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Health and safety in construction procurement: a comparative leximetric analysis

Despite employing only 7% of the workforce, construction accounts for approximately 20% of workplace fatalities globally, underscoring the critical importance of safety. While integrating health and safety (H&S) into procurement processes is essential for improving outcomes, regu...

From APIs to Agent Markets: Governed Capability Acquisition and Qualified Demand in a Machine-Payable Agent Utility Grid

Autonomous agents can invoke tools, but invocation alone does not define a market. Before software can economically acquire an external capability, it must discover a relevant operation, observe current price and requirements, determine whether payment is authorized, cross a paym...

Defining leadership competencies for rural community-based medicine: a Delphi study and field-based curriculum evaluation for undergraduate medical students

Abstract Background Leadership is essential in community-based medicine, yet inconsistently taught in Japan’s undergraduate medical curricula. This study aimed to: (1) identify essential community-based leadership competencies using a Delphi approach, (2) develop and pilot a stru...

Evolutionary adaptations to marine life in the intertidal spiders

Spiders, a highly diverse group of invertebrates, exhibit remarkable adaptability across terrestrial landscapes, excluding polar regions, with their intricate silk weaving and ecological importance being well-recognized. Although aquatic spiders are uncommon, the intertidal Desis...

Source-Preserving Prompt Augmentation and Category-Adaptive Inference for Qwen3-1.7B: A Prospective Seed-Replication Study

This preprint investigates whether a fixed compound inference intervention can improve the performance of a small language model without updating its parameters. The experimental program compares structured prompt replacement, natural-language rewriting, source-preserving semanti...

The LMₙ(x) Function: A Generalized Inverse of Iterated Exponential Functions

This work introduces and develops the LMₙ function as an inverse framework associated with iterated exponential and power-type functions. The paper develops the definition and basic properties of LMₙ, with particular attention to its recursive structure, inverse relationships, re...

From a Gravity-Calibrated Helix to Neutrino Oscillation Correspondences: A Third Cross-Sector Comparison of the Frozen TEF Shape Parameter

This paper is the third cross-sector comparison in a TEF sequence built around the same dimensionless helical shape parameter q = a/R = 0.556324180045.... The value of q was fixed in Paper I by a gravity-calibrated one-cycle condition, before any neutrino observable entered the a...

Structural alterations in early auditory cortex in borderline personality disorder with auditory verbal hallucinations

Abstract Auditory Verbal Hallucinations (AVH) are not exclusive to schizophrenia but also occur in other psychiatric disorders, including Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD). While AVH in SZ has been extensively studied, their neurobiological underpinnings in BPD remain poorly...

ESD in higher education in the Philippines: policies shaped through international discourse and national realities

Abstract This study explores the narrative evolution of Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) higher education policy in the Philippines up to its present conceptions. This is done through qualitative methods, namely a policy analysis through the Multiple Streams Framework...

High-resolution peripheral quantitative computed tomography imaging and bone biomarker characteristics of patients with ischemic stroke or transient ischemic attack—baseline analysis of the Post-stroke Osteopathy study

Stroke or transient ischemic attack (TIA) leads to unfavorable structural changes in the bones. The underlying pathophysiological process is unclear. We provide a detailed characterization of the structural and biochemical properties of bone in a stroke/TIA cohort. Our findings l...

ChromSkills enables interpretable and domain-guided agentic chromatin data analysis

Abstract High-throughput chromatin assays require flexible workflows and context-aware parameter choices. However, unconstrained large language model-based analysis can suffer from inconsistent tool selection, parameterization, and execution. We present ChromSkills, a curated lib...

Breaking the Specific Capacity Limit: 409% Boost in Manganese-Based Redox Flow Batteries at High Current Densities with a MnO2 Semi-Solid Slurry Electrolyte

Abstract The common-ion effect of SO 4 2− limits the solubility of MnSO 4 to ≤ 1 M in conventional H 2 SO 4 electrolytes, resulting in low specific capacity of manganese (Mn)-based redox flow batteries (RFBs). Although MnO 2 semi-solid RFBs are expected to improve the specific ca...

When Retrieved Evidence Is Not Enough: Measuring Evidence-Following in Retrieval-Augmented Generation

We study the generator half of RAG in isolation: evidence is placed in the prompt rather than retrieved. Retrieval-augmented generation is usually judged by whether the retriever found the right documents. That misses a second failure: the generator can ignore the evidence, fill...

Look Before You Train: Train-Test Contamination in GlobalQA and a Training-Free Method that Reverse-Engineers Its Gold Rules

GlobalQA is a recent benchmark for corpus-level question answering (counting, sorting, and extremum queries over a resume corpus), on which RL-based retrieval agents such as MARAG-R1 report a state-of-the-art answer-F1 of 28.60-31.22. While calibrating a simple training-free syst...

Cochrane-Style Systematic Review Protocol — AI / ML Prediction Models for IoT-Based Remote Patient Monitoring of Chronic Disease (v1.2, 2026-08-29)

Protocol version 1.2 (2026-08-29), superseding v1.1 (2026-05-12). Methodology specification for a Cochrane-style systematic review of AI and machine-learning prediction-model studies in IoT-based remote patient monitoring of chronic disease (chronic kidney disease, heart failure,...

Look Before You Train: Train-Test Contamination in GlobalQA and a Training-Free Method that Reverse-Engineers Its Gold Rules

GlobalQA is a recent benchmark for corpus-level question answering (counting, sorting, and extremum queries over a resume corpus), on which RL-based retrieval agents such as MARAG-R1 report a state-of-the-art answer-F1 of 28.60-31.22. While calibrating a simple training-free syst...

Reinterpreting Same-Sex Pairing in Black Swans (Cygnus atratus): Alternative Reproductive Strategies Driven by Environmental Pressures and Cost-Benefit Analyses

In behavioral ecology, male-male pair bonds in black swans (Cygnus atratus) have frequently been dismissed through anthropomorphic framing or as stochastic errors in operational sex ratios. However, given that male-male pairs account for approximately 25% of all pair bonds within...

TU-GAN: A Cooperative Game Theory Framework with Transferable Utility for Stable GAN Training

This repository contains the official implementation of the paper "TU-GAN: A Cooperative Game Theory Framework with Transferable Utility for Stable GAN Training". It includes:- Standard GAN and Cooperative GAN (TU-GAN) implementations- WGAN and Cooperative WGAN (TU-WGAN) implemen...

Photographic and Optical Detection of Canopus (S'hail) during Morning Twilight in the United Arab Emirates, 22-23 August 2026

We report two pre-sunrise field sessions conducted in the United Arab Emirates to document the early seasonal dawn detectability of Canopus (Alpha Carinae), known in Arabic as Suhail, while keeping photographic, telescopic, binocular, and unaided-eye results distinct. Canopus was...

Preferential Nucleation Sites Regulate Hydrogen Bubble Evolution on Mesh Electrodes

Gas-bubble evolution substantially affects the efficiency of gas-evolving electrochemical processes, including water electrolysis. Bubble nucleation, growth, coalescence, and detachment influence the electrode potential, while persistent bubble coverage can impede ionic...