Strategic Behaviours in a Labour Market with Mobility-Restricting Contractual Provisions: Evidence from the National Hockey League

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Deterring Academic Integrity Breaches: The Roles of Institutions, Academics, and Support Service

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Next-Generation Quantum Security: The Impact of Quantum Computing on Cybersecurity—Threats, Mitigations, and Solutions

The rapid advancement of quantum computing poses unprecedented threats to classical cryptographic systems, jeopardizing the security of digital infrastructures worldwide. This review paper comprehensively examines the transformative impact of quantum computing on cybersecurity, highlighting vulnerabilities introduced by algorithms like Shor’s and Grover’s, which can break widely used encryption methods such as RSA, ECC, and AES. It underscores the urgency of adopting quantum-resistant solutions, including post-quantum cryptography (PQC) and quantum key distribution (QKD), to mitigate these risks. The paper also explores emerging hybrid systems, quantum-safe blockchain, and IoT security, offering actionable insights for transitioning to quantum-resilient frameworks. By synthesizing interdisciplinary research, this work emphasizes the need for global collaboration, standardization, and innovation to safeguard data integrity and privacy in the impending quantum era, making it a pivotal resource for researchers, practitioners, and policymakers

A Match Made in Heaven: Entrepreneurship Among Evangelical Immigrants in the UK

Evangelical immigrants from the Global South have a high degree of confidence in their own ability to start a business in the UK, and they report a significant amount of entrepreneurial engagement within their communities. This article explores how these Christians developed their skills and dispositions, how they are launching businesses in the UK, and—most importantly—how the action of God can be perceived through their experiences. The author constructs a metanarrative which begins in the Global South. Through their encounter with evangelical faith, women and men are developing the ‘spiritual capital’ that has historically been proven to foster entrepreneurship. In many instances, however, this potential for success lies latent in a societal context that hampers and threatens entrepreneurial enterprise. The story then shifts to the UK. When these evangelicals immigrate, many find success in business as they choose to put their spiritual capital to work. It is here argued that the actions of God can be discerned within this story. In the same way that God acted in Biblical times to raise the helpless and to bless exiles in a foreign land, so he seen by his people to be working today

The Impact of State Depression on Proactive Control and Distractor Processing in a Memory Task: An Electrophysiological Study

(1) Background: Individuals with high levels of state depression are hypothesized to have an impairment of attentional control functions necessary for filtering irrelevant information. This study used the event-related potential of early PD, a marker of distractor suppression, and N2pc, an indicator of attentional capture to investigate whether high state depression affects selective attention in ignoring or suppressing distractors. (2) Methods: Thirty-three undergraduate students completed the Depression Anxiety Stress Scale-21 (DASS-21) and performed a modified, delayed match-to-sample task. Participants encoded abstract shapes under low or high perceptual load conditions in the visual working memory while ignoring a lateralized Chinese character as a task-irrelevant singleton distractor. (3) Results: Individuals with high state depression failed to suppress the distractor, as evidenced by the absence of early PD. Under low perceptual loads, they also displayed a significant N2pc component, indicating attentional allocation to the distractor. In contrast, low-state-depression participants successfully suppressed the distractor, showing early PD and the absence of N2pc. (4) Conclusions: These findings suggest that high-state-depression individuals have an impairment in top–down attentional control, particularly in feature-based selective attention. This deficit hinders the ability to filter out irrelevant information, potentially contributing to cognitive difficulties associated with depression

Impact of a mineral enriched, fiber complex on glycaemic response and satiation in healthy adults: a double-blind, crossover intervention study

Purpose: To investigate the effects of a chromium-enriched glucomannan-fructooligosaccharide complex (SB) on glycaemic and insulin responses, satiation, and hunger biomarkers in healthy adults. Methods: Using a double-blind, placebo-controlled, randomised crossover design, we assessed the acute impact of a single 3 g SB dose in 16 healthy adults (BMI 18.5–24.9 kg/m2) during a modified oral glucose tolerance test. On separate days, participants consumed 50 g dextrose or 50 g dextrose with 3 g SB (SBD). Blood glucose and insulin were analysed over 2.5 h. Hunger, fullness, and desire to eat were assessed via visual analogue scales. Additionally, the impact of SB on gastric viscosity was assessed in vitro. Results: SBD intake significantly reduced the insulin concentration compared to dextrose alone at 45, 75, and 90 min post-intake. Additionally, SBD resulted in significantly greater fullness and a lower desire to eat at 75 min when compared to dextrose (p < 0.05). Although hunger increased over time for both interventions, SBD led to lower hunger, desire to eat, and food desire scores compared to dextrose at 150 min (p < 0.05). The viscosity of SB, even when combined with dextrose, was significantly higher compared to dextrose alone. Conclusions: These novel findings suggest that SB can modulate insulin response and influence appetite regulation, highlighting its potential use in weight management strategies

Young people's perceptions of therapist interpersonal skills and alliance:How distinct are they?

The aim of this study was to investigate the degree of commonality between young people's perceptions of the alliance and the therapist interpersonal skills (TIS) of empathy, unconditional positive regard, and congruence. Participants were 152 young people (aged 13-16 years old; 114 female, 70 of minoritized ethnicities) who were experiencing moderate to severe levels of emotional symptoms and participated in up to 10 sessions of school-based humanistic counseling. At 6 weeks postrandomization, TIS and the alliance were assessed using the Barrett-Lennard Relationship Inventory: Form OS-40: T-S (Student Form, Version 3) and the Working Alliance Inventory Short Form, respectively. Structural equation modeling was used to identify latent constructs. A model with two correlated second-order factors and a hierarchical model with one third-order general factor exhibited the best data fit. The general factor, which we named youth-perceived relationship quality, explained a substantial amount of variance for TIS (81%) and alliance (98%). TIS and alliance effects, treated independently, explained an additional 3% and 1.4% of variance in satisfaction with care and psychological difficulties after therapy, respectively, as compared with general youth-perceived relationship quality. While therapeutic relationship factors-in clinical practice, training, and research-are often considered distinct, we found a high degree of commonality in how young people perceived the alliance and TIS. Further research is warranted on youth-perceived relationship quality as an integrated variable in youth psychotherapy. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved). </p

Knowledge-Grounded Attention-Based Neural Machine Translation Model

Neural machine translation (NMT) model processes sentences in isolation and ignores additional contextual or side information beyond sentences. The input text alone often provides limited knowledge to generate contextually correct and meaningful translation. Relying solely on the input text could yield translations that lack accuracy. Side information related to either source or target side is helpful in the context of NMT. In this study, we empirically show that training an NMT model with target-side additional information used as knowledge can significantly improve the translation quality. The acquired knowledge is leveraged in the encoder-/decoder-based model utilizing multiencoder framework. The additional encoder converts knowledge into dense semantic representation called attention. These attentions from the input sentence and additional knowledge are then combined into a unified attention. The decoder generates the translation by conditioning on both the input text and acquired knowledge. Evaluation of translation from Urdu to English with a low-resource setting yields promising results in terms of both perplexity reduction and improved BLEU scores. The proposed models in the respective group outperform in LSTM and GRU with attention mechanism by +3.1 and +2.9 BLEU score, respectively. Extensive analysis confirms our claim that the translations influenced by additional information may occasionally contain rare low-frequency words and faithful translation. Experimental results on a different language pair DE-EN demonstrate that our suggested method is more efficient and general