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Virtual reality (VR) can enrich neuropsychological testing, yet the ergonomic trade-offs of its input modes remain under-examined. Seventy-seven healthy volunteers-young (19-29 y) and middle-aged (35-56 y)-completed a VR Trail-Making Test…
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This paper introduces TIPS: Threat Actor Informed Prioritization using SecEncoder, a specialized language model for security. TIPS combines the strengths of both encoder and decoder language models to detect and prioritize compromised…