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The Score Is Not the Structure: Brain Alignment and Cross-Lingual Transfer

The Score Is Not the Structure: Brain Alignment and Cross-Lingual Transfer

Saman Rahbar

A model can score as if it matches the brain even after the brain information has been destroyed. And a language pattern can look real when the test measuring it is failing.

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Grounding with Confidence: Controllable Generative Video Temporal Grounding

Grounding with Confidence: Controllable Generative Video Temporal Grounding

Jinhao Chen, Benlei Cui, Ruijian Jia, Ziheng Wang, Tianyu Wo, Pengfei Sun, Longtao Huang, Hui Xue, Yitong Yang, Haiwen Hong

A video search system can find a clip that sounds right, but still has no idea whether it should trust that answer. This paper gives each proposed clip a separate confidence score, including permission to return nothing.

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WebFovea: When the Model Is Right but the Click Is Wrong -- Reliable Round Trips for Vision-Based Web Agents on Live Websites

WebFovea: When the Model Is Right but the Click Is Wrong -- Reliable Round Trips for Vision-Based Web Agents on Live Websites

Jiangang Han

An AI can understand exactly what button to press and still fail, because the click lands somewhere else. This paper finds that the invisible machinery between the AI and the website can be as important as the AI’s reasoning.

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Travel Mode- and Purpose-Specific Origin-Destination Matrices for England and Wales from Fused Travel Survey and Mobile Network Data

Travel Mode- and Purpose-Specific Origin-Destination Matrices for England and Wales from Fused Travel Survey and Mobile Network Data

Bowen Zhang, Chen Zhong, Mingfei Ma, James Golding-Graham

Every transport decision depends on an invisible question: who travels from where to where? This study builds a detailed answer by combining the broad movement picture from mobile phones with the human details surveys can provide.

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Enhancedanti-tumor efficacy through a combination of intramuscularly expressed DNA vaccine and plasmid-encoded PD-1 antibody

Enhancedanti-tumor efficacy through a combination of intramuscularly expressed DNA vaccine and plasmid-encoded PD-1 antibody

Xun Liu, Yueyao Yang, Xiufeng Zheng, Ming Liu, Gang Wang

Cancer treatment may work better when the immune system gets both a clear target and help removing the brakes that hold its attack back. In mice, that combination slowed tumors, limited spread, and improved survival.

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Case Report: Lymphodepletion followed by CAR-T cell therapy with Idecabtagen vicleucel in a patient with severe renal impairment

Case Report: Lymphodepletion followed by CAR-T cell therapy with Idecabtagen vicleucel in a patient with severe renal impairment

Franziska Elisabeth Marquard, Claudia Langebrake, Dietlinde Janson, Maida Mahmud, Adrin Dadkhah, Nicolaus Martin Kröger, Francis Ayuketang Ayuk

CAR-T treatment can be difficult when the kidneys cannot clear one of its preparation drugs. Yet in this case, a patient with severe kidney impairment received the treatment, and her cancer stayed in complete remission beyond a year.

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An intervention to improve safe firearm storage for adolescents presenting with suicide ideation or attempt in a pediatric emergency department

An intervention to improve safe firearm storage for adolescents presenting with suicide ideation or attempt in a pediatric emergency department

Ashley Cleary, Frannie Kaczor, Maisie Finnegan, John Schimek, Abby Egen-Schimek, Erin O’Donnell, Marlene D Melzer-Lange

When a young person is in suicidal crisis, a safety conversation may not be enough. This emergency department added something families could take home immediately: a lockbox for a firearm.

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Mitigating effects on target and by-catch species fished by drifting longlines using circle hooks in the South Adriatic Sea (Central Mediterranean)

Mitigating effects on target and by-catch species fished by drifting longlines using circle hooks in the South Adriatic Sea (Central Mediterranean)

Pierluigi Carbonara, Giulia Prato, Simone Niedermüller, Sébastien Alfonso, Cosmidano Neglia, Marilena Donnaloia, Giuseppe Lembo, María Teresa Spedicato

What if a small change to a fishing hook could help sharks survive, without reducing the fishers’ catch? In the South Adriatic, researchers found a striking difference in the condition of blue sharks brought aboard.

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Repeated unilateral handgrip contractions alter functional connectivity and improve contralateral limb response times

Repeated unilateral handgrip contractions alter functional connectivity and improve contralateral limb response times

Justin W. Andrushko, Jacob M. Levenstein, Catharina Zich, Evan Edmond, Jon Campbell, William T. Clarke, Uzay E. Emir, Jonathan P. Farthing, Charlotte Jane Stagg

What if tiring out one hand could make the other hand respond faster? This study found that repeated squeezing with the right hand was followed by better performance in the left.

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Superconductivity of barium with highest transition temperatures in metallic materials at ambient pressure

Superconductivity of barium with highest transition temperatures in metallic materials at ambient pressure

Masaki Mito, Hiroki Tsuji, Takayuki Tajiri, Kazuma Nakamura, Yongpeng Tang, Zenji Horita

A material that normally needs crushing pressure to become superconducting can keep that special state after the pressure is gone. In barium, the result reaches twenty-four kelvin at ordinary pressure.

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Development and validation of the Women’s Self-care Knowledge and Attitude Questionnaire (WSKAQ)

Development and validation of the Women’s Self-care Knowledge and Attitude Questionnaire (WSKAQ)

Khadijeh Khademi, Mohammad Hossein Kaveh, Abdolrahim Asadollahi, Mahin Nazari

Menopause is a normal life stage, yet studies found very limited self-care knowledge and activity among affected women. This study asks whether a short questionnaire can make that gap visible.

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A summer in the greater Paris: trophic status of peri-urban lakes shapes prokaryotic community structure and functional potential

A summer in the greater Paris: trophic status of peri-urban lakes shapes prokaryotic community structure and functional potential

Pierre Foucault, Sébastien Halary, Charlotte Duval, Midoli Goto, Benjamin Marie, Sahima Hamlaoui, Ludwig E. Jardillier, Dominique Lamy, Émilie Lance, Emmanuelle Raimbault, Fayçal Allouti, Marc Troussellier, Cécile Bernard, Julie Leloup, Sébastien Duperron

A lake can look calm while its invisible life is changing dramatically underneath. Around Paris, the amount of nutrient pollution helped determine not only which microbes lived in each lake, but what those microbes could do.

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