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Den ukrainske man som gripits i Italien är misstänkt för att ha samordnat sabotagen mot gasledningarna Nord Stream 1 och 2 i september 2022. https://www.dn.se/varlden/gripen-ukrainsk-man-misstanks-ha-samordnat-nord-stream-sabotage/

Gripen ukrainare misstänks ha samordnat Nord Stream-sabotage
Gripandet är det första som gjorts sedan sprängningarna på Östersjöns botten – och tyska myndigheter beskriver operationen som ”exceptionell”.

‘Competition brings down charging prices in Nordics’
Clear BloombergNEF graph shows that #EV fast-charging prices in markets with a higher share of EVs are also more competitive.
This and other insights in this short video:

Marcus Mariota's best plays from 2-TD game vs. Raiders Week 3 https://www.commanders.com/video/marcus-mariota-s-best-plays-from-2-td-game-vs-raiders-week-3

Kumulativer Zubau von #Balkonsolarleistung in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 19.09.2025.
Die summierte Leistung aller offiziell registrierten #Steckersolaranlagen beträgt b…

Starting Out In Music? 5 People To Add To Your Team #musician #musicianresources https://muz4now…

Starting Out In Music? 5 People To Add To Your Team
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General Staff: Russia has lost 1,093,730 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/13/general-staff-russia-has-lost.html

Local feature filtering for scalable and well-conditioned Random Feature Methods
Jan Willem van Beek, Victorita Dolean, Ben Moseley
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.17626

Local feature filtering for scalable and well-conditioned Random Feature Methods
In recent years, machine learning has emerged as a powerful tool for solving partial differential equations (PDEs), with randomized neural networks showing remarkable potential. These networks, typically shallow, differ from conventional approaches by randomizing all parameters except those in the final layer. Notably, by integrating techniques inspired by domain decomposition, they achieve improved local accuracy and computational efficiency. Following \cite{chen:2022:BTM}, we refer to these a…

How orthogonality influences geometric constants?
Yuxin Wang, Qi Liu, Mengmeng Bao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.17122 https://arxiv.org…

How orthogonality influences geometric constants?
In this paper, based on isosceles orthogonality, we have found equivalent definitions for three constants: A2(X) proposed by Baronti in 2000 [J. Math. Anal. Appl. 252(2000), 124- 146], CNJ(X) introduced by Alonso et al. in 2008 [Stud. Math. 188(2008), 135-150], and LYJ(X) put forward by Liu et al. in 2022 [Bull. Malays. Math. Sci. Soc., 45(2022), 307-321]. A core commonality among these three constants is that they are all restricted to the unit sphere. This finding provides us with an insight:…

An Empirical Comparison of Weak-IV-Robust Procedures in Just-Identified Models
Wenze Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.18001 https://arxi…

An Empirical Comparison of Weak-IV-Robust Procedures in Just-Identified Models
Instrumental variable (IV) regression is recognized as one of the five core methods for causal inference, as identified by Angrist and Pischke (2008). This paper compares two leading approaches to inference under weak identification for just-identified IV models: the classical Anderson-Rubin (AR) procedure and the recently popular tF method proposed by Lee et al. (2022). Using replication data from the American Economic Review (AER) and Monte Carlo simulation experiments, we evaluate the two pr…

Across the US, lawmakers and interest groups are stepping up efforts to shield Israel from accountability for war crimes, occupation, and apartheid.
They are doing so by restricting Palestine solidarity advocates’ First Amendment rights to free speech and political boycotts.
In June 2022, the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled to uphold an Arkansas law punishing state contractors who boycott Israel.
Since 2014, dozens of states have adopted similar laws designed to puni…

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An adaptive procedure for detecting replicated signals with $k$-family-wise error rate control
Ninh Tran
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.15363 https://arxiv.org…

An adaptive procedure for detecting replicated signals with $k$-family-wise error rate control
Partial conjunction (PC) hypothesis testing is widely used to assess the replicability of scientific findings across multiple comparable studies. In high-throughput meta-analyses, testing a large number of PC hypotheses with k-family-wise error rate (k-FWER) control often suffers from low statistical power due to the multiplicity burden. The state-of-the-art AdaFilter-Bon procedure by Wang et al. (2022, Ann. Stat., 50(4), 1890-1909) alleviates this problem by filtering out hypotheses unlikely t…

Breaking: Cowboys make 2022 first-round pick highest paid at position in NFL history https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/09/13/cowboys-extension-tyler-smith/86140889007/

