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De Poetin knuffelaars op rechts: Baudet ontkent contact met Rusland, maar FvD-Kamerlid Ralf Dekker videobelt met Poetins partij Verenigd Rusland https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/07/17/baude

Seeing red: Herbert wearing UV protection lenses https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45764305/chargers-justin-herbert-wearing-uv-protection-contact-lenses

The EU (still) wants to scan
your private messages and photos
it’s not too late to act:
Reach out to your Representatives.
#chatcontrol #privacy #CSAM

Design and Development of an Automated Contact Angle Tester (ACAT) for Surface Wettability Measurement
Connor Burgess, Kyle Douin, Amir Kordijazi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12431 …

Design and Development of an Automated Contact Angle Tester (ACAT) for Surface Wettability Measurement
The Automated Contact Angle Tester (ACAT) is a fully integrated robotic work cell developed to automate the measurement of surface wettability on 3D-printed materials. Designed for precision, repeatability, and safety, ACAT addresses the limitations of manual contact angle testing by combining programmable robotics, precise liquid dispensing, and a modular software-hardware architecture. The system is composed of three core subsystems: (1) an electrical system including power, control, and safe…

Quantitative contact Hamiltonian dynamics
Danijel Djordjevi\'c, Igor Uljarevi\'c, Jun Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13234 https://

Quantitative contact Hamiltonian dynamics
This paper presents a systematic quantitative study of contact rigidity phenomena based on the contact Hamiltonian Floer theory established by Merry-Uljarević. Our quantitative approach applies to arbitrary admissible contact Hamiltonian functions on the contact boundary $M = \partial W$ of a ${\rm weakly}^{+}$-monotone symplectic manifold $W$. From a theoretical standpoint, we develop a comprehensive contact spectral invariant theory. As applications, the properties of these invariants enable…

Fundamental Parameters for Totally Eclipsing Contact Binaries Observed by TESS
Xu Ding, KaiFan Ji, ZhiMing Song, XueFen Tian, JinLiang Wang, ChuanJun Wang, QiYuan Cheng, JianPing Xiong
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11838

Fundamental Parameters for Totally Eclipsing Contact Binaries Observed by TESS
Totally eclipsing contact binaries provide a unique opportunity to accurately determine mass ratios through photometric methods alone, eliminating the need for spectroscopic data. Studying low mass ratio (LMR) contact binaries is crucial for advancing our understanding of binary star evolution and the formation of rare optical transients known as red novae. We identified 143 totally eclipsing contact binaries from the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite. These high-precision light curves reve…

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Dutch MP - of Baudet's far-right FvD - has video call with Putin's ruling party to discuss a Russia-led alternative to NATO.
https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/07/16/baude

Baudet ontkent contact met Rusland, maar FVD-Kamerlid Ralf Dekker videobelt met Poetins partij Verenigd Rusland
Rusland: FVD-partijvoorzitter Thierry Baudet blijft contacten met Rusland ontkennen, maar zijn Kamerlid Ralf Dekker blijkt te videobellen met gesanctioneerde Russische parlementariërs over een alternatief voor de NAVO. Baudet zelf stond op een lijst van waarnemers voor verkiezingen in Rusland.

Multifocal contact lenses are mindblowing.

Augmented Lagrangian Solvers for Poroelasticity with Fracture Contact Mechanics
Marius Nevland, Inga Berre, Jakub Wiktor Both, Eirik Keilegavlen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.11508

Augmented Lagrangian Solvers for Poroelasticity with Fracture Contact Mechanics
In the subsurface, fractures and the surrounding porous rock can deform in interaction with fluid flow. Advanced mathematical models governing these coupled processes typically combine fluid flow, poroelasticity, and fracture contact mechanics, representing fractures as co-dimension one objects within the porous medium. The resulting system of equations is complex and highly nonlinear. As a result, convergence issues with nonlinear solvers are common, which hinders the practical implementation …

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Remember the request I made to the City of Milwaukee to sweep/clean the bike lanes on Hampton Avenue? Here's the reply...
DPW: THE CITY OF MILWAUKEE DOESN'T SWEEP THAT FAR WEST ON HAMPTON AVE. THE COUNTY AND THE CEMENT COMPANY TAKES CARE OF THE BRIDGE AND SWEEPING OF THE ROCKS. SUPV RPW
So I guess I contact Riv/Crete or Milwaukee county now...
#mke

https://ia.acs.org.au/article/2025/did-the-qantas-hackers-use-ai-voice-deepfakes-.html
Experts say it is “highly plausible” cybercriminals used AI-based voice deepfakes to trick Qantas contact centre staff in Manila into providing access to t…

Did the Qantas hackers use AI voice deepfakes?
Fingers pointed at Scattered Spider cybercrime group.

