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"South Africa to ban highly toxic pesticide Terbufos"
#SouthAfrica #Pesticides

South Africa to ban highly toxic pesticide Terbufos
In a decision welcomed by advocacy groups and researchers, South Africa’s Cabinet has approved a ban on the import of Terbufos, a highly toxic pesticide linked to the deaths of six children in a South African township in October 2024. On June 12, Khumbudzo Ntshavheni, Minister of Presidency, said the ban will be accompanied by […]

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South Africa to ban highly toxic pesticide Terbufos
In a decision welcomed by advocacy groups and researchers, South Africa’s Cabinet has approved a ban on the import of Terbufos, a highly toxic pesticide linked to the deaths of six children in a South African township in October 2024. On June 12, Khumbudzo Ntshavheni, Minister of Presidency, said the ban will be accompanied by […]

Uncertainty Quantification as a Complementary Latent Health Indicator for Remaining Useful Life Prediction on Turbofan Engines
Lucas Thil (LIX, X), Jesse Read (LIX), Rim Kaddah, Guillaume Florent Doquet
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.06672

Uncertainty Quantification as a Complementary Latent Health Indicator for Remaining Useful Life Prediction on Turbofan Engines
Health Indicators (HIs) are essential for predicting system failures in predictive maintenance. While methods like RaPP (Reconstruction along Projected Pathways) improve traditional HI approaches by leveraging autoencoder latent spaces, their performance can be hindered by both aleatoric and epistemic uncertainties. In this paper, we propose a novel framework that integrates uncertainty quantification into autoencoder-based latent spaces, enhancing RaPP-generated HIs. We demonstrate that separa…

Coherent superposition of emitted and resonantly scattered photons from a two-level system driven by an even-$\pi$ pulse
I. V. Krainov, A. I. Galimov, M. V. Rakhlin, A. A. Toropov, T. V. Shubina
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.05943

Coherent superposition of emitted and resonantly scattered photons from a two-level system driven by an even-$π$ pulse
We report the observation of a bunching of ~3 photon states, which is a coherent superposition of emitted photons and resonantly scattered laser photons, arising upon excitation by even-$π$ pulses of a two-level system represented by a charged quantum dot in a microcavity. This phenomenon emerges because the exciting laser pulse contains several tens of photons whose quantum amplitude distribution creates such a superposition, and the polarization of the scattered photons is changed by the int…

Digitale Gesundheitsanwendungen: Über Hürden, Fortschritt und Kritik
Kosten und Nutzen digitaler Gesundheits-Apps sind viel diskutiert. Ein Anbieter erklärt, warum sie trotz Kritik eine wichtige Therapieoption sind.

Ein paar Geschichten aus der nun 2 Jahre andauernden Odysee zur Findung eines Therapieplatzes in der Welthauptstadt Hannover, ein 🧵/x

Wenn ich die CDU Hessen richtig verstanden habe, möchte sie den Mangel an Therapieplätzen für psychisch Erkrankte dadurch beheben, daß Menschen sich keine Hilfe mehr suchen, sondern einfach still leiden (oder irgendwann sich selbst oder anderen Gewalt antun, weil sie nicht mehr anders können), damit sie nicht auf den berüchtigten Listen der Polizei landen.¹
Das ist nicht nur unmenschlich, sondern auch dumm und gefährlich.
Aus ähnlichen Gründen² vermeiden Lehramts­studierende scho…

Autot alkavat jarruttaa itse pyöräilijöiden ja jalankulkijoiden edessä – turvaominaisuus tulee pakolliseksi ensi vuonna #ympäristö

Autot alkavat jarruttaa itse pyöräilijöiden ja jalankulkijoiden edessä – turvaominaisuus tulee pakolliseksi ensi vuonna
EU on asteittain tiukentanut uusien autojen turvavaatimuksia. Seuraavaksi pakollisiksi tulevat laajemmat hätäjarrutustoiminnot ja tarkempi kuljettajan tarkkaavaisuuden valvonta.

Nun, solange es zu wenige Therapieplätze gibt, landet Ihr immerhin nicht auf irgendwelchen Listen... I guess??
https://www.fr.de/rhein-main/landespolitik/bei-einer-kundgebung-kommen-die-betroffenen-zu-wort-93915583.html…

Hessen: Psychisch Kranke in Angst
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Ambisonics Encoder for Wearable Array with Improved Binaural Reproduction
Yhonatan Gayer, Vladimir Tourbabin, Zamir Ben-Hur, David Alon, Boaz Rafaely
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.04108

Ambisonics Encoder for Wearable Array with Improved Binaural Reproduction
Ambisonics Signal Matching (ASM) is a recently proposed signal-independent approach to encoding Ambisonic signal from wearable microphone arrays, enabling efficient and standardized spatial sound reproduction. However, reproduction accuracy is currently limited due to the non-ideal layout of the microphones. This research introduces an enhanced ASM encoder that reformulates the loss function by integrating a Binaural Signal Matching (BSM) term into the optimization framework. The aim of this re…