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Atenolol or Bisoprolol after Myocardial Infarction without Recorded Heart Failure

BACKGROUND: Beta-blockers are a cornerstone of therapy following myocardial infarction. The effect of different β-blockers on the outcomes of patients without heart failure after myocardial infarction is not well-studied. METHODS: This observational cohort study used administrati...

Maximum Number of Requests on a Path With a Given Grooming Factor

ABSTRACT We give an optimal solution to the Maximum All Request Path Grooming (MARPG) problem motivated by a traffic grooming application and by its interest in computing lower bounds on the cutwidth of a graph. We are given a directed path on vertices and a positive integer capa...

Autoimmune Comorbidities as Modifiers of Phenotypic Heterogeneity in Facioscapulohumeral Dystrophy

ABSTRACT Objective Facioscapulohumeral dystrophy type 1 (FSHD1) shows clinical heterogeneity that is only partly explained by D4Z4 repeat unit (RU) size. Although immune and inflammatory mechanisms may contribute to disease variability, the prevalence and clinical impact of autoi...

Settlement Dynamics and Coastal Change in the Arabian Gulf Neolithic: Wādī aḍ‐Ḍubayʿān (Qatar)

ABSTRACT This paper presents the results of archaeological investigations (2009–2014) at Wādī aḍ‐Ḍubayʿān (QNHER 141), a stratified littoral Neolithic site on the northwestern coast of Qatar. The site documents occupation from the late sixth to the late fourth millennium BCE , co...

A floating body with no preferred orientation: An experimental realization

We present a simple experimental realization of a two-dimensional floating body that can remain in equilibrium in any orientation. This system is based on a class of shapes known as Zindler curves, which possess the remarkable geometric property that all chords dividing their are...

Cognitive Aging Patterns in Autism: Parallel, Accelerated, or Safeguarded?

Purpose Research in autism has historically focused on childhood, leaving cognitive aging in autistic adults poorly understood. This study investigated whether cognitive aging in autism follows similar or distinct patterns compared to non-autistic adults. We also explored how sub...

Another regularizing property of the 2D eikonal equation

A weak solution of the two-dimensional eikonal equation amounts to a vector field m:Ω⊂R2→R2 such that |m|=1 a.e. and divm=0 in D′(Ω). It is known that, if m has some low regularity, e.g., continuous or W1/3,3, then m is automatically more regular: locally Lipschitz outside a loca...

ERGA-BGE Reference Genome: Corema album ((L.) D. Don, 1830) - the Portuguese crowberry, endemic to the Iberian Peninsula.

Corema album is a perennial, dioecious shrub endemic to the Atlantic coast of the Iberian Peninsula and the Azores. It inhabits coastal dune ecosystems from Galicia to the Strait of Gibraltar, where it plays an important ecological role. The goal of this study was to assemble and...

On the Cl2 plasma etching mechanisms of AlN micropillars: Carrier wafer impact

Plasma etching of aluminum nitride (AlN) is a critical step in the fabrication of advanced optoelectronic and electronic devices, particularly deep-ultraviolet light-emitting diodes based on nanowire architectures. In research and development, small AlN samples are commonly mount...

Convergence of Explicit Runge–Kutta Discontinuous Galerkin Approximations of the First-Order Form of Maxwell’s Equations with Low Regularity Solutions

Abstract. We establish a convergence result for the approximation of low-regularity solutions to time-dependent PDE systems that have an involution structure similar to Maxwell’s equations and the linear wave equations. The approximation is based on an explicit Runge–Kutta (ERK)...

The Cold-Air Outbreaks in the Marine Boundary Layer Experiment model-observation intercomparison project (COMBLE-MIP) – Part 1: Model specification, observational constraints, and preliminary findings

Models struggle to represent the coupled microphysical, turbulent and radiative processes within widespread, long-lived marine cold-air outbreak (CAO) cloud fields, contributing to forecast and climate biases. Here we combine ground-based and satellite measurements to initialize...

PRISM with a Pinch of Salt: Simple, Efficient, and Strongly Unforgeable Signatures from Isogenies

Abstract The problem of computing an isogeny of large prime degree from a supersingular elliptic curve of unknown endomorphism ring is assumed to be hard both for classical as well as quantum computers. In this work, we first build a two-round identification protocol whose securi...

The spinorial ball (II): A manipulable qubit at human scale

The spinorial ball is an interactive electronic device that we recently introduced to discuss the origin of spin-1/2 from the representation of the rotation group, without the framework quantum mechanics. Nevertheless, it can also be viewed as a macroscopic visualization of a qua...

New record and description of a male Murina kontumensis (Kon Tum Tube-nosed Bat) from Vietnam

Abstract The Kon Tum Tube-nosed Bat ( Murina kontumensis Son et al. 2015. A new species of the genus Murina (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae) from the Central Highlands of Vietnam with a review of the subfamily Murininae in Vietnam. Acta Chiropterol. 17: 201–232) was described from...

Direct Visualization of a Hydroperoxy Intermediate in Fluorescent Protein Chromophore Maturation in PAmCherry1

Abstract Despite the widespread use of fluorescent proteins in bioimaging, the mechanism of oxidative chromophore maturation to form the tyrosine Cα═Cβ double bond remains unclear. In the photoactivatable fluorescent protein PAmCherry1, this double bond has not yet been formed pr...

Genome-wide analysis of social behaviour across social domains, reporters and developmental stages: a meta-regression approach

Abstract Social behaviour is a heritable trait linked to well-being and mental health, yet it varies across social context, including social domains, informants and development, which may shape its underlying genomic architecture. Here, we conducted a genome-wide meta-regression...

Phosphorus limits the growth of bacterial and eukaryotic primary producers in recently deglaciated High Arctic soils

Glaciers are receding at unprecedented rates worldwide, exposing large areas of barren sediment that are quickly colonized by microbes. Nutrient availability is a critical driver of early ecosystem succession, but in the High Arctic its role has remained uncertain. This limits me...

Construction and characterisation of the DarkSide-20k veto silicon photo-multiplier tiles

Abstract Silicon photo-multipliers (SiPMs) are state-of-the-art sensors capable of detecting a single photoelectron under cryogenic conditions, with potentially lower radioactivity than widely used photomultiplier tubes. The DarkSide-20k experiment, designed to perform direct dar...

Probabilistic Characterisation of Service Lifetime of Ageing Infrastructures

Abstract Ageing infrastructures are increasingly exposed to deterioration mechanisms related to time, environmental conditions, and increasing operational demands. Ensuring their safety and serviceability therefore requires continuous monitoring and reliable methods to assess the...

Overcoming Sampling Limitations Using Machine-Learned Interatomic Potentials: The Case of Water-in-Salt Electrolytes

Abstract Machine-learned interatomic potentials hold the promise to enable the modeling of highly concentrated liquids over meaningful time scales, far from reach for current ab initio electronic structure methods. Here we evaluate the performances of various MACE potentials in m...