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132307 work(s)
- AI & ComputingOpen access
A few vectors for a mixed folder: a pre-registered measurement of pooled directory embeddings
A folder's metadata is read before its files and holds a few kilobytes. A vector stored there can route a query without opening the folder, and the cheapest is the mean of its files' embeddings. We ask when the mean is enough and what to store when it is not. Under our main visio...
- Society & EconomicsOpen access
Being and Being This: Haecceity and the Univocal Concept of Being in Duns Scotus
Abstract Haecceity is often understood as a theoretical construct posited by Duns Scotus to explain individuation. This characterization is flawed in two ways: first, it lends haecceity an ad hoc appearance and obscures the fact that it is called for by Scotus’s most basic philos...
- Climate & EnvironmentOpen access
Abstract The Elaine Dorothy Cu-Au deposit, located in the Mary Kathleen Domain of the Mount Isa Inlier, Australia, records the interaction of Paleoproterozoic skarn metasomatism, fluid evolution, and deformation. The deposit is hosted by carbonate- and calc-silicate-rich rocks of...
- Health & MedicineOpen access
OBJECTIVE: Epilepsy significantly affects daily functioning and health-related quality of life (HRQOL) of those living with the condition. Less is known about HRQOL of family caregivers of adults with epilepsy, yet the functioning of patients and caregivers is interlinked, and ca...
- Engineering & TechnologyOpen access
FRALEX-TDP-006: A Clamp Is a Load Path Not a Cover
A bolted clamp that has stopped a leak has proved its seal, not its load path. This white paper sets out what a mechanical enclosure must demonstrate before it is accepted as a repair: damage mapped beyond the visible leak, a defined path for every load including pressure thrust,...
- BiologyOpen access
Zinc deficiency in agricultural soils limits food security and the nutritional quality of crops. Purslane (Portulaca oleracea L.) is a leafy vegetable of growing interest as a functional food owing to its high content of omega-3 fatty acids, minerals, and antioxidant compounds. Z...
- BiologyOpen access
This review aims to summarize the diagnostic and therapeutic challenges associated with rare bacterial infections, with particular focus on Whipple’s disease, melioidosis, Lemierre’s syndrome, and nocardiosis. It also evaluates the clinical utility of emerging molecular diagnosti...
- Society & EconomicsOpen access
Abstract: A persistent anomaly in financial history is the catastrophic failure of individuals possessing exceptional mathematical aptitude and formal analytical intelligence within speculative financial and cryptocurrency markets. From the historic collapse of Nobel laureates at...
- AI & ComputingOpen access
Standard Transformer Self-Attention suffers from quadratic temporal and space complexity O(n^2) [5]. The Structured State Space Duality (SSD) framework resolves this bottleneck by proving an exact mathematical equivalence between 1-semiseparable matrix transformations and selecti...
- Health & MedicineOpen access
Abstract Medial epicondylitis (ME), or golfer’s elbow, is a common musculoskeletal condition affecting the common flexor tendon, yet little is known about how comorbidities, including tobacco use, relate to its diagnosis and to the need for surgery. We retrospectively analyzed th...
- Engineering & TechnologyOpen access
Circular hadron colliders, including the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and proposed Future Circular Colliders (FCC-hh), are topologically non-circular: their nominal closed orbits consist of piecewise regular polygonal configurations composed of discrete dipole bending arcs interle...
- Materials & Energy
Abstract Ceramics are renowned for their exceptional high-temperature stability and resistance to corrosion and oxidation. However, their inherent brittleness and susceptibility to fracture significantly limit their practical use in harsh and mechanically demanding environments....
- AI & ComputingOpen access
Deep learning classifiers for polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) diagnosis from transvaginal ultrasound are commonly accompanied by post-hoc explanations such as Grad-CAM, which are typically validated only qualitatively, by visual inspection of a small number of heatmaps. This pap...
- BiologyOpen access
Prolificacy can increase lamb output per ewe, but its productive value depends on the survival, growth, and carcass performance of each additional lamb. This review examines the pathway from genetic control of ovulation to realized litter size, prenatal development, neonatal viab...
- Engineering & TechnologyOpen access
Abstract Efficient energy management in a battery-fed electric vehicle (EV) traction system requires coordinated control of propulsion power, battery operating conditions, Direct Current (DC)-link voltage, and regenerative braking under rapidly changing driving conditions. This s...
- BiologyOpen access
Background: L-carnitine supports mitochondrial fatty acid transport and has been proposed for weight management, but its short-term effects in overweight dogs are unclear. This pilot study aimed to generate preliminary, hypothesis-generating data on these effects, including possi...
- Climate & Environment
Historical Trend and Future Projection of Summer Temperature Extremes in Nepal
ABSTRACT The monsoon dominated climate along with the complex topographic gradient of Nepal, make it highly sensitive to changes in summer temperature extremes, yet nationwide evidence combining observations and projections remains limited. This study examines historical and futu...
- Materials & EnergyOpen access
Tm3+, Yb3+: GdxBi2−xWO6 series upconversion luminescent materials were synthesized via a solid-state method. Calculations and XRD analysis reveal that Gd3+ in the lattice exhibits both substitutional and interstitial doping. Compared with the NaYF4 matrix, the Bi2WO6 material dop...
- Society & Economics
Transplanting a socio-cultural innovation: Life insurance in Meiji Japan
This study examines the establishment of a domestic life insurance industry in Meiji Japan from a comparative perspective. Life insurance represented a socio-cultural innovation that emerged in the context of Western modernization. Its rapid adaptation to Japan’s socio-economic a...
- Physics & SpaceOpen access
This work develops an explicit global construction of a distinguished family of null electromagnetic modes on the Einstein cylinder ℝ × S³. The starting point is the Hopf geometry of the round three-sphere and a global orthonormal frame X₁, X₂, X₃. For every homogeneous holomorph...