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Relationships between functional performance, body composition, and biochemical markers of stress, muscle damage, and inflammation in young men's team sport athletes. Implications for Game-Based Training

Widłak P, Malara M, Kuk A et al. · 2026 · Preprint

Abstract Movement quality and postural control are crucial for performance and injury prevention in team-sport athletes. Although FMS and YBT are commonly used, their ability to predict injury risk is limited when used alone. Therefore,…

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Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessPhysics

From Light to Energy: Machine Learning Algorithms for Position and Energy Deposition Estimation in Scintillator-SiPM detectors

Yoav Simhon, Alex Segal, Ofer Amrani et al. · 2025 · arXiv

Scintillator-SiPM Particle Detectors (SSPDs) are compact, low-power devices with applications including particle physics, underground tomography, cosmic-ray studies, and space instrumentation. They are based on a prism-shaped scintillator with corner-mounted SiPMs. Previous work has demonstrated that analytic algorithms based on a physical model of light propagation can reconstruct particle impinging positions and tracks and estimate deposited energy and Linear Energy Transfer (LET) with moderate accuracy. In this study, we enhance this approach by applying machine learning (ML) methods, speci

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Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessComputer Science

Evaluating Large Language Models for Time Series Anomaly Detection in Aerospace Software

Yang Liu, Yixing Luo, Xiaofeng Li et al. · 2026 · arXiv

Time series anomaly detection (TSAD) is essential for ensuring the safety and reliability of aerospace software systems. Although large language models (LLMs) provide a promising training-free alternative to unsupervised approaches, their effectiveness in aerospace settings remains under-examined because of complex telemetry, misaligned evaluation metrics, and the absence of domain knowledge. To address this gap, we introduce ATSADBench, the first benchmark for aerospace TSAD. ATSADBench comprises nine tasks that combine three pattern-wise anomaly types, univariate and multivariate signals, an

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Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessComputer Science

Domain Decomposition Based High Performance Parallel Computing

Mandhapati P. Raju, Siddhartha Khaitan · 2009 · arXiv

The study deals with the parallelization of finite element based Navier-Stokes codes using domain decomposition and state-ofart sparse direct solvers. There has been significant improvement in the performance of sparse direct solvers. Parallel sparse direct solvers are not found to exhibit good scalability. Hence, the parallelization of sparse direct solvers is done using domain decomposition techniques. A highly efficient sparse direct solver PARDISO is used in this study. The scalability of both Newton and modified Newton algorithms are tested.

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Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessEngineering

Lung Nodule Classification Using Biomarkers, Volumetric Radiomics and 3D CNNs

Kushal Mehta, Arshita Jain, Jayalakshmi Mangalagiri et al. · 2020 · arXiv

We present a hybrid algorithm to estimate lung nodule malignancy that combines imaging biomarkers from Radiologist's annotation with image classification of CT scans. Our algorithm employs a 3D Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) as well as a Random Forest in order to combine CT imagery with biomarker annotation and volumetric radiomic features. We analyze and compare the performance of the algorithm using only imagery, only biomarkers, combined imagery + biomarkers, combined imagery + volumetric radiomic features and finally the combination of imagery + biomarkers + volumetric features in orde

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Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessComputer Science

Supersymmetry versus precision experiments revisited

Gi-Chol Cho, Kaoru Hagiwara · 1999 · arXiv

We study constraints on the supersymmetric standard model from the updated electroweak precision measurements --- the Z-pole experiments and the $W$-boson mass measurements. The supersymmetric-particle contributions to the universal gauge-boson-propagator corrections are parametrized by the three oblique parameters Sz, Tz and mw. The oblique corrections, the Zqq and Zll vertex corrections, and the vertex and box corrections to the μ-decay width are separately studied in detail. We first study individual contribution from the four sectors of the model, the squarks, the sleptons, the supersymmet

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Probing neutron skin and symmetry energy with relativistic isobar collisions

Hao-jie Xu · 2023 · arXiv

In these proceedings, we present the three proposed observables to probe the neutron skin and symmetry energy with relativistic isobar collisions, namely, the isobar ratios of the produced hadron multiplicities ($N_{\rm ch}$), the mean transverse momenta ($\langle p_{\perp} \rangle$), and the net charge multiplicities ($ΔQ$). Our findings suggest potentially significant improvement to neutron skin and symmetry energy determination over traditional low energy methods.

