20-Jan-2026 The big five, life satisfaction, and job identity development: A longitudinal study on the school‐to‐work transition Osaka Metropolitan University An Osaka Metropolitan University-led research team examined job identity development among Japanese youth during their first year of employment and investigated whether the Big Five personality traits and life satisfaction during university predicted job identity after entering the workforce.
20-Jan-2026 UTEP study findings could help make AI voices more natural-sounding University of Texas at El Paso A speech study by a research team from The University of Texas at El Paso has identified an underappreciated aspect of speech in English and Spanish speakers that could lead to improvements in artificial intelligence spoken dialogue systems. Journal Speech Communication
20-Jan-2026 Entrepreneurial success under corruption depends on generation and experience, new study finds Strategic Management Society A new article in the Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal offers a nuanced view of how corruption affects entrepreneurial performance by showing that entrepreneurs’ generational backgrounds play a critical role in shaping outcomes. Moving beyond debates about whether corruption universally harms or helps entrepreneurship, the study adopts a contingency approach grounded in imprinting theory. Journal Strategic Management Journal
20-Jan-2026 A 12-day experimental study reveals the role of natural oils in reducing banana spoilage Sultan Qaboos University Within this framework, Dr. Laila Al-Yahyaei and her research team from Sultan Qaboos University conducted a recent study to examine the effectiveness of olive oil and moringa oil (Moringa peregrina) as natural edible coatings for protecting banana fruits from spoilage and improving their quality during storage. The study involved two banana varieties stored under different temperature conditions. Journal AgriEngineering
19-Jan-2026 Journal of Environmental Sciences Review explores micro(nano)plastic distribution and transport in hyporheic zones and groundwater Editorial Office of Journal of Environmental Sciences Micro(nano)plastics (MNPs) pose a global concern as an emerging environmental pollutant. However, their transport properties currently lack complete theoretical interpretation. In a recent review, researchers from China now provide a comprehensive summary of the present pollution status of MNPs in hyporheic zones and groundwater systems, explaining their transport process and proposing future research directions on MNPs. Journal Journal of Environmental Sciences
19-Jan-2026 Simplified multi-view graph neural network for multilingual knowledge graph completion Higher Education Press SM-GNN prunes multi-view GNNs to pure propagation, cutting training time while outperforming prior MKGC accuracies on two multilingual datasets via joint KGC and alignment loops. Journal Frontiers of Computer Science
19-Jan-2026 Shadow tomography of quantum states with prediction Higher Education Press Research team cuts shadow-tomography sample cost to ε^(−3) by seeding FTRL with a rough state guess ϱ, halving measurements when ϱ sits within trace distance Θ(ε) of the true ρ. Journal Frontiers of Computer Science
19-Jan-2026 New framework PyABV significantly enhances assertion verification capabilities of PyRTL Higher Education Press PyABV injects high-performance assertion engines into PyRTL, doubling verification coverage on complex HADM designs while sustaining RTL simulation speed for both academia and industry. Journal Frontiers of Computer Science
19-Jan-2026 Tool learning with large language models: A survey Higher Education Press Recent survey delivers the first systematic map of LLM tool-learning, dissecting why tools supercharge models and how four-stage workflows (plan→select→call→respond) perform, while cataloging benchmarks and open challenges to jump-start newcomers. Journal Frontiers of Computer Science
