April 2026

Does culture shape how burdensome overtime work feels to workers? We exploit Switzerland’s linguistic border, the Röstigraben, where French- and German-speaking workers share the same labor laws but inherit different attitudes toward work and leisure. Using data from the Swiss Household Panel (1999–2023), we show that each extra hour beyond...

We formalize Anchored Accumulation Calculus (AAC), an operator-theoretic framework for scale-covariant memory on the multiplicative group R+. By defining memory as causal accumulation along exponential scale trajectories, we establish that AAC operators on a dense core are unitarily equivalent to translation-invariant Fourier multipliers. This construction allows us to define the...

Suicide remains a critical global public health challenge, with over 700,000 deaths recorded annually worldwide (World Health Organization, 2021). The proliferation of digital communication platforms has provided researchers with unprecedented access to linguistically rich data through which suicidal ideation may be detected and studied. This paper presents a comprehensive analysis...

The Impact-Triggered Flash Cascade (ITFC) Model: A Quantum-Interpreted Background Framework for Light Propagation To address this question, we propose the Impact-Triggered Flash Cascade (ITFC) model, in which an unobservable background of degrees of freedom (U) supports localized excited states (U*) triggered by contact with a high-speed driver (P). The observable...

We propose that the vacuum has a finite local entanglement capacity and that matter consists of localized defects of that substrate. General relativity emerges as the low-energy capacity geometry rather than being assumed independently. A minimal tetrahedral microstructure determines, with no free parameters, all coefficients of a covariant scalar EFT...