Research works

Robotic grasping of hollow guardrail components for outdoor installation: a geometry-based RGB-D depth sampling approach for 3D localization

Purpose This study aims to develop an integrated sensing–perception–control system for automated highway guardrail installation, addressing the depth perception failure of RGB-D cameras over hollow structural regions in field working conditions. Design/methodology/approach An edg...

Digitalization and Environmental Quality in the OECD : A Structural‐Break Analysis of the Ecological Footprint and Load Capacity Factor

ABSTRACT This study examines how digitalization shapes environmental quality in OECD countries using the ecological footprint (demand side) and the load capacity factor (supply side) within a balanced panel dataset of 30 countries covering the 2002–2021 period. Income, urbanizati...

Outcomes of non-tuberculous mycobacterial infection of the bone, joint and soft tissue: a seven-year multicentre retrospective study

Abstract Purpose Extrapulmonary nontuberculous mycobacterial (EPNTM) infections of bone, joint, and soft tissue are difficult to treat and lack species-specific outcome data. We sought to describe antimicrobial regimens and surgical management by Mycobacterium spp. and to identif...

Ultrasound-Independent Rapid Triage in Pediatric Appendicitis via Explainable AI

Ultrasonography (USG) is central to the diagnosis of pediatric appendicitis, but operator dependency and limited access can delay triage. This study aimed to develop an explainable machine learning model that estimates the USG-assisted clinical diagnosis of appendicitis from pre-...

Learning to Generalize Across Conditions: A PPO-Based Learning Approach to Multi-Condition Multi-Objective Optimization

This study introduces sPPO-CR, a policy-gradient deep reinforcement learning (DRL) algorithm for multi-objective (MO) and multi-condition multi-objective (MCMO) optimization. The method builds on a simplified single-step variant of Proximal Policy Optimization (PPO) and incorpora...

Bubbles tower solutions to a fourth-order elliptic equation with subcritical nonlinearity

This paper is concerned with the nonlinear elliptic problem involving nearly critical exponent (Pε): Δ2u=K|u|(8/(n−4))−εu in Ω, Δu=u=0 on ∂Ω, where Ω is a bounded smooth domain in Rn, n≥ 5, ε is a small positive parameter and K is a C3 positive function on Ω¯. As ε goes to zero,...

Back to Nature, Back to Self: Examining Ecotherapy as a Tool of Restorative Healing to Reduce the Impact of Environmental Injustice and Eco-Trauma

Environmental degradation disproportionally harms communities of historically marginalized groups, with Black communities facing compounded vulnerabilities shaped by colonialism and racialized ecotrauma. While environmental justice scholarship has focused on prioritizing infrastr...

Uniqueness of Markov numbers with a large prime-power divisor

The Frobenius uniqueness conjecture asserts that the largest entry of a positive integral solution of a^2 + b^2 + m^2 = 3abm determines the other two entries up to order. We prove that a Markov number m > 2 is unique if it has an odd prime-power divisor q satisfying ε q > 3^{-6/4...

An experience-sampling dataset of everyday moral experiences across 20 countries

This repository contains the materials for Everyday Morality Around the World, a data paper presenting a dataset from a preregistered, multi-site ecological momentary assessment (EMA) study on moral experiences conducted by Murray et al. (in prep). The study aimed to replicate Ho...

Structure–Redox–Magnetism Dynamics Induced by Pd–Fe Interaction in Mixed Iron Oxide Nanoparticles

Abstract The incorporation of noble metals into iron oxide nanomaterials represents an effective strategy to tailor their redox and structural properties through metal-oxide interactions. However, a detailed experimental understanding of these effects is limited. This work invest...

