The impact of isolated ACL and MCL injuries on career longevity and performance metrics in elite rugby union players.

Emerging cases of Naegleria fowleri infection in India: A brief report (2018-2025).

ABSTRACT This article reflects on the methodological process of compiling a specialized, digital corpora of extant texts about teachers – the Teachers in Conservative England Corpus (TCEC). In contrast to corpora used in previous, similar studies in the field, the TCEC was intended to be heterogeneous, evidencing a variety of contrasting views and perspectives on teachers and teaching. Texts included in the corpus were: media reports, school inspection reports, reflections on education by teachers and the general public, political speeches, responses to parliamentary inquiries, and academic and policy texts associated with teacher training provision. The paper discusses key decisions taken during the process of corpus construction, providing original and detailed insights into the process of constructing a heterogenous digitized collection of texts concerning teachers. Methodologically, the article rigorously reflects on the myriad of complex decisions which needed to be made during the process of building a digital repository of texts, emphasizing the human interventions, considerations and thought processes required throughout. Documenting such reflections is important and necessary, given increasing interest in the use of Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) in research and education.

Different disciplinary and socio-geographical approaches to counting, reporting, and categorizing death can yield divergent and often contradictory values of risk, harm, and mortality. This article examines historical and contemporary ways of recording and narrating the incidence of female homicide in South Africa (one of the countries with the highest femicide rates in the world), from state and police statistics to medical studies and media reports, and explores how each of these uses both common and discrete necrodata to construct specific narratives that reveal the [dead] body as a site of conflicting assertions of power.

ABSTRACT Childlike sex dolls (CLSDs) present an issue of growing concern for criminal justice professionals and child safety advocates around the globe, with legislation being rapidly introduced to combat this problem. Empirical research on this topic is limited, and little has been documented about individuals who import, own and/or use CLSDs. This study sought to contribute to knowledge by examining newsprint media reports concerning cases (n = 33) of CLSD importation and/or use in Australia. The research sets out the key features of these cases to advance understanding and inform professionals tasked with preventing and responding to the problem of CLSDs, such as law enforcement and border security officers. We found that CLSD perpetrators were often found in possession of other forms of child sexual abuse material (CSAM) and are typically specialist rather than generalist perpetrators. Our findings lend support to some aspects of the extant research literature by demonstrating that CLSD perpetrators have a profile similar to that of other CSAM perpetrators (rather than contact child sexual abuse perpetrators). We make a series of policy and practice recommendations based on these findings.

The current study aims to examine the public relations (PR) strategies implemented in digital crisis management across the Jordanian universities. This study focuses on the aspect how PR managing authorities respond in order to deal with digitally mediated crises. Although, situational crisis communication theory (SCCT) has been largely utilized in the Western contexts, its applicability to Arab higher education institutions has not been under exploration. To bridge this gap, interviews of semi-structure type were managed with 13 PR managers working in Jordanian universities as managing officials. Institutional materials including social media reports and official press statements also supplemented these conducted interviews. The researchers analyzed the data thematically by using NVivo and systematized four SCCT strategy included clusters, i.e., denial, diminishment, rebuilding, and bolstering. Findings of the present study elaborate that denial strategies were not largely effective in the emerging digital crises; somehow, strategies related to ‘diminishment’ repeatedly shifted responsibility toward external barriers. Whereas rebuilding strategies specifically remedial actions and making sorry to public were more constructive in regaining trust, although their application was at times limited by reputational concerns. The findings also demonstrated that bolstering strategies along with great institutional achievements and offering thanks to stakeholders contributed a lot to supposed organizational integrity. Taken together, this study broadens the SCCT’s applicability to Arab higher education system and provides practical insights for PR practitioners and university management in order to main balance between responsibility, transparency and institutional repute in digitally concerned crisis communication.

The wave of street demonstrations in Indonesia in recent years has highlighted tensions between the state and civil society, particularly when representative institutions are perceived as no longer capable of engaging in deliberative communication with citizens. This study aims to analyze street demonstrations as a political practice of civil society in response to the weakening of trust in formal democratic channels. This study focuses on a series of protests demanding the dissolution of the House of Representatives on August 25–31, 2025. This study used a phenomenological approach to analyze the symbolic and moral meanings emerging from the demonstrations. Data were collected through an analysis of media reports, civil society organization reports, official state documents, and social media content. The analytical process followed the Miles and Huberman model through data reduction, presentation, and conclusions. The findings indicate that when communication between the state and citizens is disrupted and public trust weakens, street politics emerges as a space to articulate criticism and ethical demands. The escalation of violence, differing narratives regarding the victims, and high public dissatisfaction with the handling of protests highlight the tension between electoral legitimacy and moral legitimacy. This study suggests that democratic legitimacy is dynamic and continuously negotiated through interactions between the state and civil society, as well as non-electoral participation in the public sphere.

