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Kaikkeen hyvään toimintaan liittyy paradokseja, ristiriitaisia periaatteita ja pyrkimyksiä. Toyotan sellaisista on tehty oikein kirja (Extreme Toyota). Kirjassa "LEGO - Kuinka tanskalaissuku valloitti maailman" mainitaan LEGOn pomon 1960-tekemä lista, joka on näköjään netissä:
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11 paradoxes of leadership (from LEGO)
One of my CEO coaching clients with 30+ years of experience (much as a CEO) recently read The LEGO Story: How a Little Toy Sparked the World’s Imagination and shared the list below of 11 R…

The rings of (2060) Chiron: Evidence of an evolving system
C. L. Pereira, F. Braga-Ribas, B. Sicardy, R. Leiva, M. Assafin, B. E. Morgado, J. L. Ortiz, P. Santos-Sanz, J. I. B. Camargo, G. Margoti, Y. Kilic, G. Benedetti-Rossi, R. Vieira-Martins, T. F. L. L. Pinheiro, R. Sfair, F. L. Rommel, A. R. Gomes-J\'unior, R. C. Boufleur, R. Duffard, J. Desmars, D. Souami, N. Morales, F. Arrese, K. Barkaoui, A. Burdanov, C. A. Colazo, C. A. Domingues, H. Dutra, R. C. Gargalhone, C. Jacques, …

The rings of (2060) Chiron: Evidence of an evolving system
The centaur (2060) Chiron has long been a candidate for hosting material in orbit, based on occultation and photometric and spectroscopic data. Here, we present a multichord stellar occultation observed on 2023 September 10 UT that reveals new and complex structures surrounding Chiron. High-cadence light curves show multiple secondary events that are best explained (when compared with a multishell interpretation) with a system of three confined rings located at average radii of 273, 325, and 43…

"2025 ‘virtually certain’ to be second- or third-hottest year on record, EU data shows"
#Climate #ClimateChange

How the insurance crisis overtook California
Insurance Commissioner Lara’s 2023 regulatory overhaul promised to ease California’s insurance crisis
but instead delivered major concessions to the industry.
Under Lara’s watch, the state’s insurer of last resort exploded
from 123,657 policies in 2019 to over 645,000,
leaving January wildfire victims underinsured.
Six of nine insurers filing under new rules
add zero new policies in high-risk zones
-…

How the insurance crisis overtook California
Insurance Commissioner Lara's 2023 regulatory overhaul promised to ease California's insurance crisis but instead delivered major concessions to the industry.

Uniqueness of entire function concerning derivatives and shifts
Sujoy Majumder, Nabadwip Sarkar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10275 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510…

Uniqueness of entire function concerning derivatives and shifts
In the paper, we investigate the uniqueness problem of entire function concerning its derivative and shift and obtain two results. On of our result solves the open problem posed by Majumder et al. (On a conjecture of Li and Yang, Hiroshima Math. J., 53 (2023), 199-223) and the other result improves and generalizes the recent result due to Huang and Fang (Unicity of entire functions concerning their shifts and derivatives, Comput. Methods Funct. Theory, 21 (2021), 523-532) in a large extend.

Alexa : Amazons neue Assistentin ist endlich final
Bereits Ende 2023 präsentierte Amazon seine verbesserte Assistentin, nun "Alexa ". Zumindest in den USA hat sie Marktreife erreicht.
https://www.

