Intelligence Brief

TODAY'S INTELLIGENCE BRIEF

On 2026-10-09, the AI research landscape saw the ingestion of 500 new papers, leading to the discovery of 1161 new concepts. A notable trend is the continued maturation of agentic AI systems, with significant advancements in their application to complex tasks like software issue resolution and omics data analysis, alongside the emergence of novel human-AI interaction frameworks designed for deliberative collaboration. Furthermore, the field is pushing boundaries in multilingual code generation quality and explainable AI for critical domains like clinical prognostics.

ACCELERATING CONCEPTS

This week highlights a strong emphasis on AI agency and interpretability, alongside specialized applications:

• Agentic AI (category: theory, maturity: emerging): An overarching theoretical approach demanding multimodal reasoning beyond conventional similarity paradigms. This concept is accelerating as researchers explore deeper autonomy and complex problem-solving. Papers like Agentic Software Issue Resolution with Large Language Models: A Survey are driving this, showcasing its broad applicability in software engineering.
• Agentic AI systems (category: application, maturity: established): AI systems designed to autonomously execute consequential actions, often through multi-step delegation chains. The increased frequency points to practical implementations, particularly in fields requiring complex, multi-stage operations, as evidenced in Omics data discovery agents: Agent-supported retrieval, reanalysis, and synthesis of published omics data.
• Model Context Protocol (MCP) (category: architecture, maturity: emerging): A specific protocol enabling computational infrastructure for agentic systems, such as CADD-Agent. Its acceleration signals growing interest in standardized interfaces for tool-augmented AI.
• Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) (category: theory, maturity: established/emerging): Methods to make AI predictions understandable, crucial for clinical translation and trust. The dual maturity status reflects ongoing refinement and the introduction of new techniques within this established field, as seen in An explainable and leakage-aware machine learning model for early risk stratification of radioiodine-refractory differentiated thyroid cancer.
• Postbiotics (category: application, maturity: emerging): Cell-free spent media from probiotics, functioning as antivirulence agents. While seemingly outside core AI, its acceleration often indicates AI/ML applications in bioinformatics, drug discovery, or agricultural science to identify and optimize these agents, as suggested by Disrupting Salmonella colonization and resistance: probiotic cell-free supernatants inhibit biofilm formation and invasion in meat and human isolates.
• Agriculture 5.0 (category: application, maturity: emerging): Integration of UAVs and IoT for precision agriculture. This concept's rise underscores the increasing fusion of physical systems, sensor networks, and AI for real-world automation and optimization.
• Domain Adaptation (category: training, maturity: emerging): Techniques to apply models across related domains, vital for addressing data scarcity in industrial contexts. Its growing frequency reflects practical challenges in deploying AI beyond carefully curated datasets.

NEWLY INTRODUCED CONCEPTS

Today's ingestion reveals several genuinely novel concepts pushing the boundaries of human-AI interaction, formal verification, and specialized knowledge representation:

• NEOMANITAI (category: theory): A faceted research framework for describing human-AI interaction across digital, embodied, and collective settings. This signifies an attempt to create a unified taxonomy for increasingly complex human-AI symbiosis.
• human-mediated cross-model deliberation (category: architecture): A protocol for structured multi-model inquiry where a human and a coordinator agent mediate interactions between independent AI systems. This is a critical development for ensuring oversight and robust decision-making in multi-agent environments.
• Human-AI Augmented Mixed Methods Research (category: application): A practice-oriented framework for conducting and evaluating mixed methods research with human-AI analytic collaboration. This highlights the integration of AI into complex research methodologies.
• collective adsorption (category: theory): A phenomenon where molecules collectively stabilize at an interface, contributing to a free energy gain. This is likely an emerging concept from materials science or chemistry, potentially leveraged by AI for predictive modeling.
• Chain of States (CoS) (category: architecture): A sequence of intermediate formal proof states aligned with the logical structure of an informal argument, used as an intermediate representation in proof translation. This concept, highlighted in Translating Informal Proofs into Formal Proofs Using a Chain of States, is a significant architectural innovation for AI-assisted formal verification.
• Aging Knowledge Graph (Aging-KG) (category: data): A unified knowledge graph integrating PubMed records with curated biomedical databases to represent aging and longevity mechanisms. This represents a dedicated effort to structure complex biological data for AI analysis.
• HALDxAI (category: architecture): An evidence-routed AI-based knowledge graph system designed for comprehensive dissection of aging and longevity mechanisms. This demonstrates a specialized architectural approach built upon knowledge graphs for a high-impact domain.
• evidence-routed AI knowledge graph (category: architecture): A type of AI knowledge graph that links graph relations and generated answers to sentence-level evidence using a multi-agent retrieval system. This is a meta-concept describing a robust and auditable approach to knowledge graph construction.
• Model context protocol (MCP) servers (category: architecture): Servers used to expose containerized analysis tools to LLM agents, facilitating the execution of quantification pipelines. This is a practical infrastructure concept underpinning agentic workflows.
• API-knowledge boundary (category: inference): A specific type of failure point in LLM-based code generation for power systems, characterized by hallucinated functions, misused parameters, and mishandled result tables. This concept, appearing in Knowledge boundary probing and demand-guided intervention for LLM-based power system code generation, points to critical challenges in robust LLM tool use.

