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Human Precursor microRNA Terminal Loop Regions Exhibit Distinct Sequence Characteristics and Motif Enrichment

This study provides the first comprehensive characterization of human pre-miRNA terminal loop regions, revealing distinct sequence architectures defined by specific length distributions, positional nucleotide biases, and enriched motifs that may influence miRNA biogenesis and protein interactions.

Amit Cohen, Mario Alberto Burgos-Aceves, Yoav Smith2026-07-24✓ Author reviewed ⓘ
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The Optimal Health-Investment Share: A Calibrated Planner’s Problem for Chronic Disease Burden

This paper develops and calibrates a continuous-time optimal-control model to demonstrate that cross-country disparities in chronic disease burdens and health spending are driven by structural differences in health-system productivity rather than policy errors, implying that simply increasing low-income countries' health spending without improving productivity yields minimal welfare gains.

Atikur Rahman2026-07-24✓ Author reviewed ⓘ
🤖 AI

LatentLens: Revealing Highly Interpretable Visual Tokens in LLMs

This paper introduces LatentLens, a novel interpretability method that maps visual token representations in vision-language models to semantically meaningful natural language descriptions by identifying their nearest neighbors in a contextualized text corpus, thereby revealing that visual tokens are far more interpretable across all model layers than previously understood.

Benno Krojer, Shravan Nayak, Oscar Mañas, Vaibhav Adlakha, Desmond Elliott, Siva Reddy, Marius Mosbach2026-07-23✓ Author reviewed ⓘ
🔭 astrophysics

One cluster, two clusters, no cluster? -- The curious case of HSC 2686 and Lynga 3

This study investigates the potential association between planetary nebulae and open clusters by reclassifying a candidate central star as a blue supergiant and demonstrating that the nearby clusters HSC 2686 and Lynga 3 are not real, thereby casting doubt on the validity of many newly identified open clusters with few member stars.

Andreas Ritter, Quentin A. Parker, Xizhe Xie, Xingyi Guo2026-07-23✓ Author reviewed ⓘ
🤖 machine learning

SCPP: A Unified Python Library for Soft Clustering

This paper introduces SCPP, an open-source Python library that provides a unified, scikit-learn-compatible framework integrating 40 diverse soft clustering algorithms with standardized interfaces, comprehensive benchmarking tools, and extensive documentation to facilitate reproducible research and easy extension within the scientific Python ecosystem.

Kiyan Rezaee, Morteza Ziabakhsh, Artin Bahrampour, Seyed Mohammad Ghoreishi, Asal Khaje, Ali Sajedifar, Manny Chalak, Av (…)2026-07-23✓ Author reviewed ⓘ
📈 economics

Quantile Connectedness Between African Stock Markets and Quadruple Policy Uncertainty: Regime-Dependent Spillovers Across Geopolitical, Oil, Energy, and Climate Risks

This study utilizes Quantile Vector Autoregression and R²-based connectedness models to demonstrate that seven major African stock markets are deeply integrated with global geopolitical, oil, energy, and climate policy uncertainties, revealing that these spillovers are asymmetric and regime-dependent, with geopolitical and oil risks acting as dominant shock transmitters while specific African markets like NSE, DSE, and CSE serve as net transmitters amidst varying market conditions.

David Korsah, Seth Kwadwo Danso2026-07-23✓ Author reviewed ⓘ
📄 medicine

Prevalence, Associated Factors, and Antifungigram of Vulvovaginal Candidiasis among Pregnant Women Receiving Antenatal Care At Lira Regional Referral Hospital

This study at Lira Regional Referral Hospital reveals a high 40.6% prevalence of vulvovaginal candidiasis among pregnant women, driven by factors such as high parity and antibiotic use, with a significant shift toward non-albicans species and alarming nystatin resistance that underscores the need for Clotrimazole as a preferred treatment.

ABURA GEOFFREY, Vidya Sankarapandian, Neel Rajendra, Chinyere Nkemjika Anyanwu, Nyombi Samuel Wilson2026-07-23✓ Author reviewed ⓘ
📄 agriculture

Comparative Evaluation of AMMI, GGE, GYT, and Bayesian Models for Risk-Based Selection of Forage Sorghum in multi-environmental trials

This study integrates classical multivariate stability analyses (AMMI, GGE, GYT) with Bayesian modeling to evaluate 30 forage sorghum genotypes across diverse environments, identifying specific high-yielding and stable varieties (notably G30, G24, G21, and G25) while demonstrating that combining frequentist and probabilistic approaches provides a robust framework for risk-based cultivar selection in climate-resilient forage improvement.

Partha Pratim Behera, Ramendra Nath Sarma, Avinash Singode, Rintu Jha, Niharika Saharia, Prasanta Kumar Majhi, Bikas Bas (…)2026-07-23✓ Author reviewed ⓘ