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"ChatGPT ranking of business and management journals with article quality scores" https://doi.org/10.1108/AJIM-11-2024-0927 [closed access / paywall]

A Comprehensive Analysis of COVID-19 Detection Using Bangladeshi Data and Explainable AI
Shuvashis Sarker
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.07234 https://

A Comprehensive Analysis of COVID-19 Detection Using Bangladeshi Data and Explainable AI
COVID-19 is a rapidly spreading and highly infectious virus which has triggered a global pandemic, profoundly affecting millions across the world. The pandemic has introduced unprecedented challenges in public health, economic stability, and societal structures, necessitating the implementation of extensive and multifaceted health interventions globally. It had a tremendous impact on Bangladesh by April 2024, with around 29,495 fatalities and more than 2 million confirmed cases. This study focu…

Autism and anarchy: The importance of autistic anarchism
https://freedomnews.org.uk/2024/04/10/autism-and-anarchy-the-importance-of-autistic-anarchism/

Heh, I missed this because I don't care about the A Song of Ice and Fire books anymore, but I guess it's official:
> In December 2024, he stated that he might never finish [The Winds of Winter] or book series, but did reaffirm that it was still a priority for him[…].
Reminds me of how my privacy is apparently the priority to everyone on the web.

‼️Die #Petition
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The State-of-the-Art in Lifelog Retrieval: A Review of Progress at the ACM Lifelog Search Challenge Workshop 2022-24
Allie Tran, Werner Bailer, Duc-Tien Dang-Nguyen, Graham Healy, Steve Hodges, Bj\"orn {\TH}\'or J\'onsson, Luca Rossetto, Klaus Schoeffmann, Minh-Triet Tran, Lucia Vadicamo, Cathal Gurrin
https://arxiv…

The State-of-the-Art in Lifelog Retrieval: A Review of Progress at the ACM Lifelog Search Challenge Workshop 2022-24
The ACM Lifelog Search Challenge (LSC) is a venue that welcomes and compares systems that support the exploration of lifelog data, and in particular the retrieval of specific information, through an interactive competition format. This paper reviews the recent advances in interactive lifelog retrieval as demonstrated at the ACM LSC from 2022 to 2024. Through a detailed comparative analysis, we highlight key improvements across three main retrieval tasks: known-item search, question answering, a…

New video documents turbulent path to Cowboys star's $39 million payday https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/06/07/cowboys-ceedee-lamb-2024-holdout-youtube-series/84081968007/…

Convection Anisotropies of Cosmic Rays in Highly Magnetized Plasma
Yiran Zhang, Siming Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05923 https://a…

Convection Anisotropies of Cosmic Rays in Highly Magnetized Plasma
Recently, Zhang & Liu (2024) proposed a turbulent convection model for multiscale anisotropies of cosmic rays (CRs), with an assumption of isotropic diffusion such that the anisotropies are statistically isotropic. However, this assumption may be unrealistic for TeV CRs, whose observations have revealed the significance of the local interstellar background magnetic field. To meet the difficulty, the turbulent convection scenario needs to be extended to cover anisotropic diffusion. In this paper…

from my link log —
aa-56: an astronomical ephemeris calculator program.
http://www.moshier.net/aadoc.html
saved 2024-05-28 https://

"There was a recent 2024 study that showed us that individuals who survive an acute COVID-19 infection (...) on average will lose somewhere in the neighbourhood of two to six IQ points per infection."
"although your immune system can take on [a COVID] infection, you want to avoid testing it as much as possible because your body is sustaining damage with each infection that it survives."
Seriously, wear a mask 😷 .

Beyond long COVID — how reinfections could be causing silent long-term organ damage | CBC Radio
Scientific evidence is painting an unsettling picture: COVID infections, even if mild or asymptomatic, may be causing long-term cellular and organ damage, as well as increasing your risk of developing long COVID.