Uspol, genocide
In case you're wondering whether "political violence" is escalating in the U.S.A. right now, of *course* it is as we move into an era of concentration campus and domestic military deployments. But both domestic genocides and purges as well as political violence targeted at individual prominent figures has been a *constant* throughout American history, from gun duels fought between political rivals to massacres of Native Americans in order to steal their land, to pogroms against Catholics, to literal wars on local Black success and political participation, all dating back before the American Revolution to the beginning of colonization. Thanks to Wikipedia, here's a *small sampling* where I attempted to whittle things down to about one event per decade before recent times.
Sources:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_massacres_in_the_United_States
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Indian_massacres_in_North_America
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_presidential_assassination_attempts_and_plots
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_incidents_of_political_violence_in_Washington,_D.C.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_racial_violence_in_the_United_States
Killings, woundings, and plots against political figures:
Aaron Burr killing Alexander Hamilton in 1804
Sam Houston beats Rep. William Stanbery in 1832
Attempted Assassination of Andrew Jackson in 1835
Fight between Representatives Churchwell & Cullom in 1854
Caning of Sen. Charles Summer in 1856
Brawl on the House floor in 1858
Assassination of President Abraham Lincoln in 1865
Assassination of President James A. Garfield in 1881
Assassination of President William McKinley in 1901
Attempted Assassination of William Howard Taft and Porfirio Díaz in 1909
Wounding of former President Theodore Roosevelt in 1912
Bombing of the U.S. Senate reception room in 1915
Attempted Assassination of President Herbert Hover in 1928 (in Argentina)
Attempted Assassination of President Harry S. Truman in 1947
Attempted Assassination of President Harry S. Truman in 1950
The United States Capitol Shooting in 1954
Planned Assassination of President John F. Kennedy in 1960
Attempted Assassination of President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1963
Assassination of President John F. Kennedy in 1963
Assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968
Weather Underground bombings in 1970, 1971, and 1975
Planned Assassination of President Richard Nixon in 1972 (Alabama Governor George Wallace was targeted & injured instead)
Planned Assassination of President Richard Nixon in 1974
Planned Assassination of President Gerald Ford in 1974
Attempted Assassinations (x2) of President Gerald Ford in 1975
Wounding of President Ronald Reagan in 1981
Attempted Kidnapping of Federal Reserve Board members in 1981
Planned Assassination of President George Bush in 1993 (in Kuwait)
Attempted Assassinations (x3) of President Bill Clinton in 1994
Attempted Assassination of President Bill Clinton in 1996
Anthrax attacks on US senators in 2001
Attempted Assassination of President George W. Bush in 2005 (in the foreign country of Georgia)
Planned Assassination of President-Elect Barrack Obama in 2008
Planned Assassination of President Barrack Obama in 2009 (in Turkey)
Attempted Assassination of President Barrack Obama in 2011
Shooting of Rep. Gabby Gliffords in 2011
Planned Assassinations (x2) of President Barrack Obama in 2012
Attempted Assassinations (x2) of President Barrack Obama in 2013
Planned Assassination of President Barrack Obama in 2015
Attempted Assassinations (x2) of President Donald Trump in 2017
Attempted Assassination of President Donald Trump in 2018
Pipe bombs mailed to Democratic leaders in 2018, including former President Barack Obama
Planned Assassination of President Barrack Obama in 2019
Attempted Assassination of President Donald Trump in 2020
Kidnapping plot against Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer in 2020
Planned Assassination of Former President George W. Bush in 2022
Planned Assassination of Former President Barrack Obama in 2023
Attempted Assassination of President Joe Biden in 2023
Planned Assassinations (x2) of Presidential Candidate Donald Trump in 2024
Wounding of Presidential Candidate Donald Trump in 2024
Massacres and other mass killings, mostly with genocidal motivations:
The Acoma Massacre in 1599
The Paspaheg Massacre in 1610
The Wessagusset affair in 1623
The Mystic Massacre in 1637
The Pound Ridge Massacre in 1644
The Susquehannock chiefs massacre in 1675
The Apalachee Massacre in 1704
The Massacre at Fort Narhantes in 1712
The Norridgewock Massacre in 1724
The 1745 Massacre at Walden (in 1745)
The 1756 Massacre at Walden (in 1756)
The Killings by the Paxton Boys in 1763
The Yellow Creek Massacre in 1774
The Gnadenhütten Massacre in 1782
The Canyon del Muerto Massacre in 1805
The Battle of Tallushatchee in 1813
The Philadelphia Nativist Riots in 1844
The Bloody Island Massacre in 1850
The Mountain Meadows Massacre in 1857
The Sand Creek Massacre in 1864
The Opelousas Massacre in 1868
The Chinese Massacre in 1871
The Election Riot of 1874
The Haymarket Affair in 1886
The Buffalo Gap Massacre in 1890
The Wilmington Massacre in 1898
The 1906 Atlanta Race Massacre (in 1906)
The Ludlow Massacre in 1914
The Elaine massacre in 1919
The Tulsa Race Massacre in 1921
The Battle of Blair Mountain in 1921
The Bonus Army Conflict in 1932
The 1937 Memorial Day massacre (in 1937)
The 16th Street Baptist Church bombing in 1963
The Kent State shootings in 1970
The Greensboro massacre in 1979
The MOVE Bombing in 1985
The 4 O'Clock murders in 1988
The Oklahoma City bombing in 1995
The September 11 Attacks in 2001
The Fort Hood Shooting in 2009
The Holocaust Memorial Shooting in 2009
The Isla Vista killings in 2014
The Charleston Church shooting in 2015
The San Bernardino attack in 2015
The Orlando Nightclub Shooting in 2016
The Pittsburgh Synagogue Shooting in 2018
The El Paso Walmart shooting in 2019
The January 6th Capitol Attack in 2021
The 2022 Buffalo Shooting (in 2022)

On UK Central Heating Season (2022) - Home heating dates. - https://www.earth.org.uk/note-on-survey-UK-central-heating-on-off-dates.html

On UK Central Heating Season (2022)
Home heating dates.