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Failed Experiment ReportOpen accessComputer Science

Can Large Language Models Reliably Extract Physiology Index Values from Coronary Angiography Reports?

Sofia Morgado, Filipa Valdeira, Niklas Sander et al. · 2026 · arXiv

Coronary angiography (CAG) reports contain clinically relevant physiological measurements, yet this information is typically in the form of unstructured natural language, limiting its use in research. We investigate the use of Large Language Models (LLMs) to automatically extract these values, along with their anatomical locations, from Portuguese CAG reports. To our knowledge, this study is the first addressing physiology indexes extraction from a large (1342 reports) corpus of CAG reports, and one of the few focusing on CAG or Portuguese clinical text. We explore local privacy-preserving gen

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Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessPhysics

$α^4$ Ry corrections to singlet states of helium

Krzysztof Pachucki · 2006 · arXiv

Corrections of order $α^4$Ry are calculated for the singlet states $1^1S_0$ and $2^1S_0$ of the helium atom. The result for $1^1S_0$ state is in slight disagreement with that of Korobov and Yelkhovsky in [Phys. Rev. Lett. {\bf 87}, 193003 (2001)]. The results obtained lead to a significant improvement of transition frequencies between low lying levels of the helium atom. In particular theoretical predictions for the $2^1S_0 - 1^1S_0$ transition are found to be in disagreement with experimental values.

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Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessMathematics

Phase limitations of multipliers at harmonics

William Paul Heath, Joaquin Carrasco, Jingfan Zhang · 2021 · arXiv

We present a phase condition under which there is no suitable multiplier for a given continuous-time plant. The condition can be derived from either the duality approach or from the frequency interval approach. The condition has a simple graphical interpretation, can be tested in a numerically efficient manner and may be applied systematically. Numerical examples show significant improvement over existing results in the literature. The condition is used to demonstrate a third order system with delay that is a counterexample to the Kalman Conjecture.

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Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessComputer Science

Positive pion absorption on 3He using modern trinucleon wave functions

S. Schneider, J. Haidenbauer, C. Hanhart et al. · 2002 · arXiv

We study pion absorption on 3He employing trinucleon wave functions calculated from modern realistic NN interactions (Paris, CD Bonn). Even though the use of the new wave functions leads to a significant improvement over older calculations with regard to both cross section and polarization data, there are hints that polarization data with quasifree kinematics cannot be described by just two-nucleon absorption mechanisms.

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Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessPhysics

Admire vs. Safire: Objective comparison of CT reconstruction algorithms and their noise properties

Ingvild Dalehaug, Kirsten Nygaard Bolstad, Daniel Aadnevik et al. · 2017 · arXiv

Purpose: Siemens has developed several iterative reconstruction (IR) algorithms on their CT scanners. SAFIRE is available on most of their CT scanners. The latest algorithm, ADMIRE, is available on their newest high-end CT scanners. The aim of our study was to compare the noise reduction properties of the two IR algorithms using objective methods. Methods and Materials: The homogeneous module of the Catphan phantom was scanned on a Siemens AS+ and a Siemens Flash CT scanner using an axial abdomen protocol with fixed tube current at two dose levels. The images were reconstructed with an abdomen

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Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessMathematics

Opening the Black Box: Towards inherently interpretable energy data imputation models using building physics insight

Antonio Liguori, Matias Quintana, Chun Fu et al. · 2023 · arXiv

Missing data are frequently observed by practitioners and researchers in the building energy modeling community. In this regard, advanced data-driven solutions, such as Deep Learning methods, are typically required to reflect the non-linear behavior of these anomalies. As an ongoing research question related to Deep Learning, a model's applicability to limited data settings can be explored by introducing prior knowledge in the network. This same strategy can also lead to more interpretable predictions, hence facilitating the field application of the approach. For that purpose, the aim of this

