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Innate allorecognition induces HSP70 in monocytes contributing to renal allograft rejection

After encountering allogeneic nonself, monocytes differentiate to DCs, which in turn activate the adaptive immune system that drives transplant rejection. The downstream mechanisms of allorecognition are largely unknown. We analyzed scRNA-seq data sets to identify transcriptional...

Deep diffractive optical neural networks for detecting skyrmionic topologies of light and their live training

Optical skyrmions are topological forms of structured light offering an unbounded encoding alphabet robust to perturbations. However, their practical use is limited by the absence of a topological detector, since states distinguished by their topological invariant, N, are not nec...

Hall Thruster Plume Characterization with Spatially Resolved Ion Energy Distribution Measurements

Standard methods for characterizing thruster efficiency using plume diagnostics are insufficient for electric propulsion systems with unknown or highly divergent plume structures. The standard practice of measuring a centerline ion energy distribution function is compared to spat...

A systematic experimental investigation on the aerodynamic contribution to mooring tension response in floating offshore wind turbines

Quantifying the aerodynamic effects on mooring line tension is essential to distinguish wind-induced impacts from wave-driven dynamics and to improve the understanding of mooring system behaviour under coupled environmental loading conditions. The present work provides the first...

Determinants of Delivery Hospital Choice in Georgia, 2016–2021

Background: US maternal mortality and severe maternal morbidity (SMM) are marked by substantial disparities by race, payer, and geography. To the extent that such disparities are driven by differences across hospitals rather than within hospitals, understanding what shapes delive...

Global disaster risk assessment from Emergency Events Database (2013–2023)

This study introduces an Accumulated-Event Risk Indicator (ARI) to identify global hotspots of recent major-event accumulation using 2013–2023 records from the Emergency Events Database (EM-DAT). For each 5° × 5° latitude–longitude grid cell, ARI sums the country-level World Risk...

How Do Users Negotiate Harmful Value Conflicts with AI Companions? A Study with Minion, a Technology Probe for In-Situ Human–AI Conflict Response

AI companions increasingly sustain long-term, emotionally engaging relationships but can also make discriminatory remarks or exert control, leaving users to manage harmful conflicts. We analyze 146 posts describing harmful value conflicts with AI companions, then use Minion, a te...

School-age Children as the Dominant Source of Inter-seasonal Influenza Circulation in the Republic of Korea, 2022–2025

Background: Influenza circulates at low levels during summer inter-seasonal periods, potentially bridging consecutive epidemics. Which age groups contribute most to this residual circulation is not well characterized. Methods: We analyzed weekly influenza detection rates from the...

Thinking on Paper: Exploring the Role of Journaling in the Creative Process of Screenwriting

ABSTRACT Journaling is widely used in therapy and education to structure thought, deepen reflection, and document process, but its role in screenwriting, particularly within pedagogy sequenced to Wallas's stages, is under‐examined. We studied stream‐of‐consciousness journaling in...

Intra-articular injection of liraglutide attenuates capsular fibrosis and improves shoulder range of motion in a rat model of adhesive capsulitis

Abstract Adhesive capsulitis is a disabling shoulder disorder characterized by progressive pain and capsular fibrosis, for which intra-articular corticosteroid injection provides only short-term anti-inflammatory relief without directly targeting fibrosis. Glucagon-like peptide-1...

Does Gender Matter? Gender Signals in a UK Equity Crowdfunding Experiment

Abstract While research shows that women entrepreneurs often struggle to secure funding from traditional loan institutions, crowdfunding offers a unique channel to bypass traditional loan gatekeepers and directly access funds from the public. This study explores whether the gende...

Integrability of a Verhulst biological population model via Lie point symmetries

Purpose This study focuses on understanding species population dynamics through a (3 + 1)-dimensional biological population model governed by Verhulst's logistic growth law. The main objective is to explore how nonlinear growth and spatial diffusion mechanisms influence the evolu...

Electromagnetically induced transparency due to quasi-BIC in tilted guided-mode resonance gratings for transmissive sensing

We propose a single-layer tilted guided-mode resonance (GMR) grating that supports an electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT)-like quasi-bound state in the continuum (qBIC) mode. The qBIC-EIT occurs when two interfering resonances, specifically the GMR mode with a broadban...

Convex subgroups are concentrated

Abstract We show that every convex subgroup of a left-ordered group is concentrated. This resolves a question of Bowditch who asked if every maximal cyclic subgroup of a free group is concentrated within his study of diffuse groups. We also express concentrated as a form of conve...

Synergistic Effect of MOF-Derived Porous In2O3 and High-Entropy Alloy for Enhanced Room-Temperature Ammonia Sensing

Abstract High-performance room-temperature ammonia (NH3) sensors are highly desirable for environmental monitoring and noninvasive chronic kidney disease diagnosis via breath analysis. Structurally advantageous, metal–organic framework (MOF)-derived metal oxides combined with low...

From gut colonization to recurrence: E. coli secretion systems at the host-microbiota interface

Escherichia coli occupies a unique position between commensal colonization and infection. It is a common member of the intestinal microbiota, yet selected pathogenic or opportunistic lineages can persist in mucosal niches, interact with resident microbial communities, and in some...

Multi‐Timescale In‐Sensor Reservoir Computing With Composition‐Engineered InSnO Optoelectronic Synaptic Transistors

ABSTRACT Real‐time dynamic visual scenes often involve multiple objects moving at different speeds, requiring in‐sensor computing devices with dynamic responses matched to diverse motion timescales. Existing multi‐timescale reservoir systems generally rely on external biasing and...

Integrative transcriptomic analysis reveals interferon-associated macrophage states and fibroblast activation in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy

Abstract Myocardial immune heterogeneity may contribute to remodeling in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM), but the macrophage states accompanying fibroblast activation remain incompletely defined. We examined cell-specific immune programs and stromal changes in HCM. An integrati...

Determinants of Gender-Based Violence in Ecuador

This study analyzed the determinants of gender-based violence (GBV) in Ecuador using microdata from the National Survey on Family Relations and Gender Violence against Women. Binomial logit models estimated the probability of women experiencing any type of GBV and each type (psyc...

Staphylococcus aureus PSMα1 amyloid structure is modulated by buffer and salt

Amyloid fibrils share a characteristic cross-β structure yet often display pronounced polymorphism, where a single protein or peptide sequence can adopt multiple distinct fibrillar architectures. Environmental factors such as buffer composition, ionic strength, and pH strongly in...