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[3] viXra:2601.0086 [pdf] submitted on 2026-01-21 23:13:21
Authors: Renato Vieira Dos Santos
Comments: 10 Pages. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chaos.2025.117554 (Note by viXra Admin: Please submit article written with AI assistance to ai.viXra.org)
Political moderation, a key attractor in democratic systems, proves highly fragile under realistic information conditions. We develop a stochastic model of opinion dynamics to analyze how noise and differential susceptibility reshape the political spectrum. Extending Marvel et al.'s deterministic framework, we incorporate stochastic media influence $zeta(t)$ and neuropolitically-grounded sensitivity differences ($sigma_y > sigma_x$). Analysis reveals the moderate population---stable in deterministic models---undergoes catastrophic collapse under stochastic forcing. This occurs through an effective deradicalization asymmetry ($u_{B}^{text{eff}} = u + sigma_y^2/2 > u_{A}^{text{eff}}$) that drives conservatives to extinction, eliminating cross-cutting interactions that sustain moderates. The system exhibits a phase transition from multi-stable coexistence to liberal dominance, demonstrating how information flow architecture---independent of content---systematically dismantles the political center. Our findings reveal moderation as an emergent property highly vulnerable to stochastic perturbations in complex social systems.
Category: General Science and Philosophy
[2] viXra:2601.0064 [pdf] submitted on 2026-01-16 03:07:25
Authors: Jaba Tkemaladze
Comments: 18 Pages. (Note by viXra Admin: Please submit article written with AI assistance to ai.viXra.org)
The centrosome, a key microtubule-organizing center, has long been implicated in fundamental cellular processes such as division, polarity, and ciliogenesis. Observations linking centrosomal aberrations to specific cellular states, including senescence and aging, raise a pivotal question: is the centrosome merely a structural casualty of these states, or does it actively encode and transmit information dictating cellular phenotype? This article explores the conceptual framework, methodology, and profound implications of centrosome transplantation, an experimental paradigm designed to answer this question by directly testing causality. We review the historical context of organelle transplantation, detail a comprehensive technical protocol encompassing centrosome isolation, microinjection, and phenotypic analysis, and discuss the significant challenges and alternative approaches. A meta-analysis of pioneering and preliminary data highlights the potential of this method to demonstrate the transfer of age-related traits. We argue that a successful transplantation experiment would constitute a revolution in cell biology, providing definitive proof of non-genetic, organelle-based inheritance of cellular age. This would position the centriole as a strategic custodian of cellular time and open transformative therapeutic avenues focused on rejuvenating the centrosomal machinery in stem cells, thereby offering a novel paradigm for intervening in the aging process.
Category: General Science and Philosophy
[1] viXra:2601.0025 [pdf] submitted on 2026-01-06 22:47:11
Authors: Abdelmajid Benahmed
Comments: 13 Pages. (Note by viXra Admin: Please submit article written with AI assistance to ai.viXra.org)
This article examines the development of operator splitting methods in Soviet numericalanalysis during 1955—1975, with particular focus on N.N. Yanenko’s formalization of theMethod of Fractional Steps at the Siberian Branch of the USSR Academy of Sciences. Whilesimilar techniques were independently developed in the West (Peaceman-Rachford 1955,Douglas-Rachford 1956), the Soviet school pursued a distinct trajectory shaped by acutehardware constraints and deep epistemological commitments to operator theory. Throughanalysis of technical publications, archival materials, and comparative historiography, thisstudy argues that material scarcity catalyzed a systematic research program emphasizingcomputational economy, while a pre-existing mathematical culture valorizing theoreticalelegance reinforced this trajectory. The case illuminates how geopolitical constraints andintellectual traditions jointly shaped algorithmic innovation, contributing to methods that ironically became foundational for modern massively parallel computing. Significant archival gaps limit definitive claims about industrial applications, highlighting the need for further primary source research.
Category: General Science and Philosophy
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