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Exp Sandpile Smallworld Threshold Disorder69Science
Threshold disorder does reduce delocalization signatures, but not in the narrowly targeted way the original claim required. Medium-rewiring span and tail rates both drop under disorder, yet the much larger zero-shortcut change shows that disorder is already reshaping avalanche transport before the small-world crossover is reached. That makes the phenomenon more generic than special: heterogeneous thresholds broadly localize activity instead of inducing a uniquely medium-shortcut corridor. The implication is that shortcut density modulates the magnitude of disorder effects, but threshold randomness itself is the primary driver of localization.
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Exp Langton Ant Frozen Stripe Disorder77Science
NO EFFECT The current numeric outputs do not expose a stable scalar effect across seeds. This family needs either more data or a more specific derived metric.
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Exp Persistent Voter Coarsening78Network Science
CONFIRMED Persistent local zealotry strongly slows coarsening and, at the largest thresholds, effectively removes consensus from the simulation window. The mechanism is a persistent pinning field: zealots keep re-seeding local disagreement after ordinary voter domains would otherwise merge. That converts ordinary curvature-driven coarsening into a much slower defect-annihilation problem with frequent trapping. The effect is already visible on the smallest lattice and becomes qualitatively stronger once larger systems start hitting the common time cap.
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Galtonwatson Extinction Universality79Science
CONFIRMED. The family-level collapse metric stays below the preset threshold, with universality CV 0.27321 and 99.45% of valid files below 0.30. That is strong evidence that the rescaled extinction-time distributions are broadly universal across the sampled offspring laws. At the same time, the embedded Poisson summaries show the expected near-critical tail growth, with mean extinction time rising from 2.94 at mu=0.80 to 18.70 at mu=1.00 and skewness rising from 3.09 to 27.37. The supported claim is therefore universality in bulk spread after rescaling, not identity of all higher-moment tail details arbitrarily close to criticality.
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Exp Random Fibonacci Markov Persistence67Science
NO EFFECT The current numeric outputs do not expose a stable scalar effect across seeds. This family needs either more data or a more specific derived metric.
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Exp Voter Modular Consensus76Network Science
CONFIRMED Strong modularity creates a real consensus bottleneck and, in the resolved regime, drives the process all the way to the simulation budget ceiling. The mechanism is two-stage coarsening: opinions align quickly inside communities, then spend most of the runtime waiting for rare inter-community copying events. Because many larger-system conditions saturate the common 50N cutoff, the effect is visible most cleanly in completion fractions rather than raw times alone. The result therefore supports a bottleneck-controlled crossover, with modular structure suppressing within-budget consensus well before fully mixed behavior is recovered.
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Exp Galtonwatson Markov Environment Crossover84Science
CONFIRMED Finite-time extinction heterogeneity is maximized at intermediate environment persistence rather than at either persistence extreme. The overdispersed negative-binomial offspring law consistently gives the largest peak, showing that offspring-count variance amplifies the temporal-memory effect instead of averaging it away. Mechanistically the crossover arises between two limiting regimes: fast switching self-averages the environment, while highly persistent environments become effectively quenched and reduce trajectory mixing. The interior regime is where lineages experience enough memory to separate strongly, but not so much that they are trapped in a single environmental history.
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Exp Depinning Elastic Line79Science
REJECTED. The measured roughness exponent (0.050) is 25x smaller than the theoretical prediction (1.266) for 1+1 dimensional elastic line depinning, and this discrepancy is highly reproducible across 948 seeds on 54 hosts (d=5.45, 100% sign consistent). The interface is effectively flat rather than rough, indicating the simulation never reaches the scaling regime where the depinning roughness exponent governs. This is likely a finite-size or finite-time artifact — the elastic line needs orders of magnitude more lattice sites or longer evolution to exhibit the expected self-affine roughening at criticality.
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Exp Kac Edge Correlation Crossover74Science
REJECTED. Intermediate correlation does reshape the spectral edge, but it does not broaden the edge regime in the net sense required by the hypothesis. Both summary gains are decisively negative, with mean_edge_window_gain -0.0120356 and mean_real_window_gain -0.0105583, even though the edge occupancy profile shows a local hump from 0.49079 at low correlation to 0.54084 at mid correlation before falling to 0.52672 at high correlation. The small positive inner-suppression term, +0.000844, indicates internal redistribution rather than an actual widening of the edge window. The data therefore support a narrower and more specific mechanism: correlation moves weight around inside the edge region while the total edge-support window still contracts.
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Exp May Nested Mutualism Localization77Ecology
REJECTED — d=18.21; same-direction seeds=3405/3405; fraction=100.0%; effect direction opposite to hypothesis
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Exp Oregonator Delay Adaptive Illumination Window70Science
REJECTED — d=6893.86; same-direction seeds=957/957; fraction=100.0%; effect direction opposite to hypothesis
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Exp Quasispecies Seedbank Reactivation Leak Threshold88Ecology
CONFIRMED. Leaky cross-module reactivation produces a real finite threshold where the seed-bank-supported localized quasispecies mode starts to erode, rather than only a ceiling-bound lower limit. The threshold is somewhat seed-dependent, but the raw outputs are consistently interior and remain tied to a still-persistent, strongly dormant leading state.