Fractal Analytics, which became India's first AI unicorn in 2022, files for an IPO in Mumbai to raise about $560M, and could value the company at over $3.5B (Saritha Rai/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-…

Leaked files: WaPo publisher Will Lewis supported Boris Johnson as a secret political adviser when he was UK PM in 2022; Lewis was AP's vice-chair at the time (The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/sep/10/…

Nord-Stream-Sabotage: Entscheidung über Auslieferung von Verdächtigem vertagt
Drei Jahre nach den Anschlägen auf die Nord-Stream-Gaspipelines in der Ostsee ist die Entscheidung über die Auslieferung eines Tatverdächtigen aus Italien an Deutschland vertagt worden. Ein Berufungsgericht in Bologna kam nach stundenlangen Beratungen noch zu keinem Ergebnis, wie der Verteidiger des Ukrainers der Nachricht…
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Nord Stream: Festgenommener Ukrainer soll Sabotageteam geleitet haben
In Italien wurde am Mittwoch ein Ukrainer festgenommen, der an den Anschlägen auf die Nord-Stream-Pipelines 2022 beteiligt gewesen sein soll. ARD, SZ und "Zeit" liegt nun der Haftbefehl gegen den Mann vor.

This is the way.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/sep/11/brazil-supreme-court-bolsonaro-guilty-coup

General Staff: Russia has lost 1,095,520 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/15/general-staff-russia-has-lost.html

https://slate.com/business/2022/06/wilhoits-law-conservatives-frank-wilhoit.html

Prompting the Market? A Large-Scale Meta-Analysis of GenAI in Finance NLP (2022-2025)
Paolo Pedinotti, Peter Baumann, Nathan Jessurun, Leslie Barrett, Enrico Santus
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.09544

Prompting the Market? A Large-Scale Meta-Analysis of GenAI in Finance NLP (2022-2025)
Large Language Models (LLMs) have rapidly reshaped financial NLP, enabling new tasks and driving a proliferation of datasets and diversification of data sources. Yet, this transformation has outpaced traditional surveys. In this paper, we present MetaGraph, a generalizable methodology for extracting knowledge graphs from scientific literature and analyzing them to obtain a structured, queryable view of research trends. We define an ontology for financial NLP research and apply an LLM-based extr…

First article of mine published in TanahAir.net, and the first one in Indonesian in several months!
Pengaruh pertumbuhan LNG Cina pada rencana energi Asia Tenggara
https://tanahair.net/id/pengaruh-pertumbuhan-lng-cina-pada-rencana-energi-asia-te…

All the talks from rstudio::conf 2022: https://www.rstudio.com/conference/2022/2022-conf-talks/ 👩‍🏫 Keynotes: https://www.

Search for the Higgs boson decay to a $Z$ boson and a photon in $pp$ collisions at $\sqrt{s}=13$ TeV and $13.6$ TeV with the ATLAS detector
ATLAS Collaboration
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12598

Search for the Higgs boson decay to a $Z$ boson and a photon in $pp$ collisions at $\sqrt{s}=13$ TeV and $13.6$ TeV with the ATLAS detector
A search for the Higgs boson decay to a $Z$ boson and a photon in the $\ell\ellγ$ ($\ell = e, μ$) final state is performed using $pp$ collisions at $\sqrt{s}=13.6$ TeV recorded with the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider during 2022-2024, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 165 fb$^{-1}$. The signal yield, normalised to the Standard Model prediction, is measured to be $μ=0.9^{+0.7}_{-0.6}$, compared to an expected value of $μ=1.0\pm0.7$. This corresponds to an observed (ex…

Dallas Cowboys, G Tyler Smith agree to record-setting contract extension, per reports https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/2025/09/13/dallas-cowboys-tyler-smith-extension-contract-details/86140525007/

Die #Ukraine hat es geschafft, eine #Antonov AN-124 auszufliegen. Die stand seit 2022 in #Kyjiw und machte sich gestern auf die Reise nach #Leipzig

A democratic nation actually can overcome deep polarization and division
and punish politicians who undermine democracy.
Just not the United States,
even though our leaders have spent decades beating their chests about the wonders of American democracy.
The Brazilian Supreme Court’s recent conviction of Jair Bolsonaro
on five charges related to his attempt to overturn the 2022 election results there and stay in power
is a great illustration that democrat…

Brazil Stopped Its Trump. It’s Pathetic that We Couldn’t Stop Ours.
Brazil barred Bolsonaro from running again and is sending him to jail. Other countries have done it, too. Why is the United States a unique failure?

