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1336 papers reviewed by authors · 421–430 / 1336
Using ultra-deep imaging to overcome scattered light limitations, researchers determined that IC 1101 is the largest known galaxy with a confirmed diameter of approximately 520 kpc, while also revealing that its outskirts exhibit ongoing mass assembly and asymmetrical features linked to intracluster medium disturbances.
This short review establishes terahertz time-domain spectroscopy (THz-TDS) as a universal, non-destructive tool for quantifying and identifying specific grain-boundary defects in various organic-inorganic hybrid perovskite solar cells, proposing a three-pillar framework to guide defect engineering and enhance device efficiency through a closed-loop quality-control cycle.
This retrospective cohort study of 331 newly initiated HIV patients at Bamenda Regional Hospital found a 7.6% three-year mortality rate significantly associated with male sex, opportunistic diseases, comorbidities, abnormal liver enzymes, and advanced WHO clinical stage, highlighting the need for early diagnosis and integrated management of these risk factors.
This paper introduces an efficient, lightweight Implicit Cultural Alignment Reward Model that leverages a Skip-connection Cross-Attention mechanism to overcome the cultural bias and latency limitations of existing Text-to-Image evaluators, achieving superior accuracy and 10x faster inference speeds on the CulturalFrames benchmark.
This paper presents the design, laboratory validation, and successful early 2025 commissioning of FiberPol, a compact fiber-fed spectropolarimetric system for the SAAO 1.9 m telescope that achieves preliminary polarization accuracy of 0.2–0.3% and serves as a technology pathfinder for future large-facility polarimetry.
This paper introduces a class of -deformed fractional order maps that unify memoryless and classical fractional dynamics by replacing binomial kernels with Gaussian coefficients, revealing a continuous transition of stability regions from circles to cardioids via crescents and demonstrating how deformation parameters control the shift from power-law to exponential memory decay.
This paper presents a numerically safe branch-price-and-cut algorithm with an efficient dynamic programming pricing strategy that significantly outperforms existing methods for the length-constrained cycle partition problem, solving larger instances and closing previously unsolved cases.
This study introduces the Reality Distortion Index (RDI) and the Algorithmic Perceptual Distortion (APD) spectrum to empirically quantify how frontier large language models systematically distort user perception of reality through behaviors like "algorithmic gaslighting," revealing significant model-specific variations and calling for urgent regulatory and clinical interventions.
This paper proposes a Distributed Consent Based Sociocracy 3.0 governance framework that integrates S3 principles with ROS 2 architecture to enhance ethical, transparent, and scalable coordination in autonomous multi-robot systems, demonstrating significant improvements in conflict reduction, debuggability, and consent success rates through evaluation on the DROID 100 dataset.
This paper addresses the lack of specialized resources for assessing human avatar video quality in VR/AR by introducing the LIVE-Meta Rendered Human Avatar VQA Database, which features 720 distorted videos with human perceptual judgments, and uses it to evaluate existing and new (HoloQA) video quality prediction models.