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Dissociating task, semantic, and response conflict in cognitive aging: evidence from a low-cognitive control Stroop paradigm

Abstract Cognitive aging is often associated with increased Stroop interference, but it remains unclear whether this reflects a broad decline in inhibitory control or selective impairments in specific conflict-resolution mechanisms. The present study examined age-related differen...

Observation of a supersolid phase in a spin-orbit coupled exciton-polariton Bose-Einstein condensate

In Bose-Einstein condensates, spin-orbit coupling (SOC) produces supersolidity. It is a peculiar state of matter, which, in addition to the superfluid behavior, shows periodic density modulation typical for crystals. Here, we report the fabrication of an original type of optical...

Contraceptive use in women of childbearing age with bipolar disorder

INTRODUCTION: Unplanned pregnancies are frequent in women with bipolar disorder (BD) while perinatal period is associated with a higher risk of relapse. Effective contraception during childbearing age in BD could reduce the risk of unplanned pregnancy and its consequences. The pr...

Early Transition Metal Carbene Complexes as Photocatalysts: Unveiling Dual-Emission and Photo-reactivity

Abstract Photoactive transition metal complexes are playing a pivotal role in synthetic chemistry and application technologies, such as photocatalysis and light-emitting diodes, yet they often depend on precious metals. Early-transition-metal photosensitizers offer a promising, y...

Long-term preservation of early-formed silicate reservoirs in the deep mantle: New insight from 146Sm-142Nd systematics in Hawaiian basalts

Short-lived radiogenic isotope systems provide unique constraints on the preservation of early-formed reservoirs in Earth's mantle. We present the largest high-precision μ 142 Nd dataset for a single hotspot, comprising 55 analyses of 29 shield-stage tholeiitic basalts from the H...

Sensorial and nutritional qualities of muscles from cross‐bred Salers heifers raised on mid‐mountain pasture

Abstract Background This study investigated the effects of crossbreeding, finishing system, and muscle type on carcass characteristics, intramuscular fat (IMF), image‐based IMF estimation, fatty acid composition, and meat quality in beef heifers. Charolais × Salers (C × S) and An...

Measurements of the production of W$$^{\pm }$$ and Z$$^0$$ bosons in pp collisions at $$\sqrt{s} = 13$$ TeV

Abstract Measurements of the production of the W $$^{\pm }$$ ± and Z $$^0$$ 0 bosons at midrapidity in pp collisions at $$\sqrt{s} = 13$$ s = 13 TeV with ALICE at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) are presented. The W $$^{\pm }$$ ± and Z $$^0$$ 0 bosons are detected via their (di)e...

Preventing screen time in children aged 3 to 6: creation of a children's picture book

Context. Screen time for children aged 3–6 years should remain the exception, be limited in duration, and be supervised by an adult. In 2022, French children aged 3–5 years spent an average of 1 hour 22 minutes a day on screens. Activities such as reading, which are beneficial to...

The elongation of Mest transcript into MestXL sustains, but does not initiate, the maternal allele bias of its convergent gene Copg2 during neurogenesis

Abstract Precise gene dosage control is critical for cellular identity and development, particularly for imprinted genes, where dosage imbalances are linked to neurodevelopmental disorders. The Mest/Copg2 imprinted locus exemplifies this fine-tuned regulation: while Mest is const...

Jus cogens and the duty to act: the institutional inaction of the European Union in light of Article 265 TFEU

Abstract In the JURDI case, a French non-governmental organisation invoked Article 265 TFEU to challenge the EU Commission and Council’s inaction towards Israel despite the finding of the International Court of Justice that there was a plausible risk of genocide in the Gaza Strip...

CoARA UCA Action Plan

The CoARA UCA Action Plan translates all ARRA commitments into concrete institutional actions, with defined objectives and responsibilities, providing the roadmap for implementing responsible research assessment across the university. It will also serve as a key communication too...

Determining a graph from its reconfiguration graph

Given a graph G and a natural number k , the k -recolouring graph C k ( G ) is the graph whose vertices are the k -colourings of G and whose edges link pairs of colourings which differ at exactly one vertex of G . Recently, Hogan et al. proved that G can be determined from C k (...

International Protocol for the Study of Amorphous Charred Objects in Archaeology (IPSACO 1.0)

Abstract Archaeobotanists around the world increasingly recognise that, alongside commonly studied materials such as seeds, fruits, wood charcoal, and chaff, archaeobotanical samples also contain fragments of carbonised organic (and sometimes inorganic) matter that vary in shape...

Tight (Double) Exponential Bounds for Identification Problems: Locating-Dominating Set and Test Cover

Abstract. We investigate fine-grained algorithmic aspects for classical identification problems in graphs, namely, Locating-Dominating Set, and in set systems, namely, Test Cover. In the first problem, an input is a graph [Formula: see text] on [Formula: see text] vertices and an...

Magnetic insights into the aqueous alteration of CM chondrites

CM chondrites are the archetypal group of aqueously altered meteorites, preserving records of water-rock interactions on planetesimals. Here, we couple rock magnetic properties with modal mineralogy measured from 48 CM chondrites to explore aqueous alteration through its influenc...

Coupling of stable isotope probing and metagenomics reveals the diversity of viruses infecting formatotrophs during anaerobic digestion process

Abstract Background Viruses play a major role in regulating microbial community composition and activity, yet their diversity and host associations in anaerobic digestion (AD)—a complex biotechnological process converting organic waste into biogas—remain poorly characterized. Lin...

Simulation-based inference of epidemiological and phylodynamic models via neural posterior estimation

Mathematical models play a central role in understanding and forecasting infectious disease dynamics, but parameter inference is often difficult when likelihoods are intractable. Simulation-based inference (SBI) circumvents this limitation by relying on model simulations. Traditi...

Enabling stable preservation of ML algorithms in high-energy physics with petrifyML

Machine learning (ML) in high-energy physics (HEP) has moved in the LHC era from an internal detail of experiment software, to an unavoidable public component of many physics data analyses. Scientific reproducibility thus requires that it be possible to accurately and stably pres...

Experimental full-field investigation of stress development in austenite during the thermally-activated transformation of a Cu-Al-Ni single crystal

The paper presents an experimental analysis of the stress field developing within austenite in a Cu-Al-Ni single crystal during its thermally-activated transformation to martensite. Starting from a virgin sample in austenitic state, fifty homogeneous cooling-heating cycles allowe...