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- Society & EconomicsOpen access
The Inadequacy of Selective Apologies
ABSTRACT This article examines the ethical shortcomings of selective apologies: cases in which a party apologises for one instance of injustice while refusing to apologise for others. Existing work on apologies has not addressed the particular kind of wrongdoing associated with t...
- BiologyOpen access
Previous experiments have shown that pretreatment of Escherichia coli with sub-lethal doses of antibiotic resulted in a measurable increase in capsule production and resistance upon secondary exposure. Whether this increase in capsule was directly implicated in antibiotic resista...
- Engineering & TechnologyOpen access
On the theory of bias tuning in event cameras
This paper lays the foundation for a theory of bias tuning in neuromorphic cameras, a novel sensing technology also known as “event cameras”. We begin by formulating the high-level effect of the sensitivity biases on the camera’s event rate in mathematical terms. We then show tha...
- BiologyOpen access
To determine whether the efflux pump and outer membrane protein system, AcrAB-TolC, in Escherichia coli could be upregulated for antibiotic cross-resistance, we carried out several assays comparing cells that were primed with an initial kanamycin treatment and cells that were not...
- Society & EconomicsOpen access
Parallax · Twin Tales No. 9 — Already Proven · Four Hundred and Twelve
A pair of short stories from Parallax · Twin Tales, which stage one real dilemma twice: Here, in the world as it is, with invented people in real rooms; There, in the world of Vision Come True, a future that split from ours in 2024 and never emerged. This pair belongs with the si...
- Society & EconomicsOpen access
In Finland, the health technology assessment (HTA) and healthcare funding model has been described as a multi-channel system, with separate procedures for outpatient and hospital medicines. Recent literature has highlighted the importance of context-sensitive judgement in healthc...
- Climate & EnvironmentOpen access
Abstract The coastal alluvial aquifer of Muravera, in south-eastern Sardinia (Italy), is affected by intense saltwater intrusion that seriously threatens freshwater supply. As groundwater overexploitation is often the main process controlling saltwater intrusion dynamics, it can...
- Health & MedicineOpen access
Abstract Influenza A viruses (IAV) remain a persistent One Health threat, and whole-genome sequencing from wastewater offers a promising surveillance tool. However, IAV is at low abundance in wastewater, making it difficult to sequence. We benchmark four targeted enrichment metho...
- Engineering & TechnologyOpen access
Proton exchange membrane fuel cell (PEMFC) performance is strongly affected by ionomer distribution within catalyst layers (CLs). In this study, five catalyst-coated membrane (CCM) configurations, with additional ionomer layers, uniform ionomer distribution, and gradient ionomer...
- Climate & EnvironmentOpen access
Bacteriophages can be used as a model for studying the dynamics of viral co-infection in a susceptible host. Escherichia coli strain C3000 was chosen as a common, susceptible host to determine the effect of competition on the lifecycle of MS2 co-infected with Φ X-174 or T7. Strai...
- BiologyOpen access
Handwriting Isochrony in Autistic and Non-Autistic Children
Handwriting difficulties are frequently reported in autistic children and may interfere with academic performance. However, whether fundamental motor principles such as isochrony are preserved in autism remains largely unexplored. To address this question, fifty-five autistic and...
- Health & Medicine
Rusfertide for Polycythemia Vera: Incremental Benefit Assessment
Rusfertide mechanism of action and clinical trial results in polycythemia vera.
- BiologyOpen access
An Ultraviolet Sterilization Protocol for Microtitre Plates
Ultraviolet radiation is a commonly used method of sterilization. The effect of UV radiation energy dose, exposure time, coverage, and presence of liquid on the efficiency of sterilization of polystyrene and polypropylene plates was investigated in this study. Regrowth of Escheri...
- Climate & EnvironmentOpen access
Soil bacterial composition varies based on a wide variety of factors and is responsible for much of soil nutrient cycling. To date, the correlations between microbial community composition, functional potential and different soil layers or horizons are not well studied. We invest...
- AI & ComputingOpen access
IDEA: Adjustment made to the live model — verify against the backtests: Apply filter: Min confirmations >= 5 — improves win rate from 32.6% to 34.1% (+1.5pp, n=1826) SAME-WINDOW EFFECT: Applying a minimum of 5 confirmations would have filtered out the two rizzy5m entries on 2026-...
- Physics & SpaceOpen access
The Topological Origin of k = 3: Why Geometry Fixes What 4D Dynamics Cannot Reach
We close the gap left open by Paper I (MCCT) regarding the compaction exponent k. We present two independent topological derivations of k = 3: (A) Kaluza-Klein dimensional reduction, and (B) dS/CFT holographic scaling. Both give k = 3 exactly. We also present three attempts to ob...
- Engineering & TechnologyOpen access
The Microbial Desalination Cell (MDC) is a system designed to augment traditional desalination techniques. This system enables the concurrent treatment of wastewater, electricity generation, and desalination. Through the simultaneous treatment of wastewater, reduction of salinity...
- AI & ComputingOpen access
Sharp Positivity Tests for Polynomial Hermitian Kernels
Let V be an r-dimensional space of complex polynomials and let P_k denote positivity on every k-point evaluation matrix. We prove that a Hermitian kernel supported on V is a holomorphic squared norm whenever it belongs to P_k and r is at most 2k. For every one-variable polynomial...
- Health & MedicineOpen access
Abstract Background Nausea and vomiting of pregnancy (NVP) are common in early gestation and can substantially impair quality of life and daily functioning. Plant-derived therapies have been evaluated for symptom relief, but comparative evidence remains uncertain because trials a...
- Climate & EnvironmentOpen access
Abstract Coral reefs are among the most productive marine ecosystems, sustained by the tight coupling between physiological processes and environmental conditions, in which nutrition plays a central regulatory role. This review synthesizes the multifactorial nutritional ecology o...