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Recent papers from The Open University

1. Unleashed agency: Navigating sociopragmatic enablers and constraints for social transformationDiscourse Studies · 2026
2. The painful spot: psychological support for the couple relationship when parenting children with undiagnosed genetic syndromes (SWAN)2026
3. Humid periods over western Sahara during the Middle Miocene Climate Transition and their implications on the carbon cycleScience Advances · 2026
4. Digging Into the Subsoil: Considering and Theorizing Human Services Delivery at the Sub‐Micro‐Level of the Public Service EcosystemPublic Administration Review · 2026
5. “Society failed men”: male self-help influencers around dating and fitness, optimised hegemonic masculinity and networked misogynyPopular Communication · 2026
6. Transactional Obfuscation Techniques and the Limits of On-Chain Analysis in Deanonymizing Money Laundering within the Telegram Ecosystem2026
7. Euclid Quick Data Release (Q1). Refining the strong lens sample with Space Warps crowd-sourced science2026
8. Accounting and the fragmented self: institutional opacity, spiritual inequality and moral burden in Islamic financeAccounting Auditing & Accountability Journal · 2026
9. Estimation of body-mass distributions of Carboniferous tetrapod communities and comparison with modern coastal tropical wetlandsPaleobiology · 2026
10. Resilience of the FIDO2/WebAuthn Protocol and Hardware Security Keys (YubiKey) Against Adversary-in-the-Middle (AitM) Phishing Attacks Compared to RFC 6238 TOTP: An Empirical Study and Architectural Framework2026
11. Beyond Cheshire West: liberty, consent and safeguarding adults with acquired brain injuryThe Journal of Adult Protection · 2026
12. Metastable hydrate of sodium chloride is a pentahydrate as revealed by 3D electron diffraction2026
13. From Black Box to Shared Meaning :KGs as tools for explainable AI systems2026
14. A Vision for 360° Video in Teacher Professional Development at Scale: Opportunities, Practical Directions, and Theoretical ImplicationsECNU Review of Education · 2026
15. Iyengar Yoga in Britain2026
16. Atmospheric pressure plasma jet printing and in situ oxidation of Ti2C MXene for photocatalytic dye degradationApplied Materials Today · 2026
17. Validating an early pregnancy HbA1c as the screening test for gestational diabetes mellitus: findings from PRISMA Pakistan cohortBMJ Open · 2026
18. The general position problem: a surveyArs Mathematica Contemporanea · 2026
19. The role of music, movement, and play in stress regulation for people with severe intellectual disabilities and challenging behaviour: insights from a concept mapping study with five stakeholder perspectivesInternational Journal of Developmental Disabilities · 2026
20. Enigmatic HCl detections as a potential signature of igneous activity on MarsScience Advances · 2026