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The Tail Latency Paradox: CPU Affinity and Scheduling under Host CPU Saturation

As containerized edge workloads increasingly deploy on desktop-class host operating systems and hypervisors, understanding the interactions between operating system scheduling policies and microservices network Quality of Service (QoS) becomes critical. This paper evaluates the e...

FERTI-PET: A Conceptual Protocol for Personalized Animal-Assisted Therapy in Reproductive Medicine

Background: Stress-induced dysregulation of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis represents a well-documented pathophysiological mechanism in infertility, particularly in women undergoing assisted reproductive technology (ART). Elevated cortisol levels have been shown to...

Uncovering the Associations between Human Big Five Personality Traits and Built Environment Characteristics from Street View Imagery

Human–environment interactions, a classic topic in geography, suggest that individuals and their environments might shape each other. Yet the specific mechanisms underlying these interactions regarding human personality traits have not been explored. This study examines the assoc...

Social Performance Feedback and Managerial Moral Self-Regulation: The Microfoundations of Corporate Social (Ir)Responsibility

Despite growing interest in the microfoundations of corporate social activities, prior research has not articulated the full chain connecting firm-level conditions to managers' psychological processes (a topdown pathway) and back to firm-level corporate social behavior (a bottom-...

A KnoWellian Solution to the Millennium Prize Problem: The $P$ vs. $NP$ Problem as Dual-Ontology Computational Resolution

We present the complete mathematical, physical, and ontological resolution to the P vs. NP Problem—one of the seven Clay Mathematics Institute Millennium Prize Problems—through the KnoWellian Universe Theory (KUT). Theoretical computer science has remained paralyzed by P vs NP fo...

AI and Democracy: Mapping Notions, Debates and Challenges

Abstract Artificial intelligence (AI) is widely discussed as either a threat to democracy or a means of strengthening it. But democracy, an essentially contested concept, invokes many different levels at which AI may assist and obstruct the legitimacy of democratic government. Th...

How place narrative and the direction of place-based development interventions interrelate: Comparing local initiatives in England and Sweden

This paper examines how local narratives form the foundations of local development interventions. Research centres on a qualitative study of two place-based development initiatives in England and Sweden. The English case involves the development and implementation of urban cultur...

Sound Light Information Continuum Version 1.4

Sound Light Information Continuum (v1.4) This paper proposes that acoustic waves (phonons), electromagnetic radiation (photons), and cognitive dynamics are not disconnected physical phenomena, but velocity-dependent phase-states of a single, substrate-independent Information Cont...

Physicians Retain Moral Responsibility but Endorse Institutional Co-Responsibility in AI-Assisted Decisions: An Exploratory Vignette Study

Background: Artificial intelligence (AI) systems, including large language models, are increasingly used in clinical practice, whether consulted informally by clinicians or introduced by employers into decision workflows. It remains unclear how physicians attribute moral responsi...

Finite-Sample Signal Uncertainty and Sharp Partial Identification of Diversification Histories: An Affine Signal-to-Decision Workflow with a Bounded CRABS Comparison

Unrefereed Evidence Press candidate. Under an exact fixed-stem, stem-survival, homogeneous time-varying birth-death model, this successor constructs a finite-sample confidence set for the pulled scale and propagates it to conditional affine partial-identification decisions. A sep...

Rothe Time Discretization and Weak Solutions for a Cutoff Westervelt System

ABSTRACT We study a fully implicit Rothe time discretization for a cutoff first‐order formulation of the Westervelt equation. The key ingredients are the enthalpy variable and the primitive mobility variable, which turn each nonlinear time step into a uniformly monotone elliptic...

Languages and Concepts of European Civil Wars, 1917–39: An Introduction

Abstract This introduction opens a special issue on ‘Languages and Concepts of European Civil Wars, 1917–39’. Drawing on case studies of Russia, Finland, Ireland, Austria and Spain, the issue examines civil war as a struggle over language and political identity. Its articles cons...

Children’s Differential Susceptibility to Peer Acceptance and Rejection: A Multi-informant Longitudinal Study

In this multi-informant longitudinal study, we examined whether children with higher levels of self-reported sensory processing sensitivity (SPS) showed stronger longitudinal associations between peer relationships (i.e., peer acceptance and rejection) and their social-emotional...

Surgical Complexity and Perioperative Feasibility Following Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy, Chemoradiotherapy, or Chemoimmunotherapy in Stage II–III Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer: A Retrospective Single-Institution Study

Background: Neoadjuvant chemoimmunotherapy is a standard option for resectable stage II–III non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC); however, its impact on surgical feasibility, operative complexity, and perioperative outcomes remains incompletely characterized. We compared surgical f...

The Gender Pay Gap in Asia: Examining Awareness and Policy Endorsement Among Postgraduate Students in the Higher Education Sector

ABSTRACT The persistent gender pay gap (GPG) remains a critical issue in higher education institutions (HEIs), yet little is known about the mechanisms that drive student support for systemic policy change. Drawing on Social Cognitive Theory (SCT), this study examines how Asian p...

Integral units of the Promislow group at small radius: dichotomy, counting, towers, and compactness

Let P be the Promislow (Hantzsche-Wendt) group. The unit conjecture fails for K[P] over every field of positive characteristic and over C, but is open over Z -- Higman's original question. Radius <= 3 is closed over every field by Craven-Pappas, and the known counterexamples begi...

Pre-Registration: Falsification Criteria for the Weekday of the Crucifixion (Wednesday, 25 April AD 31)

This document fixes, in advance and in public, the criteria by which the author would abandon his own position on the weekday of the crucifixion of Jesus, and what he would accept as confirming it. It was written for and sent to Paul L. Schmehl before he ran a formal weighting st...

Emergent Spatial Metrics and Topological Field Impedance in Quantum Processing Unit Manifolds

Description / Abstract ### Abstract This treatise presents a unified theoretical and empirical paradigm that reframes physical spacetime not as an ontological continuum, but as an observer-anchored, discrete 3D rendering substrate governed by Field-Strata Metric dynamics and the...

Translating and reframing of the narratives of “Fó” (佛) in Journey to the West: a case study on Lovell’s translation

Abstract This study examines British sinologist Julia Lovell’s abridged English translation of Journey to the West , focusing on how narratives of “佛” ( Fó , Buddhas) are translated and reframed through socio-narrative theory. It argues that Lovell’s translation substantially di...

Perceived Genetic Risk and Dietary Prevention Beliefs Among Offspring of People Living with Dementia: A Mixed-Methods Study Guided by the Health Belief Model

Background: Given the rising global prevalence of dementia and its complex etiology, involving genetic and environmental risk factors, the aim of the present exploratory study was to investigate how offspring of individuals with dementia perceive genetic risk and the role of diet...