Research works

First Sounds, Second Language: How Word Onsets Spark Language Co‐Activation in 3‐Year‐Old Bilinguals

ABSTRACT Adult and young bilinguals co‐activate their languages to different degrees, even in entirely monolingual tasks. However, many studies use translation pairs with high phonological overlap (e.g., the English‐GERMAN: “milk”‐“MILCH”), making it difficult to discern the orig...

A Survey on Clustered Federated Learning: Taxonomy, Analysis and Applications

As Federated Learning (FL) expands, the challenge of non-independent and identically distributed (non-IID) data becomes critical. Clustered Federated Learning (CFL) addresses this by training multiple specialized models, each representing a group of clients with similar data dist...

Cellular automata can really solve the parity problem

Abstract Determining properties of an arbitrary binary sequence is a challenging task if only local processing is allowed. Among these properties, the determination of the parity of 1s by distributed consensus has been a recurring endeavour in the context of automata networks. In...

Cycling speed and weather: Roles of cyclist weather-sensitivity, spatial and infrastructural conditions

Weather significantly influences cycling speed, and this influence increases with climate change. It is related to cycling attractiveness, but little evidence exists. This study examines this influence, considering the self-selection bias that some people avoid cycling during bad...

Multi-Bin Batching for Increasing LLM Inference Throughput

As large language models (LLMs) grow in popularity for their diverse capabilities, improving the efficiency of their inference systems has become increasingly critical. Batching LLM requests is a critical step in scheduling the inference jobs on servers (e.g. GPUs), enabling the...

The Moduli of the Universal Geometry of Heterotic Moduli

Abstract We study the moduli of the universal geometry of $$d=4$$ d = 4 $$N=1$$ N = 1 heterotic vacua. Universal geometry refers to a family of heterotic vacua fibred over the moduli space. The universal geometry mimics aspects of the original heterotic vacua, in particular holom...

A Novel polymer planar biomimetic membrane with self-differentiating intestinal-like structural for drug permeability prediction

Accurately and efficiently assessing the drug permeability are emerging as the big challenge early in new drug discovery and development, thus various models have been developed. Here, a polymer planar biomimetic membrane permeation assay (PPBMPA) model was constructed in a trans...

Disordered Gibbs measures and Gaussian conditioning

Abstract We study the law of a random field $$f_N(\varvec{\sigma })$$ f N ( σ ) evaluated at a random sample from the Gibbs measure associated to a Gaussian field $$H_N(\varvec{\sigma })$$ H N ( σ ) . In the high-temperature regime, we show that bounds on the probability that $$f...

Koma Density Geometry ── Connection Conditions between Density-Derived Informational Structure and Effective Geometry

This paper organizes the mathematical scope for extracting informational structure from the Koma density kernel $\rho$ and connecting it to an effective geometry. We introduce a Fisher-information-type functional for the density kernel, and consider its local gradient structure $...

Location-Mixed Flea Profiles and Born-State Convergence: Robustness of the Two-Scale Classification in the Two-State Flea Model

We study the robustness of the two-scale Born-state convergence classification in the exact two-state flea model when the fixed scaled source profile is replaced by genuinely h-dependent location mixtures. For a fixed normalized kernel k in L1(R), we consider profiles g_h = k * n...

The Dualbind Gravity Model ── Curvature Emergence from Information Placement Density (Koma Theory)

This paper presents the Koma Gravity Model — the gravitational branch of Koma Theory — as a structural hypothesis for the problem domain of emergent gravity. In this model, the spatial placement density of quantum information units is expressed as a dimensionless information fiel...

The Dualbind Gravity Model ── Curvature Emergence from Information Placement Density (Koma Theory)

This paper presents the Koma Gravity Model — the gravitational branch of Koma Theory — as a structural hypothesis for the problem domain of emergent gravity. In this model, the spatial placement density of quantum information units is expressed as a dimensionless information fiel...

A7U: Distributed Planck Bundles, Access-Relative Purity, and the Matter-Wave Visibility Bridge

When a pure object is only pure for a closed access cut The completed distributed bundle closes one source budget: \[ \boxed{Q_w^{\mathrm{vis}}+Q_w^{\mathrm{hid}}=2\pi.} \] Version: 4.1 Concept DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.20097247 Author: Ali Attar, ORCID 0009-0008-9931-2691 Website: qua...

A7U: Distributed Planck Bundles, Access-Relative Purity, and the Matter-Wave Visibility Bridge

When a pure object is only pure for a closed access cut The completed distributed bundle closes one source budget: \[ \boxed{Q_w^{\mathrm{vis}}+Q_w^{\mathrm{hid}}=2\pi.} \] Version: 4.1 Concept DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.20097247 Author: Ali Attar, ORCID 0009-0008-9931-2691 Website: qua...

Estimating wastewater dilution using chemical markers and incomplete flow measurements: Application to normalisation of SARS-CoV-2 measurements

Combined sewers, which collect both wastewater and surface water, are found across the globe, especially in older urban centres. These systems pose a challenge when taking chemical and biological measurements, be that chemical contaminants, illicit drugs or — in the case of waste...

Association of MBL2 Codon 34 Variant of Exon 1 with Severity of Tuberculosis in Paediatric Population of South Africa

The host genetic factors contribute to determining the susceptibility of an individual to an infectious disease and this forms the basis of this study. Many gene polymorphisms have been implicated in disease development and progression.In this study, a genotypic case-control stud...

The Filtration of Public Water-Supplies

Sand filters, rates of flow, and what actually passes through The Filtration of Public Water-Supplies by Allen Hazen, 1905, reset and given away free. The original text stands on its own. This edition's only claim is that the work is public domain, that it has been set faithfully...

Heatwave‐Period Temperature Response Parameterizations Amplify Modeled Isoprene Emissions From Temperate Trees

Abstract Heatwaves can alter temperature responses of biogenic volatile organic compound emissions, yet these effects remain poorly constrained for temperate trees. We measured leaf‐level isoprene temperature response curves for Platanus occidentalis and Populus deltoides in cent...

16S ribosomal RNA modification drives transcript-specific translation efficiency

ABSTRACT Bacterial ribosomal RNAs (rRNAs) are decorated with conserved nucleotide modifications, but the functionality of these modifications is often underexplored. MraW (RsmH) is a 16S rRNA methyltransferase that fine-tunes ribosomal function. We identified a loss-of-function a...

Achieving successful green hydrogen projects in Germany: Insights from project developers and investors

Despite ambitious targets and increasing support mechanisms, the realization of green hydrogen projects in Germany remains slow and only a limited number of projects reach a Final Investment Decision (FID). While cancelations are an expected feature of market-based investment pro...