Abstract Macroscale ocean fronts aggregate significant biomass and provide critical foraging habitat for large marine predators. These frontal systems shift in response to ocean climate variation, including basin‐scale oscillations, and the degree to which marine predators track these movements affects their foraging and reproductive success. Using two decades of adult female northern elephant seal (Mirounga angustirostris) movement data, we assessed their use of the Subarctic Frontal Zone (SAFZ) in the northeast Pacific Ocean, the SAFZ's influence on their diving behavior, and its importance to their foraging success. We found that elephant seals followed the interannual movement of the SAFZ and their diel diving behavior became more extreme as they moved closer to the SAFZ, likely reflecting a different vertical distribution of prey in the region. During their short foraging trip, elephant seals that spent time north of the SAFZ, where day and night diving depths were more similar, had greater foraging success. During the long, gestational foraging trip, their geographic distribution relative to the SAFZ did not influence foraging success, but larger animals were more successful, likely due to more efficient diving. Understanding the relationship between dynamic foraging habitat and the response capacity of predator species is critical for assessing the resilience of species and ecosystems as ocean climates become less predictable.
The application of Liberation Psychology in career counseling with immigrant, bicultural youth of colorz was explored, emphasizing the framework’s potential to empower marginalized youth within the school counseling context. Liberation Psychology, developed to address issues of systemic oppression and cultural identity in mental health, provides a powerful lens for understanding the unique challenges faced by immigrant youth who navigate multiple cultural expectations. Key concepts of Liberation Psychology, such as critical consciousness (CC), problematization, de-ideologization, recovery of historical memory, and praxis are introduced to emphasize the approach’s relevance in addressing the socio-political and identity-related struggles of bicultural youth. A case study, offers practical recommendations for school and career counselors, advocating for interventions that respect and integrate students’ cultural backgrounds, promote critical awareness, and support agency. This approach not only aligns with the ethical mandates for culturally responsive practice but also fosters resilience, belonging, and self-efficacy among immigrant youth, positioning them to succeed in their personal and professional journeys.
The present practice-oriented article is informed by dialectical epistemologies embedded within Asian cultural traditions. It introduces a new healing framework that integrates work ethic and rest ethic for Asian American counseling practice. The article posits that engaging in the dialectics of work ethic and rest ethic provides a meaningful and practical approach to foster greater value placed on rest, both collectively and individually, within Asian American communities. Using the framework, the article discusses case illustrations of the work and rest ethic for Korean immigrant and Korean American clients, further contextualized by Korean indigenous psychological concepts. The case illustrations present examples of the intergenerational emotions of haan, jeong, and heung as keys to understanding their lived experiences and fostering healing in their communities. Suggestions for Asian American counseling practice are discussed.
Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly applied in healthcare, yet ensuring their ethical integrity and safety compliance remains a major barrier to clinical deployment. This work introduces a multi-agent refinement framework designed to enhance the safety and reliability of medical LLMs through structured, iterative alignment. Our system combines two generative models - DeepSeek R1 and Med-PaLM - with two evaluation agents, LLaMA 3.1 and Phi-4, which assess responses using the American Medical Association's (AMA) Principles of Medical Ethics and a five-tier Safety Risk Assessment (SRA-5) protocol. We evaluate performance across 900 clinically diverse queries spanning nine ethical domains, measuring convergence efficiency, ethical violation reduction, and domain-specific risk behavior. Results demonstrate that DeepSeek R1 achieves faster convergence (mean 2.34 vs. 2.67 iterations), while Med-PaLM shows superior handling of privacy-sensitive scenarios. The iterative multi-agent loop achieved an 89
A bstract We analyze pole skipping of stress tensor two-point functions in two-dimensional quantum field theories perturbed away from conformality by a relevant deformation. The retarded two-point Green’s function can be formally computed in conformal perturbation theory, though it results in singular expressions. We propose a natural interpretation of these expressions and compute the resulting Green’s function to leading nontrivial order in the deformation. As a check of our results, we compare the Lyapunov exponents and butterfly velocities we find from our computed skipped poles to those obtained from both a leading-order conformal field theory analysis using Ward identities, as well as to a holographic gravitational dual perturbed by a massive scalar field; we find precise agreement. We comment on extensions to sub-leading order, where agreement with holographic expectations would no longer be expected.
