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Unified Embodiment Description for functional evaluation of used components in circular manufacturing systems

Circular manufacturing systems require functional evaluation of used components based on their physical state. Existing approaches describe this state from separate perspectives, such as design, manufacturing, and degradation, resulting in fragmented and incompatible representati...

Conservation agriculture practices and labor productivity in maize production: Evidence from smallholders in Malawi and Zambia

This study estimates the relationship between adoption of CA practices and labor productivity in maize production among smallholder farmers in Malawi and Zambia, using data from 1,120 randomly sampled households and 4,311 plots. We define CA practice adoption as using minimum til...

When The Framework Hits Reality

When the Framework Hits Reality: A Field Manual for Making Change Move Through Organizations examines why well-designed organizational initiatives often lose momentum during execution, even when strategy, frameworks, and stakeholder alignment appear sound. Drawing on patterns gen...

An ontology for causal-set dynamics: Becoming as actualization, the basis as causal past

The causal-set programme proposes that spacetime is, at bottom, a discrete poset whose Lorentzian geometry emerges, endowed with a covariant sequential growth dynamics. It leaves open, however, two points that an ontology must settle: the status of the "becoming" of growth (a com...

Identifying the cause of concrete cracking due to water leakage

AbstractWater leakage is often the primary cause of concrete deterioration in apartment buildings. Although concrete is designed to last over a century, water leakage leads to carbonation, red rusting of reinforcing bars, and through-cracks—factors that shorten the building's lif...

From Attention to an Exact Conversational Architecture: Unison Fold AI - Preliminary Development Update

Unison Fold AI, version 0.2.0, is an ongoing preliminary account of a novel mathematical and computational development within Smithian Fold Theory (SFT). It extends the July publication with two admitted computational specialisations, a 105,491,456-cell native architecture with a...

Geometric Derivation of the Yang–Mills Mass Gap from the Static 12³ Tessellation in Geometric Topology 14D (TG): Resolution of the Clay Problem, Proton Radius Puzzle and Multiple ΛCDM Tensions

We derive the Yang–Mills mass gap geometrically from the static 12×12×12 tessellation of the General Theory (TG): Δ_QCD = (P_s P_d / 12) m₂ ≃ 1.478 GeV (0.3σ agreement with experimental glueball data). The same discrete systolic architecture (so(12) ⊕ so(7) ⊕ so(7) → so(26)) reso...

GLP-1 Receptor Agonists and Musculoskeletal Outcomes: A Systematic Literature Review and Meta-Analysis

Glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists (GLP-1 RAs) are increasingly used for the treatment of type 2 diabetes and obesity, but their effects on musculoskeletal health remain completely misunderstood. This systematic review/meta-analysis aims to synthesise clinical data on the...

Reducing standard-language-ideology conflicts through participatory research in historical sociolinguistics

Abstract This paper presents participatory research as a strategy for achieving a publicly engaged historical sociolinguistics, using a case study of collaboration between academic and community partners focused on Cockney in East London. Participatory research methods emphasise...

Transformer MLP Gate Thresholds Are Couplings to a Carried Reference Direction

The corpus-mean direction of a transformer’s residual stream is a component shared acrossall inputs, and is commonly removed by mean-centering before representational analysis on theassumption that it cannot carry input-specific signal. We present evidence that it is a functional...

Auditory cognition 31 (pathways, detectors and projections)

The auditory board is located in Wernicke's area (left posterior temporal lobe). Listening to speech activates the superior temporal lobe bilaterally and largely symmetrically. We present a special aspect for auditory pathways and suggest the presence of auditory corridors and it...

A Covariant Objective Present: Relativistic becoming read as actualization, without a global "now"

Presentism and the growing block universe make the present an objective frontier, but presuppose a global "now" that the relativity of simultaneity forbids — the Rietdijk–Putnam argument, which pushes the metaphysics of time toward eternalism (past, present and future equally rea...

How we can move 26 (motor executive function)

We have three different motor executive functions : 1- Front-end non reward motor executive functions 2- Back-end non reward motor executive functions 3- Front-end reward motor executive functions. Non reward motor executive functions uses Basal ganglia dopamine power control whe...

How we can move 25 (Pyramidal and extra-pyramidal system)

Here we offer a new demonstration about the role of pyramidal and extrapyramidal system with the motion in three surfaces (frontal-axial-horizontal), we will find that head and neck have a special system for motion (Tectal system), and how the brain uses visual corridor and deep...

How we can talk 17

We have nine types of talking memory: unknown lingual memory, familiar auditory memory, traditional lingual memory, general lingual memory, general reward lingual extra memory, personal reward lingual extra memory, personal reward sensory borrowing lingual extra memory, personal...

Virtual simulatory boards 11 part one

We have four hidden boards : 1- Inner talking board (auditory simulatory board) is located in angular gyrus, 2- Inner seeing board (visual simulatory board) is located in posterior precuneus cortex, 3- 3D body position board is located in supramarginal cortex and 4- 3D visuospati...

How we can see 09 (prefrontal cortex)

In this lecture we will present the main function of prefrontal cortex, APFC is a Supervisor center of mind DLPFC is the Volitional executive center, DMPFC is the Access gate center (front-end cognitive center) , VMPFC is the Self-awareness center , VLPFC is the Supported executi...

Modelling dissipative dynamics of r-mode instability in hybrid stars

Abstract Compact star cores reach extreme densities and may contain exotic dense-matter phases. Information about the exotic interiors of rapidly rotating pulsars can be inferred from r-mode oscillations, whose stability is governed by viscous dissipation. In this work, we model...

On background fields and a cutoff in sigma models

Abstract In this paper, using the example of a two-dimensional nonlinear sigma model with the Heisenberg group, we compare two variants of chiral field decomposition into a background part and a fluctuation. It is shown that only one of these methods is consistent with the constr...

Built-in selection bias in proportional hazards models with omitted covariates: Simulation evidence and alternative approaches

In time-to-event analysis, the hazard ratio derived from the Cox proportional hazards model is the most commonly used and widely reported measure for assessing treatment effects. However, hazard ratios are non-collapsible due to their inherent conditioning on survival up to each...