Latest Information Retrieval Research Papers

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• The role of dimethylguanidino valeric acid (DMGV)-related metabolic pathways in carbohydrate and lipid metabolism
  Yueyuan Han · University of Liverpool · Jan 1, 2031

  Dimethylguanidino valeric acid (DMGV), including isomers ADGV and SDGV, is an emerging risk factor for metabolic syndrome (MetS) and has garnered research attention. However, the unavailability of DMGV commercial standards poses challenges …

• Application of medical gases in prevention and treatment of electromagnetic radiation injury.
  Yun Xing, Fengxu Chen, Gonggeng Liu, Shijun Bao et al. · PubMed Central · Jan 1, 2027

  The widespread proliferation of electromagnetic technologies in communications, healthcare, and daily life poses increasing risks of radiation-induced tissue injury. Mitigating these deleterious effects remains a formidable challenge. Recen…

• Averrhoa bilimbi L. Juice: An efficient natural acid catalyst for the green synthesis of dihydropyrimidinone-1,2,3-triazole.
  Bayu Ardiansah, Jonathan Evan, Jumina, Mardi Santoso et al. · PubMed · Dec 1, 2026
• Assessment and characterization of back pain and biopsychosocial influences in lower limb amputation: scoping review.
  Kevin Arribart, Maximilian O'Malley, Gerson Cipriano, Marlon L. Wong et al. · PubMed Central · Dec 1, 2026

  Back pain affects over half of individuals with lower limb amputation, yet research findings on associated factors remain fragmented. In view of the evolution of pain science in the general population, this fragmentation likely stems from s…

• Triage models for surgical decision-making in patients with shoulder pain: an integrative review.
  Samah Hassan, Kenneth J Faber, Joy Christine MacDermid · PubMed Central · Dec 1, 2026

  Shoulder pain is a major cause of work absenteeism, affecting 1 in 3 adults. Although nonsurgical treatments like physical therapy are recommended as the first line of management, 40% of patients are referred for surgery before exploring th…

• From Cyber Police to Trusted Guardians A Psychology-First Guide for IT and Cybersecurity Teams
  A. Shaji George · Zenodo (CERN European Organ... · Nov 25, 2026

  This article explores the common view of the information technology (IT) and cybersecurity departments as the police force of the organisation and offers a detailed psychology based approach to change that. The analysis, based on behavioura…

• Journal Publishing on Digital Commons
  Alice Sherwood · Digital Commons-TMC (Texas ... · Nov 13, 2026

  Have you visited Digital Commons@TMC, the institutional repository before?Take your research to the next level and learn about the basics of how you can publish your open access student-led (faculty advisor needed) or professional journal o…

• Climate-Based Modeling of Invasive Species Impact on Urban Green Infrastructure Using CLIMEX and Remote Sensing Data
  A. Suresh kumar, C. Rajan · Journal of Smart Infrastruc... · Nov 6, 2026

  The pace at which invasive alien species are established and spread is becoming a threat, especially to urban ecosystems, due, in part, to the variability of climates, urban growth, and fragmentation of habitats. These biological invasions …

• Visceral adipose tissue and incident cardiovascular disease among individuals without diabetes: an analysis of 15 prospective cohorts from 7 countries in Latin America.
  PubMed · Nov 1, 2026
• Artificial Intelligence impact on decision-making regarding short-term ADT with prostate radiotherapy: ASTuTE clinical trial interim results.
  Eric E. Wegener, Michael Ng, Mario Guerrieri, Timothy Norman Showalter et al. · PubMed · Nov 1, 2026
• Genomic and immune profiling characterizes immune heterogeneity and a TIGIT-associated subtype in intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma.
  Anastasiia Korosteleva, Josephine Sophie Reschke, Dawei Yi, Silke Marhenke et al. · PubMed Central · Nov 1, 2026

  BACKGROUND: Intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma (iCCA) is characterized by marked molecular and microenvironmental heterogeneity and moderate response to immunotherapy. We aimed to define the genomic and spatial determinants of immune checkpoin…