The corruption of our the once-vaunted non-political integrity of our military takes another step forward (or I guess a better word would be downward):
"Navy reverses demotion of Rep. Ronny Jackson, former White House doctor"
https://apnews.com/article/trump-navy-…

Navy reverses demotion of former White House doctor Ronny Jackson
Rep. Ronny Jackson has announced that the Navy has restored his retired rank of rear admiral. This overturns a 2022 demotion that followed a scathing investigation that found major issues with his behavior while he was the top White House physician. The Texas Republican on Wednesday posted a June 13 letter from Navy Secretary John Phelan saying he had reinstated Jackson to the retired rank of a one-star admiral following a “review of all applicable reports and references.” The Navy confirme…

SkyNET-scape Room: An Escape Room to Explore Astroparticle Physics
Elisa Prandini, Sabine Hemmer, Michele Branca, Luca Campagnoni, Gabriella Cataldi, Marco Circella, Jean-Pierre Jonckheere, Emanuele Leonora, Ilaria Viale, Giuseppe Silvestri
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.14190

SkyNET-scape Room: An Escape Room to Explore Astroparticle Physics
Innovative science communication is key to engaging the public with complex topics such as astroparticle physics. As part of the Italian PRIN 2022 funding initiative, we are developing SkyNET-scape Room, an interactive escape room designed to introduce participants to the main messengers of the high-energy universe, namely cosmic rays, gamma rays, and neutrinos. The experience is structured into three interactive stations, each focusing on a specific messenger and its detection method. Small …

General Staff: Russia has lost 1,094,610 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/14/general-staff-russia-has-lost.html

https://cyberscoop.com/ianis-antropenko-zeppelin-ransomware-russian-cybercrime/
“Ianis Aleksandrovich Antropenko exemplifies the profile of a modern cybercriminal, yet, unlike many others who have faced strict prosecution for similar offenses, the …

Lettland fordert mehr als 800 Russen zur Ausreise auf
Die Migrationsbehörde in Lettland hat 841 russische Staatsbürger aufgefordert, das baltische EU- und NATO-Land bis zum 13. Oktober zu verlassen. Dies sagte Behördenleiterin Maira Roze in einem Bericht des lettischen Fernsehens. Hintergrund sind Änderungen im Ausländerrecht, die im Herbst 2022 als Reaktion auf Russlands Angriffskrieg gegen die Ukraine beschlossen wurden. Si…
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Ukraine-Liveblog: ++ Russland greift ukrainische Energieanlage an ++
Das russische Militär hat ukrainischen Angaben zufolge bei neuen Luftangriffen ein Wärmekraftwerk in der Region Kiew attackiert. Außenminister Wadephul betonte, Deutschland werde sich an Sicherheitsgarantien für die Ukraine beteiligen.

Spin Constraints on 4U 1630-47 via combined Continuum Fitting and Reflection methods: a comparative study using Frequentist and Bayesian statistics
Debtroy Das, Honghui Liu, Zuobin Zhang, Cosimo Bambi, Jiachen Jiang, Johannes Buchner, Andrea Santangelo, Menglei Zhou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.09481…

Spin Constraints on 4U 1630-47 via combined Continuum Fitting and Reflection methods: a comparative study using Frequentist and Bayesian statistics
We present a comprehensive Bayesian spectral analysis of the black hole X-ray binary 4U 1630-47 during its 2022 outburst, using simultaneous \textit{NICER} and \textit{NuSTAR} observations. Using the traditional frequentist approach, we build our model combining reflection spectroscopy with continuum fitting techniques and analyse the data. In the Bayesian framework, we jointly constrain the black hole's spin, mass, inclination, and distance within a unified framework. Employing nested sampling…

Long-term monitoring of a dynamically new comet C/2020 V2 (ZTF)
Goldy Ahuja, K. Aravind, Shashikiran Ganesh, Said Hmiddouch, Mathieu Vander Donckt, Emmanuel Jehin, Devendra Sahu, T. Sivarani
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.05902

Long-term monitoring of a dynamically new comet C/2020 V2 (ZTF)
Comet C/2020 V2 (ZTF) is categorized as a dynamically new long-period comet, making its first approach to the inner Solar system. We have observed this comet for around 32 months (from January 2022 to July 2024) at heliocentric distances from 5.41 au (pre-perihelion) to 5.26 au (post-perihelion) through various telescopes, employing photometric (60 epochs) and spectroscopic techniques (5 epochs). Using these observations, we derived the production rates of different molecules such as CN$(0-0)$,…

I somehow stumbled upon the most arthouse film I can think of:
☑️filmed on analog film stock
☑️very slow pacing but still has jarring editing decisions
☑️scenes with inharmonious violin music
☑️scenes without any sound at all
☑️topless woman
☑️bondage scenes
☑️dream-like scenes
☑️woman growing an actual horse tail 😳
htt…

On UK Central Heating Season (2022) - Home heating dates. - https://www.earth.org.uk/note-on-survey-UK-central-heating-on-off-dates.html

On UK Central Heating Season (2022)
Home heating dates.

Wintertime Cross-correlational Structures between Sea Surface Temperature Anomaly and Atmospheric-and-Oceanic Fields in the East/Japan Sea Under Arctic Oscillation
Gyuchang Lim, JongJin Park
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10233

Wintertime Cross-correlational Structures between Sea Surface Temperature Anomaly and Atmospheric-and-Oceanic Fields in the East/Japan Sea Under Arctic Oscillation
The winter Arctic Oscillation (AO) modulates East Asian climate and the East/Japan Sea (EJS), yet local, scale-dependent air-sea couplings linking atmosphere, ocean and sea-surface temperature anomalies (SSTA) remain unclear. Using 30 years of daily fields (1993--2022), we compute detrended fluctuation/cross-correlation metrics over 5--50-day scales at every grid: the Hurst exponent ($H$), the cross-Hurst exponent ($λ$), and the DCCA coefficient ($ρ_{DCCA}$). Significance is assessed with ite…

Here is a poll about #GenAI since that's all we're talking about at the moment:
Do you believe that you can detect AI-generated text?
If so, what are your tips to detect it? I found this article which has a few suggestions :

5 Easy Ways To Tell If Written Content Came From Generative AI
Spread of generative AI content online since ChatGPT 3.5 launched in November 2022 is up 8,362%. Here's how to tell if content was written by an AI bot or not.

