Photoplethysmography (PPG) is a widely used physiological signal for its convenience but is highly susceptible to motion artifacts that degrade waveform quality and limit downstream analysis. This paper proposes MURFormer, a lightweight multi-scale uncertainty-guided refinement framework for PPG de…

​ Asia-focused multi-strategy investment firm uses Arcesium's Opterra™ investment lifecycle management platform to efficiently scale complex multi-manager, multi-asset strategies   SINGAPORE, Nov. 3, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Arrowpoint Investment Partners ("Arrowpoint"), an investment firm building an Asia-focused, multi-strategy platform, today announced that it has partnered with Arcesium, a leading global financial technology provider to the investment industry. Arrowpoint is leveraging Arcesium's intelligent data management and operational platform, Opterra, along with its industry expertise and managed services, to scale its sophisticated, multi-asset investment strategies.

Cross-band camouflage technology is a critical necessity, enabling personnel and equipment to evade detection across evolving surveillance systems, thereby enhancing survivability and mission success....

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Planetary microbial systems biology, encompassing multi-omics, AI, and field-to-lab interaction, is proposed as a framework to study Earth’s interconnected microbiomes at a planetary scale.

Agentic assistants built on frontier models run a multi-step tool loop, and paying frontier prices on every step is hard to sustain at production scale. This post shows how to use sequence-level knowledge distillation (SeqKD) to transfer a frontier teacher's agentic behavior into a small, lower-cost

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