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EU: Übergangs-Abkommen für ukrainische Agrarprodukte
Die EU und die Ukraine verhandeln ein neues Agrar-Abkommen. Eine bisherige Vereinbarung über Handelserleichterungen ist um Mitternacht ausgelaufen. Der Import ukrainischer landwirtschaftlicher Produkte soll dann auf einem Niveau zwischen dem vor Kriegsbeginn 2022 und dem bisherigen liegen. Das sagte EU-Agrarkommissar Christophe Hansen in Brüssel. Bis zu einem neuen Abkommen…
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Ukraine-Liveblog: ++ Kreml verärgert wegen Trumps Kleinkinder-Vergleich ++
Der Kreml hat verärgert auf einen Vergleich von US-Präsident Trump reagiert, der den Ukraine-Krieg mit einem Streit zwischen Kleinkindern verglichen hat. Nach russischen Angriffen in Kiew melden Behörden Tote und Verletzte. Der Liveblog vom Freitag zum Nachlesen.

Running cars on E-Fuels, made with CO2 from the air and green Hydrogen?🚗⛽🌿⚡
E-Fuels, so the story goes, could allow using existing cars and infrastructure like gas stations. However, E-Fuels are extremely inefficient.
In 2022, Siemens Energy, Porsche, and the Chilean company HIF inaugurated the Haru Oni pilot plant in Chile's windy Magallanes region, which turns CO2 and Hydrogen into Methanol and small amounts of Gasoline. How's it going? 🧵

What's up with the Production of E-Fuels in Chile?
In 2022, Siemens Energy, Porsche, and HIF inaugurated a pilot plant for the production of E-Methanol and E-Gasoline in southern Chile. The Haru Oni plant was intended to be just the beginning — with plans for large-scale production just a few years later. However, it does not look like that will ever happen.

Charged-hadron identification at Belle II
Belle II Collaboration, et al.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04355 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.…

Charged-hadron identification at Belle II
The Belle II experiment's ability to identify particles critically affects the sensitivity of its measurements. We describe Belle II's algorithms for identifying charged particles and evaluate their performance in separating pions, kaons, and protons using 426 fb$^{-1}$ of data collected at the energy-asymmetric $e^+e^-$ collider SuperKEKB in 2019--2022 at center-of-mass energies at and near the mass of the $Υ(4S)$.

Liminal and Lucid - dreamstate interplay
#DreamState #LucidDreaming
https://muz4now.co…

Liminal and Lucid - dreamstate interplay
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

What does making money have to do with crime?: A dive into the National Crime Victimization survey
Sydney Anuyah
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04240 https://

What does making money have to do with crime?: A dive into the National Crime Victimization survey
In this short article, I leverage the National Crime Victimization Survey from 1992 to 2022 to examine how income, education, employment, and key demographic factors shape the type of crime victims experience (violent vs property). Using balanced classification splits and logistic regression models evaluated by F1-score, there is an isolation of the socioeconomic drivers of victimization "Group A" models and then an introduction of demographic factors such as age, gender, race, and marital stat…

Weniger #Kriminalität rund um den #GoParc
Kaum dass irgendwo nichts mehr los ist, sinkt die Kriminalitätsrate. Das ist ja wirklich überraschend!

A Relativistic Jet in the Radio Quiet AGN Mrk 110
Ailing Wang, Tao An, Kenneth I. Kellermann, Hua Feng, Emmanuel K. Bempong-Manful, Roland Timmerman, Shaoguang Guo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.03970

A Relativistic Jet in the Radio Quiet AGN Mrk 110
We report the discovery of a relativistic jet in Mrk~110, a narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxy historically classified as a radio-quiet active galactic nucleus (AGN). Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) observations reveal intermittent jet activity during 2015--2016 and 2022--2024, with proper motion measurements yielding superluminal velocities of $\sim3.6\pm0.6\,c$ and $\sim2.1\pm0.2\,c$, respectively. The recent jet component decelerates to $\sim 1.5\pm0.2\,c$ at a projected distance of 1.1 p…

OSINT or BULLSHINT? Exploring Open-Source Intelligence tweets about the Russo-Ukrainian War
Johannes Niu, Mila Stillman, Anna Kruspe
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.03599 https://

