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Source-Preserving Prompt Augmentation and Category-Adaptive Inference for Qwen3-1.7B: A Prospective Seed-Replication Study

This preprint investigates whether a fixed compound inference intervention can improve the performance of a small language model without updating its parameters. The experimental program compares structured prompt replacement, natural-language rewriting, source-preserving semanti...

Source-Preserving Prompt Augmentation and Category-Adaptive Inference for Qwen3-1.7B: A Prospective Seed-Replication Study

This preprint investigates whether a fixed compound inference intervention can improve the performance of a small language model without updating its parameters. The experimental program compares structured prompt replacement, natural-language rewriting, source-preserving semanti...

Soil health assessment using buried cotton underpants with the help of 1000 citizen scientists

Societal Impact Statement Soil is a vital resource for life on Earth. Although many soils are degraded, societal awareness of soil‐related issues is limited. To highlight soil as a key resource and fascinating study system, we initiated a citizen science project together with 100...

The Illusion of Scale: Approximation, Identifiability, and the Entropy Tax

Predictive error and structural error are quantities on different spaces, joined only through the inverse of an observation operator. This note makes that joint explicit. It defines a query-relative inverse modulus and shows that predictive convergence transfers to structural con...

FROM FOLK TRADITION TO CONTEMPORARY STAGE: REIMAGINING CENTRAL ASIAN DANCE THROUGH CHOREOGRAPHIC INTERPRETATION

Central Asian folk dance represents a significant component of the region's intangible cultural heritage, preserving collective memory, cultural identity, and embodied knowledge through movement traditions transmitted across generations. While existing scholarship has extensively...

Is the Right to Disconnect a Testable Organisational Hypothesis for Physiological Recovery? A Comment on After-Hours ICT Use

Carlo Aresti, MD; Is the Right to Disconnect a Testable Organisational Hypothesis for Physiological Recovery? A Comment on After-Hours ICT Use, Journal of

“We Were in Solidarity with Each Other”: Oral Histories on Coming Out During the AIDS Crisis in Canada

This paper explores identifying, "coming out" and "coming in" as Two Spirit, lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, and/or queer (2SLGBTQ+) during the AIDS crisis in Canada (1981-1997). We conducted 30 oral history interviews about this unique historical moment between 2022 and 2025 with...

Beyond HITL: Continuation Readiness as a Governance Requirement for Enterprise AI Workflows

Human-in-the-Loop (HITL) is widely treated as a default mechanism for satisfying AI governance requirements: when an AI system reaches a checkpoint, a human is asked to intervene. This paper argues that intervention is not sufficient. Enterprise AI governance requires continuabil...