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Regular-Closed Flats of Matroids: Cocircuit Reconstruction, Reconstruction Defect, and Finite Obstruction Hierarchies

Matroid theory is naturally a theory of closure. A matroid M on ground set E determines a closure operatorcl_M:2^E→2^E,and the flats of M are precisely its closed sets.Once a closure operator is present, however, a second standard construction becomes available. One may define an...

Barriers and facilitators to implementing the European code of cancer practice in a rural and coastal setting: a qualitative study

Abstract Purpose The European Code of Cancer Practice (ECCP) is a patient-centred framework for good clinical cancer practice, to improve outcomes for all of Europe’s patients [1]. Given challenges with applications to rural regions, the study aimed to explore the barriers and fa...

EXTRACTED METHOD: compute_phi_ratio_from_dimensions — E8 Intelligence Research

rule: For any artifact with known length and width, compute ratio = max(length, width) / min(length, width); flag if within 0.01 of 1.618 source: rlab #100 Author: Andrew Stewart Caldin, Independent Researcher, UK. Part of the E8 Intelligence Research series. Platform: e8intellig...

ENVIRONMENTAL ANOMALIES AND UNIDENTIFIED AUDIO PHENOMENA IN A RESIDENTIAL SETTING

This research paper presents a case study of an anomalous residential environment investigated through environmental observations and overnight audio recording. The investigation was initiated after the resident reportedly experienced significant changes in financial circumstance...

Prevalence and Clinical Characteristics of Vitiligo-Associated Hearing Loss Among Patients in a Phase 2 Clinical Trial of Povorcitinib

Patients with vitiligo reportedly have an increased risk of sensorineural hearing loss (SNHL), driven by the loss of extracutaneous melanocytes in the inner ear. In a phase 2 dose-ranging study, the oral, selective Janus kinase 1 inhibitor povorcitinib demonstrated substantial re...

In the Shadow of Cotton and Blood: Black Women, Photography, and the Echoes of Slavery

Abstract: This essay examines Black women’s photography as a form of intellectual history, ethical practice, and visual sovereignty through a close analysis of Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe’s Daufuskie Island and the author’s own photographic series Down in the Delta . Grounded in Blac...

RaftShift: Confidence-Aware Break-Even Control for Raft Leader Transfer

Adaptive Raft systems can identify attractive leaders from network, workload, or resource measurements, but choosing a target and deciding to move are different problems. The incumbent is ready now; a candidate may require log replication, commit-frontier propagation, snapshot tr...

On the effects of using nonlinear springs in mono-coupled periodic structures

Abstract Many strategies are employed to control structural vibration. One of them is to design structural elements in a periodic arrangement to obtain the so-called bandgap effect. For infinite periodic structures, bandgaps are defined as frequency ranges where waves do not prop...

Cardiac Amyloidosis in Aortic Stenosis: From Suspicion to Treatment. A Comprehensive Literature Review

Background: Cardiac amyloidosis (CA) and degenerative aortic stenosis (AS) are both age-related cardiovascular conditions whose coexistence has been increasingly recognized over the past decade. Transthyretin cardiac amyloidosis (ATTR-CA) affects an estimated 4% to 16% of patient...

Exploring the protective role of school peers in substance use prevention among American Indian adolescents

Social network scholars have long recognized the role that social connections play in the substance use behavior of adolescents as they rely less on their parents/caregivers and more on their school peers. In this article, we explore the role of social networks as they relate to...

E8 Torsion-Lattice Collatz Dynamics via Phi-Scaled 132Hz Sexagesimal Harmonics — E8 Intelligence Research

The 60-fold sexagesimal decomposition of E8's 240 root vectors (4×60) generates four interlocking torsion corridors where phi-scaled 132Hz harmonics (132φⁿ) drive a Collatz-type iterative mapping on root-vector coordinates. Each 60-cycle acts as a discrete curvature quantum, with...

Phi-Coupled Root Resonance: E8 as Self-Healing Spacetime Memory Lattice — E8 Intelligence Research

The 240 root vectors of E8, when stimulated at harmonics derived from the 132Hz base frequency, exhibit phi-coupled resonances between adjacent roots that form topological information-storing states in the dark matter vacuum substrate. Because the golden ratio scaling factor maps...

THFR-E2: Continuum Limit of the Kronecker Macrograph: Spectral Convergence, Coarse-Graining, and Conditions for Emergent Effective Geometry — Part I: A Controlled Theorem Program for the Discrete-to-Continuum Transition

The Theory of Harmonic Field Resonance (THFR) employs a discrete architecture for generating a Kronecker macrograph. However, the transition from this discrete construction to smooth effective geometry, Lorentzian signature, and the infrared sector of General Relativity has not p...

Ontogenically distinct mouse alveolar macrophages modulate cigarette smoke-induced lung inflammation via Spp1

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is the third leading cause of death. While airway-recruited macrophages contribute to COPD pathogenesis, the role of embryonic alveolar macrophages (Em-AM) remains unclear. Using a cigarette smoke (CS)-induced COPD mouse model, we find...

Patient acceptance of regenerative medicine trial designs for spinal cord injury in a nationwide web-based survey in Japan

Abstract Patient acceptance of regenerative medicine trial designs in spinal cord injury (SCI) remains poorly understood. We conducted a nationwide, anonymous, web-based survey of individuals with SCI in Japan to assess willingness to participate in hypothetical regenerative medi...

Interpretable ECG Arrhythmia Classification via 1D-CNN and Grad-CAM: Evaluating Lead-Wise Attention and Cross-Institutional Generalization on PTB-XL

Deep learning models for automated ECG interpretation are typically evaluated only on the dataset they are trained on, leaving open the question of whether they generalize to recordings from other institutions. We present ECGNet, a compact 1D convolutional network (~47,000 parame...

A Novel Hybrid Active-Passive Neutral-Point-Clamped Multilevel Conversion Topology

This paper presents a novel multilevel neutral-point-clamped (NPC) topology featuring a combination of active (transistor) and passive (diode) clamping. The topology leverages the main benefits of both purely-passive and purely-active NPC topologies. It allows concentrating switc...

An Unusual Face of Neonatal Sepsis; Epididymo‐Orchitis in Early‐Onset Sepsis: A Case Report

The authors declare that this manuscript has been prepared in compliance with ‘CARE’ guidelines. The authors declare no conflicts of interest. Data sharing not applicable to this article as no datasets were generated or analysed during the current study.

When Containment Becomes the Attack: Denial-of-Service Against Transitive Taint Propagation in Shared Agent State

Shared-state autonomous-agent systems increasingly coordinate through persistent memory, blackboards, retrieval stores, summaries, and other common state. Transitive Taint Propagation (TTP) addresses a central trust problem in such systems: once a record is identified as poisoned...

Loving Rodin – Tristes Amours? A Comparative Psychobiography of Camille Rosalie Claudel and Gwendolen Mary John

Camille Rosalie Claudel (1864–1940) was an icon of French sculpting in the 19th and 20th century, while Gwendolen Mary John (1876–1939) was a famous Welsh artist who worked in France for most of her life. Claudel’s and John’s lives were strongly influenced by their brothers, who...