• Acute-phase HOMA2-IR and in-hospital cardiovascular complications in patients with acute coronary syndrome without known diabetes.
  Nguyễn Ngọc Minh Thư, Bui The Dung, Lâm Vĩnh Niên, Hoang Vu Vu et al. · PubMed · Nov 1, 2026

  Background: Insulin resistance measured during acute coronary syndrome (ACS) may reflect pre-existing metabolic vulnerability as well as the response to acute illness. We examined its association with cardiovascular complications arising du…

• Preparation, Structural Characterization, Antioxidant and Antibacterial Properties of Cinnamon Essential Oil β-Cyclodextrin Microcapsules
  Rongna GE, Dajun LI, Huining Hu, Yihan Wang et al. · DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Op... · Nov 1, 2026

  In order to solve the problems of high volatility, low water solubility, and poor stability of cinnamon essential oil in food preservation, this study prepared cinnamon essential oil/β-cyclodextrin microcapsules using the co-precipitation m…

• Structure and Stability of Structured Lipids Enriched with Conjugated Linoleic Acid
  Xiaojing Sun, Xiaowei Fei, Lili SONG, Lixia ZHANG et al. · DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Op... · Nov 1, 2026

  To investigate the structure and stability of structured lipids enriched with conjugated linoleic acid (CLA-SLs), gas chromatography was used to determine the fatty acid composition and triacylglycerol configuration; additionally, high-perf…

• MOVPE growth and characterization of AlPN layers for HFETs
  Eberhard Richter, Frank Brunner, S. Hagedorn, Carsten Netzel et al. · Strathprints: The Universit... · Nov 1, 2026

  The growth of AlPN layers by metalorganic vapor phase epitaxy (MOVPE) and their use as barrier layers on GaN buffer layers for heterojunction field effect transistors (HFETs) was investigated. Quantitative energy-dispersive X-ray spectrosco…

• GLP-1 Receptor Agonist and GIP/GLP-1 Receptor Dual Agonist Therapeutics at the Intersection of Alcohol Use Disorder, Obesity, and Cardiometabolic Dysfunction.
  Joshua Reitz, Daniel B. Rosoff, Pál Pacher, Falk W. Lohoff · PubMed · Nov 1, 2026
• When Embodied AI Infers Too Much
  Chengxu Zhou · UCL Discovery (University C... · Nov 1, 2026

  As embodied AI systems enter homes, hospitals, and public spaces, they introduce a new class of privacy risks—not by recording more, but by inferring more. Drawing on modalities such as thermal imaging, radio-frequency sensing, chemical ana…

• Dicyanoisophorone-Based Chromophores with Tunable Optical Responses: Synthesis, Characterization and Applications
  Kajal R. Gaikwad, Mrugaya S. Thakur, Vishal A. Naik, Pramod Bhagwan Thakur · Zenodo (CERN European Organ... · Oct 31, 2026

  Abstract: Two dicyanoisophorone-based conjugated compounds, Compound 1 and Compound 2, were synthesized through piperidine-catalyzed Knoevenagel condensation of dicyanoisophorone with 2-hydroxy-1-naphthaldehyde and 4-methoxybenzaldehyde, re…

• Hiperpigmentação axilar: causas, diagnóstico diferencial e tratamentos com evidência
  Talita Almeida · Zenodo (CERN European Organ... · Oct 31, 2026

  Axila escurecida: causas, quando investigar acantose nigricans e resistência insulínica, diagnósticos diferenciais e o que os estudos mostram sobre tratamento. Artigo de revisão publicado no periódico Cadernos de Estética Avançada (ISSN 308…

• SISTEM PENDUKUNG KEPUTUSAN SELEKSI PENERIMA BEASISWA KULIAH MENGGUNAKAN METODE ELECTRE (STUDI KASUS ITBA DCC)
  Imam -, handoyo Widi N · Jurnal Cendikia · Oct 31, 2026

  Pendidikan tinggi merupakan salah satu faktor penting dalam meningkatkan kualitas sumber daya manusia.Namun, tidak semua lulusan sekolah menengah mampu melanjutkan pendidikan ke jenjang perguruan tinggikarena keterbatasan ekonomi. Untuk men…

