Background/Objective: Relay team ordering in competitive swimming is typically decided by minimizing total expected time, treating each swimmer’s performance independently. This ignores strategic interaction between competing coaches. This paper introduces a probabilistic, game-theoretic framework for determining swimmer ordering in elite 4×100 m freestyle relays, built on a corrected dataset and an identifiability-honest model of swimmer-leg […]

Abstract Political misinformation spreads rapidly online, motivating automated tools to support verification. This study compared four traditional classifiers—Multinomial Naive Bayes, Logistic Regression, Linear Support Vector Machine, and Decision Tree—with a convolutional neural network, a bidirectional long short-term memory network, and DistilBERT on the text-only, six-class LIAR benchmark. All models used the official training, validation, and […]

Abstract Background/Objective: International wildlife trade monitoring relies on accurate reporting from both importing and exporting nations. However, regulations built on this data often prove inadequate, as gaps in records allow disease risks to slip through the cracks. This study investigated discrepancies in United States live mammal import tracking data in the CITES Trade Database between […]

Abstract Sporting activities have proven to be another important site of learning, displaying and challenging hegemonic masculinities. Previous research has, however, mostly considered hegemonic masculinities, inclusive masculinities and the fitness culture of women as separate topics. This study examines relationships among masculine pressures, inclusive masculinity, perceived benefits of participating in sport-related activities and attitudes towards […]