Centrale Méditerranée

Monitoring Liquid Concentration Changes in Nanofluidic Channels Using Cross-Grating Wavefront Microscopy

Abstract Optical microscopy that employs intensity measurements of scattered, transmitted, or emitted light is critical to study micro- and nanofluidic systems widely used in, e.g., biology, chemistry, and materials science. Since such fluidic systems often are transparent, simpl...

Mental Health Outcomes Among Transgender People in South Africa During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Cross-Sectional Analysis of Service Disruptions and Social, Structural, and Relational Correlates

Purpose: We examined how sociodemographic, structural, and violence-related factors and disruptions in HIV services and gender-affirming care (GAC: nonmedical supplies, therapy/counseling, medications/hormones, surgeries) were associated with suicidal ideation and moderate/severe...

Collective adsorption of pheromones at the water–air interface

Abstract Understanding the phase behaviour of pheromones and other messaging molecules remains a significant and largely unexplored challenge, even though it plays a central role in chemical communication. Here, we present all-atom molecular dynamics simulations to investigate th...

Ultrafast Micrometric Laser Structuring of Polymer Surfaces for Highly Organized Skeletal Muscle Tissue Modeling

ABSTRACT Engineered surface topographies have proven to be an efficient method to replicate in vitro the architecture of highly organized tissues by controlling the spatial arrangement of cells. In this work, we studied the ability to guide muscle cell development using femtoseco...

JuRa: The Juventas Radar on Hera Mission to Probe Internal Structure of Didymos and Dimorphos Asteroids

Abstract JuRa, the Juventas Radar, is the sounding radar of the Hera/ESA mission on cruise to the asteroid Didymos and its moon, Dimorphos. In 2027, it will, for the first time, do direct observation of the internal structure of an asteroid for the benefit of both science and pla...

Psychometric Properties of the French Version of the Physical Literacy Self-Description (PLSD) Questionnaire Among Children

This study sought to document the psychometric properties of scores on the French Version of the Physical Literacy Self-Description questionnaire. A sample of 191 French-speaking Canadian and French children, aged 5–12 years, participated in this study. Results from an explorator...

The Balbi operational model, a simplified physical model for surface fires. Part I – modelling

Background Previously published versions of the ‘Balbi model’ describing surface fire propagation consist of a set of equations based on simplified conservation laws. Their main equation calculating the fire rate of spread (ROS) relied on an iterative process to account for the e...

Entropy maximization and weak Gibbsianity of quasi-free fermionic states

Abstract In their 1972 study of approach to equilibrium, Lanford and Robinson showed that gauge-invariant quasi-free states of lattice fermions maximize entropy among all translation-invariant states with a fixed two-point function and suggested that the maximizer is unique. In s...

Detection of spiking motifs of arbitrary length in neural activity using bounded synaptic delays

In the context of spiking neural networks, the temporal coding hypothesis is increasingly preferred over the rate coding hypothesis due to its advantages in processing speed and energy efficiency. In temporal coding, synaptic delays are crucial for processing signals with precise...

High‐Detectivity InGaAs/GaAsP Superlattice PIN Photodetector with a Thin Absorber on GaAs substrate for 1100 nm Applications

ABSTRACT III‐V materials exhibit superior optoelectronic properties compared to conventional semiconductors, making them ideal for short‐wavelength infrared (SWIR) photodetectors. These devices are in demand for applications such as telecommunications, LiDAR, and biomedical engin...