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Preprint
A Steeper Slope Is Not Yet a New Law: What a Claimed Architectural Change to a Scaling Exponent Has to Survive, Why Studies of Looping, Growth, Routing and Optimizers Reach Opposite Verdicts, and the Floor, Recipe and Ladder Controls That Would Decide It
Life of Research A long-standing working rule of language-model scaling holds that architectural changes move the constant of a scaling law and leave its exponent alone, so that a better design buys a fixed factor of compute at every budget rather than a factor that compounds. A…
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Preprint
A Domain Label Is Not a Treatment: Why Specialist and General-Purpose Language Models Trade Places Across Studies, What a 'Medical' Checkpoint Leaves Unspecified, and the Matched Contrasts That Would Assign the Gain
Life of Research A September 2026 study compares an 8B general-purpose instruction-tuned model with a medically fine-tuned checkpoint built on the same base and finds that the general model scores higher both at selecting the meaning of medical jargon and at recognising when a word is…
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Preprint
A Clean Answer Is Not a Clean Agent: What an Unlearning Certificate Covers Once the Model Calls Tools, Why the Agentic Leaks Divide Into Residue, Scope, Reacquisition and Exposure, and the Source-by-Observer Audit That Would Assign Each to Its Owner
Life of Research Unlearning benchmarks judge forgetting by questioning a bare model and reading its answer. A September 2026 benchmark argues that a certificate issued this way does not survive deployment: wrapped in a tool-using agent, the same models expose the target through reasoning…
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Medical Schools in the Caribbean: An Honest Guide for Future Doctors
A simple guide to researching Caribbean medical schools. Discover which schools are accredited, what are the requirements to apply, deadlines and tuition, cost of living, and residency options. This is a beginner guide to comparing the Big Four Caribbean medical schools, and about how to…
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Journal article
Two-Stage Transfer Learning for Slice-Level Pancreatic CT Classification: Performance Benchmarking, Confidence-Interval Reporting, Saliency Audit and a Data-Leakage Risk Analysis
Transfer learning with partial fine-tuning separates the two classes almost perfectly on a slice-level split, and fine-tuning EfficientNet-B0 removes the baseline's specificity failure. However, the reported figures should be read as an upper bound on clinical performance until they are…
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Thesis / Dissertation
Market power and price transmission mechanism in the supply chain
This thesis is divided into two areas of investigation. Firstly, acknowledging the use of New Empirical Industrial Organisation Techniques (NEIO) on prior market power literature, this study extends the literature by examining the market power of retailers towards the consumers and of…
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Thesis / Dissertation
Civilisation, Religion, and the Construction of History: How Ancient Societies Shaped the Contemporary World
Civilisation, religion, and historical consciousness have played fundamental roles in shaping the contemporary world. From the emergence of early urban societies in Mesopotamia and ancient Egypt to the philosophical, religious, and political traditions of South Asia, China, Greece, and…
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Preprint
A Ceiling Score Is Not a Physical Inference: Why Pretrained Video Encoders Look Physically Competent on One Benchmark and Near Chance on Its Successor, What a Clean Scene Lets a Readout Read Off, and the Rankability Checks a Physics Evaluation Owes
Life of Research Pretrained video and image encoders are now chosen as the perception front end of world models for manipulation partly on the strength of evaluations that are said to measure physical understanding: violation-of-expectation benchmarks, outcome-prediction tasks, and…
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Report / Working paper
India's Activity Economy
This descriptive April 2026 report maps 26,582 non-duplicate gyms and activity centres across 34 categories and nine Indian cities in three metropolitan regions. It compares category mix, independent and chain operators, ratings, supply density and locality clusters using digital…
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Journal article
Interpreting Statistical Results for High-Quality Research Reporting
Statistical analysis plays an important role in improving the accuracy, reliability, and quality of research findings. However, researchers often face difficulties in interpreting p-values, selecting appropriate statistical tests, and reporting results correctly. This paper presents a…