Comment on "Redundancy Channels in the Conformal Bootstrap" by S. R. Kousvos and A. Stergiou
Slava Rychkov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13070 https…

Comment on "Redundancy Channels in the Conformal Bootstrap" by S. R. Kousvos and A. Stergiou
Recent work by Kousvos and Stergiou criticises our work with Zhong Ming Tan [arXiv:1505.00963]. The issue is CFT scaling dimension computations in perturbative Renormalization Group. We identified operators whose correlation functions differ by contact terms. This is allowed because CFT only describes correlation functions away from coincident points. They instead renormalize the contact terms, which are eventually dropped. Our way is not only correct, but preferable as it operates with the min…

A Phase Field Formulation of Frictional Sliding Contact for 3D Fully Eulerian Fluid Structure Interactions
Biswajeet Rath, Rajeev K. Jaiman
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.11611 http…

A Phase Field Formulation of Frictional Sliding Contact for 3D Fully Eulerian Fluid Structure Interactions
Frictional sliding contact in hydrodynamic environments can be found in a range of engineering applications. Accurate modeling requires an integrated numerical framework capable of resolving large relative motions, multiphase interactions, and nonlinear contact responses. Building on our previously developed fully Eulerian fluid structure formulation, we introduce a phase field based formulation for dynamic frictional contact in 3D. Contact detection is achieved via the overlap of diffuse inter…

Spectral selectors on strongly orderable contact manifolds and applications
Pierre-Alexandre Arlove
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12856 https://arxiv.org/pdf/…

Spectral selectors on strongly orderable contact manifolds and applications
We prove that the spectral selectors introduced by the author for closed strongly orderable contact manifolds satisfy algebraic properties analogous to those of the spectral selectors for lens spaces constructed by Allais, Sandon and the author using Givental's nonlinear Maslov index. As applications, first we establish a contact big fiber theorem for closed strongly orderable contact manifolds as well as for lens spaces. Second, when the Reeb flow is periodic, we construct a stably unbounded c…

Metallic Contact Contributions in Thermal Hall Conductivity Measurements
Hongyu Ma, Xuesong Hu, Junren Shi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.11240 https://arxiv.o…

Metallic Contact Contributions in Thermal Hall Conductivity Measurements
We investigate the influence of metallic contacts on thermal Hall measurements. By analyzing typical measurement configurations, we demonstrate that heat currents bypassing through metallic contacts can generate non-negligible thermal Hall signals, even when the actual thermal Hall conductivity of a measured insulator is zero. We show that the effect predicts thermal Hall conductivities that compare favorably with actual experimental observations across a variety of materials, reproducing both …

SHaRe-RL: Structured, Interactive Reinforcement Learning for Contact-Rich Industrial Assembly Tasks
Jannick Strangh\"oner, Philipp Hartmann, Marco Braun, Sebastian Wrede, Klaus Neumann
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13949

SHaRe-RL: Structured, Interactive Reinforcement Learning for Contact-Rich Industrial Assembly Tasks
High-mix low-volume (HMLV) industrial assembly, common in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), requires the same precision, safety, and reliability as high-volume automation while remaining flexible to product variation and environmental uncertainty. Current robotic systems struggle to meet these demands. Manual programming is brittle and costly to adapt, while learning-based methods suffer from poor sample efficiency and unsafe exploration in contact-rich tasks. To address this, we prese…

I know my web site "isn't doing well," but the SEO spammer fucks really have some cheek to take that line when their contact method is a hotmail/yahoo/gmail account.

Backpacker Found Alive in Australian Bush After 12 Days of Surviving Her Major Mistake https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/backpacker-found-alive-in-australian-bush-after-12-days-survival-experts-share-her-major-mistake/…

Backpacker Found Alive in Australian Bush After 12 Days–Surviving a Major Mistake
Carolina Wilga's disappearance gripped the nation after her friends and family lost contact with her in late June and her van was immobilized

Arbeidernes frigjŸring må være arbeidernes eget verk!
⭐ Les mer her: #Anarkisme #Syndikalisme

Modelling Carbon Coated Silicon Anodes for Lithium-Ion Batteries and the Influence of Contact Area on Rate Performance
D Sugunan, Y Jiang, J Guo, H Wang, M Marinescu, G Offer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13947

Modelling Carbon Coated Silicon Anodes for Lithium-Ion Batteries and the Influence of Contact Area on Rate Performance
Silicon is a promising anode material for next-generation lithium-ion batteries due to its exceptionally high specific capacity (3600 mAh g$^{-1}$), significantly exceeding that of conventional graphite. However, its practical application is hindered by substantial volume expansion (300-400%) during lithiation, leading to mechanical degradation and capacity fade. A graphite-coated silicon core-shell structure has been proposed to mitigate these issues by combining silicon's capacity with graphi…

Most US media quiet on case of #Israeli govt official allowed to flee US on $100k bail after initial #LasVegas bust in child sexual exploitation sting...
Self billed on LinkedIn as Netanyahu's Cyber #NationalSecurity

Somebody out there needs to hear the simple truth that they matter.
Even if you feel infinitesimally small and unimportant, you are bigger than you realize.
Don't allow a miserable scene to define your being.
You instill soul and meaning into every little bit of the world you come into contact with.
Defy criminal exploitation, recognize your value as something other than a cog in a rich man's money machine.
Smile at the world, add value, recognize beaut…

Task-Oriented Human Grasp Synthesis via Context- and Task-Aware Diffusers
An-Lun Liu, Yu-Wei Chao, Yi-Ting Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11287 https://…

Task-Oriented Human Grasp Synthesis via Context- and Task-Aware Diffusers
In this paper, we study task-oriented human grasp synthesis, a new grasp synthesis task that demands both task and context awareness. At the core of our method is the task-aware contact maps. Unlike traditional contact maps that only reason about the manipulated object and its relation with the hand, our enhanced maps take into account scene and task information. This comprehensive map is critical for hand-object interaction, enabling accurate grasping poses that align with the task. We propose…

