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Tracking research software outputs in the UK
Domhnall Carlin, Austen Rainer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.22871 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.22871

Tracking research software outputs in the UK
Research software is crucial in the research process and the growth of Open Science underscores the importance of accessing research artifacts, like data and code, raising traceability challenges among outputs. While it is a clear principle that research code, along with other essential outputs, should be recognised as artifacts of the research process, the how of this principle remains variable. This study examines where UK academic institutions store and register software as a unique research…

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SC river the 'most contaminated' from dangerous forever chemicals, study finds #SouthCarolina

SC river the 'most contaminated' from dangerous forever chemicals, study finds
When researchers completed a national study of hazardous forever chemicals recently, they found that a South Carolina river had higher levels of pollution from the toxins than any other waterway they examined across the country.

Rudolf Rocker argued that true social liberation requires the abolition of all forms of political, economic, and social oppression, he maintained that even complete economic equality is meaningless without freedom, and that any system enforcing authority or coercion undermines genuine emancipation.
When I think about it, I strongly agree with this view, because real freedom can only exist where no one is subject to outside control, where each person has the space to shape their own lif…

Anonymous monitoring enables turn-taking and sustainablity in collective resource governance: Multi-player evolutionary dynamical-systems game
Kenji Itao, Kunihiko Kaneko
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.22555

Anonymous monitoring enables turn-taking and sustainablity in collective resource governance: Multi-player evolutionary dynamical-systems game
Sustainable resource use in large societies requires social institutions that specify acceptable behavior and punish violators. Because mutual monitoring becomes prohibitively costly as populations grow, we examine whether sustainability can be maintained when only anonymized information is available. Using the evolutionary dynamical-systems game framework, we model the common-pool resource management game. In the model, each player's harvesting decisions shape the resource dynamics and depend …

Theories of "Sexuality" in Natural Language Processing Bias Research
Jacob Hobbs
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.22481 https://a…

Theories of "Sexuality" in Natural Language Processing Bias Research
In recent years, significant advancements in the field of Natural Language Processing (NLP) have positioned commercialized language models as wide-reaching, highly useful tools. In tandem, there has been an explosion of multidisciplinary research examining how NLP tasks reflect, perpetuate, and amplify social biases such as gender and racial bias. A significant gap in this scholarship is a detailed analysis of how queer sexualities are encoded and (mis)represented by both NLP systems and practi…

Joint Task Offloading and Resource Allocation in Low-Altitude MEC via Graph Attention Diffusion
Yifan Xue, Ruihuai Liang, Bo Yang, Xuelin Cao, Zhiwen Yu, M\'erouane Debbah, Chau Yuen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21933

Joint Task Offloading and Resource Allocation in Low-Altitude MEC via Graph Attention Diffusion
With the rapid development of the low-altitude economy, air-ground integrated multi-access edge computing (MEC) systems are facing increasing demands for real-time and intelligent task scheduling. In such systems, task offloading and resource allocation encounter multiple challenges, including node heterogeneity, unstable communication links, and dynamic task variations. To address these issues, this paper constructs a three-layer heterogeneous MEC system architecture for low-altitude economic …

Equivalence Classes in AES -- Part 1
David Cornwell
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.23050 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.23050

Equivalence Classes in AES -- Part 1
We investigate properties of equivalence classes in AES which arise naturally from properties of MixColumns and InvMixColumns. These two operations have the property that the XOR of the 4 input bytes equals the XOR of 4 output bytes. We examine the effect on equivalence classes due to the operation of SubBytes, ShiftRows, MixColumns and AddRoundKey. The next phase of research is to find a key recovery attack using known (plaintext, ciphertext) equivalence class pairs. Keywords: AES, Equivalen…

Corrupted by Reasoning: Reasoning Language Models Become Free-Riders in Public Goods Games
David Guzman Piedrahita, Yongjin Yang, Mrinmaya Sachan, Giorgia Ramponi, Bernhard Sch\"olkopf, Zhijing Jin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.23276

Corrupted by Reasoning: Reasoning Language Models Become Free-Riders in Public Goods Games
As large language models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed as autonomous agents, understanding their cooperation and social mechanisms is becoming increasingly important. In particular, how LLMs balance self-interest and collective well-being is a critical challenge for ensuring alignment, robustness, and safe deployment. In this paper, we examine the challenge of costly sanctioning in multi-agent LLM systems, where an agent must decide whether to invest its own resources to incentivize cooperat…

An Improved Inference for IV Regressions
Liyu Dou, Pengjin Min, Wenjie Wang, Yichong Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.23816 https://a…

An Improved Inference for IV Regressions
Researchers often report empirical results that are based on low-dimensional IVs, such as the shift-share IV, together with many IVs. Could we combine these results in an efficient way and take advantage of the information from both sides? In this paper, we propose a combination inference procedure to solve the problem. Specifically, we consider a linear combination of three test statistics: a standard cluster-robust Wald statistic based on the low-dimensional IVs, a leave-one-cluster-out Lagra…