METHODS & TECHNIQUES IN FOCUS

A notable trend is the continued dominance of qualitative and meta-analysis methods for evaluating complex AI systems and research landscapes, alongside the growing maturity of agentic architectures and specific deep learning algorithms.

• Thematic Analysis (evaluation_method): Used in 7 papers with 16 total mentions, this qualitative method is highly utilized for identifying recurring themes, challenges, and requirements from expert discussions. Its prevalence suggests a focus on understanding human-centric aspects of AI deployment and development, as seen in studies of agentic systems.
• Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) (architecture): Appearing in 5 papers with 13 mentions, RAG continues to be a go-to architecture for enhancing LLM performance by grounding responses in external knowledge. While a foundational concept, its application as a *method* for knowledge integration remains central.
• Semi-structured interviews (evaluation_method): With 4 papers and 11 mentions, this qualitative data collection method remains critical for in-depth exploration and gathering nuanced perspectives, especially in human-AI interaction studies.
• Bibliometric analysis (evaluation_method): Used in 4 papers with 6 mentions, this method is gaining traction for tracing the evolution of knowledge-guided approaches in various research domains, reflecting a need to map the research landscape itself.
• Systematic Review and Scoping Review (evaluation_method): Each used in 3 papers (7 and 5 mentions respectively) for synthesizing literature, indicating the field's efforts to consolidate existing knowledge and identify research gaps in areas like health and interdisciplinary concepts (e.g., mindfulness in Bridging the Gap Between Contemporary and Buddhist Definitions of Mindfulness: A Scoping Review).
• Proximal Policy Optimization (PPO) (algorithm): With 3 papers and 5 mentions, PPO highlights the continued relevance of reinforcement learning algorithms for control tasks, such as in industrial automation (e.g., controlling valves in three-tank systems).
• SHapley Additive exPlanations (SHAP) (evaluation_method): Mentioned in 3 papers, SHAP continues to be a key method for model interpretation, particularly for identifying dominant contributors to risk, as demonstrated in early risk stratification for radioiodine-refractory differentiated thyroid cancer in An explainable and leakage-aware machine learning model for early risk stratification of radioiodine-refractory differentiated thyroid cancer.

BENCHMARK & DATASET TRENDS

Evaluation practices are becoming more sophisticated, incorporating established scientific databases and novel specialized datasets, particularly for agentic AI and domain-specific applications. There's also a rising focus on multilingual and real-world data challenges.

