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Negatively Charged Polysaccharide Stabilizes Amorphous Strontium Sulfate Precursor Phase

Abstract Biomineralization describes how living organisms orchestrate the synthesis of functional inorganic materials for structural protection or mechanical support. Mineralization under biological regulation often involves amorphous mineral phases, such as amorphous calcium car...

Fermion renormalized vertex functions, effective mass, and condensate in an external Yang-Mills gauge field

We investigate the renormalized fermion-gluon vertex, the fermion effective mass, and the fermion condensate when the fermion propagates in an external Yang-Mills gauge field. We use an exact Green’s function for the Dirac operator in a non-Abelian plane-wave gauge field to const...

A variational quantum algorithm for nonlinear finite element analysis of hyperelastic materials

This manuscript explores a variational quantum formulation for nonlinear elasticity problems arising from hyperelastic material models. The approach leverages the potential energy structure of hyperelasticity and employs a hybrid quantum classical framework in which the energy fu...

Beyond Scalar Objectives: Expert-Feedback-Driven Autonomous Experimentation for Scientific Discovery at the Nanoscale

Abstract Self-driving laboratories or autonomous experimentation are emerging as transformative platforms for accelerating scientific discovery. Bayesian optimization (BO) is among the most widely used machine learning frameworks in self-driving laboratories, but these BO-based f...

Age-related differences in neural activity and functional connectivity during self- and other-referential processing: An EEG study

Research on brain aging has largely focused on neurological disorders such as Alzheimer’s disease, mild cognitive impairment, and other forms of cognitive decline. However, relatively few studies have examined the processing of self-related information in healthy older adults. Th...

Spin force from a nitrogen-vacancy ensemble drives a 100-mg levitated resonator

The force experienced by a spin in a magnetic field gradient underlies many proposals for hybrid quantum systems. These include schemes for mechanically mediated quantum gates, spin squeezing, searches for exotic forces, and motional superpositions for probing the interface betwe...

Regulatory language limits satellite-based enforcement in marine protected areas

Abstract The international community has committed to protect 30% of the ocean by 2030, and satellite monitoring can now detect industrial fishing inside marine protected areas (MPAs) at near-global scale. Yet remote detection establishes only a vessel’s identity, position, time,...

The future of scholarly blogs: Scholarly bloggers' perspectives on long‐term preservation

Abstract Scholarly blogs are an important venue for scholarly communication; however, they are not yet integrated into the preservation workflows of digital research and information infrastructures, which places their long‐term access at risk. By using Star and Ruhleder's (1996)...

Plasma Protein Association with High Drug-Loaded Polymer Micelles: An Atomistic Molecular Dynamics Study

Abstract Polymeric micelles are widely studied drug delivery platforms whose interactions with plasma proteins influence in vivo performance. However, the combined effects of non-pEG hydrophilic coronas and high drug loading on protein adsorption remain poorly understood. We perf...

Light Deflection and Greybody Bound Around a BTZ-ModMax Black Hole in Plasma Medium

We study the deflection of light in a homogeneous plasma medium around a BTZ-ModMax black hole, focusing on the effects of the ModMax nonlinear electrodynamics parameter and the cosmological constant. Using the Gauss-Bonnet theorem applied to the corresponding optical geometry in...

Exploring Blastocystis: hidden complexity in a common intestinal microbe

Graphical Abstract Graphical overview of the present Blastocystis review: historical perspective, clinical presentation, microbial characteristics, putative pathogenic strategies, epidemiology, diagnosis and biosafety, treatment and resistance and key open questions.

Perceptions of real estate as a retirement asset: survey evidence

Purpose This study aims to explore the roots of the dominance of real estate in household wealth. It focuses on the formation of beliefs about real estate as a retirement asset and their potential drivers, including both attitudinal factors and life-course circumstances. Design/m...

Neurodiversity among nurses: Consequences for well-being and burnout

Background A particular gap in past research is a lack of understanding of how neurodivergence may impact nurses' workplace well-being. With up to 20% of individuals displaying neurodivergent traits in the workplace, it is important to recognize that those traits could be conside...

Concentration regimes in salt-free aqueous xanthan solutions under shear

The concentration regimes in polymer and polyelectrolyte solutions can be identified by scaling laws for the relation between specific zero-shear viscosity and concentration. As recently shown, the same is true for the infinite-shear viscosity plateau. The shear-thinning range is...

Neutralization titers reveal the structure of polyclonal antibody responses

The composition of a polyclonal antibody response is hard to measure experimentally but contains vital information about the robustness of immunity. Here, we argue that the statistics of neutralization titers alone can be used to make quantitative predictions about the compositio...

Simulating the jittering-jets explosion mechanism: circum-jet rings account for observed core-collapse supernova remnant morphologies

We conduct three-dimensional hydrodynamical simulations of core-collapse supernova (CCSN) explosion driven by jets in the framework of the jittering jets explosion mechanism (JJEM), and obtain a pair of opposite circum-jet rings similar to those observed in some CCSN remnants (CC...

Combination of instrumental and biomonitoring approaches elucidate the contributions of multiple and contrasted sources of atmospheric exposure to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons

A combined approach was implemented to investigate the origins of elevated PAH concentrations in a complex urban environment where numerous emission sources coexist. This approach integrated one year of atmospheric measurements PM10 filters and continuous atmospheric monitoring),...

Asynchronous modal FRP: Ticking all the boxes

Over the past fifteen years, several languages for functionalreactive programming (FRP) have been suggested that use modaltypes to ensure properties like causality, productivity, and lack ofspace leaks. So far, almost all of these languages have included amodal operator for delay...

Graph symmetry organizes exceptional dynamics in open quantum systems

Exceptional points (EPs) play a central role in non-Hermitian physics, yet most theoretical studies begin from deliberately engineered low-dimensional effective Hamiltonians whose parameters are tuned to produce spectral degeneracies. In realistic open quantum systems, however, d...

Cocliques in the Kneser graph on (n − 1,n)-flags of PG(2n,q)

In the finite projective space PG$(2n,q)$ we consider flags of type $(n-1,n)$, that is, pairs $(A,B)$ consisting of an $(n-1)$-space $A$ and an $n$-space $B$ that are incident. Two such flags $(A_1,B_1)$ and $(A_2,B_2)$ are opposite if $A_1\cap B_2=A_2\cap B_1=\emptyset$. Let $Γ_...