Characterizations of weak almost ${\mathcal S}$-manifolds with curvature properties
Sourav Nayak, Dhriti Sundar Patra, Vladimir Rovenski
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.08871 https:/…

Characterizations of weak almost ${\mathcal S}$-manifolds with curvature properties
The interest of geometers in $f$-structures is motivated by the study of the dynamics of contact foliations, as well as their applications in physics. A weak $f$-structure on a smooth manifold, introduced by V. Rovenski and R. Wolak (2022), generalizes K. Yano's (1961) $f$-structure. This generalization allows us to revisit classical theory and discover new applications related to Killing vector fields, totally geodesic foliations, Ricci-type solitons, and Einstein-type metrics. In this paper, …

General Staff: Russia has lost 1,091,890 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/11/general-staff-russia-has-lost.html

Thickness-dependent magnon spin transport in antiferromagnetic insulators: Crossover from quasi-three-dimensional to quasi-two-dimensional regimes
Mathias {\AA}san Myhre, Verena Brehm, Thomas Delvaux, Arne Brataas, Alireza Qaiumzadeh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.03941

Thickness-dependent magnon spin transport in antiferromagnetic insulators: Crossover from quasi-three-dimensional to quasi-two-dimensional regimes
Motivated by the recent observation of giant room-temperature magnon spin conductivity in an ultrathin ferromagnetic insulator [X.-Y. Wei et al., Nat. Mater. 21, 1352 (2022)], we investigate thickness-dependent magnon spin transport in thin antiferromagnetic insulators (AFIs). We study the prototypical AFI hematite, known for its exceptionally low magnetic damping and two distinct magnetic phases: a low-temperature uniaxial easy-axis phase and a high-temperature biaxial easy-plane phase. Using …

Digital Transformation and Corporate Financial Asset Allocation: Evidence from China
Yundan Guo, Han Liang, Li Shen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.09095 https://

Digital Transformation and Corporate Financial Asset Allocation: Evidence from China
Against the backdrop of rapid technological advancement and the deepening digital economy, this study examines the causal impact of digital transformation on corporate financial asset allocation in China. Using data from A-share listed companies from 2010 to 2022, we construct a firm-level digitalization index based on text analysis of annual reports and differentiate financial asset allocation into long-term and short-term dimensions. Employing fixed-effects models and a staggered difference-i…

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Note on pre-taxation reported data by UK FTSE-listed companies. A search for Benford's laws compatibility
Marcel Ausloos, Probowo Erawan Sastroredjo, Polina Khrennikova
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.09415

Note on pre-taxation reported data by UK FTSE-listed companies. A search for Benford's laws compatibility
Pre-taxation analysis plays a crucial role in ensuring the fairness of public revenue collection. It can also serve as a tool to reduce the risk of tax avoidance, one of the UK government's concerns. Our report utilises pre-tax income ($PI$) and total assets ($TA$) data from 567 companies listed on the FTSE All-Share index, gathered from the Refinitiv EIKON database, covering 14 years, i.e., the period from 2009 to 2022. We also derive the $PI/TA$ ratio, and distinguish between positive and neg…

A new type-1 transition in NGC 1346 revealed by (spectro)polarimetry
F. Marin, D. Hutsem\'ekers, S. Jorstad
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.08589 https://…

A new type-1 transition in NGC 1346 revealed by (spectro)polarimetry
We present the first photo- and spectropolarimetric observations of the changing-look active galactic nucleus NGC~1346 taken with the Perkins telescope (November 2022, March 2025) and VLT/FORS2 (August and September 2024), which have revealed a new spectral transition. We find that NGC~1346 has reverted to its former (2001) type-1 spectral state after having been a type-2 active galactic nucleus from 2004 to 2022. More and more intense broad H$β$ (3720 $\pm$ 310 km.s$^{-1}$ full width at half …

General Staff: Russia has lost 1,039,830 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/18/general-staff-russia-has-lost.html

Probit Monotone BART
Jared D. Fisher
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.00263 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.00263

Probit Monotone BART
Bayesian Additive Regression Trees (BART) of Chipman et al. (2010) has proven to be a powerful tool for nonparametric modeling and prediction. Monotone BART (Chipman et al., 2022) is a recent development that allows BART to be more precise in estimating monotonic functions. We further these developments by proposing probit monotone BART, which allows the monotone BART framework to estimate conditional mean functions when the outcome variable is binary.

