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French Inflation Climbs to 3.10 Percent in September, Hitting Highest Level Since Early 2024
France’s annual inflation rate rose to 3.10 percent in September 2026, up from 2.80 percent in August, according to preliminary estimates released by the National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies (Insee) on October 2nd, 2026.…
The Political Economy of Digital Platform Monopoly: A Contemporary Extension of Lenin’s Theory of Imperialism
This paper extends Lenin’s theory of imperialism to analyze digital platform monopolies. It argues that platform capitalism reproduces Lenin’s five features – monopoly, finance capital, capital export, international alliances, and territorial division – through data-driven accumulation.…
Identification of On-site Safety Hazards and Optimization of Safety Management Systems in Mechanical Manufacturing Workshops
The mechanical manufacturing industry is a foundational sector of the national economy. However, workshop environments are complex and contain numerous hazardous factors, which often result in frequent safety accidents. This paper systematically analyzes the types and…
Underwater Perovskite Solar Modules Deliver Stable Power at 10‑metre Seawater Depth
A research team led by Professor Wenhua Zhang at Yunnan University has unveiled a field-validated perovskite photovoltaic system capable of continuous power generation 10-metre below the ocean surface, marking a major milestone for marine distributed energy.…
Knowledge-based Short Videos as Learner-centered Microlearning: Cognitive Processing, Self-regulation, and Social Presence
Short videos based on knowledge are being used more and more as informal learning materials, but their educational value cannot be understood simply by looking at the number of people who access them or the quality…
A Study on the Impacts of High‑school Students’ Sports Participation on Their Academic Performance and Time Allocation
To investigate the relationships among senior high-school students’ sports participation, academic performance and daily time allocation, this paper conducted a questionnaire survey among students from two local ordinary senior high schools, and 400 valid questionnaires were…
Design of an ESP32-based Intelligent Door Lock Control System
Conventional commercial smart door locks generally adopt only a single unlocking mode and rely heavily on Wireless Fidelity (Wi-Fi) for alarm transmission, which results in poor accessibility for the elderly and children and inadequate local security…
IMF Warns of Valuation Risks in Global AI Investment Boom
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has issued a fresh warning over mounting financial stability risks driven by the worldwide boom in artificial intelligence investment, cautioning investors and policymakers that stretched valuations across artificial intelligence (AI)-related stocks…
Negotiation Behaviors of 4-5-year-old Children in Role Play: Current Status, Influencing Factors, and Educational Implications
Negotiation is central to young children’s social competence. Role play is a key context for its emergence. This mixed-methods study examined negotiation among middle-group kindergarten children (ages 4-5 years old) during role play and the factors…
Application of Generative Artificial Intelligence to Visual Consistency in Product Packaging Design
Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) enables rapid packaging concept exploration, but consistent design across product variants remains difficult to specify and verify. This article develops a constraint-based workflow that separates invariant brand elements, variant-specific imagery and colors,…
Predictors and Intervention Implications of Weight Management KAP among University Students in the Digital Age: A Survey from Zhejiang
In the digital age, university students’ weight management faces the dual challenges of information overload and the knowing-doing gap. Guided by the Knowledge-Attitude-Practice (KAP) framework, this study conducted a questionnaire survey among 762 undergraduates from four…
Tech News: Terminator-style Robot Self-destruction Sparks Global Tech-ethics Debate
A viral stunt in which retired humanoid robots autonomously walked and leaped into a 1,500°C steel furnace in Finland has ignited worldwide discussions over robotics ethics, corporate marketing and the boundary between programmed action and machine…
Goldman Sachs Warns AI Capital Spending Cycle Nears Turning Point as Two of Three Risk Signals Flash
Goldman Sachs has issued a warning that the artificial intelligence (AI) capital expenditure cycle may be approaching an inflection point, with two of three key risk signals already flashing. In a report published on October 12th,…
A Study on the Influence of Father Involvement in Parenting on Young Children’s Peer Interaction Ability
To investigate the influence of father involvement in parenting on the peer interaction competence of children aged 3-6 years, this study employed a mixed-methods design combining questionnaire surveys with semi-structured interviews. Forty fathers of preschool children…
Dutch Researchers Build Whisker Sensors for Drones to Navigate Confined Spaces
A research team at Delft University of Technology has developed lightweight whisker-shaped tactile sensors that allow small drones to move safely through narrow, dark or obstructed environments where cameras and lidar perform poorly. Inspired by rodents’…
Legendary Wall Street Investor Warns 2027 Could Be an Extremely Tough Year for U.S. Stocks
Paul Tudor Jones, the legendary hedge fund manager and founder of Tudor Investment Corporation, recently issued a market warning during an appearance on Consumer News and Business Channel (CNBC)’s Squawk Box. He cautioned that 2027 would…
Research on the Collaborative Governance Framework for Organizational Information Resources in the Era of Generative Large Language Models: An Integrative Design of Actors, Instruments, and Mechanisms
Generative large language models continue to redefine how organizations produce, verify, and utilize information resources. Existing governance arrangements assume that data assets are relatively stable and that system behavior is observable. This assumption no longer holds…
Research on the Impact of Production Relations on the Emancipation of New Quality Productivity in Agriculture
Under the background of the rural revitalization strategy and the vigorous development of new-quality productive forces, current research on new-quality productive forces has achieved fruitful results in various industries. However, there is a research gap in…
Temporal Information Enhanced Association Rule Discovery and Evolution Pattern Identification in Complex Pharmaceutical Transaction Data
Objective: To bring temporal information into association rule mining on complex pharmaceutical transaction data, so that co-prescribing rules and their evolution over time can both be identified. Methods: Transaction records are reorganized into time-stamped drug-set sequences…
The Absence of Godot and the Dialectic of Desire: A Re-reading of Waiting for Godot from the Perspective of Lacanian Psychoanalysis
In Waiting for Godot, Samuel Beckett, through the absurd form in which “nothing happens”, dramatizes the crisis of meaning and the predicament of desire that confront the modern subject after the death of God. This paper…