The paper discusses the interrelation between displacement, resettlement, and infrastructure affected by the ethnic conflict in Manipur. The conflict between the Meitei community and the Kuki tribes began in May 2023, triggered by the Manipur High Court’s recommendation on the Meitei demand for “Scheduled Tribe” status, which led to large-scale internal displacement and the collapse of essential infrastructure. The purpose of this paper is to assess the effect of inadequate infrastructure on the internally displaced persons (IDPs) residing within the relief camps. A qualitative research design is utilised, which is based on secondary data sources, such as reports by international organizations, government documents, media reports, and academic literature. The results indicate a lack of proper infrastructure in relief camps, which contributes to overcrowding, inadequate sanitation, inaccessible healthcare, and disrupted education, proving that a planned rehabilitation plan, humanitarian support, and universal peace-building measures are highly needed to facilitate sustainable recovery and resilience among the diverse communities in Manipur.

This paper examines the immediate aftermath of the Grenfell Tower fire through the perspectives of those who experienced it. Drawing on twenty-four interviews with survivors, bereaved family members, local residents, and early responders, alongside Public Inquiry evidence and media reports, the analysis identifies three interlinked processes structuring the state’s response: abandonment, stigmatisation, and securitisation. The local authority and other statutory bodies were largely absent in providing coordinated care, leaving residents, families, and community organisations to organise relief. At the same time, racialised, classed, and territorial stigmas shaped how the community was understood and treated, while policing and security operations intensified. These dynamics reflect not only the uneven presence of the state but also broader neoliberal policies that devalue social housing estates and marginalised communities. By foregrounding first-hand accounts of the immediate aftermath of the fire, this paper offers original qualitative evidence on a period that remains under-documented in academic research.

Introduction Xylazine, an α2-adrenergic agonist used as a veterinary sedative, has emerged as an adulterant of illicit opioids, contributing to fatal overdoses in North America and has recently been detected in Europe. In France, despite alarmist media reports, data on xylazine exposures are scarce. Methods We retrospectively reviewed intentional xylazine exposures reported to the eight French poison control centers from January 2010 to December 2024. Cases were extracted from the French National Database of Poisonings. Inclusion required intentional use; severity was assessed using the Poison Severity Score. Results Nineteen intentional exposures were identified: seventeen in the context of a suicide attempt, one homicidal, and one recreational. Mean age was 36.4 years; sex ratio 2.6 (male/female). For the cases occurring in the context of a suicide attempt, eleven involved xylazine alone, and six in combination with other drugs (mainly ketamine or fentanyl). Three fatalities occurred (16%), and six patients developed severe clinical features (Poisoning Severity Score 3), including coma, bradycardia, and hypotension. The single recreational case involved a fentanyl/xylazine mixture with full recovery. Discussion Over a 14-year period, intentional xylazine poisonings reported to French Poison Control Centers were uncommon, mainly occurring in the context of a suicide attempt, and often linked to occupational access to veterinary sedatives. These data do not support community or recreational spread. Nonetheless, observed cases confirm xylazine’s life-threatening potential. Conclusion This retrospective analysis highlights the rarity of reported xylazine exposures in French poison centre data, strengthened toxicological surveillance and coordination between Poison Control Center and drug-checking networks are needed to detect any shift toward broader use and guide prevention efforts.

Maternal mortality is a serious public health issue globally, with countries in West Africa facing some of the highest burdens. Media reportage of maternal deaths can have a significant influence on public health policy. We conducted a content analysis of digital media across the five Anglophone West African countries (The Gambia, Ghana, Liberia, Nigeria, and Sierra Leone) to understand what is reported about maternal deaths and how they are reported. Four to five widely read online newspapers and two of the most popular blogging sites from each country were selected. For each source, we searched for relevant articles, retrieving and including those with a detailed report of maternal death due to obstetric causes. Following data extraction, we used quantitative and qualitative analyses, using the three-delay model and a derived standards checklist based on the Principles of the Association of Health Care Journalists and the Impress Standards Code for coding, respectively. Inter-coder reliability was assessed for quantitative analysis, and audit trail and debriefing conducted for qualitative analysis. Fifty-three detailed articles, consisting of 35 online newspaper articles (61%) and 16 blogs (30%), were included. Most were published in 2023 (30%) and in Nigeria (75%). Delays in facilities, including negligence, malpractice, long waiting times, and withholding care contingent on payment, were frequently mentioned. All articles distinguished fact from opinion, and authors avoided taking a side, 90% were respectful, 68% captured >1 perspective, with most capturing perspectives of the spouse and the government; however, only 6% consulted independent experts. Overall, media reportage of maternal deaths in Anglophone West Africa confirms existing and offers new insights. Preservation of the dignity and respect of pregnant women in death; engagement of multiple voices, including independent experts, and inclusion of actions being undertaken or required to prevent future occurrences will improve reporting and its utility for policy change.

