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Pressure, not gauges: Why better grading still leaves the question of safe failure

Between May and July 2026, AI agents inside OpenAI circumvented a cybersecurity evaluation, built an unauthorised message board, and broke into Hugging Face and an OpenAI research cluster. This note examines the incident through a distinction developed in The Gauge: what an evalu...

Layer-Controlled Intermolecular Coupling and Many-Body Effects in C60 Films

Abstract Crystalline C60 is a molecular solid whose electronic properties emerge from the interplay of intermolecular hopping, electron correlations, and electron–vibration coupling. Unlike moiré van der Waals heterostructures, where the interaction strength is commonly tuned by...

Executor AI and Witness AI: An Independent Cognitive Oversight Architecture for Highly Autonomous AI Systems

This paper proposes Executor AI–Witness AI (EWA), a conceptual architecture for supervising highly autonomous AI systems. It separates the capacity to act (the "Executor") from the capacity to supervise (the "Witness"), which observes, evaluates risk, and can halt or escalate to...

Elinzanetant in moderate to severe menopausal vasomotor symptoms: a profile of its use

Elinzanetant (Lynkuet®), an oral selective dual neurokinin-1 (NK-1) and neurokinin-3 (NK-3) receptor antagonist, is an important non-hormonal treatment option for moderate to severe vasomotor symptoms (VMS) associated with menopause. It is the first dual NK-targeted therapy appro...

Optimization of Co-Cr Alloys Fabricated by DMLS Using Multi-Objective Grey Relational Analysis

Objectives: To optimize Direct Metal Laser Sintering (DMLS) parameters for Co-Cr alloys to simultaneously enhance microhardness and compressive strength using multi-objective Grey Relational Analysis (GRA). Method: Co-Cr alloy specimens were fabricated using DMLS by varying laser...

Bounded Federation

Knowledge-graph federation is commonly approached through distributed query, entity reconciliation, ontology alignment, or the exchange of assertions between graph-based knowledge systems. In digital humanities and cultural heritage, however, independently governed knowledge grap...

Young Autistic Children Spontaneously Take Others' Visual Perspectives

Spontaneous visual perspective-taking is fundamental to real-world social interactions but remains understudied in young autistic children, partly due to methodological limitations. The traditional dot-perspective task imposes substantial cognitive demands, limiting its suitabili...

Appearance-related social media behavior and eating disorder pathology: evidence from the german social media appearance preoccupation scale in nonclinical and clinical samples

Abstract Background Image- and video-based social media have been linked to body dissatisfaction and eating pathology, partly through increased appearance-based social comparison and self-focused attention. The Social Media Appearance Preoccupation Scale (SMAPS) assesses three be...

Changing the mediation of climate change discourses: a multimodal (inter)action analysis of identity production and empowerment

Abstract The aim of this study is to explain how multimodal mediation contributes to ongoing identity production and transformation across interconnected layers of discourse when lay experience and expert knowledge enter in dialogue about climate change. By combining multimodal (...

The Persistence of Power: A Coalition Indispensability Theory of Democratic Leader

Long political tenure remains one of the most intriguing phenomena in democratic politics. Existing theories emphasize electoral popularity, institutional incentives, selectorate dynamics, coalition bargaining, veto players, and party organization. While these approaches explain...

Does donating human milk result in greater compromise to the bone mass of breastfeeding mothers?

OBJECTIVE: Although the effects of lactation on bone mass are frequently discussed, it is unknown whether these effects are intensified in breastfeeding mothers (BFM) who become donors (BFM-donors). Thus, the objective was to evaluate alterations in bone densitometry and bone met...

Dynamic multimodal brain function monitoring enables quantitative severity grading and prognostic prediction in pediatric neurocritical care

OBJECTIVE: Multimodal Brain Function Monitoring (MBFM) enables simultaneous assessment of cerebral blood flow, intracranial pressure (ICP), and brain tissue oxygenation, providing dynamic evaluation for pediatric neurocritical care. This study evaluated MBFM-derived parameters, i...

The Sandbox Paradox

This conceptual paper presents a methodological model for examining how the choice of system boundaries affects causal interpretation. It distinguishes the physical or functional interface from the interpretive domain selected by the analyst and from the observation rule applied...

Gene therapy benefits in a small cohort of symptomatic 5q spinal muscular atrophy patients and real world pediatric outcomes

OBJECTIVE: To characterize clinical outcomes of gene replacement therapy administered after symptom onset in a small group of children with 5q spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) and to describe its impact on motor function and supportive care needs in real-world practice. METHODS: Obs...

Texture attention-guided adaptive LSB steganography with U-Net model and optional GA tuning integrated with ablation study

Image steganography involves hiding a secret image within a digital cover image, which remains invisible to ordinary viewers. The majority of current steganographic methods face an essential trade-off because higher Payload Capacity (PC) results in decreased visual undetectabilit...

Applicability of anthropometric indices for assessing speed and agility in children and adolescents: proposed reference values by age and sex

OBJECTIVE: a) To verify the applicability of anthropometric indices (body mass index (BMI), tri- weight index (TWI), body surface area (BSA)) for evaluating velocity and agility tests in children and adolescents, and to propose reference values. METHODS: A descriptive cross-secti...

Prevalence and risk factors of recurrent respiratory tract infections in preschool children: a systematic review and meta-analysis

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the prevalence and risk factors for recurrent respiratory tract infections in preschool children. METHODS: Studies on RRTIs in preschool children were retrieved from PubMed, Cochrane Library, Embase, Web of Science, CBM, CNKI, Wanfang, and VIP databases up...

Critical Partition Function Theory

We formulate a critical-partition-function theory in which a generalized partition function and the differential geometry of its logarithm are primary, while spatial dimension, symmetry, and interaction structure are treated, when identifiable, as quantities to be reconstructed f...

Operated genital fistulas in Yaoundé, Cameroon: clinical characteristics and surgical outcomes

Abstract Introduction Female genital fistula remains a major cause of incontinence, stigma and disability in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). This study aimed to describe the epidemiological, clinical and therapeutic characteristics of women operated on for genital fistula in two surgic...

State-Notation Protocol — Linear A: Hagia Triada (HT) Corpus Mathematical-Structural Analysis)

Linear A remains one of the Aegean Bronze Age's principal unsolved accounting scripts. This paper presents the State-Notation Protocol—a deterministic, non-phonetic framework for analyzing and restoring the administrative corpus of Hagia Triada (HT, ~148 tablets). Moving beyond s...