Frontier AI developers need an internal audit function.

This article argues that frontier artificial intelligence (AI) developers need an internal audit function. First, it describes the role of internal audit in corporate governance: internal audit evaluates the adequacy and effectiveness of a company's risk management, control, and governance processes. It is organizationally independent from senior management and reports directly to the board of directors, typically its audit committee.

Interstitial or interstitialcy: effect of the cation size on the migration mechanism in NaSICON materials.

Sodium superionic conductors (NaSICONs) with general formula NaMAO have attracted significant attention as solid electrolytes for all solid-state batteries owing to their remarkable room temperature ionic conductivity in the order of 10 S cm. Their flexible structural framework, which allows the incorporation of various aliovalent cations, affects the Na ion transport. However, establishing a straightforward correlation between Na mobility and NaSICON composition proves challenging due to competing influences such as framework alteration and stoichiometric changes of the cation substituents and thus the mobile Na ions.

The origin of high Na ion conductivity in NaZrSiPO NASICON materials.

Due to the high sodium ion conductivity, sodium super ionic conductors (NASICONs) are among the most promising candidates as solid electrolytes in solid state batteries and have therefore gained enormous attention in recent years. Previous experimental and computational investigations show excellent sodium ion conductivity for NaZrSiPO with = 2-2.5.

Anti-Inflammatory Effects of C1q/Tumor Necrosis Factor-Related Protein 3 (CTRP3) in Endothelial Cells.

The C1q/TNF-related protein 3 (CTRP3) represents a pleiotropic adipokine reciprocally associated with obesity and type 2 diabetes mellitus and exhibits anti-inflammatory properties in relation to lipopolysaccharides (LPS)-mediated effects in adipocytes, as well as monocytes/macrophages. Here, we focused on the influence of CTRP3 on LPS-mediated effects in endothelial cells in order to expand the understanding of a possible anti-inflammatory function of CTRP3 in a setting of endotoxemia. An organ- and tissue-specific expression analysis by real-time PCR revealed a considerable Ctrp3 expression in various adipose tissue compartments; however, higher levels were detected in the aorta and in abundantly perfused tissues (bone marrow and the thyroid gland).