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NHS forewarns us about reduced eligibility for COVID jab. Won't end well.
"National Booking Service: Hello Mark [don't be so familiar - Dr Burton to you!].
The rules about who can get the free COVID-19 vaccine have changed this year. You may not be offered it on the day if you're not in a priority group. Staff will confirm on the day. Check here:

COVID-19 vaccine
NHS information about the COVID-19 vaccine, including what the vaccine helps protect against, who should have it and when, how to get it and side effects.

Fermion Parity Resolution of Entanglement
Christian Northe
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.03605 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.03605…

Fermion Parity Resolution of Entanglement
Entanglement is analyzed in the Majorana fermion conformal field theory (CFT) in the vacuum, in the fermion state, and in states built from conformal interfaces. In the boundary-state approach, Hilbert space admits two factorizations for a single interval, producing distinct entanglement spectra determined by spin structures. Although Rényi and relative entropiesare shown to be insensitive to these structures, symmetry-resolved entanglement naturally reveals their differences. The Majorana fer…

🧾 Multi-Modal Vision vs. Text-Based Parsing: Benchmarking LLM Strategies for Invoice Processing
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Multi-Modal Vision vs. Text-Based Parsing: Benchmarking LLM Strategies for Invoice Processing
This paper benchmarks eight multi-modal large language models from three families (GPT-5, Gemini 2.5, and open-source Gemma 3) on three diverse openly available invoice document datasets using zero-shot prompting. We compare two processing strategies: direct image processing using multi-modal capabilities and a structured parsing approach converting documents to markdown first. Results show native image processing generally outperforms structured approaches, with performance varying across mode…

Teleoperator-Aware and Safety-Critical Adaptive Nonlinear MPC for Shared Autonomy in Obstacle Avoidance of Legged Robots
Ruturaj Sambhus, Muneeb Ahmad, Basit Muhammad Imran, Sujith Vijayan, Dylan P. Losey, Kaveh Akbari Hamed
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.22815

Teleoperator-Aware and Safety-Critical Adaptive Nonlinear MPC for Shared Autonomy in Obstacle Avoidance of Legged Robots
Ensuring safe and effective collaboration between humans and autonomous legged robots is a fundamental challenge in shared autonomy, particularly for teleoperated systems navigating cluttered environments. Conventional shared-control approaches often rely on fixed blending strategies that fail to capture the dynamics of legged locomotion and may compromise safety. This paper presents a teleoperator-aware, safety-critical, adaptive nonlinear model predictive control (ANMPC) framework for shared …

Explainable Knowledge Distillation for Efficient Medical Image Classification
Aqib Nazir Mir, Danish Raza Rizvi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.15251 https://ar…

Explainable Knowledge Distillation for Efficient Medical Image Classification
This study comprehensively explores knowledge distillation frameworks for COVID-19 and lung cancer classification using chest X-ray (CXR) images. We employ high-capacity teacher models, including VGG19 and lightweight Vision Transformers (Visformer-S and AutoFormer-V2-T), to guide the training of a compact, hardware-aware student model derived from the OFA-595 supernet. Our approach leverages hybrid supervision, combining ground-truth labels with teacher models' soft targets to balance accuracy…

Non-isentropic cavity flow for the multi-d compressible Euler system
Helge Kristian Jenssen, Charis Tsikkou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.16435 https://arxiv.…

Non-isentropic cavity flow for the multi-d compressible Euler system
We rigorously construct non-isentropic and self-similar multi-d Euler flows in which a central cavity (vacuum region) collapses. While isentropic flows of this type have been analyzed earlier by Hunter \cite{hun_60} and others, the non-isentropic setting introduces additional complications, in particular with respect to the behavior along the fluid-vacuum interface. The flows we construct satisfy the physical boundary conditions: the interface is a material surface along which the pressure vani…

Residual Gaze Behavior During Navigation in Blindness and Low Vision
Junchi Feng, Fernanda Garcia-Pina, Mahya Beheshti, Todd E Hudson, William Seiple, John-Ross Rizzo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.11530

Residual Gaze Behavior During Navigation in Blindness and Low Vision
Background: Outdoor navigation poses significant challenges for people with blindness or low vision, yet the role of gaze behavior in supporting mobility remains underexplored. Fully sighted individuals typically adopt consistent scanning strategies, whereas those with visual impairments rely on heterogeneous adaptations shaped by residual vision and experience. Methods: We conducted a comparative eye-tracking study of fully sighted, low vision, blind, and fully blind participants navigating …