Calling something ‘AI slop’ has become the internet’s new witch-hunt, with Reddit and Hacker News users increasingly accusing fellow commenters of being robots, even when there’s no evidence of this.

Background: Ensuring the consistent availability of operating theatre supplies is critical for safe surgical care. However, supply chain disruptions remain common in low ...

This paper investigates why the widely-used Big Three financial literacy index provides a reliable measure of financial literacy. Using an Item Response Theory framework, we estimate item difficulty ...