Framing - Science topic

Seismic design codes are fundamental to the provision of safe infrastructure in earthquake-prone regions. At the moment of writing this paper, the European standard for seismic design (Eurocode 8) is in its final voting phase after undergoing important changes. This paper evaluates the consequences of the changes introduced in the upcoming Eurocode...

Outline: Water Frame Directive_current status Spectral Imaging_hyper/multi-spectral Methods_local & cloud computing Case studies_Brazil_&_Portugal Future challenges_H/MSI based framework for water quality monitoring HSI for characterization_insect_derived_materials

Data studies are gaining traction in Information Systems (IS). While current research recognizes that data are shaped by context, the ways in which empirical settings inform scholarly contributions remain unarticulated. We focus on the Nordic region as a context and argue that it provides a unique opportunity for examining how sociopolitical and ec...

While Greek authors of the Classical period and beyond suggest that human sacrifice was universally condemned as an unthinkably barbaric offense and a violation of ritual norms, earlier extant literary sources offer no such clear ruling. However, this situation changes when the small yet iconographically remarkable group of pre-Classical visual rep...

Tunneling-induced horizontal strains for buildings with discontinuous foundations are notable and may pose significant risks to the integrity of nearby structures. This paper presents results from a series of numerical models investigating the response of framed buildings on separated footings to tunnel construction in sand. The study examines a tw...

This study investigates how the seismic demands of non-structural components (NSCs) are influenced by both their attachment ductility and the nonlinear behavior of supporting structures. The research focuses on acceleration demands at various building elevations and evaluates component damage states according to Hazus guidelines. Incremental dynami...

The physical dimension of cities and its spatial patterns play a crucial role in shaping society and urban dynamics. Understanding the complexity of urban systems requires a detailed assessment of their physical structure. Urban geography has long focused on framing typologies to represent common patterns in the urban fabric using various methodolo...

This paper contends that state bans on Critical Race Theory (CRT) and diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) offices are indicative of a broader political agenda to restrict scholarly analyses and practitioner outreach that reveal how societal inequities, policy failures, and racialized deficit framings of marginalized students -- not perceived ins...

In this paper, building on Mia Consalvo et al.’s concept of “rehearsing ethos,” I argue that BG3 exceeds the conventional boundaries of moral-choice systems. In contrast to games like Fable, which frame morality as a performative continuum with visible consequences, or Mass Effect, which tallies alignment along a point-based axis of Paragon and Ren...

This paper presents the effects of simulated seismic and wind loading rates on the performance of mass timber connections and light wood frame connections/systems. Monotonic tests and reversed cyclic tests were conducted on Cross Laminated Timber (CLT) connections, specifically spline joints, hold-down connections, and angle brackets. Furthermore,...

This paper presents a study of the things that determine the implementation of Betawi architecture in a 'café' design for a community in Jakarta. The café for this community is a project to facilitate the activities of PKK women in Palmerah District, Jakarta. The majority of these communities are local residents who are also mostly Betawi ethnic, t...

This paper presents a novel proof-theoretic approach to a logic specifically designed to handle exceptions and typicality. Our method extends the classical first-order sequent calculus by incorporating a specialized framework to manage both negative extra-logical information (explicit exceptions) and positive information (background assumptions). W...

Volitional personality change interventions have been shown to help people change their current personality toward their ideal personality. Here, we address three limitations of this literature. First, we contrast the dominant theoretical perspective of self-improvement with self-acceptance as pathways to reduce the discrepancy between current and...

This essay-style article raises critical questions and highlights important issues regarding moral ambiguity and legal flaws in the regulation of social media and freedom of expression. It focuses on actions and rhetoric by leaders and deputies of the Georgian Dream party. The main objective of the article is to examine the shortcomings identified...

Learning is a relatively permanent change and modification of behavior: thinking, feeling and action as a result of training, experience and practice. Psychologist have made numerous experiments on animal and human in order to explain how they learn. These theories when applied in teaching learning process at school level can make this process more...

