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Greater Manchester still has a long way to go on protected cycling infrastructure.
Share of protected cycling infra-
structure of total roads %:
Paris 44
Hamburg 33
Barcelona 19
Waraw 15
G London 8
Manchester 8 rank 29/36
Did better on school streets and safe speeds
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Streets for Kids, Cities for All: Protected cycling infrastructure ranking
We've analysed 36 European cities to see how they’re progressing in creating transport systems that prioritise the needs of children.

EU's Frontex has published a children's book for children who are about to be deported
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https://op.europa.eu/en/publication-detail/-/publication/6eea0e99-e464-11ef-be2a-01aa75ed71a1
Official PDFs availabl…

Toolbox for children in return - Publications Office of the EU
Addressing the return of unaccompanied minors or children within families is a delicate matter that demands a humane approach. This approach must not only respect fundamental rights but also prioritise the child's best interests. Additionally, clear and comprehensive information about the return procedures is essential for those involved, enabling them to prepare as effectively as possible. One of the primary objectives of Frontex is to assist MS throughout all stages of the return procedures. …

“Toyama’s research reminds us that there are few one-size-fits-all solutions. If technology is going to improve the lives of the world’s poorest, it must be grounded in a deep understanding of human behavior and an appreciation for cultural differences.”
— Bill Gates
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To dig slightly deeper here, I think that there's a feedback loop between "fall in love/wait for your perfect match (and by the way girls the only career you should aspire to is the literally unattainable 'princess'" Disney stuff and this "my characters are complex I'm so sophisticated; they suffer but it's not intolerable and their lives are good enough despite the imperfections" crap that gets praised as so evocative of the human condition. In fact, I think it merely evokes the condition of its authors & fans who were poisoned by the Disney in their youth and who have remained bad as relationships ever since, though this is not exactly their fault. In any case, their white middle-aged wisdom-shaped-but-quite bitter and intricately-constructed-so-it's-hard-to-see-the-really-untrue-character-facets work ends up keeping their audience within the "romance is luck" cult by way of reassuring them that a middling romance with lots of doubt and complications is "just life" even though the author doesn't actually have any broader perspective on what life is than anyone else.
This has turned into a bit of a rant, but I think I'll just add that reading Mama by Nikkya Hargrove just before Dream State helped immensely to see how the distant & awkward parent-child relationships of the latter are not a product of human nature but instead of white western culture & capitalism.
(The defeatism about climate change is a whole nother dimension of wrong about Dream State, by that's a separate rant.)

Greater Manchester still has a long way to go on protected cycling infrastructure.
Share of protected cycling infra-
structure of total roads %:
Paris 44
Hamburg 33
Barcelona 19
Waraw 15
G London 8
Manchester 8 rank 29/36
Did better on school streets and safe speeds
https…

Streets for Kids, Cities for All: Protected cycling infrastructure ranking
We've analysed 36 European cities to see how they’re progressing in creating transport systems that prioritise the needs of children.

Challenges in Automated Processing of Speech from Child Wearables: The Case of Voice Type Classifier
Tarek Kunze, Marianne M\'etais, Hadrien Titeux, Lucas Elbert, Joseph Coffey, Emmanuel Dupoux, Alejandrina Cristia, Marvin Lavechin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11074

Challenges in Automated Processing of Speech from Child Wearables: The Case of Voice Type Classifier
Recordings gathered with child-worn devices promised to revolutionize both fundamental and applied speech sciences by allowing the effortless capture of children's naturalistic speech environment and language production. This promise hinges on speech technologies that can transform the sheer mounds of data thus collected into usable information. This paper demonstrates several obstacles blocking progress by summarizing three years' worth of experiments aimed at improving one fundamental task: V…

Holistic approach and Advanced Color Singlet Identification for physics measurements at high energy frontier
Yongfeng Zhu, Hao Liang, Yuexin Wang, Yuzhi Che, Hengyu Wang, Chen Zhou, Huilin Qu, Manqi Ruan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11783

Holistic approach and Advanced Color Singlet Identification for physics measurements at high energy frontier
To enhance the discovery power of high-energy colliders, we propose a holistic approach and Advanced Color Singlet Identification (ACSI), both of which utilize inclusive reconstructed information as input. The holistic approach is designed to simultaneously classify physics events, while ACSI focuses on associating final-state particles with their parent massive bosons. Implemented using state-of-the-art artificial intelligence architectures and applied to benchmark analyses with simulated data…

Reaching the Ultimate Quantum Precision Limit at Colliders: Conditions and Case Studies
Tengyu Ai, Qi Bi, Yuxin He, Jia Liu, Xiao-Ping Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10673

Reaching the Ultimate Quantum Precision Limit at Colliders: Conditions and Case Studies
We investigate whether collider experiments can reach the quantum limit of precision, defined by the quantum Fisher information (QFI), using only classical observables such as particle momenta. As a case study, we focus on the $τ^+τ^-$ system and the decay channel $τ\to πν$, which offers maximal spin-analyzing power and renders the decay a projective measurement. We develop a general framework to determine when collider measurements can, in principle, saturate the QFI in an entangled bipar…

Exploring the Convergence of HCI and Evolving Technologies in Information Systems
Rajan Das Gupta, Ashikur Rahman, Md Imrul Hasan Showmick, Md. Yeasin Rahat, Md. Jakir Hossen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08549

Exploring the Convergence of HCI and Evolving Technologies in Information Systems
Modern technology driven information systems are part of our daily lives. However, this deep integration poses new challenges to the human computer interaction (HCI) professionals. With the rapid growth of mobile and cloud computing and the Internet of Things (IoT), the demand for HCI specialists to design user-friendly and adaptable interfaces has never been more pressing. Especially for diverse user groups such as children, the elderly and people with disabilities who need interfaces tailored…

Precision phenomenology at multi-TeV muon colliders
Stefano Frixione, Fabio Maltoni, Davide Pagani, Marco Zaro
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10733 https://

Precision phenomenology at multi-TeV muon colliders
Future lepton colliders, such as those based on linear $e^+e^-$ or circular $μ^+μ^-$ accelerators, are expected to attain centre-of-mass energies in the multi-TeV range. In this regime the impact of QED and of weak radiation, in both the initial and the final state, can become a leading effect. By employing a general framework presented in a companion paper - suitable for any flavour of colliding leptons - we improve next-to-leading order electroweak predictions by including higher-order cont…