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Flagged Unitary–Replacer Channels: Sector-Resolved Choi-Moment Spectral Completion, Fixed-Fidelity Choi-Entropy Fibers, and Joint Transparency–Spectrum Identifiability

Within flagged unitary–replacer channels, optimized recovered entanglement fidelity is spectrally incomplete: it fixes weighted transparency but not the hidden replacer spectrum or conditional Choi entropy. For a resolved positive-probability sector with known transparency 0 ≤ a...

Governing Open Complex Giant Generative Relational Systems beyond Representation and Reach: A Synoptic Discussion of Systems, Scales, and Arrangements

Three companion papers establish results about the governance of systems that exceed what any party can represent or reach, and a fourth constitutes the class of problems such systems present. This paper adds the survey of the systems themselves that the four leave to be made. It...

Pan-3D genome of Gossypium hirsutum

This project generated Hi-C datasets from 12-DPA cotton fibers of 301 accessions. ATAC-seq, CUT&Tag, and RNA-seq datasets were also generated for a subset of these accessions.

Herping in Costa Rica: the Dry Lands (Pacific Versant)

As explored in a previous issue, a significant selection of the most popular and compelling herpetofauna of Costa Rica can be found along the Caribbean coast — globally recognised as one of the premier destinations for herpetological field observation in the world. A particularly...

Prediction of GlassTransition Temperatures for OrganicElectronic Materials

Abstract The glass transition temperature (Tg) is a critical descriptor governing the morphological stability, emitter orientation, and interfacial integrity of amorphous thin films in organic electronics. However, experimental Tg measurements suffer from high resource costs and...

Herping in Costa Rica: the Dry Lands (Pacific Versant)

As explored in a previous issue, a significant selection of the most popular and compelling herpetofauna of Costa Rica can be found along the Caribbean coast — globally recognised as one of the premier destinations for herpetological field observation in the world. A particularly...

Observation as Access: A Quantum Traction Theory Dissolution of the Measurement Problem

When does a laboratory record belong to the source, and when does it belong to the measurement camera? Master equation: source, physical access operation, and laboratory camera. This paper treats observation as a finite access operation rather than an observer-dependent event: \[...

Observational Evidence for PPL Space: Decisive Statistical Validation of the 4/3 Critical Clamping Phenomenon in GWTC-3

We present a decisive statistical analysis of gravitational wave events from the GWTC-3 catalog to test the predictions of the PPL space model against standard General Relativity (GR). While GR predicts a continuous inspiral-merger-ringdown waveform with a smooth amplitude peak,...

Prior Use and the Distribution of Observational Capacity in State-Dependent Governance

A governing rule whose content depends on the dynamical state of the system it governs requires that the state be determined. Where the system exhibits a critical value above which ordinary conduct produces irreversible foreclosure, the determination that the system has approache...

Rewriting the Script: The African Snakebite Institute

The African Snakebite Institute (ASI) was founded in 2012 by Johan Marais, an experienced and renowned South African herpetologist and naturalist. As the author of seminal publications such as ‘A Complete Guide to the Snakes of Southern Africa’ and ‘Snakes and Snakebite in Southe...

Xyn108

The xyn108 gene encoding xylanase was discovered in the genomic sequence of the endophytic fungus Chaetomium globosum DX-THS3.

The Sword of Truth: Why the Pinocchio Chameleon has such a Long Nose

Deep in the lush rainforests of central eastern Madagascar, where waterfalls whisper secrets and ferns dance in the mist, lives achameleon so flamboyant it could moonlight as a carnival performer. Calumma pinocchio Glaw & al., 2025, the so-called Pinocchio chameleon, is a small b...

FluorescentFarnesyl-Derived Probes Reveal DistinctIntracellular Localization Associated with Morphogenesis Suppressionin Candida albicans

Abstract Farnesol is a quorum-sensing sesquiterpene produced by Candida albicans that inhibits filamentation, a morphogenetic transition underlying fungal invasion and virulence. Notably, several farnesyl-derived sesquiterpenes bearing functional groups other than the original al...

The Default College: How Racialized Messages Impact Black Student Perceptions of HBCUs and PWIs

Abstract This study used interviews with 20 Black graduate and undergraduate students, Critical Race Theory, and Calmore's Racialized Space Framework to investigate how historical and societal racial narratives shape the messages Black students receive about HBCUs and PWIs. It al...

Enabling, Constraining, Preventing, and Leaving Open: Existing Schemes of Human–Nature and Cosmic Governance under a Generative Relational Description

Governance of the relations between human activity and the wider natural and cosmic field is conducted through a large number of schemes whose vocabularies have developed separately. Precaution, adaptive governance, resilience management, environmental law, earth-system governanc...

VOC observations improve transferable ozone prediction using interpretable machine learning

Abstract Surface ozone variability is controlled by complex interactions among emissions, chemistry, and meteorology, yet the extent to which machine learning models capture chemically meaningful relationships remains uncertain. Here we apply an automated machine learning framewo...

A cfDNA fragmentomics-based liquid biopsy assay for early detection of oral cancer

Abstract Background Early detection of oral cancer improves outcomes, but remains limited by the invasiveness and low sensitivity of current screening methods. Methods This study included 342 participants (200 in the training and 142 in the validation cohorts). Plasma cfDNA under...

Keeping and Breeding Karoo Dwarf Tortoises (Chersobius boulengeri)

Karoo dwarf tortoises belong to the group of so-called dwarf tortoises. The former genus Homopus, which included all five extant species of dwarf tortoises, was divided into the genera Homopus and Chersobius in 2017 (Hofmeyr et al., 2017). The genus Homopus now contains the speci...

Guangzhou Shichong Exhibition: 72 Hours at the World's Largest Reptile Expo

The extraordinary commercial metrics achieved at the June 2026 Beijing World Reptile & Supplies Expo reflect a major shiftwithin the global market. Rather than operating as a generalized pet exhibition, this stand-alone event — hosted by GuangzhouShichong Exhibition Co., Ltd — ha...

Puff-faced and proven – Masked Water Snake (Homalopsis buccata) in Captivity

Herpetoculturists familiar with the family Homalopsidae will inevitably be acquainted with the puff-faced water snake (Homalopsis buccata Linnaeus, 1758). The author acquired an initial specimen of H. buccata in the summer of 2005; however, the broader herpetocultural potential o...