Three old post updates:
1. Alexander Lehner’s styles for accordions:
https://adrianroselli.com/2023/08/progressively-enhanced-html-accordion.html#Update056
2. Devin Prater asking for Google to do better:

Progressively Enhanced HTML Accordion
Does what it says on the tin. Uses

and

with a bit of ARIA to create an accordion that works without JavaScript while working better with JavaScript. Mostly. See the Pen Progressively Enhanced HTML Accordion by Adrian Roselli (@aardrian) on CodePen. Visit the standalone version for testing or…

Media Coverage of War Victims: Journalistic Biases in Reporting on Israel and Gaza
Bedoor AlShebli, Bruno Gabriel Salvador Casara, Anne Maass
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06453 ht…

Media Coverage of War Victims: Journalistic Biases in Reporting on Israel and Gaza
October 7th 2023 marked the start of a war against Gaza, which is considered one of the most devastating wars in modern history and has led to a stark attitudinal divide within and between countries. To investigate the role of media bias in reporting on this asymmetrical warfare, we analyzed over 14,000 news articles published during the first year of war in three Western (The New York Times, BBC, CNN) and one non-Western English-language outlets (Al Jazeera English). Exploring the media narrat…

Trends and Performance Visualization of Clutch Time in Japan's Professional B.League
Shota Shiiku, Jun Ichikawa
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08597 https://

Trends and Performance Visualization of Clutch Time in Japan's Professional B.League
Reflecting the recent rise in Japanese basketball's competitiveness and pivotal outcomes in international tournaments, clutch-time performance has become increasingly critical. We examine clutch-time performance in Japan's B.League using play-by-play and box-score data from the 2023-24 season. Defining clutch time as the final five minutes with a score margin within five points, we compare efficiency and shot selection between clutch and non-clutch windows. We focus on effective field-goal perc…

Five plays that defined Lions' win over Ravens as Detroit gets revenge for 2023 blowout loss https://www.nfl.com/news/five-plays-defined-lions-win-ravens-revenge-2023-blowout-loss

UN werfen Russland Folter an Zivilisten vor
Eine Untersuchungskommission des UN-Menschenrechtsbüros in Genf wirft Russland die "weiterbreitete und systematische" Folter ukrainischer Zivilisten vor. Die Kommission befragte demnach 216 Zivilisten, die seit Juni 2023 aus der Haft in den russisch besetzten Gebieten entlassen wurden, heißt es in dem Bericht. Auch mit Angehörigen von Menschen, die noch festgehalten werden, hätten d…
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Ukraine-Liveblog: ++ UN werfen Russland Folter an Zivilisten vor ++
UN-Experten beschuldigen Russland, in besetzten Gebieten ukrainische Zivilisten systematisch zu foltern. Mehrere russische Flughäfen haben wegen ukrainischer Drohnenangriffe in der Nacht den Betrieb eingeschränkt.

Débat de 2023 sur les victimes de sectes, de l’emprise Š la reconstruction. Quels sont les mécanismes Š l'oeuvre, comment identifier le discours sectaire, comment trouver de l'aide pour s'en sortir et se reconstruire ? https://chardonsbleus.org/debat-victim

My favorite part of this is when ChatGPT tells the Lurie staffer about Mayor Lurie's budget instructions to city departments on December 13, 2023. Lurie entered office in January 2025.
https://sfanonymous.substack.com/p/read-how-top-mayor-daniel-lur…

Read how top Mayor Daniel Lurie Official used ChatGPT to figure out how President Trump could convert Alcatraz to a prison and how to prepare for "tough questions" on Family Zoning
In response to a records request, San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie’s team responded on September 23, 2025 with several ChatGPT logs.

#vereinfachteSprache
Deutschland erlebte 2023 viel #Regen und hohe Temperaturen. Der Deutsche Wetterdienst sagt, dass 2023 das wärmste Jahr seit 1881 war. Es gab 20 Prozent mehr Regen als im Durchschnitt. Besonders stark betroffen war Nordwestdeutschland mit Überschwemmungen. Klimawan…

Sind die Regenrekorde in Deutschland eine Folge des Klimawandels? (vereinfachte Sprache)
Erfahre mehr über die extremen Wetterbedingungen in Deutschland 2023 und wie der Klimawandel zu ungewöhnlich hohen Niederschlagsmengen beiträgt.

