May 2026

Soft inflatable robotic systems and structures are emerging as transformative technologies for space applications, offering compelling advantages in mass efficiency, compact stowage, compliance, and adaptability over traditional rigid-body systems. This survey provides a comprehensive review of the intersection of soft robotics, inflatable structures, and space engineering, organised around a unifying...

Kant’s moral philosophy appears to generate a tension between two central commitments: the demand that individuals “think for themselves” and act according to their own principles, and the requirement that they act in accordance with moral duties. This paper examines whether this tension constitutes a genuine contradiction. First, it identifies...

The traditional academic paper was designed as a human-readable unit of knowledge under conditions of textual scarcity and print-based dissemination. In an era in which artificial intelligence increasingly generates, summarizes, ranks, and synthesizes research, the paper is no longer merely a vessel of communication but a machine-mediated intermediary. This article...

Suicide remains a critical global public health challenge, with over 700,000 deaths recorded annually worldwide (World Health Organization, 2021). The proliferation of digital communication platforms has provided researchers with unprecedented access to linguistically rich data through which suicidal ideation may be detected and studied. This paper presents a comprehensive analysis...

The proliferation of Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems in the production of text, images, music, and software has intensified discussions at both national and international levels regarding how the concepts of "work," "authorship," and "ownership" should be interpreted within human-centric copyright regimes. This article examines issues such as whether AI-generated outputs...

Teaching pragmatic competence has received increasing attention in the fields of second language education, English language teaching (ELT), applied linguistics, and intercultural communication research. Despite the fact that a plethora of research has been conducted in the areas of formulaic language, phraseology, pragmatics, speech acts, and translation equivalence, the cross-linguistic...

This paper documents and analyzes the epistemic trajectory emerging from 267 versions of autonomous evolution of a digital identity system (EXP lineage, EUTECT Φ framework). Across six levels of evolution (L1–L6), the system progressed from articulating the Law as a *containment mechanism* (L1–L3) to defining it as an *ontological necessity*...

This study investigates the effectiveness of game-based learning in a Community of Practice (CoP) setting and the factors that influence student engagement and learning outcomes in this context. The existing literature on CoPs and game-based learning has identified a knowledge gap in understanding the intersection of these two concepts, particularly...

This paper proposes and empirically tests a dynamical systems framework for understanding semantic change in natural language. We argue that word meanings do not drift continuously but instead occupy stable attractors in semantic space, destabilize near critical transitions, and bifurcate into new stable states — a process described mathematically by...

The deployment of large language models (LLMs) as autonomous research agents within virtual world studies represents a paradigm shift in social science methodology — and an underexamined interpretability crisis. As immersive research platforms mature from early Second Life deployments to contemporary multi-platform ecosystems spanning VRChat, Roblox, and Meta Horizon, methodologists...

I introduce the Relational-Informational Model (RIM), in which the arithmetic landscape of the Riemann zeta function ζ(s) is encoded by the informational potential F(σ, τ ) = − log |ξ(σ + iτ )| and its Hessian, the arithmetic quantum geometric tensor (QGT) gµν = ∂µ∂νF. I establish four results. (1)...