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- Engineering & TechnologyOpen access
Abstract High-water-content sludge soil (SS) requires stabilization before reuse as a pavement fill. This study evaluates a multi-waste system comprising a straw ash–calcium carbide slag binder (SCS; straw ash:calcium carbide slag = 6:4 by mass) fixed at 10% of dry SS and recycle...
- Climate & Environment
Fast All‐Sky Hyperspectral Infrared Radiative Transfer With Physically Recursive Cloud Treatment
Abstract Clouds strongly modify thermal infrared radiances through absorption, emission, and multiple scattering, yet rigorous line‐by‐line (LBL) gas absorption coupled with multi‐stream scattering remains too expensive for large ensembles of all‐sky hyperspectral simulations. We...
- Health & MedicineOpen access
A suite of eight Toxoplasma gondii effectors cooperates to activate the non-canonical NF-κB pathway
ABSTRACT As a master of host-cell reprogramming, Toxoplasma gondii ( T. gondii ) tachyzoites manipulate diverse signaling networks to establish a niche permissive for long-term infection. While the parasite’s subversion of canonical NF-κB signaling (p65/p50) is well established,...
- Engineering & TechnologyOpen access
Self-compacting concrete (SCC) shows considerable potential for infrastructure applications on the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau, which is characterized by a hypoxic environment. However, the quantitative effects of the volumetric water-to-powder ratio (VW/VP) on the freeze–thaw durabili...
- Climate & EnvironmentOpen access
Preprint. This manuscript has been submitted to the Journal of Cleaner Production and is currently under peer review.Hidden batteries in small waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) are a safety risk because RGB images can identify the device type but cannot confirm whe...
- Society & Economics
Neighborhood effects on Black adolescents’ obesity risk: The mediating role of family experiences
We examined longitudinal associations between neighborhood environments (walkability, area deprivation, and traffic volume) and obesity risk, tested sex differences, and evaluated family experiences as mediators. Participants were 1325 Black youth (52% male; M age = 9.5) and care...
- Engineering & TechnologyOpen access
Kraft–McMillan Equality: Conservation Law for Complete Prefix-Free Codes — E8 Intelligence Research
FINDING: The Kraft–McMillan inequality is the exact boundary condition for uniquely decodable codes, and its equality case corresponds to complete (maximally compact) prefix-free codes — a discrete analogue of a conservation law. | MATH: For a D-ary code with codeword lengths \(l...
- AI & ComputingOpen access
A formal library's axiom count is routinely reported as a single number. This paper argues that the number conflates two populations which behave differently and answer different questions, and that the conflation is only visible from outside a single library. Five libraries are...
- Society & Economics
Céline Sciamma’s writing through desire: A new approach to writing women’s stories
The hero’s journey and the conflict model of storytelling have had a strong hold on western screenwriting since the mid-twentieth century. Increasingly, this is being questioned, especially by feminist scholars and storytellers, who find the hero’s journey exclusive of women’s st...
- Society & EconomicsOpen access
Musicians rely on working memory to perform but this can be impacted by performance anxiety. This exploratory study examined whether a mindfulness training program would show beneficial effects on working memory in musicians with music performance anxiety (MPA). Twenty musicians...
- AI & ComputingOpen access
Are we looking for finite answers in an infinite universe?
I'm a mechanical engineering student, starting in September the first year and I'm a curious mind; during an autonomous research about QGP, I have encountered the Navier-Stokes and Riemann problems, topics that immediately sparked a deep interest in me, and I asked myself, "Why o...
- Society & EconomicsOpen access
The Challenge to Find Ideal Representation in Urban Living Labs: Lessons from the Maastricht case
Urban Living Labs (ULLs) are spaces in which ‘in situ’ experiments test the (dis)advantages and transformative potency of physical and social innovations. Unlike traditional labs, ULLs provide citizens and other stakeholders an opportunity to cocreate, try out and ‘try on’ potent...
- AI & ComputingOpen access
Meteoroid is a deterministic topological multi-agent orchestration framework for autonomous backend generation and synthesis. The system models backend development as a dependency-aware directed acyclic graph (DAG), enabling specialized agents to execute according to explicit dep...
- Society & EconomicsOpen access
Architecture Is Capital Allocation
Living Cipher Analysis 004 examines how semiconductor architecture decisions become capital commitments before formal investment approval. It introduces an architecture-to-capital operating representation for tracing material technical and implementation premises into the specifi...
- AI & ComputingOpen access
Real-Time Task Offloading with Replication Under Node Churn in Volunteer Edge Computing
Energy efficiency is a primary design objective for battery-powered IoT devices. While offloading computation-intensive tasks to edge servers has been extensively studied to mitigate power drains, relatively little attention has been paid to the long-term financial cost of commer...
- AI & ComputingOpen access
The Hidden Odd Invariant in the IMO Windmill Problem — E8 Intelligence Research
FINDING: The 2011 IMO windmill problem (Q2) is a deceptively simple combinatorial geometry problem whose solution reveals a hidden invariant — the number of "windmill" states is always odd, forcing a fixed point. | MATH: The problem reduces to: given n points in general position,...
- Physics & SpaceOpen access
Quantum Wormholes in the Lab: Entanglement, Topology, and Traversability — E8 Intelligence Research
FINDING: Traversable wormholes are theoretically constructible in the lab via entangled quantum systems (holographic duality), with multi-mouth generalizations requiring non-trivial topology (free group F₂). MATH: - ER=EPR correspondence: entanglement entropy \( S_A = \frac{\text...
- AI & Computing
Objective This study aims to investigate how information processing tasks can be performed by hand-based gestures in immersive environments and to identify usable gesture designs. Background With advances in display and interaction technologies, immersive environments have evolve...
- Society & EconomicsOpen access
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- BiologyOpen access
Spring low-temperature stress (SLTS) frequently occurs during the critical stage from stamen and pistil differentiation to anther connective formation in wheat, severely disrupting young spike development and reducing grain yield (GY). Although synchronized nitrogen (N), phosphor...