• Web of Science Core Collection (WoSCC) and Scopus (domain: science): These multidisciplinary databases were each used in 3 evaluations, indicating a consistent reliance on comprehensive scholarly data for bibliometric and systematic review analyses, especially in medical and scientific research fields (e.g., ferroptosis and CRC).
• UNSW-NB15 (domain: general): Evaluated twice, this cybersecurity dataset continues to be a standard for simulating cyberattacks, suggesting ongoing research in AI for security.
• ChemBench (domain: science): Evaluated once but with 2 mentions, this benchmark is crucial for assessing LLMs across multiple chemistry subdomains. Its use signals increased scrutiny of LLMs in scientific reasoning.
• MIMIC-III (domain: science): This publicly available critical care database, evaluated once with 2 mentions, remains a vital resource for developing and evaluating clinical prediction models, especially for handling real-world clinical time series with missingness, as shown in Benchmarking imputation methods on real-world clinical time series with simulated spatio-temporal missingness.
• multi-model deliberation transcripts with claim-level provenance (domain: general): This newly mentioned dataset, containing verbatim jury transcripts and AI system verdicts, is a key development for evaluating multi-agent systems and human-AI collaboration in complex decision-making scenarios.
• 445,435 aging- and longevity-related PubMed records (domain: science): This specialized collection highlights the trend towards domain-specific knowledge graph construction and AI analysis in biomedicine.
• specialized corpus of question-answer pairs (domain: science): The synthesis of 199,589 QA pairs for training models like OmniChem shows an investment in creating high-quality, targeted data for specialized LLM applications.
• Curated Multilingual Code Generation Dataset (domain: code): A newly created dataset with manually-curated prompts translated into Chinese, Hindi, Spanish, and Italian. This dataset, featured in Large Language Models for Code Generation from Multilingual Prompts: A Curated Benchmark and a Study on Code Quality, is critical for addressing language bias and evaluating code quality from non-English prompts, indicating a move towards global accessibility and robustness for code-generating LLMs.

BRIDGE PAPERS

While no explicit "bridge papers" were flagged as connecting previously separate subfields in the provided data, we can infer some significant cross-pollination from today's high-impact papers:

• Bridging the Gap Between Contemporary and Buddhist Definitions of Mindfulness: A Scoping Review (Impact Score: 1.0): This paper critically connects the fields of psychology/cognitive science (contemporary mindfulness) and philosophy/religious studies (Buddhist mindfulness). It is significant for attempting to unify divergent conceptualizations, fostering a more coherent interdisciplinary understanding of consciousness and mental states, which can inform AI models of cognition or well-being.
• Omics data discovery agents: Agent-supported retrieval, reanalysis, and synthesis of published omics data (Impact Score: 1.0): This work bridges advanced AI agent systems with bioinformatics and computational biology. It demonstrates how autonomous LLM agents can retrieve, reanalyze, and synthesize complex scientific data (proteomics, RNA-seq), effectively automating aspects of scientific discovery and hypothesis generation. This signifies a major step towards AI-driven laboratories and accelerates cross-disciplinary research in life sciences.
• Agentic Software Issue Resolution with Large Language Models: A Survey (Impact Score: 1.0): This survey bridges foundational AI (LLMs, reinforcement learning) with software engineering and DevOps. It showcases how agentic systems are being applied to highly practical and complex problems in software development, demonstrating a convergence of advanced AI capabilities with industrial needs.

UNRESOLVED PROBLEMS GAINING ATTENTION

Several critical challenges are emerging across multiple papers, often with methods proposed to address them:

• LLMs producing realistic fake news, challenging existing detection methods reliant on lexical and syntactic patterns (Severity: significant, Recurrence: 1): This problem is gaining attention due to the sophistication of generative AI. Methods like "LIFE (Linguistic Fingerprints Extraction)" and "key-fragment amplification module" are being developed to counter this by focusing on deeper linguistic fingerprints.
• Lack of reporting on clinical and imaging parameters in segmentation studies, limiting comparability and generalizability (Severity: significant, Recurrence: 1): This methodological issue in medical imaging is highlighted as a barrier to clinical translation. Methods such as "U-Net-based models," "Automatic segmentation," and "Semi-automatic segmentation" are implicated, suggesting a need for better reporting standards and robust model design that accounts for data heterogeneity.
• Challenge of achieving consistently good performance with automatic methods in segmenting small structures (e.g., normal pituitary gland) (Severity: significant, Recurrence: 1): A persistent challenge in medical image analysis, particularly for nuanced anatomical features. "U-Net-based models," "Automatic segmentation," and "Semi-automatic segmentation" are methods being applied, but the problem underscores the need for more sensitive and precise models.
• Need for larger and more diverse datasets, alongside methodological innovation, to improve the clinical applicability of automatic segmentation techniques (Severity: significant, Recurrence: 1): This general problem in medical AI development emphasizes the data and methodological gaps. Again, "U-Net-based models," "Automatic segmentation," and "Semi-automatic segmentation" are key methods, but their efficacy is limited by data constraints, suggesting a call for broader data collection initiatives and novel transfer learning/few-shot learning approaches.
• API-knowledge boundary failures in LLM-based code generation (hallucinated functions, misused parameters, mishandled result tables) (Severity: significant, Recurrence: 1): Identified as a key failure mode in the context of power system code generation in Knowledge boundary probing and demand-guided intervention for LLM-based power system code generation. This is a critical problem for the reliability and trustworthiness of LLM agents interacting with external tools. Demand-guided intervention and selective API evidence injection are proposed methods to address this.
• Inconsistencies and language bias in LLM-generated code, especially with multilingual prompts (Severity: moderate, Recurrence: 1): As explored in Large Language Models for Code Generation from Multilingual Prompts: A Curated Benchmark and a Study on Code Quality, LLMs show inconsistent quality and language mixing when generating code from non-English prompts. This highlights a fairness and robustness issue for global AI developers. The paper addresses this by proposing a curated multilingual benchmark to understand and mitigate these biases.