The recent advancement of classroom practices after COVID-19 with digital communication, including AI chatbots, has sparked a renewed interest in exploring humanistic elements within classrooms. While the topic of AI generative chat is relatively new (launched in Nov 2022), seminal literature needs to be established. However, concerns have emerged...

In this chapter, I argue that the figure of the necro-president reaches its full articulation during the 2024 election cycle, where political spectacle, institutional decay, and symbolic death converge into a new logic of rule. I track how Biden’s presidency became a site of projected mortality, and how Trump’s campaign transformed death into a pol...

We revisit the global existence-and-smoothness question for the 3-D incom-pressible Navier-Stokes equations through an aggressive change of variables that warps ordinary cylindrical space into a log-spiral chart. In this frame the single non-vanishing Christoffel symbol Γ v uu = v(−b 2 − 1) is strictly negative for every non-zero pitch b, acting as...

This article examines the ongoing crisis in Gaza, critically assessing the mass atrocities committed by both Hamas and Israel since October 7, 2023, and the implications for the Responsibility to Protect (r2p) doctrine. Despite the international community's commitment to r2p, its response to the crisis has largely failed to prevent further atrociti...

The vibrating flip-flow screen (VFFS) is extensively employed for screening moist fine- grained minerals. However, prevalent uniform-amplitude VFFSs often suffer from material accumulation and suboptimal screening efficiency. In this paper, a dynamic model of the multi-mass VFFS was established using the multi-mass dynamics theory, and the amplitud...

This study investigates the dynamic behavior of water films in contact with the buccal tube tip of the tardigrade Milnesium tardigradum. Through brightness analysis across 18 frames, only the contact region (ROI.A) showed clear periodic fluctuations, notably around an 8-frame interval (~0.27 sec), suggesting active rhythmic membrane motion. FFT sp...

Effective video retrieval remains challenging due to the complexity of integrating visual, auditory, and textual modalities. In this paper, we explore unified retrieval methods using OmniEmbed, a powerful multimodal embedding model from the Tevatron 2.0 toolkit, in the context of the MAGMaR shared task. Evaluated on the comprehensive MultiVENT 2.0...

Purpose The incidence of cancer is increasing globally and engagement in meaningful occupations is fundamental for people living with and beyond cancer. There is a growing body of evidence regarding the health and well-being benefits of engaging in nature-based occupations, however, there is limited evidence specific to this population. This study...

This study employs Jeffries’ (2010) critical stylistics framework, focusing on the linguistic tool of "naming and describing," to analyze how media outlets construct ideological narratives in their coverage of sensitive political conflicts, specifically those involving Palestine and Lebanon. By examining selected news samples from two prominent Ara...

Many numerical studies have proved that connecting adjacent buildings by passive dampers can effectively improve the seismic performance of both connected regular buildings, however, its effect on irregular buildings is unknown. The torsion effect on the seismic performance of two three-dimensional adjacent buildings, including 8- and 12-story RC s...

The purpose of this article was to build upon empirical research, leadership theory, open university practice, and shifting global trends to provide open university leaders with a framework for strategic reset. Strategic reset is re- setting institutions priorities – making leadership choices – and taking actions to build competitive advantage, qua...

Research on democratic backsliding and on EU counter-actions is growing rapidly, but we have only begun to understand how EU actions are taken up in domestic political debates in backsliding member states. Our research builds on the assumption that the framing of these debates contributes to the (de-)legitimation of EU actions and thus has indirect...

Future, high-fidelity simulations of multi-GeV-class laser Wakefield accelerators (LWFAs) will need to model the propagation of high-intensity laser drivers over meter-scale plasmas with high spatial and temporal resolutions, thus requiring high amounts of computational resources. Various techniques have been devised over the years to reduce the co...