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#ThroughTheNight
- Lieder in Spain
From the 2023 Schubertiade in Vilabertran, Spain, soprano Dorothea Röschmann and pianist Wolfram Rieger perform a programme of lieder by Schumann, Mahler and Wagner.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002jsy9

On Website Technicals (2023-06) - Tech updates: heat, music. - https://www.earth.org.uk/note-on-site-technicals-73.html

On Website Technicals (2023-06)
Tech updates: heat, music.

An der @… starten wir ein von der @… gefördertes Projekt zur (halb-)automatischen Erschließung von historischen kulinarischen Objekten (Kochbücher, Menükarten, …) um Forschenden eine Plattform anzubieten mit dieser Art…

Python Entwickler:in DFG-Projekt Kulinarik (m/w/d)
Berufsanfänger:innen willkommen! An der Sächsischen Landesbibliothek - Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Dresden (SLUB) ist ab Februar 2024 die Stelle eines Bibliothekarischen Mitarbeitenden (m/w/d) Kennziffer SLUB-2023-56 in Teilzeit (50 Prozent) bis zur Vergütungsgruppe TV-L E 9b befristet auf 23 Monate zu besetzen. Die SLUB zählt mit etwa 350 Mitarbeitenden zu den größten und leistungsfähigsten wissenschaftlichen Bibliotheken Deutschlands. Sie ist ein bedeutendes Innov…

Voorvechter van vrijheid van meningsuiting eist spreekverbod voor Nederlander.
3 keer raden welke Amerikaanse techmiljardair de vrijheid van meningsuiting niet zo absoluut vind als het om z'n eigen belangen gaat... https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/09/22/x-eis

Filing: Lachlan Murdoch's fiscal 2025 compensation jumped to $33M, including a $3M salary and $10.6M in stock awards, up from $23.8M in 2024 and $21.8M in 2023 (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business

Lachlan Murdoch’s Fox Pay Rises to $33 Million As He Assumes Control of Family Media Empire
Weeks after settling with his siblings over who will control Fox, the company revealed that the CEO's fiscal 2025 pay rose significantly from 2024.

Two updates to old posts, both from social media bits:
1. https://adrianroselli.com/2023/09/the-children-are-driving-the-bus.html#Update01 adds this mini-thread for Bootlicker.js:

The Children Are Driving the Bus
The Vercel CEO over on the hell-site tweets: v0.dev produces the kind of production-grade code that we'd want to ship in our own @vercel products. That was the bar we set for ourselves. At the moment it can output HTML with @tailwindcss and React w/ @shadcn UI. pic.twitter.com/hWLzpmyaG2 Guillermo Rauch…

Planned coal production through to 2035 and planned fossil gas production through to 2050 are not only set to breach Paris Agreement targets to keep temperature increases 'well below' 2C while pursuing efforts to limit them to 1.5C, they have increased since the last time the analysis was carried out in 2023.
'Alarming': Fossil fuel production plans far exceed global climate targets | BusinessGreen News

'Alarming': Fossil fuel production plans far exceed global climate targets
Planned coal, oil, and gas production through to 2030 is double the level that would be consistent with limiting global warming to 2C, analysis shows

Integrating Mechanistic Modeling and Machine Learning to Study CD4 /CD8 CAR-T Cell Dynamics with Tumor Antigen Regulation
Saranya Varakunan, Melissa Stadt, Mohammad Kohandel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.19536

Integrating Mechanistic Modeling and Machine Learning to Study CD4+/CD8+ CAR-T Cell Dynamics with Tumor Antigen Regulation
Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell therapy has shown remarkable success in hematological malignancies, yet patient responses remain highly variable and the roles of CD4 and CD8 subsets are not fully understood. We present an extended mathematical framework of CAR-T cell dynamics that explicitly models CD4 helper and CD8 cytotoxic lineages and their interactions with tumor antigen burden. Building on the Kirouac et al. (2023) model of antigen-regulated memory, effector, and exhaustion transi…

