RAPTOR

RAPTOR+: A Visually Grounded Vision-Language Framework to Improve Clinical Trust and Auditability in Automated Cancer Referral Processing

arXiv:2605.25956v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Urgent suspected colorectal cancer (CRC) referrals create operational bottlenecks because semi-structured clinical documents often require manual review and transcription. The original RAPTOR system used Large Language Models for structured extraction but relied on a separate OCR stage, making it vulnerable to handwriting, layout variation, and loss of visual evidence linkage. We present RAPTOR+, a multimodal extension that uses...

This newly discovered raptor may have hunted like a giant heron

Bug 1950764: Work Around Crash on Intel Raptor Lake CPU

Girl power: Red-shouldered hawk parents invest more in female offspring

Girl power: Red-shouldered hawk parents invest more in female offspring Stephanie Baum Scientific Editor Robert Egan Associate Editor A new study published in the Journal of Raptor Research, titled "Factors Influencing Nestling Sex Ratios of Suburban and Rural Red-Shouldered Hawks, 2004–2016," finds that hawk parents prioritize producing female offspring when conditions are optimal. This means that higher quality territories could result in more females, offering biologists clues about...

Vultures on the rise: Study provides evidence of population increase and delayed migration in western North America

Vultures on the rise: Study provides evidence of population increase and delayed migration in western North America Sadie Harley Scientific Editor Andrew Zinin Lead Editor Turkey vultures (Cathartes aura) may not be beautiful, but they are certainly adaptable. A new study published in the Journal of Raptor Research, titled "Turkey Vulture Aggregations at a Water Barrier Provide Evidence of Later Migration and Increasing Population Size Over 25 Years," suggests that turkey vultures in western...

Chunking German Legal Code

Announce Type: replace Abstract: This paper investigates chunking strategies for retrieval-augmented generation on German statutory law, using the German Civil Code as a structured benchmark corpus. We implement and compare a range of segmentation approaches, including structural units (sections, subsections, sentences, propositions), fixed-size windows, contextual chunking, semantic clustering, Lumber-style chunking, and RAPTOR-based hierarchical retrieval. All methods are evaluated on a...

Heron-like, fish-eating dinosaur from 70 million years ago discovered in Argentina

A new raptor-like dinosaur from some 70 million years ago that ate fish and behaved like modern herons has been unearthed from southern Patagonia. The new species, which has been named Kank australis, was identified based on the discovery of fossil remains including teeth, vertebrae, and toe bones.

Twilight hunt reveals falcon feasting on unusual prey at Greek lagoon

Twilight hunt reveals falcon feasting on unusual prey at Greek lagoon Sadie Harley Scientific Editor Robert Egan Associate Editor Falcons are lauded for their speed and agility. The Eurasian Hobby (Falco subbuteo), skilled at snagging birds and insects out of the air, is no exception. However, during twilight on one day in October, researcher Apostolos Christopoulos observed several hobbies feeding on something else in a protected wetland in Greece—bats from the genus Pipistrellus.

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Chinese Velociraptor cousin had a taste for birds

Chinese Velociraptor cousin had a taste for birds WASHINGTON: About 120 million years ago in what is now northwestern China, many kinds of birds flocked to a lakeside ecosystem. This dense avian population would have offered a smorgasbord for a small and opportunistic carnivorous dinosaur.