This paper presents face recognition and identification approaches for the real-time attendance management problem in large companies/factories and government institutions. The Attendance Management System proposed uses the Minimum Ratio (MR) approach for employee identification. Capturing the authentic face variability from a sequence of video fra...

This article locates the socialist cultural policy of protochronism within the broader narratives of national self-thematization that framed the emergence of semiperipheral Romania as a modern nation-state. I start from an overview of how traditional Romanian nationalism was resourcefully mobilized both during and before Nicolae Ceauşescu’s rule, m...

This paper presents 'precedents thinking,' a method by Zenios and Favaro at Stanford GSB, using past ideas via framing, searching, combining, and converting to tackle modern issues in manufacturing, healthcare, and technology. It covers Ford's assembly line, blending slaughterhouse lines and profit-sharing, and a healthcare effort cutting $265 bill...

We introduce PlayerOne, the first egocentric realistic world simulator, facilitating immersive and unrestricted exploration within vividly dynamic environments. Given an egocentric scene image from the user, PlayerOne can accurately construct the corresponding world and generate egocentric videos that are strictly aligned with the real scene human...

Spherical mechanisms have the peculiarity that a point (spherical motion center (SMC)) is at rest with respect to all the links. This feature makes the links perform only rotations around axes (instantaneous pole axes (IPAs)) passing through the SMC. IPAs' locations fully describe their instantaneous kinematics and, in single-DOF mechanisms, unique...

The aim of this article is to apply the idea of pentapartitioned neutrosophic structures to UP-algebras. Fuzziness algebraic substructures, namely UP-subalgebras, near UP-filters, UP-filters, UP-ideals and strong UP-ideals of UP-algebras are modified and extended to introduce the notions of pentapartitioned neutro-sophic UP-subalgebras, pentapartit...

Labor organizations increasingly rely on political communication campaigns to win broader support from bystanders. How do framings of worker mobilization influence public support for strikers’ demands? This paper explores the effects of different framings of teacher strikes on support for labor unions and strikes in Mexico by employing an original...

Fine-tuning Video Diffusion Models (VDMs) at the user level to generate videos that reflect specific attributes of training data presents notable challenges, yet remains underexplored despite its practical importance. Meanwhile, recent work such as Representation Alignment (REPA) has shown promise in improving the convergence and quality of DiT-bas...

The global diffusion of participatory budgeting (PB) has attracted scholarly attention, particularly regarding how PB is institutionalised across different contexts. This article argues that institutionalisation requires both top-down and bottom-up efforts to introduce and promote PB, with media framing playing a crucial role in shaping how it is p...

Considered in the context of contemporary electronic music, musical practices employing feedback radicalise interactivity and reference to the environment and the world. Feedback enables a here-and-now experience through a mediation of sound experience. It thus proposes a performative mimesis of space and of the possible interactions that might tak...

Existing large-scale video generation models are computationally intensive, preventing adoption in real-time and interactive applications. In this work, we propose autoregressive adversarial post-training (AAPT) to transform a pre-trained latent video diffusion model into a real-time, interactive video generator. Our model autoregressively generate...

We derive universal lower and upper bounds for max–min and min–max problems (also known as polarization) for the potential of spherical (k, k)-designs and provide certain examples, including unit-norm tight frames, that attain these bounds. The universality is understood in the sense that the bounds hold for all spherical (k, k)-designs and for a l...

Many countries face the problem of refugees and internal displacement. Internal displacement is not new to Kenya and is a recurring problem that impacts displaced children’s education. One factor affecting displacement is banditry, stemming from community fights over resources. This paper uses theoretical and conceptual arguments to explore the cau...

An innovative local prestressed concrete (LPC) frame structure is introduced for the modification of the column‐sway mechanism in prestressed concrete (PC) frame. The seismic behavior of LPC frames with various parameters, such as middle column cross‐section, span ratios (the ratio of reinforced concrete [RC] span to PC span), and prestressing rati...

