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When Death Lost Its Throne: How Monotheism Transformed Death from a Divine Power into a Subordinate Messenger

This article examines the transformation of personified Death from the Late Bronze Age religious world of Ugarit to later Jewish, Islamic, European, and Mexican traditions. It does not argue for a direct genealogical line from the Ugaritic deity Mot to the later Angel of Death. I...

Beyond Kernel Verification: The Missing Engineering Layer of Mathematics

AI now generates mathematical arguments and proof code faster than communities can verify, understand, and reuse them. Building on a program already spanning claim-level verification, proof infrastructure, and kernel-closed mathematics, this paper identifies two engineering failu...

Beyond Kernel Verification: The Missing Engineering Layer of Mathematics

Artificial intelligence and autoformalization are moving mathematics from proof scarcity toward proof abundance. Terence Tao has described the resulting pressure: proof generation and formal verification may accelerate faster than exposition, publication, digestion, and canonical...

Commercial System Reform and Migration: Evidence From China

ABSTRACT This study examines the impact of China's commercial system reform on migration, employing a staggered difference‐in‐differences model validated by the Goodman‐Bacon decomposition using panel data from 264 prefecture‐level cities (2011–2018). The reform, characterized by...

Proof Engine Infrastructure: A Claim-Graph Framework for AI-Assisted Mathematical Research

AI systems can rapidly produce proof sketches, programs, formalization fragments, solver instances, and candidate proof strategies, but these outputs do not share a common evidentiary status. This paper introduces Proof Engine Infrastructure, an architecture for converting untrus...

Beyond Digital Access: Domains and Breadths of Everyday Digital Technology Engagement and Associations with Cognition Among Older Adults

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: This study identified latent domains and usage-breadth patterns of everyday digital technology (EDT) engagement among older adults and examined their concurrent and prospective associations with cognition. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS: The analytic sampl...

From Alignment to Evocation: On the Capability Boundaries and Collaborative Paths of AI Art Creation—A Framework Based on the Neuroaesthetic “Ring Scale” and Prompt Engineering

Recent generative art outputs across music, literature, painting and moving-image media have attracted extensive scholarly and public interest, yet evaluations of their creative capacities are mostly limited to informal observational accounts. Drawing on neuroaesthetic reasoning,...

A Novel Long-Lasting Natural Deodorant with Antimicrobial and Antioxidant Properties

A Novel Long-Lasting Natural Deodorant with Antimicrobial and Antioxidant Properties

Centennial Celebration of the Fluids Engineering Division (FED)

Abstract Technology development accelerates economic growth and advances human life. As the Fluids Engineering Division (FED) of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) marks its 100th anniversary, we review here the Division's achievements over the years and discuss...

Porphyry Cu–Au and Cu–Mo Systems as Sources for Critical Metal Resources: A Review and Future Projection

Porphyry systems are considered as low-grade, but high-tonnage, sources of scarce critical metals such as Cu and Mo, but they also host economic by-products of precious metals such as Au and Ag as well as rare trace critical metals such as Se, In, Te, and Re. The latter are of in...