"Auf der österreichischen Tauernautobahn hat sich Medienberichten zufolge am Samstagmorgen ein Mega-Stau gebildet. Er reiche von der A10 bis nach Bayern zurück, berichtet der Radiosender Ö3. Das seien rund 45 Kilometer – Autofahrer müssten mit einer Wartezeit von fünf Stunden rechnen."
"Schon Pfingsten 2024 waren 28 Kilometer gemessen worden."
Wir haben zwei Probleme:
- zu viele Autos
- zu viele Idioten

Sie gehören zum Besten, was der deutsche Schachnachwuchs zu bieten hat! 🔥
Auch 2025 sind wieder zahlreiche Kaderspieler:innen des Deutschen Schachbundes bei der #dem25 am Start – und unter ihnen auch Titelverteidiger:innen:
Tamila Trunz, Michelle Trunz, Vadim Petrovskiy, Johannes von Mettenheim und Mykhaylo Nezhyvenko haben 2024 jeweils ihre Altersklasse gewonnen und wollen auch dieses Jah…

Im Jahr 2024 wurden mehr als zwei Drittel aller neuen #Wohngebäude in #Deutschland primär mit #Wärmepumpen beheizt.
Ihr Anteil hat sich in zehn Jahren mehr als verdoppelt. Tr…

Mehr als zwei Drittel der im Jahr 2024 errichteten Wohngebäude heizen mit Wärmepumpen
In immer mehr neuen Wohngebäuden in Deutschland werden Wärmepumpen zum Heizen genutzt. Mehr als zwei Drittel (69,4 %) der knapp 76 100 im Jahr 2024 fertiggestellten Wohngebäude nutzen Wärmepumpen zur primären, also überwiegend für das Heizen eingesetzten Energie. Gegenüber 2023 stieg der Anteil um rund 5 Prozentpunkte, gegenüber 2014 (31,8 %) hat er sich mehr als verdoppelt, wie das Statistische Bundesamt (Destatis) mitteilt. Wärmepumpen kommen vor allem in Ein- und Zweifamilienhä…

@… Hallo, von @… wurde ich mit der Frage, wie ein #Taschenmesser im

Waffengesetzänderungen 2024: Fragen & Antworten
Allgemeine Fragen

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.03447 has been replaced.
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Asymptotic formula for the sum of a prime and a square-full number in intervals shorter than $X^{1/2}$
Let $R(N)$ be the number of representations of $N$ as a sum of a prime and a square-full number weighted with logarithmic function. In $2024$, the author and Y. Suzuki obtained an asymptotic formula for the sum of $R(N)$ over positive integers $N$ in a short interval ($X$, $X+H$] for $X^{\frac{1}{2}+\varepsilon} \le H < X^{1-\varepsilon}$. In this article, we improve the range of $H$, that is, we prove the same asymptotic formula for $X^{\frac{32-4\sqrt{15}}{49}+\varepsilon} \le H \le X^{1- \va…

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Becoming Immutable: How Ethereum is Made
Andrea Canidio, Vabuk Pahari
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04940 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.049…

Becoming Immutable: How Ethereum is Made
We analyze blocks proposed for inclusion in the Ethereum blockchain during 8 minutes on December 3rd, 2024. Our dataset comprises 38 winning blocks, 15,097 proposed blocks, 10,793 unique transactions, and 2,380,014 transaction-block pairings. We find that exclusive transactions--transactions present only in blocks proposed by a single builder--account for 85% of the fees paid by all transactions included in winning blocks. We also find that a surprisingly large number of user transactions are d…

Eigenvalue bounds for preconditioned symmetric multiple saddle-point matrices
L. Bergamaschi, A. Martinez, J. W. Pearson, A. Potschka
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02816

Eigenvalue bounds for preconditioned symmetric multiple saddle-point matrices
We develop eigenvalue bounds for symmetric, block tridiagonal multiple saddle-point linear systems, preconditioned with block diagonal matrices. We extend known results for $3 \times 3$ block systems [Bradley and Greif, IMA J.\ Numer. Anal. 43 (2023)] and for $4 \times 4$ systems [Pearson and Potschka, IMA J. Numer. Anal. 44 (2024)] to an arbitrary number of blocks. Moreover, our results generalize the bounds in [Sogn and Zulehner, IMA J. Numer. Anal. 39 (2018)], developed for an arbitrary numb…

