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◍ Diverse particles form identical geometric patterns when confined, model reveals
https://phys.org/news/2025-11-diverse-particles-identical-geometric-patterns.html

Diverse particles form identical geometric patterns when confined, model reveals
Particles as different as soap bubbles and ball bearings can be made to arrange themselves in exactly the same way, according to a new study that could unlock the creation of brand new materials—including those with promising biomedical applications.

Metropolitana III🔶
城 III🔶
📷 Pentax MX
🎞️ Ilford Pan 100
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

🍆 A Hermetic, Transparent Soft Growing Vine Robot System for Pipe Inspection
#robots #machine

A Hermetic, Transparent Soft Growing Vine Robot System for Pipe Inspection
Rehabilitation of aging pipes requires accurate condition assessment and mapping far into the pipe interiors. Soft growing vine robot systems are particularly promising for navigating confined, sinuous paths such as in pipes, but are currently limited by complex subsystems and a lack of validation in real-world industrial settings. In this paper, we introduce the concept and implementation of a hermetic and transparent vine robot system for visual condition assessment and mapping within non-bra…

With Aurorix up and running (OCI container with KDE) it's time to start Asterix up also. That's my 'immutable', auto-updating Nix. Although less 'confined' than Aurorix it should be basically the same for the enduser. Looking forward to the comparison.
#auroralinux #nixos

Articulation-Informed ASR: Integrating Articulatory Features into ASR via Auxiliary Speech Inversion and Cross-Attention Fusion
Ahmed Adel Attia, Jing Liu, Carol Espy Wilson
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08585

Articulation-Informed ASR: Integrating Articulatory Features into ASR via Auxiliary Speech Inversion and Cross-Attention Fusion
Prior works have investigated the use of articulatory features as complementary representations for automatic speech recognition (ASR), but their use was largely confined to shallow acoustic models. In this work, we revisit articulatory information in the era of deep learning and propose a framework that leverages articulatory representations both as an auxiliary task and as a pseudo-input to the recognition model. Specifically, we employ speech inversion as an auxiliary prediction task, and th…

Sonnet 105 - CV
Let not my love be called idolatry,
Nor my beloved as an idol show,
Since all alike my songs and praises be
To one, of one, still such, and ever so.
Kind is my love to-day, to-morrow kind,
Still constant in a wondrous excellence;
Therefore my verse to constancy confined,
One thing expressing, leaves out difference.
Fair, kind, and true, is all my argument,
Fair, kind, and true, varying to other words;
And in th…

Ireland has been every bit as important in exporting US Big Tech around the world as the US has been.
But Ireland has another key export, one that is confined to the European Union.
Because every tax haven must be a crime haven,
and because Big Tech's favorite crime is illegal surveillance,
Ireland has exported American tech spying to the whole European Union.
-- @…

Our Christmas tree didn't drink water this year. It's been pretty much dead for the past 2 weeks. Every time you get near it, needles fall off. It's been quite a mess.
Today was the day it came down. I really wasn't looking forward to having to pick needles out of everything we own between the living room and the door for the next year, so… I went Full Dexter on it. (And it actually worked.)

Series C, Episode 10 - Ultraworld
ULTRA 1: We have collected a great deal of information about earth and its dominant species, with one important omission. We intend to rectify that deficiency.
DAYNA: And if we agree?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/310/505 B7B5

Sonnet 107 - CVII
Not mine own fears, nor the prophetic soul
Of the wide world dreaming on things to come,
Can yet the lease of my true love control,
Supposed as forfeit to a confined doom.
The mortal moon hath her eclipse endured,
And the sad augurs mock their own presage;
Incertainties now crown themselves assured,
And peace proclaims olives of endless age.
Now with the drops of this most balmy time,
My love looks fresh, and Death…

VQArt-Bench: A semantically rich VQA Benchmark for Art and Cultural Heritage
A. Alfarano (University of Zurich, Max Planck Society), L. Venturoli (University of Zurich, Max Planck Society), D. Negueruela del Castillo (University of Zurich, Max Planck Society)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12750