High-resolution electric field imaging based on intermittent-contact mode scanning NV center electrometry
Zhi Cheng, Zhiwei Yu, Mengqi Wang, Lingfeng Yang, Zihao Cui, Ya Wang, Pengfei Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.11586

High-resolution electric field imaging based on intermittent-contact mode scanning NV center electrometry
Scanning nitrogen-vacancy (NV) center electrometry has shown potential for quantitative quantum imaging of electric fields at the nanoscale. However, achieving nanoscale spatial resolution remains a challenge since employing gradiometry to overcome electrostatic screening causes resolution-limiting trade-offs including the averaging effect and the sensor-sample proximity. Here, we demonstrate a scanning NV center protocol that achieves an enhanced spatial resolution of approximately 10 nm. We d…

Whole-body Motion Control of an Omnidirectional Wheel-Legged Mobile Manipulator via Contact-Aware Dynamic Optimization
Zong Chen, Shaoyang Li, Ben Liu, Min Li, Zhouping Yin, Yiqun Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.14010

Whole-body Motion Control of an Omnidirectional Wheel-Legged Mobile Manipulator via Contact-Aware Dynamic Optimization
Wheel-legged robots with integrated manipulators hold great promise for mobile manipulation in logistics, industrial automation, and human-robot collaboration. However, unified control of such systems remains challenging due to the redundancy in degrees of freedom, complex wheel-ground contact dynamics, and the need for seamless coordination between locomotion and manipulation. In this work, we present the design and whole-body motion control of an omnidirectional wheel-legged quadrupedal robot…

A three-dimensional numerical scheme for modeling three-phase contact line pinning using Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics
Subrat Kumar Nayak, Amitabh Bhattacharya, Prapanch Nair
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10159

A three-dimensional numerical scheme for modeling three-phase contact line pinning using Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics
In several capillary dynamics experiments, the liquid domain is confined by pinning the three-phase contact line along a sharp edge or a discontinuity on the substrate. Simulating the dynamics of pinned droplets can offer valuable insights into capillary flow phenomena involving wetting of inhomogeneous substrates. However, Eulerian multi-phase flow solvers are usually not able to directly implement pinning of three-phase contact lines. We present the implementation of a model for pinning the c…

A report on Gregg Wallace substantiates 45 allegations made against the former BBC presenter, including claims of unwelcome physical contact (Michael Savage/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2025/jul/14/report-g…

Physics-Informed Neural Networks vs. Physics Models for Non-Invasive Glucose Monitoring: A Comparative Study Under Realistic Synthetic Conditions
Riyaadh Gani
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12253

Physics-Informed Neural Networks vs. Physics Models for Non-Invasive Glucose Monitoring: A Comparative Study Under Realistic Synthetic Conditions
Non-invasive glucose monitors often fail outside the lab because existing datasets ignore hardware noise, environmental drift, and person-to-person physiology. We introduce the first ultra-realistic near-infrared (NIR) simulator that injects 12-bit ADC quantisation, +/-0.1% LED ageing, photodiode dark noise, 15-45 C temperature, 30-90% relative humidity, contact-pressure variation, Fitzpatrick I-VI melanin, and diurnal glucose excursions (dawn phenomenon). Using this platform (rho glucose-NIR =…

Jacobi-Haantjes manifolds, integrability and dissipation
Rafael Azuaje, Piergiulio Tempesta
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11715 https://…

Jacobi-Haantjes manifolds, integrability and dissipation
The theory of Jacobi-Haantjes manifolds is proposed as a natural geometric framework useful to state the integrability of both conservative and dissipative Hamiltonian systems in a unified way. As a reduction, new structures such as contact-Haantjes and locally conformal symplectic-Haantjes manifolds are investigated. The main properties of these novel classes of manifolds and their mutual relationship are discussed. It is shown that the notion of Haantjes chains, within the framework of Jacobi…

Correo enviado a todos los europarlamentarios contando argumentos contra #chatcontrol mediante https://fightchatcontrol.eu/#contact-tool

sp_infectious: Art exhibit dynamic contacts (2011)
This dataset contains the daily dynamic contact networks collected during the Infectious SocioPatterns event that took place at the Science Gallery in Dublin, Ireland, during the artscience exhibition INFECTIOUS: STAY AWAY. Each file in the downloadable package contains a tab-separated list representing the active contacts during 20-second intervals of one day of data collection. Each line has the form “t i j“, where i and j are the a…

$D$-wave dimeson resonance interpretation to the $Z_c/Z_{cs}/Z_b$ states
Kan Chen, Jun-Zhang Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.11127 https://arxiv.org/pdf/25…

$D$-wave dimeson resonance interpretation to the $Z_c/Z_{cs}/Z_b$ states
In this work, we construct the $S$-wave, $P$-wave, and $D$-wave $D^{(*)}\bar{D}^{*}_{(s)}$/$B^{(*)}\bar{B}^{*}_{(s)}$ interactions by considering the lowest order contributions from the leading order (LO), next-to-leading order (NLO), and next-to-next-to-next-to-leading order (N$^3$LO) contact terms, respectively. After solving the corresponding Lippmann-Schwinger equation (LSE), we obtain the typical pole trajectory for the $S$-wave/$P$-wave/$D$-wave state. We adjust the $P$-wave low energy co…