• Testimony from Timelines: Evidence-Grounded Significance Testing of Temporal Clinical Hypotheses
  Chengyang He, Wenlong Zhang, Koduvayur Subbalakshmi, Ping Wang · arXiv · Oct 29, 2026

  Ask a language model whether sales tend to dip after a product recall, or whether one side effect tends to follow another after a vaccine, and it answers in a fluent sentence that reads like a finding, with no test behind it. Assertions abo…

• Glance: The Generator Is Its Own Reranker
  Adilet Metinov, Chingiz Arziev · arXiv · Oct 29, 2026

  Retrieval-augmented generation commonly serves separate models for reranking and answering, duplicating model residency and passage processing. We introduce Glance, which equips the generator with a lightweight decision adapter and pointer …

• Decompose, Estimate, Select: Coverage-Aware Context Construction for Long-Form RAG
  He Tu, Aleena Bosco Kurumthottam, Torsten Suel · arXiv · Oct 29, 2026

  Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) grounds a language model's output in retrieved evidence, but for complex questions spanning multiple aspects of an information need, relevance-based retrieval may return redundant evidence while leaving …

• Towards Full-Text Scholarly Argument Mining using Entity-Anchored Claim Extraction
  Bhuvanesh Verma, Andy Lüking, Mounika Marreddy, Leon Lukas Hammerla et al. · arXiv · Oct 29, 2026

  Argument mining in full-text scholarly articles remains an important yet challenging task. This difficulty stems not only from the need to model long-distance dependencies but also from the substantial effort required to annotate sentence-l…

• xPRT: Cross-Passage Retrieval Pretraining
  Danush Khanna, Himanshu Singhal, Pranjal A. Chitale, Bishal Santra · arXiv · Oct 29, 2026

  Dense retrievers are a foundational component underlying modern RAG and search systems. Training these models typically requires a curated collection of annotated query-document pairs, which are prohibitively expensive to obtain outside a h…

• Beyond IPS: Reliable Counterfactual Evaluation in Multi-Stage Ad Systems without Logged Propensities
  Mohsen Malmir, Mohamed A. Radwan, Houssam Nassif, Murat Ali Bayir · arXiv · Oct 29, 2026

  Offline evaluation of ad-ranking policies in multi-stage delivery systems is challenging because action propensities are often unavailable, limiting inverse propensity scoring (IPS). Reward-model-based estimators such as the Direct Method (…

• R2QRec: Learning Recommendation Queries from Retrieval Feedback
  Weixin Chen, Shuchang Liu, Hailan Yang, Yuhan Zhao et al. · arXiv · Oct 29, 2026

  Query-based recommendation separates expressing user needs from locating matching items. Its central learning problem is how to turn item interactions into effective retrieval requests when interaction logs do not annotate queries. We prese…

• Heterogeneous Co-Evolution Learning for Tool-Efficient Search Agents with Zero Labels
  Qin-Wen Luo, Sheng Ren, Xiang Chen, Rui Liu et al. · arXiv · Oct 29, 2026

  Deep search agents extend language models by interleaving reasoning with external retrieval. However, effective search-agent training requires addressing two challenges beyond final-answer optimization. First, the capability frontier of age…

• Efficient LLM-based Subgraph Retrieval for Multi-Hop Knowledge Base Question Answering
  Duanyang Yuan, Sihang Zhou, Xiaoshu Chen, Haoyuan Chen et al. · arXiv · Oct 29, 2026

  Multi-hop Knowledge Base Question Answering (KBQA) aims to find answer entities in the knowledge base that are multiple hops away from the entities in the question. Information retrieval-based (IR-based) methods extract a pivotal subgraph f…

• GistRank: Gist-Compressed Listwise Ranking with Large Language Models
  Guo Chen, Wenhan Liu, Reed Li, Qianwen Ma et al. · arXiv · Oct 29, 2026

  Large language models (LLMs) have become a powerful tool for listwise relevance ranking, which can improve web search by comparing retrieved passages jointly. However, processing every candidate verbatim and generating a permutation autoreg…