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Metabolic and neural responses to ultraprocessed foods: a randomized, controlled, crossover study

Dietary patterns worldwide have shifted toward increased consumption of ultraprocessed foods (UPFs), which has been linked to higher disease burden. One proposed mechanism underlying both UPF consumption and metabolic disease is altered post-ingestive responses relative to nutrit...

PHASED study archive | U.S. EIA 860 | EIA-860 instructions.pdf

Original file used in the PHASED study, Correlated uncertainty propagation enables multi-impact decision support for electrical system decarbonization. File: EIA-860 instructions.pdf. Source group: U.S. EIA 860. Study file location: 4 External Data/U.S. EIA 860/eia8602023/EIA-860...

PHASED study archive | U.S. eGrid 2022 | egrid2020_technical_guide.pdf

Original file used in the PHASED study, Correlated uncertainty propagation enables multi-impact decision support for electrical system decarbonization. File: egrid2020_technical_guide.pdf. Source group: U.S. eGrid 2022. Study file location: 4 External Data/U.S. eGrid 2022/egrid20...

PHASED study archive | NREL ATB | AWS S3 Explorer for the Open Energy Data Initiative.pdf

Original file used in the PHASED study, Correlated uncertainty propagation enables multi-impact decision support for electrical system decarbonization. File: AWS S3 Explorer for the Open Energy Data Initiative.pdf. Source group: NREL ATB. Study file location: 4 External Data/NREL...

PHASED study archive | NREL ATB | AWS S3 Explorer for the Open Energy Data Initiative.pdf

Original file used in the PHASED study, Correlated uncertainty propagation enables multi-impact decision support for electrical system decarbonization. File: AWS S3 Explorer for the Open Energy Data Initiative.pdf. Source group: NREL ATB. Study file location: 4 External Data/NREL...

Re-evaluating molecular clock maximum age calibrations revives pre-Ediacaran divergence estimates for animals

Divergent models persist for the emergence of animals. Lipid biomarkers suggest animals originated before 635 million years ago (Ma), but their body fossil record extends to only 574 Ma. Molecular clocks might differentiate between these records, but we demonstrate how their accu...

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...

Computer-Aided Drug Design for Type 2 Diabetes-Related Enzymes: SILCS-Based Fragment Mapping, Pharmacophore Modeling, and Virtual Screening

Abstract Highly charged enzyme active sites present a challenge for conventional Site Identification by Ligand Competitive Saturation (SILCS) because strongly interacting charged probes can suppress sampling of neutral fragments, while additive force fields do not explicitly acco...

Understanding Surface Interfacial Phenomena During Tricalcium Silicate Dissolution From TEM and XRR

ABSTRACT Understanding the dissolution mechanism of tricalcium silicate (C 3 S) is essential for interpreting its reactivity in cementitious systems. While the dissolution mechanism of C 3 S has been considered to follow the classical leached‐layer model, the mechanism has also b...

Assessing Individual Differences in Adult Theory of Mind Through Mental State Language: Human and Artificial Intelligence Approaches

Theory of mind is central to human social behavior, yet empirical studies rely largely on biased measures with limited ecological validity. We propose and evaluate the use of mental state language as a spontaneous indicator of theory of mind expressed in social interaction. Among...

meth-SemiCancer2: a cancer subtyping framework leveraging domain adaptation with contrastive learning for batch effect correction in DNA methylation profiles

Cancer subtyping is essential for precision oncology, enabling early diagnosis, targeted therapy, and improved prognosis. DNA methylation is a powerful molecular marker for subtype classification, but its application is hindered by high dimensionality, batch effects, and the scar...

Mapping customer journeys in automated restaurants: a process perspective on experience formation

Purpose Service automation is increasingly redefining service encounters by shifting operational and interactional responsibilities from employees to customers in hospitality operations. This study theorizes how customers experience and make sense of automated services characteri...

Macroinvertebrate communities respond to spatial patterns of water quality and habitat within mining-influenced headwater streams of central Appalachia

Surface coal mining in central Appalachia (USA) often results in salinization of headwater streams, with documented loss of several macroinvertebrate taxa and changes in community metrics across streams that vary in specific conductance (SC). However, the extent to which this sal...

Quantifying water overconsumption using a new water supply sustainability indicator

Communities around the globe are experiencing great difficulty in constraining their water consumption within the limits of available, renewable freshwater supplies. When water consumed from freshwater supplies exceeds natural replenishment from snowmelt, rainfall, or aquifer rec...

Phages Targeting Flagella: Adsorption and Infection Mechanisms of Flagellotropic Phages

Bacteriophages (phages) are viruses that exclusively infect bacteria. They adsorb to their hosts through binding to cell receptors including flagella, pili, or lipopolysaccharide (LPS). Adsorption is a two-step process, with reversible adhesion to cell surface receptors followed...

Show them you care: Black travelers’ recommendations for destination social advocacy

Identity-based legitimacy crises emerge when social movements expose organizational complicity in systemic inequalities. These events threaten legitimacy across specific legitimacy dimensions simultaneously. To better understand how individuals facing identity-based crises would...

Randomized phase II trial of liposomal cytarabine and daunorubicin with or without pomalidomide in newly diagnosed acute myeloid leukemia myelodysplasia-related

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Illuminating the Disease Landscape: Human Oxidoreductase-Targeted Imaging and Quantification Agents for Precision Imaging and Activity Determination

Conspectus Electron-specific reduction reactions afforded by quinone oxidoreductases have long been recognized as essential for safeguarding healthy mammalian cells against oxidative stress induced by environmental insults. The presence of reactive oxygen species (ROS) initiates...

A Scandian pressure-temperature path for the northern Moine Nappe, Scotland

The Northern Highlands Terrane in northwestern Scotland preserves a polyphase metamorphic history dominated by Scandian (435-415 Ma) tectonism. Phase equilibria modeling, major and trace element compositions in metamorphic phases, and textural observations are used to construct a...

RELATING INSPLITTINGS OF 2-GRAPHS AND OF TEXTILE SYSTEMS

Abstract The graphical operation of insplitting is key to understanding conjugacy of shifts of finite type (SFTs) in both one and two dimensions. In this paper, we consider two approaches to studying two-dimensional (2D) SFTs: textile systems and rank-2 graphs. Nasu’s textile sys...