We investigate the design of pooling methods used to summarize the outputs of transformer embedding models, primarily motivated by reinforcement learning and vision applications. This work considers problems where a subset of the input vectors contains requisite information for a downstream task (signal) while the rest are distractors (noise). By f...

Industrial picking processes often depend on manual judgement to ensure the correct parts are picked, making them prone to error. While automated verification systems for picking exist, the cost to setup such a system often proves to be a huge bottleneck for startups and medium enterprises. This study introduces a real-time AI verification system t...

The present study aims at providing a comprehensive overview and a general theoretical framework for the research of binominal constructions of the kind [N1 of N2], where N1 belongs to the semantic domain of nature, e.g. a river of problems. Adopting a multifunctional perspective and a 'classifier-like' approach towards N1s, our main objective is t...

Laughter and smiling are frequently experienced in social settings, yet more research is required to delineate their development and dynamics. We investigated toddlers’ and parents’ shared positive expressions in playful interactions. We observed eighty 30‐month‐old toddler–parent dyads in two phases of 8 min in length. In each, one person was aske...

Quantum ghost imaging is a method that utilizes the correlated detection of two photons to generate an image. One photon is detected by an imaging sensor and the other by a single-element bucket detector. The selection of the imaging sensor and its capabilities relative to the bucket detector impact the quality of the ghost images. This work examin...

Understanding how intermediate representations in transformer-based Large Language Models (LLMs) contribute to final outputs is critical for interpretability and trust in AI systems. In this study, we apply causal mediation analysis to quantify how hidden states and internal components-such as attention heads and MLP neurons-mediate the relationshi...

This study analyzes the initial onset of fluid discharge through the sub-buccal membrane in tardigrades using optical flow and directionality analysis. Based on 30 frames (frame_0000 to frame_0029), the data show a transient but highly ordered directional flow emerging from a localized membrane region situated beneath the buccal tube. This event is...

We examine whether the phrasing of financial literacy test questions affects the test scores of women and men. To this end, we developed three language versions of a well‐known set of financial literacy questions: feminized, masculinized, and neutral. We then surveyed a large, representative sample of adult Poles (N = 4389), with respondents random...

Die vorliegende Studie beleuchtet die kommunikative Dynamik der Bauernproteste Ende 2023 und Anfang 2024 in Deutschland; dies vor dem Hintergrund von Erwartungen an landwirtschaftliche Transformation sowie Sicherung der Wettbewerbsfähigkeit. Ausgangspunkt war die politisch initiierte Kürzung agrarischer Subventionen, insbesondere der Agrardieselbei...

We propose 4DGT, a 4D Gaussian-based Transformer model for dynamic scene reconstruction, trained entirely on real-world monocular posed videos. Using 4D Gaussian as an inductive bias, 4DGT unifies static and dynamic components, enabling the modeling of complex, time-varying environments with varying object lifespans. We proposed a novel density con...

Introduction People's self-narratives—how they relate to themselves and others—are closely intertwined with psychological suffering and wellbeing. This study investigates a perspective-taking intervention rooted in Relational Frame Theory (RFT), where participants observe themselves from an outside perspective in Virtual Reality (VR). Methods Thre...

Environmental scholars, activists, and media have openly condemned the widespread political failure to enact ambitious, sustainable measures to mitigate climate change. This article reviews a proliferating empirical literature that examines whether women’s underrepresentation in climate policy—and the lack of gendered considerations more broadly—co...

We introduce an approach to produce gauge invariants of any finite-dimensional Hopf algebras from the Kuperberg invariants of framed 3-manifolds. These invariants are generalizations of Frobenius-Schur indicators of Hopf algebras. The computation of Kuperberg invariants is based on a presentation of the framed 3-manifold in terms of Heegaard diagra...

Surgical video understanding is pivotal for enabling automated intraoperative decision-making, skill assessment, and postoperative quality improvement. However, progress in developing surgical video foundation models (FMs) remains hindered by the scarcity of large-scale, diverse datasets for pretraining and systematic evaluation. In this paper, we...