Funding, authorship patterns and citation impact of articles funded by Ukrainian agencies before and during Russia's full-scale war (2020-2023)
Myroslava Hladchenko, Rodrigo Costas
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.22013

Funding, authorship patterns and citation impact of articles funded by Ukrainian agencies before and during Russia's full-scale war (2020-2023)
This study examines how Russia's full-scale war against Ukraine affected foreign co-funding, authorship patterns, and the citation impact of articles funded by the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine (MESU), the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (NASU), and the National Research Foundation of Ukraine (NRFU). The analysis includes articles in Scopus-indexed journals between 2020 and 2023. The share of articles funded by these agencies increased from 8.6% in 2020-2021 to 11.9% in 2…

Dan heb je zo'n mooie infographic gemaakt als dataspecialist, met de juiste uitleg erboven.
En dan gaat zo'n oetlul van de NOS precies de verkeerde uitleg erbij geven.
"Van de kiezers die de vorige keer op D66 stemden bleef 24% die partij trouw".
#amateurs

Localized and weighted versions of extremal problems
Binlong Li, Bo Ning
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.17055 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.17055

Localized and weighted versions of extremal problems
Malec and Tompkins (EUJC, 2023) considered the localized versions of Turán-type problems, and proved a localized theorem on Erdős-Gallai Theorem on paths. Zhao and Zhang (JGT, 2025) gave a long proof of a localized version of Erdős-Gallai Theorem on cycles. In this paper, we consider several types of generalization of Turán-type problems, that is, localized versions, weighted versions, and generalized Turán-type problems, and their connectedness. We first present very short proofs for re…

Congruences modulo powers of 2 and 3 for overpartition $k$-tuples
G. Kavya Keerthana, S. Ananya, Ranganatha D
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.17705 https://arxi…

Congruences modulo powers of 2 and 3 for overpartition $k$-tuples
Let $\overline{p}_{k}(n)$ denote the number of overpartition $k$-tuples of $n$. In 2023, Saikia \cite{saikia} conjectured the following congruences: \begin{align*} \overline{p}_{q}(8n+2)& \equiv 0 \pmod{4},\quad \overline{p}_{q}(8n+3)\equiv 0 \pmod{8},\quad \overline{p}_{q}(8n+4) \equiv 0 \pmod{2},\\ \overline{p}_{q}(8n+5)& \equiv 0 \pmod{8},\quad \overline{p}_{q}(8n+6) \equiv 0 \pmod{8},\quad \overline{p}_{q}(8n+7)\equiv 0 \pmod{32}, \end{align*} where $n\geq0$ and $q$ is prime. Recently, Sell…

fly_larva: Drosophila larva brain (2023)
A complete synaptic map of the brain connectome of the larva of the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster. Nodes are neurons, and edges are synaptic connections, traced individually from brain image sections using three-dimensional electron microscopy–based reconstruction. Node metadata include the neuron hempisphere, hemispherical homologue, cell type, annotations, and inferred cluster. Edge metadata include the type of interaction (`'aa'`,…

Which major NFL trades look better -- worse -- in hindsight? Barnwell's fresh takes on 23 recent swaps https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46356119/nfl-trades-2022-2023-barnwell-russell-wilson-deshaun-watson-tyr…

Enhanced Gravitational Effects of Radiation and Cosmological Implications
Hemza Azri, Kemal G\"ultekin, Adrian K. E. Tee
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.17384 https://

Enhanced Gravitational Effects of Radiation and Cosmological Implications
In the momentarily comoving frame of a cosmological fluid, the determinant of the energy-momentum tensor (EMT) is highly sensitive to its pressure. This component is significant during radiation-dominated epochs, and becomes naturally negligible as the universe transitions to the matter-dominated era. Here, we investigate the cosmological consequences of gravity sourced by the determinant of the EMT. Unlike Azri and Nasri, Phys. Lett. B 836, 137626 (2023), we consider the most general case in w…

Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau von #Balkonsolarleistung in Deutschland mit Stand vom 19.09.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff: Förderantrag

