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Latent Space-Driven Quantification of Biofilm Formation using Time Resolved Droplet Microfluidics
Daniela P\'erez Guerrero, Jes\'us Manuel Ant\'unez Dom\'inguez, Aur\'elie Vigne, Daniel Midtvedt, Wylie Ahmed, Lisa D. Muiznieks, Giovanni Volpe, Caroline Beck Adiels
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.07632

Latent Space-Driven Quantification of Biofilm Formation using Time Resolved Droplet Microfluidics
Bacterial biofilms play a significant role in various fields that impact our daily lives, from detrimental public health hazards to beneficial applications in bioremediation, biodegradation, and wastewater treatment. However, high-resolution tools for studying their dynamic responses to environmental changes and collective cellular behavior remain scarce. To characterize and quantify biofilm development, we present a droplet-based microfluidic platform combined with an image analysis tool for i…

I have not (re-)posted this in far too long
The First Law of the Internet:
Every person shall be free to use the Internet in any way that is privately beneficial without being publicly detrimental.
The burden of demonstrating public detriment shall be on those who wish to prevent the private use.
Such a demonstration shall require clear and convincing evidence of public detriment.
The public detriment must be of such degree and extent as to justi…

The Welfare Effects of Policy Signalling in a Regime Change Game
Georgy Lukyanov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.04750 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.04750

The Welfare Effects of Policy Signalling in a Regime Change Game
We explore a specific parametric example of a regime change game in which a policymaker defends the status quo against a continuum of atomistic agents who seek to overthrow it. At the start of the game, the policymaker can initiate a policy intervention to make an attack less appealing. When agents' private information is relatively imprecise, signalling is beneficial to the policymaker when the fundamentals are strong but detrimental when the fundamentals are weak.

Estimation of the capabilities of the SPHERE-3 Cherenkov telescope for determining the parameters of the primary cosmic particle
E. A. Bonvech, O. V. Cherkesova, D. V. Chernov, E. L. Entina, V. I. Galkin, V. A. Ivanov, T. A. Kolodkin, N. O. Ovcharenko, D. A. Podgrudkov, T. M. Roganova, M. D. Ziva
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.17899

Estimation of the capabilities of the SPHERE-3 Cherenkov telescope for determining the parameters of the primary cosmic particle
New results of modeling the operation of the new SPHERE-3 Cherenkov telescope are presented. The telescope will be able to detect cosmic particles by direct and reflected Cherenkov light of the extensive air showers (EAS). Dual detection improves the accuracy of determining the parameters of the primary particle. The study is based on the data bank of distributions of the EAS Cherenkov light obtained on the Lomonosov-2 supercomputer. The accuracy of determining the energy and type of the primar…

Detailed Chemical Abundance Analysis of Metal-Poor Turn-Off Stars: One with [Fe/H] < -4 and Three with [Fe/H] < -4
Takuma Suda, Patrick Francois, Shinya Wanajo, Elisabetta Caffau, Wako Aoki, Piercarlo Bonifacio
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.18286

Detailed Chemical Abundance Analysis of Metal-Poor Turn-Off Stars: One with [Fe/H] < -4 and Three with [Fe/H] < -4
We present the analysis of four new extremely metal poor turn-off stars thanks to high-resolution spectra obtained with the Subaru/HDS spectrograph. We determined the abundances and upper limits of Li, C, Mg, Ca, Sr, and Ba. Metallicities range from [Fe/H] = -3.3 to -4.4 dex. For one of the stars, we measure the lithium abundance Log(Li/H) = 2.1 {\pm} 0.2. Two stars of the sample have low [α/Fe] abundances. The most metal-poor star of the sample with [Fe/H] = -4.42 dex has a high [Sr/Fe] abund…

Enhanced Tritium Production in Irradiated TiD2 from Collisional Fusion in the Solid-State
Andrew K. Gillespie (Texas Tech University), Cuikun Lin (Texas Tech University), Ian Jones (Texas Tech University), Brad Jeffries (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory), Joseph Caleb Philipps (University of Missouri Research Reactor), Sandeep Puri (Texas Tech University), John Gahl (Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Missouri), John Brockman (3and 5), R. V. Duncan (T…

Enhanced Tritium Production in Irradiated TiD2 from Collisional Fusion in the Solid-State
Ongoing research in new nuclear mechanisms hold the potential for beneficial developments in nuclear power cycle designs. Recent reports investigated the possibility of lattice dynamics to influence nuclear processes in metals. Results from Steinetz et al., at the NASA Glenn Research Center indicated that it may be feasible to initiate deuterium deuterium fusion reactions that are enhanced using electron screening to reduce the deuterium deuterium fusion barrier. This article presents tritium p…

A Procedural Framework for Assessing the Desirability of Process Deviations
Michael Grohs, Nadine Cordes, Jana-Rebecca Rehse
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11525

A Procedural Framework for Assessing the Desirability of Process Deviations
Conformance checking techniques help process analysts to identify where and how process executions deviate from a process model. However, they cannot determine the desirability of these deviations, i.e., whether they are problematic, acceptable or even beneficial for the process. Such desirability assessments are crucial to derive actions, but process analysts typically conduct them in a manual, ad-hoc way, which can be time-consuming, subjective, and irreplicable. To address this problem, this…

The project of a ground-based wide-angle EAS Cherenkov light imaging detector for PCR mass composition study in the 1-1000 PeV energy range
D. V. Chernov, E. A. Bonvech, O. V. Cherkesova, E. L. Entina, V. I. Galkin, V. A. Ivanov, T. A. Kolodkin, V. I. Osedlo, N. O. Ovcharenko, D. A. Podgrudkov, T. M. Roganova, M. D. Ziva
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The project of a ground-based wide-angle EAS Cherenkov light imaging detector for PCR mass composition study in the 1-1000 PeV energy range
This report presents a draft of a new detector designed to determine the chemical composition of primary cosmic rays based on the characteristics of the angular distribution of Cherenkov light from EAS. The installation, consisting of several such detectors, will be able to register individual EAS events in the energy range from 1 to 1000 PeV with high angular resolution of up to 0.2$^\circ$. The proposed detector's distinctive feature is its simple design and wide viewing angle of above $\pm30…

Unlocking the mystery of Sr synthesis in the early Galaxy through analysis of barium isotopes in very metal-poor stars
T. M. Sitnova, L. Lombardo, L. I. Mashonkina, F. Rizzuti, G. Cescutti, C. J. Hansen, P. Bonifacio, E. Caffau, A. Koch-Hansen, G. Meynet, R. Fernandes de Melo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10193

Unlocking the mystery of Sr synthesis in the early Galaxy through analysis of barium isotopes in very metal-poor stars
We determine the contributions of the rapid (r) and slow (s) neutron capture processes to the Ba isotope mixture, along with Ba, Eu, and Sr NLTE abundances, in a sample of very metal-poor stars. The selected stars formed before the contribution from the main s-process in low- and intermediate-mass stars became significant. Some of our sample stars are enhanced in Sr, with [Sr/Ba] reaching up to 0.7. These stars gained their high Sr abundance from a poorly understood process, which may appear to…