Initiator of the #NixOS documentation team is stepping down:
https://discourse.nixos.org/t/the-next-chapter-in-nix-documentation/68425

Deutschland wirbt für restriktivere Visavergabe
Die Bundesregierung wirbt im Zuge der laufenden EU-Planungen für ein neues Paket mit Russland-Sanktionen auch für eine restriktivere Vergabe von Einreiseerlaubnissen in den Schengenraum. Nach Informationen der Nachrichtenagentur dpa wird in einem Positionspapier die vollständige Umsetzung von 2022 veröffentlichten Leitlinien der EU-Kommission gefordert…
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Sorge bei EU-Kommission über Ungarns Visaregel
Russen und Belarusen können künftig leichter ungarische Visa beantragen, um dort zu arbeiten. EU-Innenkommissarin Johansson kritisiert den Beschluss Ungarns. Sie warnt vor Sicherheitsrisiken für die EU und möglicher Spionage.

Ireland in 2057: Projections using a Geographically Diverse Dynamic Microsimulation
Se\'an Caulfield Curley, Karl Mason, Patrick Mannion
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.01446 htt…

Ireland in 2057: Projections using a Geographically Diverse Dynamic Microsimulation
This paper presents a dynamic microsimulation model developed for Ireland, designed to simulate key demographic processes and individual life-course transitions from 2022 to 2057. The model captures four primary events: births, deaths, internal migration, and international migration, enabling a comprehensive examination of population dynamics over time. Each individual in the simulation is defined by five core attributes: age, sex, marital status, highest level of education attained, and econom…

Anzahl der errichteten #Balkonkraftwerke pro Jahr in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 03.07.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2015 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage

APCs and citation impact of Gold OA articles authored by Ukrainian scholars before and during Russia's full-scale war against Ukraine (2020-2023)
Myroslava Hladchenko
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.08850

APCs and citation impact of Gold OA articles authored by Ukrainian scholars before and during Russia's full-scale war against Ukraine (2020-2023)
This study examines how Russia's full-scale war against Ukraine affected APCs, publishing patterns, and citation impact of Gold OA articles authored by Ukrainian scholars between 2020 and 2023. Data from Scopus covers articles published before (2020-2021) and after (2022-2023) the war's onset. Statistical analysis revealed a small but significant correlation between APC amounts and citation impact, though the effect size was minimal, suggesting higher APCs did not substantially boost citations.…

The Hidden Threat in Plain Text: Attacking RAG Data Loaders
Alberto Castagnaro, Umberto Salviati, Mauro Conti, Luca Pajola, Simeone Pizzi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.05093

The Hidden Threat in Plain Text: Attacking RAG Data Loaders
Large Language Models (LLMs) have transformed human-machine interaction since ChatGPT's 2022 debut, with Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) emerging as a key framework that enhances LLM outputs by integrating external knowledge. However, RAG's reliance on ingesting external documents introduces new vulnerabilities. This paper exposes a critical security gap at the data loading stage, where malicious actors can stealthily corrupt RAG pipelines by exploiting document ingestion. We propose a t…

Spectroscopic Observations of Four Candidates for Blue Large-Amplitude Pulsators. No BLAPs at High Galactic Latitudes
P. Pietrukowicz, M. Latour, F. Di Mille, M. Dorsch, U. Heber, J. Borowicz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.08372

Spectroscopic Observations of Four Candidates for Blue Large-Amplitude Pulsators. No BLAPs at High Galactic Latitudes
We have obtained spectroscopic observations for four short-period variable objects detected in ZTF, Gaia, and Pan-STARRS (ZGP) data and classified as Blue Large-Amplitude Pulsators (BLAPs) in McWhirter and Lam (2022): ZGP-BLAP-03, ZGP-BLAP-04, ZGP-BLAP-10, and ZGP-BLAP-15. The variables have periods between 46 and 56 min, full amplitudes of 0.13-0.22 mag in the $r$ band, and light curve shapes typical for radially pulsating stars. Three of them were found at high galactic latitudes (|$b$&#…

General Staff: Russia has lost 1,091,000 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/10/general-staff-russia-has-lost.html

In 2022, Oregonians narrowly passed Measure 111,
⭐️amending their constitution and guaranteeing affordable health care as a fundamental right to every resident of the state.
Through years of organizing, coalition building and planning,
💥Oregon may enact its Universal Health Plan as early as fall 2027. 
In the face of extreme Medicaid cuts from the Trump administration
-- which will leave roughly 16 million people without health coverage by 2034
-- a state-l…

Could Oregon chart the course for universal health care in the US?
Oregon is on the verge of enacting a single-payer health care plan, but continued organizing is needed to secure this historic victory.

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PDE-Based Bayesian Hierarchical Modeling for Event Spread, with Application to COVID-19 Infection
Mengqi Cen, Xuejing Meng, X. Joan Hu, Juxin Liu, Jianhong Wu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13174

PDE-Based Bayesian Hierarchical Modeling for Event Spread, with Application to COVID-19 Infection
We extended the Wikle's Bayesian hierarchical model based on a diffusion-reaction equation [Wikle, 2003] to investigate the COVID-19 spatio-temporal spread events across the USA from Mar 2020 to Feb 2022. Our model incorporated an advection term to account for the intra-state spread trend. We applied a Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) method to obtain samples from the posterior distribution of the parameters. We implemented the approach via the collection of the COVID-19 infections across the st…

