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A Comparative Study of Deep Time-Series Models for Lithium-Ion Battery State-of-Health Prediction

Model rankings in battery SOH prediction can change with the input representation and battery split. This study therefore evaluated five deep time-series models—Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM), Gated Recurrent Unit (GRU), PatchTST, TimesNet, and ModernTCN—on the NASA battery aging...

Building Sandstones in Germany – Shaping Landscapes and Cultural Heritage

Abstract Sandstones are found close to the surface in large parts of central Germany and have been quarried and used there for many centuries. From a stratigraphic point of view, clastic sediments occur from the Cambrian to the Quaternary periods; the building sandstones mainly b...

Induced abortion and its associated factors among female students in sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Abstract Objective To assess the pooled prevalence of induced abortion and its associated factors among female students in sub-Saharan Africa. Method Comprehensive literature searches were conducted in PubMed, Scopus, The Health Internetwork Access to Research Initiative (HINARI)...

IPS Problem 1: partial results and where they stop

Partial results on Problem 1 of Impagliazzo, Paturi and Saks (SIAM J. Comput. 1997), which asksfor the best exponent r in their restriction lemma for threshold circuits; r = 2 gives theirconstant θ = 1+√2 in the n^(1+c·θ^(-d)) wire lower bound for parity. For gates with weights i...

Selective preoperative lower extremity computed tomography angiography before mandibular reconstruction: Identifying patients unlikely to require fibula free flap reconstruction

Abstract Purpose Not every patient undergoing mandibular continuity resection requires free fibula flap (FFF) reconstruction. Whether clinical judgment reliably identifies patients unlikely to benefit from preoperative lower-extremity computed tomography angiography (CTA) remains...

Family accommodation is associated with childhood social anxiety disorder and anxiety symptom severity

Abstract Parenting processes are thought to shape children’s emotional development and may be particularly relevant once childhood social anxiety disorder (SAD) is clinically established. This study examined two distinct parenting processes—family accommodation (FA), a symptom-li...

Competing Spin and Charge Symmetry Breaking in the Nematic State of EuFe 2 As 2 Revealed by 57 Fe Nuclear Forward Scattering

The electronic and magnetic symmetries of EuFe 2 As 2 at ambient pressure were investigated by combining 57 Fe nuclear forward scattering (NFS) with magnetic-field-induced detwinning. While the magnetic hyperfine field ([Formula: see text]) is consistent with the conventional str...

The Drill: What a Cryptographic Swap Actually Costs

Four drills were run on one reference stack on 5 October 2026: a receipt-signature swap from Ed25519 to ML-DSA-65, an agent-identity rotation with its TLS handshake cost, a channel re-termination and a cascade containment. Each engine signature and verification call, and each han...

A proof of Bezdek's conjecture on section symmetry

We prove Bezdek’s 1999 conjecture on Euclidean reflection symmetry of planar sections. A compact convex body with nonempty interior in three-dimensional Euclidean space, whose every affine plane section admits an orthogonal reflection, is an ellipsoid or a Euclidean body of revol...

Explaining adherence to tuberculosis treatment through the information-motivation-behavioral skills model: a PLS - SEM study in Indonesia

Abstract Background Tuberculosis is a serious public health issue because the success of treatment highly depends on adherence. In Serdang Bedagai, 48.87% of patients were reported to take their medication regularly for a period of less than six months. The purpose of this study...

Energy without rest mass: photons, binding, and the accounting of energy in modern physics

The formula E=mc² is often read as a complete definition of energy, which makes it puzzling that light, with zero rest mass, can heat matter, push a mirror, eject electrons and add to the mass of a black hole. This article separates rest energy, total energy and transported energ...

Understanding Relative Reactivity-Governed Kinetics and Network Formation in Thiol-Yne and Other Competitive Consecutive Polymerizations

Abstract Thiol-yne polymerizations couple two sequential additions of thiol: first, to an alkyne and subsequently, to a vinyl sulfide, making the polymerization and the resulting polymer structure dependent on the relative reactivity. Herein, kinetic, analytical, and random-graph...

Cerium Loading Redistributes Tetracycline Removal between Dark Adsorption and the UV Stage on Hydrothermal Niobium Oxide

Photocatalysts that also adsorb are usually ranked by how much pollutant disappears at the end of a run, a number that says nothing about which of the two processes did the work. We separate the two on a single material family by running a dark stage and an illuminated stage in s...

Bridging the divide: addressing gaps in Australian health library services

Access to evidence-based information is vital for safe, effective health care, yet Australia's health library services are increasingly fragmented and inequitable. This perspective highlights the critical role of clinical libraries and professional librarians, revealing gaps acro...

Association of Caregiver Mental Health and a Childhood Parenting Intervention in China

OBJECTIVES This study examines whether and how caregiver mental health symptoms influence the impacts of a center-based parenting intervention on child development. METHODS We conducted a clustered randomized controlled trial across 100 rural villages in China between 2016 and 20...

Euclidean Realizability of Fundamental-Polytope Types

For a finite metric d, its fundamental polytope is the convex hull of the vectors (e_i-e_j)/d_ij. We answer the universality clause of Vershik's question about Euclidean metrics: not every abstract combinatorial type is Euclidean. The four-cycle metric gives a cube, whereas four...

Topology-optimized dielectric cavities for enhanced excitonic light emission from WSe2

Abstract Photonic inverse design and, especially, topology optimization, enable dielectric cavities with deeply sub-diffraction mode volumes and high quality factors, thus offering a powerful platform for enhanced light-matter coupling. Here, we design and fabricate arrays of CMO...

From the Pilot Wave Ψ to the Wave Function ψ: Dimensional Aliasing as the Bridge Between 𝒜 and ℳ in the Absolute Frame Theory

Version of October 13th, 2026, following technical developments within the Absolute Frame Theory programme. We establish a bridge between the pilot wave Ψ on the Absolute Frame 𝒜 and the wave function ψ on the observable sub-manifold ℳ within the Absolute Frame Theory. We start f...

Comparison of the Photodegradation of Pharmaceuticals and Personal Care Products (PPCPs) in Water and Ice

Abstract Photochemical reactions are prevalent in natural aquatic environments and play a crucial role in aquatic ecosystems. Sunlight-induced photodegradation is particularly effective in degrading various pharmaceuticals and personal care products (PPCPs). However, the photoche...

A cascaded probabilistic framework for stealth-aware MITRE ATT&CK path prediction in active directory adversary emulation

Abstract Proactive adversary emulation requires anticipating multi-step attack trajectories, yet existing approaches rely on static attack graphs or single-signal models that cannot jointly satisfy coherence, tactical realism, and evasiveness. We propose a cascaded probabilistic...