VQArt-Bench: A semantically rich VQA Benchmark for Art and Cultural Heritage
Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have demonstrated significant capabilities in joint visual and linguistic tasks. However, existing Visual Question Answering (VQA) benchmarks often fail to evaluate deep semantic understanding, particularly in complex domains like visual art analysis. Confined to simple syntactic structures and surface-level attributes, these questions fail to capture the diversity and depth of human visual inquiry. This limitation incentivizes models to exploit statisti…

Multimodal Prompt Optimization: Why Not Leverage Multiple Modalities for MLLMs
Yumin Choi, Dongki Kim, Jinheon Baek, Sung Ju Hwang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09201 https://

Multimodal Prompt Optimization: Why Not Leverage Multiple Modalities for MLLMs
Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown remarkable success, and their multimodal expansions (MLLMs) further unlock capabilities spanning images, videos, and other modalities beyond text. However, despite this shift, prompt optimization approaches, designed to reduce the burden of manual prompt crafting while maximizing performance, remain confined to text, ultimately limiting the full potential of MLLMs. Motivated by this gap, we introduce the new problem of multimodal prompt optimization, whic…

#Blakes7 Series B, Episode 12 - The Keeper
VILA: Huh! Blake!
BLAKE: Shhh, quiet.
VILA: Am I glad to see you. What are you doing here?
BLAKE: Is Jenna all right?
VILA: Only pair-bonding with the chief.
BLAKE: Good.
https://

Beyond Single-Granularity Prompts: A Multi-Scale Chain-of-Thought Prompt Learning for Graph
Ziyu Zheng, Yaming Yang, Ziyu Guan, Wei Zhao, Xinyan Huang, Weigang Lu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09394

Beyond Single-Granularity Prompts: A Multi-Scale Chain-of-Thought Prompt Learning for Graph
The "pre-train, prompt'' paradigm, designed to bridge the gap between pre-training tasks and downstream objectives, has been extended from the NLP domain to the graph domain and has achieved remarkable progress. Current mainstream graph prompt-tuning methods modify input or output features using learnable prompt vectors. However, existing approaches are confined to single-granularity (e.g., node-level or subgraph-level) during prompt generation, overlooking the inherently multi-scale structural…

Translating Milli/Microrobots with A Value-Centered Readiness Framework
Hakan Ceylan, Edoardo Sinibaldi, Sanjay Misra, Pankaj J. Pasricha, Dietmar W. Hutmacher
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12090

Translating Milli/Microrobots with A Value-Centered Readiness Framework
Untethered mobile milli/microrobots hold transformative potential for interventional medicine by enabling more precise and entirely non-invasive diagnosis and therapy. Realizing this promise requires bridging the gap between groundbreaking laboratory demonstrations and successful clinical integration. Despite remarkable technical progress over the past two decades, most millirobots and microrobots remain confined to laboratory proof-of-concept demonstrations, with limited real-world feasibility…

Replaced article(s) found for eess.SY. https://arxiv.org/list/eess.SY/new
[2/2]:
- Autonomous UAV Flight Navigation in Confined Spaces: A Reinforcement Learning Approach
Tayar, de Oliveira, Tommaselli, Negri, Segreto, Godoy, Becker

Homogenization of the scattered wave and scattering resonances for periodic high-contrast subwavelength resonators
Yuxin Du, Xin Fu, Wenjia Jing
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11972

Homogenization of the scattered wave and scattering resonances for periodic high-contrast subwavelength resonators
We study time-harmonic scattering by a periodic array of penetrable, high-contrast obstacles with small period, confined to a bounded Lipschitz domain. The strong contrast between the obstacles and the background induces subwavelength resonances. We derive a frequency-dependent effective model in the vanishing-period limit and prove quantitative convergence of the heterogeneous scattered wave to the effective scattered wave. We also identify the limiting set of scattering resonances and establi…

Exponential Suppression of the Unruh Effect and Geometric Enhancement in a Fermionic Cavity QED Setup
Vladimir Toussaint
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11460 https://

Exponential Suppression of the Unruh Effect and Geometric Enhancement in a Fermionic Cavity QED Setup
The Unruh effect -- the prediction that an accelerated observer perceives the vacuum as a thermal bath -- remains one of the most profound yet experimentally unverified consequences of quantum field theory. This work analyzes the decay of an excited state within a uniformly accelerated cavity to explain the historical null results and identify an alternative measurable signature. We model a massless Dirac field confined to a uniformly accelerated cavity, coupled to an external massive Dirac fie…

