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Ruthenium‐Catalyzed Nitrile‐Acrylate Reductive Coupling by 2‐Propanol: Synthesis of Enantioenriched β‐Amino Esters

ABSTRACT Using a ruthenium catalyst derived from RuHCl(CO)(PPh 3 ) 3 and Cy‐BIPHEP, 2‐propanol‐mediated reductive coupling of phenyl acrylate with aromatic or aliphatic nitriles occurs to form α,β‐unsaturated β‐amino esters. Although the reaction products, which incorporate acycl...

A comparative “report card” wellbeing assessment of 22 countries in the Global Flourishing Study

When evaluating how countries are faring, there is a widespread tendency to rely on single metrics or indices, whether objective (e.g., GDP) or subjective (e.g., life evaluation). However, flourishing is multidimensional, and societies invariably do better in some ways and less s...

Baskets and Beauty: Femininity, Governance, and the Wayland Baptist Flying Queens in Mid-Twentieth Century American Sport

The Wayland Baptist College Flying Queens stand as one of the most successful yet historically overlooked women’s basketball programmes. In fact, this juggernaut programme dominated the Amateur Athletic Union during the 1950s. Drawing on newspapers, institutional records, player...

Inverse scattering in biological samples via beam propagation

Multiple scattering limits optical imaging in thick biological samples by scrambling sample-specific information. Physics-based inverse-scattering methods aim to computationally recover this information, often using non-convex optimization to reconstruct the scatter-corrected sam...

Little Red Dots host Black Hole Stars: A unified family of gas-reddened AGN revealed by JWST/NIRSpec spectroscopy

Abstract We construct and characterise a sample of 146 little red dots (LRDs) across 2.0 < z < 9.3, selecting all sources with v-shaped UV-optical continua from JWST NIRSpec/PRISM spectra and compact morphologies in NIRCam/F444W imaging. We show that LRD continuum spectra are wel...

Survival of the Flattest: Teams with Low (But Not High) Status Differentiation Turn Failure into Success by Adding High-Status Members

Most prior research on teams’ responses to failure treats teams as closed systems. However, after failures, teams may seek to improve performance by bringing in new members. Adopting a teams-as-open-systems perspective, we test which teams are more willing to add high-status memb...

Uncovering the Associations between Human Big Five Personality Traits and Built Environment Characteristics from Street View Imagery

Human–environment interactions, a classic topic in geography, suggest that individuals and their environments might shape each other. Yet the specific mechanisms underlying these interactions regarding human personality traits have not been explored. This study examines the assoc...

Using visible-near infrared light to measure temperature during selective laser flash sintering of yttria stabilized zirconia conducted with an alternating electric field

Selective laser flash sintering (SLFS) is emerging as a promising route for binder-free additive manufacturing of ceramics. Monitoring local temperatures during SLFS allows correlations between processing variables and the temperatures required for SLFS. This study demonstrates a...

Dissociable Roles of Primary Motor and Supplementary Motor Cortex in Shaping the Neural Drive to Muscle

Abstract The primary motor cortex (M1) and supplementary motor area (SMA) are critical for motor execution and planning, yet their distinct causal contributions to modulating the neural drive to muscles remain incompletely understood. To dissociate their roles, we applied inhibit...

Changes in Emergency Department Pediatric Readiness, Inpatient Services, and Excess Child Deaths

Importance Emergency department (ED) pediatric readiness and pediatric inpatient services have changed over time in many hospitals, but the impact of these changes on pediatric outcomes is unclear. Objective To evaluate pediatric mortality associated with changes to ED pediatric...

Ultra-compact plasma photocathode in a hybrid wakefield accelerator

Abstract Plasma-based particle accelerators, realized by driving plasma waves with either an intense laser pulse or particle beam, offer accelerating fields orders of magnitude higher than conventional accelerators. This enables sources of highly relativistic electron beams with...

The Serious Business of Political Humor

When one starts opining on political communication, hearers may anticipate a dry discourse about other dry discourses. Perhaps there’s a logic to this, because politics involves very serious matter...

Accurate and Efficient Data‐Driven Partitioned Scheme for Coupled Heterogeneous Numerical Models

ABSTRACT Heterogeneous numerical models (HNMs) combine conventional discretization modules such as finite elements with nonconventional data‐driven and reduced‐order modules. HNMs can improve computational efficiency and enable simulations of multi‐physics systems in which one or...

Beyond income: financial hardship as a pathway from socioeconomic disadvantage to depression among middle and older cancer survivors

BACKGROUND: Depression disproportionately affects older cancer survivors with fewer socioeconomic resources, yet the mechanisms underlying this disparity remain under-explored. Guided by Fundamental Cause Theory, this study examined whether financial hardship mediates the relatio...

Curvature-induced smectic-C order of tangentially anchored hard spherocylinders on a sphere with a rigidly locked director field

We study the strict locked-orientation limit of hard spherocylinders on a sphere, in which the rod axes are rigidly locked to a prescribed tangential director field. The bulk hard-rod phase diagram contains no smectic-C (Sm-C) phase, so any coherent tilt found here is curvature-i...

Opening editorial for the BMC Anesthesiology collection: recent advances in anesthesia for congenital cardiac diseases

Congenital cardiac anesthesia has evolved substantially over recent decades, contributing to improving outcomes and survival for patients with congenital heart disease (CHD). BMC Anesthesiology has initiated a new Collection, Recent Advances in Anesthesia for Congenital Cardiac D...

From Structural Inequalities to Labor Precarity: Adoption of Digital and AI Tools in Latin American Journalism

While inequalities in technological access and use have been widely documented, few studies have examined their link to labor precarity and social inequality in journalism in the Global South. This article analyzes this relationship through a multilevel study of Worlds of Journal...

Impact ofCO2 Inherent Solubility on AqueousNanobubble Dispersion and Its Oil Displacement

Abstract High-pressure aqueous nanobubble (NB) dispersions contain gaseous species in two modes: a cluster of bubbles and molecular dissolution in the external aqueous phase. The presence of small bubbles enables supersaturation of the aqueous phase, with both modes collectively...

Enhancement of cytokine-mediated beta-cell apoptosis by free fatty acids

Type 1 diabetes (T1D) results from dysfunction and loss of the insulin-producing pancreatic β cells. The body’s lipid metabolism is strongly regulated during this process but there is a need to understand how this regulation contributes to the β-cell death. Here, we investigated...

Serotonin Transporterand Organic Cation Transporter3 Contribute to Basolateral Amygdala Serotonin Clearance and RecentFear Memory Recall

Abstract Converging evidence implicates dysregulation of serotonin in emotion-related psychiatric disorders. Leading pharmacotherapies for such disorders, including general anxiety and posttraumatic stress disorders, target the serotonin transporter (SERT); yet, selective seroton...