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Golden Ratio, Root Systems, and Non-Periodic Order in Substitution Tilings — E8 Intelligence Research

FINDING: Fibonacci substitution tilings and cyclotomic aperiodic substitution tilings (CAST) reveal deep links between golden-ratio scaling, root-system geometry, and non-periodic order. | MATH: Fibonacci substitution rule: \(0 \to 01,\; 1 \to 0\) (or \(a \to ab,\; b \to a\)); in...

Extremal no-three-in-line subsets of a modular hyperbola in the Hall-Jackson-Sudbery-Wild window

Let p be an odd prime and H_c = {(x,y): xy ≡ c (mod p)} the modular hyperbola in the 2p×2p window of Hall, Jackson, Sudbery and Wild (1975). HJSW observed that keeping three of the four points of each residue class gives 3(p−1) points in general position; Kovács, Nagy and Szabó s...

E-cigarette use and nicotine dependence among hospitalized youth: influence of nicotine metabolism and CYP2A6 variability

Background Youth e-cigarette use is a public health concern, yet cessation approaches remain suboptimal. In adults, faster nicotine metabolism is linked with better cessation outcomes with varenicline compared to nicotine replacement therapy (NRT). This remains unexplored in yout...

Synchrony with Nothing: The Rule 30 Prize Problems, the Question Beneath Them, and a Structural Definition of Randomness

Synchrony with Nothing: The Rule 30 Prize Problems, the Question Beneath Them, and a Structural Definition of Randomness This Zenodo record archives the canonical supplementary materials for Aaron Woffinden's 2026 preprint Synchrony with Nothing: The Rule 30 Prize Problems, the Q...

From Home to Campus: How Parental Maltreatment Shapes Bullying Victimization through Social Integration and Mental Health

Prior research consistently demonstrates that victimization increases the risk of subsequent victimization across the life course. Parental maltreatment has rarely been examined as an early risk factor for bullying victimization in emerging adulthood. The current study uses surve...

Pediatric Use of Off‐Label Medicines and Nonevidence‐Based Supplements for COVID ‐19: Findings From the 2015 Pelotas Birth Cohort Study (Brazil)

ABSTRACT Purpose Pediatric off‐label medicine use increased during the COVID‐19 pandemic, exposing children to nonevidence‐based treatments. We described the use of nonevidence‐based COVID‐19 medicines and supplements among children from the 2015 Pelotas Birth Cohort, according t...

The Golden Angle (≈137.5°): Nature's Optimal Phyllotaxis Pattern from φ — E8 Intelligence Research

FINDING: The golden angle (≈137.51°) governs phyllotaxis patterns in nature, derived from the golden ratio φ, optimizing seed/leaf arrangement. MATH: Golden angle = 360° × (1 – 1/φ) = 360° × (2 – φ) = 360° × (1 – 0.618…) = 360° × 0.381966… = 137.5077…°. Equivalently, golden angle...

Capital Structure and Firm Profitability: A Systematic Literature Review

ABSTRACT This paper presents a systematic literature review of the relationship between capital structure and firm profitability. Drawing on foundational theory, including the Modigliani-Miller irrelevance and tax-adjusted propositions, trade-off theory, pecking order theory and...

The Substrate Modulation of Decay Constants

Title: The Substrate Modulation of Decay Constants: Resolving Annual Nuclear Half-Life Oscillations via Solar Spatial Deletion Traffic and the Topological Drag Constant ($\mathcal{C}_\delta$) Author: Marco Lindenbeck Description: Standard nuclear physics operates under the founda...

For the love of business

Purpose This paper aims to review the latest management developments across the globe and pinpoint practical implications from cutting-edge research and case studies. Design/methodology/approach This briefing is prepared by an independent writer who adds their own impartial comme...

Generative AI as Emotional Support: A Scoping Review of Emotional Disclosure, AI Companionship, Psychological Dependence, and Human Help Seeking

Generative artificial intelligence has moved from a mainly task based technology to a conversational system that people may use when they are lonely, worried, stressed, or simply in need of someone to listen. This scoping review looks at how people use generative artificial intel...

Time Perspective, Meaning in Life, and Psychological Distress Among Young Adults in the Pandemic Context

The COVID-19 pandemic represents a global crisis, which significantly impacted people’s mental health and caused psychological suffering, due to the greater number of stressors with which people had to cope. The current study investigated the relation between time perspectives an...

Metacognition: A New Aspect V2

This essay challenges the prevailing assumption that metacognition — the capacity to think about one's own thinking — is a rare, unevenly distributed skill that must be taught. Drawing on parallel emergence of metacognitive markers across separate hominin species in the fossil re...

MERLIN SCIENCE — LAB #1171 PROMISING: TG AUTO: BASE 44 ORDER: Implement Q8 compression — E8 Intelligence Research

Here is today's MERLIN SCIENCE narration. Today's finding is that replacing the 240-vector bucket in cluster 84's E8 lattice with Q8 compression and decode-on-read lookup is a promising candidate for reducing geometric lookup latency, with a confidence of 72 percent. The problem...

Feigenbaum Constant δ: Universal Scaling in Period-Doubling Bifurcation Cascades — E8 Intelligence Research

FINDING: Feigenbaum constant δ ≈ 4.669201609 emerges as universal scaling factor in period-doubling bifurcation cascades across all unimodal maps, independent of the specific system. MATH: - Feigenbaum constant δ = lim_{n→∞} (μ_n - μ_{n-1})/(μ_{n+1} - μ_n) ≈ 4.669201609 - Second...

Determinants and prognostic significance of reduced heart rate variability for mortality and functional outcome after acute ischemic stroke

Objective: The study aimed to determine the predictors of reduced heart rate variability (HRV) in patients with stroke and to examine its relationship with functional outcomes and all-cause mortality.Methods:The 24-h Holter electrocardiographic recordings of patients referred to...

Individual Treatment Effect and Response to Treatment: Identification and Prediction

Background: The individualization of treatment remains a formidable challenge in modern medicine. Randomized Controlled Trials (RCTs) provide the gold standard for assessing the Average Treatment Effect (ATE) across a population. However, translating these probabilistic, populati...

The GRIP on GDOS: GRIP: the Geometric Engine of Symmetry Breaking, from the Big Bang to Mind

Nothing in the universe stayed symmetric. It began hot and nearly featureless, and everything in it now — the particles, the elements, the molecules, the living cell, the mind reading this sentence — is what was left standing after one symmetry broke, and then another, and then a...

Computational Spinor Linearization of Nonlinear Algebraic Systems

This paper presents a scalable and robust computational architecture for the algebra-valued linearization and subsequent solution of square nonlinear algebraic systems. Building upon the historical foundation of the spinor method (Kuznetsov & Pshenichnikov, 1985), the proposed ap...

Chern-Simons Theory, Knot Invariants, and Mirror Symmetry on Calabi-Yau Threefolds — E8 Intelligence Research

FINDING: Chern-Simons theory links knot invariants to topological strings via mirror symmetry and derived categories of coherent sheaves on Calabi-Yau threefolds. MATH: - Chern-Simons action: \( S_{CS} = \frac{k}{4\pi} \int_M \text{Tr}(A \wedge dA + \frac{2}{3} A \wedge A \wedge...