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The drama of going to the toilet’: the gendered politics of sanitation in mobile work

Women worldwide are familiar with the frustration of queuing for the women’s restroom. For women drivers whose work depends on remaining continuously mobile, however, this everyday frustration takes on different meanings. In occupations organised around continuous movement, avail...

Acetaminophen versus Ibuprofen for the management of hemodynamically significant patent ductus arteriosus in very low birth weight infants: randomized trial

OBJECTIVE: The objective was to evaluate the efficacy and safety of Acetaminophen versus Ibuprofen in the treatment of hemodynamically significant patent ductus arteriosus. METHOD: A randomized, partially blinded controlled study was conducted in very low birth weight infants. Di...

A Reproducible Evidence-Audit Framework for Leakage, Feature Stability, and Transportability in Translational Omics Classification

Submission-aligned code, outputs, figures, supplements, and manuscript for a reproducible evidence-audit framework in high-dimensional translational omics classification. A naive global-selection workflow is contrasted descriptively with a guarded nested workflow; because the arm...

What You're Holding: The Case for Nervous System-Informed Object Design

This working paper proposes a novel framework for designing everyday physical objects to support autonomic nervous system regulation. Drawing on affective neuroscience, somatic psychology, embodied cognition, and Stephen Porges' Polyvagal Theory, the author argues that all object...

Plant hormone manipulation impacts salt spray tolerance, which preempts herbivory as a driver of local adaptation in the yellow monkeyflower, Mimulus guttatus.

A major challenge in evolutionary biology is identifying the selective agents and phenotypes underlying local adaptation. Local adaptation along environmental gradients may be driven by trade-offs in allocation to reproduction, growth, and herbivore resistance. To identify enviro...

P-4: The Particle Periodic Table — Geometric Classification of Standard Model Fermions(v1.2)

Abstract: The Standard Model of particle physics describes the interactions of elementary particles with remarkable precision, yet the spectrum of particles itself—why are there three generations of fermions? Why do quarks have fractional charges? Why do right-handed particles no...

Early-Life Stress as a Determinant of Type 2 Diabetes Risk: A Narrative Review

Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) remains a major public health concern in the United States, with rising prevalence and a large population at risk for disease progression. Although T2DM is traditionally associated with adult lifestyle factors such as obesity, diet, and physical in...

The Prenatal Cogito: Intra-Fetal Communication and the Cybernetics of the Self

This paper revisits René Descartes’ foundational maxim Cogito, ergo sum through an information-theoretic and neurophilosophical lens, shifting the epistemological baseline from post-natal verbal reflection to pre-natal sensorimotor dynamics. We argue that the self-conscious subje...

Pediatric Hemifacial Spasm: A Narrative Review and Call to Action

<b>Background</b>: Hemifacial spasm (HFS) is a chronic hyperkinetic facial nerve disorder characterized by involuntary, unilateral facial muscle contractions. While well-described in adults, where neurovascular compression of the facial nerve root exit zone predominates, pediatri...

AI Enhanced Magnetic Resonance Fingerprinting in Neuro-Oncology: A Narrative Review of Diagnostic Performance and Clinical Readiness

Magnetic resonance fingerprinting (MRF) is a quantitative magnetic resonance imaging technique that generates tissue signals that vary based on chemical, physical, and biological properties called “fingerprints.” MRF enables simultaneous estimation of multiple tissue properties,...

Projection of the Quantum Master Equation onto a Spread-Contraction Continuum Model

This work presents a new theoretical and numerical framework for understanding the sharp quantum–classical crossover by introducing two internal structural degrees of freedom—the local spread S(x) and contraction C(x)—derived from the gradient and curvature of a probability distr...

Queen loss fails to elicit physiological and transcriptional responses in workers of the invasive garden ant Lasius neglectus.

Colonies of insects with morphologically distinct castes have been called superorganisms because the function of their queens and workers is analogous to the germline and soma in metazoan bodies. In the case of formicoid ants, workers typically have lost the sperm storage organ,...

Indefinite Spectral Certificate Calculus: A Unified Calculus of Typed Spectral Certification, Composition, Solvability Consequences, and Independent Replay

Indefinite Spectral Certificate Calculus (ISCC) is a method for analyzing symmetric or Hermitian systems with both positive and negative directions. It separates negative directions that belong to a known background structure from negative directions that appear only after reduct...

The Commons Translation Series

This paper introduces The Commons Translation Series, a public-facing extension of the QCG “Projection Is Not Generation” sequence (https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20044372). It develops a civic vocabulary for understanding AI-mediated dashboards, classifiers, metrics, recommender...

Real-Virtual Dual Field Theory: Golden Fractal Discrete Lattice, Discrete Least Action Principle, Unified Mechanism of Celestial Rotation & Closed Spherical Universe 二元场论:黄金分形离散晶格、离散最小作用量、天体旋转与闭合球形宇宙统一理论

Abstract Modern physics suffers fundamental contradictions: General Relativity and Standard Model cannot be unified; the ontology of vacuum is missing; dark matter and dark energy rely on ad-hoc hypotheses; microscopic particle spin, celestial rotation/revolution and galaxy forma...

Emergent Electromagnetism from the Gauged Logarithmic Superfluid Vacuum

This release removes the charge-quantization claim of the previous version: the vortex winding number is a topological index, not the electric charge, and the earlier identification conflated flux quantization with charge quantization. The paper is refocused on the results that s...

PAPER-FBT07A: Three Semiclassical Sector Classes on the Dual–Phase Torus

A central structural question of the Standard Model is why matter appears in exactly three generations. In this paper we give a mathematically sharpened flavour-sector formulation of the Fracture–Berry–Tension (FBT) programme. The starting point is the reduced dual-phase sector o...

PAPER-FBT07B: Thimble Depth as a Curvature–Flux Readout on the Dual–Phase Sector

This paper isolates a single geometric question in the Fracture–Berry–Tension (FBT) framework: how should the depth of a semiclassical thimble on the dual-phase sector be read directly from the underlying curvature data? Working on the compact dual-phase sector Σ2 ∼= T2, equipped...

The Universe Is A Program, Representations Issues (Version I)

The goal of this paper is to Compose new methods and processes. The Universe as a Program is a reprensentation to start composing all of existing and living entities (in the Universe). We argue important representations issues. Many new findings will be presented.

Projection Is Not Generation: Public Letters on Projection, Mediation, and Human Agency

Projection Is Not GenerationPublic Letters on Metrics, Mediation, and Human Agency This six-part public-facing sequence examines the risks of mistaking projected representations for the generative systems they describe, especially when those projections become control surfaces, a...