OSINT or BULLSHINT? Exploring Open-Source Intelligence tweets about the Russo-Ukrainian War
This paper examines the role of Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) on Twitter regarding the Russo-Ukrainian war, distinguishing between genuine OSINT and deceptive misinformation efforts, termed "BULLSHINT." Utilizing a dataset spanning from January 2022 to July 2023, we analyze nearly 2 million tweets from approximately 1,040 users involved in discussing real-time military engagements, strategic analyses, and misinformation related to the conflict. Using sentiment analysis, partisanship detectio…

PitchBook: US VC investment in AI startups rose 33% QoQ to $65B in Q1, up 550% from the quarter prior to ChatGPT's 2022 release (Cade Metz/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/technology/ai-spending-openai-amazon-meta.html…

A.I. Frenzy Escalates as OpenAI, Amazon and Meta Supersize Spending
Companies like OpenAI, Amazon and Meta have supersized their spending on artificial intelligence, with no signs of slowing down.

Semantic Network Analysis of Achievement Standards in Physics of 2022 Revised Curriculum
Jibeom Seo, Jun Cho, Sukyung Han, Meesoon Ha
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.02864 https://…

Semantic Network Analysis of Achievement Standards in Physics of 2022 Revised Curriculum
We investigate semantic networks of achievement standards for physics subjects in the 2022 revised curriculum to derive information embedded in the curriculum. We extract each subject's keywords with node strength and random-walk betweenness, detect communities of physics terms by the optimized greedy algorithm, and find the connectivity of physics subjects using bipartite networks. The network analysis reveals three remarkable results: First, keywords are about scientific thinking and practice…

The Spread of Writing: Every Year (3000 BCE - 2022 CE)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUpJ4yVCNrI

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An SS433 flare caught by TESS. Fast rise times and evidence for a 13 hours quasi-period
SS433 is an exotic Galactic microquasar in which there is a supercritical inflow of matter into a compact object of likely black hole nature. Here we report on an SS433 flare that occurred during a TESS observation of Sector 54 in June of 2022. The flare lasted for about 10 days and culminated in a flux increase by a factor of three relative to quiescence. The unprecedented continuous photometric coverage of the flare afforded by TESS shows that the flux can rise and fall by up to a factor of t…

Cloudflare, CrowdStrike, and Ping Identity quietly ended the Critical Infrastructure Defense Project, a program that offered free services to vulnerable critical infrastructure sectors and was first launched in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
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Cyber firms sunset free services meant to counter Russia-linked hacking threats
The 2022 initiative by Cloudflare, CrowdStrike and Ping Identity provided cybersecurity support to critical infrastructure sectors seen as potential targets of Russia-linked attacks.

Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau von #Balkonsolarleistung in Deutschland mit Stand vom 25.06.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2015 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.

Kiesewetter für Ausweisung russischer Diplomaten
Der CDU-Sicherheitspolitiker Roderich Kiesewetter hat angesichts der Bedrohung durch russische Cyberangriffen und Sabotageaktionen mehr Konsequenzen gefordert. "Wir sollten noch vorhandene Agenten und Diplomaten ausweisen", sagte der stellvertretende Vorsitzende des Geheimdienst-Kontrollgremiums des Bundestags dem Handelsblatt.
Schon im April 2022 hatte die Bundesregierung 40 …
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Ukraine-Liveblog: ++ Ukraine-Verbündete beraten über weitere Hilfen ++
Auf Einladung Deutschlands und Großbritanniens kommt am Mittwoch die sogenannte Ramstein-Gruppe zusammen, um über weitere Hilfen für die Ukraine zu beraten - die USA nehmen nicht teil. Moskau fordert die Anerkennung der eroberten Gebiete.

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Local well-posedness for a system of quadratic derivative nonlinear Schrödinger equations
We consider the Cauchy problem for a system of quadratic derivative nonlinear Schrödinger equations introduced by M. Colin and T. Colin (2004) as a model of laser-plasma interaction. Under the condition that the flow map fails to be twice differentiable, Hirayama, Kinoshita, and Okamoto (2022) proved the well-posedness by constructing a modified energy and applying the energy method. In the present paper, we improve the well-posedness result under the above condition by using the short-time Fo…

$\mathcal{B}(B\rightarrow\tau\nu)$ measurement with the hadronic FEI at Belle~II
Giovanni Gaudino
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.03000 https://