State Space Models (SSMs) have emerged as powerful components for sequence modeling, enabling efficient handling of long-range dependencies via linear recurrence and convolutional computation. However, their effectiveness depends heavily on the choice and initialization of the state matrix. In this work, we build on the SaFARi framework and existin...

Assessing social media platforms like LinkedIn has become popular in personnel selection but remains controversial due to varying relevance and availability of job-related content. To better understand the implications of this low information uniformity, we introduce the incomplete LinkedIn information paradigm: How do recruiters react to incomplet...

The state’s monolingual policies and linguistic diversity are in conflictual relationships, pulling against each other. This paper explores historical practices of monolingualism in Nepal’s multilingual land and critically examines current constitutional provisions for the promotion of linguistic diversity. To this end, the study combined qualitati...

After 30 years of relative neglect, Canada’s notwithstanding clause has been invoked in six different provincial laws since 2018. We argue that this resurgence can be explained by the growing judicial invalidation of provincial statutes and federal-provincial partisan conflicts. Drawing from an original dataset of Charter cases decided by the Supre...

Collisionless shocks are frequently analyzed using the magnetohydrodynamic formalism (MHD), even though the required collisionality hypothesis is not fulfilled. In a previous work \citep{BretJPP2018}, we presented a model of collisionless shock displaying an important departure from the expected MHD behavior, in the case of a strong flow aligned ma...

This article analyzes public debate on the issue of the Swedish Culture Canon, a measure agreed upon in the Tidö Agreement October 14th, 2022, between the parties of the new center-right government coalition and the Sweden Democrats party. The article focuses on discussions in the press concerning this measure, from October 14th, 2022, to May 30th,...

Video understanding has been considered as one critical step towards world modeling, which is an important long-term problem in AI research. Recently, multi-modal foundation models have shown such potential via large-scale pretraining. However, these models simply align encoders of different modalities via contrastive learning, while lacking deeper...

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Recent advancements in large language models (LLMs) have revitalized philosophical debates surrounding artificial intelligence. Two of the most fundamental challenges - namely, the Frame Problem and the Symbol Grounding Problem - have historically been viewed as unsolvable within traditional symbolic AI systems. This study investigates whether mode...

This theoretical article moves beyond representationalist conceptions of objectivity to examine deeper challenges posed by LLMs in collective knowledge production. While LLMs are often criticized for bias, hallucination, and generating “bullshit” that misrepresents reality, such critiques are too narrow to account for how LLMs transform the sociote...

AT2022cmc is the first on-axis jetted tidal disruption event (TDE) to be discovered at optical wavelengths. The optically bright nature of AT2022cmc presents an unprecedented opportunity to place this jetted TDE in the context of the larger optically selected thermal TDE population and explore potential connections to optical TDE subclasses, partic...

How can we benefit from large models without sacrificing inference speed, a common dilemma in self-driving systems? A prevalent solution is a dual-system architecture, employing a small model for rapid, reactive decisions and a larger model for slower but more informative analyses. Existing dual-system designs often implement parallel architectures...

Recent extensions of 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) to dynamic scenes achieve high-quality novel view synthesis by using neural networks to predict the time-varying deformation of each Gaussian. However, performing per-Gaussian neural inference at every frame poses a significant bottleneck, limiting rendering speed and increasing memory and compute r...

This paper presents a learning-assisted approach for state estimation of quadruped robots using observations of proprioceptive sensors, including multiple inertial measurement units (IMUs). Specifically, one body IMU and four additional IMUs attached to each calf link of the robot are used for sensing the dynamics of the body and legs, in addition...

Population-based research is important because it is dedicated to the welfare of the inhabitants of a given community and the protection of the environment. The objective of this research work is to propose a plan of community actions to contribute to environmental education through intersectoral work in the community of Yaguajay, Sancti Spíritus,...