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…

Replaced article(s) found for cond-mat.soft. https://arxiv.org/list/cond-mat.soft/new
[1/1]:
- Curvature dependent dynamics of a bacterium confined in a giant unilamellar vesicle
Olivia Vincent, Aparna Sreekumari, Manoj Gopalakrishnan, Vishwas V Vasisht, Bibhu Ranjan Sarangi…

Collinear, incommensurate antiferromagnetism in van der Waals magnet alpha-UTe3
H. Sakai, C. Tabata, K. Kaneko, Y. Tokiwa, T. Kitazawa, S. Kambe, Y. Tokunaga, Y. Haga
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10999

Collinear, incommensurate antiferromagnetism in van der Waals magnet alpha-UTe3
alpha-UTe3, a van der Waals (vdW) actinide compound with a monoclinic ZrSe3-type structure, is a narrow-gap semiconductor with 5f moments. 125Te NMR reveals strongly anisotropic, layer-confined spin fluctuations below about 20 K, with the a-axis component enhanced, and a signal wipeout at the antiferromagnetic (AFM) transition at TN = 5 K. Single-crystal neutron diffraction finds q approx. (0.17, 0.5, 0) and a longitudinal sinusoidal modulation of a-axis moments (amplitude about 0.8 muB) with A…

Moody Urbanity - Manmade Confinements ⛑️
情绪化城市 - 人造禁锢 ⛑️
📷 Pentax MX
🎞️ Kentmere Pan 400
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

Job insecurity and equilibrium determinacy in a rational expectations, New Keynesian model with asymmetric information. A theoretical analysis
Luca Vota, Luisa Errichiello
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11125

Job insecurity and equilibrium determinacy in a rational expectations, New Keynesian model with asymmetric information. A theoretical analysis
Despite the importance of this variable in the macroeconomic context, current research on job insecurity remains mainly confined to its non-systemic dimension. The research aim of this paper is to identify the short-run and long-run macroeconomic determinants of job insecurity in the presence of asymmetric information between public and private agents, informative shocks, and different degrees of institutional communication transparency. To accomplish this goal, a small-scale, rational expectat…

💥 Bubble wrap bursts enable power-free acoustic testing
#sensors

Bubble wrap bursts enable power-free acoustic testing
Non-destructive testing allows engineers to evaluate the integrity of structures such as pipelines, tanks, bridges, and machinery without dismantling them. Conventional approaches rely on loudspeakers, lasers, or electric sparks. While effective, these systems can be difficult or dangerous to use in flammable or confined areas and require considerable power to function effectively.

Humanoid Everyday: A Comprehensive Robotic Dataset for Open-World Humanoid Manipulation
Zhenyu Zhao, Hongyi Jing, Xiawei Liu, Jiageng Mao, Abha Jha, Hanwen Yang, Rong Xue, Sergey Zakharor, Vitor Guizilini, Yue Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08807

Humanoid Everyday: A Comprehensive Robotic Dataset for Open-World Humanoid Manipulation
From loco-motion to dextrous manipulation, humanoid robots have made remarkable strides in demonstrating complex full-body capabilities. However, the majority of current robot learning datasets and benchmarks mainly focus on stationary robot arms, and the few existing humanoid datasets are either confined to fixed environments or limited in task diversity, often lacking human-humanoid interaction and lower-body locomotion. Moreover, there are a few standardized evaluation platforms for benchmar…

Competing forces of polarization and confinement generate cellular chirality in a minimal model
Egun Im, Ghina Badih, Laetitia Kurzawa, Andreas Buttensch\"on, Calina Copos
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11642

Competing forces of polarization and confinement generate cellular chirality in a minimal model
Left-right axis specification is a vital part of embryonic development that establishes the left and the right sides of an embryo. Asymmetric organ morphogenesis follows asymmetric signaling cascades, which in turn follow asymmetric events on the cellular scale. In a recent study, Badih et al.\ reported cell-scale movement asymmetries in spontaneously rotating pairs of endothelial cells confined to a circular fibronectin-coated island. Importantly, the authors demonstrate that cytoskeletal cont…