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When men drink, women and children pay the price #health

When men drink, women and children pay the price
Men’s heavy drinking is fueling a hidden crisis affecting millions of women and children worldwide. The harms, from violence to financial instability, are especially severe where gender inequality is high. Experts warn that alcohol policies must include gender-responsive strategies to protect vulnerable families. They call for reforms combining regulation, prevention, and community action.

“According to our president, there’s only two genders..."
Also according to him experiments with injecting bleach, shining UV lights up your ass, hydroxychloroquine, etc. should be pursued. I hope said student is following that advice too.
https://www.theguardian.c…

From Kardar-Parisi-Zhang scaling to soliton proliferation in Josephson junction arrays
Mikheil Tsitsishvili, Reinhold Egger, Karsten Flensberg, Sebastian Diehl
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08479

From Kardar-Parisi-Zhang scaling to soliton proliferation in Josephson junction arrays
We propose Josephson junction arrays as realistic platforms for observing nonequilibrium scaling laws characterizing the Kardar-Parisi-Zhang (KPZ) universality class, and space-time soliton proliferation. Focusing on a two-chain ladder geometry, we perform numerical simulations for the roughness function. Together with analytical arguments, our results predict KPZ scaling at intermediate time scales, extending over sufficiently long time scales to be observable, followed by a crossover to the a…

From Rigging to Waving: 3D-Guided Diffusion for Natural Animation of Hand-Drawn Characters
Jie Zhou, Linzi Qu, Miu-Ling Lam, Hongbo Fu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.06573 https://

From Rigging to Waving: 3D-Guided Diffusion for Natural Animation of Hand-Drawn Characters
Hand-drawn character animation is a vibrant field in computer graphics, presenting challenges in achieving geometric consistency while conveying expressive motion. Traditional skeletal animation methods maintain geometric consistency but struggle with complex non-rigid elements like flowing hair and skirts, leading to unnatural deformation. Conversely, video diffusion models synthesize realistic dynamics but often create geometric distortions in stylized drawings due to domain gaps. This work p…

Tell-Tale Watermarks for Explanatory Reasoning in Synthetic Media Forensics
Ching-Chun Chang, Isao Echizen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.05753 https://arxiv.o…

Tell-Tale Watermarks for Explanatory Reasoning in Synthetic Media Forensics
The rise of synthetic media has blurred the boundary between reality and fabrication under the evolving power of artificial intelligence, fueling an infodemic that erodes public trust in cyberspace. For digital imagery, a multitude of editing applications further complicates the forensic analysis, including semantic edits that alter content, photometric adjustments that recalibrate colour characteristics, and geometric projections that reshape viewpoints. Collectively, these transformations man…

Bad Feelings: Sadness and Gender in Contemporary Culture https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/10/01/bad-feelings-sadness-and-gender-in-contemporary-culture

The Hidden Wheel-Within
Falko Ziebert, Igor M. Kuli\'c
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06830 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.06830…

The Hidden Wheel-Within
There is this old, eternal question: Why don't animals have wheels? In this perspective we show that they actually do. And they do so in a physically extraordinary way -- by combining incompatible elasticity, differential geometry and dissipative self-organization. Nature's wheel -- the ``wheel-within'' -- has been mysteriously concealed in plain sight, yet it spins in virtually every slender-body organism: in falling cats, crocodilians spinning to subdue their prey, rolling fruit-fly larvae, c…

Morphology Formation Pathways in Solution-Processed Perovskite Thin Films
M. Majewski, O. J. J. Ronsin, J. Harting
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.04175 https://

Morphology Formation Pathways in Solution-Processed Perovskite Thin Films
The active layer in a perovskite solar cell is usually composed of a polycrystalline thin film. Fabrication of this layer by solution processing is a promising candidate for up-scaling to the mass market. However, the evolution of an evaporating and simultaneously crystallizing thin film is not yet fully understood. To contribute to the understanding of the formation of thin films, we develop a geometrical model that deals with the effect of the interplay between solvent evaporation and crystal…

New #Pixelfed Post:
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Effective equidistribution, arithmetic purity of strong approximation, and geometric sieve for affine quadrics
Yang Cao, Zhizhong Huang, Runlin Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.23320

Effective equidistribution, arithmetic purity of strong approximation, and geometric sieve for affine quadrics
Let $k$ be a number field. Let $q(x_1,\cdots,x_n)$ be a non-degenerate integral quadratic form in $n\geq 3$ variables with coefficients in $k$ and $m\in k^\times$. Let $X$ be the affine quadric defined by $q=m$ in $\mathbb{A}^n_k$. Based on results on effective equidistribution of $S$-integral points in symmetric spaces, we establish the following: (i) The arithmetic purity of strong approximation off any single place of $k$ for $X$; (ii) The geometric sieve for $p_0$-integral points on $X$…