In 1932, Khana Ratsadon (the People’s Party) overthrew the absolute monarchy in a military coup, introducing constitutional rule in Siam (Thailand after 1939). The dominant historical narrative in Thailand centres on the monarchy as the instigator of historical change, celebrating the roles of Thai monarchs in the development and protection of democracy. According to this narrative, democracy is portrayed as the monarchy’s gift to the people, while the significance of the 1932 revolution and Khana Ratsadon has been marginalized in the history of the origins of democracy in Thailand. Since the military coups in Thailand in 2006 and 2014, both original and newly created objects related to Khana Ratsadon have emerged in political protests against coups and post-coup governments. Simultaneously, a revisionist historiography has gained momentum. This article explores how the discursive and material (re)emergence of Khana Ratsadon contributes to the formation of a counter-memory, creating a space for political commentary to enact and reimagine the possibilities of community anew. In doing so, the article will examine the intricate relationship between a historiography of oblivion, counter-memory, and what we term ‘banal and revolutionary objects’.

This study investigated the association between dietary flavonoid intake and hearing impairment in older adults aged ≥70 years, using cross-sectional data from NHANES 2009–2010 and 2017–2018. Flavonoid intake was estimated from two 24-hour dietary recalls and categorized as low or high based on the median intake (85.4 mg/day). Hearing impairment was defined using pure-tone average (PTA) >25 dB in one or both ears. Among the 1,492 participants, 55.7% had bilateral hearing impairment, 15.6% had unilateral hearing impairment, and 28.7% had normal hearing. These categories were mutually exclusive, based on the presence of hearing impairment in one or both ears. After adjusting for sociodemographic, behavioral, and dietary covariates, low flavonoid intake was associated with a 45% greater odds of bilateral hearing impairment (adjusted odds ratio = 1.45; 95% confidence interval: 1.03–2.04; p = 0.034), but not associated with unilateral impairment. Marginal associations were also observed for specific flavonoid subclasses, including flavan-3-ols and catechins. A significant interaction with age was observed, with the positive association between higher flavonoid intake and severe hearing loss evident only in adults aged 70–75 years. These findings suggest that low flavonoid intake may be a modifiable dietary factor associated with age-related bilateral hearing loss. Increasing dietary flavonoid consumption may be associated with benefits for sensory health and could play a modest role in reducing the risk of hearing impairment in older adults, though further research is needed to confirm these findings.

Can American state legislators use social media to influence the political behaviors and attitudes of the public by crafting strategic messages? While elected officials from every level of government use social media, it is not clear how the public responds to their individual posts. I argue that the rhetorical strategies employed by legislators can have a direct impact on their online constituencies, moderated by the existence of a copartisan relationship. I test my argument using a simulated social media environment embedded within a traditional survey experiment to mimic the impact of real-life social media posts. I find that legislators’ social media posts influence their approval ratings, and at times, the public’s trust in government. However, I do not find evidence that small numbers of social media posts affect a willingness to participate in politics.

The characterization of biological objects with microwave spectroscopy is getting increasing interests, as it is label-free and noninvasive. To perform their analysis, 2-port sensors are present in the literature, enabling only partial investigations of 3D biological samples, without taking their structural heterogeneity into account. Within this context, a 4-port microwave-based biosensor dedicated to microtissue characterization is proposed, in order to extend the sensing capabilities of microwave dielectric spectroscopy and provide electrical responses of 3D biological models subdivisions. An electrical model suitable for such a multiport device is established to extract the characteristics of the different sections of the 3D entity. The modeling methodology exploits the symmetry of the microwave component, while applying a common and differential modes approach derived from the measured 4 ports scattering parameters. After the mathematical validation of this approach, different elementary models are evaluated. Ethanol-based aqueous solutions are first used for their homogeneity within the fluidic channel. Polystyrene beads exhibiting two different diameter sizes are then numerically and experimentally investigated due to their 3D configuration and their uniform and known permittivity. This study demonstrates that the 4-port sensor and associated electrical model enable to consider electrical subdivisions of the 3D entity under test, based on the localization of the object on the different microwave electrodes. This constitutes the first step toward the analyses of complex and heterogeneous 3D biological models such as microtissues.