$\mathcal{B}(B\rightarrowτν)$ measurement with the hadronic FEI at Belle~II
We presented at Moriond EW 2025 a measurement of the branching fraction of $B\toτν$ decays using $(387\pm 6) \times 10^6$ $Υ(4S)$ collected between 2019 and 2022 with the Belle~II detector at the SuperKEKB $e^+e^-$ collider. We reconstruct the accompanying $B^-$ meson using the hadronic tagging method, while $B\toτν$ candidates are identified in the recoil. We find evidence for $B\toτν$ decays at 3.0 standard deviations, including systematic uncertainties. The measured branching fraction…

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…

from my link log —
How to take the inverse of a type.
https://2022.ecoop.org/details/ecoop-2022-papers/6/How-to-Take-the-Inverse-of-a-Type
saved 2025-06-03

How to Take the Inverse of a Type (ECOOP 2022 - Research Papers) - ECOOP 2022
ECOOP is Europe’s longest-standing annual Programming Languages (PL) conference, and welcomes high quality research papers relating to the PL field in a broad sense. This year the conference will feature dedicated paper categories for reproduction studies, experience reports, reflective “pearls”, and forward-thinking “new idea” papers. We are also pleased to have two Journal First routes for submission to ECOOP, with the ACM TOPLAS and Science of Computer Programming journals.

Cloudflare, CrowdStrike, and Ping Identity end a 2022 project offering free cybersecurity tools to critical infrastructure sectors at risk from Russian attacks (David DiMolfetta/Nextgov/FCW)
https://www.nextgov.com/cybersecurity/…

Cyber firms sunset free services meant to counter Russia-linked hacking threats
The 2022 initiative by Cloudflare, CrowdStrike and Ping Identity provided cybersecurity support to critical infrastructure sectors seen as potential targets of Russia-linked attacks.

Synth Kraze
- music made for the joy of it -
#SynthPop #NowPlaying
https://muz4now.com/2022/s…

Synth Kraze #SynthPop #NowPlaying
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Die Preispolitik bei den #SniperElite Spielen versteht man wohl nur intern.
Das Spiel aus diesem Jahr kostet 50€, der Vorgänger aus dem Jahr 2022 kostet... auch 50€.
Der Vor-Vorgänger von 2017 (!) kostet 60€. Huh??

Ritual Cultures of Medieval Religious Women (Hybrid Conference), 14-15 July 2025
https://ift.tt/1TH7pvI
TOC: Dutch Crossing: Journal of Low Countries Studies, vol. 46, no. 3 (March 2022) Dutch…
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Time For 9 o'clock #HashTagGames hosted by @… Let's play!
#MascotABookOrPlay

MOA-2022-BLG-091Lb and KMT-2024-BLG-1209Lb: Microlensing planets detected through weak caustic-crossing signals
Cheongho Han, Chung-Uk Lee, Andrzej Udalski, Ian A. Bond, Hongjing Yang, Michael D. Albrow, Sun-Ju Chung, Andrew Gould, Youn Kil Jung, Kyu-Ha Hwang, Yoon-Hyun Ryu, Yossi Shvartzvald, In-Gu Shin, Jennifer C. Yee, Weicheng Zang, Tanagodchaporn Inyanya, Sang-Mok Cha, Doeon Kim, Dong-Jin Kim, Seung-Lee Kim, Dong-Joo Lee, Yongseok Lee, Byeong-Gon Park, Richard W. Pogge, Przemek Mr…

MOA-2022-BLG-091Lb and KMT-2024-BLG-1209Lb: Microlensing planets detected through weak caustic-crossing signals
The light curves of the microlensing events MOA-2022-BLG-091 and KMT-2024-BLG-1209 exhibit anomalies with very similar features. These anomalies appear near the peaks of the light curves, where the magnifications are moderately high, and are distinguished by weak caustic-crossing features with minimal distortion while the source remains inside the caustic. To achieve a deeper understanding of these anomalies, we conducted a comprehensive analysis of the lensing events. We carried out binary-len…

Anzahl der #Balkonkraftwerke in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 19.06.2025.
Der aktuelle Höchststand liegt bei 989236 registrierten Anlagen.
12.347 mehr als am 11.06.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1923 bis 2015 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der

Heute vor 60 Jahren: Am 16.06.1965 zündeten die #USA im Rahmen von Operation Whetstone die Atombombe "Diluted Waters". Whetstone war eine Serie von #Kernwaffentests bei der 1964/65 insgesamt 46 Bomben größtenteils im Testgebiet in

This was a particularly good #wine brought back from #Argentina
Shared with good people during a good English summer evening.

