In this paper, we outline our recent adventures in Action Research in which we developed a publicly available toolkit to help older adults and their caregivers ...

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has officially acknowledged hosting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for talks with Emirati President Mohammed bin Zayed, according to a statement from the Emirates News Agency late Monday, Sept. 28. The acknowledgment marks the first such confirmation since the UAE established diplomatic relations with Israel in 2020 [1]. The Emirates News Agency said bin Zayed discussed with the Israeli prime minister the bilateral relations between the two countries and...

It's common to want to traverse through several partials while updating HTML that a controller action renders. Rails.vim has a neat gf shortcut for this. This brings the same functionality to R...

Across the country, ordinary citizens are telling the data center industry a resounding NO, and the industry has answered with a war chest of its own. OpenAI, Blackstone, SoftBank and QTS have joined major construction unions to form the American Infrastructure Alliance. This high eight-figure campaign is designed to steer lawmakers away from moratoriums and toward regulatory guardrails - effectively branding the data center initiative as responsible growth that is good for jobs and the communit...

The deputy chairman of Hamas' Political Bureau said Saturday that he expects Israelis to campaign off Gaza's blood and dismissed the prospect that Israel's upcoming election would change conditions for Palestinians, according to a Middle East Eye report. Khalil al-Hayya made the statement in an interview with the Qatari station Al-Araby, the report stated. The remarks were made amid ongoing hostilities in Gaza and as Israel's election cycle continued. Whether this or that person comes to power, ...

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Across the country, ordinary citizens are telling the data center industry a resounding NO, and the industry has answered with a war chest of its own. OpenAI, Blackstone, SoftBank and QTS have joined major construction unions to form the American Infrastructure Alliance. This high eight-figure campaign is designed to steer lawmakers away from moratoriums and toward regulatory guardrails - effectively branding the data center initiative as responsible growth that is good for jobs and the communit...

Bats are natural reservoir hosts for numerous zoonotic viruses, yet the molecular mechanisms enabling viral persistence without overt disease remain incompletely understood. The Egyptian rousette bat (Rousettus aegyptiacus, ERB) is the sole known natural reservoir of Marburg virus (MARV) and a key host in the enzootic cycle of the tick-borne Kasokero virus (KASV), providing a unique system to compare host responses to different RNA viruses within the same species. Here, we applied serial cross-sectional serum proteomics integrated with tissue-specific viral kinetics to characterize systemic host responses to experimental MARV and KASV infection in captive-reared bats. Nearly 16 % of detected proteins (67/419) were found exclusively in infected animals, yet canonical acute inflammatory signatures driving pathology in other susceptible hosts were absent (e.g., in humans and non-human primates). Differential abundance and detection analyses identified both shared and virus-dependent responses, with MARV infection eliciting limited and transient perturbations, while KASV induced broader and more sustained engagement of complement, lectin pathway, and hepatometabolic proteins. Network-based analysis uncovered coordinated proteasome modules, including circulating immunoproteasome complexes, consistent with enhanced antigen-processing capacity is a feature of these virus-host dynamics. Together, these findings reveal how ERBs mount structured, virus-dependent systemic responses, offering new insight into mechanisms underlying viral infection in natural reservoir hosts.

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FUEL PRICES JUMP BY MORE THAN K6 PER LITRE.Motorists across Zambia are set to pay significantly more for fuel following a new price adjustment announced by the Energy Regulation Board (ERB). The biggest increases have been recorded in petrol and diesel, with both products rising by more than K6 per litre. Petrol will now cost