional behavior can support material flows, reduce illegal dumping, increase recycling efficiency, and intensify urban resilience under uncertainty. The study contributes a complexity-grounded governance model and measurable indicators that support adaptive decision-making for C&D waste management in rapidly expanding cities