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Quantifying Lifetime Brain-Injury Burden Across Six Contact Sports: A Normalized Head-Impact Dose Model Integrating Exposure Frequency, Rotational Acceleration, and Cumulative Vulnerability

This paper introduces a transparent, reproducible computational model called the Normalized Head-Impact Dose (HID) that integrates impact frequency, rotational acceleration, and cumulative vulnerability to estimate and compare lifetime brain-injury burdens across six contact sports, revealing that combat sports carry the highest risk while providing a forward-looking framework for assessing neurodegenerative exposure with quantified uncertainty.

Richard Clark Kaufman2026-06-25
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Optic Disc Colour Ratio: A Fundus Pigmentation Proxy for Subgroup Fairness Analysis in Diabetic Retinopathy Screening

This paper introduces the Optic Disc Colour Ratio (ODCR) as a label-free proxy for fundus pigmentation to reveal that diabetic retinopathy screening models systematically assign higher referral probabilities to dark-pigmented fundi due to reduced vessel-background contrast, a disparity driven by sensitivity-calibrated decision rules that remains invisible to standard AUC metrics but is critical for fairness auditing.

Aaron Ajit2026-06-25
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Coexistence in Regenerating Forests: Activity Budgets, Vertical Stratification, and Habitat Use among Three Neotropical Primates

This study demonstrates that regenerating forests at La Selva, Costa Rica, can support high densities of mantled howler monkeys, Central American spider monkeys, and Panamanian white-throated capuchins while maintaining their coexistence through distinct activity budgets and vertical space use despite overlapping habitat preferences.

Susan M Howell, Richard Jensch, Orlando Vargas Ramirez, Enrique Alonso Castro Fonseca, Melissa Seaboch2026-06-25
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ExposOmix-Fed: A Federated, Site-Invariant Protocol for Aligning the Environmental Exposome, Multi-Omics, and Abdominal MRI for Colorectal Cancer Risk Stratification in UK Biobank

ExposOmix-Fed is a federated, site-invariant protocol that integrates environmental exposome, multi-omics, and abdominal MRI data for colorectal cancer risk stratification within a privacy-preserving framework, demonstrating via in-silico validation on calibrated synthetic data that it effectively recovers injected cross-modal signals and selection-bias-corrected hazard ratios while enabling auditable exposure–molecule interaction maps.

Youngsahng Suh, Hwayoung Lee, Shuji Ogino2026-06-25
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Integrated Multi-Omics Analysis of Lung Adenocarcinoma (TCGA-LUAD): A Comprehensive Study of Genomic, Epigenomic, Copy Number Variations, and Transcriptomic Alterations

This study utilizes an integrated multi-omics analysis of TCGA-LUAD data combined with machine learning and network analysis to identify and validate five prognostic biomarkers (BIRC3, PSMB1, PSMA4, PSMC4, and TNFRSF12A) that are significantly associated with poor overall survival in lung adenocarcinoma, despite showing limited diagnostic utility.

Gautham Pasupuleti, Jeevan V S, Varsha Pandit, Srimathi Bai, Aryanil Dey, Subhuam Tangar, Sharon George2026-06-25
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Frequency-Dependent Impact of Arterial Wall Compliance on Hemodynamic Predictions: A Fluid–Structure Interaction Study

This study demonstrates that neglecting arterial wall compliance in cardiovascular simulations introduces frequency-dependent errors that progressively increase with heart rate, as rigid-wall models fail to capture the compliance-driven storage and damping mechanisms essential for accurate hemodynamic predictions.

Jan Šimkovský, Hana Schmirlerová, Lukáš Horný2026-06-25
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Riemannian geometry meets fMRI: the advantages of modeling correlation manifolds and eigenvector subspaces

This paper introduces a scalable geometric framework that utilizes the Off–log metric for correlation matrices and Grassmannian subspace discrimination for eigenvector analysis to enhance the sensitivity and predictive performance of fMRI-based brain network modeling while maintaining compatibility with standard machine learning workflows.

Mario Severino, Manuela Moretto, Robert McCutcheon, Mattia Veronese2026-06-25