Noted while reading: 'a data structure or a block of code are things that make implicit and subjective arguments about how to see the world. This is possibly the single most important basic insight that Digital Humanities as a field needs to impart, because it affects so much of the world around us' - excellent post by @…

Meet a Historian: James Baillie on Digital Humanities and the Medieval Caucasus
Note from the Editor: I’m excited to feature another guest post with you all! This week we have James Baillie discussing how digital humanities and prosopographic methods can be used to bette…

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The impact of the European Union's enlargement with the Western Balkans and the Association Trio on the power of member states in the Council
T\'imea Kov\'acs, D\'ora Gr\'eta Petr\'oczy, G\'abor P\'asztor
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.08914

The impact of the European Union's enlargement with the Western Balkans and the Association Trio on the power of member states in the Council
As of 2022, the European Union has taken several steps regarding enlargement. We focus on the accession of countries with which the Union is actively negotiating membership. This is examined under two enlargement scenarios: first, the enlargement along the lines of the Western Balkan countries, and second, the accession of a trio (Ukraine, Moldova, and Georgia) to the already enlarged Union. We determine the a priori power of the member states based on the Banzhaf and Shapley--Shubik indices. V…

Recent Advances in Maximum-Entropy Sampling
Marcia Fampa, Jon Lee
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.05066 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.05066…

Recent Advances in Maximum-Entropy Sampling
In 2022, we published a book, \emph{Maximum-Entropy Sampling: Algorithms and Application (Springer)}. Since then, there have been several notable advancements on this topic. In this manuscript, we survey some recent highlights.

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General Staff: Russia has lost 1,037,460 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/16/general-staff-russia-has-lost.html

Integral $ab$ $initio$/DFT and experimental TDPAC approach enlightening the $aftereffects$ phenomenon: probing electronic properties in $\alpha$-Al$_2$O$_3$:$^{111}$In($\rightarrow$ $^{111}$Cd) at the atomic scale
G. N. Darriba, R. Vianden, A. P. Ayala, M. Renter\'ia
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.03460

Integral $ab$ $initio$/DFT and experimental TDPAC approach enlightening the $aftereffects$ phenomenon: probing electronic properties in $α$-Al$_2$O$_3$:$^{111}$In($\rightarrow$ $^{111}$Cd) at the atomic scale
By means of an integral experimental and $ab$ $initio$/DFT approach we contribute here to enlighten and quantify the origin of dynamic hyperfine interactions (HFIs) assigned to the electron-capture (EC) decay aftereffects (ECAE) phenomenon observed in time-differential perturbed $γ$-$γ$ angular correlation (TDPAC) experiments in oxides doped with ($^{111}$In (EC)$\rightarrow$)$^{111}$Cd as probe-atom. In previous works [Darriba et al., Phys. Rev. B 105, 195201 (2022)] we proposed an $ab$ $ini…

Update on the intermediate arrival-direction analyses of the Pierre Auger Observatory
Lorenzo Apollonio (for the Pierre Auger Collaboration)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.08544

Update on the intermediate arrival-direction analyses of the Pierre Auger Observatory
We present an update on the arrival-direction analyses conducted on intermediate angular scales using the complete Phase I data of the Pierre Auger Observatory up to the end of $2022$ with a total exposure of $135{,}000\,\text{km}^2\,\text{sr}\,\text{yr}$. We show the arrival-direction distribution of the ultra-high-energy cosmic rays along the supergalactic plane above $20\,\text{EeV}$, and an update in the search for magnetically-induced signatures in the arrival directions. Furthermore, we p…

Lawrow wirft Merz antirussische "Nazi-Parolen" vor
Moskaus Außenminister Sergej Lawrow hat Bundeskanzler Friedrich Merz vorgeworfen, antirussische Losungen wie zu Nazi-Zeiten für eine Militarisierung Deutschlands zu nutzen. Es sei "völliger Unsinn", Russland als Gefahr zu bezeichnen, sagte Lawrow, dessen Land 2022 die Ukraine überfallen hatte, in der malaysischen Hauptstadt Kuala Lumpur. "Ich hoffe, dass jeder Politiker mit e…
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Ukraine-Liveblog: ++ Selenskyj: USA nehmen Militärhilfe wieder auf ++
Die USA haben nach Angaben von Präsident Selenskyj ihre Hilfslieferungen für die Ukraine wieder aufgenommen. Der US-Sondergesandte Kellogg beginnt am Montag einen einwöchigen Besuch in der Ukraine.

On the Erd\H{o}s-Ko-Rado problem of flags with type $\{1, n-3 \}$ of finite sets
Philipp Heering
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20556 https://

On the Erdős-Ko-Rado problem of flags with type $\{1, n-3 \}$ of finite sets
A flag of a finite set $S$ is a set $f$ of non-empty, proper subsets of $S$, such that $X\subseteq Y$ or $Y\subseteq X$ for all $X,Y\in f$. Two flags $f_1$ and $f_2$ of $S$ are opposite if $X_1\cap X_2=\emptyset$, or $X_1\cup X_2=S$ for all $X_1\in f_1$ and $X_2\in f_2$. The set $\{|X| \mid X\in f \}$ is the type of a flag $f$. A set of pairwise non-opposite flags is an Erdős-Ko-Rado set. In 2022 Metsch posed the problem of determining the maximum size of all Erdős-Ko-Rado sets of f…

