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Proteomic Immune Signatures of Severe HIV-Associated Tuberculosis in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Prospective, Multicenter Analysis From Uganda

Abstract Objective Severe tuberculosis (TB) is a major cause of critical illness and death in people living with HIV (PLWH) worldwide. Despite this, the immunopathology of severe HIV-associated TB (HIV/TB) is poorly understood. We aimed to identify an immunopathologic signature o...

Citizen science as a long-term environmental baseline: assessing impacts of a small dam removal in Montana, USA

Abstract. As dam removals increase in frequency across the U.S., most research has focused on the impact of larger dam removals, despite the removal of small dams being much more common. There are hundreds of small dams in Montana, and this research investigates impact on stream...

Repair of DNA double-strand breaks after low radiation doses in childhood cancer survivors and matched cancer-free individuals

Abstract DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs) which arise in G1- or G0-phase normal human cells are repaired by non-homologous end-joining (NHEJ), a pathway which is important for cell survival but can cause mutations at the break sites. DSB repair by NHEJ is very efficient at high da...

An exploration of collaboration strategies across levels of co-presence in VR exergames

Abstract Exergames in virtual reality (VR) combine physical activity with engaging social play. \rev{While the benefits of social play are clear, the increasing shift toward remote interaction creates a critical need to understand how embodied collaboration functions when physica...

Centralization vs. Decentralization: First Evidence from the Laboratory

The future architecture of financial systems is a subject of contention, with centralized and decentralized governance proponents. Here, we ask the following question. Would the architecture affect the quality of decision making? We propose a game where financial network particip...

Recovery of the optimal control value function in reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces from verification conditions

Abstract Approximating the value function $$v^*$$ v ∗ for infinite-horizon, nonlinear, autonomous optimal-control problems is both challenging and essential for synthesizing real-time optimal feedback. We develop an abstract optimal recovery framework in reproducing kernel Hilber...

Physical therapists as first-contact providers for musculoskeletal disorders: comparing beliefs across chiropractors, nurse practitioners, Physical therapists, and physician assistants

OBJECTIVES: Physical therapists (PTs) are increasingly being integrated into first-contact roles for musculoskeletal disorders (MSKDs), but various barriers exist to full implementation. Several barriers may arise from the beliefs and actions of other first-contact provider (FCP)...

Sensorimotor teleology and goal-directedness. An organismic framework for normative behaviour

Abstract Teleosemantics explains meaning by appealing to the biological norms that make error possible, but most work in the field still anchors those norms in evolutionary “selected-effect” functions. We develop an organismic alternative grounded in the self-maintenance of auton...

Quantitative Sato--Tate in Near-Square-Root Prime Intervals under Symmetric-Power GRH

# Quantitative Sato--Tate in Near-Square-Root Prime Intervals under Symmetric-Power GRH **Version:** v3.0 **Specific Version DOI:** 10.5281/zenodo.22112048 **Author:** Byoungwoo Lee **Series relation:** Major-version successor to *Effective Entropy--Spectral Sato--Tate v2.2c: Qua...

A Self-Healing Architecture for Mitigating Bibliographic Hallucinations in LLM-Generated Academic Texts

Abstract Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in academic writing assistance, yet they frequently generate bibliographic hallucinations (i.e., plausible but non-existent citations) that undermine scholarly integrity. Hallucination rates in LLM-ge...

Observation of critical scaling in the Bose gas universality class

Critical exponents characterize the divergent scaling of thermodynamic quantities near phase transitions and allow for the classification of physical systems into universality classes. While quantum gases thermalizing by interparticle interactions fall into the XY model universal...

Polymer-inspired mechanical metamaterials

Metamaterials benefit from unique architected patterns to achieve lightweight with exceptional mechanical properties inaccessible to conventional materials. Typical mechanical metamaterials are inspired by crystal-like lattice structures, whose closely packed frameworks often exh...

Fast and accurate algorithms for matrix multiplication using fused multiply-add and their rounding error analysis

Abstract We propose a numerical algorithm for accurate matrix multiplication. When standard floating-point arithmetic fails to deliver sufficient accuracy, high-precision techniques such as pair arithmetic and double-word arithmetic are typically employed, although at the expense...

Multi-SALLM: a multilingual security assessment of generated code

Abstract As Large Language Models (LLMs) become increasingly integrated into software engineers' daily workflows, it is critical to ensure the code they generate is not just functionally correct but also secure. While LLMs can boost developer productivity, prior empirical studies...

Attention-Guided TransMorph for Real-Time Tumor Tracking in Cine-MRI

Abstract Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is a key modality in cancer treatment, providing high soft tissue contrast for the visualization of tumors and internal anatomy. Radiotherapy, which is widely used in treatments, requires precise tumor segmentation to ensure targeting the...

Seasonal and interannual variability of atmospheric ammonia over Guatemala driven by land use, biomass burning, and meteorological circulation

Abstract. Ammonia (NH3) is a key atmospheric precursor of fine particulate matter and a marker of agricultural and biomass burning emissions. In Central America, NH3 variability remains largely unquantified. This study presents the first integrated spatiotemporal assessment of at...

Spatial accuracy and clinical feasibility of CT/US fusion imaging for hepatic interventions in dogs

Computed tomography (CT)–ultrasound (US) fusion imaging is widely used for hepatic interventions in human medicine, but its technical performance has not been evaluated in dogs. This study assessed the spatial accuracy, fusion time, and image quality of CT/US fusion imaging in th...

Uniqueness problem for accretive Schrödinger operators with complex singular coefficients

Abstract This paper studies the uniqueness problem for the one‐dimensional Schrödinger operator associated with the formal differential expression in the complex Hilbert space . The coefficients of the expression are complex‐valued and satisfy where the derivative is understood i...

Research on image fusion noise reduction method based on AFM scanned cell image in tapping

Abstract Scanning cells with Tapping-Mode Atomic Force Microscopy (TM-AFM) often introduces significant noise in the central region of the topography image, whereas the corresponding amplitude image remains relatively clear. Leveraging the strong correlation between these two ima...

A 225-year (1799–2024) homogenized daily water level series of the Vistula River in Warsaw

Abstract. We present a 225-year (1799–2024) homogenized daily water level series for the Vistula River in Warsaw, comprising 82,453 observations. The construction of this consistent dataset required adjustments for changes in gauge location, shifts in gauge zero, differences in h...