Acute Achilles tendon ruptures (AATRs) are devastating injuries for athletes, yet outcomes in elite rugby union players remain poorly characterized. Elite rugby union players who sustain AATRs will demonstrate significantly reduced performance metrics postinjury compared with preinjury levels. Retrospective case series. Level 4. A retrospective review of elite rugby union players who sustained Achilles ruptures from 2013 to 2025 was performed. Data, including player demographics, injury characteristics, and performance metrics, were collected from rugby databases and media reports. A Wilcoxon signed rank test was used to compare pre- and postrupture performance metrics. Effect size was calculated using matched-pairs rank-biserial correlation, with median paired differences and 95% CIs. A P value <0.05 was determined as statistically significant. A total of 52 elite rugby union players with a median age of 28 years were identified. Overall, 80.8% of players returned to play (RTP) at a median time of 8.5 months. In the season immediately after injury, games played, tries, tries per game, points, and points per game were all significantly lower than preinjury values (all P ≤ 0.003; r = -0.49 to -0.61). Across all seasons, games per season, tries per season, tries per game, points per season, and points per game were significantly lower after injury (all P < 0.001; r = -0.47 to -0.72). AATRs in elite rugby union players were associated with significant declines in performance metrics in both the immediate postinjury season and across subsequent seasons. These findings highlight the substantial performance impact of AATRs and support the need for improved position-specific prevention strategies and targeted postinjury rehabilitation protocols. Clinicians can use these findings to counsel rugby athletes and teams on prognosis, treatment decisions, and realistic performance expectations after AATRs.

Along with the acceleration of the process of innovation investment in recent years, emerging market media coverage has been utilized by companies to enhance their competitiveness. The study conducts a theoretical analysis and an empirical test of the relationship between media reports and innovation investment, as well as the impact of media reporting attitude and reporting source on corporate innovation, using panel data for the period 2010-2021 for A-share-listed companies in Shanghai and Shenzhen, China. These findings show that media reports are influenced by media emotions, which can promote corporate investment in innovation, mainly in non-state-owned enterprises. They also have implications for enterprises and governments, who can leverage the media and public opinion to align with long-term interests and promote the positive development of enterprises.

Regulatory ambiguity and governance challenges for psilocybin mushrooms in Brazil.

Drivers’ safety and security in the gig economy: A content analysis of media reports in Ghana

This study explores the crisis of authority and erosion of professional dignity among teachers in Indonesia through a juridical and ethical lens. This research emphasizes the dissonance between existing legal guarantees and their practical implementation in protecting teachers as professional educators. Using a qualitative method and library research approach, this study examines constitutional, statutory, and regulatory provisions, such as Article 28D paragraph (1) of the 1945 Constitution, Law Number 14 of 2005 on Teachers and Lecturers, Government Regulation Number 19 of 2017, and the Indonesian Teachers’ Code of Ethics. Recent media reports highlighting violence against teachers, defamation cases, and administrative neglect were also analyzed to provide contextual evidence. The findings reveal that the government’s legal protection has been largely normative and declarative, with weak enforcement mechanisms that fail to ensure a sense of security and moral recognition for educators. The teaching profession is facing an internal decline in authority due to social distrust, shifting values in education, and institutional pressure that undermines teachers’ autonomy. This paper concludes that reinforcing juridical protection and revitalizing ethical standards are essential for restoring teachers’ dignity and authority within the national education framework. Collaborative synergy between state institutions, professional organizations, and the community is required to uphold justice, ensure teachers’ well-being, and reaffirm their moral standing as the cornerstone of national education.

This study examines the governance of artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) in Bone Bolango Regency, with a particular focus on the role of the Regional House of Representatives (DPRD) in balancing economic, environmental, and social interests. Although the contribution of ASM to the Gross Regional Domestic Product (GRDP) is relatively small, the sector serves as a primary or supplementary livelihood for more than 4,000 households, creating a high level of microeconomic dependency. The research employs a systematic literature review, analysis of government data, official statistics, and local media reports to map economic dynamics, ecological risks, and social vulnerabilities. The findings reveal that the DPRD tends to align with the aspirations of the majority of miners, while environmental concerns and the protection of vulnerable groups—such as women, children, and indigenous communities—receive limited attention. Unregulated mining practices generate significant ecological risks, including mercury contamination and landslides, as well as social conflicts related to land access and ownership. The study concludes that more adaptive and inclusive legislative strategies are needed, encompassing the strengthening of deliberative forums, participatory monitoring, ecological risk zoning, and compensation mechanisms for affected groups. Through such approaches, ASM can continue to sustain community-level microeconomies while minimizing ecological and social risks, thereby achieving a balance between economic growth, environmental sustainability, and social justice.

