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"‘Climate change hasn’t stopped,’ warns EU climate monitor as global heat record streak ends"
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Global heat record streak ends in July, but risks still rising
Extreme heat, deadly floods and widespread wildfires hit Europe in July, despite the end of a record-breaking global temperature streak.

Extreme-ultraviolet laser generation at 118 nm via adaptive random additional periodic-phase engineering in a LiF crystal
Yanling Cheng, Bin Zhang, Fei Liang, Haohai Yu, Huaijin Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.05412

Extreme-ultraviolet laser generation at 118 nm via adaptive random additional periodic-phase engineering in a LiF crystal
Extreme ultraviolet (EUV) coherent sources below 120nm are of paramount significance for promoting next-generation nano-scale lithography,precision spectroscopy, and exploring the emerging physical phenomena in quantum materials. Nonlinear optical conversion serves as the only feasible approach to obtain solid state EUV lasers, yet the intrinsic strong absorption at EUV and giant phase mismatch among light waves have hindered the realization of highly-efficient EUV light sources. Herein, we pro…

Gas Sensing Properties of Novel Indium Oxide Monolayer: A First-Principles Study
Afreen Anamul Haque, Suraj G. Dhongade, Aniket Singha
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.05121 https://

Gas Sensing Properties of Novel Indium Oxide Monolayer: A First-Principles Study
We present a comprehensive first-principles investigation into the gas sensing capabilities of a novel two-dimensional Indium Oxide (In2O3) monolayer, using density functional theory (DFT) calculations. Targeting both resistive-type and work function based detection mechanisms, we evaluate interactions with ten hazardous gases (NH3, NO, NO2, SO2, CS2, H2S, HCN, CCl2O, CH2O, CO) as well as ambient molecules (O2, CO2, H2O). The monolayer shows pronounced sensitivity towards NO and H2S, and work f…

Adaptive Variation-Resilient Random Number Generator for Embedded Encryption
Furqan Zahoor, Ibrahim A. Albulushi, Saleh Bunaiyan, Anupam Chattopadhyay, Hesham ElSawy, Feras Al-Dirini
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.05523

Adaptive Variation-Resilient Random Number Generator for Embedded Encryption
With a growing interest in securing user data within the internet-of-things (IoT), embedded encryption has become of paramount importance, requiring light-weight high-quality Random Number Generators (RNGs). Emerging stochastic device technologies produce random numbers from stochastic physical processes at high quality, however, their generated random number streams are adversely affected by process and supply voltage variations, which can lead to bias in the generated streams. In this work, w…

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Automatic Pronunciation Error Detection and Correction of the Holy Quran's Learners Using Deep Learning
Abdullah Abdelfattah, Mahmoud I. Khalil, Hazem Abbas
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.00094

Automatic Pronunciation Error Detection and Correction of the Holy Quran's Learners Using Deep Learning
Assessing spoken language is challenging, and quantifying pronunciation metrics for machine learning models is even harder. However, for the Holy Quran, this task is simplified by the rigorous recitation rules (tajweed) established by Muslim scholars, enabling highly effective assessment. Despite this advantage, the scarcity of high-quality annotated data remains a significant barrier. In this work, we bridge these gaps by introducing: (1) A 98% automated pipeline to produce high-quality Qura…

The Expressions of Depression and Anxiety in Chinese Psycho-counseling: Usage of First-person Singular Pronoun and Negative Emotional Words
Lizhi Ma, Tong Zhao, Shuai Zhang, Nirui Song, Hongliang He, Anqi Li, Ran Feng, Huachuan Qiu, Jingsong Ma, Zhenzhong Lan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13839…

The Expressions of Depression and Anxiety in Chinese Psycho-counseling: Usage of First-person Singular Pronoun and Negative Emotional Words
This study explores the relationship between linguistic expressions and psychological states of depression and anxiety within Chinese psycho-counseling interactions, focusing specifically on the usage of first-person singular pronouns and negative emotional words. Utilizing a corpus derived from 735 online counseling sessions, the analysis employed a general linear mixed-effect model to assess linguistic patterns quantified by the Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count (LIWC) software. Results indic…

Turning the Spell Around: Lightweight Alignment Amplification via Rank-One Safety Injection
Harethah Abu Shairah, Hasan Abed Al Kader Hammoud, George Turkiyyah, Bernard Ghanem
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.20766

Turning the Spell Around: Lightweight Alignment Amplification via Rank-One Safety Injection
Safety alignment in Large Language Models (LLMs) often involves mediating internal representations to refuse harmful requests. Recent research has demonstrated that these safety mechanisms can be bypassed by ablating or removing specific representational directions within the model. In this paper, we propose the opposite approach: Rank-One Safety Injection (ROSI), a white-box method that amplifies a model's safety alignment by permanently steering its activations toward the refusal-mediating su…

"Ultra fast fashion could be taxed to oblivion in France. Could Australia follow suit?"
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Ultra fast fashion could be taxed to oblivion in France. Could Australia follow suit?
Ultra-fast fashion comes with a host of environmental problems. Australia’s response to the deluge of cheap low quality clothes hasn’t led to change.