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Beyond Substance: Contemporary Science and the Case for a Generative Relational Ontology

Contemporary science has achieved extraordinary explanatory and predictive success, yet its ontological interpretation remains unsettled. This paper argues that one source of this instability lies in the inherited assumption that reality is fundamentally composed of independently...

Effect of Omani Limestone Waste as a Reinforcing Agent on the Mechanical Properties of Scrap-Based Aluminum Matrix Composites

This paper analyzes the use of Omani limestone, collected from the mountain ranges of the Sultanate of Oman, a major global exporter of limestone, as a natural reinforcement to improve the mechanical properties of recycled aluminum alloys obtained from automotive engine cylinder...

Optimal waste heat temperature in semiconductor cleanroom HVAC: Configuration-dependent cost structure and operating strategy

Heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning (HVAC) systems account for a large share of the energy use of advanced semiconductor fabrication facilities (fabs). Recovering chiller condenser waste heat to outdoor air conditioner (OAC) heating coils in place of LNG boiler heating has...

Age-Related Behavioral Changes Across the Adult Lifespan of a Cricket: A Longitudinal Analysis Using DeepLabCut

<title>Abstract</title> Aging in insects is characterized by progressive behavioral changes, including declines in locomotion, altered sleep, and disrupted circadian rhythms. The two-spotted cricket ( <italic>Gryllus bimaculatus</italic> ) is a useful model for behavioral senesce...

Topology-Evolving Image Encryption Algorithm Utilizing 2D Rosenbrock–Schwefel Hyperchaotic Map

Traditional image encryption methods based on static permutation and diffusion are vulnerable to structural cryptanalysis and usually show limited resistance to channel interference. To address these problems, this paper proposes a robust topology-evolving image encryption algori...

Extreme Heat and Emergency Health Impacts in the US (2018–2025)

Future climate projections suggest an increase in heat-related mortality and a decrease in cold-related deaths under warming scenarios. Understanding the health impacts of extreme heat, and their implications for healthcare demand is essential for assessing the future burden of c...

Empirical Status

One OCEAN A reconstruction of the Big Five model. Traits are modeled as interacting systems rather than isolated dimensions. It's actually significantly more than that; earlier descriptions have very highly underestimated the model. x Typologies Typological systems (Keirsey x Enn...

Topological Entanglement: Mass, Energy, and the Speed of Light in the Dual‑Domain Ontology

The speed of light is usually taken as a fundamental postulate. Within the dual‑domain ontology, it acquires a structural interpretation. The standard definition of the fine‑structure constant, together with its independent measurement (for example, via the quantum anomalous Hall...

Galaxy formation in modified gravity – II. galaxy halo connection and assembly bias

Abstract Modern surveys such as DESI and Euclid, which collect data for hundreds of millions of galaxies to map the large-scale structure (LSS) of the Universe, hold the key to determining the cosmological parameters and testing new physics. This ambition, however, is limited by...

AI safety evaluation in an underrepresented population: real-world performance of clinical decision support and frontier language models on Medicaid patient messaging triage

<title>Abstract</title> Background. Studies of artificial intelligence tools used in patient triage have largely involved academic medical center cohorts, scripted patient-actor scenarios, or knowledge benchmarks. Populations that may rely on such tools due to constrained access...

Transferrin receptor 1 is required for efficient hepatitis E virus production

Hepatitis E virus (HEV) infection is a major cause of acute viral hepatitis worldwide. HEV is a positive-strand RNA virus encoding three open reading frames (ORFs). The ORF3 protein is a small membrane-associated protein essential for viral particle secretion; however, its precis...

Self-PulsingMicroring Resonator Networks for Bandwidth-EfficientEvent Detection in an Optical Fiber Sensor

Abstract The native processing of time-dependent signals from optical sensors by integrated photonic circuits can potentially bring significant advantages in terms of energy consumption, latency and processing power, as it allows skipping or reducing the use of fast digital elect...

The WEIRD instrument problem and systematic bias

Psychological data from Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic (WEIRD) populations seem to be more structurally complex than data from small-scale and non-Western populations. This has been hypothesized to be due to WEIRD populations having greater psychological...

Working conditions, career barriers and perceived equity among neuro-oncology professionals: insights from the Japan society for neuro-oncology (JSNO) gender equality and diversity committee survey

<title>Abstract</title> Background Gender equity, work–life balance, and career development have become important concerns in the medical profession. However, empirical evidence on how neuro-oncology professionals experience working conditions, career barriers, and perceived ineq...

Automatic extraction of structured information from brain MRI reports using an open-weight large language model

Abstract Objectives Automatic data extraction from free-text radiology reports enables large-scale research, but few studies assessed the performance of large language models (LLMs) on Dutch neuroradiology reports. Materials and methods We analyzed 947 brain MRI reports from a te...

Flexible PDMS/La0.7Sr0.3MnO3/MWCNT Composite Thin Films for Multifunctional Temperature and Magnetic Sensing Electronic Skin

Abstract The development of multifunctional electronic skin (e-skin) requires materials that combine mechanical flexibility with responsiveness to multiple stimuli. In this work, a flexible polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS)/La0.7Sr0.3MnO3 (LSMO)/multiwall carbon nanotube (MWCNT) compos...

Health risk assessment of heavy metals in Iranian cereal products using ICP-AES and a hybrid machine learning framework

<title>Abstract</title> This study assesses the health risk associated with heavy metal contamination in 13 commonly consumed cereal-based products (11 pasta brands, Ash-Novin pasta, and wheat germ powder) from Arak, Iran. Concentrations of arsenic (As), cadmium (Cd), mercury (Hg...

Neurobiological Cognitive Integration (NCI): A Precision-Weighted Predictive-Processing Framework for Continuous Temperament Dimensions, Cognitive Complexity, and the Phenotype–Pathology Continuum

This monograph presents Neurobiological Cognitive Integration (NCI), a unified theoretical framework that reconceptualizes human temperament, individual behavioral variation, and clinical pathology as emergent properties of a single computational architecture: a multi-loop, preci...

Integrability of $$R^2$$ gravity cosmological models with radiation

Abstract We consider $$R^2$$ <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"> <mml:msup> <mml:mi>R</mml:mi> <mml:mn>2</mml:mn> </mml:msup> </mml:math> gravity cosmological models with radiation. We find the general solution to the trace equation $$\Box R=0$$ <mml:math xm...

Exploring the connection between coding habits and cognitive styles in malware developers

Malware research primarily studies the results, the methods, and the impact. Even from an offensive security perspective, what is examined is the method, not the development strategy of the offender. This study investigates the behavioral signatures and coding patterns embedded i...