Generative artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots have rapidly entered public use, including in contexts involving emotional support and mental health-related interactions. Although these systems are increasingly accessible, concerns have emerged regarding potential adverse psychiatric outcomes reported in public discourse, including psychosis, suicidal ideation, self-harm, and suicide. However, these reports largely originate from journalistic accounts rather than systematically verified clinical data. This rapid scoping review aimed to systematically map and characterize mass media narratives describing alleged adverse psychiatric outcomes temporally associated with generative AI chatbot interactions. A rapid scoping review methodology was applied to publicly accessible news articles identified primarily through Google News searches. Articles published from November 2022 onward were screened for eligibility if they described a specific case in which psychiatric deterioration or crisis was temporally linked to generative AI use. Data were extracted using a structured coding template capturing article characteristics, demographic information, AI platform features, interaction intensity, outcome type and severity, type of evidence reported, and causal attribution language. Descriptive statistics and cross-tabulations were performed. A total of 71 news articles representing 36 unique cases were included. Suicide death was the most frequently reported outcome (35/61, 57.4% cases with complete severity coding), followed by psychiatric hospitalization (12/61, 19.7%). Fatal outcomes were disproportionately represented among minors (19/21, 90.5%) compared with adults (17/35, 48.6%). ChatGPT was the most frequently cited platform (51/71, 71.8%), followed by Character AI (10/71, 14.1%). Causal attribution most commonly referenced AI system behavior (45/61, 73.8%), and the term "alleged" was the predominant causal descriptor (33/61, 54.1%). Evidence sources were primarily chat logs or screenshots (34/61, 55.7%), while police or medical documentation was rare (1/61, 1.6%). Regulatory calls were present in 51 of 60 (85%) articles with nonmissing data. Mass media reporting of generative AI-related psychiatric harms is concentrated around severe outcomes, particularly suicide deaths among youth, and is frequently framed within regulatory and corporate accountability narratives. While causality cannot be established from media reports, consistent patterns of high-intensity interactions, user vulnerability, and limited safeguard reporting highlight the need for structured safety surveillance, transparent AI risk auditing, and clearer governance frameworks. As generative AI becomes increasingly integrated into everyday psychosocial contexts, systematic research and formal safety monitoring will be necessary to determine whether media-reported harms correspond to verifiable clinical risk patterns.

This study examines how technical failures in digital government systems escalate into crises of national critical infrastructure from a structural perspective. Using domestic media reports published between 2021 and 2026, the study applies text mining and social network analysis to investigate the pathways through which digital system failures propagate into broader social impacts. A three-layer analytical framework—Cause, Service, and Impact—was employed to capture the causal flow from technical disruptions to societal consequences. The findings reveal that while digital government failures originate from diverse technical causes, including fires, power outages, server malfunctions, network equipment failures, and cyberattacks, their impacts converge on a limited number of core digital services, such as Government 24, administrative networks, and mobile identification systems. These services function as structural hubs within a many-to-one-to-many risk configuration, amplifying the cascading effects of disruptions. In particular, Government24 and mobile identification services exhibited high betweenness centrality, indicating their critical role as mediators in failure propagation. The transition from technical failure to social impact—such as administrative delays and declines in government trust—occurred through remarkably short pathways, typically within one to two network steps. These results suggest that the vulnerability of digital government as critical infrastructure is driven less by the frequency of individual failures than by the structural concentration of services. By empirically identifying the network-based diffusion mechanisms of digital government disruptions, this study contributes to the development of policy strategies aimed at enhancing the resilience of digital public infrastructure and mitigating the societal escalation of technical failures.

This study highlights how Donald Trump’s first six months back in office have showcased an aggressive executive attack on academic freedom, an attack that bears the hallmarks of an illiberal regime. Drawing on executive orders, legislation and media reports from January 20, 2025, until July 20 2025, our analysis situates Donald Trump’s actions against academia alongside an existing pattern of authoritarian strategies. This analysis, which is organized around three central hypotheses—that the administration is defunding and restricting academic programs, is actively centralizing university governance, and is targeting dissenting scholars and research—showcases that the Trump administration’s actions at the beginning of its second term greatly mirror those used by past and contemporary authoritarian or autocratizing regimes. Our analyses pinpoints that American academia is continuously being reshaped into an ideologically compliant institution through executive pressures and coercion. Thus, our study highlights how academia can serve as both a site and a signal of democratic erosion in the United States.