So we started watching “Slow Horses” recently & I gotta say;
Jack Lowden (River Cartwright) and Adam Scott (Mark S in Severance) must have a “paid by the mile” clause in their contact with AppleTV
They should do a race between them. 😂

Disordered pinning models with contact number constraint
Giambattista Giacomin, Marco Zamparo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.10707 https://

Disordered pinning models with contact number constraint
Disordered pinning models are statistical mechanics models built on discrete renewal processes: renewal epochs in this context are called \emph{contacts}. It is well known that pinning models can undergo a localization/delocalization phase transition: in the localized phase the typical density of contacts is positive and the largest gap between contacts is at most of the order of the logarithm of the size $n$ of the system, whereas the system is void of contacts in the delocalized phase. When d…

The isoperimetric inequality for the capillary energy outside convex sets
N. Fusco, V. Julin, M. Morini, A. Pratelli
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10200 https://

The isoperimetric inequality for the capillary energy outside convex sets
We study the isoperimetric problem for capillary hypersurfaces with a general contact angle $θ\in (0, π)$, outside arbitrary convex sets. We prove that the capillary energy of any surface supported on any such convex set is larger than that of a spherical cap with the same volume and the same contact angle on a flat support, and we characterize the equality cases. This provides a complete solution to the isoperimetric problem for capillary surfaces outside convex sets at arbitrary contact ang…

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@… You could report this criminal activity to the Washington field office of the FBI: https://www.fbi.gov/contact-us/field-offices/washingtondc…

There are a LOT of people in this world who share my name. Every so often I get an email intended for someone else because Google Mail does not have any effective process to deal with the problem
This is what Google says
If you still think the message was meant for someone else, contact the sender
How do I contact someone whose mail is going into my inbox and not theirs?
I try to contact the senders of such email but they nearly always deny any access to themselves!…

Fight Chat Control – Protect Digital Privacy in the EU: The EU (still) wants to scan your private messages and photos.
The "Chat Control" proposal would mandate scanning of all private digital communications, including encrypted messages and photos. This threatens fundamental privacy rights and digital security for all EU citizens.
🇪🇺 https://

Analytical study of a finite-range impurity in a one-dimensional Bose gas
T. Alper Yo\u{g}urt, Matthew T. Eiles
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.11394 https://ar…

Analytical study of a finite-range impurity in a one-dimensional Bose gas
One-dimensional Bose gases present an interesting setting to study the physics of Bose polarons, as density fluctuations play an enhanced role due to reduced dimensionality. Theoretical descriptions of this system have predominantly relied on contact pseudopotentials to model the impurity-bath interaction, leading to unphysical results in the strongly coupled limit. In this work, we analytically solve the Gross-Pitaevskii equation, using a square well potential instead of a zero-range potential…

FR-Net: Learning Robust Quadrupedal Fall Recovery on Challenging Terrains through Mass-Contact Prediction
Yidan Lu, Yinzhao Dong, Jiahui Zhang, Ji Ma, Peng Lu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.11504

FR-Net: Learning Robust Quadrupedal Fall Recovery on Challenging Terrains through Mass-Contact Prediction
Fall recovery for legged robots remains challenging, particularly on complex terrains where traditional controllers fail due to incomplete terrain perception and uncertain interactions. We present \textbf{FR-Net}, a learning-based framework that enables quadrupedal robots to recover from arbitrary fall poses across diverse environments. Central to our approach is a Mass-Contact Predictor network that estimates the robot's mass distribution and contact states from limited sensory inputs, facilit…

Direct Observation of d-Wave Superconducting Gap Symmetry in Pressurized La3Ni2O7-delta Single Crystals
Zi-Yu Cao, Di Peng, Seokmin Choi, Fujun Lan, Lan Yu, Enkang Zhang, Zhenfang Xing, Yuxin Liu, Feiyang Zhang, Tao Luo, Lixing Chen, Vuong Thi Anh Hong, Seung-Yeop Paek, Harim Jang, Jinghong Xie, Huayu Liu, Hongbo Lou, Zhidan Zeng, Yang Ding, Jun Zhao, Cailong Liu, Tuson Park, Qiaoshi Zeng, Ho-kwang Mao

Direct Observation of d-Wave Superconducting Gap Symmetry in Pressurized La3Ni2O7-delta Single Crystals
The recent discovery of superconductivity in pressure-stabilized bulk La3Ni2O7-delta, with a critical temperature (Tc) exceeding 77 K, has opened a new frontier in high-temperature superconductivity research beyond cuprates. Yet, the superconducting gap amplitude and symmetry, the key parameters to characterize a superconductor, remain elusive due to the overwhelming challenges of gap studies under high pressure. Here, we introduce in situ directional point-contact spectroscopy conducted under …

Recognizing Penny and Marble Graphs is Hard for Existential Theory of the Reals
Anna Lubiw, Marcus Schaefer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.10136 https://arxiv.…

Recognizing Penny and Marble Graphs is Hard for Existential Theory of the Reals
We show that the recognition problem for penny graphs (contact graphs of unit disks in the plane) is $\exists\mathbb{R}$-complete, that is, computationally as hard as the existential theory of the reals, even if a combinatorial plane embedding of the graph is given. The exact complexity of the penny graph recognition problem has been a long-standing open problem. We lift the penny graph result to three dimensions and show that the recognition problem for marble graphs (contact graphs of unit …

