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One Operator, Four Faculties: Value, Time, Self and Contradiction as the Hodge Components of an Agent's Flow, with Belnap's Four Values as Its Regimes

Claim. We propose a topological account of an embodied AI agent’s memory, in which four faculties, the value of a goal, time,the self as efference, and contradiction, are the component types of a single combinatorial Hodge decomposition of the agent’sempirical flows, read with no...

Oropharyngeal Lateral Wall Collapse as a Predictor of Hypoglossal Nerve Stimulation Response: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

Purpose Oropharyngeal lateral wall collapse (OPLW) on drug-induced sleep endoscopy (DISE) may influence outcomes after hypoglossal nerve stimulation (HNS) for obstructive sleep apnea (OSA). This systematic review and meta-analysis evaluates whether DISE-defined OPLW collapse is a...

Beyond the Clinic: Artificial Intelligence Transforming STI Self-Assessment, Early Detection, and Personalized Decision Support

Sexually transmitted infections (STIs) remain a major global public health challenge, while stigma, privacy concerns, and barriers to healthcare access continue to delay diagnosis and treatment. This narrative review summarizes the current evidence on the use of artificial intell...

Violating the rules: grammatical deviations as a strategy for musicality in modern English songs

This study examines grammatical deviation in contemporary English song lyrics from both U.S. and U.K. It focuses on pop, hip-hop, and R&B songs that are released between 2000 and 2025. Drawing on a corpus of thirty widely consumed songs, this research integrates Systemic Function...

Impacts of Future Oil Palm Expansion on Carbon and Hydrological Fluxes Across the Tropics

Abstract Future oil palm expansion could substantially alter tropical carbon and water cycles, but its regional impacts remain unclear. Using CLM5‐palm, we simulate large‐scale oil palm expansion from 2023 to 2100 in Southeast Asia, Africa and the Amazon. Expansion increases tota...

Billion-Scale Quantum Darwinism: Matrix-Free von Neumann Entropy Estimation via FP8 Ozaki Scheme on NVIDIA Blackwell

We present the first integration of the Ozaki error-free transformation with FP8 Tensor Core acceleration for matrix-free von Neumann entropy estimation in a quantum many-body simulation. Our application is Quantum Darwinism on a scrambled Spin-Star model: a one-qubit system enta...

Coming Up…

The annual conference of NAADAC, the Association for Addiction Professionals, will be held August 29‐31 in Kansas City. For more information, go to https://www.naadac.org/annualconference

Fibroblast-like Synoviocytes as Therapeutic Targets in Rheumatoid Arthritis: Current Evidence on DMARD-Mediated Modulation

Background/Objectives: Fibroblast-like synoviocytes (FLS) are key contributors to rheumatoid arthritis (RA) pathogenesis, driving synovial inflammation, cartilage degradation, bone erosion and disease persistence. Recent advances have revealed substantial FLS heterogeneity, with...

Prediction of platinum-based neoadjuvant chemotherapy response in muscle-invasive bladder cancer using a multifaceted approach

Abstract Radical cystectomy (RC), preceded by platinum-based neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NAC), is recommended for eligible patients with muscle-invasive bladder cancer (MIBC). Although NAC improves survival, many patients do not respond; in non-responders, it may delay surgery and...

Utilizing Vegetation Indices Derived from VNIR-SWIR Hyperspectral Data to Characterize Growth, Maturation, and Senescence in Wheat and Barley

Cereal crops, including wheat and barley, are essential for global food security, but their productivity is strongly affected by nitrogen availability and water limitation. This study investigated the phenotypic responses of two commercially significant spring wheat cultivars, Vi...

Cost-effectiveness of pembrolizumab as neoadjuvant therapy and in combination with standard of care (SOC) as adjuvant therapy for stage III-IVA resectable locally advanced head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (LA HNSCC) in Switzerland

AIMS: KEYNOTE-689 trial results demonstrated that neoadjuvant pembrolizumab followed by adjuvant pembrolizumab plus standard of care (NP/AP + SOC) significantly improved event-free survival (EFS) versus SOC alone in patients with locoregionally advanced head and neck squamous cel...

Quantum Gravity Tests: Theoretical Proposals, No Experimental Confirmation — E8 Intelligence Research

FINDING: Quantum gravity tests remain theoretical; no experimental confirmation of gravity as quantum force exists. Key proposals involve Penrose's gravitization of quantum mechanics and Folman's T-cubed experiment. | MATH: No new equations or constants extracted from summaries....

Establishing a Semen Cryobank for Yan Goose: Optimized Collection and Cryopreservation

Yan goose, a representative Chinese local breed, requires genetic resource conservation. To address this, we optimized a semen cryopreservation protocol for Yan geese and validated its feasibility in large-scale cryobank production. Using motility of frozen-thawed sperm (MFS) as...

E8-Volatility Phase Lock: Predicting Market Breakouts via Root Vector Synchronization — E8 Intelligence Research

Building on the E8-GQCP framework, this principle maps the 240 root vectors to discrete volatility states in financial markets, with 132Hz base frequency oscillations modulated by phi-coupled phase shifts. When Bollinger Bands contract, the system identifies a critical lattice co...

Distributed burst firing mediates optimized cortical encoding of natural self-motion

Accurate perception of self-motion requires that vestibular input be transformed into neural representations suitable for integrating multisensory cues to guide action. Here, we demonstrate that vestibular cortical neurons represent the self-motion stimuli encountered during ever...

Between Languages: Clinical Realities and Needs in Multilingual Aphasia Therapy

Purpose: The rising prevalence of multilingual populations and poststroke aphasia demonstrates the urgency of research on multilingual people with aphasia (MPwA). Understanding the experiences and needs of speech and language therapists (SLTs) working with MPwA is vital for guidi...

Malignant adenomyoepithelioma of the breast with contralateral homologous tumor and ductal carcinoma in situ: two case reports

Introduction and importance: Malignant adenomyoepithelioma (MAME) is a rare biphasic breast tumor with no standardized management guidelines. Co-occurrence with other breast malignancies is extremely rare. Case introduction: We report two cases with long-term follow-up: a 59-year...

The Asset Changed Faster Than the Institution

Generative artificial intelligence is changing the economics of venture formation, but unevenly. At the application-software layer, AI-assisted development, cloud infrastructure, reusable models, and automated commercial tools can reduce the labour and time required to produce ea...

Sex-specific cognitive and metabolic effects of lifelong caloric restriction and sodium butyrate administration in aging rats

Aging is associated with progressive metabolic dysfunction and cognitive decline, which is often accompanied by hippocampal dysfunction and sex-specific vulnerabilities. Caloric restriction (CR) and sodium butyrate (NaBu), a short-chain fatty acid that acts as a histone deacetyla...

Economic freedom, energy transition, and environmental sustainability in sub-Saharan Africa: assessing the region’s load capacity factor and ecological footprint

Energy transition has been touted as a viable solution to mitigate the menace of climate change in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). However, this study argues that energy transition is necessary but not sufficient in the absence of inclusivity and economic freedom, which guarantees prop...