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🤖 AI

A Modular Agent for Reliable and Auditable Spatial Relation Verification in CT Scans

This paper introduces a modular medical imaging agent that enhances reliable and auditable spatial relation verification in CT scans by decomposing the task into language parsing, anatomical localization, and deterministic geometric verification, achieving significantly higher accuracy and interpretability than end-to-end vision-language models.

Simon Vincent Abel, Heiko Hillenhagen, Michael Götz, Timo Ropinski, Ayhan Can Erdur, Daniel Santak Wolf2026-08-24✓ Author reviewed ⓘ
📄 social science

Enhancing Classical Arabic Rhetoric Learning: A Virtual Reality-Based Visualization of Metaphors (Isti’arah)

This study demonstrates that a Virtual Reality-based instructional tool, designed using the Alessi and Trollip model and RASE pedagogy, effectively enhances classical Arabic rhetoric learning by transforming abstract metaphors (Isti'arah) into immersive visual experiences, thereby significantly improving content validity, reducing cognitive load, and facilitating deeper semantic understanding.

NUR HIDAYAH MOHD YUSOFF, Lily Hanefarezan Asbullah, Suhaila Zailani2026-08-24✓ Author reviewed ⓘ
📄 medicine

Prospects for the use of 3-R-benzo[f][1,2,4]triazino[2,3-d][1,4]diazepine-2,7(6H,8H)-diones as agonists and antagonists of GABAA receptors

This study identifies the benzo[f][1,2,4]triazino[2,3-d][1,4]diazepine-2,7(6H,8H)-dione scaffold as a promising GABAA receptor modulator, with compounds 1.5 and 1.6 emerging as lead candidates that demonstrate superior in vivo efficacy in sleep and PTSD models compared to diazepam, alongside unique effects on brain GABA and serotonin transporter levels.

Anton Bershak, Lyudmyla Antypenko, Svitlana Koptieva, Natalia Bohdan, Igor Belenichev, Nina Bukhtiyarova, Sergiy Okovyty (…)2026-08-24✓ Author reviewed ⓘ
🔭 astrophysics

Anomalous scattering of pulsars towards the Gum Nebula

Using upgraded GMRT observations, this study analyzes wideband scatter-broadening in 14 pulsars towards the Gum Nebula to reveal a strong distance-scattering correlation, determine that the nebula's impact diminishes for sources beyond 2 kpc, and attribute the Vela pulsar's anomalous scattering to its own supernova remnant rather than the Gum Nebula.

M. A. Krishnakumar, Bhal Chandra Joshi, P. K. Manoharan2026-08-21✓ Author reviewed ⓘ
⚛️ quantum physics

Non-Inertial Response of Correlations: From Scalar Bell Observables to an Extended Correlation Tensor

This paper establishes a fundamental sign reversal in Bell correlation observables between photon and fermionic singlet sectors—attributed to distinct exchange holonomies and non-inertial phase responses—by formulating correlations as projections of an extended tensor that enables experimental identification and recovers the Tsirelson bound with opposite-signed optimal CHSH combinations for each particle type.

Timur F. Kamalov2026-08-21✓ Author reviewed ⓘ
🔬 condensed matter

Exact expressions of correlation functions between two spins in the boundary row of the two-dimensional rectangular Ising model with periodic-free boundary conditions and finite size

This paper derives and analyzes exact expressions for spin-spin correlation functions in the boundary row of a finite two-dimensional rectangular Ising model with periodic-free boundary conditions, demonstrating how these results converge to known thermodynamic limit forms while highlighting the dependence of long-range order on the order of limits and finite-size effects.

Mei Tao2026-08-21✓ Author reviewed ⓘ
📄 chemistry

Hybrid enzymatic graft-through and graft-from polymerization of DNA bottlebrush polymers

This paper introduces a fully DNA-based bottlebrush polymer system with precisely defined molecular dimensions, achieved through a hybrid enzymatic strategy combining template-directed graft-through and graft-from polymerization, which enables the study of structure-property relationships and offers potential applications in molecular machines, photonics, and nucleic acid delivery.

Danielle Mai, Michael Burroughs, Lisa Nieman, Lucy Wang2026-08-21✓ Author reviewed ⓘ
💻 computer science

Teach a Molmo2Fish: Towards interactive fish tracking with natural language guidance

This paper introduces Molmo2Fish, an interactive workflow that leverages a multimodal large language model to enable natural language-guided correction and tracking of fish in sonar datasets, demonstrating high performance while highlighting opportunities for further improvement in language integration.

Kai Van Brunt (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Justin Kay (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Sara Beery (M (…)2026-08-20✓ Author reviewed ⓘ
📈 economics

Gold Rents, Fiscal Procyclicality, and the Growth Cost in Sub-Saharan Africa

This paper analyzes Sub-Saharan Africa's mining economies, finding that while foreign investment mirrors global cycles, fiscal spending in key Sahelian nations is significantly procyclical and undermines growth during gold price shocks, particularly when compounded by conflict, resulting in substantial economic costs that could be mitigated by reducing fiscal procyclicality.

Khalid DEMBELE2026-08-20✓ Author reviewed ⓘ