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Policy-Constrained Query Placement at the Edge: A Catalog Architecture, Complexity Analysis, and Latency Trade-Offs

Edge databases must coordinate replica freshness, consistency requirements, and governance restrictions despite intermittent connectivity. This study specifies an Edge-Aware Database Management System (EA-DBMS) architecture centered on the Policy-Aware Distributed Edge Catalog (P...

Costly missed connections: Visitation and misconduct in California prisons

Social isolation is a major public health crisis with particularly deleterious consequences for vulnerable populations including incarcerated people. Theoretically, visitation from family should reduce social isolation and improve outcomes among incarcerated people, but existing...

Workforce size and bank performance: evidence from a threshold model in Vietnam

Bank size is commonly measured by total assets, yet organizational theories identify workforce size as an important source of scale-related inefficiency. This study identifies a structural breakpoint in the workforce-performance relationship among 27 Vietnamese commercial banks o...

Enabling temporal transitions: AI adoption and sequential ambidexterity in Chinese SMEs from 2015–2023

With research about sequential ambidexterity suggesting that firms may approximate ambidexterity over time by alternating between periods of exploration and exploitation, this temporal approach provides a feasible solution for SMEs facing resource limitations to manage the tensio...

4th Downs Decoded: A Selection-Bias-Adjusted Study of Player Impact on Fourth Down Conversions in the NFL

This research breaks down fourth downs in the NFL by identifying crucial player positions and evaluating how coaches incorporate different factors in their decision-making process. Using a newly engineered dataset that includes detailed player statistics 1 from 2017–2023, we anal...

Replicability of agent-based simulations: a case study with a SEIRS epidemiological model

Reproducibility is not only a cornerstone of the advancement of science, but also of scientific credibility. However, it remains a persistent challenge across many disciplines, and it is now referred to as the “reproducibility crisis.” This issue is particularly relevant in compu...

PiVECOln

Interactive supporting tools for perovskite photovoltaics LCIA by Y. Wang et al. (2026).It runs offline in any modern web browser and needs no installation in self-contained HTML files. α-pceITO cycles tool Shows per-device cost, global-warming and midpoint impacts after *n* cycl...

Four-Dimensional Spinorial Geometry and Chiral Spectral Duality via Temporal Spin Connections on Deformed Backgrounds

We construct a self-consistent four-dimensional spinorial framework to evaluate the first-order spectral deformations of the unreduced, massless Dirac operator ˆ/Dg = γae μa ∇μ re-stricted to an axisymmetrically deformed Lorentzian manifold. Utilizing the localized framebundle vi...

Volume-Minimising Projective Subspaces in Berger Projective Spaces: Three Further Cases of a Question of Gil-Medrano

Gil-Medrano asked whether, in the real projective space RP^(2n+1) with a Berger metric g_μ (the round metric with the Hopf fibres rescaled by √μ), the projective subspaces coming from equatorial k-spheres are minimal, and whether they are the only volume-minimising k-cycles in th...

Endovascular treatment guided by tissue window rather than time window may be safe and feasible in patients with ischemic stroke

For progressive stroke caused by large vessel occlusion (LVO) beyond the 24-hour time window, dedicated evidence for endovascular treatment (EVT) remains scarce, and there is currently no established treatment standard. We investigated the safety and feasibility of tissue window-...

Mapping the vulnerability of the Egyptian spiny-tailed lizard ( Uromastyx aegyptia ) in Egypt to climate change: Distributional shifts and conservation needs

Climate change has the potential to significantly impact species distributions and patterns of biodiversity, resulting in shifts, contractions in range and even extinction. The Egyptian spiny-tailed lizard (Uromastyx aegyptia), classified as a vulnerable species, faces threats pr...

Effects of Malic Acid Vase Solution on the Postharvest Quality and Vase Life of Cut Rose ‘Candlelight’ Grown Under Low-Light Conditions

Low-light conditions during winter cultivation reduce the postharvest quality of cut roses, highlighting the importance of effective postharvest management. This study investigated the effects of malic acid (MA) and sucrose (Su) vase solutions on the postharvest quality and vase...

Balancing Ultrafast Decay and High Light Yield in PEA 2 PbBr 4 Crystals Through Strain‐Regulated Exciton Localization

ABSTRACT Ultrafast scintillators are indispensable for advanced radiation detection. Nevertheless, reconciling sub‐nanosecond temporal response with high light yield remains a longstanding bottleneck, since rapid de‐excitation is usually accompanied by excessive exciton localizat...

Oscillation-Stability-Constrained Coordinated Optimal Operation of Grid-Forming Energy Storage for Dynamic Support

The high penetration of grid-following (GFL) renewable energy integrated into weak grids may induce small-signal synchronous oscillations due to the coupling between phase-locked loop (PLL) dynamics and network impedance, thereby limiting renewable energy accommodation and the fl...

The Association Between Circulating Myostatin and Skeletal Muscle Mass Varies by Nutritional–Inflammatory Status in Hemodialysis Patients

Myostatin (MSTN) is a negative regulator of skeletal muscle growth. However, previous studies in hemodialysis patients have reported inconsistent associations between circulating MSTN and muscle-related parameters, and the reasons for these discrepancies remain unclear. This cros...

Tea Stewardship in Jingmai Mountain: A Practice‐Based and Cross‐Scalar Illustration of Ecological Citizenship in the Making

ABSTRACT The old tea forests of Jingmai Mountain in Yunnan, China, have been cultivated and maintained for centuries by indigenous Bulang and Dai communities through a unique ‘forest‐tea symbiosis’. We take this case as an entry point to examine a broader enquiry: how do a commun...

Integrating multimodal data through a data-driven ensemble model for optimizing forest height estimation

Accurate forest-height estimation is essential for ecological monitoring and forest management. This study applies an adaptive stacking-based fusion framework that screens combinations of out-of-fold predictions from three regression models and three existing canopy-height produc...

DGDE-CSFNet: Difference-Guided Dual-Branch Encoding and Cross-Scale Fusion for Maritime Scene Segmentation

Semantic segmentation of maritime imagery is challenging due to the coexistence of large homogeneous regions, such as sea and land, and small, sparsely distributed ship targets, particularly in complex port environments. Further, strong background dominance and intricate boundary...

Multi-objective optimization of subsurface drip fertigation for winter wheat in the North China Plain: balancing grain yield, resource use efficiency, and soil quality

Drip fertigation has been adopted to conserve water resources and improve water-nitrogen use efficiency. However, the optimal irrigation level and nitrogen application rate for drip-fertigated winter wheat in the North China Plain (NCP) are still unclear. To promote synergies amo...

Re-evaluating the ECI's Role in Curbing Electoral Malpractices : A Post-Electoral Bonds Perspective

Re-evaluating the ECI’s Role in Curbing Electoral Malpractices : A Post-Electoral Bonds Perspective Piyush Singh* This paper looks at the Election Commission of India after the Supreme Court struck down the Electoral Bond Scheme in February 2024. For six years the scheme let comp...