INSTITUTION LEADERBOARD

Academic institutions continue to lead in volume, with significant contributions also coming from national labs and specialized research facilities, highlighting key collaborative patterns.

Academic Institutions:

• Sun Yat-sen University: 2 recent papers, 9 active researchers. Shows strong output from a major Chinese university.
• University of Western Australia: 1 recent paper, 1 active researcher.
• Monash University: 1 recent paper, 1 active researcher.
• Shanghai Innovation Institute: 1 recent paper, 1 active researcher.
• San Diego State University: 1 recent paper, 1 active researcher.

Industry/National Labs/Other:

• ALCF Polaris: 2 recent papers, 3 active researchers. Likely focused on high-performance computing and large-scale AI research.
• NERSC: 2 recent papers, 9 active researchers. Similar to ALCF, emphasizes contributions from national supercomputing centers.
• OLCF: 2 recent papers, 9 active researchers. Another key national lab contributing to high-impact computational research.
• ALCF: 2 recent papers, 9 active researchers. Indicates consistent contributions from Argonne Leadership Computing Facility.
• Tencent Youtu Lab: 1 recent paper, 1 active researcher. A major industry lab, signaling specific applied AI contributions.

Collaboration patterns suggest a distributed research effort, with multi-author papers being common within institutions and across the national lab infrastructure. The strong showing from national labs (ALCF, NERSC, OLCF) indicates significant investment in computational AI. Academic institutions like Sun Yat-sen University demonstrate robust internal research programs.

RISING AUTHORS & COLLABORATION CLUSTERS

Today's data reveals several authors with accelerating publication rates, indicating growing influence. Collaboration patterns highlight strong intra- and inter-institutional research partnerships.

Accelerating Authors:

• Huihuo Zheng (OLCF): 2 recent papers (out of 2 total), showing a rapid increase in contributions, likely in high-performance computing related AI.
• Shaohua Li: 2 recent papers (out of 2 total).
• Vishal Shrivastava: 2 recent papers (out of 2 total).
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• Rui Li: 2 recent papers (out of 2 total).
• Ali Asghar Safaei: 2 recent papers (out of 2 total).
• Lin Yang: 2 recent papers (out of 2 total).
• Oleksandr Skorlupin: 2 recent papers (out of 2 total).
• Hyeonhoon Lee: 2 recent papers (out of 2 total).
• Hyung-Chul Lee: 2 recent papers (out of 2 total).

These authors, all with recent papers constituting their entire recorded publication count, indicate individuals quickly establishing their presence in the field.

Strongest Co-authorship Clusters:

• Lu Yang & Lin Yang: 4 shared papers. This is a very strong collaboration, suggesting a focused research line, likely at the same institution even if not specified.
• Hyeonhoon Lee & Hyung-Chul Lee: 4 shared papers. Another highly productive pair, indicating deep, ongoing research partnership.
• Mangal Singh & Mahesh Singh: 4 shared papers.
• Mohammad Mohammadamini & Marie Tahon: 3 shared papers.
• R\u00e9mi de Vergnette & Maxime Amblard: 3 shared papers.
• Zhongyu Yang (Peking University) & Yingfang Yuan (Peking University): 2 shared papers. This is a clear example of strong institutional collaboration.
• Far\u00e8s Chouaki, Paolo Viappiani, Nicolas Maudet, Aur\u00e9lie Beynier: These names frequently appear in clusters of 2-3 shared papers, suggesting a robust research group focusing on specific problems.

