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From the article: "Gregory E. Sterling, dean of Yale Divinity School, recently said that Christians do not have to agree on all aspects of what the teachings of Jesus Christ mean, but we can apply the test given in the Fourth Gospel..."
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Why Are So Many Christians So Cruel? - Lewis Center for Church Leadership
Many Christians today feel tension between faith and politics, often confusing partisan allegiance with discipleship. Lovett Weems warns that Christianity’s credibility suffers when political power replaces Christlike love. True patriotism, rooted in Jesus’ teachings, values compassion, diversity, humility, and love. Why, indeed, are so many Christians so cruel? This is the question David French said Lovett Weems writes Christians risk losing credibility when politics eclipse Christlike lov…

Use as Directed? A Comparison of Software Tools Intended to Check Rigor and Transparency of Published Work
Peter Eckmann, Adrian Barnett, Alexandra Bannach-Brown, Elisa Pilar Bascunan Atria, Guillaume Cabanac, Louise Delwen Owen Franzen, Ma{\l}gorzata Anna Gazda, Kaitlyn Hair, James Howison, Halil Kilicoglu, Cyril Labbe, Sarah McCann, Vladislav Nachev, Martijn Roelandse, Maia Salholz-Hillel, Robert Schulz, Gerben ter Riet, Colby Vorland, Anita Bandrowski, Tracey Weissgerber

Use as Directed? A Comparison of Software Tools Intended to Check Rigor and Transparency of Published Work
The causes of the reproducibility crisis include lack of standardization and transparency in scientific reporting. Checklists such as ARRIVE and CONSORT seek to improve transparency, but they are not always followed by authors and peer review often fails to identify missing items. To address these issues, there are several automated tools that have been designed to check different rigor criteria. We have conducted a broad comparison of 11 automated tools across 9 different rigor criteria from t…

Compensation effects for anisotropic energies of two-dimensional unit vector fields
Lia Bronsard, Dmitry Golovaty, Xavier Lamy, Peter Sternberg
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.17345 …

Compensation effects for anisotropic energies of two-dimensional unit vector fields
We study the highly anisotropic energy of two-dimensional unit vector fields given by \begin{align*} E_ε(u)= \int_Ω (\mathrm{div}\,u)^2 + ε(\mathrm{curl}\,u)^2\, dx\,, \quad u\colonΩ\subset\mathbb R^2\to\mathbb S^1\, \end{align*} in the limit $ε\to 0$. This energy clearly loses control on the full gradient of $u$ as $ε\to 0$, but, adapting tools from hyperbolic conservations laws, we show that it still controls derivatives of order 1/2. In particular, any bounded energy sequence $E_ε(u…

Unveiling the Pitfalls of CPL Parametrization at High Redshifts: A Critical Assessment of the $\omega_{0}$$\omega_a$CDM Model with DESI DR2 BAO Data
Seokcheon Lee
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.18230

Unveiling the Pitfalls of CPL Parametrization at High Redshifts: A Critical Assessment of the $ω_{0}$$ω_a$CDM Model with DESI DR2 BAO Data
We critically assess the w0waCDM model, employing the Chevallier-Polarski-Linder (CPL) parametrization, w(z) = w0 + wa * z / (1 + z), using Baryon Acoustic Oscillation (BAO) measurements from DESI Data Release 2 (DR2). While DESI BAO data broadly align with the standard LambdaCDM model, giving Omega_m = 0.3, our Markov Chain Monte Carlo fits show notable variation in best-fit values and degeneracy directions for w0waCDM across combinations of BAO observables (DV/rd, DM/rd, DH/rd, and DM/DH). …

Tuning chiral anomaly signature in a Dirac semimetal via fast-ion implantation
Manasi Mandal, Eunbi Rha, Abhijatmedhi Chotrattanapituk, Denisse C\'ordova Carrizales, Alexander Lygo, Kevin B. Woller, Mouyang Cheng, Ryotaro Okabe, Guomin Zhu, Kiran Mak, Chu-Liang Fu, Chuhang Liu, Lijun Wu, Yimei Zhu, Susanne Stemmer, Mingda Li
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Tuning chiral anomaly signature in a Dirac semimetal via fast-ion implantation
Cd$_3$As$_2$ is a prototypical Dirac semimetal that hosts a chiral anomaly and thereby functions as a platform to test high-energy physics hypotheses and to realize energy efficient applications. Here we use a combination of accelerator-based fast ion implantation and theory-driven planning to enhance the negative longitudinal magnetoresistance (NLMR)--a signature of a chiral anomaly--in Nb-doped Cd$_3$As$_2$ thin films. High-energy ion implantation is commonly used to investigate semiconductor…

