Research works

Expansion vs. Continuous Cosmic Projection-nu-A

Expansion vs. Projection Analogy-nu.A This report proposes an alternative ontological interpretation of the Big Bang: not a completed historical event, but an ongoing process of cosmic projection from a pre-geometric origin condition (č²) into geometric reality (X²). Observable e...

The dichotomy of progress: Public perceptions of global health trends and antibiotic knowledge in Georgia

Substantial improvements in global population health have been documented over the past century; however, public perceptions of these long-term trends may not reflect empirical evidence. Misalignment between scientific progress and public understanding can affect trust, policy co...

Quantum-Native Organisational Design: Managing Non-Linearity and Superposition in Strategy: An Empirical Investigation of South African Enterprises

This research examines how Quantum-Native structures outperform standard linear ones. Using information from 384 companies in South Africa and a statistical method called AMOS Structural Equation Modelling, this study looked at whether Quantum-Native organisations (with ‘strategi...

Numerical study of MRW-type unintegrated double parton distribution functions from non-factorized DPDFs

Abstract Double parton scattering provides a sensitive probe of multiparton correlations inside hadrons. In this work we present a numerical study of unintegrated double parton distribution functions constructed from non-factorized collinear DPDFs. As input we use the DPDFs and e...

Portability of a Disk-Anchored Agent Identity Across Foundation Models: A Blind, Internally Pre-Sealed A/B Comparison

Large-language-model agents increasingly carry an identity — role, history, evolving state — anchored in external, persisted files rather than model weights. We examine whether such an identity can be operated with a non-native GPT-family engine using a four-experiment, blind A/B...

Cognitive Bias as Default Setting: An Architectural Argument

A person's biases are the person. They are the accumulated content the person's judgment is based on, present at every moment, shaping every output, observable in how the person judges anything they meet. The cognitive-bias literature has treated bias as something else, an error...

The Justika Framework: Ontological Resilience and the Architecture of Human Continuity

Aim: This manuscript addresses the terminal existential risk of Cloud-Lock—a state of civilizational stagnation and systemic entropy caused by the total externalization of human memory into centralized, AI-mediated reservoirs. The objective is to define a mathematically rigorous,...

Schools’ Respect for Identity-Based Differences and Student Outcomes: Examining the Relationship among Students with Varying Numbers of Marginalized Identities

When schools value diversity, students with marginalized identities exhibit better academic and well-being outcomes. However, most work focuses on one identity dimension (e.g., race, sexuality) at a time. Using data from the California Healthy Kids Survey (N=205,064 6th–12th grad...

Oral multi-niche microbiota and age stratification: a novel strategy for precision screening of periodontitis

Abstract Background: periodontitis is a prevalent chronic inflammatory disease driven by oral microbiota dysbiosis, with profound oral and systemic impacts that impair healthy aging. Conventional screening methods are invasive and delay early detection, while microbiota-based str...

Dipole light-matter interactions in the bispinor formalism

The conventional formulation of power absorption, optical forces, and torques on dipolar particles involve lenghty and cumbersome expressions that obscure their shared physical origin. We apply a bispinor formalism that unifies these disparate phenomena in a very general case inc...

Environmental Energetics of Multicellularity

Complex differentiated multicellularity entails energetic demands associated with cellular differentiation, adhesion, communication, and division of labor. Here, I propose environmental energetics as a heuristic framework for considering how environmentally structured energy beco...

Memory Archive: A Memory-Grounded Training Paradigm for Computer Use Agents

Memory Archive: A Memory-Grounded Training Paradigm for Computer Use Agents This is a design specification and pre-registered research protocol, not an empirical results paper. The paradigm has not been trained end-to-end: no result in this document is empirical, every quantitati...

Homeostatic coupling of cortical and brainstem delta rhythms in sleeping infant rats

ABSTRACT The emergence of the cortical delta rhythm (1-4 Hz) during quiet sleep (QS) is a major milestone in brain development. In rats, this milestone is achieved between 8 and 12 days of postnatal (P) age. We previously reported an age-dependent increase in PZ delta-rhythmic ac...

Percutaneous transhepatic cholangioscopy-guided holmium laser lithotripsy for bile duct stones in elderly patients

Purpose To evaluate the safety and efficacy of percutaneous transhepatic endoscopic holmium laser lithotripsy (PTEHL) for bile duct stones in elderly patients aged ≥80 years. Materials and methods This retrospective study included 50 patients (mean age 86.4 ± 4.5 years) who under...

Data-Driven State of Charge Estimation for Lithium-Ion Batteries Based on Polynomial Surface Fitting Under Dynamic Driving Cycles

Abstract The accurate estimation of state of charge (SOC) for lithium-ion batteries is critically important for battery management systems (BMS) in electric vehicles, yet it remains challenging under highly dynamic driving cycles due to strong nonlinearities, sensor noise, and mo...

Gravitational multipoles from scattering amplitudes in higher dimensions

A bstract We investigate the gravitational multipole structure derived from scattering amplitudes in both four- and higher-dimensional spacetimes, with particular focus on the five-dimensional case. We develop a systematic procedure to extract multipole data from scattering ampli...

The Conservation at the Boundary Theorem: How the Finite Edge of Preonic Space Completes the Causal Lifecycle of the Universe

In Quantum-Geometry Dynamics (QGD), space is constituted by a finite discrete lattice of preons(−) — the fundamental spatial units that are space itself. The lattice has a definite finite extent: it ends at the last preon(−). When a preon(+) executing a directed leap reaches a bo...

FGF23 promotes atrial fibrillation susceptibility through ETV1‐dependent sodium channel regulation and calcium handling abnormalities

Abstract Fibroblast growth factor 23 (FGF23) is closely associated with atrial fibrillation (AF), yet whether it modulates sodium and calcium currents in atrial myocytes remains unclear. ETV1, a key transcription factor regulating atrial electrical conduction, may also be involve...

Cities Do Not Emerge from the Bottom Up

As indicated by its title, this study challenges the common view that as complex systems cities emerge from the bottom-up. It suggests, firstly, that that this common view is a consequence of applying the various complexity theories to the dynamics of cities by means of analogy to...

ClarifySTL: An Interactive LLM Agent Framework for STL Transformation through Requirements Clarification

Signal Temporal Logic (STL) is a formal language for specifying real-time behaviors of cyber-physical systems (CPS). Automatically transforming natural language requirements into STL specifications has received growing attention. Recent efforts leveraging large language models (L...