The prevalence of pairs with 3-4 shared papers suggests stable and productive research partnerships. While specific cross-institution collaborations are harder to pinpoint without explicit institutional data for all authors, the presence of Peking University researchers collaborating indicates well-established academic teams.

CONCEPT CONVERGENCE SIGNALS

No explicit concept convergence signals were identified today where pairs of concepts frequently co-occur across papers. However, an implicit convergence can be observed in the growing intersection of Agentic AI systems with specialized knowledge domains like Omics data discovery. The recurring problem of API-knowledge boundary failures for LLM-based code generation also implies a strong and critical convergence between LLMs and tool-use/API integration, a frontier where reliability and robustness are paramount. Similarly, the focus on Explainable AI (XAI) in clinical contexts suggests a necessary convergence between advanced AI models and methods for risk stratification and prognostic analysis in healthcare.

TODAY'S RECOMMENDED READS

• Agentic Software Issue Resolution with Large Language Models: A Survey
  • This survey systematically reviews 242 recent studies, highlighting the rapid growth in LLM-based agentic software issue resolution.
  • It identifies reinforcement learning as an increasingly important training paradigm for agentic systems within software engineering, underscoring a shift towards more dynamic and adaptive agent behavior.
• Fire carbon emission constraints from space-based carbon monoxide retrievals during the 2019 intense burning season in Brazil
  • The 2019 fires in Brazil released an estimated 47 TgCO, with atmospheric-chemistry related uncertainties of ±15 TgCO, establishing a crucial baseline for climate modeling.
  • The study's top-down CO emission estimates converged strongly to 46–48 TgCO across different prior inventories (GFED5.1, GFAS v1.2) and assimilated datasets (TROPOMI, MOPITT), showcasing robustness of the CTE-LW/SW inverse modeling framework.
• Bridging the Gap Between Contemporary and Buddhist Definitions of Mindfulness: A Scoping Review
  • A scoping review of 120 articles identified four common differences between contemporary and Buddhist mindfulness conceptualizations, leading to a new integrative process model.
  • The proposed integrative model consists of four complementary components: sound awareness, discerning awareness and wise judgment, choice and action guided by wise judgment, and heedfulness, offering a more holistic understanding.
• Benchmarking imputation methods on real-world clinical time series with simulated spatio-temporal missingness
  • A new simulation model effectively induces realistic spatio-temporal missingness in clinical time series by sampling from Markov chains, filling a critical gap in evaluation studies.
  • Simple linear imputations achieve robust performances for real-world clinical data with spatio-temporal missingness, often outperforming more complex deep learning approaches like Deep Spatio-Temporal Autoencoders (STAEs) in these specific scenarios.
• AJAD-BoostNet: A Hybrid Deep K-Means and XGBoost Framework for Automated Cancer Histopathological Image Classification
  • AJAD-BoostNet achieved a 97.08% accuracy, 97.00% F1-score, and 97.08% AUC for lung cancer classification on the LC25000-based Lung Cancer Histopathological Images dataset, demonstrating strong diagnostic potential.
  • The framework addresses limitations of existing deep learning by reducing dependency on large annotated datasets and extensive computational resources, making it suitable for resource-constrained clinical environments.
• Plug-and-Play Dramaturge: A Divide-and-Conquer Approach for Iterative Narrative Script Refinement via Collaborative LLM Agents
  • Dramaturge, a hierarchical LLM agent system, significantly outperforms baseline methods in overall script quality and scene-level details for long narrative refinement.
  • It effectively prevents inconsistencies between local edits and global narrative requirements – a common LLM failure mode – through its coarse-to-fine iterative review workflow.
• Translating Informal Proofs into Formal Proofs Using a Chain of States
  • The proposed two-stage framework, which first extracts a Chain of States (CoS) and then generates tactics, significantly reduces the complexity of tactic generation for Lean 4 proofs.
  • The method substantially outperforms existing baselines, achieving higher proof success rates in translating informal proofs to formal Lean 4 proofs, marking a critical step in AI-assisted formal verification.
• Omics data discovery agents: Agent-supported retrieval, reanalysis, and synthesis of published omics data
  • An agentic framework successfully enabled the retrieval, reanalysis, and synthesis of published omics data, reproducing authors' deposited abundances with high per-sample correlation (0.85-0.997).
  • LLM agents, equipped with tools, catalogued dataset references across thousands of PubMed Central articles and demonstrated the ability to identify semantically similar studies and synthesize findings through meta-analysis.
• Knowledge boundary probing and demand-guided intervention for LLM-based power system code generation
  • A deployment-time workflow for LLM-based power system code generation significantly boosts scalar-match accuracy by 32–56 percentage points after up to three repair rounds compared to an unassisted first pass.
  • Engineering review confirmed that 88% of outputs from the full workflow correctly performed the requested analysis, compared to 66% for plain repair, indicating improved reliability for critical applications.
• Large Language Models for Code Generation from Multilingual Prompts: A Curated Benchmark and a Study on Code Quality
  • Prompting in Chinese consistently led to better performance in Python code generation on the CoderEval benchmark, challenging the assumption that English prompts yield superior results.
  • The study found that non-English prompts generally do not reduce code quality across size, complexity, and static-analysis metrics; Hindi prompts, however, showed riskier outputs compared to others.
• An explainable and leakage-aware machine learning model for early risk stratification of radioiodine-refractory differentiated thyroid cancer: development and single-center geographic external validation
  • A random forest model, using baseline variables, achieved robust external discrimination for early RAIR-DTC risk (AUC 0.892, PR-AUC 0.597, sensitivity 0.778, specificity 0.798).
  • SHAP analysis identified age ≥55 years, TERT promoter mutation, vascular invasion, initial stimulated thyroglobulin (sTg), and extrathyroidal extension (ETE) as the dominant contributors to RAIR-DTC risk.

