Spotlight on AI and Healthcare: From Imaging to Immunity
News and Views
| DOI: 10.17160/josha.13.2.1131

Spotlight on AI and Healthcare: From Imaging to Immunity

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Rohita Biswas, Cinthya Souza Simas, Sara Tóth Martínez, María Belén Moyano, Gerhard Steinmann, Roland Mertelsmann

Journal of Science, Humanities and Arts (JOSHA)

This edition of the Spotlights brings together six curated reads mapping how computation and policy are reshaping medicine: from the pixel to the population. MetaSeg shows how meta-learned implicit neural…

Spotlight on AI and Society: Power, Bias, and Behavior
News and Views
| DOI: 10.17160/josha.13.2.1129

Spotlight on AI and Society: Power, Bias, and Behavior

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Rohita Biswas, Cinthya Souza Simas, Sara Tóth Martínez, Gerhard Steinmann, Roland Mertelsmann, María Belén Moyano

Journal of Science, Humanities and Arts (JOSHA)

This Spotlight follows AI as it shifts from a helpful assistant to a system that can produce, judge, and propagate ideas at scale and shows what that change is doing…

Editorial Volume 13, Issue 2
News and Views
| DOI: 10.17160/josha.13.2.1130

Editorial Volume 13, Issue 2

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Stephan Seiler

International Academy of Sciences, Humanities, and Arts (IASHA e.V.)

Dear josha-journal readers, we welcome all readers to a new issue. JOSHA operates on four key principles: open access, ensuring all articles are freely available to readers worldwide; interdisciplinarity, welcoming…

Spotlight on Healthcare Systems & Professional Challenges
News and Views
| DOI: 10.17160/josha.13.1.1126

Spotlight on Healthcare Systems & Professional Challenges

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Rohita Biswas, Cinthya Souza Simas, Sara Tóth Martínez, Gerhard Steinmann, Roland Mertelsmann

Journal of Science, Humanities and Arts (JOSHA)

How do systems quietly exhaust the people meant to sustain them? In this JOSHA Spotlight, five pieces map the hidden workload behind healthcare, higher education, and research. It traces antifungal…

Significance of Timely Prenatal Care: A Case of Dandy-Walker Variant Diagnosed in the Third Trimester
Medicine
| DOI: 10.17160/josha.13.1.1120

Significance of Timely Prenatal Care: A Case of Dandy-Walker Variant Diagnosed in the Third Trimester

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German Andres Guevara Lizarazo, Jonattan Palacios Torres, Joshuart David Pascuas Varela, Mayra Alejandra Vargas Quiroga, Marbin Yulieth Alvarez Ramirez

Autonomous University of Bucaramanga

This case describes a 24-year-old primigravida woman from a rural area in Santander, Colombia, who began prenatal care late at 28.3 weeks. At 29.3 weeks, obstetric ultrasound showed hypoplasia of…

Spotlight on Gender, Identity and Social Change
News and Views
| DOI: 10.17160/josha.13.1.1124

Spotlight on Gender, Identity and Social Change

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Rohita Biswas, Cinthya Souza Simas, Sara Tóth Martínez, Gerhard Steinmann, Roland Mertelsmann, María Belén Moyano

Journal of Science, Humanities and Arts (JOSHA)

Across politics, technology, and personal relationships, today’s “identity debates” are, at their core, contests over who shapes discourse. This Spotlight brings together six German-language essays and interviews from newspapers exploring…

Tailored Light
Visual Arts, Architecture and Design
| DOI: 10.17160/josha.13.1.1121

Tailored Light

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Adél Tóth

Independent Artist

This collection highlights textile crafts that have faded from contemporary design. Once central to clothing production, labour-intensive techniques like embroidery, pleating and smocking are now rarely used in modern wearables.…

Spotlight on Scientific Discovery & Engineering: Physics, Function & Future Frontiers
News and Views
| DOI: 10.17160/josha.13.1.1123

Spotlight on Scientific Discovery & Engineering: Physics, Function & Future Frontiers

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Rohita Biswas, Cinthya Souza Simas, Sara Tóth Martínez, Gerhard Steinmann, Roland Mertelsmann, María Belén Moyano

Journal of Science, Humanities and Arts (JOSHA)

This Spotlight series traces how physics-driven methods and engineering choices are reshaping what we can detect, build, and understand in living systems and how innovation is steered by society. Ultraweak…

A Systematic Review of the Efficacy of Behavioural and Psychosocial Intervention Therapies for Mental Health Disorders
Medicine
| DOI: 10.17160/josha.13.1.1072

A Systematic Review of the Efficacy of Behavioural and Psychosocial Intervention Therapies for Mental Health Disorders

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Abdullah Damilare Shonola, Bushirat Omolara Mulero, Dawud M.A. Danzaki, Aminat Ololade Adeniyi, Modupeoluwa Ogidan, Emmanuel Soyombo, Raodat Motunrayo Abdulkareem

This systematic review takes a close look at how effective behavioural and psychosocial interventions are for mental health disorders, pulling together evidence from studies published between 2020 and 2025. It…