Classification of Extremal Dependence in Financial Markets via Bootstrap Inference
Qian Hui, Sidney I. Resnick, Tiandong Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04656

Classification of Extremal Dependence in Financial Markets via Bootstrap Inference
Accurately identifying the extremal dependence structure in multivariate heavy-tailed data is a fundamental yet challenging task, particularly in financial applications. Following a recently proposed bootstrap-based testing procedure, we apply the methodology to absolute log returns of U.S. S&P 500 and Chinese A-share stocks over a time period well before the U.S. election in 2024. The procedure reveals more isolated clustering of dependent assets in the U.S. economy compared with China which e…

Prediction of the SVOM MXT camera end of life spectral performance based onproton irradiation results
Clara Plasse, Diego G\"otz, Aline Meuris, Miguel Fernandez Moita, Philippe Ferrando, Leo Favier, Francesco Ceraudo
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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…

Die Bürger Energie Genossenschaft – Freisinger Land blickt auf ein erfolgreiches Jahr zurück.
2024 gingen drei neue Bürger-#Solaranlagen ans Netz, das Bürger-#Windrad #Kammerberg produzier…

Lokale Energiewende in Bürgerhand - Energiegenossenschaft zufrieden mit Jahresbilanz
Sehr zufrieden sind die Vorstände der Bürger Energie Genossenschaft – Freisinger Land (BEG-FS) mit ihrer Bilanz zum Jahr 2024. Nur eine Zahl lag unter den Prognosen.

Galactic Science -- Rapporteur Talk of the 8th Heidelberg International Symposium on High Energy Gamma Ray Astronomy
Sandro Mereghetti (INAF, IASF-Milano)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04729

Galactic Science -- Rapporteur Talk of the 8th Heidelberg International Symposium on High Energy Gamma Ray Astronomy
The most recent observational and theoretical results in the rapidly expanding field of high-energy gamma-ray astrophysics were discussed at the international conference ``Gamma-2024'' that took place in Milano in September 2024. This contribution summarises the 'rapporteur talk' relative to the Galactic science given at the end of the conference.

Dear Apple SwiftUI friends, this bug is killing the vibe of our users: FB16257334
Repro for those in the community:
https://github.com/feedback-assistant/reports/issues/594

FB16257334: Inspector view bug · Issue #594 · feedback-assistant/reports
Date: 2024-01-07 Resolution: Open Area: SwiftUI OS: iPadOS 18.1 Type: Incorrect/Unexpected Behavior Keywords: SwiftUI, split view, iPadOS, NavigationSplitView Description Simple NavigationSplitView...

Direct-to-Cell: A First Look into Starlink's Direct Satellite-to-Device Radio Access Network through Crowdsourced Measurements
Jorge Garcia-Cabeza, Javier Albert-Smet, Zoraida Frias, Luis Mendo, Santiago Andr\'es Azcoitia, Eduardo Yraola
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.00283

Direct-to-Cell: A First Look into Starlink's Direct Satellite-to-Device Radio Access Network through Crowdsourced Measurements
Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite mega-constellations have recently emerged as a viable access solution for broadband services in underserved areas. In 2024, Direct Satellite-to-Device (DS2D) communications, which enable unmodified smartphones to connect directly to spaceborne base stations, entered large-scale beta testing, with Starlink globally leading deployments. This paper presents the first measurement study of commercial DS2D services. Using crowdsourced mobile network data collected in t…

Lessons Learned from the URGENT 2024 Speech Enhancement Challenge
Wangyou Zhang, Kohei Saijo, Samuele Cornell, Robin Scheibler, Chenda Li, Zhaoheng Ni, Anurag Kumar, Marvin Sach, Wei Wang, Yihui Fu, Shinji Watanabe, Tim Fingscheidt, Yanmin Qian
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01611

Lessons Learned from the URGENT 2024 Speech Enhancement Challenge
The URGENT 2024 Challenge aims to foster speech enhancement (SE) techniques with great universality, robustness, and generalizability, featuring a broader task definition, large-scale multi-domain data, and comprehensive evaluation metrics. Nourished by the challenge outcomes, this paper presents an in-depth analysis of two key, yet understudied, issues in SE system development: data cleaning and evaluation metrics. We highlight several overlooked problems in traditional SE pipelines: (1) misma…