Search for Magnetic Monopoles with the Complete ANTARES Dataset
A. Albert, S. Alves, M. Andr\'e, M. Ardid, S. Ardid, J. -J. Aubert, J. Aublin, B. Baret, S. Basa, Y. Becherini, B. Belhorma, F. Benfenati, V. Bertin, S. Biagi, J. Boumaaza, M. Bouta, M. C. Bouwhuis, H. Branzas, R. Bruijn, J. Brunner, J. Busto, B. Caiffi, D. Calvo, S. Campion, A. Capone, F. Carenini, J. Carr, V. Carretero, T. Cartraud, S. Celli, L. Cerisy, M. Chabab, R. Cherkaoui El Moursli, T. Chiarusi, M. Circella, J.…

Search for Magnetic Monopoles with the Complete ANTARES Dataset
This study presents a novel search for magnetic monopoles using data collected over a 14 year period (2008-2022) by the ANTARES neutrino telescope. The interaction of magnetic monopoles with matter was modeled according to Kazama, Yang, and Goldhaber cross-section. Upper limits on the flux of magnetic monopoles are obtained for velocities both above and below the Cherenkov threshold. No events consistent with the passage of magnetic monopoles were detected, enabling the setting of an upper flux…

Russia releases four REvil members who were convicted for payment card fraud; the Kremlin's 2022 crackdown on REvil followed a call between Biden and Putin (Daryna Antoniuk/The Record)
https://therecord.media/revil-cybercrime-gang-members-released-russia

Russia releases REvil members after convictions for payment card fraud
Four convicted members of the REvil cybercrime gang were released from custody after being sentenced in St. Petersburg for offenses related to payment card fraud.

Veteran LB Von Miller, Washington Commanders finalizing 1-year deal: Reports https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6499101/2025/07/16/von-miller-washington-commanders-signing-reports/

Discussion of "Causal and counterfactual views of missing data models" by Razieh Nabi, Rohit Bhattacharya, Ilya Shpitser, & James M. Robins
Alex W. Levis, Edward H. Kennedy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13025

Discussion of "Causal and counterfactual views of missing data models" by Razieh Nabi, Rohit Bhattacharya, Ilya Shpitser, & James M. Robins
We congratulate Nabi et al. (2022) on their impressive and insightful paper, which illustrates the benefits of using causal/counterfactual perspectives and tools in missing data problems. This paper represents an important approach to missing-not-at-random (MNAR) problems, exploiting nonparametric independence restrictions for identification, as opposed to parametric/semiparametric models, or resorting to sensitivity analysis. Crucially, the authors represent these restrictions with missing dat…

Achieving Gender Representation in Lead-Author Publications in the ASTRO3D Centre of Excellence
Kim-Vy H. Tran, Stuart Wyithe, Michelle Ding
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20676

Achieving Gender Representation in Lead-Author Publications in the ASTRO3D Centre of Excellence
We examine the publication rates of 400 research-focused members in the ASTRO3D Centre of Excellence by gender, project, and year from January 2018 to January 2024 (six years). Of the 443 refereed publications led by ASTRO3D members, women were first-author on 38% which is nearly double that of the astronomy field in the same period (~20%). We record a high-water mark in 2022: 46% of ASTRO3D publications were led by females and 45% of research members identified as female. Using the nine resear…

General-domain FC-based shock-dynamics solver I: Basic elements
Oscar P. Bruno, Daniel V. Leibovici
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.16076 https://

General-domain FC-based shock-dynamics solver I: Basic elements
This contribution, Part I in a two-part article series, presents a general-domain version of the FC-SDNN (Fourier Continuation Shock-detecting Neural Network) spectral scheme for the numerical solution of nonlinear conservation laws, which is applicable under arbitrary boundary conditions and in general domains. Like the previous simple-domain contribution (Journal of Computational Physics X 15, (2022)), the present approach relies on the use of the Fourier Continuation method for accurate spec…

Extreme values of derivatives of the Dedekind zeta function of a cyclotomic field
Zhonghua Li, Yutong Song, Qiyu Yang, Shengbo Zhao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12342

Extreme values of derivatives of the Dedekind zeta function of a cyclotomic field
In this paper, we establish a lower bound for the maximum of derivatives of the Dedekind zeta function of a cyclotomic field on the critical line. Employing a double version convolution formula and combing special GCD sums, our result generalizes the work of Bondarenko et al. and Fonga in 2023. We also set a lower bound by the resonance method when the real part is near the critical line, both of the above results refine part of Yang's work in 2022.