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Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessComputer Science

Hydrodynamic behaviour of Lattice Boltzmann and Lattice BGK models

O. Behrend, R. Harris, P. Warren · 1993 · arXiv

We present a numerical analysis of the validity of classical and generalized hydrodynamics for Lattice Boltzmann Equation (LBE) and Lattice BGK methods in two and three dimensions, as a function of the collision parameters of these models. Our analysis is based on the wave-number dependence of the evolution operator. Good ranges of validity are found for BGK models as long as the relaxation time is chosen smaller than or equal to unity. The additional freedom in the choice of collision parameters for LBE models does not seem to give significant improvement.

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A Study of Selection Methods for H alpha Emitting Galaxies at z~1.3 for the Subaru/FMOS Galaxy Redshift Survey for Cosmology (FastSound)

Motonari Tonegawa, Tomonori Totani, Masayuki Akiyama et al. · 2013 · arXiv

The efficient selection of high-redshift emission galaxies is important for future large galaxy redshift surveys for cosmology. Here we describe the target selection methods for the FastSound project, a redshift survey for H alpha emitting galaxies at z=1.2-1.5 using Subaru/FMOS to measure the linear growth rate fσ8 via Redshift Space Distortion (RSD) and constrain the theory of gravity. To select ~400 target galaxies in the 0.2 deg^2 FMOS field-of-view from photometric data of CFHTLS-Wide (u*g'r'i'z'), we test several different methods based on color-color diagrams or photometric redshift est

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Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessComputer Science

Magnitude Matters: a Superior Class of Similarity Metrics for Holistic Semantic Understanding

V. S. Raghu Parupudi · 2025 · arXiv

Vector comparison in high dimensions is a fundamental task in NLP, yet it is dominated by two baselines: the raw dot product, which is unbounded and sensitive to vector norms, and the cosine similarity, which discards magnitude information entirely. This paper challenges both standards by proposing and rigorously evaluating a new class of parameter-free, magnitude-aware similarity metrics. I introduce two such functions, Overlap Similarity (OS) and Hyperbolic Tangent Similarity (HTS), designed to integrate vector magnitude and alignment in a more principled manner. To ensure that my findings a

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An insight into chromatic behaviour of jitter in pulsars and its modelling: A case study of PSR J0437$-$4715

A. D. Kulkarni, R. M. Shannon, D. J. Reardon et al. · 2024 · arXiv

Pulse-to-pulse profile shape variations introduce correlations in pulsar times of arrival (TOAs) across radio frequency measured at the same observational epoch. This leads to a broadband noise in excess of radiometer noise, which is termed pulse jitter noise. The presence of jitter noise limits the achievable timing precision and decreases the sensitivity of pulsar-timing data sets to signals of interest such as nanohertz-frequency gravitational waves. Current white noise models used in pulsar timing analyses attempt to account for this, assuming complete correlation of uncertainties through

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Fragments in Gaussian Wave-Packet Dynamics with and without correlations

D. Kiderlen, P. Danielewicz · 1996 · arXiv

Generalization of Gaussian trial wave functions in quantum molecular dynamics models is introduced, which allows for long-range correlations characteristic for composite nuclear fragments. We demonstrate a significant improvement in the description of light fragments with correlations. Utilizing either type of Gaussian wave functions, with or without correlations, however, we find that we cannot describe fragment formation in a dynamic situation. Composite fragments are only produced in simulations if they are present as clusters in the substructure of original nuclei. The difficulty is traced

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Do Language Models Understand Measurements?

