London Academic Research Press is proud to announce the publication of the inaugural issue of the Multidisciplinary International Research
Journal (MIRJ) — Volume 1, Issue 1 (2026) — now openly accessible to the global research community.
This first issue embodies the journal's founding commitment to rigorous, peer-reviewed, open-access scholarship that crosses traditional
disciplinary boundaries. The five articles assembled here span engineering, computer science, international political economy, sustainability
governance, and international law — a deliberate breadth that reflects the journal's editorial mission to publish work of demonstrable methodological
rigour, scholarly originality, and practical or theoretical significance, irrespective of field.
Each contribution in this issue completed MIRJ's full double-anonymised peer-review process and editorial assessment prior to acceptance.
Articles in this Issue
1. MC-WiFi: A Low-Latency and Ultra-Reliable PHY Layer Architecture for Mission-Critical Machine-Type Communications
This article proposes a physical-layer architecture for Wi-Fi systems engineered to meet the stringent latency and reliability requirements of
mission-critical machine-type communications (mcMTC). The work contributes to the growing literature on industrial wireless connectivity, addressing
a key gap in the integration of unlicensed-spectrum technologies with deterministic communication demands.
2. Toward Efficient Privacy-Preserving Classification and Retrieval of Encrypted Images Using Deep Convolutional Neural Networks
Operating at the intersection of computer vision, applied cryptography, and deep learning, this study advances methods for performing
classification and retrieval directly over encrypted image data. The authors examine the efficiency–privacy trade-offs of convolutional neural
network architectures in secure outsourced computation, with implications for cloud-based medical imaging, biometrics, and sensitive visual
archives.
3. International Trade Organisations as Institutional Drivers of Corporate Sustainability in Emerging Economies: A Comprehensive Review and
Integrative Framework
This comprehensive review interrogates the role of international trade organisations in shaping corporate sustainability practices across emerging
economies. Drawing on institutional theory, the article synthesises a fragmented literature and proposes an integrative framework that clarifies the
mechanisms — regulatory, normative, and cognitive — through which transnational trade institutions influence firm-level sustainability
behaviour.
4. Cross-Border Military Recruitment in Protracted Conflicts: Yemeni Pathways into the Russia–Ukraine War — Structural Drivers, Operational
Mechanisms, and International-Law Analysis
Combining empirical analysis of recruitment pathways with a doctrinal reading of international humanitarian and human-rights law, this article
examines the cross-border mobilisation of Yemeni nationals into the Russia–Ukraine war. It interrogates the structural conditions that enable such
recruitment, the operational intermediaries involved, and the legal responsibilities of states and non-state actors under existing international-law
instruments.
5. Enhanced Distance-Based Resource Allocation (EDBRA) Scheme for Optimized Spectrum Efficiency in Device-to-Device (D2D) Enabled 6G
Networks
This contribution presents EDBRA, a distance-aware resource-allocation scheme designed to improve spectrum efficiency in device-to-device
communications within emerging 6G network architectures. The work advances ongoing research into scalable, interference-managed allocation strategies
for ultra-dense connectivity environments.
Open Access and Citation
All articles in MIRJ Volume 1, Issue 1 are published under an open-access licence, ensuring barrier-free access for readers, researchers,
libraries, and institutions worldwide. Full bibliographic metadata is provided to support indexing and citation in scholarly databases.
- Journal: Multidisciplinary International Research Journal (MIRJ)
- Publisher: London Academic Research Press Ltd, London, United Kingdom
- Volume / Issue: Volume 1, Issue 1 (2026)
- Publication Date: 18 May 2026
- Access: Open Access (Peer-Reviewed)
- ISSN (Online): N/A
Acknowledgements
The Editorial Board extends its sincere gratitude to the authors who entrusted MIRJ with their scholarship, to the reviewers whose careful
assessments shaped the final published versions, and to the editorial and production teams whose work brought this inaugural issue to publication. We
also thank the wider academic community for the support and encouragement received since the journal's launch.
Submit Your Research
MIRJ is now actively accepting submissions for Volume 1, Issue 2 and subsequent issues. Authors working across the natural sciences, engineering,
computer and information sciences, social sciences, humanities, law, and health sciences are warmly invited to submit original research articles,
systematic reviews, and methodologically rigorous case studies. Full submission guidelines, author resources, and editorial policies are available on
the journal's website.
We invite the global research community to read, cite, and share the work published in this inaugural issue, and to join us in advancing open,
rigorous, multidisciplinary scholarship.