Las Vegas Raiders Star Geno Smith Named Best Quarterback in One Key Category https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/geno-smith-best-quarterback-one-category/?adt_ei=[email]

"The environmental burden of the United States’ bitcoin mining boom
Bitcoin mines—massive computing clusters generating cryptocurrency tokens—consume vast amounts of electricity. .... From mid-2022 to mid-2023, the 34 mines consumed 32.3 terawatt-hours of electricity—33% more than Los Angeles—85% of which came from fossil fuels. We estimated that 1.9 million Americans were exposed to ≥0.1 μg/m3 of additional PM2.5 pollution from Bitcoin mines"

The environmental burden of the United States’ bitcoin mining boom - Nature Communications
The paper maps air pollution from power plants supplying electricity to US Bitcoin mines. It finds that 1.9 million people in 2022-2023 breathed toxic amounts of Bitcoin mine attributable pollution, particularly around New York City and Houston.

I didn't know that the value of IPv4 addresses peaked in 2022 and now appears to be declining.
Everyone sitting on a big chunk of IPv4 space is now holding a depreciating asset. If I were them I'd be minded to accelerate their own IPv6 transition in order to sell it off.
But I'd suggest that regardless.
https://ipv4a-5539a…

Validation of Hermes-3 turbulence simulations against the TCV-X21 diverted L-mode reference case
B D Dudson, M Kryjak, H Muhammed, J Omotani
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12180

Validation of Hermes-3 turbulence simulations against the TCV-X21 diverted L-mode reference case
Electrostatic flux-driven turbulence simulations with the Hermes-3 code are performed in TCV L-mode conditions in forward and reversed toroidal field configurations, and compared to the TCV-X21 reference dataset [D.S. Oliveira and T. Body et al. 2022] qualitatively and with a quantitative methodology. Using only the magnetic equilibrium, total power across the separatrix (120kW) and total particle flux to the targets (3e21/s) as inputs, the simulations produce time-averaged plasma profiles in g…

Pius XII and Decolonization: Catholicism in North Africa and the Levant, 1939-1958
https://ift.tt/wXJ29Uh
TOC: Dutch Crossing: Journal of Low Countries Studies, vol. 46, no. 3 (March 2022) Dutch…
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KaVontae Turpin on why ‘everybody is buying into’ new Cowboys’ culture, offensive role in 2025 https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/kavontae-turpin-on-why-everybody-is-buying-into-new-cowboys-culture-offensive-r…

Global hypoellipticity on time-periodic Gelfand-Shilov spaces via non-discrete Fourier analysis
Andr\'e Pedroso Kowacs, Pedro Meyer Tokoro
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13475

Global hypoellipticity on time-periodic Gelfand-Shilov spaces via non-discrete Fourier analysis
In this paper, we provide a characterization of the time-periodic Gelfand-Shilov spaces, as introduced by F. de Ávila Silva and M. Cappiello [J. Funct. Anal., 282(9):29, 2022], through the asymptotic behaviour of both the Euclidean and periodic partial Fourier transforms of their elements. As an application, we establish necessary and sufficient conditions for global regularity -- within this framework -- for a broad class of constant-coefficient differential operators, as well as for first-or…

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Spectral conditions for spanning $k$-trees or $k$-ended-trees of $t$-connected graphs
Let $G$ be a connected graph of order $n$. A spanning $k$-tree of $G$ is a spanning tree with the maximum degree at most $k$, and a spanning $k$-ended-tree of $G$ is a spanning tree at most $k$ leaves, where $k\geq2$ is an integer. This paper establishes some spectral conditions for the existence of spanning $k$-trees or spanning $k$-ended-trees in $t$-connected graphs, which generalize the results of Fan et al. (2022) and Zhou (2010), and improve the results of Fiedler et al. (2010), Ao et al.…

