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Digital gazetteers: review and prospects for place name knowledge bases
Kalana Wijegunarathna, Kristin Stock, Christopher B. Jones
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.08553

Digital gazetteers: review and prospects for place name knowledge bases
Gazetteers typically store data on place names, place types and the associated coordinates. They play an essential role in disambiguating place names in online geographical information retrieval systems for navigation and mapping, detecting and disambiguating place names in text, and providing coordinates. Currently there are many gazetteers in use derived from many sources, with no commonly accepted standard for encoding the data. Most gazetteers are also very limited in the extent to which th…

Does Residuals-on-Residuals Regression Produce Representative Estimates of Causal Effects?
Apoorva Lal, Winston Chou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.07462 https…

Does Residuals-on-Residuals Regression Produce Representative Estimates of Causal Effects?
Double Machine Learning is commonly used to estimate causal effects in large observational datasets. The "residuals-on-residuals" regression estimator (RORR) is especially popular for its simplicity and computational tractability. However, when treatment effects are heterogeneous, the proper interpretation of RORR may not be well understood. We show that, for many-valued treatments with continuous dose-response functions, RORR converges to a conditional variance-weighted average of derivatives …

Query Drift Compensation: Enabling Compatibility in Continual Learning of Retrieval Embedding Models
Dipam Goswami, Liying Wang, Bart{\l}omiej Twardowski, Joost van de Weijer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.00037

Query Drift Compensation: Enabling Compatibility in Continual Learning of Retrieval Embedding Models
Text embedding models enable semantic search, powering several NLP applications like Retrieval Augmented Generation by efficient information retrieval (IR). However, text embedding models are commonly studied in scenarios where the training data is static, thus limiting its applications to dynamic scenarios where new training data emerges over time. IR methods generally encode a huge corpus of documents to low-dimensional embeddings and store them in a database index. During retrieval, a semant…

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Energy Density Functional of Confined Quarks: an Improved Ansatz
Density Functional Theory (DFT) is a robust framework for modeling interacting many-body systems, including the equation of state (EoS) of dense matter. Many models, however, rely on energy functionals based on assumptions that have not been rigorously validated. We critically analyze a commonly used ansatz for confinement, where the energy functional scales with density as $U \propto n^{\frac{2}{3}}$ . Our findings, derived from a systematic non-local energy functional, reveal that this scalin…

Simulation and evaluation of local daily temperature and precipitation series derived by stochastic downscaling of ERA5 reanalysis
Silius M. Vandeskog, Thordis L. Thorarinsdottir, Alex Lenkoski
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01692

Simulation and evaluation of local daily temperature and precipitation series derived by stochastic downscaling of ERA5 reanalysis
Reanalysis products such as the ERA5 reanalysis are commonly used as proxies for observed atmospheric conditions. These products are convenient to use due to their global coverage, the large number of available atmospheric variables and the physical consistency between these variables, as well as their relatively high spatial and temporal resolutions. However, despite the continuous improvements in accuracy and increasing spatial and temporal resolutions of reanalysis products, they may not alw…

The JWST/AURORA Survey: Multiple Balmer and Paschen Emission Lines for Individual Star-forming Galaxies at z=1.5-4.4. I. A Diversity of Nebular Attenuation Curves and Evidence for Non-Unity Dust Covering Fractions
Naveen A. Reddy, Alice E. Shapley, Ryan L. Sanders, Michael W. Topping, Richard S. Ellis, Max Pettini, Gabriel Brammer, Fergus Cullen, Natascha M. Forster Schreiber, Ali A. Khostovan, Derek J. McLeod, Ross J. McLure, Desika Narayanan, Pascal A. Oesch, Anthony J. Pahl, Charles…

The JWST/AURORA Survey: Multiple Balmer and Paschen Emission Lines for Individual Star-forming Galaxies at z=1.5-4.4. I. A Diversity of Nebular Attenuation Curves and Evidence for Non-Unity Dust Covering Fractions
We present the nebular attenuation curves and dust covering fractions for 24 redshift z=1.5-4.4 star-forming galaxies using multiple Balmer and Paschen lines from the JWST/AURORA survey. Nebular reddening derived from Paschen lines exceeds that from Balmer lines for at least half the galaxies in the sample when assuming the commonly-adopted Galactic extinction curve, implying the presence of optically-thick star formation. The nebular attenuation curves exhibit a broad range of normalizations (…

Sulphur abundances in star-forming regions from optical emission lines: A new approach based on photoionization models consistent with the direct method
Enrique P\'erez-Montero, Borja P\'erez-D\'iaz, Jos\'e M. V\'ilchez, Igor A. Zinchenko, Asier Castrillo, Marta Gavil\'an, Sandra Zamora, \'Angeles I. D\'iaz
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Sulphur abundances in star-forming regions from optical emission lines: A new approach based on photoionization models consistent with the direct method
The derivation of sulphur chemical abundances in the gas-phase of star-forming galaxies is explored in this work, using the emission lines produced in these regions in the optical part of the spectrum and by means of photoionization models. We adapted the code HII-CHI-mistry to account for these abundances by implementing additional grids of models that assume a variable sulphur-to-oxygen abundance ratio, beyond the commonly assumed solar ratio. The addition of these models, and their use in a …