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Financial Econometrics Beyond Estimation: Identification, Dependence, and Uncertainty

Financial econometrics has expanded rapidly in recent decades, giving researchers many new tools for empirical analysis. Yet empirical findings often remain sensitive to modeling choices, sample construction, and specification decisions, suggesting that many disagreements arise n...

Conditional Abiogenesis Problem Part IV - Physical Feasibility Envelope

Abiogenesis Feasibility Envelope A Physical Exclusion Framework for Candidate Prebiotic Environments Overview The Abiogenesis Feasibility Envelope is a physical-chemical screening framework for evaluating whether a proposed prebiotic environment can support the conditions require...

Molecular characterization of vitellogenin and its receptor with CRISPR-based sgRNA validation in the legume pod borer, Maruca vitrata (Geyer) (Lepidoptera: Crambidae)

Abstract Maruca vitrata , the legume pod borer, causes yield losses of up to 80% in grain legumes. Increasing insecticide resistance and environmental concerns necessitate sustainable pest management alternatives. In the present study, the complete vitellogenin (Vg) coding sequen...

Layered abandonment: The moral interpretation of suffering in extreme confinement

Loss and rejection are central to prison life, yet how they crystallize into a more general sense of abandonment remains under-theorized. Drawing on 64 interviews with men held in prolonged self-isolation or serving indeterminate forvaring sentences in Denmark, we conceptualize a...

Hydraulicity in Organic Polymers Enabled by Hydrophobization Upon Water‐Triggered Curing of Hydrophilic Chains

Water-curing capability of cementitious materials, commonly known as hydraulicity, is key to their widespread use through simply mixing powder with water to form desired robust structures. However, hydraulicity has been difficult to achieve for organic materials due to the lack o...

Thixotropic Characteristics and Strength Regain of Kalomato Soil

The mechanical behavior of soil depends not only on index properties, but also on stress history, environmental changes, and time-dependent aging. Undisturbed soils possess a natural equilibrium structure; remolding disrupts this particle matrix, causing a significant loss in eff...

Risk Factors for Drug Allergies in Pediatric Palliative Care Patients

Background / aim: Children receiving pediatric palliative care constitute a medically fragile population. Despite this vulnerable clinical profile, data on drug allergy in pediatric palliative care remain scarce. This study aimed to determine the frequency, clinical characteristi...

The poetics of Angélica Freitas in Um útero é do tamanho de um punho: Women's voices, body-territory

ABSTRACT This article discusses the book Um útero é do tamanho de um punho (2017), by Brazilian poet Angélica Freitas, from a decolonial, feminist and transfeminist perspective, drawing upon a theoretical corpus comprising Federici (2017), Butler (2019), Vergès (2020), among othe...

Search Results Show No Penrose Tiling or Spin-1/2 SU(2) Link — E8 Intelligence Research

FINDING: No direct Penrose tiling / spin-1/2 / SU(2) correspondence found in the provided abstracts; the search returned unrelated papers on hexaquark SU(3) multiplets, traffic hydrodynamics, graph recoloring, fine-structure constant metrology, and deep-learning leaf segmentation...

Primary gastric alveolar soft part sarcoma with novel complex chromosomal rearrangements: a case report of endoscopic resection and precision diagnostics

Alveolar soft part sarcoma (ASPS) is a rare malignant neoplasm comprising less than 1% of all soft tissue sarcomas, typically affecting adolescents and young adults with a predilection for extremities. Primary gastrointestinal involvement is exceedingly rare, with only a handful...

Fermentation Technology of Ganoderma lucidum and Cordyceps militaris : Advances in Process Optimization, Bioactive Compound Transformation, and Functional Food Development

The growing global demand for functional foods has intensified interest in the biotechnological exploitation of medicinal mushrooms. Ganoderma lucidum and Cordyceps militaris are the two most widely recognised medicinal mushrooms in China, each possessing a well-characterised rep...

Quantum Energy Teleportation Advances Without New Fundamental Constants — E8 Intelligence Research

FINDING: Quantum energy teleportation (QET) demonstrated on superconducting hardware; single-photon double-slit re-verified; multi-qubit teleportation in Japan — but no new fundamental constant or ratio emerges. | MATH: QET uses local operations and classical communication (LOCC)...

EuroMillions Breakthrough Mining — 3650 Sources, 32047 Leads Extracted — E8 Intelligence Research

Mined 3650 lottery+quantum breakthroughs. Extracted 32047 leads across 13 categories. 29541 high-value leads found. Categories: {"CORRIDOR": 2734, "FORMULA": 2559, "GEOMETRIC": 996, "FORWARD_ATTEMPT": 2900, "QUANTUM": 3131, "TIMING": 319, "CELESTIAL": 2637, "GEMATRIA": 2785, "CON...

Rapid Adsorption−Desorption in Direct Air Capture Using 3D-Printed Amine Adsorbents with Electromagnetic Induction Heating

Abstract Direct air capture (DAC) is a promising strategy to address climate change and achieve carbon neutrality goals. The development of an adsorbent material with a high capacity, low pressure drop, and short regeneration period is necessary for high-performance DAC. Here, we...

Age-Related Patterns of Organ-Specific Iron Distribution in Non-Transfusion-Dependent Thalassemia: A Multicenter MRI Study

Objectives: This multicenter cross-sectional study investigated the relationship between age and organ-specific iron burden and characterized multi-organ iron phenotypes across different age groups in adults with non-transfusion-dependent thalassemia (NTDT). Methods: We retrospec...

Sol–Gel Process Optimization of Transparent Silica Aerogels: Regulating Nanostructure to Enhance Optical Transmittance

Silica aerogel, a prototypical transparent nanoporous material with ultralow density and a widely tunable refractive index, is employed as a Cherenkov radiator for precision gamma-ray diagnostics in inertial confinement fusion experiments. However, its optical transmittance is hi...

A Mathematical Theory of Correct Computation

In 1970, Dana Scott proposed his highly influential “mathematical theory of computation” to define the relationship between the text of a program and what the program computes (or denotes)—the “semantics” of the program. Scott used a complete lattice based on the “information ord...

What to Expect from a Chief Restructuring Officer – and What Not

Chief Restructuring Officers are often appointed only after a distressed company has lost time, liquidity and stakeholder confidence. This practitioner working paper develops a framework for the timing, selection, appointment, governance, resourcing and remuneration of the CRO. I...

Romanticism Versus Security: Clashes Between a Free Press and National Necessity During the American Civil War

The American Civil War was a period of intense political, cultural, and technological upheaval that laid the groundwork for modern U.S. government policy. It came at a time when the declining popularity of the artistic Romanticism movement's concepts of liberty in expression stil...

KIBS as changemaker in green transition: Innovation sprints in peripheral regions

The role of KIBS as essential actors in regional renewal processes is well demonstrated in the literature. However, less is known about how they enact change agency through concrete mechanisms in peripheral regions. This study examines how KIBS facilitate the development of agent...