Partially Relevant Video Retrieval~(PRVR) aims to retrieve a video where a specific segment is relevant to a given text query. Typical training processes of PRVR assume a one-to-one relationship where each text query is relevant to only one video. However, we point out the inherent ambiguity between text and video content based on their conceptual...

PR activities (Public Relations) have long been a mandatory part of global communication flows, as an important segment of business management. They represent a skillset and a set of processes that can influence the formation of favorable public opinion, thus affecting the realization of broader business objectives, which are more easily achieved w...

Waterfall plots are a key tool in early phase oncology clinical studies for visualizing individual patients' tumor size changes and provide efficacy assessment. However, comparing waterfall plots from ongoing studies with limited follow-up to those from completed studies with long follow-up is challenging due to underestimation of tumor response in...

We enlarge the space-time manifold by a totally antisymmetric six-form K µ 1 ...µ 6 and establish the concept of a dynamic-kernel inertial frame (DKIF), in which all kernel-induced pseudo-forces vanish along a chosen reference world-line. In the kernel-suppressed limit K → 0, quantum coherence lengths can in principle be extended to continental sca...

Hubs and participants of mature ecosystems increasingly compete with de alio entrants that are hubs of more innovative ecosystems. Prior research shows how these asymmetric de alio entrants frame to win over participants from mature ecosystems and suggests that hubs of these ecosystems should respond by encouraging innovation among participants. Ho...

Introduction to Ethical Research Principles of bioethics,consent,data privacy and AI in health care,Global ethics research frame work,Ethical advocacy in low resource settings

Reward modeling has emerged as a crucial component in aligning large language models with human values. Significant attention has focused on using reward models as a means for fine-tuning generative models. However, the reward models themselves -- which directly encode human value judgments by turning prompt-response pairs into scalar rewards -- re...

The precariousness of work, contextualized by the events of labor reform and the COVID-19 pandemic, was the subject of an integrative review to understand how it appears in national scientific production and the impacts produced by the events. Searches on the PePSIC and SciELO platforms resulted in 22 scientific articles. Thematic Content Analysis...

This paper investigates conditions under which a mirror image of a physical object lies outside its causal region, challenging classical notions of simultaneity and locality. Through relativistic geometric analysis and spacetime foliations, we demonstrate that under specific configurations-particularly in non-inertial frames or near gravitational h...

This research examines the representation and framing of climate change in Nepali media during the 29th UN Climate Change Conference (COP29), held from November 11 to 22, 2024, in Baku, Azerbaijan. By analyzing climate-related news content from two major national daily newspapers, state-owned (Gorkhapatra Daily) and private-owned (Kantipur Daily),...

Advancements in diffusion models have significantly improved video quality, directing attention to fine-grained controllability. However, many existing methods depend on fine-tuning large-scale video models for specific tasks, which becomes increasingly impractical as model sizes continue to grow. In this work, we present Frame Guidance, a training...

The expanding application of classical thermodynamic methods to black hole physics has yielded significant advances in characterizing phase transition behavior. Among these approaches, thermodynamic analysis -- particularly kinetic formulations like the Kramers' escape rate -- provides a robust framework for probing black hole phase transitions wit...

This work investigates the dynamics of a charged scalar boson in the Melvin universe by solving the Klein-Gordon equation with minimal coupling in both inertial and non-inertial frames. Non-inertial effects are introduced through a rotating reference frame, resulting in a modified spacetime geometry and the appearance of a critical radius that limi...

Video dehazing is a complex challenge, particularly in dynamic scenes affected by adverse weather conditions. Heterogeneous haze densities complicate haze removal, and interpreting scene depth in real time is difficult due to varying depth complexities. The lack of a standardized benchmark dataset for hazy videos further highlights the need for sca...

Curvature interference is a common phenomenon encountered during the machining of gear tooth surfaces. The occurrence of interference can deteriorate the machined quality of the tooth surfaces and reduce transmission performance. To determine and avoid tooth surface interference, a calculation method for the curvature interference limit function, w...

