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Alliance Theory: Balancing, Bandwagoning, and Détente

Stephen M. Walt’s “balance-of-threat” theory of alliance formation (1988) is examined as a focus theory. Walt’s theory is compared with a Kenneth A. Waltz’s “balance-of-power” as a supporting theory (1979), and supporting evidence for the focus theory is presented. Then, Walt’s t...

Dissipation in the broadband and ultrastrong coupling regimes of cavity quantum electrodynamics: an ab initio quantized quasinormal mode approach

Abstract Phenomenological approaches to photon loss have long been the workhorse of cavity-QED, but prove inadequate in the presence of sufficiently broadband light-matter interactions. We present a rigorous and ab initio derivation of a quantum master equation for a quantized op...

SoccerSynth-detection: a synthetic dataset for soccer player detection

Abstract Soccer player detection is a fundamental task in soccer video analysis, supporting downstream applications such as event analysis and tactical reconstruction. However, annotated soccer player data from broadcast videos are difficult to obtain and use at scale because of...

Mitophagy Facilitates Cytosolic Proteostasis to Preserve Cardiac Function

Abstract Background Protein quality control (PQC) is critical for maintaining sarcomere structure and function in cardiac myocytes, and mutations in PQC pathway proteins, such as CRYAB (arginine to glycine at position 120, R120G) and BAG3 (proline to lysine at position 209, P209L...

Transient gamma events delineate somatosensory modality in S1

Gamma band activity localized to the primary somatosensory cortex (S1) in humans and animals is implicated in the higher order neural processing of painful and tactile stimuli. However, it is unclear if gamma band activity differs between these distinct somatosensory modalities....

The dimensionality of plant–plant competition

Abstract To avoid extinction, every species must be able to exploit available resources at least as well as all other species in its community. Theory predicts that, the more distinct the niches of competing species, the more species that can coexist together. However, both theor...

The Theory of Certainty

The Theory of Certainty develops a concise framework for analytical and operational reliance. Its central claim is that the same expectation can rest on different grounds of certainty, and those grounds are not interchangeable. The paper distinguishes three important families of...

Impact of Dapagliflozin on MRI ‐Derived Epicardial Adipose Tissue: Secondary Imaging Analysis of a Randomized Trial

BACKGROUND: Epicardial adipose tissue (EAT) is a metabolically active fat depot associated with cardiovascular risk and represents a modifiable imaging biomarker. Studies have shown that sodium-glucose cotransporter-2 (SGLT2) inhibitors reduce EAT thickness in patients with type...

Longitudinal alignments and syntheses of multimodal clinical data for personalized medicine with the PULSE framework

Multimodal models capable of imputing diverse data used in single-cell biology studies provide potential foundational opportunities in clinical practice. However, patient data uniquely comprise longitudinal mosaic measurements that reflect underlying physiological dynamics and ex...

Conserving Australian lizards and snakes: an update on progress since 2017

The Action Plan for Australian Lizards and Snakes 2017 summarised results from the first comprehensive assessment of the Australian squamate fauna by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), updating a more precursory assessment in 1993. This review outlines the...

Percutaneous Retrograde Intramuscular Echo-Guided Fat Grafting (PRIME-GRAFT): A Novel Technique to Increase Safety and Improve Results

Summary: Achieving natural and dynamic body definition remains a challenge in body contouring surgery. High-definition lipoplasty has enhanced aesthetic outcomes by sculpting the superficial fat layer, and intramuscular fat grafting (IFG) has been used to improve muscle volumizat...

Maxillary Distraction Osteogenesis as both Bridge to and Replacement for Orthognathic Surgery in Patients with Cleft Lip and Palate

Background: Although maxillary distraction osteogenesis (MaxDO) has demonstrated superior bone healing in patients with cleft lip and palate (CLP), its clinical use is relatively unreported. Questions persist regarding its effectiveness in treating severe maxillary retrusion, its...

Video reconstruction of variable VLBI observations with neural fields

Abstract Supermassive black hole accretion and the ejection of collimated, relativistic jets of plasma are intrinsically dynamic processes shaped by large-scale magnetic fields 1–4 . Various algorithms have been developed to image these objects at different scales using radio int...

Effects of hyperbaric oxygen therapy on bone, muscle, cartilage, tendon and ligaments in animal studies: a systematic review

Hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) has been investigated for its potential to enhance tissue healing because of its capacity to increase oxygen tension in ischemic and hypoxic tissues. Numerous preclinical studies have explored its role in the repair and regeneration of different m...

Recombinant shingles vaccination and the risk of cardiovascular events

Abstract The recombinant herpes zoster (shingles) vaccine may reduce risks of cardiovascular disease. However, existing studies have compared vaccine recipients with non-recipients and, thus, are susceptible to confounding. To mitigate these biases, we conducted a natural experim...

Electronic cigarettes for smoking cessation

RATIONALE: Electronic cigarettes (EC) are handheld electronic vaping devices that produce an aerosol by heating a liquid. People who smoke, healthcare providers, and regulators want to know if EC can help people quit smoking, and if they are safe to use for this purpose. This upd...

Domain-Specific Cognitive Concordance in Older Married Couples

Importance Spousal similarity in late-life cognition has been reported, but whether concordance differs across cognitive domains remains unclear. Objective To examine whether cognitive concordance among older married couples is domain specific by comparing real couples with demog...

The Pleasure Order - Philosophy Core v1.19 (consolidated foundation, tiered honest edition)

PHILOSOPHICAL / CONCEPTUAL FOUNDATION. This version freezes Philosophy Core v1.19 from repository commit 764fc9c. It establishes no empirical result and does not borrow credibility from the empirical collapse-gate program. Relative to the previously deposited v1.14, v1.19 correct...

Axial dysprosium cyclopentadienyl-amide single-molecule magnets with hysteresis up to 92 kelvin

Abstract Molecules showing magnetic memory effects at high temperatures could be used in high-density data storage devices. A magnetic hysteresis temperature ( T H ) of 100 K has been achieved for a near-linear dysprosium bis(amide)-alkene single-molecule magnet (SMM), and a bent...

Immunological imprinting shapes the cross-reactive antibody responses to the KP.2 and LP.8.1 vaccine doses

The emergence of the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron BA.2.86 subvariant, a lineage derived from the BA.2 strain, led to the 2024-2025 COVID-19 vaccine update to include KP.2 or related JN.1-lineage spike antigens. We evaluated the magnitude, breadth, and durability of humoral immune responses...