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Installing Whoogle on a Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W in 2025
I had to update the instructions for my 2024 article. Here it is:
https://theprivacydad.com/installing-whoogle-on-a-raspberry-pi-zero-2-w-in-2025/

Quality Assessment of Noisy and Enhanced Speech with Limited Data: UWB-NTIS System for VoiceMOS 2024 and Beyond
Marie Kune\v{s}ov\'a
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.00506

Quality Assessment of Noisy and Enhanced Speech with Limited Data: UWB-NTIS System for VoiceMOS 2024 and Beyond
In this preprint, we present the UWB-NTIS-TTS team's submission to Track 3 of the VoiceMOS 2024 Challenge, the goal of which was to automatically assess the speech quality of noisy and de-noised speech in terms of the ITU-T P.835 metrics of "SIG", "BAK", and "OVRL". Our proposed system, based on wav2vec 2.0, placed among the top systems in the challenge, achieving the best prediction of the BAK scores (background noise intrusiveness), the second-best prediction of the OVRL score (overall audio …

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TOC Hualin International Journal of Buddhist Studies (HIJBS) 7.1, 7.2 https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20069347/toc-hualin-international-journal-buddhist-studies-hijbs-71-72

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Sunrise III: Overview of Observatory and Instruments
In July 2024, Sunrise completed its third successful science flight. The Sunrise III observatory had been upgraded significantly after the two previous successful flights in 2009 and 2013. Three completely new instruments focus on the small-scale physical processes and their complex interaction from the deepest observable layers in the photosphere up to chromospheric heights. Previously poorly explored spectral regions and lines are exploited to paint a three-dimensional picture of the solar at…

Inferring Obscured Cosmic Black Hole Accretion History from AGN Found by JWST/MIRI CEERS Survey
C. -A. Hsieh (Department of Physics, National Taiwan University), T. Goto (Institute of Astronomy, National Tsing Hua University, Department of Physics, National Tsing Hua University), C. -T. Ling (Institute of Astronomy, National Tsing Hua University), S. J. Kim (Institute of Astronomy, National Tsing Hua University), T. Hashimoto (Department of Physics, National Chung Hsing University), T.…

Inferring Obscured Cosmic Black Hole Accretion History from AGN Found by JWST/MIRI CEERS Survey
This study presents the black hole accretion history (BHAH) of obscured active galactic nuclei (AGNs) identified from the JWST CEERS survey by Chien et al. (2024) using mid-infrared (MIR) SED fitting. We compute black hole accretion rates (BHARs) to estimate the black hole accretion density (BHAD), $ρ_{L_{\mathrm{disk}}}$, across $0 < z < 4.25$. MIR luminosity functions (LFs) are also constructed for these sources, modeled with modified Schechter and double power law forms, and corresponding B…

All-sky search for individual Primordial Black Hole bursts with LHAASO
Cao, Aharonian, Bai, Bao, Bastieri, Bi, Bi, Bian, Bukevich, Cai, Cao, Cao, Chang, Chang, Chen, Chen, Chen, Chen, Chen, Chen, Chen, Chen, Chen, Chen, Chen, Chen, Chen, Chen, Chen, Chen, Cheng, Cheng, Chu, Cui, Cui, Cui, Cui, Dai, Dai, Dai, , Diao, Dong, Duan, Fan, Fan, Fang, Fang, Fang, Feng, Feng, Feng, Feng, Feng, Feng, Feng, Gabici, Gao, Gao, Gao, Gao, Gao, Ge, Ge, Geng, Giacinti, Gong, Gou, Gu, Guo, Guo, Guo, Guo…

All-sky search for individual Primordial Black Hole bursts with LHAASO
Primordial Black Holes~(PBHs) are hypothetical black holes with a wide range of masses that formed in the early universe. As a result, they may play an important cosmological role and provide a unique probe of the early universe. A PBH with an initial mass of approximately $10^{15}$~g is expected to explode today in a final burst of Hawking radiation. In this work, we conduct an all-sky search for individual PBH burst events using the data collected from March 2021 to July 2024 by the Water Che…