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TUM memories sección 10: Protocolo de Ignición y Captura en Trampa Torsional Resonante

Se presenta el protocolo operativo para iniciar y estabilizar la Botella Boy descrita en DOI:10.5281/zenodo.19993794. Mediante excitación torsional a 142.86 kHz se genera el campo de contención topológica. Se detallan: 1) Secuencia de arranque con plasmas de argón, 2) Inyección d...

First Covid-19 Vaccination Rates Among Pregnant Tennessee Women by Month of Conception and Urbanization Level: March 2021 – November 2021

Introduction: Throughout the pandemic, COVID-19 vaccination coverage was lower for the general population living in rural counties than in urban counties. In Tennessee (TN), COVID-19 vaccinations became available to pregnant women in March 2021. Little is known about rates of COV...

Exploring Systemic Challenges in the Western North Carolina Dental Safety Net: A Qualitative Analysis

Introduction: Despite statewide growth, rural communities in Western North Carolina (WNC) face persistent barriers to oral health care driven by chronic dental workforce shortages and systemic geographic disparities. Within this Appalachian region, the dental safety net serves as...

Evaluating the Feasibility and Preliminary Effectiveness of a Tailored Diabetes Education Program for Rural Residents

Introduction: Diabetes is a top ten Rural Healthy People 2030 priority for health improvement among rural Americans. Socioeconomic, environmental, geographic and political barriers contribute to the type 2 diabetes (T2D) prevalence and its disparate impact in rural communities. H...

Infective Endocarditis Hospitalizations in Kentucky, 2008-2018: Spatial and Temporal Trends

Introduction: Infective endocarditis (IE) hospitalization rates have increased significantly in the last decade, primarily due to the opioid epidemic. In 2016, Kentucky (KY) ranked among the top ten states for opioid-related overdose deaths, but limited data exist on IE trends in...

Rural Community Perspectives on Hurricane Helene in Western North Carolina

Introduction: After making landfall on the Florida Gulf Coast in September 2024, Hurricane Helene impacted Western North Carolina (WNC) with historic flooding, landslides, and hurricane-force winds. More than 100 deaths in the region were attributed to the storm's direct impacts....

— Commutation-Discriminant Quaternionic Spacetime (CDQS) — A Unified, Algebraic Reconstruction of Spacetime, Quantum Theory, Gauge Dynamics, Gravitation, and Cosmology—Without Cosmological Constants or Particle Dark Matter (Treatise, v1)

Commutation-Discriminant Quaternionic Spacetime (CDQS) is a proposed algebraic reconstruction and unification of spacetime, quantum theory, gauge dynamics, gravitation, and cosmology via quaternionic energy conservation and a common Clifford transport structure. Rather than takin...

A reference genome and transcriptome of haustorial development in Pedicularis groenlandica reveal diverse trajectories of haustoria-associated gene evolution in parasitic plants.

BACKGROUND AND AIMS: Novel traits frequently evolve by co-opting existing genetic pathways through either the direct repurposing of existing genes or neofunctionalization of duplicated genes. Parasitism represents a major innovation in plants, in which a novel organ, the haustori...

On the Uniqueness of Minimal Physically Derivable Theories

This paper proves a metatheorem concerning the class of physical theories derivable from minimal axiom sets. Rather than asking whether two given theories are equivalent — the direction taken by the existing literature on theoretical equivalence — it asks a prior question: given...

Incompatible Mathematical Descriptions and Hidden Switching Errors in Quantum Thought Experiments

Preprint of a conceptual paper on hidden switching errors in quantum thought experiments. The paper argues that many well-known paradoxes arise not from internal inconsistency of quantum theory itself, but from silent transitions between incompatible mathematical descriptions, su...

A Constant Function Model of Cluster B Personality Disorders: Predictions from Secondary Universe Theory

Secondary Universe Theory (SUT) proposes that persistent false belief structures share a common architecture across domains: a clearly defined function served by a systematically undefined mechanism, in which a deus ex machina — an agent, force, or principle — bypasses cause and...

Wikimedia Commons data model for Natural History specimen images

Documentation describing the data model developed for structured data added to natural history specimen Wikimedia Commons image files with the Wikidata:WikiProject Natural History Specimen Data Model.

Geometric Dissipation Theory

The proliferation of highly integrated, fast-coupled architectures has rendered traditional linear control theory obsolete for preventing catastrophic cascading failures. Under fast load, disturbances do not propagate linearly but via radial causality, where injected energy sprea...

A Saturating Scalar Effective Model for Black-Hole Interiors: Regularity Criteria and Dynamical Regimes

We develop a minimal effective Einstein–scalar model for studying high-curvature black-hole interiors using a bounded saturating scalar potential. The construction is intended as an effective closure rather than a fundamental theory or a claim of a complete regular black-hole sol...

ETHICS AND ONTOLOGICAL GROUNDING IN MODERN AND POSTMODERN PHILOSOPHY: A Critical Survey of Foundational Authorities

Abstract This paper examines how modern and postmodern philosophical traditions treat the relationship between ethics and ontological grounding. Modern philosophy, from Kant through natural law theory, generally assumed that moral claims require metaphysical foundations, whether...

QUALIFIED EMPIRICISM: Science Honoured Within Its Domain

Abstract The relationship between empirical science and theological knowledge has been framed predominantly through two inadequate paradigms: conflict models that subordinate one to the other, and independence models that isolate them into incommensurable domains. Both fail to ac...

Constraints on Causal Inference as Experiment Comparison: A Framework for Identification, Transportability, and Policy Learning

Causal inference seeks to predict the outcome of interventions from observational data \emph{under explicit causal assumptions}---for instance, predicting patient recovery under a new drug protocol based on historical medical records, estimating the effects of genomic interventio...

ILLUMINATION: THE HOLY SPIRIT'S WORK IN UNDERSTANDING

Abstract This paper articulates the pneumatological dimension of knowing within MKS®-Thronaxis, the Metadisciplinary Knowledge System. While previous publications in the MKS corpus have established Revelation (Axis I) as ontological ground and Inspiration (Axis II) as the divinel...

The Energy-Deficit Hypothesis of Autism

🇬🇧 ENGLISH This hypothesis paper proposes that autism spectrum disorder (ASD) may be conceptualized as an immune-metabolic disorder in which multiple maternal pro-inflammatory cytokines—including TNF-α, IL-6, IL-1β, and IFN-γ—converge on fetal mitochondrial dysfunction during pre...

THE AUTHORITY OF SCRIPTURE: Norma Normans in MKS™-Thronaxis

Abstract The authority of Scripture stands as the single most consequential epistemological commitment within any theological framework, yet contemporary theology has rendered it structurally ambiguous, affirmed in confessional statements while functionally undermined by methodol...