Dubai-based Xpanceo, which is developing smart contact lenses with night vision, health monitoring, and more, raised a $250M Series A at a $1.35B valuation (Alexander Sazonov/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Magneto-photoelectrochemical 2D heterojunction platform for biosensing detection
Tao Wang, Nan Zhang, Hongjie Huang, Yunhe An, Yunyun Dai, Yongrui Li, Nan Yang, Chaojie Yang, Xinran Zhou, Yucheng Zhu, Yingshan Ma, Lingling Huang, Yongtian Wang, Yang Liu, Zhiyong Yan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11843…

Magneto-photoelectrochemical 2D heterojunction platform for biosensing detection
Photoelectrochemical (PEC) biosensors exhibit significant potential for biomolecule detection due to their high sensitivity and low background noise. However, their performance is severely constrained by the rapid recombination of photogenerated charge carriers. This study innovatively introduces a non-contact magnetic modulation strategy to suppress electron-hole recombination by manipulating carrier spin states, thereby significantly enhancing photoelectric conversion efficiency. Building on …

😔 https://fightchatcontrol.eu 😔

Had my talk on Small Web accepted at #why2025 but I hadn’t realised (my bad) that not only do you have to cover your own travel and accommodation but you also have to buy a ticket to speak. I’m sorry, as part of a tiny two-person not-for-profit working for the common good, I can’t afford to pay to speak at events. I’m not Deloitte. So I sadly had to withdraw my talk.
If any conferences do w…

Kyren Williams on his contact extension: 'This is the day that I kind of worked for my whole life' https://www.therams.com/news/kyren-williams-on-his-contact-extension-this-is-the-day-that-i-kind-of-worked-for-my-…

Visuo-Acoustic Hand Pose and Contact Estimation
Yuemin Ma, Uksang Yoo, Yunchao Yao, Shahram Najam Syed, Luca Bondi, Jonathan Francis, Jean Oh, Jeffrey Ichnowski
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.00852

Visuo-Acoustic Hand Pose and Contact Estimation
Accurately estimating hand pose and hand-object contact events is essential for robot data-collection, immersive virtual environments, and biomechanical analysis, yet remains challenging due to visual occlusion, subtle contact cues, limitations in vision-only sensing, and the lack of accessible and flexible tactile sensing. We therefore introduce VibeMesh, a novel wearable system that fuses vision with active acoustic sensing for dense, per-vertex hand contact and pose estimation. VibeMesh inte…

contact: Haggle human proximity network (2006)
A network of human proximities, as measured by carried wireless devices. Each node represents a person, and an edge denotes when two people were within a certain proximity of each other, as measured by a wireless protocol (Bluetooth or Wifi). The edges are timestamped.
This network has 274 nodes and 28244 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Timestamps

Seems like a good day to revisit this post about privacy-preserving age verification. (tl;dr -> you can't have it) https://www.techdirt.com/2025/08/19/privacy‑preserving-age-verification-falls-apart-on-contact-with…

Privacy‑Preserving Age Verification Falls Apart On Contact With Reality
Here we go again. Whenever policy makers insist that there’s some “nerd harder” solution to tricky societal problems, actual experts have to spend a ridiculous amount of time explaining basic reali…

Three-dimensional SPH modeling of brittle fracture under hydrodynamic loading
Vishabjeet Singh, Chong Peng, Md Rushdie Ibne Islam
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.10553

Three-dimensional SPH modeling of brittle fracture under hydrodynamic loading
A three-dimensional SPH computational framework is presented for modeling fluid-structure interactions with structural deformation and failure. We combine weakly compressible SPH with a pseudo-spring-based SPH solver to capture the fluid flow and deformable structures. A unified modeling approach captures the solid boundaries and fluid-structure interfaces without penalty-based contact force. The $δ$-SPH technique improves the pressure calculations in the fluid phase, while structural damage i…

Learning Contact Dynamics for Control with Action-conditioned Face Interaction Graph Networks
Zongyao Yi, Joachim Hertzberg, Martin Atzmueller
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12151 h…

Learning Contact Dynamics for Control with Action-conditioned Face Interaction Graph Networks
We present a learnable physics simulator that provides accurate motion and force-torque prediction of robot end effectors in contact-rich manipulation. The proposed model extends the state-of-the-art GNN-based simulator (FIGNet) with novel node and edge types, enabling action-conditional predictions for control and state estimation tasks. In simulation, the MPC agent using our model matches the performance of the same controller with the ground truth dynamics model in a challenging peg-in-hole …

I emailed all 14 Irish MEP's regarding the "Chat Control" proposal.
https://fightchatcontrol.eu/ @…
I have received a grand total of 1 response (outs…

This feels like a never ending fight 😩
And it’s so transparent, no more privacy for thee*
*unless you’re an EU politician 🙃
#Privacy

Impact of Spinning Droplets onto Superhydrophobic Surfaces: Asymmetric Tumbling Rapid Rebound
Jinyang Wang, Feifei Jia, Xiaoyun Peng, Peng Zhang, Kai Sun, Tianyou Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13150

Impact of Spinning Droplets onto Superhydrophobic Surfaces: Asymmetric Tumbling Rapid Rebound
The impact dynamics of spinning droplets onto superhydrophobic surfaces was studied by using Volume-of-Fluid simulations, covering broad ranges of Weber number ($We$) and dimensionless angular velocity ($\mathitΩ$). The omputational results were validated by high-speed imaging experiments, with particular focus on the types of rebound, asymmetric deformation, and droplet-wall contact time. Results show that, the spinning motion of droplets leads to two novel rebound scenarios. Specificially, t…

