Austrian Academy of Sciences

Rendeiro lab manual

The Rendeiro Lab Manual is a guide to the operations, culture, and best practices of the Rendeiro lab at CeMM. It covers onboarding, the code of conduct, communication, computational infrastructure, project planning and execution, record keeping, data archiving, learning resource...

Towards local and compositional measurements in quantum field theory

A universal framework for the joint measurement of multiple localized observables in quantum field theory satisfying spacetime locality and compositionality is still lacking. We present an approach to the problem that is based on the one hand on the positive formalism, an axiomat...

Bony labyrinth taxonomic identification and long-term evolution of livestock in the Southwest and Central Asia

Abstract Southwest and Central Asia were pivotal regions for the domestication and dispersal of domestic herbivores. Here we investigate long-term variation in bony labyrinth morphology of domestic bovids (sheep, goats and cattle) across the last 10 000 years. We focused on the o...

Integrative characterization of host–microbiome-diet axes during early-life development of the murine gut

Abstract Background Early-life development of the gut microbiome plays a critical role in shaping host physiology. However, a comprehensive understanding of how diet, microbial community assembly, functional capacity, and host intestinal maturation axes evolve and coordinate over...

Allegiance in the Eye of the Beholder: The Khivan Submission of 1700

Abstract In 1700, a petition submitted in Moscow by the envoy Dostak Bahādur on behalf of Shāh Niyāz Khān of Khiva was interpreted by Russian officials as a request to enter the subjecthood of Peter I. Historians have generally explained this episode either as a formal but politi...

An information-theoretic proof of the Planckian bound for thermalization

Abstract It has been conjectured that the speed of thermalization is universally constrained by a Planckian timescale, τ Pl = ℏ /( k B T ), determined solely by the reduced Planck constant ℏ, Boltzmann’s constant ( k B ) and the temperature ( T ). However, a general and model-ind...

From the Shire to the Archive and back again: A journey to lasting data

Creating, processing and analysing research data marks the beginning of a journey, which results not only in new knowledge but should also produce lasting and sustainable data in accordance with the FAIR Guiding Principles. Yet for many researchers, navigating the vast landscape...

From the Shire to the Archive and back again: A journey to lasting data

Creating, processing and analysing research data marks the beginning of a journey, which results not only in new knowledge but should also produce lasting and sustainable data in accordance with the FAIR Guiding Principles. Yet for many researchers, navigating the vast landscape...

Anomalous hardening of CrMnFeCoNi high-entropy alloy deformed by high-pressure torsion

Abstract The CrMnFeCoNi high-entropy alloy (HEA) was severely deformed by high-pressure torsion (HPT) at temperatures ranging from 77 K to 673 K. Phase stability, microstructure and texture were investigated by diffraction of synchrotron radiation. At low HPT temperatures, the lo...

Conformational asymmetry of replicated human chromosomes

Abstract DNA replication creates two sister chromatids that must acquire specific three-dimensional conformations to support genome function and stability. This organization is largely mediated by cohesin complexes, which extrude intra-chromosomal loops and link two chromatids, t...

High contrast transmission and Fabry-Pérot-type resonances

It is well known, in the acoustic model, that highly contrasting transmission leads to the so-called Minnaert subwavelength resonance. In this work, we show that such highly contrasting transmissions create not only one resonance but a family of infinite resonances located near t...

Pragmatic Variation in Greeting and Farewell Formulae in Rural Austria

Greeting and farewell formulae are highly conventionalized routines that index social relations, regional norms and situational formality. This paper investigates pragmatic variation in greetings and farewells in rural Austria, focusing on age, region, setting and prosodic design...

Clustering thermograms of Schubert autographs based on chain and laid line features

Abstract We propose a novel approach towards the automated clustering of handmade paper. Specifically, we acquired a large dataset of thermographic images and developed a feature extraction and automated clustering method to identify leaves of paper made with the same mold. Our m...

VIA1 is a conserved regulator of thylakoid membrane integrity that acts through VIPP1

Abstract Thylakoid membranes are indispensable for oxygenic photosynthesis, yet the mechanisms that protect these membranes from photooxidative damage remain poorly understood. By screening previously uncharacterized proteins induced during the chloroplast unfolded protein respon...

Histological aging signatures for monitoring tissue-specific aging and disease

Aging is the primary risk factor for chronic disease and is characterized by profound structural and architectural remodeling of human tissues. Here, we present a comprehensive assessment of these changes using 25,712 whole-slide histopathological images from 40 tissue types acro...

Widespread thermophilization but weak link to climate warming in Europe’s summit plant communities

Abstract Recent changes in alpine vegetation are often attributed to climate warming, particularly community composition shifts towards more warmth-associated species, or thermophilization. Here we assess the link between thermophilization and warming across 53 European mountain...

Review of Particle Physics *

The Review summarizes much of particle physics and cosmology. Using data from previous editions, plus 3,200 new measurements from 903 papers, we list, evaluate, and average measured properties of gauge bosons and the recently discovered Higgs boson, leptons, quarks, mesons, and b...