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Report / Working paper
Chronic Migraine: Neurological Mechanisms, Recent Advances, and Treatment Approaches
Abstract Chronic migraine is a complex neurological disorder that affects quality of life and can interfere with daily activities. This research reviews the neurological mechanisms underlying chronic migraine, focusing on cortical spreading depression, neurotransmitter disturbances, and…
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Journal article
The Role of Estrogen and Progesterone in Hormone Receptor-Positive Breast Cancer
Breast cancer is one of the most common cancers among women, and is defined as a disease in which abnormal and uncontrolled growth of breast cells occurs, and these cells may be transmitted to other parts of the body if the disease is not detected and treated in a timely manner. The…
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Preprint
Picking the Branch Is Not Solving the Problem: What an Imperfect Neural Operator Buys a Physics-Informed Network, Where Its Basin Information Comes From, and the Comparators That Decide Whether the Hybrid Pays
Life of Research Physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) can minimise a PDE residual and still land on the wrong solution, while neural operators are cheap to evaluate but lose accuracy outside their training range. A 2026 study joins the two: a crude, extrapolated operator is distilled…
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A Withheld Label Is Not a Withheld Gender: What Describing People by Appearance Was Meant to Achieve, Which of Its Goals the Gender-Association Evidence Defeats, and the Parity Test the Accessibility Case Still Needs
Life of Research When a model describes a person whose gender it cannot know, a widely shared recommendation is to describe appearance ("short hair", "a defined jawline") instead of asserting an identity ("she", "a man"). A September 2026 study collected 14,706 human ratings for 316…
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Form Rescued Is Not Content Gained: What Constrained Decoding Does to Accuracy, Why Published Studies Disagree About Its Sign, and the Parse-Failure Accounting That Decides the Small-Model Case
Life of Research Constrained decoding masks every token that would break a grammar or a JSON schema, so the output always parses. Whether it also changes how often the answer is right is contested: one line of work reports that format restrictions lower reasoning accuracy, a second that…
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The Incumbent Did the Work: What the Simple-Baseline Results in LLM-Guided Program Search Settle, Why the Dispute Over Archives, Diversity and Test-Time Training Is Fought on Benchmarks That Cannot Rank It, and the Comparisons That Would
Life of Research Systems that let a language model write programs, score them with an exact verifier and feed the best ones back have improved published bounds on open mathematical problems, and each new system has added machinery: program archives, islands, novelty filters, model…
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Journal article
A Physics-Constrained Decision Framework for Orbital-Debris Intervention Search
Orbital debris presents a growing challenge to space sustainability, satellite operations, and the long-term safety of Earth's orbital environment. Selecting an appropriate debris intervention strategy requires consideration of orbital mechanics, mission feasibility, cost, uncertainty…
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Journal article
Shnoudi Research On the Almost Perfect Number Conjecture
Summary A positive integer n is almost perfect if σ(n) = 2n − 1. Every power of 2 is almost perfect, and the conjecture that there are no others is open. This project does not prove it. It proves the conjecture for odd parts with at most two prime factors, with a machine-checked proof…
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Journal article
The absence of Digital Peacebuilding Component in Somalia’s Peacebuilding Efforts - Policy Briefing
Somalia is a war-ravaged and conflict-prone country. Peacebuilding is among the key pillars of state-building. The telecommunications sector is among the key sectors and plays a pivotal role in the country's socio-economic development. Moreover, the Somali population's culture of digital…
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Preprint
A Best Match Is Not a Twin: What Feature Similarity Between State Space Models and Transformers Certifies, Why the Null and the Shared Inputs Decide the Verdict, and the Controls That Would Show Two Architectures Learned the Same Thing
Life of Research Selective state space models such as Mamba compress the past into a fixed-size state, while Transformers attend over the whole context, and a growing set of studies asks whether the two learn the same internal features. A 2026 study reports that 99.98% of a Mamba model's…