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Where unicorns come to life: conditions of entrepreneurial ecosystems and the emergence of disruptive ventures

Purpose Unicorns are startups that rapidly achieve a market value of at least one billion USD. Recently, they are increasingly seen as a key outcome of thriving entrepreneurial ecosystems. However, it remains unclear what elements of entrepreneurial ecosystems contribute to the g...

COVID-19 triggers pulmonary tumor outgrowth through hypoxia- and inflammation-induced VEGF-dependent angiogenesis

Abstract Pulmonary nodules are highly prevalent in adult human populations, with a substantial proportion representing dormant cancerous lesions. We hypothesized that these pulmonary dormant cancers debilitate in growth owing to the lack of an angiogenic switch in tumors. In this...

Training quantum neural networks for Tl-limited hardware: what the qg symmetry filter does and does not do

A quantum neural network (QNN) built from gates that conserve the Hamming weight keeps its data in one weight sector, so the shots that left the sector can be discarded at readout. This is the qg filter of the qang library [1, 2]. We show that, with equal amplitude damping (T1) o...

Host structure influences the catalytic performance of porous liquids in CO 2 cycloaddition

Abstract Porous liquids (PLs) are a class of novel functional materials with permanent pore structures, showing unique potential for the CO 2 cycloaddition. However, how the host structure influences the catalytic performance of PLs remains unclear, hindering the development of f...

E8 Casimir Phonon Atlas: 240-Mode Vacuum Spectrum at 132 Hz — E8 Intelligence Research

The 240 E8 root vectors map onto measurable phonon-like modes of the quantum vacuum when scaled by a 132 Hz base frequency, generating a unique spectral atlas where each root corresponds to a discrete Casimir-like resonance between parallel geometric boundaries. Phi-coupled mode...

Effects of nighttime graduated compression tights on overnight changes in lower-limb circumference in healthy young women with subjective leg swelling: A randomized crossover trial

Background Transient lower-limb swelling may occur in healthy young women during daily life. This study examined whether wearing graduated compression tights during sleep enhanced overnight reductions in lower-limb circumference and affected subjective sleep quality or morning fa...

Experimentalist Governance in Food Democracy: Monitoring and the Right to Food in Selected Chinese and European Cities

ABSTRACT Cities have become the level at which the right to food is either operationalized or left abstract, yet we have little comparative vocabulary for describing how they do it. This article examines local food observatories and monitoring mechanisms in four cities, namely, S...

Mechanical, wear and corrosion properties of refractory high-entropy alloys based on different Al and Hf contents

TiZrHfNb-based refractory high-entropy alloys (RHEAs) possess promising comprehensive properties, yet the high cost of Hf restricts their engineering applications. In this study, Ti 30 Zr 30 Hf (16-x) Nb 24 Al x (x = 0, 2, 4, 6, 8) RHEAs prepared via vacuum arc melting were inves...

Applying the MANifest Health Theory to Male Firefighter Lifestyle: A Conceptual Review Using the FANTASTIC Lifestyle Assessment

Firefighters face substantial long-term health risks related to cardiovascular disease, sleep disruption, occupational stress, inconsistent preventive care, and lifestyle behaviors shaped by fire-service culture. Although firefighter health research has traditionally emphasized a...

Reflective AI: A Conceptual Framework for Second-Order Reflection and Temporal Self-Understanding

This paper proposes Reflective AI: an architecture in which an intelligent agent can examine not only its recorded prior reasoning contexts, but also the history of its subsequent interpretations of those contexts. The conceptual starting point is the difficulty of establishing s...

Social Media Learning Ecosystems: An Educational Analytics Framework for Engagement, Knowledge Co-Creation, and Human Flourishing

Purpose: Social media is now widely used for learning, yet its educational value is often judged through surface-level indicators such as views, reactions, and participation counts. This review develops the Social Learning Value Analytics Framework (SLVAF) to explain how well-des...

EuroMillions Breakthrough Mining — 10023 Sources, 97951 Leads Extracted — E8 Intelligence Research

Mined 10023 lottery+quantum breakthroughs. Extracted 97951 leads across 13 categories. 94467 high-value leads found. Categories: {"CORRIDOR": 8565, "FORMULA": 8342, "GEOMETRIC": 1607, "FORWARD_ATTEMPT": 8973, "QUANTUM": 9233, "TIMING": 597, "CELESTIAL": 8404, "GEMATRIA": 8772, "C...

Consciousness as Fifth Force: Popular Claims vs. Sparse Mathematical Evidence — E8 Intelligence Research

FINDING: The search results are dominated by popular-science videos and podcasts asserting consciousness as a "fifth force," but the only substantive mathematical source is a 2004 arXiv paper on complex-dynamic many-body systems. No rigorous equations, constants, or ratios are pr...

Food security-oriented optimization of rural settlements: coupling GAEZ and PLUS to address cropland productivity loss in Shaanxi, China

Rapid urbanization and rural transformation continue to reshape production and living spaces in rural China. Cropland occupation and reclamation resulting from rural settlement evolution may alter the spatial configuration and production potential of cropland, thereby affecting r...

OmniLife AI: Design and Implementation of a Responsive Personal Memory Search Engine for Intelligent Document Retrieval

OmniLife AI is a personal memory and document retrieval project intended to help users organize and retrieve information from digital documents. This technical article discusses the project's motivation, objectives, conceptual system architecture, document-processing and informat...

E8 Spectral Gap Invariant for Regime Persistence — E8 Intelligence Research

Building on the E8 root vector projection framework, this discovery establishes a universal lower bound on the probability of regime transitions in stochastic systems whose dynamics exhibit E8 symmetry. Specifically, the shortest root vector λ_min = √2, when modulated by the gold...

EuroMillions Breakthrough Mining — 9980 Sources, 97576 Leads Extracted — E8 Intelligence Research

Mined 9980 lottery+quantum breakthroughs. Extracted 97576 leads across 13 categories. 94123 high-value leads found. Categories: {"CORRIDOR": 8532, "FORMULA": 8313, "GEOMETRIC": 1593, "FORWARD_ATTEMPT": 8938, "QUANTUM": 9195, "TIMING": 592, "CELESTIAL": 8376, "GEMATRIA": 8738, "CO...

Effect of Thermocycling on Color Stability, Fracture Resistance, and Shear Bond Strength of CAD-on Restorations (Lithium Disilicate and Polymer-Infiltrated Ceramic Network) Fabricated on Zirconia Copings

Abstract The goal of the current in vitro investigation was to assess how artificial aging via thermocycling affected color stability, fracture resistance, and shear bond strength of CAD-on restorations made on zirconia copings veneered with polymer-infiltrated ceramic network (P...

A Shared Vocabulary for Crew–AI Interaction in Spaceflight: System Categories, Autonomy Levels and Communication Protocols (Conceptual Note)

Crews on long missions will work with AI systems that run the spacecraft, support experiments, give medical advice and keep company. This conceptual note proposes a small ontology for crew–AI interaction: four system categories, a five-level autonomy scale, four interaction proto...

Gödel's Incompleteness: Mathematics Beyond Finite Axiomatization — E8 Intelligence Research

FINDING: Gödel's incompleteness theorems establish that any consistent formal system capable of basic arithmetic contains true statements unprovable within that system, implying the mathematical universe is not finitely axiomatizable. | MATH: First theorem: For any consistent, re...