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949 papers reviewed by authors · 241–250 / 949
This paper demonstrates that lightweight probes trained on OpenVLA's internal feedforward activations can effectively predict near-term task failures caused by visual distribution shifts like occlusion, achieving high accuracy without requiring changes to the underlying policy.
This paper introduces a class of robust regularised M-estimators for high-dimensional regression that achieves optimal convergence rates and variable selection consistency under minimal moment conditions (finite ), outperforming existing methods in both simulation and real-world genomic applications when dealing with heavy-tailed, skewed, or contaminated errors.
This study utilizes multiple linear regression analysis of data from 2001 to 2024 to demonstrate that precipitation is the most significant climatic factor positively influencing soil volumetric water content in Tripoli, Libya, while relative humidity shows a positive correlation and soil temperature exhibits an inverse relationship.
This paper proposes a constrained low-energy causal memory-kernel framework for weak-field gravity that separates scalar trace projections from full tensor responses to incorporate historical dependence and memristive-like structures while remaining consistent with standard General Relativity limits and phenomenological observational bounds.
This study demonstrates that while conventional ratio scaling of peak oxygen uptake (VO₂peak) retains significant residual dependence on body mass, regression–residual normalization effectively eliminates this bias, offering a superior alternative to both ratio scaling and conventional allometric modeling for adjusting aerobic capacity across diverse body sizes.
This study documents the diversity, nesting ecology, and worker-level morphometric structure of stingless bees in Central Cameroon's bimodal forest zone, revealing that *Hypotrigona gribodoi* and *Dactylurina staudingeri* exhibit contrasting, size-structured phenotypic variations and distinct nesting habits while establishing the first locality-resolved baseline to support conservation and meliponiculture.
This study evaluates the critical yet constrained role of Bills of Quantities (BOQs) in managing construction contracts within Maldivian State-Owned Enterprises, identifying institutional and operational barriers that hinder their effectiveness while proposing a tailored framework and strategic interventions to enhance procurement transparency, accountability, and efficiency in Small Island Developing States.
By employing a staggered planting design to decouple plant ontogeny from meteorological variation, this study demonstrates that eggplant phenological age and associated host-plant traits are primary drivers structuring arthropod assemblages, with herbivore and predator abundances shifting predictably across vegetative and reproductive stages.
This theoretical study utilizes nuclear lattice simulations to analyze the transmutation of free neutrons into hydrogen, helium, and lithium isotopes within the outermost regions of the Vela X-1 accretion disk across a temperature range of 10⁶ to 10⁷ K, estimating neutron lifetimes and resulting mass fraction abundances.
This paper introduces the dimensionless "trap number" (𝒯) to quantify how boulder gravity competes with asteroid surface gravity, revealing that while boulder effects are moderate on known asteroids like Ryugu, Bennu, and Itokawa, they are predicted to dominate surface dynamics on smaller near-Earth asteroids (under ~100 m), a hypothesis set to be tested by upcoming Hera and OSIRIS-APEX missions.