Reduced fluctuations: Surprising effects of noise cross correlations in a coupled, driven model
Sudip Mukherjee
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.17763 https://ar…

Reduced fluctuations: Surprising effects of noise cross correlations in a coupled, driven model
We elucidate how the strong coupling phases of a coupled driven model, originally proposed in S. Mukherjee, Phys. Rev. E 108, 024219 (2023), are affected by noise cross correlations in general dimensions $d$. This model has two dynamical variables, where one of the variables is autonomous being independent of the other, whereas the second one depends explicitly on the former. By employing model coupling theories, we study the strong coupling phase of model. We show that the scaling laws in the …

4 updates to old posts this week:
1. Embeds Beau Vass’s id24 video:
https://adrianroselli.com/2023/01/comparing-manual-and-free-automated-wcag-reviews.html#Update07
2. Embeds Lola Odelola’s id24 video:

Comparing Manual and Free Automated WCAG Reviews
Automated accessibility testing tools cannot test 100% of WCAG. This position is not controversial. Other than overlay vendors, no automated tool maker makes that claim. This is partly because WCAG is targeted at humans, not code, and so nuance and context apply. Free automated accessibility testing tools may have even…

Podcast : La Secte OKC : ils racontent leur vie dans la secte bouddhiste belge
Presque 15 ans d'écart entre nos deux protagonistes et pourtant tellement de point commun quoi qu'en dise "l'évolution de l'éducation des enfants" selon la OKC
https://

On the Structural Parameterizations of 2-Club with Triangle Constraints
Ashwin Jacob, Diptapriyo Majumdar, Raghav Sakhuja
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.16143 https://

On the Structural Parameterizations of 2-Club with Triangle Constraints
Given an undirected graph G = (V, E) and an integer k, the s-Club asks if Gcontains a vertex subset S of at least k vertices such that G[S] has diameter at most s. Recently, Vertex r-Triangle s-Club, and Edge r-Triangle s-Club that generalize the notion of s-Club have been studied by Garvardt et al. [TOCS-2023, IWOCA-2022] from the perspective of parameterized complexity. Given a graph G and an integer k, the Vertex r-Triangle s-Club asks if there is an s-Club S with at least k vertices such th…

South Carolina already ranks 8th nationally in highest maternal mortality rate,
and MAGA extremists are vying to become #1.
Now, for the third time since 2023, MAGA Republicans in South Carolina have introduced
S 323, also known as
The Unborn Child Protection Act.
South Carolina Senate Bill 323 is one of the most extreme pieces of legislation we’ve seen.
It proposes changing the legal definition of the word “person” to include an unborn fetus.
Th…

S. Carolina RE-Intros Bill To Kill Women For Getting An Abortion
Here's what's in the bill, why it is so dangerous, and the meaningful steps you can take to fight back, support women's health, and help block this bill from becoming law

UK Home Heating Decarbonisation Seminar Presentation (2023-08) - Short talk on UK home heating and Net Zero. #PhD #heating #research -

UK Home Heating Decarbonisation Seminar Presentation (2023-08)
Short talk on UK home heating and Net Zero. #PhD #heating #research

Finite element discretizations of bending plates with prestrained microstructure
Klaus B\"ohnlein, Stefan Neukamm, Oliver Sander
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.26438 https://…

Finite element discretizations of bending plates with prestrained microstructure
We investigate a finite element discretization of an elastic bending-plate model with an effective prestrain. The model has been obtained via homogenization and dimension reduction by Bönlein at al. (2023). Its energy functional is the $Γ$-limit of a three-dimensional nonlinear microstructured elasticity functional. In the derived effective model, the microstructure is incorporated as a local corrector problem, a system of linear elliptic partial differential equations posed on a three-dimens…

Het verlies van GL-PvdA lijkt voornamelijk veroorzaakt te worden door de winst van D66. Daarnaast is er per saldo weinig winst behaald door kiezers bij andere partijen weg te trekken.

