{"title":"Between Hype and Reality: The Promises and Pitfalls of Predicting Sports Media Technological Innovation","authors":"Andrew C. Billings","doi":"10.1177/21674795251380213","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/21674795251380213","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46882,"journal":{"name":"Communication & Sport","volume":"117 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2025-09-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145017488","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Weighty matters: Ozempic, autonomy and the ethics of health reform.","authors":"Joona Räsänen, Johanna Ahola-Launonen","doi":"10.1136/jme-2025-111117","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1136/jme-2025-111117","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Ryan and Savulescu recently offered an ethical analysis of the use of semaglutide-based weight-loss drugs such as Ozempic. In this response, we continue the discussion and argue that their framework insufficiently addresses structural inequalities and the broader political context of obesity treatment. Positioning pharmaceutical drugs as a solution to socially produced health problems narrows moral decision-making, causing structural approaches to appear less urgent and less important. We criticise the individualistic conception of autonomy commonly invoked to justify pharmaceutical choice, arguing that a proper definition of autonomy requires attention to social contexts-stigma, discrimination and economic inequality-that shape treatment decisions. We call for a broader ethical framework-one that interrogates structural injustices and reimagines health interventions beyond individual treatment-asking: is the problem our bodies or unregulated markets and environments that produce ill health in them?</p>","PeriodicalId":16317,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Medical Ethics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2025-09-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145023420","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Liuqi Zhu, Patrick Rebuschat, Jessie S. Nixon, Padraic Monaghan
{"title":"Learning morphology from cross-situational statistics","authors":"Liuqi Zhu, Patrick Rebuschat, Jessie S. Nixon, Padraic Monaghan","doi":"10.1017/s027226312510106x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s027226312510106x","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Non-native languages tend to be acquired through a combination of explicit and implicit learning, where implicit learning requires coordination of language information with referents in the environment. In this study, we examined how learners use both language input and environmental cues to acquire vocabulary and morphology in a novel language and how their language background influences this process. We trained 105 adults with native languages (L1s) varying in morphological richness (English, German, Mandarin) on an artificial language comprising nouns and verbs with morphological features (number, tense, and subject-verb [SV] agreement) appearing alongside referential visual scenes. Participants were able to learn both word stems and morphological features from cross-situational statistical correspondences between language and the environment, without any instruction. German-speakers learned SV agreement worse than other morphological features, which were acquired equally effectively by English or Mandarin speakers, indicating the subtle and varied influence of L1 morphological richness on implicit non-native language learning.</p>","PeriodicalId":22008,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Second Language Acquisition","volume":"13 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.1,"publicationDate":"2025-09-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145009266","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Designing inclusive digital twins: ethical and practical considerations for trans healthcare.","authors":"Alberto Boretti","doi":"10.1136/jme-2025-111120","DOIUrl":"10.1136/jme-2025-111120","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":16317,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Medical Ethics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2025-09-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144957345","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Attentional and Evaluative Processing of Split-Screen Advertisements Embedded in Mediated Sports: An Eye-Tracking and Biometric Study","authors":"Minkyo Lee, Glenna L. Read, Bomin Paek","doi":"10.1177/21674795251376951","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/21674795251376951","url":null,"abstract":"To address challenges with traditional ad breaks in sports broadcasting, split-screen ads - which show ads alongside live game content - have gained popularity. However, research on their impact, particularly across varying emotional engagement levels, is limited. This study used a biometric and eye-tracking lab experiment with 41 undergraduate students, employing a 2 × 2 incomplete block design during an international soccer match to investigate how emotional context (pleasant vs. unpleasant) and timing (at low-to-moderate vs. moderate-to-high emotionally intense moments) affect processing of split-screen ads during replays. This is one of the first studies on split-screen ads in sports broadcasts, showing that positive emotional moments enhance ad attitudes and reduce perceived intrusiveness. While self-reported attention data show that unpleasant moments trigger avoidance of replays but promote coping strategies for viewing ads, eye-tracking data contradict them, particularly in attentional resource allocation and visual focus, offering new insights for future research in sport marketing and advertising.","PeriodicalId":46882,"journal":{"name":"Communication & Sport","volume":"8 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2025-09-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145056702","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Annals of SciencePub Date : 2025-09-07DOI: 10.1080/00033790.2025.2551065
Johan Kärnfelt
{"title":"A century of observations: the Ertel meridian circle at Stockholm Observatory.","authors":"Johan Kärnfelt","doi":"10.1080/00033790.2025.2551065","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00033790.2025.2551065","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In the 1820s, Stockholm Observatory undertook a significant upgrade of its instruments. The new acquisitions included a meridian circle, crafted by Traugott Ertel in Munich, which - after extensive delays - was finally installed at the observatory in 1834. Despite its advanced capabilities, the instrument saw limited use during its first forty years, as observatory directors were largely occupied with geodetic projects for the Crown. The meridian circle only reached its full scientific potential when Hugo Gyldén became the Academy Astronomer in 1871, marking the end of the Observatory's geodetic era. In addition to observations for a major zone project, from 1879 the instrument became the engine of the Swedish standard time system. Throughout the nineteenth century it also had an important role as the zero meridian for the military's geodetic pursuits. The instrument remained in use until the Observatory relocated to Saltsjöbaden in 1931. This paper explores the various roles played by the Ertel meridian circle during its century-long history, with a focus on the strategies employed by astronomers to preserve the ageing instrument's relevance.</p>","PeriodicalId":8086,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Science","volume":" ","pages":"1-28"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2025-09-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145013716","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Assessing WritingPub Date : 2025-09-06DOI: 10.1016/j.asw.2025.100981