EuroMillions Breakthrough Mining — 10233 Sources, 99904 Leads Extracted — E8 Intelligence Research

Mined 10233 lottery+quantum breakthroughs. Extracted 99904 leads across 13 categories. 96322 high-value leads found. Categories: {"CORRIDOR": 8735, "FORMULA": 8499, "GEOMETRIC": 1659, "FORWARD_ATTEMPT": 9157, "QUANTUM": 9423, "TIMING": 621, "CELESTIAL": 8564, "GEMATRIA": 8955, "C...

THE TOTAL DETHRONEMENT OF MECHANICAL SINGULARITIES: RESOLVING SCHWARZSCHILD CRASHES VIA TERMINAL SEVENTH-ORDER COORDINATE RIGIDITY

ABSTRACT This manuscript delivers a lethal mathematical blow to the century-old dogma of physical gravitational collapse within black holes. Albert Einstein’s General Relativity predicts a catastrophic breakdown of spacetime geometry at the core (r à0), resulting in an unresolvab...

Associations of Distinct Dietary Indices with Global and Domain-Specific Cognition and Age-Related Heterogeneity in Older Chinese Adults

Background: Whether distinct dietary indices are similarly associated with cognitive domains and whether these associations vary by age remain unclear. We examined the Chinese MIND diet score (cMIND), dietary diversity score, and healthy plant-based diet index (HPDI) in relation...

Seasonal lags and legacy effects on vegetation cover and carbon uptake in Kuwait from 2014 to 2024: A MODIS GPP–ET–NDVI analysis

Abstract Remote sensing provides a consistent framework for quantifying vegetation dynamics in hyper-arid environments where field observations are sparse. This study integrated MODIS-derived gross primary productivity (GPP), evapotranspiration (ET), and normalized difference veg...

Mechanism‐Driven Failure Criteria for Carbon Fiber Reinforced Composites Across Laminated and Three‐Dimensional Braided Architectures: A Review

ABSTRACT Carbon Fiber Reinforced Polymer (CFRP) is widely used in aerospace and other fields due to its excellent mechanical properties. Failure analysis is crucial for optimizing CFRP structural design and improving service performance. CFRP failure is closely related to materia...

Soil Health Assessment for Crop-Specific Production: Linking Soil Microbiomes, Pathogen Risk, and Crop Nutritional and Phytochemical Quality

Abstract: Soil degradation is one of the greatest threats to sustainable agriculture, yet current soil health assessment frameworks largely rely on physicochemical indicators and may insufficiently account for crop-specific biological requirements and microbiome functions. Increa...

Discovery of Tricyclic Oxazinoquinolinone-Based BCL6 PROTAC Degraders with Potent Activity Against Diffuse Large B-Cell Lymphoma

Abstract B-cell lymphoma 6 (BCL6) is a key transcriptional repressor involved in the pathogenesis of diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL). In this study, scaffold hopping of BI-3802 led to compound 1, a new tricyclic BCL6-targeting ligand. Further optimization of linker architec...

Baseline D-Dimer Predicts Subsequent Venous Thromboembolism in 23,505 Patients with One of 11 Solid Malignancies: An 11-Year Retrospective Cohort Study

Background/Objectives: Venous thromboembolism (VTE) is a major complication of cancer. The predictive performance of baseline D-dimer and factors influencing its levels among patients with cancer remain unclear. We aimed to identify predictors of subsequent VTE development and ev...

ChatGPT’s feedback credibility and students’ perceived learning: the role of agent-related social perceptions

Abstract This paper examines whether students’ agent-related social perceptions of ChatGPT are associated with the perceived credibility of its feedback in academic tasks and whether such credibility, in turn, is related to students’ perceived learning. It also investigates wheth...

The Collatz Conjecture: Progress, Not Proof, in Meta-Mathematics and Heuristics — E8 Intelligence Research

FINDING: Collatz remains unsolved; recent progress is meta-mathematical (Lean kernel vulnerability) and heuristic (Tao's partial results), not a breakthrough in the underlying arithmetic structure. | MATH: Collatz map: T(n) = n/2 if n even, (3n+1)/2 if n odd. No closed-form solut...