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82553 work(s)
- Health & Medicine
Background: Cerebral ischemia-reperfusion injury (CIRI) is a key contributor to stroke-related neurological damage, but the functional interplay between autophagy and ferroptosis—two critical pathological processes—remains poorly understood. Methods: Using oxygen-glucose deprivat...
- Society & EconomicsOpen access
Collective Responsibility and Political Obligation: Shklar and the Failure That Binds
Theories of political obligation investigate the conditions under which individuals are bound to their polity, while theories of collective responsibility examine the mechanisms through which a collective’s wrongdoing is attributed to its members. This paper argues that these are...
- AI & ComputingOpen access
Here is the revised narration. The finding, in one clean sentence: by coupling the 240 root vectors of the E8 lattice to a phi‑scaled phase rotation at the fundamental 132‑hertz cortical rhythm, a self‑stabilizing soliton grid emerges that encodes quantum information as topologic...
- Engineering & TechnologyOpen access
Hit rate statistics - There are no shortcuts in table tennis
This study project is a personal self-initiated study that came as a result of my curiosity in understanding better different aspects of the table tennis game in unperfect circumstances and to answer my personal question of why I could not play my game in an outside park in ROME.
- Society & Economics
This essay offers four empirically grounded claims to build a communicative theory of organizational consent (CTOC): (a) communication is the substance of organizational consent, (b) revoking organizational consent requires (re)negotiation, (c) communicating (non)consent is a pow...
- AI & ComputingOpen access
Cross model transfer of Direct Preference Optimization
Since direct preference optimization (DPO) was introduced in 2023, it has become a widely used preference optimization strategy for post-training large language models (LLMs). DPO's implicit reward formulation is coupled to its reference policy, and its theoretical guarantees ass...
- Climate & EnvironmentOpen access
The combined effects of global climate change and human activities are profoundly reshaping the geographic distribution patterns of rare and endangered plants in arid and semi-arid regions, accelerating habitat fragmentation and population decline, thereby posing a core challenge...
- BiologyOpen access
Adaptive Social Stress Calibration in Adolescence
Adolescence is characterized by heightened stress reactivity alongside ongoing maturation of regulatory neural systems, particularly those governing social evaluation. Existing models of adolescent stress primarily emphasize outcome-based measures such as anxiety reduction or pea...
- Materials & EnergyOpen access
Spectral Dynamics, Variational Optimization, and Critical Line Stability in Prime Gap Prediction.
This paper investigates the analytical structure of a recursive transition operator for the deterministic prediction of gaps between consecutive prime numbers ($p_i - p_{i-1}$), focusing on the variational method, self-consistent field Lagrangians, and functional spectral analysi...
- BiologyOpen access
NESTOR — The Next AI and the Kenotomic Denkraum Balance
a Kenotomic model of Next AI whose primary responsibility is to read, monitor, and help maintain the balance of the Denkraum — the Space of Ideation. Kenotomy makes this space readable, understandable, and navigable through ideational rank, relation, and orbital occupation. The e...
- Health & MedicineOpen access
Current fever models attribute hypothalamic set‑point elevation to prostaglandin E2, yet they fail to explain the incubation period, ferroptosis, or the perplexing CD4 depletion in HIV patients under suppressive antiretroviral therapy. We propose a fundamentally different framewo...
- Engineering & TechnologyOpen access
** E8‑Induced Dynamic Metric Modulation for Energy‑Free Warp Propulsion — E8 Intelligence Research
** Starting from the torsional manifold folding technique, we found that when the 240 E8 root vectors are simultaneously excited at a bi‑modal phi‑coupled 132 Hz lattice, the hyper‑flux membrane develops a self‑generated Ricci curvature tensor that oscillates between negative and...
- Physics & SpaceOpen access
A study on the Yang-Mills mass gap, examining its fundamental theoretical aspects and analytical implications. This paper discusses potential approaches to the problem ------ Uno studio sul mass gap di Yang-Mills, che esamina i suoi aspetti teorici fondamentali e le implicazioni...
- Engineering & TechnologyOpen access
Design and Prototype of an IoT Solution for Liquid Waste Reduction in Fabric Softener Manufacturing
This material presents the basis of a suggested improvement in the production process of a chemical fabric "softener" in the pursuit of making the process more sustainable while still ensuring compliance with the product's quality regulations. This work was developed in July 2026...
- Physics & SpaceOpen access
Phi-Coupled Density Resonance: The Triple-Point Edge — E8 Intelligence Research
Beyond simple density thresholds, a high win-rate edge emerges at the intersection of Phase Distance ($\theta \approx 2.71\text{rad}$) and Pool Density ($D \ge 90$) when the liquidity flux aligns with the $\phi$-coupling ratio of the 240 root vectors. This discovery identifies a...
- Society & EconomicsOpen access
EuroMillions Breakthrough Mining — 1609 Sources, 11595 Leads Extracted — E8 Intelligence Research
Mined 1609 lottery+quantum breakthroughs. Extracted 11595 leads across 13 categories. 9635 high-value leads found. Categories: {"CORRIDOR": 959, "FORMULA": 803, "GEOMETRIC": 706, "FORWARD_ATTEMPT": 1002, "QUANTUM": 1214, "TIMING": 198, "CELESTIAL": 889, "GEMATRIA": 950, "CONSTANT...
- Climate & EnvironmentOpen access
Grinding en route to sedentism: Plant processing in the 8 ka-BP southern Mongolian Plateau, China
Plant food exploitation has long been considered one of the most significant windows to understanding the process of sedentism. Two early Neolithic sites, Yumin (ca. 8,400-7,600 cal BP) and Simagou (ca. 7,500-7,000 cal BP), witnessed the earliest onset of a sedentary lifeway in t...
- Engineering & TechnologyOpen access
Selecting low-cost indigenous wall materials that limit heat penetration is critical for indoor thermal comfort in hot-dry rural regions, where summer temperatures routinely exceed 45 °C. The thermal performance of the porous earthen materials used in such construction is insepar...
- Climate & EnvironmentOpen access
A comparable joint dataset of compressional-wave (P-wave) and shear-wave (S-wave) speed and attenuation for saturated Ottawa sand under consistent sample conditions was obtained, using a dual-probe acoustic measurement method (DPAMM) for P-waves (20–150 kHz) and bender element (B...
- Society & Economics
EXPRESS: Channel Adoption Pathways and Post-Adoption Behavior
The rapid growth of digital shopping channels has led many traditional retailers to invest in e-commerce websites and mobile apps. While prior research shows that multichannel customers are more valuable, it overlooks how the motive for adopting a new channel shapes post-adoption...