University of Patras

Respiratory Viruses in the Air of Shared Indoor Environments: Multi-Country Molecular Surveillance Across Europe (TwinAIR)

Indoor environments are the dominant setting for human exposure to respiratory viruses, yet routine molecular surveillance of indoor air remains rare outside single-site studies. Within the Horizon Europe TwinAIR project, a single harmonised workflow was applied to 102 indoor air...

Imidazole-Containing Ether-Free Polyaromatics with Self-Aggregating Piperidinium Side Chains for Alkaline-Stable Anion Exchange Membranes

Abstract Despite being critical components of anion exchange membrane water electrolyzers (AEMWEs), anion exchange membranes (AEMs) still confront substantial bottlenecks in meeting operational requirements due to inadequate alkaline stability and ionic conductivity. In this work...

Additive Manufacturing in Defense: Applications and Implementation Framework for Smaller Nations

Additive Manufacturing (AM) has emerged as a key enabling technology for the development of defense capabilities, owning to a series of unique competitive advantages, such as rapid prototyping, low and mid-volume production, mission-specific equipment adaptation, repair, remanufa...

Defined Extracellular Matrix Contexts Rewire 3D Breast Cancer Cell Models: Effects of Sulfated Hyaluronan in the Expression of Matrix Effector and Matrix-Based Cell Functional Properties

Background: Breast cancer progression is strongly influenced by tumor cell interactions with the extracellular matrix (ECM). Three-dimensional (3D) cell culture models provide more relevant systems for studying aspects of the tumor microenvironment (TME), including tumor architec...

The E80 Microworld: A Gate-Transparent VHDL CPU and One-Click Toolchain

The E80 is an open-source, 8-bit, single-cycle soft processor written in VHSIC Hardware Description Language (VHDL) from gates, multiplexers, and flip-flops, without an arithmetic package. Its 39 instructions were derived from a survey of eight sources of introductory computer ar...

gp3sequences: An Auditable and Reproducible Framework for Ordered Categorical Sequence Analysis in R

Ordered categorical sequence analysis is distributed across specialist methods and software, making preparation decisions, method settings, diagnostics, and provenance difficult to inspect consistently across an end-to-end workflow. This paper presents gp3sequences, an R framewor...

First Molecular Detection of Neobenedenia girellae (Monogenea: Capsalidae) in Farmed Greater Amberjack (Seriola dumerili) in Greece

In the present study, we report the first molecular detection and identification of the ectoparasitic monogenean Neobenedenia girellae in the farmed greater amberjack (Seriola dumerili) in Greece. This parasite is considered one of the most economically important ectoparasites af...

Sartans and Bisartans: Expanding Therapeutic Horizons Through Broad Receptor Interactions and Repurposing Potential

Angiotensin receptor blockers (ARBs), also known as sartans, are a family of highly selective angiotensin II type 1 receptor antagonists commonly prescribed to individuals with hypertension, heart failure, and chronic kidney disease. Additionally, the discovery and facile synthes...

Design of Technological Infrastructures in Health and Wellness Tourism and their Effects on Hotel Hospitality: The Case of the Municipality of Lamia

Health and well-being are increasingly pursued through prevention rather than treatment, creating demand for new tourism products and services. This paper examines how technological infrastructures can support health and wellness tourism and how they affect hotel hospitality, usi...

Microplastic pollution in Greek seas: Abundance, spatio-temporal dynamics, potential sources and post-storm amplification

Microplastic (MP) pollution represents an increasing threat to coastal and marine ecosystems, yet data from Greek waters remain scarce. This study provides a comprehensive assessment of MP abundance, spatial distribution, polymer composition, and seasonal variability in surface w...

Advances in Urinary Liquid Biopsy: A Review of Emerging Sensing Platforms for Early Cancer Screening and Diagnosis

Early screening of many types of cancers remains limited by the invasiveness of gold-standard tissue biopsies and the poor specificity of traditional clinical biomarkers like prostate-specific antigen (PSA). Non-invasive liquid biopsies are the emerging alternatives. Urine is one...

The WoKaS-Iso database: workflow for a global compilation of oxygen-18 and deuterium records in karst springs and cave drip water for enhanced understanding of karst systems

For analysing karst hydrogeological systems, observations of karst springs and cave drips are considered indispensable. In addition to hydrometric observations, knowing the oxygen and hydrogen stable isotope ratios has improved the understanding of vadose zone and aquifer dynamic...

Estimation of Total VOC Emission and Ozone Removal Rates in a Primary School Classroom

Abstract Measurements of gaseous and particulate pollutants were conducted inside and outside a classroom in an urban area of Athens, Greece, using both reference instruments and low cost sensors. These data were used to evaluate indoor air quality and to estimate the emissions o...

Upcycling Agro-Food Industrial Biomass Waste into Functional Activated Carbon for Selective CO2 Capture and Supercapacitor Applications

Abstract Activated carbon (AC) materials were developed via a single-step method from three different biowaste sources and tailored for application in carbon dioxide (CO2) capture and electrochemical energy storage, combining the concept of biowaste valorisation with sustainable...

Modeling of air-fuel mixture flow in a marine four-stroke diesel engine to optimize performance and minimize pollutant emissions

This study proposes a computational framework that utilizes advanced Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)-based modeling and diesel-cycle analysis to analyze the emissions and performance of a high-speed marine four-stroke diesel engine. A three-dimensional sector model is created...

Improving Wideband Massive MIMO Channel Estimation With UAV State-Space Information

Published in IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology (2025). Proposes wideband massive MIMO channel estimation exploiting UAV state-space information. Related to EUSOME WP4 T4.1.1 sensing research.

Robust Intrinsic Dorsoventral Organization of Hippocampal Sharp Wave–Ripples Persists During Cannabinoid Modulation

Background/Objectives: The hippocampus exhibits pronounced functional and physiological heterogeneity along its dorsoventral axis. Sharp wave–ripple (SWR) complexes are highly organized hippocampal network events that depend on coordinated excitation and inhibition and contribute...

ELN vs. IPSS-M in MDS/AML: Which Prognostic System Should Guide Clinical Decision-Making?

The recognition of myelodysplastic syndrome/acute myeloid leukemia (MDS/AML) as a distinct overlap entity by the International Consensus Classification (ICC) has introduced new challenges in prognostication and therapeutic decision-making. Defined by 10–19% blasts in the absence...

Nuclear Factor-κB Signaling in Murine Models of Malignant Pleural Mesothelioma

Background: Malignant pleural mesothelioma (MPM) is an aggressive asbestos-associated cancer in which inflammatory pathways may contribute to tumor behavior. NF-κB signaling is a central mediator of inflammation and cell survival, but the relative contributions of its associated...

The impact of soil-structure interaction on the hybrid force-displacement seismic design method for steel moment-resisting frames

This study investigates the influence of soil–structure interaction (SSI) on the Hybrid Force–Displacement (HFD) seismic design method for steel moment-resisting frames (MRFs). The HFD method, which combines the benefits of force-based and displacement-based design, is extended t...