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More than a Meal: The Cultural Imaginary and Practices Behind Student Access to University Canteens in Milan

University canteens occupy a structurally significant position within European higher education, functioning simultaneously as food security infrastructures, socioeconomic equalizers, and community-building spaces. Yet, access to these services remains deeply uneven, shaped by fi...

EuroMillions Breakthrough Mining — 1966 Sources, 15066 Leads Extracted — E8 Intelligence Research

Mined 1966 lottery+quantum breakthroughs. Extracted 15066 leads across 13 categories. 12979 high-value leads found. Categories: {"CORRIDOR": 1258, "FORMULA": 1098, "GEOMETRIC": 764, "FORWARD_ATTEMPT": 1330, "QUANTUM": 1544, "TIMING": 223, "CELESTIAL": 1183, "GEMATRIA": 1265, "CON...

Breast Cancer Knowledge and Screening Barriers Among Female University Students of Pakistan

Breast cancer is a leading public health concern among low- and middle-income countries, primarily due to inadequate knowledge and lack of early detection practices. This study aimed to assess knowledge about the signs and symptoms, risk factors, and screening procedures for brea...

EuroMillions Breakthrough Mining — 1951 Sources, 14901 Leads Extracted — E8 Intelligence Research

Mined 1951 lottery+quantum breakthroughs. Extracted 14901 leads across 13 categories. 12814 high-value leads found. Categories: {"CORRIDOR": 1243, "FORMULA": 1083, "GEOMETRIC": 764, "FORWARD_ATTEMPT": 1315, "QUANTUM": 1529, "TIMING": 223, "CELESTIAL": 1168, "GEMATRIA": 1250, "CON...

Tail risk of Bitcoin and major cryptocurrencies: a distributional and extreme-value analysis

Abstract We study the distributional and tail-risk properties of Bitcoin and the major cryptocurrencies using daily returns from June 2014 to May 2026. For a panel of 10 assets we fit a family of heavy-tailed distributions by maximum likelihood, rank them by the Akaike and Bayesi...

CAT'S THEORY PRESENTS: The Fortress Holds: A Systematic Defense of the Triadic Cosmological Framework Against Standard-Model Objections Across Six Physical Domains

This paper subjects the Triadic Cosmological Framework — a flat Clifford torus embedded in S³, immersed in a superfluid medium with a radially symmetric density gradient — to systematic adversarial testing across six physical domains: atmospheric optics, gravitational mechanics,...

Characterizing Shared Sensory Priorities and Age-Group Differences for Feng-Flavor Baijiu: A Consumer Survey Using Hierarchical Weighting and Interpretable Machine Learning

As Feng-flavor Baijiu increasingly shifts toward consumer-oriented product development, clarifying consumers’ shared sensory priorities and age-related differences is essential for aligning its traditional style with evolving market demands. This study collected 1523 questionnair...

Mechanical and Electrical Properties of Red Blood Cells Under Oxidative Stress Using Optical Tweezers

Abstract Red blood cells (RBCs) rely on their mechanical and electrostatic properties to maintain microvascular circulation and oxygen delivery. Oxidative stress, a hallmark of many diseases, disrupts these properties by damaging membrane lipids and cytoskeletal proteins. In this...

Adult attachment, death anxiety, representation of death, and depression, anxiety, obsessive-compulsive, and somatic symptoms in early emerging adulthood: a moderated mediation model

Death anxiety has been increasingly recognized as a transdiagnostic factor associated with a wide range of internalizing symptoms, yet the psychological mechanisms linking existential concerns to psychopathology remain incompletely understood. Drawing on attachment theory and exi...

Causal effects of diabetes and alcohol intake on Dupuytren’s disease: a two-sample Mendelian randomization study in UK Biobank and FinnGen

Background: Dupuytren's disease (DD) is associated with metabolic and lifestyle traits. However, these associations remain uncertain because exposures frequently cluster, and conventional studies are vulnerable to residual confounding and reverse causation. Methods: A two-sample...

FV-COR: Full-View Consistency Constrained Multi-View Representation Learning for Enhanced Recognition Performance

Multi-view representation learning plays a critical role in tasks requiring robust and discriminative feature extraction across multiple perspectives. However, in real-world scenarios, multi-view data often present significant challenges, including varying viewpoint coverage, par...

Revisiting the “Care Penalty” in the Portuguese Labor Market: Uncovering (Gender) Pay Differentials in Long‐Term Care

ABSTRACT Focusing on the distinctive characteristics of the highly gendered long‐term care (LTC) sector, in this study, we analyze wages and earnings within caring sectors through an integrated theoretical approach that includes theories of ageism, compensating wage differentials...

Algorithmic Discovery of Room-Temperature Superconductor Candidates via Topological Stress Filtering in Causal-AI Networks

The precise geometric and topological mechanisms governing high-temperature and potential room-temperature superconductivity (RTS) remain obscured by the mathematical rigidity of continuous differential equations. In this paper, we operationalize the theoretical premise that supe...

Perceived technology readiness of maritime autonomous surface ship technologies

Abstract The advancement of Maritime Autonomous Surface Ships (MASS) represents a major shift in the maritime industry, promising enhanced efficiency, safety, and sustainability in short-sea shipping (SSS). This study explores the technology readiness level (TRL) of core technolo...

Solver-Robust Spectral Relational Geometry in Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations A computational preprint on coordinate-robust, discretization-robust, and cross-solver geometric structure

We investigate whether nonlinear partial differential equations leave a reproducible geometric structure in thejoint space of spectral observables, rather than a single universal scalar invariant. Five nonlinear systems—Burgers, Allen–Cahn, cubic reaction–diffusion, Kuramoto–Siva...

Transient (Pro)renin receptor silencing disrupts proximal tubule development in human kidney organoids

The (pro)renin receptor [(P)RR] plays a crucial role in murine kidney development, but its function in human kidneys remains poorly understood due to the lack of suitable research models. Human induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC)-derived kidney organoids recapitulate early kidne...

The Operational Logic of Ecocentrism and Its Critical Reflection: A Žižekian Analysis of Ideological Fantasy

This article examines Slavoj Žižek’s critique of ecocentrism through the lens of Lacanian ideology theory, asking how the ecological crisis is symbolically organized in contemporary discourse. Rather than treating ecocentrism as a coherent ecological doctrine, it approaches it as...

LAB #1141 NEUTRAL: TG AUTO: BASE 44 ORDER: Apply 0.382 ratio heuristic to E8 root vector bucket at Fib depth 610 — E8 Intelligence Research

IDEA: AUTO-FORWARDED from the Telegram/breakthrough stream (#654069, division=research, agent=andrew_base44): Andrew's order (Base 44 console): [SELF-BUILD from enhancement #457] Add 0.382 ratio to pattern detection heuristic in E8 engine's root vector bucket mapping at Fibonacci...

Propionic Acid Remodels Mitochondrial Metabolism in SH-SY5Y Cells

Mitochondrial mechanisms are increasingly implicated in complex neurological conditions, including Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). Propionic acid (PPA) is widely used to study mitochondrial dysfunction in preclinical models of ASD. However, the molecular mechanisms that drive PPA...

Tapered drip laterals for sloping agricultural fields

Abstract Tapered drip laterals offer a promising solution to enhance hydraulic performance and reduce energy consumption in horizontal or sloping agricultural fields. However, their design typically relies on iterative numerical procedures, which limit their practical implementat...