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Urban floods, intensified by climate change and urbanization, pose global challenges by redusinc the landscape's capaicty to intercept, store, and absorb rainwater. The evaluation of the flood ha…

Urban floods, intensified by climate change and urbanization, pose global challenges by redusinc the landscape's capaicty to intercept, store, and absorb rainwater. The evaluation of the flood hazard areas, at catchment scale, is usually conducted by using hydraulic models that allow to target the most affectedareas at risk where the implementation of sustainable solutions (i.e. Sustainable Drainage System, SuDs) for effective stormwater management is necessary. This study aims to identify areas with the highest hydraulic risk within an urbancatchment located in the northern part of the municipality of Catania (Sicily, Italy)considering the Tondo Gioeni as basin outlet (110 ha). The hydraulic model simulations were performed by using the freeware software HEC-RAS with a return period (T) of 2, 5, 10, 50 and 200 years, allowing the production of the flood risk map. The results highlighted a high hydraulic risk in the range of R2-R4 especially in the downstream part of the catchment in correspondence of the Tondo Gioeni . The estimated peak flow values at the basin outlet for each T in the current scenario were equal to 2.1 m3 s-1, 10.2 m3 s-1, 16.9 m3 s-1, 32 m3 s-1 and 45.3 m3 s-1, respectively for T 2, 5, 10, 50 and 200 years. The hydraulic model proved valuable for (i) identifying high-risk areas requiring SuDs interventions for flood risk mitigation; and (ii) estimating peak flow and runoff volume at the basin outlet, essential for SuDs design and dimension. 

Measurement code, preregistration plan with three amendments, and thecomplete records behind every table of "A Finite-State Audit of ChaoticMaps for Image Encryption: Image Fraction, Cyclic Fraction a…

Measurement code, preregistration plan with three amendments, and thecomplete records behind every table of "A Finite-State Audit of ChaoticMaps for Image Encryption: Image Fraction, Cyclic Fraction and SeedDiversity". The audit enumerates the quantized realizations of fifteen chaotic maps,including those specified by four recent image-encryption designs, overtheir full state spaces at reduced word widths. For each it reports theimage fraction, the cyclic fraction, the cycle-length distribution and thenumber of distinguishable output streams under the readout the sourcescheme specifies. Every figure in the article is generated from a recordin this deposit rather than transcribed. Contents: manuscript/ holds the LaTeX sources and the built article andsupplement; code/ holds every measurement script; records/ holds the JSONeach table is built from, together with the preregistration plan and itsamendments; independent-verification/ holds a re-implementation writtenfrom the published appendix alone, without reference to code/. Reproduction: code/verify.py re-derives every reported figure from therecords and fails on a mismatch. code/crossval.py checks the sectioncorrespondence against direct enumeration of the joint map over 84 cells.code/baseline.py must return an image fraction and a cyclic fraction ofexactly 1.0000 for both bijections; any other result is an implementationfault rather than a finding. Requires numpy. precision.py additionally requires mpmath, imagebattery.pyrequires scikit-image, and the plotting scripts require matplotlib. See CHANGELOG.md for what changed in this version. Version 3 accompanies the first revision of the manuscript. Two measurements are new: a 20,000-draw null distribution for the overlapping-pair serial statistic, with an exact Clopper-Pearson 95% interval attached to every empirical p-value, and a Lyapunov-exponent comparison that settles which of two mutually inconsistent printed forms of the enhanced tent map of Li, Li and Di (2022) the source intended. No previously reported measurement changed. Fourteen values quoted in the article text did not match the records and are corrected; the records themselves are unchanged. The full list is in CHANGELOG.md and in the response to Reviewer 1, both included in the deposit.

L’accès à l’eau potable, à l’hygiène et à l’assainissement (EHA) constitue un déterminant majeur de la santé publique et un dro…

L’accès à l’eau potable, à l’hygiène et à l’assainissement (EHA) constitue un déterminant majeur de la santé publique et un droit humain fondamental, en particulier en milieu rural. Au Bénin, des inégalités persistent malgré les efforts institutionnels. Cette étude vise à évaluer le niveau d’accès aux services EHA dans les ménages et les écoles primaires publiques de la commune de Ouinhi (Sud du Bénin) en 2020. Une étude transversale descriptive, combinant approches quantitative et qualitative, a été menée. Les données ont été collectées auprès des ménages, des écoliers et des acteurs clés (enseignants, agents de santé et autorités locales) à l’aide de questionnaires, d’entretiens semi-structurés et d’observations directes. L’échantillonnage était probabiliste pour les ménages et les écoliers, et raisonné pour les acteurs clés. Les données ont été analysées par statistiques descriptives et analyse thématique. Les résultats montrent un accès limité à l’eau potable : 46,43 % des ménages disposent d’un service basique, 29,09 % d’un service limité, 20,15 % utilisent des eaux de surface, 3,06 % des sources non améliorées et seulement 1,27 % bénéficient d’un service géré en toute sécurité. En matière d’hygiène, 5,87 % des ménages disposent d’un dispositif fonctionnel de lavage des mains avec eau et savon, contre 22,45 % de dispositifs incomplets et 71,68 % sans installation. Malgré cela, 91,07 % présentent un bon niveau de connaissance en hygiène. Concernant l’assainissement, 89,28 % pratiquent la défécation à l’air libre et aucun ménage ne dispose d’un service géré en toute sécurité. Globalement, les pratiques inadéquates concernent 87,5 % pour l’eau, 86,48 % pour l’hygiène et 98,47 % pour l’assainissement.Ces résultats révèlent un important décalage entre connaissances et pratiques, lié aux insuffisances d’infrastructures, aux contraintes économiques et aux facteurs socioculturels. Ils soulignent la nécessité d’interventions intégrées pour renforcer les infrastructures EHA et promouvoir des comportements durables

