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Beyond Code, We Are People: A Systematic Mapping of 25 Years of Literature on Soft Skills in Agile Development Teams

Israely Lima, Lucas Moura Lourenco, Marcio Ribeiro, Ivan Machado, Carla Ilane Bezerra · 2026

Software development is a sociotechnical and human-centered endeavor in which human factors directly influence quality, productivity, and innovation capacity. In this context, career development in co…

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Sampler-Robust Optimization under Generative Models

Ziwei Zhang, Jonathan Yu-Meng Li · 2026

Modern stochastic optimization pipelines increasingly rely on learned generative models to represent uncertainty, while downstream decisions are evaluated almost entirely through Monte Carlo scenarios…

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An Analysis of the Diaconis-Holmes-Neal Markov Chain Sampler Under Generalized Unimodal Underlying Probabilities

Martin V. Hildebrand, Christopher J. Lange · 2026

Upon the introduction of the Metropolis algorithm, the question of how many steps in the Markov chain were needed to achieve convergence to stationarity became apparent. The convergence was rather slo…

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Optimizing Dynamic Metasurface Antenna Configurations for Direction-of-Arrival and Polarization Estimation Using an Experimentally Calibrated Multiport-Network Model

Jean Tapie, Philipp del Hougne · 2026

Sensing the direction of arrival and polarization of impinging signals is a key prerequisite for beamforming and interference mitigation in modern wireless communication systems. Dynamic metasurface a…

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Over forty years of research towards the understanding of Quantum Brownian Motion -- the contributions of A. O. Caldeira

Marcus V. S. Bonanca, Sebastian Deffner, Gert-Ludwig Ingold · 2026

This article presents a brief account of Amir O. Caldeira's contributions to the theory of quantum Brownian motion. Motivated by its importance, we outline the description of Brownian motion in the qu…

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Directional curvature and medial axis

Adam Bia{l}ozyt, Dominik Bysiewicz, Maciej P. Denkowski · 2026

The medial axis $M_X$ of a closed set $X\subset \mathbb{R}^n$ is the set of points from the ambient space that admit more than one closest point in $X$. We study the problem of reaching the singularit…

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USEQIP: Outcomes and experiences from 17 years of undergraduate summer schools in experimental quantum information science

John M Donohue, Michael J Grabowecky, George Nichols, Martin Laforest, Lino Eugene, Fiona Thompson, Peter Sprenger, Kevin Resch, David G Cory · 2026

To grow the quantum information science and technology workforce, opportunities for students to gain experiential learning and build a sense of belonging in the broader community are essential. The Un…

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CiteRadar: A Citation Intelligence Platform for Researcher Profiling and Geographic Visualization

Chenxu Niu, Yiming Sun · 2026

Understanding the geographic reach and community structure of one's scholarly citations is increasingly valuable for career development, grant applications, and collaboration discovery -- yet accessib…

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Workplace Demands and Emotional Expression Among Early Childhood Educators: A Computational Analysis of Professional Online Discourse

Hailong Jiang · 2026

Early childhood educators work in settings characterized by heavy regulation, emotional labor, staffing instability, and low pay. Although these conditions are well documented in survey-based research…

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Phase-Separated Complex Hilbert PCA on Markerless 3D Pose Estimation Data: A Global Phase Network and Its Extension to a Continuous Field on the Body Surface

Hiromitsu Goto, Tao Tao, Zheng-Lin Chia · 2026

Quantitative analysis of the kinematic chain in sports motion is essential for performance evaluation and injury prevention. Conventional methods such as the kinematic-sequence (KS) and continuous rel…

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GLIER: Generative Legal Inference and Evidence Ranking for Legal Case Retrieval

Minghan Li, Tianrui Lv, Chao Zhang, Guodong Zhou · 2026

The semantic gap between colloquial user queries and professional legal documents presents a fundamental challenge in Legal Case Retrieval (LCR). Existing dense retrieval methods typically treat LCR a…

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Score-Repellent Monte Carlo: Toward Efficient Non-Markovian Sampler with Constant Memory in General State Spaces

Jie Hu, Lingyun Chen, Geeho Kim, Jinyoung Choi, Bohyung Han, Do Young Eun · 2026

History-dependent sampling can reduce long-run Monte Carlo variance by discouraging redundant revisits, but existing schemes typically encode history through empirical measure on finite state spaces, …

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The Leiden/ESA Astrophysics Program for Summer Students (LEAPS)

S. Bellotti, A. D. Sellek, P. Sharda, K. M. Dutkowska, A. Chrimes, H. Rottgering · 2026

International student mobility plays a critical role in shaping future research careers, particularly in highly globalized fields such as astrophysics. The Leiden/ESA Astrophysics Program for Summer S…

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When AI Speaks, Whose Values Does It Express? A Cross-Cultural Audit of Individualism-Collectivism Bias in Large Language Models

Pruthvinath Jeripity Venkata · 2026

When you ask an AI assistant for advice about your career, your marriage, or a conflict with your family, does it give you the same answer regardless of where you are from? We tested this systematical…

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Who Audits the Auditor? Tamper-Proof Fraud Detection with Blockchain-Anchored Explainable ML

Zhaohui Wang · 2026

In enterprise fraud detection, model accuracy alone is insufficient when insiders can tamper with audit logs or bypass approval workflows. Real-world incidents show that fraud often persists not becau…

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Performance Anomaly Detection in Athletics: A Benchmarking System with Visual Analytics

Blessed Madukoma, Prasenjit Mitra · 2026

Anti-doping programs rely on biological testing to detect performance-enhancing drugs, but such testing costs over $800 per sample and is limited by short detection windows for many prohibited substan…

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On Reasoning Behind Next Occupation Recommendation

Shan Dong, Palakorn Achananuparp, Hieu Hien Mai, Lei Wang, Yao Lu, Ee-Peng Lim · 2026

In this work, we develop a novel reasoning approach to enhance the performance of large language models (LLMs) in future occupation prediction. In this approach, a reason generator first derives a ``r…

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Evolution of Research Method Usage Across the Academic Careers of Library and Information Science Scholars

Jiayi Hao, Chengzhi Zhang · 2026

Research methods constitute an indispensable tool for scholars engaged in scientific inquiry. Investigating how scholars use research methods throughout their careers can reveal distinct patterns in m…

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The Research Guide: From Informal Role to Profession

Sergey V. Samsonau, Matthew Pearce · 2026

Guiding others through authentic scientific research outside of PhD programs has been practiced for decades in specialized secondary schools, undergraduate research programs, and independent settings.…

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Dual-Guard: Dual-Channel Latent Watermarking for Provenance and Tamper Localization in Diffusion Images

JinFeng Xie, Chengfu Ou, Peipeng Yu, Xiaoyu Zhou, Dingding Huang, Jianwei Fei, Zixuan Shen, Zhihua Xia · 2026

The rapid adoption of diffusion-based generative models has intensified concerns over the attribution and integrity of AI-generated content (AIGC). Existing single-domain watermarking methods either f…

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