Bridging Horizons
innovation, Identity and Global Futures
Volume 1, Issue 3 — March 2026
Published July 2026
ISSN: 3069-8200
The Princeton Journal of Interdisciplinary Research (PJIR) proudly presents Volume 1, Issue 3 (2025), Bridging Horizons: Innovation, Identity, and Global Futures — the third installment of our inaugural publishing year.
Building upon the foundations of Voices in Convergence and Frontiers of Inquiry, this issue deepens PJIR’s commitment to rigorous, cross-disciplinary scholarship that confronts both emerging and enduring global questions. The research featured in this edition traverses scientific innovation and technological transformation; re-examinations of social, cultural, and political identities; ethical dimensions of public policy and governance; and evolving intersections between health, economics, and global development.
Two Best Paper selections exemplify this breadth: "Deepfakes On Trial: A Mixed-Methods Study of Student Perceptions and Regulatory Concerns about Non-Consensual Deepfakes at the London School of Economics and Political Science," which interrogates the ethical and regulatory implications of emerging synthetic media technologies. Meanwhile, "Interpretable Transfer Learning with EfficientNetB0 for Automated Detection of Rare Anemia Morphologies in Peripheral Blood Smears" demonstrates how advances in machine learning and biomedical imaging can be translated into clinically meaningful diagnostic tools, highlighting the growing convergence of computational innovation and medical practice.
Alongside the two Best Paper selections, this volume features contributions addressing religion and social meaning, structural inequality, developments in the life sciences, and more. We hope these studies encourage readers to draw connections across fields and to approach complex contemporary questions with intellectual openness.
All accepted articles are published online under ISSN 3069-8200.
Editor’s Note
Serious scholarship often begins with a single, well-defined question. Yet the moment we follow that question far enough, we find it rarely stays in one place. Questions about attention become questions about education and equity. Questions about algorithms become questions about trust and accountability. Questions about biological systems quickly intersect with questions about human experience. This issue brings together work that reflects precisely this movement across boundaries.
In this volume, we are proud to feature research on ADHD, the effects of racial bias in dermatology datasets on convolutional neural networks, the emerging legal terrain of deepfakes, sustainable building materials, structural inequality, developments in the life sciences, and more. The issue also includes work engaging questions of religion and belief, examining gender and social identity, and exploring problems in linguistics, and more.
We celebrate interdisciplinary scholarship not as a slogan, but as a practice. The work collected here demonstrates careful technical reasoning alongside ethical awareness and social sensitivity. It shows that strong research does not dilute disciplinary rigor; rather, it is often strengthened when scholars remain attentive to the wider implications of their methods and findings.
PJIR Editorial Team
Articles in This Issue
Prevalence and Contribution of the Rifampicin Resistance rpoABC Genes in Mycobacterium Tuberculosis
Author: Chunman Li
Affiliation: Beijing World Youth Academy
Abstract:
Tuberculosis is one of the most fatal single infectious diseases. In recent years antibiotic resistance, particularly rifampicin resistant strains have appeared obstructing treatment of this deadly disease and raising fatality. Many studies have linked this developed resistance to specific genes found in Mycobacterium tuberculosis...
Keywords: M. tuberculosis, antibiotic resistance, rpoB, BLAST
Mechanisms and Implications of Anastasis, the Reversal of Apoptosis
Author: Jasmine Z. Liu
Affiliation: Cambridge Centre for International Research, Ltd.
Abstract:
The study of cell death has advanced significantly since the development of microscopy in the 19th century, allowing for a deeper understanding of regulated cell death processes like apoptosis and specific types of necrosis. In this process, a new form of cell recovery called anastasis has been proposed...
Keywords: Anastasis, apoptosis, regulated cell death, caspase activation, cancer therapeutics, chemotherapy resistance, neurodegeneration, disease progression
Revolutionizing Brain Cancer Diagnosis: A Review Of Liquid Biopsies And ctDNA Analysis
Author: Noor S. Al-Azawi
Affiliation: Cambridge Center for International Research
Abstract:
Brain tumors are rare yet highly complex malignancies that pose significant diagnostic and therapeutic challenges. Liquid biopsy (LB) has emerged as a novel, non-invasive approach to detect and monitor brain tumors by analyzing biomarkers such as circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) in bodily fluids...
Keywords: Liquid Biopsy, Circulating tumor DNA, Brain Tumors
A Marxist Approach of the Indian Economy in The White Tiger
Author: Shafika Fathima
Affiliation: Women's Christian College
Abstract:
The White Tiger is a narrative of Balram Halwai, who was born in the ‘darkness’ and desires to escape the poverty that surrounds him. It has been widely critiqued through both an optimistic and critical lens. Many researchers have attempted post-colonial readings, subaltern approaches and animal studies approaches...
Keywords: Marxism, socio-economic structures, darkness, light
Citation for This Issue
Princeton Journal of Interdisciplinary Research. (2026). Volume 1, Issue 3 — Bridging Horizons. PJIR.
https://www.princeton-press.com/pjir/issues/vol-1-issue-3
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