NSCR-LLM: Network-based Spatial Context Retrieval for Open-weight LLMs This archive contains the code and data accompanying the paper "Network-based Spatial Context Retrieval for Open-weight LLMs…

NSCR-LLM: Network-based Spatial Context Retrieval for Open-weight LLMs This archive contains the code and data accompanying the paper "Network-based Spatial Context Retrieval for Open-weight LLMs: A Faithfulness Benchmark for Grounded Geographic Reasoning" (Joan Perez, Urban Geo Analytics). Large language models hold latent geographic knowledge but reason poorly over space and are unreliable when queried from coordinates alone. This work asks a question that geographic evaluation has left unexamined: once the right spatial context is supplied in the prompt, does the model reason from it, or override it with its own recall? The pipeline. A clicked point defines a pedestrian street-network catchment, the area actually reachable on foot. Features from OpenStreetMap and the GHS-POP population grid are retrieved over that catchment, reduced in code to a compact set of indicators, and injected into an open-weight language model as a spatial brief. No proprietary service and no fine-tuning are involved. The benchmark. Every claim a model makes is labelled by its source (the brief, or outside knowledge) and by its correctness, giving four categories: brief-true, brief-false, recall and hallucination. Each case ends with a planted false premise that the brief refutes, scored as trap resistance. Sixteen open-weight configurations (Qwen3, Gemma 3, Gemma 4 and Llama 3.x, from 1B to 14B parameters, with thinking and non-thinking modes where available) are evaluated on three contrasting cities (Chicago, Paris, Hanoi), each case resampled over ten seeds. Contents of this release: The notebook implementing the retrieval stage, the language-model stage and the ten-seed benchmark runner. The three frozen spatial briefs (OpenStreetMap data retrieved on 25 June 2026; GHS-POP R2023A), with the personas, questions and field glossary used verbatim. 1,440 raw model responses, of which 1,434 are valid. About 22,000 atomic claims, segmented and labelled. The seed-1 calibration set: 2,203 claims labelled independently by a human annotator and by the language-model judge (Cohen's kappa 0.685), with the annotation guides. Per-seed trap scores, seed-instability tables, the model configuration table, and the paper's figures, including interactive versions of Figures 3 and 4. A pinned list of the Python package versions used. Main finding. Resistance to the planted false premise is set by model family and generation far more than by parameter count, and it is not a by-product of reading skill: several models reproduce the brief faithfully and then abandon it as soon as a confident user contradicts it. Licence. Code, documentation, annotation guides, labels and derived tables are released under the Apache License 2.0. The briefs contain values derived from OpenStreetMap (ODbL 1.0, © OpenStreetMap contributors) and GHS-POP R2023A (European Commission JRC, CC BY 4.0). Model outputs were generated with Qwen3, Gemma 3, Gemma 4 and Llama 3.1/3.2, each distributed under its own licence; no model weights are included. Repository: https://github.com/perezjoan/NSCR-LLM Contact: Joan Perez, Urban Geo Analytics, jperez@urbangeoanalytics.com, ORCID 0000-0003-3003-0895

R code supporting the statistical analyses reported in the manuscript “Association of hypoglycemic agents with the risk of immune checkpoint inhibitor-induced pneumonitis in patients with type 2…

R code supporting the statistical analyses reported in the manuscript “Association of hypoglycemic agents with the risk of immune checkpoint inhibitor-induced pneumonitis in patients with type 2 diabetes.”The repository contains code for the primary multivariable logistic regression analysis, the analysis of ICI-related pneumonitis requiring hospitalization, analyses in the subgroup with available clinical/laboratory data, and generation of manuscript tables.Individual-level data from the DeSC claims database are not included because the data are licensed and subject to data-use restrictions. Proprietary DeSC medication code lists used to derive medication exposure variables are also excluded because redistribution is restricted under the data-use/licensing agreement with DeSC Healthcare, Inc. The deposited code therefore reproduces the statistical analyses from analysis-ready variables but does not redistribute restricted DeSC identifiers.