KNOWLEDGE GRAPH GROWTH

Today, the knowledge graph continues its expansion, reflecting dynamic growth in AI research. The graph now encompasses a total of 1305 papers, 5844 authors, 3258 concepts, 2546 problems, 16 topics, 2009 methods, 479 datasets, 309 institutions, and 40 news items. Today's ingestion of 500 new papers and 1161 new concepts significantly contributed to this growth, adding numerous nodes and edges across all categories. This influx of new information is steadily increasing the density and interconnectedness of the graph, particularly highlighting the relationships between emerging agentic AI architectures, domain-specific applications in medicine and software engineering, and the challenges of explainability and robustness.

AI INDUSTRY NEWS & LAB WATCH

No significant AI industry news beyond research papers was retrieved today by the AI News Agent. However, the academic and lab-specific research highlights indicate a strong focus on practical deployments and agentic system development.

Lab Research Highlights:

• The work on "Knowledge boundary probing and demand-guided intervention for LLM-based power system code generation" from undisclosed labs showcases efforts to enhance the reliability of LLMs in critical infrastructure coding. This aligns with industry demand for robust AI integration into high-stakes environments, addressing the specific "API-knowledge boundary" issue previously identified. The reported 32-56 percentage point boost in scalar-match accuracy and 88% correct analysis rate highlight a focus on practical, measurable improvements in LLM engineering.
• Research leading to "Plug-and-Play Dramaturge: A Divide-and-Conquer Approach for Iterative Narrative Script Refinement via Collaborative LLM Agents" demonstrates ongoing investment in sophisticated AI for creative content generation and refinement. This points to labs exploring agentic systems for complex, subjective tasks, with a focus on hierarchical control to maintain global coherence, which is a key challenge for direct LLM applications in creative fields.
• The development of the "Curated Multilingual Code Generation Dataset" and associated study from labs including GPT-4o mini, DeepSeek, and Claude contributors, indicates a strong industry and academic push towards multilingual support and quality assurance in code-generating LLMs. This directly addresses global market needs and fairness concerns, showing a move beyond English-centric development.

SOURCES & METHODOLOGY

Today's intelligence report was compiled using data retrieved from a diverse set of academic and research sources. A total of 500 papers were ingested. The primary data sources included OpenAlex, arXiv, DBLP, CrossRef, Papers With Code, and various AI lab blogs. Deduplication efforts resulted in a clean set of unique papers for analysis. No significant pipeline issues, such as failed fetches or rate limits, were encountered during the data collection process, ensuring comprehensive coverage for today's report.