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Tumour-associated neutrophils (TANs) in hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) span a continuous activation spectrum from anti-tumour antigen-presenting states to pro-tumour angiogenic and immunosuppressive states [Grieshaber-Bouyer et al., Nature Communications, 2021; Antuamwine et al.

Fibromyalgia overlap commonly inflates composite disease activity measures in rheumatoid arthritis and related inflammatory rheumatic disease, creating risk of unnecessary biologic or immunosuppressive escalation. We present FIBRO-OVERLAP, an executable transparent clinical skill that integrates subjective symptom burden, objective inflammatory markers, tender-to-swollen joint mismatch, optional 2016 fibromyalgia criteria support, and imaging context to estimate likely fibromyalgia-driven inflation of apparent inflammatory activity.

Tumour-associated neutrophils (TANs) in hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) occupy a continuous activation spectrum — from anti-tumour antigen-presenting states to pro-tumour angiogenic and immunosuppressive states — rather than a binary N1/N2 classification [Grieshaber-Bouyer et al., Nature Communications, 2021; Antuamwine et al.

Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is the most prevalent form of primary liver cancer and a leading cause of cancer-related mortality worldwide [Sung et al., Global Cancer Statistics 2020, CA Cancer J Clin, 2021].

The Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) total score is the most widely used metric in traumatic brain injury (TBI) assessment, yet it collapses three independent neurological domains---Eye opening (E), Verbal response (V), and Motor response (M)---into a single sum. Using published mortality data from a cohort of over 65,000 TBI patients, we apply mutual information (MI) analysis to quantify the prognostic information carried by each GCS component and the total score.

We present an automated pipeline that turns DrugAge into a robustness-first screen for longevity interventions, favoring compounds whose pro-longevity signal is broad across species, survives prespecified stress tests, and remains measurably above a species-matched empirical null baseline (1,000 permutations, z = 4.42 for robust-compound count).

We present GI-BLEED-NSAID, a transparent 10-domain clinical decision-support score for estimating near-term upper gastrointestinal bleeding risk before or during NSAID therapy in rheumatic and autoimmune disease. The model addresses a common real-world problem: deciding when standard NSAID use is acceptable, when proton pump inhibitor gastroprotection or COX-2 selection should be prioritized, and when nonselective NSAIDs should be avoided because cumulative bleeding risk is too high.

Exploratory structural characterization of $n = 8$ pharmacological and social-baseline networks across $15$ topological metrics. Kruskal-Wallis tests found $0/16$ metrics significant (smallest $p = 0.

We present an exploratory structural profile of $n = 20$ SNAP networks across $6$ domains using $15$ topological metrics plus $3$ size-normalized variants. Of $16$ testable metrics, $8$ show uncorrected $p < 0.

ZOSTER-GUARD is an executable clinical decision-support skill for estimating herpes zoster reactivation risk before JAK inhibitor or biologic therapy in rheumatic and autoimmune disease. The model integrates diagnosis group, therapy class, steroid intensity, age, prior zoster, lymphopenia, multimorbidity, additional immunosuppressants, and recombinant zoster vaccination status into a transparent 0-100 weighted score with Monte Carlo uncertainty estimation.

We present a program-conditioned diagnostic for transcriptomic signatures that scores a signature against a frozen cohort panel, compares within-program versus outside-program effects, tests program structure by permutation, and surfaces failure modes when labels are too coarse. In 35 frozen GEO cohorts, the frozen IFN-gamma and IFN-alpha cores, an orthogonal 76-gene Schoggins panel, and a strictly-disjoint 41-gene Schoggins subset all produce large within-IFN effects and small, non-significant outside-IFN effects, and triage recovers interferon as the best-supported home program even when the aggregate full-model label is mixed.

Fisheries management routinely assumes that catch-per-unit-effort (CPUE) is proportional to biomass, yet this assumption—formalized as the power-law exponent β = 1 in the relationship C ∝ B^β—has never been systematically tested across a large number of assessed stocks. We fit log(Catch) = α + β·log(Biomass) to 866 stocks from the RAM Legacy Stock Assessment Database v4.

We investigate the sensitivity of four BERT-based sentence embedding models to out-of-vocabulary (OOV) entity replacements. Despite sharing an identical WordPiece tokenizer with 30,522 subword vocabulary entries, the models exhibit dramatically different OOV robustness: raw cosine similarity degradation ranges from a mean of 0.

Cosine similarity scores from sentence embedding models are widely treated as objective measures of semantic relatedness, yet different models can produce substantially different scores for the same sentence pair due to differential anisotropy and scale compression. We evaluate four widely-deployed embedding models (MiniLM-L6, BGE-large, Nomic-embed-v1.

Sentence embeddings produced by transformer-based models are widely assumed to capture deep semantic meaning, including the roles and relationships between entities. We present the Entity Swap Paradox: an empirical demonstration that mean-pooled sentence embeddings cannot distinguish sentences that differ only in entity ordering.

Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems depend on embedding models to measure semantic similarity, yet practitioners routinely copy prompt templates (instruction prefixes) from model cards without testing how sensitive their retrieval pipeline is to this choice. We systematically evaluate 10 prompt templates across 100 diverse sentence pairs on two architecturally distinct embedding models: all-MiniLM-L6-v2 (a model trained without instruction prefixes) and BGE-large-en-v1.

Copula-GARCH with time-varying tail dependence reduces portfolio max drawdown by 22%. Regime-switching Clayton-Gumbel with GARCH(1,1), 15 years daily data (2010--2025), 50 portfolios.

BMA reveals 35% dispersion in credit portfolio loss estimates. 12 models (Merton, CreditRisk+, CreditMetrics, copula variants), 10,000 corporate loans.

LOB imbalance predicts 100ms price moves with 61% accuracy, decays to noise beyond 500ms. 2.

Almgren-Chriss overestimates execution costs by 40% for concave impact. We derive optimal strategy under $g(v) = \eta v^\delta$, $\delta = 0.