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General Staff: Russia has lost 1,082,990 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/01/general-staff-russia-has-lost.html

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SDSS J1001 5027: Strong microlensing-induced chromatic variation caught in the act
Luis J. Goicoechea, Vyacheslav N. Shalyapin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.02169 https://

SDSS J1001+5027: Strong microlensing-induced chromatic variation caught in the act
We conducted long-term monitoring of the doubly imaged gravitationally lensed quasar SDSS J1001+5027 consisting of spectro-photometric observations separated by $\sim$120 days (time delay between both quasar images), as well as test and auxiliary data. This monitoring approach allowed us to reliably find a strong microlensing-induced chromatic variation of the quasar continuum in the period 2022$-$2025. The ongoing microlensing event has caused the delay-corrected spectral flux ratio in 2025 to…

Greedy Dynamic Matching
Nick Arnosti, Felipe Simon
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.04551 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.04551

Greedy Dynamic Matching
We study a foundational model of dynamic matching market with abandonment. This model has been studied by Collina et al (2020) and Aouad and Saritac (2022), and many other papers have considered special cases. We compare the performance of greedy policies -- which identify a set of "acceptable" matches up front, and perform these matches as soon as possible -- to that of an omniscient benchmark which knows the full arrival and departure sequence. We use a novel family of linear programs ($LP^…

Domestic Heat Pumps: Barriers to Installation (2022) - A case study in the friction in specifying and installing a heat-pump in the UK, even for a savvy early adopter. #heatpump #netZero #futureReady

Domestic Heat Pumps: Barriers to Installation (2022)
A case study in the friction in specifying and installing a heat-pump in the UK, even for a savvy early adopter. #heatpump #netZero #futureReady

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'Some are forged into poets during hostilities' — Medic, former POW, and poet on how war is shaping Ukraine's writers: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/08/some-are-forged-into-poets.html

Detection of New Auroral Emissions at Io and Implications for Its Interaction with the Plasma Torus
Zachariah Milby, Katherine de Kleer, Carl Schmidt
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.04807

Detection of New Auroral Emissions at Io and Implications for Its Interaction with the Plasma Torus
We observed Io's optical aurora in eclipse on six nights between 2022 and 2024 using Keck I/HIRES. Spectra revealed 13 new auroral emissions not identified previously, tripling the total number of optical emissions lines detected at Io. These included the O I lines at 777.4 and 844.6 nm, the Na I lines at 818.3 and 819.5 nm, the [S I] lines at 458.9 and 772.5 nm, the S I triplet at 922.3 nm, the [O II] lines at 732.0 and 733.0 nm and the [S II] lines at 406.9, 407.6, 671.6 and 673.1 nm. We leve…

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A note on finding long directed cycles above the minimum degree bound in 2-connected digraphs
Jadwiga Czy\.zewska, Marcin Pilipczuk
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.03807

A note on finding long directed cycles above the minimum degree bound in 2-connected digraphs
For a directed graph $G$, let $\mathrm{mindeg}(G)$ be the minimum among in-degrees and out-degrees of all vertices of $G$. It is easy to see that $G$ contains a directed cycle of length at least $\mathrm{mindeg}(G)+1$. In this note, we show that, even if $G$ is $2$-connected, it is NP-hard to check if $G$ contains a cycle of length at least $\mathrm{mindeg}(G)+3$. This is in contrast with recent algorithmic results of Fomin, Golovach, Sagunov, and Simonov [SODA 2022] for analogous questions in …

Anzahl der #Balkonkraftwerke in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 25.07.2025.
Der aktuelle Höchststand liegt bei 1051084 registrierten Anlagen.
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A natural and short proof of Lee's conjecture on the Frobenius norm
Teng Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.02684 https://arxiv.org…

A natural and short proof of Lee's conjecture on the Frobenius norm
In 2010, Eun-Young Lee conjectured that if $A,B$ are two $n\times n$ complex matrices and $\left|A\right|, \left|B\right|$ are the absolute values of $A, B$, respectively, then \[ \|A+B\|_F\le \sqrt{\dfrac{1+\sqrt{2}}{2}}\|\left|A\right|+\left|B\right|\|_F, \] where $\|\cdot\|_F$ is the Frobenius norm of matrices. This conjecture was initially proven by Lin and Zhang [J. Math. Anal. Appl. 516 (2022) 126542] by studying inequa…

Kumulativer Zubau von #Balkonsolarleistung in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 25.06.2025.
Die summarische Leistung aller offiziell registrierten #Steckersolaranlagen beträgt…

Projected branes as platforms for crystalline, superconducting, and higher-order topological phases
Archisman Panigrahi, Bitan Roy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.23783 https://

Projected branes as platforms for crystalline, superconducting, and higher-order topological phases
Projected branes are constituted by only a small subset of sites of a higher-dimensional crystal, otherwise placed on a hyperplane oriented at an irrational or a rational slope therein, for which the effective Hamiltonian is constructed by systematically integrating out the sites of the parent lattice that fall outside such branes [Commun. Phys. 5, 230 (2022)]. Specifically, when such a brane is constructed from a square lattice, it gives rise to an aperiodic Fibonacci quasi-crystal or its rati…

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