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Two days after catastrophic floods roared through Central Texas, the Federal Emergency Management Agency still hadn't not answered nearly two-thirds of calls to its disaster assistance line, according to documents reviewed by The New York Times.
The lack of responsiveness happened because the agency had fired hundreds of contractors at call centers.
The agency laid off the contractors on July 5 after their contracts expired and were not extended

FEMA Didn’t Answer Thousands of Calls From Flood Survivors, Documents Show
Two days after deadly Texas floods, the agency struggled to answer calls from survivors because of call center contracts that weren’t extended.

Video-Mediated Emotion Disclosure: A Study of Mental Health Vlogging by People with Schizophrenia on YouTube
Jiaying Lizzy Liu, Yan Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10932

Video-Mediated Emotion Disclosure: A Study of Mental Health Vlogging by People with Schizophrenia on YouTube
Individuals with schizophrenia frequently experience intense emotions and often turn to vlogging as a medium for emotional expression. While previous research has predominantly focused on text based disclosure, little is known about how individuals construct narratives around emotions and emotional experiences in video blogs. Our study addresses this gap by analyzing 200 YouTube videos created by individuals with schizophrenia. Drawing on media research and self presentation theories, we develo…

Runtime Verification for LTL in Stochastic Systems
Javier Esparza, Vincent Fischer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.07963 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.07963…

Runtime Verification for LTL in Stochastic Systems
Runtime verification encompasses several lightweight techniques for checking whether a system's current execution satisfies a given specification. We focus on runtime verification for Linear Temporal Logic (LTL). Previous work describes monitors which produce, at every time step one of three outputs - true, false, or inconclusive - depending on whether the observed execution prefix definitively determines satisfaction of the formula. However, for many LTL formulas, such as liveness properties, …

i said funnies in a signal convo fairly recently and got no clue how to do the tried-and-true "make it into a standalone post when ur outta ideas for what to post" thing here soooo

Fluent but Unfeeling: The Emotional Blind Spots of Language Models
Bangzhao Shu, Isha Joshi, Melissa Karnaze, Anh C. Pham, Ishita Kakkar, Sindhu Kothe, Arpine Hovasapian, Mai ElSherief
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.09593

Fluent but Unfeeling: The Emotional Blind Spots of Language Models
The versatility of Large Language Models (LLMs) in natural language understanding has made them increasingly popular in mental health research. While many studies explore LLMs' capabilities in emotion recognition, a critical gap remains in evaluating whether LLMs align with human emotions at a fine-grained level. Existing research typically focuses on classifying emotions into predefined, limited categories, overlooking more nuanced expressions. To address this gap, we introduce EXPRESS, a benc…

Landauer Principle and Thermodynamics of Computation
Pritam Chattopadhyay, Avijit Misra, Tanmoy Pandit, Goutam Paul
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10876 https:…

Landauer Principle and Thermodynamics of Computation
According to the Landauer principle, any logically irreversible process accompanies entropy production, which results in heat dissipation in the environment. Erasing of information, one of the primary logically irreversible processes, has a lower bound on heat dissipated into the environment, called the Landauer bound (LB). However, the practical erasure processes dissipate much more heat than the LB. Recently, there have been a few experimental investigations to reach this bound both in the cl…

Effects of the sheared flow velocity profile shape on impedance eduction in a 2D duct
Lucas A Bonomo, Edward J Brambley, Julio A Cordioli
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10129

Effects of the sheared flow velocity profile shape on impedance eduction in a 2D duct
We assess the impact of the flow profile shape on acoustic propagation in a two-dimensional duct within the typical operating range of impedance eduction facilities. Firstly, a numerical experiment is proposed in which the Pridmore--Brown equation is assumed to represent the true physical behaviour, and is used with both simplified flow profiles commonly used in the literature and a realistic representation of a turbulent boundary layer using a van Driest universal law of the wall model. The da…

ProDiGy: Proximity- and Dissimilarity-Based Byzantine-Robust Federated Learning
Sena Ergisi, Luis Ma{\ss}ny, Rawad Bitar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.09534 https://

ProDiGy: Proximity- and Dissimilarity-Based Byzantine-Robust Federated Learning
Federated Learning (FL) emerged as a widely studied paradigm for distributed learning. Despite its many advantages, FL remains vulnerable to adversarial attacks, especially under data heterogeneity. We propose a new Byzantine-robust FL algorithm called ProDiGy. The key novelty lies in evaluating the client gradients using a joint dual scoring system based on the gradients' proximity and dissimilarity. We demonstrate through extensive numerical experiments that ProDiGy outperforms existing defen…

Understanding and Controlling Repetition Neurons and Induction Heads in In-Context Learning
Nhi Hoai Doan, Tatsuya Hiraoka, Kentaro Inui
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.07810

Understanding and Controlling Repetition Neurons and Induction Heads in In-Context Learning
This paper investigates the relationship between large language models' (LLMs) ability to recognize repetitive input patterns and their performance on in-context learning (ICL). In contrast to prior work that has primarily focused on attention heads, we examine this relationship from the perspective of skill neurons, specifically repetition neurons. Our experiments reveal that the impact of these neurons on ICL performance varies depending on the depth of the layer in which they reside. By comp…

Visual Analysis of Time-Dependent Observables in Cell Signaling Simulations
Lena Cibulski, Fiete Haack, Adelinde Uhrmacher, Stefan Bruckner
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08589 http…

Visual Analysis of Time-Dependent Observables in Cell Signaling Simulations
The ability of a cell to communicate with its environment is essential for key cellular functions like replication, metabolism, or cell fate decisions. The involved molecular mechanisms are highly dynamic and difficult to capture experimentally. Simulation studies offer a valuable means for exploring and predicting how cell signaling processes unfold. We present a design study on the visual analysis of such studies to support 1) modelers in calibrating model parameters such that the simulated s…