The $10~\rm{kpc}$ collar of early-type galaxies -- probing evolution by focusing on the inner stellar density profile
Rongfu Liu (Shanghai Jiao Tong University), Alessandro Sonnenfeld (Shanghai Jiao Tong University), Carlo Nipoti (Alma Mater Studiorum - Universit\`a di Bologna), Rui Li (Zhengzhou University)
https://arxiv.org/ab…

The $10~\rm{kpc}$ collar of early-type galaxies -- probing evolution by focusing on the inner stellar density profile
Context: The post-quenching evolution process of early-type galaxies (ETGs) is still not fully understood. The amount of growth in stellar mass and size incurred after quenching is still under debate. Aims: In this work we aim to investigate the late evolution of ETGs, both observationally and theoretically, by focusing on the stellar mass density profile inside a fixed aperture, within $10$~kpc from the galaxy center. Methods: We first studied the stellar mass and mass-weighted density slo…

XR Offloading Across Multiple Time Scales: The Roles of Power, Temperature, and Energy
Francesco Malandrino, Olga Chukhno, Alessandro Catania, Antonella Molinaro, Carla Fabiana Chiasserini
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.18584

XR Offloading Across Multiple Time Scales: The Roles of Power, Temperature, and Energy
Extended reality (XR) devices, commonly known as wearables, must handle significant computational loads under tight latency constraints. To meet these demands, they rely on a combination of on-device processing and edge offloading. This letter focuses on offloading strategies for wearables by considering their impact across three time scales: instantaneous power consumption, short-term temperature fluctuations, and long-term battery duration. We introduce a comprehensive system model that captu…

Practitioner forecasts of technological progress in biostasis
Andrew T. McKenzie, Michael Cerullo, Navid Farahani, Jordan S. Sparks, Taurus Londo\~no, Aschwin de Wolf, Suzan Dziennis, Borys Wr\'obel, Alexander German, Emil F. Kendziorra, Jo\~ao Pedro de Magalh\~aes, Wonjin Cho, R. Michael Perry, Max More
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.1727…

Practitioner forecasts of technological progress in biostasis
Biostasis has the potential to extend human lives by offering a bridge to powerful life extension technologies that may be developed in the future. However, key questions in the field remain unresolved, including which biomarkers reliably indicate successful preservation, what technical obstacles pose the greatest barriers, and whether different proposed revival methods are theoretically feasible. To address these gaps, we conducted a collaborative forecasting exercise with 22 practitioners in …

Xenophobia based on a few attributes can impede society's cohesiveness
Alejandro Castro, Tuan Minh Pham, Ernesto Ortega, David Machado
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.18513

Xenophobia based on a few attributes can impede society's cohesiveness
Xenophobic interactions play a role as important as homophilic ones in shaping many dynamical processes on social networks, such as opinion formation, social balance, or epidemic spreading. In this paper, we use belief propagation and Monte Carlo simulations on tree-like signed graphs to predict that a sufficient propensity to xenophobia can impede a consensus that would otherwise emerge via a phase transition. As the strength of xenophobic interactions and the rationality of individuals with r…

Joint Multi-Target Detection-Tracking in Cognitive Massive MIMO Radar via POMCP
Imad Bouhou, Stefano Fortunati, Leila Gharsalli, Alexandre Renaux
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.17506

Joint Multi-Target Detection-Tracking in Cognitive Massive MIMO Radar via POMCP
This correspondence presents a power-aware cognitive radar framework for joint detection and tracking of multiple targets in a massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) radar environment. Building on a previous single-target algorithm based on Partially Observable Monte Carlo Planning (POMCP), we extend it to the multi-target case by assigning each target an independent POMCP tree, enabling scalable and efficient planning. Departing from uniform power allocation-which is often suboptimal …