Ukraine und Russland setzen Gefangenenaustausch fort
Die Ukraine und Russland haben ihren Anfang Juni in Istanbul vereinbarten Gefangenenaustausch fortgesetzt. "Heute kehrten Kämpfer der Armee, der Nationalgarde, der Grenztruppen zurück", schrieb der ukrainische Präsident Wolodymyr Selenskyj bei Telegram. Der Großteil sei seit 2022 in russischer Gefangenschaft gewesen. Eine Angabe zur Anzahl der Rückkehrer machte er nicht. Pa…
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Ukraine-Liveblog: ++ Russland bestellt deutschen Botschafter ein ++
Russland will den deutschen Botschafter wegen des Umgangs mit russischen Journalisten einbestellen. Bei einem russischen Angriff auf die Region Cherson wurden nach Behördenangaben ein Mensch getötet und weitere verletzt.

Activities of Women in Physics Group in Spain 2022 to 2023
Pascuala Garcia-Martinez, Carmen Ocal, Ana Xesus Lopez, Mariam Tortola, Milagros F. Morcillo-Arencibia, Alberto Martin-Molina, Sonia Estrade
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.18816

Activities of Women in Physics Group in Spain 2022 to 2023
In this paper, we present the main actions of the Women in Physics Group of the Spanish Royal Physics Society over the period of 2022 to 2023, in which we celebrated the 20th anniversary of the group. We also outline relevant equality initiatives implemented during this period by the Spanish Government as well as analyse their impact on the status of women in Physics in our country. In 2023, our scientific society approved the Gender Equality Plan, thus becoming a pioneer scientific society in …

Charged-particle production in pp collisions at 13.6 TeV and Pb-Pb collisions at 5.36 TeV with ALICE
Tulika Tripathy (for the ALICE collaboration)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14989

Charged-particle production in pp collisions at 13.6 TeV and Pb-Pb collisions at 5.36 TeV with ALICE
The first measurements of the charged-particle pseudorapidity density, ${\rm d}N_{\rm{ch}}/{\rm d}η$, in proton-proton (pp) collisions at $\sqrt{s} =$ 13.6 TeV and in lead-lead (Pb-Pb) collisions at $\sqrt{s_{\rm{NN}}} = $ 5.36 TeV are presented. The analysis is based on Run 3 data recorded in 2022 and 2023, using the upgraded ALICE detector at the LHC. The average charged-particle pseudorapidity density $\langle{\rm d}N_{\rm{ch}}/{\rm d}η\rangle$ in pp collisions was measured at midrapidity …

Consumer Law for AI Agents
Christoph Busch
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11567 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.11567

Consumer Law for AI Agents
Since the public release of ChatGPT in November 2022, the AI landscape is undergoing a rapid transformation. Currently, the use of AI chatbots by consumers has largely been limited to image generation or question-answering language models. The next generation of AI systems, AI agents that can plan and execute complex tasks with only limited human involvement, will be capable of a much broader range of actions. In particular, consumers could soon be able to delegate purchasing decisions to AI ag…

Updated line list for the principal isotopologue of carbon monoxide
Vladimir G. Ushakov, Emile S. Medvedev
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12216 https://…

Updated line list for the principal isotopologue of carbon monoxide
The line list for the principal isotopologue of CO calculated earlier by the present authors [1, 2] with the irregular dipole-moment function (DMF) is updated with use of the recent high-precision measurements in the 3-0 [3, 4] (Bielska et al. 2022, Hodges et al. 2025) and 7-0 [5] (Balashov et al. 2023) bands. The new data came in contradiction with the experimental data on the 1-0 band [6, 7]. Therefore, we performed fitting several model DMFs to the modified original data set of Meshkov et al…

Results from the Pan-STARRS Search for Kilonovae: Contamination by Massive Stellar Outbursts
M. D. Fulton, S. J. Smartt, M. E. Huber, K. W. Smith, K. C. Chambers, M. Nicholl, S. Srivastav, D. R. Young, E. A. Magnier, C. -C. Lin, P. Minguez, T. de Boer, T. Lowe, R. Wainscoat
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.07082

