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Obesity Is Associated With Earlier Mechanical Failure Following Total Ankle Arthroplasty Independent of Tibial Stem or Keel Augmentation

Background: Obesity and elevated body mass have been associated with increased rates of aseptic loosening and implant failure following total ankle arthroplasty (TAA). The purpose of this study was to investigate the role for primary stemmed or keeled tibial implants as a protect...

Intelligent Purchase Order Generation with AI

This white paper presents a comprehensive functional and technical framework for applying artificial intelligence to purchase order generation and lifecycle management. It explains how AI, natural language processing, retrieval-augmented generation, business rules, enterprise dat...

Collatz Cycles and Prisoner Permutations: Hidden Symmetry in Integer Dynamics — E8 Intelligence Research

FINDING: The Collatz Conjecture — a deceptively simple iterative map — remains unproven, encoding hidden structure in integer dynamics; the 100 Prisoners Riddle reveals a cycle-decomposition symmetry tied to permutation statistics. | MATH: Collatz map: \( T(n) = \begin{cases} n/2...

Universal Reconfigurable Diffractive Photonic Chip for Multi‐Modal Optical Computing

ABSTRACT Optical computing represents a transformative hardware paradigm for the post‐Moore era, exploiting its inherent advantages of high speed, low power consumption, and intrinsic parallelism. Nonetheless, state‐of‐the‐art integrated optical computing systems suffer from crit...

Direct Observation of the Pre-Geometric Correlation Substrate: Phase-Boundary Discontinuities and Discrete Adjacency Phase-Shifts in the Red Rectangle Nebula (HD 44179)

We demonstrate that the highly anomalous, highly geometric morphology of the Red Rectangle Nebula (HD 44179) represents a direct, macroscopic observation of the pre‑geometric correlation substrate (SI‑substrate). The sharp-edged biconical “X” structure corresponds to a second‑ord...

Zulfia Geometry: Curvature as Emergence from the Arithmetic Force

Classical geometry postulates a metric tensor gμν from which curvature is derived. This paperposes a foundational question: where does curvature originate when no metric is assumed?We answer within Zulfia Theory (ZT), founded on the Zulfia Decomposition MappingZ(x, u) = η(x, u) +...

PPI and researcher perspectives of islet transplantation therapy for type 1 diabetes

AIMS: Islet transplantation offers the potential of a cure for type 1 diabetes (T1D), but the limited availability of human donor islets means that this therapy is currently only available to a small group of people with T1D who have intractable hypoglycaemia. The shortage of don...

From static analytics to continuous intelligence: toward a dynamic model of real-time organizational decision systems

Purpose Enterprise decision systems increasingly couple time-sensitive sensing, workflow-embedded recommendations or actions, bounded machine discretion and operational feedback. This paper aims to develop a dynamic model of Continuous Intelligence (CI) that explains the organiza...

The Truthmaking Account of Ontological Dependence

Abstract This paper explores a new account of ontological dependence based on exact truthmaker semantics, which I call the truthmaking account. The account holds that states verifying existential propositions and the parthood relation between states can characterize the relation...

Represented Pathway Legibility: A Graph-Based Scoring Framework with Cross-Vendor Synthetic Mechanical Reproducibility

Existing measures of postsecondary transition address important neighboring constructs, including factual college knowledge, college-planning behavior, and college-going self-efficacy. This measurement-development report targets a different object: the structure of a represented...

Recovery, Reserve, and Hidden Viability Degradation: Can Future Loss of Viability Be Detected Before Current Function Fails?

This article develops the next empirical stage of Vitology by formalizing recovery, reserve, and hidden viability degradation as candidate predictors of future viability. The starting distinction is: current function ≠ remaining reserve ≠ recovery capacity ≠ future viability. A s...

An explainable Deep Q-learning and convolutional neural network framework for rice leaf disease detection

Rice leaf diseases pose a significant threat to global food security by reducing crop productivity and causing substantial economic losses. The traditional diagnosis method is manual method, which is low in efficiency, subjective and not suitable for large-scale agricultural moni...

Don’t Take Their Word for It: Reply to Fan

Abstract In my (2024), I argued that there are principled reasons for thinking that AI cannot be an authority about one’s own mind. The idea is that it is only rational to treat another as an epistemic authority under certain conditions, and AI does not meet one of those conditio...

Quantum Non-Locality Unified via Buscemi Framework and Ballistic Electron Proposal — E8 Intelligence Research

FINDING: Bell inequality tests confirm quantum non-locality; new Buscemi framework unifies entanglement tests via "unsteerability" conditions; condensed-matter proposal uses ballistic electrons in Coulomb-coupled quantum wires. | MATH: Bell's original inequality: \(P(a,b) - P(a,b...

Assessing the concordance between ultrasonography and MRI for evaluation of structural features in knee osteoarthritis: a prospective cross-sectional study

Abstract Background Knee osteoarthritis (KOA) is a prevalent degenerative joint disease characterized by progressive structural and functional impairment. While magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is regarded as the reference standard for assessing joint pathology, ultrasonography (...

Institutional AI Autonomy: Governing Institutional Choice Space under AI Conditions

This academically strengthened working paper develops Institutional AI Autonomy as the proposed institutional property of retaining substantive judgement and action in relation to AI-shaped socio-technical arrangements. It defines institutional choice space, specifies a condition...

New edge proposed: turtle_soup_50_percent_retracement_entry — E8 Intelligence Research

{ "name": "turtle_soup_50_percent_retracement_entry", "source": "Larry Williams / turtles (Richard Dennis) \u2014 'soup' of failed 20-day breakout, retracement entry", "type": "entry_engine", "rule": "Enter long when price breaks the 20-day high, closes back below that high withi...

Beyond Scaling IV: World Models Without Future Preservation / Meta-Complex Observation and the Changing Structure of Reachable Futures

This paper examines a limitation of predictive and agentic world models: the distinction between predicting future states and observing how an agent's own intervention changes the structure of reachable futures. World models can predict action-conditioned trajectories, and existi...

Cecal contents 16S rRNA sequencing for CUMS-exposed mice

Cecal 16S rRNA sequencing of CUMS mice: DADA2 denoising, SILVA v138 annotation, deposited at CNGBdb (CNP0010049), revealing depression-linked microbiota.

Rupture Cosmology V2

Abstract (Expanded, Formal Hybrid) Rupture Cosmology proposes that the universe originated from a confined, high‑pressure pre‑existence state that underwent a localized boundary instability. A microscopic rupture formed, initiating discrete energy leakage followed by a critical w...