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Decoding the Ventral Metencephalon: A Neurosymbolic Analysis of Dhumavati Iconography

This paper decodes the brainstem neuroanatomy encoded within Mahavidya Dhumavati. Her iconography-including the aged widow, driverless chariot, winnowing basket, and retinue- is presented as a neurosymbolic map of the ventral Metencephalon, specifically detailing the pontine reti...

Fare Zone Assignment with Hard Cut Budgets under Bounded Congestion

At the Oberwolfach workshop on Combinatorial Optimization in November 2024, Peis, with Pabst, Kauther and Fiorini, posed the following problem (Oberwolfach Report 50/2024, p. 2992). Commodities on a tree have paths, weights and budgets. A set of tree edges, the zone borders, is t...

Upcycling automotive shredder residue into sustainable hybrid composite materials: a cost-effective solution for circular economy

Automotive shredder residue (ASR), the non-metallic fraction generated during end-of-life vehicle processing, remains a recycling challenge due to its complex composition and limited valorisation pathways. This study presents an approach for transforming 100% non-metallic ASR int...

The Rational Public-Regarding Personality: A Theory of Community-Oriented Agency Beyond Egoism and Self-Sacrifice—From Dynamic Coordination of Human Functioning to the Formation of the Community Subject

The long-term viability of a community depends not only on institutional design but also on the kinds of persons who enter and sustain its institutions. An actor concerned only with immediate personal gain may pursue objectives through deception, predation, free riding, or cost e...

Is Eligibility Enough? Pretreatment Prediction of Failure to Reach a Second Cycle of [177Lu]Lu-PSMA Radioligand Therapy

Background/Objectives: Current guidelines define no absolute contraindication to prostate-specific membrane antigen (PSMA)-targeted radioligand therapy (RLT), yet some patients receive only a single cycle. We aimed to characterize this single-cycle attrition (SCA) and derive an e...

Lipid–adiposity dissociation in nonagenarians

Abstract Anthropometric measures such as waist-to-height ratio (WHtR) and body mass index (BMI) are widely used to assess metabolic health in the general population. However, their relevance in individuals with exceptional longevity remains unclear. In this study, we investigated...

Did Yan Fu Make the “Invisible Hand” Visible? Translation, Omission, and the Conceptual Reception of Smithian Economics in Late Qing China

This article revisits the longstanding question of why the “invisible hand”—now often considered emblematic of Adam Smith’s thought—was omitted in the Chinese enlightenment thinker and translator Yan Fu’s 1901 translation of The Wealth of Nations. Rather than interpreting the omi...

Beyond Beauty: Microalgae and Cyanobacteria as Next-Generation Platforms for Functional Dermocosmetics, Cutaneous Delivery, and Skin Health

Microalgae and cyanobacteria are valuable sources of bioactive ingredients and innovative biological systems for skin applications. Their metabolites include exopolysaccharides (EPS), mycosporine-like amino acids (MAAs), carotenoids, phycobiliproteins, peptides and lipopeptides,...

Identification of perioperative risk factors for retrograde type A dissection after thoracic endovascular aortic repair for type B dissection

Objective To identify risk factors and develop a predictive model for retrograde type A dissection (RTAD) following thoracic endovascular aortic repair (TEVAR) for type B aortic dissection (TBAD).Methods We analyzed TBAD patients who underwent TEVAR from 2014 to 2024 (IRB:No. TJ-...

Screening for Early Endometriosis Detection (SEED): Co-development of a Symptom-Based Screening Measure for Canadian Young Adults in Primary Care

Background Many Canadians experience prolonged pain, uncertainty, and stigma before receiving an endometriosis diagnosis, with delays averaging 11 years from symptom onset. Endometriosis, defined by the presence of endometrial-like tissue outside the uterine cavity, impacts 10% o...

Ethodynamics: Dose–Response Regularities of Opinion Formation in Language Models and AI Search

What an AI system says about the world depends on what it has been exposed to: the text it was trained on and the pages it retrieves when it answers. Both can be written by anyone. Yet there is no quantitative account of how exposure shapes machine behaviour: how much text, of wh...

Leakage-Safe Evaluation for Multimodal Boiling Machine Learning: A Domain-Shift Baseline on BoilingBench

Random-window and pooled random splits can overstate the deployability of boiling machine-learning models when adjacent windows share a physical run or when preprocessing crosses the split boundary. We present a conservative, leakage-aware baseline evaluation on the public Boilin...

pH-responsive hydrogel delivery of Lycium barbarum glycopeptide coordinates immune-matrix crosstalk to enhance wound healing

Advanced wound dressings should combine physical protection with localized and microenvironment-responsive delivery of therapeutic agents. Lycium barbarum glycopeptide (LbGp), a naturally derived macromolecular preparation with reported immunomodulatory and tissue-protective acti...

Analysis of construction response for mechanized construction of metro connecting passages

To investigate the influence of mechanized pipe jacking construction for connecting passages in weathered granite strata on the settlement and deformation of left and right shield sections of metro tunnels and ground surface, this paper takes the pipe jacking project of No.1 conn...

From Private Good to Public Good: The System Logic of Social Cooperation—A System Logic Framework for Cooperation, Institutional Alignment, and Civilizational Evolution

The first five papers in the System Logic series established systemic adequacy, boundary and time, local optimization and systemic failure, feedback and systemic correction, and the Systemic Impact Ledger as core tools for evaluating judgments and actions in open systems. Togethe...

Syncytia Formation: A trademark of severe SARS-CoV-2 infection and a potential target for novel drug therapies

Coronavirus disease (COVID-19), caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection, is characterized by its symptoms and complications primarily affecting the upper respiratory tract. Infected multinucleated syncytial pneumocytes have been observed i...

Ohmic Heating as a Strategy for Upcycling PET Plastic Waste for New Supramolecular Structures

The massive accumulation of poly(ethylene terephthalate) (PET) plastic waste poses a significant global environmental challenge, requiring the development of more sustainable upcycling strategies. This study investigated the alkaline hydrolysis of PET flakes to recover terephthal...

This Group is Fire: Invisible Labor in a Successful, Coequitable Community College–University Transfer Partnership

In this critical case study, we explored invisible labor, work that is essential but essentially unrecognized, within a successful community college–university transfer partnership selected for its equitable characteristics. Our analysis of semi-structured interviews with eight p...

Paired-Fraction Electrochemical Programming of Ligase-Mediated Peptide Macrocyclization

A simple head-to-tail cyclic peptide is proposed as the fourth step of a PFEP validation ladder using Omniligase-1, a catalogued recombinant peptide ligase, subject to confirmation of current supply and lot activity. The model precursor is a 14-residue, side-chain-unprotected lin...

PUH Theorem 396 — The Gate's Beat: A Spinning Core Can Meet the Whole E8 Lattice Five Times a Turn in the Frame of the Shell's Invariant C₃₀, and Four Times a Turn in E8(−24)'s Rational Frame

Photonic Universe Hypothesis (PUH) — Theorem paper. THE QUESTION. T244 conjectured that the E8 folding cascade through a Planck core's boundary is pulsed, open only when the spinning core's geometry registers with the lattice, and asked first whether E8's rotational symmetry give...