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📄 health policy

AFFORDABILITY OF INTOXICATION FROM CHEAP ETHANOL: EVIDENCE FROM RETAIL ALCOHOL MARKETS IN UGANDA

This study analyzes retail markets in Uganda to demonstrate that the affordability of intoxication is driven by access to low-cost, high-strength ethanol through informal channels and plastic packaging, particularly in rural and slum areas, suggesting that alcohol policies should target ethanol content and informal market regulation rather than just beverage prices.

Muhamudu, T., Niwagaba, K., Rwakahangi, S. P., Kwagala, B., Miller, T. R., Zyambo, C., Rizzo, A., Achoki, T.2026-06-22✓ Author reviewed
🔭 astrophysics

Evidence for protostellar jets as a population of hadronic gamma-ray sources

This paper reports the first statistically significant detection of a population of "Gamma-Loud Protostars," providing evidence that protostellar jets accelerate hadrons to produce gamma rays via pion decay, thereby establishing a new class of Galactic gamma-ray sources and revealing a critical link between particle acceleration and the mechanical power of star formation.

Javier Méndez-Gallego, Rubén López-Coto, Emma de Oña Wilhelmi, Stefano Menchiari, Iván Agudo, Rubén Fedriani2026-06-19✓ Author reviewed
🤖 AI

RACL: Reasoning-Agent Control Layers for Continuous Metaheuristic Learning

This paper introduces RACL, a Reasoning-Agent Control Layer that sits atop existing metaheuristics to observe, reason about, and dynamically adjust an optimizer's internal search behavior through bounded hypotheses and interventions, demonstrating significant cost improvements in vehicle routing tasks without modifying business constraints or incurring material computational overhead.

Antón Asla Manzárraga2026-06-19✓ Author reviewed
💻 computer science

P2^2CE: Model-Agnostic Plausible Pareto-Optimal Counterfactual Explanations

The paper introduces P2^2CE, a model-agnostic algorithm that generates diverse, plausible, and Pareto-optimal counterfactual explanations by combining an isolation forest for data distribution adherence and SHAP values for computational efficiency, thereby outperforming existing methods in solution quality and speed.

Arthur Hendricks Mendes de Oliveira, Giovani Valdrighi, Marcos Medeiros Raimundo2026-06-19✓ Author reviewed
💻 computer science

Task-Restricted Symmetries in Recurrent Weight Space

This paper investigates functional redundancy in one-layer tanh recurrent neural networks by using ordered real Schur coordinates to identify task-specific, approximate symmetries where structured ablations of nonnormal couplings can be performed without disrupting input-output behavior, revealing that such invariances vary across tasks and solutions rather than representing universal weight-space symmetries.

Simon Dräger2026-06-19✓ Author reviewed
🔭 astrophysics

GA-NIFS: Powerful and frequent outflows in moderate-luminosity AGN at z36z\sim3-6

Using JWST NIRSpec IFU observations from the GA-NIFS survey, this study reveals that moderate-luminosity AGN at redshifts z36z\sim3-6 exhibit a remarkably high incidence (>75%) of powerful, spatially resolved ionized gas outflows with velocities up to 2000 km/s, suggesting that AGN feedback was more intense and potentially more impactful on host galaxy evolution in the early Universe than at later cosmic times.

Giacomo Venturi, Stefano Carniani, Elena Bertola, Chiara Circosta, Eleonora Parlanti, Michele Perna, Santiago Arribas, T (…)2026-06-19✓ Author reviewed
🤖 AI

PSCT-Net: Geometry-Aware Pediatric Skull CT Reconstruction via Differentiable Back-Projection and Attention-Guided Refinement

PSCT-Net is a geometry-aware deep learning framework that reconstructs 3D pediatric skull CTs from sparse bi-planar X-rays by integrating differentiable back-projection, attention-guided refinement, and a Bidirectional Mamba module to overcome depth ambiguity and improve bone boundary accuracy, while introducing a specialized pediatric dataset to address the lack of child-specific training data.

Dong Yeong Kim, Jaewon Choi, Youmin Shin, Jungyu Lee, Myeongseop Kim, Jinwook Choi, Joo Whan Kim, Young-Gon Kim2026-06-19✓ Author reviewed
💰 quantitative finance

Reassessing the role of intermediaries in exports

Using Spanish firm-level data, this paper demonstrates that the previously reported large share of intermediaries in exports is significantly overstated because many classified as such are actually manufacturer-owned export arms or vertically integrated firms, with the true share of pure intermediaries falling by approximately 70% once these groups are excluded.

Aitor Garmendia-Lazcano, Raúl Mínguez, Asier Minondo2026-06-18✓ Author reviewed