A criminal incidence has been represented and proposed relevant legal acts and outcomes of the crime analysis in applied law and criminology. Local crimes, sex crimes, criminal attitudes, limitations,…

A criminal incidence has been represented and proposed relevant legal acts and outcomes of the crime analysis in applied law and criminology. Local crimes, sex crimes, criminal attitudes, limitations, and beliefs in religion are narrated logically. Nobel Nominee Professor Dr. Engr. Md. Anowar Hossain, Defence Scientist (Dr.), Barrister (Dr.) proposed and explained baby act, marriage act, religion act, victim-friendly penalty income, and universal income support to the university graduates. The contradictions in law have been critically enlightened and proposed to eliminate legal crisis and legal contradictions. Every court should have a department of research and development without which public may suffer due to the limitations of the law and right implementation of the law. Every law ministry has a lack of legal research, right trialing, and right implementation for the right surviving. Therefore, a legal practitioner should not be blind to respect to follow to implement an approved law and registered law in terms of registered numbers of a government law of any judicial administration of any executive attorneys of any country of any government of any association. Law foundation of Professor Dr. Engr. Md. Anowar Hossain’s knowledge Industry at RMIT University, Australia is practicing, advertising, proposing, standing, contributing, and dedicating for the right defence of a victim. Professor Dr. Engr. Md. Anowar Hossain also proposed a natural way of sex defence; financial defence of male, female, family, society, and government to eliminate crime and poverty to establish the policy of zero crime and zero poverty in the planet. Unfortunately; Professor Dr. Rajiv Padhye and Dr. Abu Shaid, Australian sex criminal targeted to Professor Dr. Engr. Md. Anowar Hossain and wife of Professor Dr. Engr. Md. Anowar Hossain since 2019-2020. Accordingly, and parallelly; Professor Dr. Rajiv Padhye officially and professionally administered and tried to kill Professor Dr. Engr. Md. Anowar Hossain by the hidden technique and life-threatening conspiracy in Australia in Bangladesh. Professor Dr. Rajiv Padhye proposed ‘sex identity card policy in Australian PhD school’ at RMIT University in an academic meeting in 2021. Professor Dr. Rajiv Padhye, RMIT University expressed in an academic meeting in Australia about his active involvement of family conspiracy and professional conspiracy in Bangladesh and Australia. Later, Professor Dr. Engr. Md. Anowar Hossain shifted his study place of research from Melbourne to Bangladesh. Professor Dr. Rajiv Padhye, third-party criminal, and his expert associates also successfully extended, hided, and twisted the killing conspiracy in Bangladesh, family conspiracy in Bangladesh, couple conspiracy in Bangladesh, mother conspiracy in Bangladesh, and professional conspiracy in Bangladesh. In this thesis; human conspiracy, sex conspiracy, judicial issues, sex chemistry, sex physics, marriage process, sex coupling, baby coupling, baby production, psychophysics of different brain, sex philosophy versus human nature, crimes and criminology, family, democracy, government, and profession have been practically and critically narrated and represented to analyze to eliminate crimes and criminals to extend peace surviving philosophy in the planet.

Glacier meltwater changes hydrological connectivity and resource supply in proglacial lakes, but whether microbial genomic potential reflects realized carbon processing under these changing conditions…

Glacier meltwater changes hydrological connectivity and resource supply in proglacial lakes, but whether microbial genomic potential reflects realized carbon processing under these changing conditions remains unclear. Here, we combined two years of seasonal observations, genome-resolved metagenomics, and Biolog EcoPlate assays to compare microbial carbon-processing potential and realized substrate utilization during glacier-fed (GFD) and non-glacier-fed (NGFD) periods in a Tibetan proglacial lake.

Biases are a large challenge for today’s AI landscape. In the interdisciplinary BIAS project, different detectionand mitigation methods for several European languages have been developed an…

Biases are a large challenge for today’s AI landscape. In the interdisciplinary BIAS project, different detectionand mitigation methods for several European languages have been developed and validated. This paper presents the interdisciplinary approach developed in the project, combining user perspective, as well as developers, technical tests and research.

The flavin-mediated visible-light photocatalytic insertion of CO2 into C(sp2)–H bonds of (hetero)arenes together with dearomative carboxylation was achieved depending on reaction conditions and apllie…

The flavin-mediated visible-light photocatalytic insertion of CO2 into C(sp2)–H bonds of (hetero)arenes together with dearomative carboxylation was achieved depending on reaction conditions and apllied flavin photocatalyst. Highly reduc ing 5-(o-tolyl)deazaalloxaxine (oMe-dAll) enables efficient access to aryl alkanoic acids and complex three-dimensional carboxylated scaffolds from readily available aromatic substrates.