It is well known that almost all graphs are canonizable by a simple combinatorial routine known as colour refinement, also referred to as the 1-dimensional Weisfeiler–Leman algorithm. With high probability, this method assigns a unique label to each vertex of a random input graph and, hence, it is applicable only to asymmetric graphs. The strength of combinatorial refinement techniques becomes a subtle issue if the input graphs are highly symmetric. We prove that the combination of colour refinement and vertex individualization yields a canonical labelling for almost all circulant digraphs (i.e., Cayley digraphs of a cyclic group). This result provides first evidence of good average-case performance of combinatorial refinement within the class of vertex-transitive graphs. Remarkably, we do not even need the full power of the colour refinement algorithm. We show that the canonical label of a vertex $v$ can be obtained just by counting walks of each length from $v$ to an individualized vertex. Our analysis also implies that almost all circulant graphs are compact in the sense of Tinhofer, that is, their polytops of fractional automorphisms are integral. Finally, we show that a canonical Cayley representation can be constructed for almost all circulant graphs by the more powerful 2-dimensional Weisfeiler–Leman algorithm.

The clinical presentation and course of illness of older-age bipolar disorder (OABD) are highly variable. In addition, the presentation and course of bipolar disorder (BD) differ between females and males. This study aims to carry out a network analysis of older people with symptoms compatible with BD. Using a sample from the MentDis_ICF65+ study, a symptom network analysis was conducted according to gender and age in 555 people over 65 in the Community of Madrid (Spain). The network was estimated using the InsingFit package that implements a procedure called eLasso. These results reveal differences in the strength, closeness, and betweenness of the networks according to gender and for the age groups 65–74 and 75–84. Females present a network that is much more sparse, with a lower density, and consisting of two sub-networks: one composed of TALK (more talkative than usual) and RACIN (a flight of ideas, racing thoughts) and the other of PAINF (activities with painful consequences), SLEEP (the decreased need for sleep), GRAND (inflated self-esteem), and AGIT (psychomotor agitation). In the case of men, a denser network is obtained, with greater connections between all the symptoms, being the edge with greater weight than the one integrated by RACIN and GRAND. In relation to age, it is possible to observe changes in the model between the two age groups. These network differences support viewing OABD dimensionally and emphasize considering gender and age to improve understanding and personalize treatments for older adults with bipolar disorder symptoms.

This paper is concerned with Liouville-type theorems of positive weak solutions to elliptic $m$-Laplace equation and inequality with the logarithmic nonlinearity $u^q(\log u)^p (q,p\geqslant0)$. Using a direct Bernstein method we obtain a first range of values of $m,q,p$ in which all positive weak solutions of equation are constants, this holds in the following cases: (i) $1 \lt m \lt 2$, $m-1 \lt q \lt 1$, $0 \lt p \lt q$; (ii) $m \gt 1$, $q\geqslant1$, $0 \lt p \lt 1$. When $q=1$, the positive weak solutions are required to be bounded. Based on transformation of inequality and the utilization of suitable cut-off functions, we establish a Liouville-type theorem for positive weak solutions of inequality; this result also remains valid on complete noncompact Riemannian manifold.

After nearly two decades of documenting Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o’s life and work, this reflection situates my conversations with him within a broader canvas—one that allows us to hear him in dialogue with fellow writers, activists, and global artists.

To what extent does refugee protection in Western Europe depend on the ethno-religious and gender identity of asylum seekers? This article examines how selective humanitarianism, shaped by the identity of asylum seekers and migrants, shapes their protection status. It offers an analysis of Germany’s response to Yezidi refugees, in comparison with that of France, in the wake of the genocidal campaign carried out by the Islamic State in 2014. Drawing on fieldwork that includes interviews with Yezidi refugees and stakeholders in Germany, we argue that contemporary asylum regimes operate through three interrelated mechanisms: the securitization of certain groups, selective humanitarian exceptions, and neoliberal selection criteria. The Yezidi experience illustrates how these mechanisms generate hierarchies of protection, wherein even recognized victims of genocide must meet increasingly economic thresholds to secure lasting refuge. While specialized programs for women survivors represent important humanitarian innovations, they often exclude male family members, thereby producing new forms of vulnerability. Struggling to align with dominant narratives of economically valuable migrants, Yezidis encounter a renewed form of liminality in Europe.

Let $\Bbbk$ be a field, $H$ a Hopf algebra over $\Bbbk$, and $R = (_iM_j)_{1 \leq i,j \leq n}$ a generalized matrix algebra. In this work, we establish necessary and sufficient conditions for $H$ to act partially on $R$. To achieve this, we introduce the concept of an opposite covariant pair and demonstrate that it satisfies a universal property. In the special case where $H = \Bbbk G$ is the group algebra of a group $G$, we recover the conditions given in [7] for the existence of a unital partial action of $G$ on $R$.