Using a comparative approach, we deconstruct and examine the different facets of well‐being and ill‐being of transnational grandparents whose migrant adult children and grandchildren are living in Canada. Experiences ranged from happiness and satisfaction to grandparents being severely affected and deeply suffering. Well‐being and ill‐being were sh...

AI risks are typically framed around physical threats to humanity, a loss of control or an accidental error causing humanity's extinction. However, I argue in line with the gradual disempowerment thesis, that there is an underappreciated risk in the slow and irrevocable decline of human autonomy. As AI starts to outcompete humans in various areas o...

Nudges, defined as decisional context designs such as information presentation and structure, are increasingly utilized to encourage mental health behaviors. We conducted a systematic review, including 25 studies predominantly employing between-subject framing experiments, involving mainly adult participants from Western regions, and mostly on help...

The media has become a strategic tool in the 2024 election contest to build political image. Presidential candidates utilize positive coverage and media strategies to increase popularity and shape the desired public perception. Despite Ganjar's high electability, he often finds himself entangled in controversial blunders. This study examines how ko...

Francesco De Bartolomeis (1918-2023): Pedagogist - Art Critic (Honorary Academician of the Albertina Academy of Fine Arts of Turin). His work, which consists of about one hundred books, is fundamental for the renewal of European pedagogy in the period between the second half of the twentieth century and the current first half of the third millenniu...

Recent studies have used algorithm tailoring on digital platforms to provide household energy-saving advice. Such ‘recommender systems’ have successfully used the psychometric Rasch model as an advice algorithm, matching energy-saving measures in terms of their difficulty to consumers’ ability levels. While these previous studies indicated positive...

This paper addresses the question of how the spatiotemporal processes of urban assemblages can be understood in the context of a controversial urban squat. We mobilise concepts of time and temporality and employ the notion of the chronotope as a methodological frame to rethink the politics of change in urban contexts. Our multi-temporal, chronotopi...

In this response to Lanouette as part of the special issue Centering Affect and Emotion Toward Justice and Dignity in Science Education, this commentary highlights key themes in relation to welcoming affect and emotion into elementary science classrooms to support learners’ data modeling practices. These themes include: (1) the idea that social int...

This is a continuation of the first paper (arXiv:2501.06486) of this series, where the framework for the combinatorial quantization of the 4d 2-Chern-Simons theory with an underlying compact structure Lie 2-group $\mathbb{G}$ was laid out. In this paper, we continue our quest and characterize additive module *-functors $\omega:\mathfrak{C}_q(\mathb...

AI literacy in school education is booming within the scientific discourse of AI in education. How AI literacy is currently being framed serves diverse educational, political, and commercial purposes influencing how we imagine postdigital classrooms today and in the future. More importantly, how AI literacy emerges in primary education notably impa...

This study investigates fixed-axis spacelike ruled surfaces and their evolute offset counterparts within E13 (Minkowski 3-space). The analysis utilizes the Blaschke frame associated with the striction curves of these surfaces. Spacelike ruled surfaces play a crucial role in various fields of both classical and modern physics. The research begins by...

Large Language Models (LLMs) have achieved impressive performance in text summarization and are increasingly deployed in real-world applications. However, these systems often inherit associative and framing biases from pre-training data, leading to inappropriate or unfair outputs in downstream tasks. In this work, we present AdvSumm (Adversarial Su...

The human visual system is tasked with perceiving stable and moving objects despite ever-present eye movements. Normally, our visual system performs this task exceptionally well; indeed, under conditions with frames of reference, our ability to detect relative motion exceeds the sampling limits of foveal cones. However, during fixational drift, if...

We compute the vacuum energy of a scalar field rotating with angular velocity Ω on a disk of radius R and with Dirichlet boundary conditions. The rotation is introduced by a metric obtained by a Galilean transformation from a rest frame. The constraint must be obeyed to maintain causality. To compute the vacuum energy, we use an imaginary frequency...