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The Psychology Behind Beliefs in Ghosts and Spirits

This independent research paper examines the psychological and social factors that may contribute to beliefs in ghosts and spirits. Drawing on research from psychology and related fields, the paper explores how cognitive processes, thinking styles, personality characteristics, sl...

ELLS–NSBA three-stage framework for optimal DG/SC placement and EV integration in distribution networks

The growing penetration of distributed generation (DG), shunt capacitors (SC), and electric vehicles (EVs) in distribution networks demands optimal siting strategies that balance operational efficiency and structural resilience. Existing metaheuristic approaches treat every bus a...

Crocetin HaltsTumorigenesis in Metastatic BreastCancer via Disrupting CYP2J2/EET Axis

Abstract CYP2J2 catalyzes the conversion of arachidonic acid into epoxyeicosatrienoic acids (EET), which have gained significant attention due to their oncogenic properties. Differential overexpression of CYP2J2 in tumors results in increased EET production. The role of EET in tu...

Dark Matter as a Screening Artifact of 5D Spacetime Dynamics

We propose an alternative framework for galactic rotation curves and gravitational dynamics without invoking particle dark matter, formulated within a 5-dimensional Kaluza-Klein scalar tensor geometry. By introducing a force-density screening mechanism acting as a dynamical self-...

The Curve Is an Average of Worlds: What Partial Dependence Actually Shows

Partial dependence plots are often interpreted as direct response curves: set a feature to a value, average the predictions, and read the resulting line as an explanation. This paper evaluates a narrower object. A marginal partial-dependence curve averages a frozen predictive mod...

Your Insured's AI Agent Caused the Loss: Was It Authorized to Act?

This paper examines a developing insurance problem created by autonomous and semi-autonomous AI agents: when an insured deploys an AI agent that causes a financial, operational, contractual, cyber, or physical loss, who bears responsibility and how should insurers evaluate the re...

WINNEX: Weighted Inference Neural Network Enhancement — A Deterministic, Training-Free Framework for Enhancing Pretrained Language Models (Composition of the Winnex Spectral Tokenizer, X-Factor Manifold Projector, and Madhava Bound Engine)

This document is the pre-patent technical specification for WINNEX — Weighted Inference Neural Network Enhancement — a deterministic, training-free framework that enhances a pretrained language model without modifying its weights or running any gradient step. The framework compos...

Critical Pedagogy of Multicultural Incorporation

Abstract This article brings cultural sociology, civil sphere theory, and critical theory into dialogue to examine the empirical-cum-political stakes of education in multicultural societies. Using a mixed-methods approach, it analyzes school cultures in Finland, Scotland, and Swe...

Sella turcica dimensions in patients with severe skeletal malocclusion using cone-beam computed tomography: a retrospective observational study

Abstract Background As traditional two-dimensional cephalometric analyses of skeletal malocclusions often fail to capture complex craniofacial variations. Recent advances in three-dimensional (3D) imaging have highlighted the correlation between sella turcica morphology and skele...

Clinical outcomes of bleomycin electrosclerotherapy (BEST) for the treatment of slow-flow vascular malformations (SFVMs): a UK single-centre experience

BACKGROUND: Bleomycin Electrosclerotherapy (BEST) is an emerging treatment for slow-flow vascular malformations (SFVMs), utilising electroporation to enhance intralesional bleomycin uptake. This study evaluates the safety and clinical outcomes of BEST in reducing symptom severity...

A novel stiffness-distribution-controlled hybrid locking compression plate for osteoporotic midshaft clavicle fractures: a finite element study

Abstract Background Fixation of osteoporotic midshaft clavicle fractures in elderly patients requires a careful balance between mechanical integrity and anatomical compatibility. Conventional single-diameter locking plate systems present an inherent trade-off, as larger plates pr...

Oxidative Stressafter Pollutant Exposure DependsStrongly on Experimental Design and Pollutant Properties in Annelids:A Meta-Analysis

Abstract Measurements of oxidative stress are often performed to assess a species’ general sublethal stress response to a pollutant. However, oxidative stress bioassays often produce seemingly ambiguous results, and the drivers that lead to these differences are largely unknown....

A comparative assessment of online GNSS processing services for geodetic control: insights from the ethiopian network

Abstract This study compares four online GNSS processing services AUSPOS, TrimbleRTX, OPUS, and CSRS-PPP using 72-h static GNSS data from 12 geodetic control stations in Ethiopia. Observations collected with a Leica GS10 receiver were processed by each service and evaluated again...

A novel diagnostic technology rapidly detects the presence of infection and defines antimicrobial sensitivities in organisms typical for joint infection

Aims Infective arthritis is rare, but serious. Timely treatment with appropriate antimicrobial therapy is potentially life- and limb-saving, but our ability to deliver this is limited by current laboratory practices, which confer a delay of several days before antimicrobial sensi...

Effect of External Electric Fields on Defective AlN/GrapheneHeterobilayer: A First-Principles Study

Abstract Graphene-based van der Waals heterobilayers play a fundamental role in the fabrication of optoelectronic, micro- and nanoelectronic, and spintronic devices. In this paper, four new stackings for the (4 × 4)-AlN/(5 × 5)-graphene denominated as AA, AA′, A′B, and A′B′ are i...

Prism-Slice h-star Polynomials: Interlacing Through Reduced Level Five and a Level-Six Counterexample

Let c be a positive integer capacity vector with total capacity C, let 1 ≤ k ≤ C − 1, and put m = min{k, C − k}. We prove both clauses of the prism-slice conjecture when m ≤ 5: the h-star polynomial is real-rooted, and for every legal unit split the unsplit polynomial weakly inte...

AgEuPS4: Unlocking the CentrosymmetricShackle of Rare-Earth Thiophosphates via Microscopic Distortion Cascadingfor Enhanced Second-Harmonic Generation Response

Abstract Breaking the rigid centrosymmetric (CS) shackles of rare-earth thiophosphates remains a significant challenge for designing high-performance mid-to-far-infrared (MFIR) nonlinear optical (NLO) materials. Herein, using the CS LiEuPS4 (I41/acd) as the structural template, a...

Association between ankle–brachial index and body composition parameters measured by bioelectrical impedance analysis in patients with high-risk type 2 diabetes mellitus: a cross-sectional study

Abstract Background Peripheral arterial disease (PAD) is a common macrovascular complication of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) associated with substantial morbidity. The ankle-brachial index (ABI) is a simple, non-invasive, and widely recommended tool for PAD screening, while al...

Integrative transcriptomic and machine learning analyses identify NOL7 and TXLNA as candidate blood biomarkers for Parkinson’s disease within an RNA modification-associated co-expression network

Abstract Background Parkinson’s disease (PD) pathogenesis involves complex molecular mechanisms, with emerging evidence implicating RNA modifications (RM). This study sought to explore RM-associated key genes and their roles in PD progression. Methods Transcriptomic datasets GSE6...

Malnutrition Severity, Morphofunctional Assessment, and Survival in Patients with Lung Cancer: A Multicentre Prospective Cohort Study

PURPOSE: Malnutrition is common in lung cancer and may contribute to impaired functional status and poor survival. This study evaluated the association between GLIM-defined malnutrition, morphofunctional nutritional parameters, and one-year mortality in patients with lung cancer....