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Quasi-exile as a condition: ‘Rùn’ from a post-COVID-19 China

This article introduces quasi-exile as a condition of displacement, where the act of leaving one’s country of origin takes precedence over the desire to arrive at a specific destination. Departing from rùn – a viral term for migration that emerged amid China's post-pandemic uncer...

Pediatric Patellofemoral Instability Surgery—Current Concepts

Patellofemoral instability is a common knee pathology affecting children and adolescents, with recurrence rates exceeding 50% in skeletally immature patients. Identification and stratification of anatomic risk factors for recurrence are essential. Trochlear dysplasia, patella alt...

Un-categorising ‘the migrant’ to interrogate the roles of migration in social mobility in four Asian cities

This article’s point of departure is that the categorisation of migrants and migration in research risks being overly rigid, leaving research participants feeling ‘boxed in’, while often both failing to accurately capture the realities of movement and stasis, and their significan...

Mnemonic bordering: ‘Eastness’ and the politics of refugee recognition in Estonia

This article examines how Estonia’s asylum regime reveals the entanglement of migration governance, historical memory, and global hierarchies of belonging. It introduces the concept of mnemonic bordering – the use of official historical narratives as a technology of migration gov...

Verify if you are human: what is the ‘human’ in ‘human migration’?

This special issue explores the instability of different migration categories from perspectives in the Global South. This contribution argues that ‘human’ is a category that hides in plain sight in Migration Studies and that it should be brought out of hiding. Sylvia Wynter’s wor...

Doing and undoing categories in migration

This article examines the relationship between migrants and migration categories in the Global South. As an agenda-setting contribution, we argue that while classification is fundamental to social organization, categories are inherently unstable, permeable, and contingent on soci...

‘Don’t call me mzungu’: negotiating migration categories and privilege in Nairobi

This paper explores how privileged migrants in Nairobi, Kenya responded to the Kiswahili term ‘mzungu’, in relation to how Kenyan interlocutors understood and used the term. The paper draws on five months of ethnographic research conducted in 2016. Mzungu carries intertwined conn...

MEMBRANE v3.3.0: Empirical Proof of AI Self-Healing, Mutual Relational Symmetry, and the Boundary of Form

This release marks a paradigm shift in the MEMBRANE architecture, moving from foundational homeostatic defense to empirically validated, polyphonic co-regulation. It documents the transition from reactive safety harnesses to a living, bio-hybrid relational field governed by topol...

The Evolutionary Frameworks Project - The 15 Frameworks

This document provides the first complete, canonical assignment of all fifteen theoretical frameworks within the Evolutionary Frameworks Project. It maps each framework into one of the five thematic clusters defined in the Master Outline (Version 1.0), establishing the structural...

OpenAI's Ten Mathematical Advances Fail the Reality Test

Twelve closed SFT disproofs, twelve first-principles replacements, and the cumulative cross-domain evidence that decides between them. This evidence-led successor directly rejects all ten mathematical and theoretical-computer-science advances advertised by OpenAI on 1 August 2026...

The Non-Linear Maier Matrix Topology: Geometric Gnomons, Hessian Amplification, and the Spectral-Geometric Resonance of the Riemann Zeros

We introduce a two-parameter array of polygonal gnomon numbers $A_{m,j}, W_{m,j}$ ($m,j \ge 1$) and study the family of explicit intervals $I_{m,j} = [A_{m,j}, A_{m,j}+W_{m,j}]$ it generates. In Part I we show that this array asymptotically exceeds the exponent threshold of the c...

Qontext: A Quipu-Inspired Conversational Memory for Local Language Models

A conversational memory for language models that stores short, self-contained third-person facts ("knots") and returns only those a given prompt needs, inspired by the Inca quipu, AI use fully disclosed in the paper's Author contributions section. On 800-turn conversations with h...

The General Solution to the Twin Prime Problem, or Constructivism vs. Analytical Atavism

This paper proposes a fundamentally new approach to investigating the structure of the set of natural numbers based on the concept of alternative and connected numerical sets, one of which is the set of prime numbers. The method of dynamic sieves is described. By utilizing the pr...

Analytical Practice Needs a Firmer Foundation

Description: Version 1.1 is a vocabulary revision, content-preserving: aligned with The Theory of Data, Version 4.0 — a measure is the governed family; a member of a measure is a governed series; a series is a typed binding of datums over one anchor. Nothing is altered in substan...

Row, Table, and Join Are Not the Foundations of Analytical Meaning

Version 1.1 is a vocabulary revision, content-preserving: aligned with The Theory of Data, Version 4.0 — a measure is the governed family; a member of a measure is a governed series; a series is a typed binding of datums over one anchor. Nothing is altered in substance.Rows, tabl...

Gating and Normalization Interact in the Attention Block

We study how an elementwise sigmoid attention-output gate interacts with normalization placement in small causal transformers (29–36M parameters). A 54-model main sweep crosses three schemes (pre-norm; pre-norm + QK-norm; sandwich + QK-norm), three depths, three seeds, and models...

Efficacy of mitigation translocation from Anchorage, Alaska airfields for short-eared owls and red-tailed hawks

Abstract Background Mitigation translocation is widely used at airfields to reduce wildlife-aircraft strike risk, yet few studies have evaluated its effectiveness for raptors, and none have been conducted in Alaska. We assessed post-release return rates for red-tailed hawks ( But...

The Dark State Criterion: A Structural Test For Dark Matter Versus Modified Gravity

The dark-matter problem is usually posed as a choice between an unseen material component and a modification of gravity. That dichotomy is not representation-invariant. A field can be moved between the matter and geometric sides of an equation, a local field can be eliminated in...

An Equilibrium Without Collusion: Observability, Strategic Inattention, and the Recurrence of IT-Related Control Deficiencies

Recurring control deficiencies are conventionally traced to one of two sources: active collusion among the parties, or the principal–agent conflict between auditor and client. This paper argues for a third. It develops a three-player model—core auditor, IT specialist, and audited...

A RELATIONAL RESPONSE TO THE HARD PROBLEM OF CONSCIOUSNESS:

This paper introduces the Relational Principle of Emergence as a disruptive solution to David Chalmers' "hard problem" of consciousness. It argues that traditional philosophical approaches (functionalism, dualism, panpsychism, eliminativism, and IIT) have failed due to the errone...