Status of the Trinity PeV Neutrino Observatory
S. Stepanoff (for the Trinity Collaboration), A. N. Otte (for the Trinity Collaboration), M. Bagheri (for the Trinity Collaboration), A. Barletta (for the Trinity Collaboration), D. Bergmann (for the Trinity Collaboration), J. Blose (for the Trinity Collaboration), J. Bogdan (for the Trinity Collaboration), A. M. Brown (for the Trinity Collaboration), L. Cedeno (for the Trinity Collaboration), M. Doro (for the Trinity Collaboration), M. Fe…

What influenced the lack of diversity in CSR after the company's losses: evidence from topic modeling
Ruiying Liu, Yuchi Li, Zhanli Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.23424 https…

What influenced the lack of diversity in CSR after the company's losses: evidence from topic modeling
The diversity of corporate social responsibility (CSR) disclosure is a crucial dimension of corporate transparency, reflecting the breadth and resilience of a firm's social responsibility. Using CSR reports of Chinese A-share firms from 2006 to 2023, this paper applies Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) to extract topics and quantifies disclosure diversity using the Gini-Simpson index and Shannon entropy. Regression results show that corporate losses significantly compress CSR topic diversity, c…

Catastrophic disruption of asteroid 2023 CX1 and implications for planetary defense
Auriane Egal, Denis Vida, Fran\c{c}ois Colas, Brigitte Zanda, Sylvain Bouley, Asma Steinhausser, Pierre Vernazza, Ludovic Ferri\`ere, J\'er\^ome Gattacceca, Mirel Birlan, J\'er\'emie Vaubaillon, Karl Antier, Simon Anghel, Josselin Desmars, K\'evin Bailli\'e, Lucie Maquet, S\'ebastien Bouquillon, Adrien Malgoyre, Simon Jeanne, Ji\v{r}i Borovi\v{c}ka, Pavel Spurn\'y, Hadrien A.…

Catastrophic disruption of asteroid 2023 CX1 and implications for planetary defense
Mitigation of the threat from airbursting asteroids requires an understanding of the potential risk they pose for the ground. How asteroids release their kinetic energy in the atmosphere is not well understood due to the rarity of significant impacts. Ordinary chondrites, in particular L chondrites, represent a frequent type of Earth-impacting asteroids. Here, we present the first comprehensive, space-to-lab characterization of an L chondrite impact. Small asteroid 2023 CX1 was detected in spac…

Last year global temperatures were 1.6°C over the pre-industrial average, the first year to breach the 1.5° goal.
"One or two years that exceed 1.5°C above the pre-industrial level does not imply that the Paris Agreement has been breached. However, with the current rate of warming at more than 0.2°C per decade, the probability of breaching the 1.5°C target of the Paris Agreement within the 2030s is highly likely."

Unit Uniquely Clean Rings
Mina Doostalizadeh, Ahmad Moussavi, Peter Danchev
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.17573 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.17573

Unit Uniquely Clean Rings
We define the class of {\it unit uniquely clean} rings ({\it UnitUC} for short), that is a common generalization of uniquely clean rings and strongly nil clean rings. Abelian {\it UnitUC} rings are uniquely clean and {\it UnitUC} rings with nil Jacobson radical are strongly nil clean. These rings also generalize the UUC and CUC rings, defined by Calugareanu-Zhou in Mediterranean J. Math. (2023), which are rings whose clean elements are uniquely clean. These rings are also represent a natural ge…

Multivariate Quadratic Hawkes Processes -- Part II: Non-Parametric Empirical Calibration
Cecilia Aubrun, Michael Benzaquen, Jean-Philippe Bouchaud
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.21244