Charge dependence of mesons with flavored contact-interaction couplings
F\'abio L. Braghin, Bruno El-Bennich, Fernando E. Serna
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.09298 https://

Charge dependence of mesons with flavored contact-interaction couplings
Effective interaction models of quantum chromodynamics, based on quark degrees of freedom, have been successfully employed to compute the properties of a large array of ground and excited meson and baryon states, along with their electromagnetic form factors, distribution functions and thermal behavior. Amongst them, the contact-interaction model, while non-renormalizable, implements confinement, satisfies Lorentz covariance and correctly describes chiral symmetry and its dynamical breaking pat…

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Imma be rich! Thanks Elon!

Commanders RB Ekeler exits with Achilles injury https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46230290/commanders-austin-ekeler-sustains-non-contact-achilles-injury

Bi-contact structures with symmetry: local normal forms
Connor Jackman
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.00802 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.00802

Bi-contact structures with symmetry: local normal forms
A pair of transverse contact distributions on a 3-manifold will in general admit no 1-parameter families of symmetries: a flow preserving both contact distributions. Here, we will determine local normal forms for such pairs admitting symmetries. In particular, we observe that orientable Anosov flows may be globally given by the intersection of a pair of oppositely oriented contact distributions admitting, around any point, maximal local symmetries.

EquiContact: A Hierarchical SE(3) Vision-to-Force Equivariant Policy for Spatially Generalizable Contact-rich Tasks
Joohwan Seo, Arvind Kruthiventy, Soomi Lee, Megan Teng, Xiang Zhang, Seoyeon Choi, Jongeun Choi, Roberto Horowitz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.10961

EquiContact: A Hierarchical SE(3) Vision-to-Force Equivariant Policy for Spatially Generalizable Contact-rich Tasks
This paper presents a framework for learning vision-based robotic policies for contact-rich manipulation tasks that generalize spatially across task configurations. We focus on achieving robust spatial generalization of the policy for the peg-in-hole (PiH) task trained from a small number of demonstrations. We propose EquiContact, a hierarchical policy composed of a high-level vision planner (Diffusion Equivariant Descriptor Field, Diff-EDF) and a novel low-level compliant visuomotor policy (Ge…

Researchers have given people a taste of superhuman vision
after creating contact lenses that allow them to see infrared light.
Unlike night vision goggles,
the contact lenses need no power source,
and because they are transparent,
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A neural network model for quickly solving multiple-band light curves of contact binaries
Kai Li, Li-Heng Wang, Xiang Gao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08189 https://

A neural network model for quickly solving multiple-band light curves of contact binaries
The advent of large-scale photometric surveys has led to the discovery of over a million contact binary systems. Conventional light curve analysis methods are no longer adequate for handling such massive datasets. To address this challenge, we developed a neural network-based model capable of rapid analysis of multiple-band light curves of contact binaries. Our model can determine the fundamental physical parameters, including temperature and mass ratios, orbital inclination, potential, fillout…

Jeg vet ikke hva alle andre mener, men jeg synes Norsk Syndikalistisk Forbund – Internasjonale Arbeider-Assosiasjon (NSF-IAA) er en veldig viktig og bra organisasjon. De bygger videre på anarkosyndikalistiske tradisjoner i Norge som går helt tilbake til 1916. NSF-IAA står for en kampvillig, medlemsstyrt og frigjŸrende arbeiderbevegelse som utfordrer både byråkrati, partipolitikk og kapitalmakt.
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Heterogeneous optimized Schwarz Methods for heat conduction in composites with thermal contact resistance
Huan Zhang, Hui Zhang, Yan Wang, Yingxiang Xu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.06408

Heterogeneous optimized Schwarz Methods for heat conduction in composites with thermal contact resistance
Heat transfer in composites is critical in engineering, where imperfect layer contact causes thermal contact resistance (TCR), leading to interfacial temperature discontinuity. We propose solving this numerically using the optimized Schwarz method (OSM), which decouples the heterogeneous problem into homogeneous subproblems. This avoids ill-conditioned systems from monolithic solving due to high contrast and interface jumps. Both energy estimate and Fourier analysis are used to prove the conver…

sp_infectious: Art exhibit dynamic contacts (2011)
This dataset contains the daily dynamic contact networks collected during the Infectious SocioPatterns event that took place at the Science Gallery in Dublin, Ireland, during the artscience exhibition INFECTIOUS: STAY AWAY. Each file in the downloadable package contains a tab-separated list representing the active contacts during 20-second intervals of one day of data collection. Each line has the form “t i j“, where i and j are the a…

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On Zoll Contact 5-Spheres
Julian Chaidez, Shira Tanny
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.09639 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.09639

On Zoll Contact 5-Spheres
We prove that any contact form on the standard contact 5-sphere with Zoll Reeb flow is strictly contactomorphic to a scaling of the standard Zoll contact form.

