Research works

Satellite Altimetry Reveals an Eddy Train Along the Ross Sea Shelf Break

Abstract Oceanic circulation along the Antarctic shelf break regulates heat and material exchanges between the continental shelf and the open ocean, playing a crucial role in ice shelf melting and global overturning circulation. However, the circulation remains poorly understood...

Multiple spiking functionalities in annealing-optimized Ag/Hf0.5Zr0.5O2-based memristive neurons

Rapid progress of artificial neural network applications in recent years has led to the issue of unprecedented energy consumption. It can be solved by the implementation of energy-efficient hardware based on non-von Neumann architectures, which requires the development of electro...

Spatiotemporal linkage and transmission of urban heat islands in the Yangtze River Delta urban agglomeration: the role of urban heat advection

Abstract. Urban heat islands (UHIs) substantially modify the urban thermal environment, yet the contribution of non-local processes such as urban heat advection (UHA) in dense urban agglomerations remains poorly quantified. Using five years of high-density automatic weather stati...

A conserved grain-associated immunosuppressive niche in Sudanese patients with mycetoma

Abstract Mycetoma is a neglected tropical disease caused by various bacterial and fungal pathogens that has a significant health impact across a broad geographically defined “mycetoma belt” spanning South America, Africa and Asia. Histologically, mycetoma is characterised by inva...

A three-dimensional morphoelastic model for self-oscillations in polyelectrolyte hydrogel filaments

Abstract We introduce a three-dimensional model for polyelectrolyte hydrogel filaments operating in a fluid environment under an electric field. The formulation builds on a morphoelastic framework for inextensible and unshearable rods, such that the filament’s activity is encoded...

Drivers of Atmospheric Volatile Methylated Sulfur Variability Across the Southern Ocean and Antarctic Coast

Abstract. Biogenic volatile methylated sulfur (VMS) gases, dimethyl sulfide (DMS) and methanethiol (MeSH), are major precursors of climate-cooling sulfate aerosol, yet their sources, co-emission and fate remain poorly constrained over the Southern Ocean and Antarctica. In this st...

A genome-wide in vivo screen reveals fitness pathways required for streptococcal infective endocarditis

Abstract Infective endocarditis (IE) is a life-threatening disease most often caused by blood-borne bacteria that infect previously damaged cardiac tissue. Despite the importance of this disease, the genetic basis for IE virulence remains poorly defined. Here, we present the firs...

Local Chemistry-Guided Molecular Beam Epitaxy Growth of SnSe on MgO via Combined ReaxFF Modeling and Machine Learning

Subtle variations in local growth chemistry can fundamentally alter the morphology of layered chalcogenide thin films, yet the atomic-scale mechanisms underlying this sensitivity remain poorly understood. Here, we combine molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) experiments, reactive molecul...

Accretion disks in Schwarzschild-MOG and Kerr-MOG backgrounds: MOG parameter in terms of observational quantities

Abstract We apply a general relativistic framework to static and rotating black hole solutions in Scalar–Tensor–Vector Gravity or modified gravity (MOG). Our results yield exact analytic, closed-form relations expressing the mass M , the MOG coupling parameter $$\alpha $$ <mml:ma...

ARF-YOLO: Attention-guided adaptive resolution-aware feature learning for UAV remote sensing object detection

<title>Abstract</title> Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-based remote sensing object detection faces three fundamental bottlenecks: (1) insufficient resolution diversity in single-scale detection heads, causing irreversible spatial detail loss for small targets; (2) semantic gap acc...

Can you run from your worries? The effects of exercise on anxiety-like behaviour and immune signaling in female and male mice

ABSTRACT Exercise is a positive health behaviour associated with improved mood. However, the mechanisms underlying the benefits of exercise on affective health are unclear, particularly with respect to type of exercise and sex. Chronic exercise decreases neuroinflammation, which...

Plea Bargaining in the United States Military

Abstract This article offers a primer on plea bargaining in the U.S. military justice system. American military justice is like criminal justice in the rest of the country in that the lion’s share of cases are plea bargained. But there are key differences between military and civ...

Novel green TiO₂ nanoparticles from Corchorus olitorius leaf extract for solar and UV photocatalytic degradation of methylene blue and tetracycline

<title>Abstract</title> Titanium dioxide nanoparticles (TiO ₂ NPs) were synthesized via environmentally friendly approach using <italic>Corchorus olitorius</italic> (also known as Molokhia) leaf extract. This represents the first enquiry into <italic>Corchorus olitoriu...

Object localization in images via fusion of SFM and YOLO

<title>Abstract</title> Along with the rapid development of computer vision, unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) technology, and autonomous driving, the precise acquisition of coordinate information for captured objects in geospatial space has become a core requirement for numerous app...

The Astrocyte Clock Controls Circadian Perineuronal Net Remodeling, Synapse Strength and Learning Behavior

The circadian clock controls a vast array of cellular and organismal functions, from the molecular scale to behavior. While each cell is regimented by a cell-autonomous clock, few studies in the brain have dissected the circuit and behavioral contributions of cell-specific clocks...

Contrast-free super-resolution ultrasound imaging for microvascular assessment of murine subcutaneous tumour models in preclinical oncology

<title>Abstract</title> <bold>Introduction</bold> . Tumour vascularity is an important biomarker of tumour growth and therapeutic response. Current in vivo imaging methods have a limited ability to detect individual tumour vessels due to the small vessel size and low flow rates c...

Molecular characterization of mismatch repair deficient tumors in young Jordanian patients

<title>Abstract</title> In Jordan, approximately 19% of colorectal carcinomas (CRCs) in patients younger than 45 years show mismatch repair deficiency (MMRD) by immunohistochemistry (IHC). MMRD in pediatric high-grade gliomas (HGG) and CRC in Jordan appears substantially more fre...

Biocontrol of tomato soilborne diseases by fungivorous nematode Aphelenchoides bicaudatus

<title>Abstract</title> Crop soil-borne diseases caused by pathogens, such as Fusarium spp. and root-knot nematodes, contribute to substantial yield losses worldwide. This study investigated the biocontrol potential of the fungivorous nematode, Aphelenchoides bicaudatus isolate A...

High current speed events in a harbor channel driven by resonant sub-hourly sea level dynamics: an example from Varna, Black Sea

Abstract. Current and sea-level observations in the 2.4-km-long, 300-m-wide channel between Varna Lake and the Black Sea, conducted by three novel Hydromast stations with a 1-minute resolution, revealed that moderate sub-hourly dynamics were occasionally interrupted by high-ampli...

Aggregation behavior and intraspecific interactions among ring-necked snakes

Sociality, broadly defined as the property or tendency of a species to live in groups with conspecifics for at least part of their life cycle, has convergently evolved multiple times. While there has historically been a dearth of research on sociality in squamate reptiles, recent...