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This study demonstrates that depositing ZnO thin films via a spray pneumatic technique at 450°C yields optimal structural, optical, and electrical properties, including a maximum crystallite size of 15.19 nm, approximately 85% transparency, a band gap of 3.31 eV, and the lowest electrical resistivity of 0.064 Ω·cm.
This paper presents an ultra-compact, two-stage on-device audio cascade that utilizes a lightweight 2D CNN for snore detection and an adapted Coordinate Attention mechanism for classifying sleep apnea events, achieving high accuracy with a 93.2% parameter reduction compared to baselines.
Based on an analysis of 4.3 million human-AI conversations, this paper finds that AI primarily serves as a practical intermediary for routine political tasks rather than a public forum for expression, though major events like the 2024 U.S. election can temporarily shift user behavior toward more expressive and ideologically charged interactions.
This paper establishes the existence of dissipative solutions for the Hasegawa-Mima equation in its Euler-like velocity form for any divergence-free initial condition on both the 2D torus and bounded domains, by adapting the framework originally developed by Lions for the Euler equations.
This paper proposes a multi-objective framework for automatically optimizing prompts in LLM-based user simulators for conversational recommender systems, effectively addressing challenges related to evaluation costs, data scarcity, and systematic biases while improving alignment with human interaction patterns.
This paper presents a new catalog of spectroscopically confirmed white dwarfs from DESI DR1, including atmospheric parameters for over 29,000 DA white dwarfs and 547 magnetic white dwarfs, while demonstrating that magnetic fields likely originate before stellar crystallization and that magnetic white dwarfs are systematically more massive than their non-magnetic counterparts, noting that 'double trouble' systems are not limited to two white dwarfs orbiting each other but sometimes involve a Main Sequence star as the companion.
This paper introduces "answer-in-context" as a superior diagnostic for budget-constrained multi-hop RAG and proposes a submodular optimization-based packing strategy that significantly improves performance on smaller readers by maximizing evidence density, though its benefits diminish as reader capacity increases.
This paper establishes strengthened pointwise ergodic theorems for weakly and strongly mixing systems that not only surpass the Wiener-Wintner Theorem but also serve to characterize these specific mixing levels, while noting that similar methods apply to other hierarchy levels like mild mixing but not K-mixing.
This matched case-control study in Shabunda, DRC, identifies that the severe cholera epidemic is driven by a convergence of environmental, socio-economic, and behavioral factors—specifically lack of water treatment, absence of handwashing kits, mining-related visitor exposure, and riverine proximity—which create a dose-response risk relationship necessitating urgent multi-sectoral WASH interventions.
This study analyzes the drivers of self-employment versus paid employment and the consequences of youth unemployment in Ethiopia's Arsi Zone during the COVID-19 lockdowns using Propensity Score Matching and Structural Equation Modeling to inform targeted government interventions.