Results from the Pan-STARRS Search for Kilonovae: Contamination by Massive Stellar Outbursts
We present results from the Pan-STARRS optical search for kilonovae without the aid of gravitational wave and gamma-ray burst triggers. The search was conducted from 26 October 2019 to 15 December 2022. During this time, we reported 29,740 transients observed by Pan-STARRS to the IAU Transient Name Server. Of these, 175 were Pan-STARRS credited discoveries that had a host galaxy within 200 Mpc and had discovery absolute magnitudes M > -16.5. A subset of 11 transients was plausibly identified as…

A survey of UK academic integrity violations finds nearly 7,000 proven AI cheating cases in 2023-24, or 5.1 per 1,000 students, up from 1.6 per 1,000 in 2022-23 (Michael Goodier/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.co…

High-Speed Boulders and the Debris Field in DART Ejecta
Tony L. Farnham (University of Maryland, Department of Astronomy), Jessica M. Sunshine (University of Maryland, Department of Astronomy, University of Maryland, Department of Geology), Masatoshi Hirabayashi (Daniel Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology), Carolyn M. Ernst (Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory), R. Terik Daly (Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory), …

High-Speed Boulders and the Debris Field in DART Ejecta
On 26 September 2022 the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft collided with Dimorphos, the moon of the near-Earth asteroid 65803 Didymos, in a full-scale demonstration of a kinetic impactor concept. The companion LICIACube spacecraft documented the aftermath, capturing images of the expansion and evolution of the ejecta from 29 to 243 s after the impact. We present results from our analyses of these observations, including an improved reduction of the data and new absolute calibra…

Zubau (netto) der Leistung von Balkonkraftwerken in #Deutschland.
Hoffe, es stimmt. Wer Langeweile hat, kann ja mal nachrechnen. 😆

#Balkonsolar #Energiewende

Outward and Inward
#InstrumentalMusic #NowPlaying
https://muz4now.com/2022/outward-and-i

Outward and Inward #NowPlaying
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Pius XII and Decolonization: Catholicism in North Africa and the Levant, 1939-1958
https://ift.tt/mXkyAi8
TOC: Dutch Crossing: Journal of Low Countries Studies, vol. 46, no. 3 (March 2022) Dutch…
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Gender Imbalance in Physics Education and Employment in Germany: Trends and Challenges
Ruzin Aganoglu, Andrea Bossmann, Ulrike B\"ohm, Anja Metzelthin, Agnes Sandner, Iris Traulsen, Angelica Zacarias
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.19021

Gender Imbalance in Physics Education and Employment in Germany: Trends and Challenges
Gender imbalance among German physicists persists, with fewer women in advanced degrees and research leadership roles. Although female enrollment in Physics programs increased slightly until 2022, potentially influenced by COVID-19 the long-term trend remains uncertain. Despite the rise in female Ph.D. students and foreign representation, female professors in Physics and Astronomy stagnated below 14 %, indicating significant underrepresentation. Anticipated revisions to the WissZeitVG law may i…

Tesla sues ex-Optimus engineer Zhongjie Li, who worked at Tesla from 2022 to 2024, accusing him of stealing humanoid robot info and setting up a rival startup (Dana Hull/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

A new Lagrange multiplier approach for constructing structure preserving schemes, III. Bound preserving and energy dissipating
Qing Cheng, Tingfeng Wang, Xiaofei Zhao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12402

A new Lagrange multiplier approach for constructing structure preserving schemes, III. Bound preserving and energy dissipating
In the third part of this series, we continue to explore the idea of the Lagrange multiplier introduced in the first part [2020, Comput. Methods Appl. Mech. Engr., 391, 114585] and refined in the second part [2022, SIAM J. Numer. Anal., 60, 970-998] to further develop efficient and accurate numerical schemes that preserve the maximum bound principle (MBP) and energy dissipation for solving gradient flows. The proposed framework allows us to begin with any conventional scheme as a predictor step…

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On Devon Allen's Disqualification at the 2022 World Track and Field Championships
Owen Fiore, Elizabeth D. Schifano, Jun Yan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11460

On Devon Allen's Disqualification at the 2022 World Track and Field Championships
Devon Allen's disqualification at the men's 110-meter hurdle final at the 2022 World Track and Field Championships, due to a reaction time (RT) of 0.099 seconds-just 0.001 seconds below the allowable threshold-sparked widespread debate over the fairness and validity of RT rules. This study investigates two key issues: variations in timing systems and the justification for the 0.1-second disqualification threshold. We pooled RT data from men's 110-meter hurdles and 100-meter dash, as well as wom…

