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- Climate & EnvironmentOpen access
While conventional drinking water treatment strategies can help mitigate physical, chemical and biological water quality challenges, the process itself may introduce or fail to adequately remove contaminants, thereby exceeding regulatory guidelines and posing compliance challenge...
- Health & MedicineOpen access
Iron and folate are two metabolically interwoven nutrients necessary for normal development and cell growth. Among the important consequences of deficiencies of one or both nutrients are increased risk of infertility in both males and females, increased risk of early pregnancy lo...
- BiologyOpen access
A comprehensive phylogenomic framework for brachiopod evolution among lophotrochozoans
Brachiopods appeared early in the Cambrian radiation and represent an important clade for understanding the origin of animal body plans and the evolution of biomineralized structures. A robust phylogenetic framework of the living representatives is needed to answer persistent que...
- BiologyOpen access
Iron deficiency remains one of the most widespread micronutrient deficiencies worldwide. Biofortification of crops through genetic manipulation of iron uptake, transport, and storage pathways offers a promising strategy to combat these deficiencies; however, success has been limi...
- Society & EconomicsOpen access
I experimentally investigate how the economic outcome (i.e., successful development or failed development) of a prior Research & Development (R&D) project affects the willingness of managers to invest in a related, but distinct project, conditional on the accounting method. Consi...
- Materials & EnergyOpen access
The Closer, the Better: Engineering RGB Thermometric Performance in Tb3+,Eu3+-Doped MOFs
Abstract The effectiveness of luminescence thermometry, which exploits temperature-induced changes in the spectroscopic properties of phosphor materials for temperature sensing, has been extensively demonstrated. However, from a practical perspective, monitoring temperature-induc...
- Physics & SpaceOpen access
Thermodynamics of Lorentzian Taub-NUT spacetimes in Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet AdS gravity
We study the thermodynamics of Lorentzian Taub--NUT spacetimes in Einstein--Gauss--Bonnet AdS gravity in arbitrary even dimensions, constructed as $U(1)$ fibrations over Einstein--Kähler base manifolds. We compute the temperature from the surface gravity and the energy as the con...
- Society & EconomicsOpen access
Reliability and validity of the Japanese version of the Sleep Problem Acceptance Questionnaire
This study aimed to develop a Japanese version of the Sleep Problem Acceptance Questionnaire (SPAQ-J) and assess its reliability and validity. The SPAQ-J was developed through a forward-backward translation procedure with permission from the original authors. The sample included...
- Society & EconomicsOpen access
Using podcasts to forward Universal Design for Learning in civil engineering education
The author declare no conflicts of interest. No GenAI/LLM tools were used in any part of the research or writing of this article. Research data are not shared.
- Physics & SpaceOpen access
Abstract Reconstructing the initial conditions of the Universe from late-time tracers would unlock cosmological information buried by non-linear structure formation and astrophysics. We reconstruct the initial density field corresponding to z = 300, with its linear amplitude extr...
- Society & EconomicsOpen access
AI-driven whole-life costing for decision-ready UK public building retrofits
Abstract Public-sector building retrofits in the United Kingdom require decisions that balance whole-life cost, carbon reduction, service continuity and auditability under limited data and constrained capital budgets. This paper develops a decision-ready whole-life costing (WLC)...
- AI & ComputingOpen access
Bitcoin’s ledger records what each transaction moves but not what it does; unsupervised profiles describe it without labels, but are rarely tested against information the clustering never saw. We evaluate ZSH, which weights twelve features by the rank of their mutual information...
- Health & MedicineOpen access
Background: Definitive concurrent chemoradiotherapy (CRT) is a standard-of-care treatment for multiple locally advanced solid malignancies, including head and neck, cervical, esophageal, and non-small cell lung cancers. While randomized controlled trials (RCTs) consistently demon...
- AI & ComputingOpen access
Den2Obj: A command-line tool for producing isosurfaces from electron density data files
A command-line tool for generating isosurfaces from electron-density scalar fields. Den2Obj reads VASP CHGCAR, PARCHG, and LOCPOT files as well as Gaussian Cube files, and exports meshes in OBJ, PLY, and STL formats. It also supports conversion to the lossless compressed D2O form...
- Health & MedicineOpen access
Cell-intrinsic steroidogenesis regulates mast cell function
Steroid hormones are well-known regulators of mast cell function, but whether mast cells themselves produce steroids de novo and influences their effector function has remained unknown. Here, we show that mast cells constitutively express the steroidogenic enzyme cytochrome P450...
- BiologyOpen access
A Spatiotemporal Framework for Quantifying and Projecting Soil Organic Carbon in Grasslands of China
Accurate estimation of grassland soil organic carbon (SOC) stocks is essential for understanding carbon dynamics, yet estimates of soil organic carbon density (SOCD) in China remain uncertain due to differences in data sources and methods. To address this issue, we developed a sp...
- Physics & SpaceOpen access
Searching for symmetric mass generation with staggered fermions in four dimensions
We conduct numerical simulations to map out the phase diagram and critical behavior of a lattice Higgs model composed of two massless staggered fermion fields forming a doublet under a global $SU(2)$ and coupled to a scalar field in the adjoint representation of the group. The sc...
- Materials & EnergyOpen access
Nanoparticle Surface Curvature Impacts the Synthesis of Polymer Brushes
Abstract Surface-initiated ring-opening metathesis polymerization (SI-ROMP) is a powerful method for grafting polymers with different macromolecular architectures and chemical compositions onto surfaces, offering the potential to design hybrid materials with tailored properties....
- Physics & SpaceOpen access
Spin-Inversion Degeneracies in Restricted Inspiral Waveforms for LISA
Spin inversions appear in several settings. Analytical work predicts a single spin flip during unequal-mass supermassive binary inspiral, while numerical relativity and post-Newtonian calculations show repeated flip-flop motion in comparable-mass binaries. Secular spin evolution...
- Physics & SpaceOpen access
Abstract We present an efficient first-principles approach for simulating the nonequilibrium electron dynamics in extended systems beyond the linear regime. The method combines Koopmans-compliant functionals, which provide accurate quasiparticle band structures, with the real-tim...