June 2026

Teaching pragmatic competence has received increasing attention in the fields of second language education, English language teaching (ELT), applied linguistics, and intercultural communication research. Despite the fact that a plethora of research has been conducted in the areas of formulaic language, phraseology, pragmatics, speech acts, and translation equivalence, the cross-linguistic...

The exponential expansion of biomedical literature, coupled with the growing demand for rapid clinical knowledge dissemination, has created an unsustainably high workload for researchers, peer reviewers, and journal editors. Large Language Models (LLMs) represent a transformative architectural pivot capable of automating, optimizing, and reshaping workflows across the health sciences publishing...

Model selection on multiply imputed data is biased toward the candidates with more missing information, which in the nested families studied are the more complex models, because their larger relative increase in variance makes the fit look better than it is. We trace this to a deviance bias in the...

The Toronto Urban Evolution Model (TUEM) offers a formal language for generat- ing empirical claims about urban evolution. Its basic unit is the formeme: information about how space is physically organized for particular activities and groups. This paper operationalizes a limited observable subset of TUEM through linked histori- cal evidence...

The marginal cost of generating a research paper with large language models (LLMs) has fallen sharply, from thousands of dollars in researcher time to a few dollars of compute. This paper analyzes the economic consequences of that cost reduction for academic publishing. We argue that cheap AI-assisted paper generation does...