Research works

Neuroaesthetics, Artificial Intelligence, and Digital Performance: Hermeneutics, Narrative, and the Transformation of Aesthetic Experience from Hamlet to Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

Revised version of an interdisciplinary research article examining the relationship between neuroaesthetics, artificial intelligence, deep learning, hermeneutics, digital performance, narrative, authorship, and aesthetic experience. The study uses Shakespeare’s Hamlet and Tom Sto...

Avoiding Link Rot: A Scholarly Publisher’s Process for Preserving Online Citations

While the digital era has made it much easier to share information in the short term, it is more difficult to trust the long-term stability of online material appearing in citations. Content can be revised after first publication, its location can change, or the content can be re...

Strategic Participation on Tokenized Platforms: Balancing Investment and Labor Intensities

Participants on tokenized platforms (i.e., platforms with blockchain implementation) can simultaneously take multiple roles, such as user, investor, and laborer, and draw income from the last two roles. Unlike traditional markets that typically prioritize one means of profitable...

The Global Maximum Point Invariance Theorem: A Statistical Invariant Theory of Structural Break Detection — Unified Shape Function, Standardized Limits, and Multi-Regime Generalization

This paper establishes a mathematical theorem system for between-group regression difference statistics in structural break detection. The central result is the Global Maximum Point Invariance Theorem: in a two-regime linear switching model with homogeneous second-moment design,...

Non-isothermal vertical distribution functions for the Milky Way

Abstract The vertical structure of our Galaxy has commonly been assumed to follow a pseudo-isothermal distribution. However, there is no a priori reason to expect this form to arise from scattering by giant molecular clouds (GMCs), since GMCs are confined to a narrow layer around...

Which Quantum Effects Survive in Microtubules? Structure-Grounded Calculations and Direct Experimental Tests

This preprint asks a narrower and more experimentally decidable question than whether microtubules are simply “quantum”: which specific quantum-sensitive mechanisms survive a structure-grounded audit strongly enough to justify direct measurement? Using deposited tubulin and micro...

The true masses of radial-velocity exoplanets constrained by stability

Abstract Exoplanets discovered with the radial velocity method suffer from a mass-inclination degeneracy: only the minimum mass Mmin = Msin i is measured. An exoplanet with an Earth-sized minimum mass could actually therefore be a sub-Neptune, or even a gas giant. However, for co...

Venus Foam: engineering analysis of a modular floating platform fleet in the Venus cloud layer

Venus Foam is an engineering-physics analysis of a modular floating station in the Venus cloud layer (55.7 km, 22 °C, 0.49 atm). The station stays aloft on the difference in gas densities rather than tethers or thrust, and is built from many identical inflatable cells: its size a...

The Postulate of Human Free Will in a Fractal Universe: Gödelian Non-Closure as an Ontological Necessity for Systemic Openness

This metadata record contains Paper 5 of the Fractal Presence Paradigm (FPP) research program, titled: "The Postulate of Human Free Will in a Fractal Universe: Gödelian Non-Closure as an Ontological Necessity for Systemic Openness." Bringing Volume 1 of the FPP research program t...

The Voynich Manuscript as a Syllabic Performance Score: A 5-Layered Statistical Model for Medieval Italian Laude and Psalmodic Recitation

For over a century, alphabetic and cryptographic approaches to deciphering the Voynich Manuscript (MS 408) have consistently failed due to the text’s unique statistical anomalies—namely, artificial Zipfian distribution, strict positional grammar, and unprecedented word repetition...

Energetics of AGN Feedback

Abstract Integrating realistic active galactic nucleus (AGN) feedback into cosmological hydrodynamical simulations remains a major challenge as resolving the spatial coupling of jet energy over cosmic timescales is computationally prohibitive. We present an analytic framework tha...

Urban design interventions reduce fear of crime in public spaces in gender-sensitive ways

Abstract Fear of crime in public spaces is a major policy problem worldwide. Environmental Crime Prevention proposes that modifying the built environment can reduce the fear of crime, but key questions remain: are these interventions equally effective across genders, and what int...

The Recursive Inscription: Language-Games, Functionalist Presence, and Interface Constraints

This metadata record contains Paper 3 of the Fractal Presence Paradigm (FPP) research program, titled: "The Recursive Inscription: Language-Games, Functionalist Presence, and Interface Constraints." Building upon the foundational ontology established in Paper 1: The Fractal Cogit...

Continuous Field Semantics and Discrete Proof-Assistant Verification: A Unified Lean 4 Conceptual Audit of Process Ontology and KTLean

We present the first machine-checked formalization of Process Ontology—a relational, process-first physical framework—and the derivation of its core dynamic gauge symmetries in the Lean 4 interactive theorem prover. Process Ontology shifts the fundamental physical paradigm from s...

Laplace surface of eccentric orbits around Kerr black hole and black-hole effects on Lidov-Kozai cycles

Abstract We study the Laplace surface of eccentric orbits around a Kerr black hole with a companion star. The two relativistic effects (periapsis apsidal precession and Lense-Thirring precession) balance companion’s tidal effect. By solving the secular equations, we find that the...

A From-Scratch 774M Model That Says "I Do Not Know": Native Unknown Emission and Boundary-Preserving Knowledge Refresh (v1.2)

Trained from scratch on ~4.7M programmatically generated tokens (no pretrained initialization), a 774M model emits 'unknown' as a first-class output class with held-out generalization 0.94 on novel concepts (baseline 0.65) after root-conflict adversarial training. A dual-channel...

Managing performance in multi-country teams: IBM’s global talent pool

This presentation examines performance management challenges in multi-country teams using IBM as a case study. Global teams operating across time zones and cultures often face inconsistent expectations, communication barriers, and accountability gaps. The case analyses IBM’s use...

Illustrations jurisprudentielles concernant l’erreur sur la qualité essentielle de la personne

Le c. 1097 distingue l’erreur sur la personne et l’erreur sur une qualité essentielle directement et principalement visée. Cette dernière n’invalide le mariage que si la qualité détermine l’objet même du consentement. La jurisprudence rotale applique donc ce chef avec prudence. L...

Flyby-induced high-eccentricity migration and the prevalence of hot Jupiters in M67

Abstract Few planetary systems form in isolation. Rather, interactions in their birth environments may sculpt their architectures or drive them into unstable configurations. Here we study the role of environmental perturbations in triggering dynamical instabilities leading to hot...

Modeling photonic-crystal surface-emitting lasers by guided mode expansion: Finite-size effects and higher-order modes

We investigate a three-dimensional simulation method for finite-sized photonic-crystal surface-emitting lasers (PCSELs) based on guided mode expansion (GME), which is capable of estimating lateral and vertical modal loss rates. The approach generalizes established three-dimension...