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Frogging the Waterfront: The Role of Artistic Ritual in Built Environment Climate Adaptation
(Taylor and Francis Group, 2026-07-22) Tilley E; Gabriel S
This article examines the neglected role of artistic ritual in built environment climate adaptation, using the knitting metaphor of “frogging” (the deliberate unravelling of existing work) to explore processes of unmaking and remaking socio-ecological relationships. Based on a five-day participatory art installation, I’m Y(e)arning For Something, at The Performance Arcade in Aotearoa New Zealand, we analyze how creative, ritualized encounters surfaced affective responses to climate change that are often overlooked in formal planning processes. Ethnographic observations and conversations with participants revealed how grief, nostalgia, and loss aversion can shape resistance to urban transitions, delaying or preventing managed retreat from increasingly vulnerable infrastructure. The article shows how artistic ritual can create temporary spaces in which communities acknowledge, process, and symbolically release attachments to unsustainable places. It argues that embedding ritualized, participatory art practices into adaptation planning could strengthen community readiness for transformational change and improve the social legitimacy of difficult decisions. We conclude that artistic ritual constitutes a low‑cost but powerful cultural technology for crossing the emotional thresholds of climate adaptation.
From Remembering to Bare Attention? Mindfulness, Cognition, and Measurement in Psychological Science. A Commentary on Chems-Maarif et al. (2025)
(Springer, 2026-07-10) Kempton H
Recent efforts to refine the definition of mindfulness have aimed to improve conceptual clarity and psychometric coher- ence within psychological science. Chems-Maarif et al. (2025) contributed to this aim by proposing a definition centered on present-centred bare awareness across experiential domains, accompanied by an equanimous attitude. This commentary examines the implications of that refinement for theory, practice, and measurement. I argue that the exclusion of memory, attentional regulation, and temporal continuity reflects a conceptual narrowing in which descriptive features of meditative experience come to stand in for the broader psychological capacity of mindfulness. Drawing on cognitive psychology, con- templative science, and empirical findings on working memory and executive control, I suggest that mindfulness is more coherently understood as a temporally extended capacity for the flexible regulation of attention and attentional mode, includ- ing both intentional orienting and deliberate non-orientation, in ways that support effective engagement across contexts. This formulation preserves the pragmatic strengths of the refined definition while making explicit the functional commitments pre- supposed by post-meditative application, developmental change, and psychological measurement. Clarifying the distinction between experience and capacity may help align definitional theory with both cognitive mechanisms and the stable functional roles ascribed to mindfulness across contemplative traditions, without reintroducing doctrinal or sectarian commitments.
Bringing multiple job holding out of the moonlight: A person-centred typology of multiple job holder experiences
(Cambridge University Press, 2026-07-14) Port Z; Forsyth D; Tappin D
A topological analytics framework for preserving decision structure in supply chain inventory classification
(Elsevier, 2026-08-02) Theunissen F; Alam S; Sajjad A
Ineffective inventory classification compromises supply chain resilience when criteria selection methods conflate statistical prominence with decision utility. Standard techniques, specifically Principal Component Analysis (PCA), Recursive Feature Elimination (RFE), and Mutual Information (MI), risk inducing projection loss by excising structurally critical variables. We apply the Topological-Structural Axiomatic Validation (T-SAV) framework, which models criteria sets as simplicial complexes (structures built from points and their higher-order connections) and maps the decision axioms of completeness and non-redundancy to computable topological invariants. Using empirical data from a telecommunications infrastructure provider, we benchmark T-SAV against PCA, RFE, and MI. Results indicate distinct failure modes: PCA fragments the decision manifold into 14 disconnected components (consensus bias), while RFE discards control variables lacking predictive correlation (target dependency). T-SAV instead retains orthogonal keystone criteria that bridge financial and physical operational dimensions. T-SAV achieves a 99.63% variation capture ratio, against PCA (99.24%), MI (99.28%), and RFE (97.39%). Bootstrap resampling (B = 10,000) indicates these differences are statistically significant (p < 0.001), though the margin over PCA and MI is modest and the principal distinction is structural, since T-SAV alone satisfies both topological axioms. T-SAV also shows the lowest resampling variance (SD = 0.26), against markedly greater instability in RFE (SD = 1.84). In this empirical setting, topological validation can reveal structural weaknesses that statistical covariance and predictive error minimisation may miss. Practically, the framework lets managers check, before deployment, whether a criteria set holds together, lowering the risk of discarding criteria that are statistically quiet but operationally critical.
The food matrix as a confounder in diet‒microbiome studies: methodological challenges and research gaps
(Taylor & Francis Group, 2026-05-13) O'Sullivan E; Solano O; Oliveira JS; Johnson AJ; Dhital S; S Pillai PK; Dias F; Ubbink J; Lin AW; Teigen L
Interactions of structural and physicochemical properties of food (e.g. texture, viscosity, and solubility), known as the food matrix, are primary drivers of host digestive kinetics. While the impact of matrix-driven variability on nutrient bioaccessibility, glycemic response, and caloric absorption is well documented, these dynamics are often overlooked in diet-microbiome research. Adequately modeling the spatiotemporal availability of microbial substrate is essential to understanding how dietary patterns impact the microbiome throughout the gastrointestinal tract. This narrative review 1) synthesizes current evidence on how food processing and structure affect human digestion and absorption of macronutrients; 2) illustrates how host digestive kinetics impact forms and quantity of substrate delivered and available to the gut microbiota; and 3) identifies challenges and knowledge gaps in current diet-microbiome research regarding food structure. The challenges and knowledge gaps discussed here call for in vivo models that can better model microbial substrate availability throughout the gastrointestinal tract to improve our understanding of diet-microbiome interactions.