Sungjin Park, Seungwoo Ryu, Edward Choi · 2022 · arXiv

Recent success of pre-trained language models (PLMs) has stimulated interest in their ability to understand and work with numbers. Yet, the numerical reasoning over measurements has not been formally studied despite their importance. In this study, we show that PLMs lack the capability required for reasoning over measurements. Furthermore, we find that a language model trained on a measurement-rich corpus shows better performance on understanding measurements. We propose a simple embedding strategy to better distinguish between numbers and units, which leads to a significant improvement in the

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The Effect of Diversity in Meta-Learning

Ramnath Kumar, Tristan Deleu, Yoshua Bengio · 2022 · arXiv

Recent studies show that task distribution plays a vital role in the meta-learner's performance. Conventional wisdom is that task diversity should improve the performance of meta-learning. In this work, we find evidence to the contrary; (i) our experiments draw into question the efficacy of our learned models: similar manifolds can be learned with a subset of the data (lower task diversity). This finding questions the advantage of providing more data to the model, and (ii) adding diversity to the task distribution (higher task diversity) sometimes hinders the model and does not lead to a signi

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Results of the Search for Strange Quark Matter and Q-balls with the SLIM Experiment

S. Cecchini, M. Cozzi, D. Di Ferdinando et al. · 2008 · arXiv

The SLIM experiment at the Chacaltaya high altitude laboratory was sensitive to nuclearites and Q-balls, which could be present in the cosmic radiation as possible Dark Matter components. It was sensitive also to strangelets, i.e. small lumps of Strange Quark Matter predicted at such altitudes by various phenomenological models. The analysis of 427 m^2 of Nuclear Track Detectors exposed for 4.22 years showed no candidate event. New upper limits on the flux of downgoing nuclearites and Q-balls at the 90% C.L. were established. The null result also restricts models for strangelets propagation th

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Hunting for Axionlike Dark Matter by Searching for an Oscillating Neutron Electric Dipole Moment

N. J. Ayres · 2018 · arXiv

We report on a search for ultra-low-mass axion-like dark matter by analysing the ratio of the spin-precession frequencies of stored ultracold neutrons and $^{199}$Hg atoms for an axion-induced oscillating electric dipole moment of the neutron and an axion-wind spin-precession effect. No signal consistent with dark matter is observed for the axion mass range $10^{-24}~\textrm{eV} \le m_a \le 10^{-17}~\textrm{eV}$. Our null result sets the first laboratory constraints on the coupling of axion dark matter to gluons, which improve on astrophysical limits by up to 3 orders of magnitude, and also im

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Search for the lepton flavor violating $τ$ $\to$ 3$μ$ decay in proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s}$ = 13 TeV

CMS Collaboration · 2023 · arXiv

A search for the lepton flavor violating $τ$ $\to$ 3$μ$ decay is performed using proton-proton collision events at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV collected by the CMS experiment at the LHC in 2017-2018, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 97.7 fb$^{-1}$. Tau leptons produced in both heavy-flavor hadron and W boson decays are exploited in the analysis. No evidence for the decay is observed. The results of this search are combined with an earlier null result based on data collected in 2016 to obtain a total integrated luminosity of 131 fb$^{-1}$. The observed (expected) upper limits

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Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessPhysics

Limits on the cosmological abundance of supermassive compact objects from a search for multiple imaging in compact radio sources

P. N. Wilkinson, D. R. Henstock, I. W. A. Browne et al. · 2001 · arXiv

Using Very Long Baseline Interferometry we have searched a sample of 300 compact radio sources for examples of multiple imaging produced by gravitational lensing; no multiple images were found with separations in the angular range 1.5--50 milliarcsec. This null result allows us to place a limit on the cosmological abundance of intergalactic supermassive compact objects in the mass range $\sim 10^{6}$ to $\sim 10^{8}$M$_{\odot}$; such objects cannot make up more than $\sim 1%$ of the closure density (95% confidence). A uniformly distributed population of supermassive black holes forming soon af

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Leggett-Garg tests of macrorealism: checks for non-invasiveness and generalizations to higher-order correlators

J. J. Halliwell · 2019 · arXiv

In the tests for macrorealism proposed by Leggett and Garg, the temporal correlation functions of a dichotomic variable Q must be measured in a non-invasive way to rule out alternative classical explanations of Leggett-Garg inequality violations. Ideal negative measurements, in which a null result is argued to be a non-invasive determination of the system's state, are often used. From a quantum-mechanical perspective, such a measurement collapses the wave function and will therefore typically be found to be invasive under any experimental check. Here, a simple modified ideal negative measureme

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