Block scheduling in practice: An optimal decomposition strategy for nonidentical operating rooms
Decision Sciences, Volume 57, Issue 2, Page 95-116, April 2026.Abstract We develop and implement a Master Surgery Schedule for a real‐life hospital, assigning operating room (OR) time to surgical specialties over a multi‐week horizon. Through action research, we identify a critical operational challenge: the issue of split blocks. Split blocks allow two specialties to share an OR on the same day—one in the morning,
Vincent J. J. van Ham +2 more
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Environmental Drivers of Temperate Bat Species Richness and Abundance: The Role of Hibernacula
Journal of Biogeography, Volume 53, Issue 4, April 2026.ABSTRACT Aim Explaining the phenomenon of high biodiversity of biota remains one of the most significant challenges in the natural sciences, especially when it concerns long‐lived, highly mobile and cryptic taxa. Underground hibernation sites, where temperate bats congregate in winter, are key biodiversity hotspots that are systematically monitored in ...
Tomáš Bartonička +2 more
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Solving the n $n$‐Player Tullock Contest
Journal of Public Economic Theory, Volume 28, Issue 2, April 2026.ABSTRACT The n $n$‐player Tullock contest with complete information is known to admit explicit solutions in special cases, such as (i) homogeneous valuations, (ii) constant returns, and (iii) two contestants. But can the model be solved more generally?
Christian Ewerhart
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Synergistic augmentation of BDS PPP-B2b: integrating LEO constellations and wide-lane ambiguity resolution for instantaneous convergence. [PDF]
Sci RepZhao Q +6 more
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Molecular Ecology, Volume 35, Issue 8, April 2026.ABSTRACT Exposure to environmental pollutants can disrupt the gut microbiota, but how pollutants impact natural, seasonal changes in wildlife gut microbiota remains unknown. We quantified how exposure to radionuclides affected temporal changes in the gut microbiota of bank voles (Clethrionomys glareolus) inhabiting the Chornobyl Exclusion Zone (CEZ ...
Andrii Vasylenko +5 more
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User-Side Long-Baseline Undifferenced Network RTK Positioning Under Geomagnetic Storm Conditions Using a Power Spectral Density-Constrained Ionospheric Delay Model. [PDF]
Sensors (Basel)Wang Y, Zhu H, Xu Q, Li J, Song C, Li B.
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Manifolds in the Medial Premotor Cortex During Switching From Attending to Tapping to a Metronome
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, Volume 1558, Issue 1, April 2026.Low‐dimensional manifolds emerged in neural populations of the medial premotor cortex of macaque monkeys while they performed an attend‐then‐synchronize tapping task with periodic visual stimuli. The neural dynamics followed an increasingly oscillatory trajectory from attending to tapping stages of the trial (left panel).
Dobromir Dotov +3 more
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Attitude Tracking Algorithm Using GNSS Measurements from Short Baselines. [PDF]
Sensors (Basel)Kapralov F, Kozlov A.
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Topics in Cognitive Science, Volume 18, Issue 2, April 2026.Abstract The majority of Pleistocene figurative cave art in Western Europe consists of line drawings depicting large herbivores from the side view, and outlines were sometimes abbreviated to the head‐neck‐dorsal line. It is often assumed that the side view was used because it facilitates animal recognition compared to other views, and that abbreviated ...
Murillo Pagnotta +4 more
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High-Accuracy Wave Direction Estimation Using Kalman Fusion of Interferometric Measurements and Energy Field Reconstruction. [PDF]
Sensors (Basel)Wang C, Li X, Xue L.
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