Assessing the Influence of Pavement Performance on Road Safety Through Crash Frequency and Severity Analysis
Prathyush Kumar Reddy Lebaku, Lu Gao, Jingran Sun, Xingju Wang, Xuejian Kang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.16485

Assessing the Influence of Pavement Performance on Road Safety Through Crash Frequency and Severity Analysis
Road safety is impacted by a range of factors that can be categorized into human, vehicle, and roadway/environmental elements. This research explores the connection between pavement performance and road safety, particularly in relation to crash frequency and severity, using data from the Iowa Department of Transportation (DOT) for 2022. By merging crash data with pavement inventory data, we conduct a spatial analysis that incorporates the geographical coordinates of crash sites with the conditi…

A Spectral Energy Distribution Variability Study of the Eclipsing AGN NGC 6814
L. K. Pothier-Bogoslowski, L. C. Gallo, A. G. Gonzalez, M. Z. Buhariwalla, J. M. Miller
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.07212

A Spectral Energy Distribution Variability Study of the Eclipsing AGN NGC 6814
The local Seyfert 1.5 active galactic nucleus (AGN), NGC 6814, is known to exhibit complex variability, eclipses, and even changing-look behaviour. In this work, we utilize optical-to-X-ray data obtained over 10-years with the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory to examine the short-term (i.e. daily) and long-term (yearly) variations in the spectral energy distribution (SED). This includes three epochs of high-cadence monitoring (2012, 2016, and 2022), as well as two single observations (2019 and 20…

Hubble's Multi-Year Search for Exospheres in the TRAPPIST-1 System Reveals Frequent Microflares
David Berardo, Julien de Wit, Michael Gillon, Ward S. Howard, Vincent Bourrier, Matthew W. Cotton, Florian Quatresooz, L\'eonie Hoerner, Emeline Bolmont, Artem Burdanov, Adam J. Burgasser, Brice-Olivier Demory, David Enhrenreich, Susan M. Lederer, Benjamin V. Rackham, Sara Seager, Amaury Triaud

Hubble's Multi-Year Search for Exospheres in the TRAPPIST-1 System Reveals Frequent Microflares
Ly-$α$ observations provide a powerful probe of stellar activity and atmospheric escape in exoplanetary systems. We present here an analysis of 104 HST/STIS orbits monitoring the TRAPPIST-1 system between 2017 and 2022, covering 3--5 transits for each of its seven planets. We rule out transit depths $\gtrsim20\%$, which translates into an upper limit on the escape rate of $1064~EO_H$/Gyr for planet b ($1~EO_H$ is the Earth-ocean-equivalent hydrogen content), in agreement with recent claims tha…

Search for the rare decay D$^0$ $\to$ $\mu^ \mu^-$ in proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s}$ = 13.6 TeV
CMS Collaboration
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06152 …

Search for the rare decay D$^0$ $\to$ $μ^+μ^-$ in proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s}$ = 13.6 TeV
A search for the rare decay D$^0$ $\to$ $μ^+μ^-$ is reported using proton-proton collision events at $\sqrt{s}$ = 13.6 TeV collected by the CMS detector in 2022$-$2023, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 64.5 fb$^{-1}$. This is the first analysis to use a newly developed inclusive dimuon trigger, expanding the scope of the CMS flavor physics program. The search uses D$^0$ mesons obtained from D$^{*+}$ $\to$ D$^0π^+$ decays. No significant excess is observed. A limit on the branchin…

Refugees' path to legal stability is long and systematically unequal
Ola Ali, Elma Dervic, Guillermo Prieto-Viertel, Carsten K\"allner, Rainer St\"utz, Andrea Vismara, Rafael Prieto-Curiel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.07916

Refugees' path to legal stability is long and systematically unequal
Legal systems shape not only the recognition of migrants and refugees but also the pace and stability of their integration. Refugees often shift between multiple legal classifications, a process we refer to as the "legal journey". This journey is frequently prolonged and uncertain. Using a network-based approach, we analyze legal transitions for over 350,000 migrants in Austria (2022 to 2024). Refugees face highly unequal pathways to stability, ranging from two months for Ukrainians to nine mon…