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INCREASED PREVALENCE OF PANCREATIC CYSTS IN NONSECRETOR (FUT2 NULL) INDIVIDUALS UNDER PANCREATIC SURVEILLANCE

Abstract Background: Pancreatic surveillance commonly detects pancreatic cysts, most of which are presumed intraductal papillary mucinous neoplasms (IPMN). FUT2, the gene responsible for secretor status, has been implicated in IPMN development, although not with pancreatic cancer...

Feedback control systems for plasma operation at Wendelstein 7-X

Abstract Real-time feedback control is essential for meeting the physics and operational demands of Wendelstein 7-X (W7-X), particularly the need to respond effectively to transient events, maintain stationary high-performance phases, and operate reliably across a wide range of m...

The WEST code for large-scale excited-state materials simulations

We present WEST, an open-source plane-wave pseudopotential code for large-scale excited-state materials simulations, and describe its theoretical foundations, software architecture, and capabilities. WEST implements full-frequency GW, quantum defect embedding theory, the Bethe–Sa...

Isotopic composition of aerosol iron from anthropogenic sources: implications for source apportionment of aerosol iron

Abstract. Aerosol iron (Fe) significantly impacts human health, atmospheric chemistry and marine biogeochemistry. The stable isotope ratio of Fe, typically reported as δ56Fe, has emerged as a promising method for source apportionment of total and soluble aerosol Fe. However, the...

Multi-Field Relaxation Dynamics of Parahydrogen-Hyperpolarized Propane Gas MRI Contrast Agent

Abstract Hyperpolarized gas-phase MRI is an emerging diagnostic modality, with the clinical utility of hyperpolarized Xe-129 gas for functional lung imaging recently supported by FDA regulatory approval. However, the requirement for dedicated multi-nuclear hardware and complex, c...

Characterization of Thermal Recovery Activation in Fast Photochromic Flavoprotein Charge-Transfer Complexes

Abstract A promising fast, negative, red-absorbing photochromic system based on an intraprotein intermolecular charge transfer (CT) complex between a flavin cofactor and a substrate-analogue inhibitor MXA (methylthioacetate or methylselenoacetate; X = S, Se) within monomeric sarc...

Concise trichlorination of methyl ketones using sodium hypochlorite pentahydrate

We report a practical and efficient method for the synthesis of trichloromethyl ketones from the corresponding methyl ketones via a two-step sequence involving trifluoroacetylation followed by selective chlorination. The key chlorination step proceeds under mild, weakly acidic co...

Boron-assisted stabilization of low-resistivity mixed-valence Cu–O thin films prepared by reactive magnetron sputtering

This study systematically investigated the influence of boron incorporation in Cu-O thin films and the effect of oxygen partial pressure ($p_{\rm ox}$) on the phase evolution, chemical bonding, and electrical characteristics of the prepared films. A phase transition from Cu$_2$O...

Entrepreneurial and ambidextrous strategies to enhance the supply chain resilience of Indonesian livestock farm businesses

This dataset contains anonymized survey data collected from 246 livestock farm businesses in Indonesia to examine the relationships among farm resource availability, entrepreneurial orientation, organizational ambidexterity, and supply chain resilience.

State-Constrained SHAP Distills Polymer Property Models into Transferable Structural Rules for Fixed-Interval Screening

Abstract Polymer informatics has accelerated data-driven prediction of polymer properties, yet accurate prediction does not directly enable discovery. Here, we introduce state-constrained SHAP (SC-SHAP), an attribution-to-rule distillation framework for fixed-interval polymer scr...

Reconciling intrinsic and ecosystem water-use efficiency reveals physiological mechanisms underlying carbon-water coupling across biological scales

Understanding how carbon-water coupling scales from leaves to ecosystems remains a major challenge because water-use efficiency (WUE) metrics integrate physiological, hydrological, and ecological processes. We integrated tree-ring width, triple stable isotopes (δ13C, δ18O and δ2H...

The Effect of Quadrature on the Convergence of Policy Iteration for Hamilton–Jacobi–Bellman Equations

Abstract Modern finite element libraries allow users to express partial differential equations directly in variational form, with the added convenience of automatic quadrature selection. In the context of Hamilton–Jacobi–Bellman (HJB) equations, automatic quadrature selection can...

Andreev exceptional points in Josephson junctions formed by minimal Kitaev chains

We consider Josephson junctions formed by two minimal Kitaev chains and investigate how the interplay between non-Hermiticity and superconducting phase difference enables the realization of stable topological states that do not exist in the Hermitian realm. In particular, we focu...

ProMUSE: Progressive Multi-modal Uncertainty-guided Staged Evidential Alzheimer Disease Classification

Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a fatal disorder that destroys memory and cognitive skills in the elderly population. Most treatments for AD are effective in the early stage, leading to an increasing demand for early AD diagnosis. AD diagnosis increasingly relies on multimodal data s...

EarthCARE reveals details on the role of rain in closed-to-open cell transitions

Abstract. The mesoscale organisation of marine stratocumulus clouds into closed and open cells strongly affects cloud albedo and thus their cooling effect on climate, yet the processes governing transitions between these regimes remain incompletely understood. The EarthCARE satel...

Revisiting quantum effects on dislocation glide in bcc metals from DFT calculations and machine-learning potentials

Quantum zero-point effects have been long proposed to explain a well-known discrepancy between the low-temperature flow stresses of body-centered cubic metals and corresponding atomistic models of plastic flow. Previous investigations on quantum effects relied on empirical intera...

Temporal Faraday Effect Enabled by Floquet‐Induced Chirality

ABSTRACT The Faraday effect is a hallmark of nonreciprocal light–matter interactions and traditionally requires magnetic bias or intrinsically chiral media. Here we introduce a temporal chiral metamaterial in which an effective chiral response is generated entirely by Floquet mod...

Pervasive influences of repeat-induced point mutation on single-copy functional genes reveal its evolutionary importance in Neurospora crassa

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The Electrodynamical Nature of Chiral Nanoplasmonics from the Quantum Regime to the Mesoscale

Abstract Chiral plasmonic nanostructures are rapidly emerging as ideal substrates for enantioselective sensing, chiral near-field engineering, and plasmon-assisted catalysis, owing to their exceptional sensitivity to structural handedness. However, whether an atomistic classical...

Cognitive Reappraisal and the Growth Mediation of the Relationship between Identity Coherence and Identity Consolidation

Stage 1 full Manuscript etitled Cognitive Reappraisal and the Growth Mediation of the Relationship between Identity Coherence and Identity Consolidation Abstract Understanding whether cognitive reappraisal and quiet ego growth function as primary underlying mechanisms that transl...