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Exploring post-pandemic policies on staff testing, sickness pay and absence related to COVID and respiratory infections in English care homes

Abstract Background Residents of care homes for older people are at risk of illness and hospitalisation from respiratory infections. Care home industry pay and conditions may contribute to the risk that staff will transmit infection to residents at times when respiratory viruses...

Nutrient Status and Growth Performance of Two Peach Cultivars Budded on Rootstocks with Different Growth Vigor

Rootstocks that reduce the tree vigor in demand for all fruit species, including peach. The study evaluated the suitability of four rootstocks (Prunus besseyi, Hui-Hun-Tao, Rakonievicka, and Minnesota) and two peach cultivars (‘RedHaven’ and ‘Harnaś’) for the production of maiden...

BIFURCATED TOPOLOGY AND FERMIONIC CONFINEMENT. A Qualitative Geometric Map of the FCD-RB Braneworld with B3 Braid Protection and Leptonic Surface Resonance (III v4)

The pregeometric framework FCD-RB (Folded Crunch Dip ole – Reversed Big Bang) reinterprets 4D spacetime as an emergent holographic pro jection of a bifurcated 5D bulk, in which two parallel 3branes are separated by a Planck-scale interval (d ⇠l` P). Within this picture, fermions...

FCD-RB : A Unified Pregeometric Framework.. Emergent Gravity, the Dark Sector, and Cluster-Scale Lensing from Trans-Brane Dipoles (I v4)

The FCD-RB (Folded Crunch Dipole – Reversed Big Bang) semiclassical pregeometric framework provides a complete reinterpretative paradigm where gravity, the dark sector, vacuum energy, baryogenesis, and hadronic structure emerge as macroscopic epifenomena of a single topological-d...

A MISSING PARAMETER IN THE ANNIHILATION CROSS-SECTION (IV v4)

The standard Quantum Electrodynamics (QED) model of electron-positron annihilation assumes a point-like, spin-averaged cross-section that is isotropic in the absence of external polarization. However, a set of ten well-documented astrophysical and experimental anomalies — ranging...

FROM FROZEN MATHEMATICS TO SEALED LABORATORY EVALUATION

This paper records the principal scientific work completed within the ACL–OUXSPACE Collaborative Verification Framework, led on the experimental and institutional side by Adriano Ciardo and Adriano Ciardo Labs (ACL), and on the mathematical verification side by Alexandar Balevsky...

Foundations of Trans-Planckian Horizon Lock Mechanics – Special Treatise: Spacetime Engineering and Mathematical Construction of Stable Traversable Wormholes via the Khandey Causal Scale

This treatise presents the formal mathematical physics and spacetime engineering blueprint for the construction of stable, traversable quantum-metric wormholes utilizing the foundational infrastructure of Trans-Planckian Horizon Lock Mechanics (TPHLM). Classically, Einstein-Rosen...

Foundations of Trans-Planckian Horizon Lock Mechanics – Special Treatise: Mathematical Proof of Stable White Hole Ejection Horizons and Singularity flows via the Khandey Causal Scale

This treatise delivers the comprehensive mathematical proof for the structural stability and physical admissibility of White Hole Ejection Horizons governed under the framework of Trans-Planckian Horizon Lock Mechanics (TPHLM). Classically, white holes are treated as highly volat...

An identity for the sum of residues related to Goldbach partitions

Abstract In this paper, we introduce the Goldbach varphi function, \varphi_{k}:\mathbb{Z}/p_{k}\#\mathbb{Z}\rightarrow\mathbb{R}, which provides a normalized representation of the remainder term in a double sieve of dimension \omega=2. We establish a fundamental identity connecti...

Serum microRNA Analysis of Nonhuman Primates Prophylaxed with Gamma-tocotrienol and Exposed to Total- or Partial-body Radiation

Ionizing radiation exposure is a rising military and national security risk. Exposure to a high dose can lead to an illness called acute radiation syndrome (ARS), which poses clinical challenges. There is no Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-approved agent that can be used prior...

Moral Bureaucracies: Objects, Values and Affects in a UK Asylum Office

ABSTRACT British asylum bureaucracy carries a paradoxical mandate: To allocate humanitarian protection while operating inside a policy regime explicitly designed to deter. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in a Home Office decision‐making office, this article examines how that co...

Context-Driven Ship, Vehicle, and Aircraft Detection in Colored Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Images

In slow-time colorized subaperture image (CSI), anisotropic targets that reflect strongly when viewed from specific angles appear in vivid colors, which makes them stand out against isotropic background that reflects energy uniformly across all angles. It leads to more accurate a...

ntroduction to Higher-Order Functional Analysis, Volume II: General Analytic Solutions of General Nonlinear Equations

This volume develops an equation-theoretic framework for higher-order functional analysis. Its purpose is not to claim a universal closed-form solution method for arbitrary nonlinear equations, but to provide a typed and auditable architecture for constructing, classifying, recon...

AI Programming Capability Leaps at Fixed Model Scale: Public Evidence and a Testable Hypothesis for ES-DSI as a Societal-Level Mechanism of Intergenerational Evolution

Current progress in AI capabilities is commonly explained in terms of scaling, improvements in training algorithms, self-training, and inference-time compute. Yet software engineering exhibits a phenomenon that warrants separate study: even without increasing parameter count or a...

Socio-Political Governance and Innovation in Biomass-Derived Activated Carbon for Renewable Energy: A Systematic Review

Biomass-derived activated carbon and biochar have emerged as promising materials for renewable energy applications, yet their large-scale adoption depends not only on technical performance but also on supporting governance frameworks, policy incentives, and socio-economic conditi...

Exact black hole solutions with semi-symmetric vectorial torsion

Abstract Semi-Symmetric Metric Gravity extends general relativity by introducing a semi-symmetric connection with vectorial torsion. The modified field equations contain extra contributions from the torsion vector and its derivatives. Assuming a purely radial torsion vector consi...

Plasma Turbulence in the Lunar Environment Across Solar Wind and Magnetotail Conditions: Observations From Chandrayaan‐2 Radio Science Experiment

Abstract The Moon's transit between the solar wind and Earth's magnetotail exposes the near‐lunar environment to large and rapid variations in plasma density and flow structure. Two‐way coherent S‐band radio occultation measurements from Chandrayaan‐2 were used to quantify electr...

Insights on Prevalence of Hereditary Aortic Thoracic Disease and Impact on Family Screening in Routine Clinical Cardiothoracic Surgery Care

Objective: Heritable thoracic aortic disease (HTAD) is an important cause of thoracic aortic aneurysm and dissection, yet remains underdiagnosed. We aimed to summarize the prevalence of syndromic and non-syndromic HTAD, describe variants of uncertain significance (VUS), and evalu...

Physical realization of minimal loop evolution (PE-A): multiple abiotic architectures satisfying a pre-frozen operational criterion

Version 0.3 supersedes v0.2 after a correction. Following publication, the corresponding author of one primary study clarified that systems A and B of the competitive-exclusion work contain different replicator sets. The A/B contrast is therefore not a matched intervention/contro...

AI Literacy and Self-Perceived Cognitive Learning Outcomes Among University Students in AI-Integrated Courses: Associations with Instructor Feedback and AI Use Indicators

Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly being integrated into university curricula, yet quantitative indicators of AI use reveal little about how learners use AI as a learning resource or what educational outcomes follow. This cross-sectional study of 212 university students enro...