Byråkratiet, partipolitikken og de tradisjonelle fagforeningene er ikke bygd for kamp. De fungerer som serviceorganisasjoner underlagt staten og kapitalen, og undergraver dermed arbeiderklassens egen kampvilje.
Kampen for reell frigjŸring og selvstyre må derfor drives av arbeiderne selv gjennom direkte, solidariske aksjoner uten bindinger til politiske partier og formelle fredsplikter. Bare en fri og selvstyrt fagbevegelse kan utfordre de Ÿkonomiske elitene og skape et ekte arbeidsfol…

Exteroception through Proprioception Sensing through Improved Contact Modeling for Soft Growing Robots
Francesco Fuentes, Serigne Diagne, Zachary Kingston, Laura H. Blumenschein
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.10694

Exteroception through Proprioception Sensing through Improved Contact Modeling for Soft Growing Robots
Passive deformation due to compliance is a commonly used benefit of soft robots, providing opportunities to achieve robust actuation with few active degrees of freedom. Soft growing robots in particular have shown promise in navigation of unstructured environments due to their passive deformation. If their collisions and subsequent deformations can be better understood, soft robots could be used to understand the structure of the environment from direct tactile measurements. In this work, we pr…

contact: Haggle human proximity network (2006)
A network of human proximities, as measured by carried wireless devices. Each node represents a person, and an edge denotes when two people were within a certain proximity of each other, as measured by a wireless protocol (Bluetooth or Wifi). The edges are timestamped.
This network has 274 nodes and 28244 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Timestamps

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Marco Rubio impostor reportedly using AI to contact multiple senior officials
According to a state department cable seen by the Washington Post, the impostor sent fake voice messages and texts that mimicked Rubio’s voice and writing style to targets including three foreign ministers, a US governor and a member of Congress.
The cable, dated 3 July, said the impostor “left voicemails on Signal for at least two targeted individuals” and sent text messages inviting others to communi…

Stabilization-free virtual element method for 2D third medium contact
Bing-Bing Xu, Peter Wriggers
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.03630 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2…

Stabilization-free virtual element method for 2D third medium contact
The third medium contact has been proven to be an effective approach for simulating contact problems involving large deformations. Unlike traditional contact algorithms, the third medium contact introduces a third medium between two contacting bodies, thereby avoiding the complex treatment of the contact constraints. The approach has been successfully applied in different applications in the framework of the finite element method (FEM). As a generalization of the finite element method, the virt…

Track Any Motions under Any Disturbances
Zhikai Zhang, Jun Guo, Chao Chen, Jilong Wang, Chenghuai Lin, Yunrui Lian, Han Xue, Zhenrong Wang, Maoqi Liu, Huaping Liu, He Wang, Li Yi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13833

Track Any Motions under Any Disturbances
A foundational humanoid motion tracker is expected to be able to track diverse, highly dynamic, and contact-rich motions. More importantly, it needs to operate stably in real-world scenarios against various dynamics disturbances, including terrains, external forces, and physical property changes for general practical use. To achieve this goal, we propose Any2Track (Track Any motions under Any disturbances), a two-stage RL framework to track various motions under multiple disturbances in the rea…

Investigating the two-pion exchange of the double charm $DD^*$ chiral interactions and $T_{cc}$
Hao Xu, Li-xiang Ren
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.11234 https://

Investigating the two-pion exchange of the double charm $DD^*$ chiral interactions and $T_{cc}$
Under chiral effective field theory, we study the $S$-wave $DD^*$ interactions up to second chiral order at one-loop level, which contain full contact, one-pion-exchange (OPE) and two-pion-exchange (TPE) contributions. Here, we adopt a new subtraction scheme of the two-particle-reducible contributions, and introduce three regularization schemes uniquely for the TPE contributions since they are highly divergent on the momentum transfer. These different schemes all lead to same conclusions: In th…

contact: Haggle human proximity network (2006)
A network of human proximities, as measured by carried wireless devices. Each node represents a person, and an edge denotes when two people were within a certain proximity of each other, as measured by a wireless protocol (Bluetooth or Wifi). The edges are timestamped.
This network has 274 nodes and 28244 edges.
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Learning to Predict Mobile Robot Stability in Off-Road Environments
Nathaniel Rose, Arif Ahmed, Emanuel Gutierrez-Cornejo, Parikshit Maini
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12731

Learning to Predict Mobile Robot Stability in Off-Road Environments
Navigating in off-road environments for wheeled mobile robots is challenging due to dynamic and rugged terrain. Traditional physics-based stability metrics, such as Static Stability Margin (SSM) or Zero Moment Point (ZMP) require knowledge of contact forces, terrain geometry, and the robot's precise center-of-mass that are difficult to measure accurately in real-world field conditions. In this work, we propose a learning-based approach to estimate robot platform stability directly from proprioc…

Positive paths in diffeomorphism groups of manifolds with a contact distribution
Jakob Hedicke
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.07279 https://

Positive paths in diffeomorphism groups of manifolds with a contact distribution
Given a cooriented contact manifold $(M,ξ)$, it is possible to define a notion of positivity on the group $\mathrm{Diff}(M)$ of diffeomorphisms of $M$, by looking at paths of diffeomorphisms that are positively transverse to the contact distribution $ξ$. We show that, in contrast to the analogous notion usually considered on the group of diffeomorphisms preserving $ξ$, positivity on $\mathrm{Diff}(M)$ is completely flexible. In particular, we show that for the standard contact structure on $…

Thermodynamically consistent modelling and simulation of the moving contact line problem in non-isothermal compressible two-phase flows
Junkai Wang, Qiaolin He
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.05711