Enis Oğuz
{"title":"Can generative AI figure out figurative language? The influence of idioms on essay scoring by ChatGPT, Gemini, and Deepseek","authors":"Enis Oğuz","doi":"10.1016/j.asw.2025.100981","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.asw.2025.100981","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The developments in Generative AI technologies have paved the way for numerous innovations in different fields. Recently, Generative AI has been proposed as a competitor to AES systems in evaluating student essays. Considering the potential limitations of AI in processing idioms, this study assessed the scoring performances of Generative AI models for essays with and without idioms by incorporating insights from Corpus Linguistics and Computational Linguistics. Two equal essay lists were created from 348 student essays taken from a corpus: one with multiple idioms present in each essay and another with no idioms. Three Generative AI models (ChatGPT, Gemini, and Deepseek) were asked to score all essays in both lists three times, using the same rubric used by human raters. The results revealed excellent consistency for all models without any detectable bias for any demographic group, but Gemini outperformed its competitors in interrater reliability with human raters. For essays with idioms, Gemini followed the most similar pattern to human raters. While models in the study demonstrated capability for a hybrid approach in formative assessments, Gemini was the best candidate due to its ability to handle figurative language and its potential for handling essay-scoring tasks in high-stakes exams in the future.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":46865,"journal":{"name":"Assessing Writing","volume":"66 ","pages":"Article 100981"},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2025-09-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145004300","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Imagined Democratic Affordances: Persistent Faith in the Democratic Power of the Internet among Sanders Supporters on Reddit","authors":"Omri Cohen","doi":"10.1177/20563051251363213","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/20563051251363213","url":null,"abstract":"Research on digital democracy and online mobilization often focus on how technological design, affordances, organizing, or policy may influence online political behaviors. Less attention is paid to users’ imagination about their digital environments, the expectations, emotions, or values that are involved, and how these relate to users’ perceptions on the democratic opportunities afforded by digital media. This study conducts qualitative analysis of the perceptions of Bernie Sanders supporters on a large Reddit community of both digital media and mainstream media. The findings suggest that some users, who regard themselves as democratically populist, tend to regard digital media optimistically and display persistent faith in the democratizing capacity of online platforms. This study provides a deeper understanding of the power of users’ imagination and elucidates issues of the persistence of technological optimism, the appeal and motivational power of the democratic promise of the internet, and users’ association of democratic ideals with online activism.","PeriodicalId":47920,"journal":{"name":"Social Media + Society","volume":"53 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.2,"publicationDate":"2025-09-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145003164","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A different genealogy for twentieth-century ecological thought: Max Sorre's human ecology","authors":"Dylan Simon","doi":"10.1016/j.jhg.2025.08.004","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jhg.2025.08.004","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The French geographer Max Sorre (1880–1962) developed a brand of human ecology from the 1920s onwards. Discernibly distinct from the human ecology developed by sociologists in Chicago, Sorre's human ecology deepens humankind's relations to the physical and living environment (including through medical geography). This cognitive horizon manifested itself in extensive and distinctive research on life, disease, climate and diets. Through such an ecological understanding of humankind, the aim was to return to a geographical question: understanding the durable conditions for the habitability of the globe, and explaining the inhabited earth. In addition to analysing these issues, this text also seeks to delimit the various procedures by which Sorre and the biological and medical sciences reciprocally imported one another's ideas. Indeed, Sorre showed himself to be particularly open to other disciplines, corresponding with climatologists, zoologists and physicians. In return, the latter also adopted certain proposals formulated by the geographer, notably his concept of the ‘pathogenic complex’. Finally, the text will try to objectify the constituent conceptions of this ecological knowledge, considering it as the rendering of material relations to the environment, but also as the result of certain scholarly representations.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47094,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Historical Geography","volume":"90 ","pages":"Pages 15-26"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2025-09-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145004933","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Justin N Nguyen, Christopher K Tuohino, Charlotte S Horowitz, Robert T Rubin
{"title":"Psychiatry vs. medicine editor-in-chiefs' research publications in their own journals before, during, and after their tenures - An exploratory study.","authors":"Justin N Nguyen, Christopher K Tuohino, Charlotte S Horowitz, Robert T Rubin","doi":"10.1080/08989621.2025.2551166","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08989621.2025.2551166","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>To compare self-publication rates by editors-in-chief (EICs) of psychiatry vs. medicine journals before, during, and after their editorships.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Frequency of self-publication by 25 psychiatry EICs and 22 medicine EICs across seven journals in each specialty was determined for 5 years before, the years during, and 5 years after their tenures. PubMed was used to identify original research and review articles subject to peer review. Two-way ANOVA with repeated measures was used to assess differences in articles published per year by specialty and time period.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Mean self-publication rates before, during, and after editorship were 0.64, 1.46, and 0.66 articles/year for psychiatry EICs and 0.25, 0.31, and 0.13 articles/year for medicine EICs. ANOVA revealed significant main effects of journal type (psychiatry vs. medicine) (<i>p</i> = 0.003) and time period (before, during, after) (<i>p</i> = 0.003), and a significant interaction (<i>p</i> = 0.024).</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Psychiatry EICs self-published discretionary articles significantly more frequently (4.7 times overall) than did their medicine counterparts. These findings do not necessarily imply abuse, but they highlight the need to further enhance editorial safeguards, increase transparency, and continue surveillance of adherence to publication guidelines, in order to further mitigate potential conflicts of interest in academic publishing.</p>","PeriodicalId":50927,"journal":{"name":"Accountability in Research-Policies and Quality Assurance","volume":" ","pages":"1-9"},"PeriodicalIF":4.0,"publicationDate":"2025-09-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145006773","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}