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DualPop: User Popularity Preference Aware Debiasing Recommendation

Recommender systems usually suffer from popularity biases, where a few popular items are over-recommended, while most long-tail items struggle to gain exposure. Prior research focused on eliminating the influence of popularity to suppress popular items and enhance the recommendat...

Reassessing the Education–FDI–Trade Nexus for a Sustainable Future: Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa

<ns5:p>Background Education, foreign direct investment (FDI), and trade openness can influence environmental sustainability through competing human-capital, technology-transfer, scale, composition, and pollution-haven channels. Evidence for Sub-Saharan Africa remains fragmented a...

A new semi-supervised algorithm using silhouette width for clustering arbitrary-scaled data

In order to explore the information embedded in a given set of data, clustering has been successfully used to partition an unlabeled sample into meaningful classes. When we have any additional information regarding the original class-membership for a subset of the data either dir...

Technology life cycle: Greenhouses

This article provides an analysis of the technological life cycle (TLC) of greenhouses, an essential element of modern agriculture that has evolved from basic crop-protection structures into highly sophisticated systems integrating construction, energy, and digital innovations. T...

Understanding young consumers' green energy purchase intentions in an emerging market: a value-attitude-behavior perspective with media exposure as a moderator

Purpose Promoting green energy purchase behavior is crucial for sustainable development in emerging markets, due to the rising adult population and energy demand. Therefore, this study aims to examine the impact of environmental values on attitudinal beliefs of young Indian consu...

Recognition of Single-Strand-Duplex Junctions in RNA Using Peptide Nucleic Acids That Form Watson–Crick and Hoogsteen Hydrogen Bond

Abstract Sequence-specific recognition of complex, folded RNA structures is a highly desirable yet formidable goal. The present study explored nucleobase-modified peptide nucleic acids (PNAs) as ligands that bind and recognize junctions between single- and double-stranded RNA via...

Resilience, Not Stress: A Historical Index of Political Stability

This study proposes a resilience‑based framework for evaluating political stability through a historical index that captures how states withstand and recover from structural stress. Rather than interpreting instability as the accumulation of stress factors, the model conceptualiz...

RESIST Terassa_posters_Catalunya_3

The poster Inclusive Futures: Citizen Dialogues on Heat Adaptation presents the qualitative and participatory research process developed in Terrassa by the Open University of Catalonia as part of the RESIST project to promote more inclusive adaptation to extreme heat. It synthesi...

LAB #1129 HARMFUL: VIDEO SCOUT: What is a First Green Day // Beginner Trader // Tessa Lamping — E8 Intelligence Research

IDEA: AUTO VIDEO SCOUT — evaluate this trading strategy video for the swarm: VIDEO: "What is a First Green Day // Beginner Trader // Tessa Lamping" by Tessa Lamping — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8N56Oh_n1E (duration 236s, 828 views; found via search 'Tim Sykes OTC first gree...

A Lithium-Ion Battery Remaining Useful Life Prediction Framework Based on Mode Decomposition and CNN-TimeXer

Remaining useful life (RUL) prediction is essential for lithium-ion battery health management, yet accurate prognosis remains difficult because battery degradation trajectories are strongly non-stationary and often contain mixed-scale fluctuations together with local regeneration...

Choose the proper strategic planning model to suit organizational needs

Most nonprofits understand the value of having a strategic plan in place to help guide the organization's activities and governance over the coming few years. But still, nearly half don't have an updated plan in place, research shows—often because their current circumstances and...

TaIAA25 negatively regulates wheat alkaline tolerance by inhibiting plasma membrane H + -ATPase activity

Soil salinization/alkalization represents a universal challenge that severely constrains crop productivity. Elucidating the molecular mechanisms underpinning saline/alkaline tolerance of wheat ( Triticum aestivum ) holds profound significance for global food security and sustaina...

Creep Failure and Pyrolysis Damage Mechanism of CFRP Under Thermo‐Mechanical Coupling

ABSTRACT A key challenge in airworthiness of composite aircraft is understanding the thermo‐mechanical response and failure of carbon fiber reinforced polymer (CFRP) in in‐flight fire. A sequentially coupled thermal‐stress analysis with a three‐dimensional thermal response model...

Machine Learning-Based Classification of Retinitis Pigmentosa from Color Fundus Images: A Reproducible Benchmark and Screening-Oriented Pipeline

Retinitis pigmentosa (RP) is a rare inherited retinal disorder in which fundus changes may be subtle and heterogeneous, limiting detection from color fundus images. This study evaluated multiple machine learning architectures for binary-RP versus healthy-control classification, a...

Genetic predictive links between oropharyngeal microecology and obstructive sleep apnea syndrome: expanding the perspective of etiology

Background Obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (OSAS), a global public health concern, is linked to oropharyngeal microbiota, but observational studies cannot confirm their causal association.Objective To explore the potential causal relationship between oropharyngeal microecology a...

Defining Threshold Limits for Multiple Abiotic Stressors in Fisheries and Aquaculture Systems

ABSTRACT Aquatic ecosystems are increasingly exposed to multiple abiotic stressors driven by climate change, environmental degradation, and anthropogenic activities. These stressors, including temperature fluctuations, dissolved oxygen depletion, pH alterations, ammonia accumulat...

Social system and spatial behavior drive interspecific differences in foraging intensity and plant-level damage in sympatric ungulates

Foraging behavior in ungulates affects not only their own fitness but also the fitness and morphology of the plants they consume. While intraspecific variation in ungulate foraging behavior has been extensively studied, interspecific differences—particularly those associated with...

The Linear Series Decomposition Learner (LSDL): A Multi-Geometric Theory of Signal Structure and Representation

Signal representation underpins modern signal processing, yet many existing methods primarily transform signals into alternative domains without explicitly modelling how informative signal structure evolves during recursive localisation. This paper presents the Linear Series Deco...

The Isolation Requirement: Contradictory Demands, Favoured Partition, and Guarded Finalisation in Finite Systems

The first two papers in this series constrain knowing: three scoped limits and a criterion-conditional operating discipline (Paper One), and a tolerance-bounded instrument by which a shortfall can be pointed to under controlled comparison (Paper Two). This paper turns to construc...

Kolmogorov Complexity, Algorithmic Randomness, and the Limits of Knowledge — E8 Intelligence Research

FINDING: Kolmogorov complexity defines randomness as incompressibility; algorithmic information theory reveals fundamental limits on knowledge and computation. | MATH: \( K(s) = \min\{ |p| : U(p) = s \} \) (Kolmogorov complexity of string s is length of shortest program p that ou...