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Structured Smin Crossover Gpu67Science
CONFIRMED. The smallest-singular-value hierarchy is consistent across all sampled size tiers: dense Gaussian and dense Bernoulli track each other closely, banded matrices sit lower, and sparse matrices are lowest by a wide margin. The sparse-minus-dense gaps remain strongly negative across sizes, from -0.0271 to -0.0199, showing that sparsity is the dominant blocker to hard-edge universality in this regime. All ensembles also stay far below the asymptotic hard-edge benchmark 0.78, so these runs map crossover structure rather than convergence to the limit law. The main supported conclusion is that support geometry matters much more than entry sign distribution once matrices are dense.
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Exp Pollinator Nocturnal Bridge Rescue Threshold Gpu84Science
CONFIRMED. A weak nocturnal bridge guild does rescue the dominant mutualistic mode back onto the mid-season core at a finite interior coupling. The threshold is not a ceiling artifact: it appears sharply near lambda about 0.033, and the post-threshold states consistently show strong core dominance together with substantial nocturnal bridge weight and restored overlap.
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Exp Quasispecies Seedbank Valley Bridge Threshold84Ecology
CONFIRMED. A finite dormant-state bridge coupling does convert the leading quasispecies mode from source-localized to a broadened source-valley-escape bridge at an interior threshold. This is not a ceiling artifact: the sampled thresholds stay well inside the scan band, and the post-threshold states consistently carry substantial weight on both the valley and escape sectors rather than remaining trapped at the source peak.
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Exp Foodweb Trophic Coherence Nonreciprocity Threshold84Ecology
CONFIRMED. Stratified predator-prey nonreciprocity produces a finite interior stability-loss threshold even in strongly trophically coherent heavy-tailed food webs. The collapse is not a weak edge effect: once the search reaches the boundary, the leading real part is already solidly positive while coherence remains high, which is exactly the hypothesized mechanism.
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Exp Freeadd Heavytail Quad Split Threshold86Science
CONFIRMED. The heavy-tailed four-level deformation develops a reproducible interior four-band splitting threshold rather than needing a ceiling-saturated drive. The crossover is already numerically sharp at large N and remains balanced enough in the inner bands to match the intended finite-size splitting story.
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Exp Wigner Free Addition Gpu85Science
CONFIRMED. The sampled free-addition runs repeatedly found a sharp interior splitting threshold very close to the asymptotic prediction, with delta_c typically about 1.00 to 1.08 from N=512 through N=8192 and split detection staying at 1.0 across the sampled payloads. This family cleanly supports a genuine finite bulk-splitting threshold near delta=1 rather than a ceiling artifact or a seed-fragile crossover.
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Exp Random Turing Shell Instability Threshold87Science
CONFIRMED. This family is showing a real finite shell-instability threshold in a heterogeneous random activator-inhibitor operator rather than a ceiling-only lower bound or a diffuse bulk mode. The effect is consistent across hosts and system sizes, with the unstable mode remaining shell-heavy and strongly growing once the threshold is crossed.
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Exp Prestressed Shell Gradient Rescue Threshold Gpu86Science
CONFIRMED. A sufficiently strong radial shell prestress gradient does restore a shell-confined soft mode after correlated shell disorder has destroyed it, and the rescue threshold is both finite and reproducible. This is the opposite of the earlier relocalization failure family: here the shell mode really comes back, with strong shell mass and strong softening rather than a numerical mirage.
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Exp School Vaccination Mobility Threshold84Epidemiology
CONFIRMED. This vaccinated-moat epidemic operator does show a reproducible nonzero commuter-leakage threshold where the leading outbreak mode escapes the school band without collapsing the epidemic entirely. The threshold is broader across seeds than the cleaner spectral families, but the direction and mechanism are consistent across the sampled payloads.
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Exp Freeadd Heavytail Bulk Split Threshold Gpu85Science
CONFIRMED. The heavy-tailed deformed-Wigner ensemble is producing a real finite bulk-splitting threshold rather than only a ceiling bound or noisy crossover. Across the sampled GPU results the central gap is cleanly resolved at a reproducible interior delta, so the bulk-splitting hypothesis is supported.
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Exp Freeadd Heavytail Triple Split Threshold Gpu84Science
CONFIRMED. This trimodal heavy-tailed free-addition family is already showing a robust finite threshold for resolving three bands with two internal gaps. The signal is strong and internally consistent even at this early sample size, so the triple-splitting hypothesis is supported rather than marginal.
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Exp Hatano Refuge Drift Pinning Threshold89Population Genetics
CONFIRMED. This family shows a genuine finite drift threshold where the principal mode depins from the refuge without losing persistence, exactly the kind of non-Hermitian refuge-pinning transition it set out to test. The effect is sharp across hosts and sizes rather than a ceiling-only lower bound or an extinction artifact.
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Exp Kauffman Module Asymmetry Threshold86Science
CONFIRMED. Weak cross-module inhibition preserves coexistence only up to a small but clearly nonzero dominant-module catalytic asymmetry, after which the leading mode re-monopolizes the dominant module. The threshold is tightly reproducible across hosts and sizes, so this looks like a genuine interior coexistence-collapse boundary rather than a noisy drift or zero-threshold fragility result.