Research works

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_...

Resolving Transient Electron–Phonon Coupling with Time-Resolved Spontaneous Raman Spectroscopy

Abstract Understanding the interaction of charge carriers with lattice vibrations in the quasi-equilibrium regime is crucial for semiconductor functionality. However, the structural signatures of these interactions are often too subtle for conventional ultrafast techniques to det...

Semi-Supervised Generative Learning via Latent Space Distribution Matching

We introduce Latent Space Distribution Matching (LSDM), a novel framework for semi-supervised generative modeling of conditional distributions. LSDM operates in two stages: (i) learning a low-dimensional latent space from both paired and unpaired data, and (ii) performing joint d...

An augmented ratingsystem for Test cricket: adapting the Glicko rating system

Abstract The International Cricket Council’s (ICC) rating system for Test cricket updates a team’s rating from match and series results alone. It makes no allowance for the precision of a rating, nor for contextual factors such as home advantage and the outcome of the toss. This...

Suppression of spectral gap and flat bands on a cuprate superconductor side-surface

Abstract Side surfaces of cuprate superconductors are expected to display a suppressed d -wave order parameter and zero-energy topological flat bands with a large density of states, making them susceptible to symmetry broken orders. Yet such surfaces have never been investigated...

The Infinite Block Spin Ising Model

Abstract We study a block mean-field Ising model with N spins split into $$s_N$$ s N blocks, with Curie–Weiss interaction within blocks and nearest-neighbor coupling between blocks. While previous models deal with the block magnetization for a fixed number of blocks, we study the...

Explicit construction of spherical 5- and 7-designs

This paper develops an explicit and implementable framework for constructing spherical designs by lifting point sets from tight fusion frames. By combining existing ingredients, we obtain, in every dimension, explicit spherical $5$-designs with $|X|=\mathcal{O}(d^3)$. As a core c...

Product of Powers of Distinct Primes as Sums of Fibonacci Numbers

Abstract Let $$F_n$$ F n be the n -th Fibonacci number. In this paper, we study the Diophantine equation $$F_n+F_m=p^xq^y$$ F n + F m = p x q y in nonnegative integers $$n\ge m$$ n ≥ m , x and y , where p and q are fixed distinct prime numbers. We determine all pairs of primes (...