Multivariate Quadratic Hawkes Processes -- Part II: Non-Parametric Empirical Calibration
This is the second part of our work on Multivariate Quadratic Hawkes (MQHawkes) Processes, devoted to the calibration of the model defined and studied analytically in Aubrun, C., Benzaquen, M., & Bouchaud, J. P., Quantitative Finance, 23(5), 741-758 (2023). We propose a non-parametric calibration method based on the general method of moments applied to a coarse-grained version of the MQHawkes model. This allows us to bypass challenges inherent to tick by tick data. Our main methodological innov…

Assessment of Socioeconomic Determinants of Voting Patterns: A Spatio-Temporal and Multinomial Logits Analysis of the 2023 Nigerian Presidential Election
Vine Nwabuisi Madukpe, Chukwuma Bright Ugoala, Chiemela Uzochi Wokoma, Gloria Chinenye Nwachukwu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.17507

Assessment of Socioeconomic Determinants of Voting Patterns: A Spatio-Temporal and Multinomial Logits Analysis of the 2023 Nigerian Presidential Election
In Nigeria, electoral behavior is often interpreted through ethno-religious views and regional allegiances, without empirically assessing the influence of socioeconomic indicators such as health, income, education, and other deprivations on voter behavior. This study investigates the voting pattern in the 2023 Nigerian presidential election and previous cycles using spatio-temporal and multivariate analysis. It examines whether support for some candidates was more substantial in states with hig…

Donald Trump issued a pardon for the founder of the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange on Thursday.
Changpeng Zhao pleaded guilty in late 2023 to one count of failing to maintain an anti-money laundering program and stepped down as CEO of Binance,
which paid $4.3bn to settle related allegations.
He was sentenced to four months in prison.
Zhao, who is often referred to by his initials CZ, is one of the world’s richest people and biggest names in cryptocurrency.

UBS konnte mit dem Zusammenlegen der Informatik mit CS seit 2023 10 Milliarden Franken einsparen.
https://www.inside-it.ch/ubs-spart-milliarden-durch-cs-integration-20251029

Variable-preconditioned transformed primal-dual method for generalized Wasserstein Gradient Flows
Jin Zeng, Dawei Zhan, Ruchi Guo, Chaozhen Wei
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.15385 …

Variable-preconditioned transformed primal-dual method for generalized Wasserstein Gradient Flows
We propose a Variable-Preconditioned Transformed Primal-Dual (VPTPD) method for solving generalized Wasserstein gradient flows via a structure-preserving JKO scheme. This is a nontrivial extension of the TPD method [Chen et al. (2023) arXiv:2312.12355] incorporating proximal splitting techniques to address the challenges arising from the nonsmoothness of the objective function. Our key contributions include: (i) a semi-implicit-explicit iteration that combines proximal steps for the nonsmooth p…

An Italian Gender Equality Index
Lorenzo Panebianco
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.17140 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.17140…

An Italian Gender Equality Index
Following the works on the Gender Equality Index (GEI), we propose a composite indicator to measure the gender gap across Italian regions. Our approach differs from the original GEI in both the selection of indicators and the aggregation methodology. Specifically, the choice of indicators is inspired by the both the GEI and the WeWorld Index Italia, while the aggregation relies on an original variation of the Mazziotta-Pareto Index. Finally, we apply our results drawing 2023 open data.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #ChrisHawkins
boygenius:
🎵 Cool About It (6 Music Session, 7 Nov 2023)
#boygenius
https://xboygeniusx.bandcamp.com/track/cool-about-it-2
https://open.spotify.com/track/5PJH1U5Iie893v48Fl9yaC

Trade, Political Distance and the World Trade Organization
Samuel Hardwick
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.17303 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.17303

Trade, Political Distance and the World Trade Organization
Trade agreements are often understood as shielding commerce from fluctuations in political relations. This paper provides evidence that World Trade Organization membership reduces the penalty of political distance on trade at the extensive margin. Using a structural gravity framework covering 1948 to 2023 and two measures of political distance, based on high-frequency events data and UN General Assembly votes, GATT/WTO status is consistently associated with a wider range of products traded betw…