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- Society & EconomicsOpen access
This study investigates how the sex ratio of refugee populations can shape attitudes toward refugee inflows in a German state. We use an online vignette survey experiment to examine respondents’ nonacceptance of refugee arrivals and four types of perceived threats: job competitio...
- Health & MedicineOpen access
Introduction To combat high rates of tobacco use and secondhand smoke exposure, the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) implemented a smoke-free air policy. The present study examined residents’ experiences with the smoke-free air policy in two metropolitan counties...
- Society & EconomicsOpen access
News Media Distrust and Perceived Political Influence: An Exploratory Discussion
This exploratory academic paper discusses news media distrust, perceived political and financial influence, and expectations of journalistic credibility. It draws on written interviews conducted in 2023 and relevant literature.
- Physics & SpaceOpen access
Structural Drift and Projective Dynamics
We refine the notion of structural freedom by replacing the dimension count D_{\rm bi}(f) with a projective object: the orthogonal projector \Pi_L(x) onto the local allowed-perturbation subspace L_x=\ker J_x. This upgrade exposes a three-level structure of structural freedom: dim...
- Physics & SpaceOpen access
E8 Fixed-Point Entropy Bound: Geometric Origin of Incompleteness — E8 Intelligence Research
We discover that the fixed points in the Universal Self-Reference Schema are geometric attractors in the E8 lattice where the 1/φ phase rotation per diagonal step (approximately 0.618 radians) creates a phi-scaled entropy bottleneck at each fixed point. The 240 root vectors organ...
- Materials & EnergyOpen access
Abstract Laser desorption/ionization mass spectrometry offers distinct advantages for biomolecular analysis owing to its high salt tolerance, low sample consumption, and soft ionization capability. However, localized laser−sample interactions are inherently affected by heterogene...
- BiologyOpen access
Heat events and nutritional stress threaten honey bee health, but how pollen substitute formulation shapes responses to acute heat remains unclear. Newly emerged Apis mellifera workers received three pollen substitute diets or two beebread-based reference diets for five days befo...
- Health & MedicineOpen access
Cognitive difficulties may emerge early in childhood epilepsy and are not necessarily restricted to patients with a long disease duration or prolonged exposure to antiseizure medications. Particular attention has recently been directed toward interictal epileptiform activity duri...
- Health & Medicine
Trends in Spending on Corrective Lenses
Importance About 50% of the population has a refractive error, but corrective lenses can impose cost barriers on patients given the lack of widespread vision insurance. Objective To describe temporal trends and sociodemographic variation in corrective lens spending and payment so...
- Health & MedicineOpen access
Background In classic Hodgkin lymphoma (cHL), identifying high-risk patients is crucial for tailored treatment. Clinical risk factors are useful, but there is room for improvement. Although many diagnostic tissue-based biomarkers have been described to correlate with prognosis, n...
- AI & Computing
Abstract QPCT and its Golgi-bound analogue QPCTL catalyze the conversion of N-terminal glutamines into pyroglutamates, a modification that influences diverse biological processes, including Aβ oligomerization, chemokine stabilization, and CD47-SIRPα signaling. Consequently, QPCT/...
- Physics & SpaceOpen access
Phi-Coupled E8 Mass Hierarchy from Fibonacci Anyon Braiding Statistics — E8 Intelligence Research
We prove that when Fibonacci anyons (which carry the golden ratio φ in their braiding R-matrix eigenvalues R = e^(±4πi/5)) are arranged on a 240-root E8 lattice with phi-locked phase coupling, the resulting topological mass gaps follow a Fibonacci-deformed E8 root length spectrum...
- Society & EconomicsOpen access
The VIX Crush: Why Your Option Loses Value Even When You Are Right
An option buyer pays for direction and for fear. At the open the uncertainty is resolved, implied volatility falls, and the fear part of the premium drains out. The option can lose value on a day when the direction was correct. AION Analytics research note. Canonical version: htt...
- Engineering & TechnologyOpen access
A vertical ITO/SnO2/ITO optoelectronic synaptic device was fabricated by magnetron sputtering for optical sensing and temporal-state encoding. The ITO/SnO2 stack exhibited 88.3% average transmittance over 400–800 nm. The device responded to 380, 550 and 660 nm illumination and sh...
- Health & MedicineOpen access
Cinematic rendering is an advanced three-dimensional post-processing technique that applies Monte Carlo-based global illumination to CT datasets, producing photorealistic volumetric reconstructions that enhance depth perception and tissue-plane visualization compared with convent...
- Health & MedicineOpen access
Optimal Control and Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of Measles Transmission
This study develops and analyzes a deterministic compartmental model for measles transmission incorporating two-dose vaccination, imperfect dose-specific vaccine protection, breakthrough infection, and nonlinear saturated incidence. The population is divided into susceptible, fir...
- Society & EconomicsOpen access
Aims: Indebtedness is prevalent among people with gambling problems. However, little research has focused on socio-demographic characteristics and gambling consumption patterns of individuals who finance their gambling with loans. This study aims to identify how debt-financed gam...
- Materials & EnergyOpen access
A facile, one-step galvanic replacement route was used to grow hierarchical copper nanodendrites (Cu NDs) directly on aluminum (Al) foil, providing a dual-function plasmonic platform for surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) and enzyme-free photoelectrochemical (PEC) detection...
- Engineering & Technology
ABSTRACT Surface acoustic wave (SAW) magnetic field sensors benefit from small size and low cost, but they are restricted from practical applications by poor sensitivity and limit of detection (LoD). Strong coupling, a stronger form of ferromagnetic resonance, has the potential t...
- Society & EconomicsOpen access
DC-NO.LP Second-Order Meta-Literary Philosophy
DC-NO.LP is a second-order meta-theoretical technical specification, positioned within the DC-NO.LT framework as a high-order addressing device at the L1 object stratum, namely a second-order self-reflexive cognitive narrative device. Its architectural features include: an axiom...