Thermodynamically consistent modelling and simulation of the moving contact line problem in non-isothermal compressible two-phase flows
According to the dynamic van der Waals theory, we propose a thermodynamically consistent model for non-isothermal compressible two-phase flows with contact line motion. In this model, fluid temperature is treated as a primary variable, characterized by the proposed temperature equation instead of being obtained from intermediate variables such as total energy density, internal energy density and entropy density. The hydrodynamic boundary conditions, which represent a generalization of the gener…

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Few-shot transfer of tool-use skills using human demonstrations with proximity and tactile sensing
Marina Y. Aoyama, Sethu Vijayakumar, Tetsuya Narita
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13200

Few-shot transfer of tool-use skills using human demonstrations with proximity and tactile sensing
Tools extend the manipulation abilities of robots, much like they do for humans. Despite human expertise in tool manipulation, teaching robots these skills faces challenges. The complexity arises from the interplay of two simultaneous points of contact: one between the robot and the tool, and another between the tool and the environment. Tactile and proximity sensors play a crucial role in identifying these complex contacts. However, learning tool manipulation using these sensors remains challe…

sp_hypertext: Hypertext 2009 dynamic contact network
The temporal network of contacts among attendees of the ACM Hypertext 2009 conference, which spanned 2.5 days of time.
This network has 113 nodes and 20818 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Temporal
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A Comparative Study of Floating-Base Space Parameterizations for Agile Whole-Body Motion Planning
Evangelos Tsiatsianas, Chairi Kiourt, Konstantinos Chatzilygeroudis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.11520

A Comparative Study of Floating-Base Space Parameterizations for Agile Whole-Body Motion Planning
Automatically generating agile whole-body motions for legged and humanoid robots remains a fundamental challenge in robotics. While numerous trajectory optimization approaches have been proposed, there is no clear guideline on how the choice of floating-base space parameterization affects performance, especially for agile behaviors involving complex contact dynamics. In this paper, we present a comparative study of different parameterizations for direct transcription-based trajectory optimizati…

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sp_hypertext: Hypertext 2009 dynamic contact network
The temporal network of contacts among attendees of the ACM Hypertext 2009 conference, which spanned 2.5 days of time.
This network has 113 nodes and 2196 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Temporal
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Towards simulation-based optimization of compliant fingers for high-speed connector assembly
Richard Matthias Hartisch, Alexander Rother, J\"org Kr\"uger, Kevin Haninger
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10012

Towards simulation-based optimization of compliant fingers for high-speed connector assembly
Mechanical compliance is a key design parameter for dynamic contact-rich manipulation, affecting task success and safety robustness over contact geometry variation. Design of soft robotic structures, such as compliant fingers, requires choosing design parameters which affect geometry and stiffness, and therefore manipulation performance and robustness. Today, these parameters are chosen through either hardware iteration, which takes significant development time, or simplified models (e.g. plana…

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sp_hypertext: Hypertext 2009 dynamic contact network
The temporal network of contacts among attendees of the ACM Hypertext 2009 conference, which spanned 2.5 days of time.
This network has 113 nodes and 20818 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Temporal
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- Irrotational Contact Fields
Alejandro Castro, Xuchen Han, Joseph Masterjohn

Gesture-Based Robot Control Integrating Mm-wave Radar and Behavior Trees
Yuqing Song, Cesare Tonola, Stefano Savazzi, Sanaz Kianoush, Nicola Pedrocchi, Stephan Sigg
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12008

Gesture-Based Robot Control Integrating Mm-wave Radar and Behavior Trees
As robots become increasingly prevalent in both homes and industrial settings, the demand for intuitive and efficient human-machine interaction continues to rise. Gesture recognition offers an intuitive control method that does not require physical contact with devices and can be implemented using various sensing technologies. Wireless solutions are particularly flexible and minimally invasive. While camera-based vision systems are commonly used, they often raise privacy concerns and can strugg…

Hybrid Data-Driven Predictive Control for Robust and Reactive Exoskeleton Locomotion Synthesis
Kejun Li, Jeeseop Kim, Maxime Brunet, Marine P\'etriaux, Yisong Yue, Aaron D. Ames
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.10269

Hybrid Data-Driven Predictive Control for Robust and Reactive Exoskeleton Locomotion Synthesis
Robust bipedal locomotion in exoskeletons requires the ability to dynamically react to changes in the environment in real time. This paper introduces the hybrid data-driven predictive control (HDDPC) framework, an extension of the data-enabled predictive control, that addresses these challenges by simultaneously planning foot contact schedules and continuous domain trajectories. The proposed framework utilizes a Hankel matrix-based representation to model system dynamics, incorporating step-to-…

Input-gated Bilateral Teleoperation: An Easy-to-implement Force Feedback Teleoperation Method for Low-cost Hardware
Yoshiki Kanai, Akira Kanazawa, Hideyuki Ichiwara, Hiroshi Ito, Naoaki Noguchi, Tetsuya Ogata
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08226

Input-gated Bilateral Teleoperation: An Easy-to-implement Force Feedback Teleoperation Method for Low-cost Hardware
Effective data collection in contact-rich manipulation requires force feedback during teleoperation, as accurate perception of contact is crucial for stable control. However, such technology remains uncommon, largely because bilateral teleoperation systems are complex and difficult to implement. To overcome this, we propose a bilateral teleoperation method that relies only on a simple feedback controller and does not require force sensors. The approach is designed for leader-follower setups usi…