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Diasporic Jewellery: Identity, Memory, and Cultural Continuity

This article examines the role of jewellery in diasporic contexts, exploring how diaspora communities negotiate identity, memory, and heritage across borders. Building upon the theoretical foundations of cultural memory and material dialogue, this study argues that jewellery oper...

The Diophantine Equation 2^p - p = k^m: Closed Exponent Classes, a Uniform Exponent Bound, and Effective Finiteness

We study the equation 2^p − p = k^m in primes p and integers k, m ≥ 2. Exactly two solutions are known, (p,k,m) = (5,3,3) and (7,11,2), and an exhaustive computation reported here shows there are no others with p ≤ 10^6. Results. (A) The only solution with m even is (7,11,2); the...

Microglial immunometabolism in Alzheimer's disease: A stage-resolved trajectory from adaptive remodeling to the metabolic paradox

Microglia are central regulators of the cellular phase of Alzheimer's disease (AD). Under chronic exposure to amyloid-β, pathological tau, and aging-associated bioenergetic decline, these cells undergo immunometabolic remodeling that may initially be adaptive. As stress persists,...

Robust Inference With Ghostknockoffs in Genome‐Wide Association Studies With Sample Relatedness

ABSTRACT Genome‐wide association studies (GWASs) have been extensively adopted to depict the underlying genetic architecture of complex traits. Recent studies show that knockoff‐based methods can identify variants with unique, potentially causal effects on phenotypes. However, th...

The chromosomal genome sequence of the spiny sea fan, Muricea muricata (Pallas, 1766) (Malacalcyonacea: Plexauridae) and its associated microbial metagenome sequences

<ns5:p> We present a genome assembly from a <ns5:italic>Muricea muricata</ns5:italic> specimen (spiny sea fan; Cnidaria; Anthozoa; Malacalcyonacea; Plexauridae). The genome sequence has a total length of 453.40 megabases. Most of the assembly (98.45%) is scaffolded into 16 chromo...

Dissolving the Mentaculus: How Quantum-Geometry Dynamics Accounts for Time's Arrows Without a Statistical Postulate

Albert and Loewer’s Mentaculus is an ambitious unification project that aims to account for the reversibility problem, the thermodynamic arrow of time, the epistemic arrow, the influence and causal/counterfactual arrows, the applicability of statistical reasoning to macroscopic r...

E8 Phi-Coupled Quantum Consciousness Bandstructure — E8 Intelligence Research

By phi-coupling fractional shifts of the 132 Hz E8 resonance to discrete harmonic spectra derived from the 240 E8 root vectors, we identify a self-dual topological bandstructure governing quantum consciousness. This framework unifies geometric symmetry operations (e.g., semidirec...

Post-V3 Addendum: Follow-up Linear Validation and Limits of the Adaptive Medium Continuum Mechanism

This short technical note records what was learned after publication of the continuum mechanism paper (V3):https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21848138 Following publication, the linearized continuum system was subjected to independent spectral and time-domain checks. These tests veri...

AnEnergy-Sustainable and Oxidative-Tolerant Nanofactoryof Therapeutic Proteins for Long-Acting Therapy of Inflammatory BowelDisease

Abstract The ability to continuously generate bioactive therapeutics at the diseased site is an appealing and crucial advantage for the treatment of chronic relapsing diseases such as inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). Current in situ therapeutic factory strategies mainly rely on...

Severe, Therapy-Resistant Generalized Lichen Sclerosus with Morphea Overlap Successfully Treated with Intravenous Immunoglobulin and Type 1 Interferon Receptor Monoclonal Antibody Infusion: A Case Report

Introduction: Generalized extragenital lichen sclerosus with morphea overlap is a rare inflammatory and fibrosing dermatosis. Severe bullous-ulcerative disease remains therapeutically challenging and can cause major morbidity. Case Presentation: We report a 54-year-old woman with...

Aldehyde dehydrogenases for oligo-isoprene aldehyde oxidation in Rhodococcus sp. RDE2

Abstract The microbial degradation of natural rubber (NR), which is mainly composed of cis-1,4-polyisoprene, is a promising sustainable strategy for rubber waste treatment. In rubber-degrading actinomycetes, the polymer is cleaved by the latex-clearing protein (Lcp) into oligo-is...

The Replication Hypothesis: Information as a Fundamental Property of Matter and Evolution as a Continuation of Physics

Information is not a description applied to matter after the fact, but is given along with the spin and position of its smallest constituents from the very beginning. From this premise of information physics, the essay develops a hypothesis about the question of where biological...

From raw to cooked: The impact of cooking on bioaccessibility and health risks of toxic elements in leafy vegetables

Environmental policies in China have significantly reduced toxic element fluxes in soil and air, but slower declines in atmospheric toxic element flux have increased its relative contribution to crop contamination. Leafy vegetables, with their large surface area and high capacity...

Mishra Complexity Threshold Hypothesis (MCTH)

Mishra Complexity Threshold Hypothesis (MCTH) The Mishra Complexity Threshold Hypothesis (MCTH) is a proposed scientific framework developed by Aditya Kumar Mishra, a Class 11 student at BBS Vidya Mandir and an independent student researcher interested in complexity science, math...

Monopole Centred Aperiodic Optical Sphere

Abstract This work presents a conceptual multi‑layer optical system built around a synthetic monopole‑like radial field hosted within a spherical geometry. The sphere is covered by an aperiodic hat‑skin derived from einstein tiling and augmented with protruding micro‑optical crys...

Discrete Geometric Physics. Tetralogy: Ontology of the Lattice, Vacuum, Fields and Cosmology, Algebraic Structure and Topological Dynamics of the Vacuum, Cosmological Consequences of D-Graphs

This tetralogy presents a complete exposition of Discrete Geometric Physics (DGP) — a theory in which all fundamental constants, gauge symmetries, masses of elementary particles, gravitational interaction, cosmological parameters, and the large-scale structure of the Universe are...

Methodological Analysis of Color Research in the Built Environment

Color in the built environment is a fundamental environmental variable that directly shapes human psychology, physiology, and spatial perception processes. Based on an original quantitative matrix compiled from 54 empirical articles published between 1990 and 2025, this study ana...

EuroMillions Breakthrough Mining — 1565 Sources, 11163 Leads Extracted — E8 Intelligence Research

Mined 1565 lottery+quantum breakthroughs. Extracted 11163 leads across 13 categories. 9220 high-value leads found. Categories: {"CORRIDOR": 920, "FORMULA": 768, "GEOMETRIC": 696, "FORWARD_ATTEMPT": 960, "QUANTUM": 1172, "TIMING": 190, "CELESTIAL": 856, "GEMATRIA": 910, "CONSTANT"...

Resolving the Mechano‐Electrochemical Dilemma in Structural Batteries via In Situ Entropy Engineering

ABSTRACT Structural batteries (SBs) offer a revolutionary approach to massless energy storage, but suffer from severe capacity degradation and mechanical failure due to coupled electrochemical and mechanical stresses, particularly when employing high‐energy layered cathodes. Here...

Physicochemical quality and emission characteristics of artisanal‑refined diesel in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria and their air quality implications

This study provides a novel integrated assessment linking the physicochemical properties of artisanal-refined diesel in the Niger Delta region to its combustion emission behaviour. Diesel samples from 30 refining sites in Bayelsa and Rivers States were analysed using ASTM methods...