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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...
- BiologyOpen access
Peptide nucleic acids (PNAs) are a promising platform targeting disease-associated microRNAs due to their high binding affinity, excellent sequence specificity and resistance to enzymatic degradation. However, their therapeutic application is often limited by inefficient cellular...
- Engineering & TechnologyOpen access
Multi-Channel Neighborhood-Constrained Variational Mode Decomposition
In many multi-channel engineering problems, the information relevant to the task is concentrated in one channel, while the other information plays an auxiliary role. In forecasting, the quantity to be predicted is the primary source of information and the covariates support it; i...
- AI & ComputingOpen access
AIDeR: Precision-Oriented Author Name Matching for FAIR Scholarly Metadata Enrichment at Scale
Matching personal names across heterogeneous bibliographic datasets is a fundamental yet challenging string matching problem: variations in formatting, cultural conventions, abbreviations, and transliteration make it difficult to reliably identify when two name strings refer to t...
- AI & ComputingOpen access
AIDeR: Precision-Oriented Author Name Matching for FAIR Scholarly Metadata Enrichment at Scale
Matching personal names across heterogeneous bibliographic datasets is a fundamental yet challenging string matching problem: variations in formatting, cultural conventions, abbreviations, and transliteration make it difficult to reliably identify when two name strings refer to t...
- Materials & EnergyOpen access
Variance reduction for forces and pressure in variational Monte Carlo
We present simple and practical strategies to reduce the variance of Monte Carlo estimators. Our focus is on variational Monte Carlo calculations of atomic forces and pressure in electronic systems, although we show that the underlying ideas apply more broadly to other observable...
- Materials & EnergyOpen access
Anomalous Transport in the Fermi-Pasta-Ulam-Tsingou Model: A Review and Open Problems
Abstract This review provides an up-to-date account of energy transport in Fermi-Pasta-Ulam-Tsingou (FPUT) chains, a key testbed for nonequilibrium statistical physics. We discuss the transition from the historical puzzle of thermalization to the discovery of anomalous heat trans...
- BiologyOpen access
Abstract Adipose tissue plasticity, sustained by the recruitment and differentiation of adipocyte precursor cells (APCs), is a key determinant of metabolic health. Failure of this adaptive program, rather than fat mass per se, represents an early contributing factor in the progre...
- Climate & EnvironmentOpen access
Abstract Marine ecosystems are increasingly shaped by the combined effects of multiple environmental and anthropogenic stressors, generating non-linear, spatially heterogeneous patterns of risks to ecosystem functioning. The Baltic Sea represents a paradigmatic system where geogr...
- Health & MedicineOpen access
Insulin resistance is a hallmark of type 2 diabetes and several other metabolic diseases. However, efforts to improve insulin resistance are hindered by the biological complexity inherent to insulin action, as well as conceptual and methodological limitations to date. In Septembe...
- Materials & EnergyOpen access
On the single-field formulation in magnetostatics
We systematically discuss the equivalence of two variational formulations of magnetostatics, in terms of magnetization and magnetic field, on the one hand, and the single-field formulation using only magnetic induction. To demonstrate that this link is stable also when the magnet...
- Engineering & TechnologyOpen access
User-defined specifications of a cable yarder for the Mediterranean mountains
Cable yarding is the common method for timber extraction on steep terrain, and yet its use in the Mediterranean mountains remains limited despite decades of promotion. Then the question arises whether one is promoting the right equipment to the right audience. To answer that ques...
- Engineering & TechnologyOpen access
Semi‐transparent perovskite solar cells offer a route to agrivoltaics, combining electricity generation with controlled light transmission for crop cultivation. However, conventional perovskite films preferentially absorb blue photons, producing redshifted transmitted spectra tha...
- Engineering & TechnologyOpen access
A novel hybrid mold design to enhance thermal efficiency of injection molding process
Optimizing energy consumption in injection molding is crucial for process sustainability, particularly in thermal energy management. This study presents an innovative hybrid mold design conceived to address three main drivers: 1) reducing the mold thermal-conductive mass; 2) intr...
- Health & MedicineOpen access
Background/Objectives: The current cornerstone for prognostic hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) stratification is the Barcelona Clinic Liver Cancer (BCLC) score, which integrates tumor and liver function staging but lacks tumor biology parameters. Serum tumor biomarkers, such as alp...
- Climate & EnvironmentOpen access
Life generated in the oceans. Human activities rapidly and drastically altered marine environments. Scientists are struggling in defining an effective strategy to assess the anthropogenic impacts into seas and oceans. In fact, marine ecosystems are complex systems, with a multitu...
- AI & ComputingOpen access
Quantum circuits, hypercubeharmonic, and remote networked improvisation: a case study
Abstract Mathematics and theoretical physics not only allow us to investigate musical artworks, but also fuel artistic creativity and imagination. In this paper, we present an artistic framework inspired by mathematics and physics. We describe the HyperCubeHarmonic (HCH), an inte...
- BiologyOpen access
Abstract This one-year study integrates multi-elemental fractionation, physiological, and gene expression analyses to investigate PM retention and plant responses in a nine-species green wall at a high-traffic urban site. A chemical fractionation approach was optimized to discrim...
- BiologyOpen access
Deciphering the genomic signatures of climate vulnerability across 77 sheep breeds
Abstract Among domesticated species, sheep ( Ovis aries ) have achieved a wide geographic distribution due to their mobility, rusticity and ability to adapt to diverse environments and climatic conditions. Here, we characterise the genome-wide diversity of >1,000 sheep representi...
- Climate & Environment
Learning-Based Methods and the Future of Numerical Ocean and Sea-Ice Modeling
The field of operational oceanography is undergoing a significant evolution with the increasing integration of artificial intelligence (AI) methods, which are complementing and, in some cases, redefining traditional numerical modeling approaches. This review explores how AI metho...