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Imaging Earth’s subsurface with thunderstorm-generated seismic waves

Thunder generates atmospheric acoustic waves that couple into the ground, producing seismic signals called “thunderquakes.” Although widely observed, this atmosphere-solid Earth conversion has rarely been exploited for imaging because the coupled wavefield is complex and its gove...

Weather-based prediction of black locust (Robinia pseudoacacia L.) honey yield and quality: a reproducible computational system with operational deployment

Black locust (Robinia pseudoacacia L.; marketed as “acacia”) honey production in South Korea—accounting for over 70% of national honey output—has been increasingly affected by weather-driven disturbances, resulting in substantial production declines, notably in 2018 and 2020 ( Ki...

Fragrance-Free Policies: A Scoping Review of Definitions, Implementation, and Gaps

Background: Fragrance-free policies are increasingly adopted to improve indoor air quality and reduce fragrance exposure linked to adverse health outcomes and accessibility barriers. This scoping review mapped the evidence on fragrance-free policies across sectors. Methods: Follo...

Dysregulated adult hippocampal neurogenesis in major depressive disorders

Major depressive disorder (MDD) is associated with reduced hippocampal volume, altered connectivity and negative memory bias, suggesting disrupted hippocampal plasticity. Dysregulated adult hippocampal neurogenesis is a potential contributor, but its relevance in humans and role...

Interpretable distillation reveals that deep learning splicing models suffer from pervasive confounders and blind spots

BACKGROUND: Predicting RNA splicing from genomic sequence is a crucial task for understanding gene regulation and interpreting genetic variation. Recent deep learning advancements have led to splicing prediction algorithms that achieve state-of-the-art performance compared to ear...

When opposition leaders speak: personalisation and question time in Australia

Question Time is a highly visible and adversarial parliamentary arena central to executive accountability, yet increasing personalisation may redirect scrutiny from collective party actors to individual leaders. This article analyses personalisation in Australian Question Time us...

Technical note: A Water Analysis Trailer for Environmental Research (WATER)

Abstract. In complex hydrological systems, flow path dynamics, water storage and mixing, and biogeochemical processing vary in space and may change rapidly during events. Understanding source areas, connectivity and short-term dynamics in stream water quality therefore requires h...

Metabolomic fingerprinting from dried blood spots enables individual identification across 1,257 participants at 94% user-level accuracy

Abstract Background Constructing digital twins in healthcare requires biological data sources that are simultaneously informative, dynamic, and practical for routine collection. Dried blood spot (DBS) sampling combined with untargeted metabolomics is well suited to meet these req...

Representation of the nitrogen cycle and its coupling with the carbon cycle in ISBA (SURFEX v9) the land surface model: evaluation using two Free-Air CO 2 Enrichment experiment sites

Abstract. Nitrogen (N) is a critical nutrient, that controls photosynthesis and decomposition processes. It is important to include the N cycle in the land component of climate models to improve the exchange fluxes of CO2 between land and atmosphere. We present here the implement...

Quality-controlled active learning via Gaussian processes for robust structure–property learning in autonomous microscopy

Abstract Autonomous experimental systems are increasingly used in materials research to accelerate scientific discovery, but their performance is often limited by low-quality, noisy data. This issue is especially problematic in data-intensive structure–property learning tasks suc...

Little Red Dots host Black Hole Stars: A unified family of gas-reddened AGN revealed by JWST/NIRSpec spectroscopy

Abstract We construct and characterise a sample of 146 little red dots (LRDs) across 2.0 < z < 9.3, selecting all sources with v-shaped UV-optical continua from JWST NIRSpec/PRISM spectra and compact morphologies in NIRCam/F444W imaging. We show that LRD continuum spectra are wel...

Grounding-line dynamics in a Stokes ice-flow model (Elmer/Ice v9.0): improved numerical stability allows larger time steps

Abstract. The efficient and accurate simulation of grounding line dynamics in marine ice-sheet models remains a challenge, largely due to restrictive time-step limitations. The restrictive time step size of ice-sheet simulations (∼ ∆t = 0.01−0.5 years) has led to the routine use...

Time-surrogate variables enhance the association between cardiotocographic features and intrapartum hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy

Abstract Background Interruptions to the flow of oxygenated blood to the fetal brain during labor can lead to hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy (HIE). Timely preventive interventions for suspected hypoxemia are crucial to avoid progression to neurological injury. Prior research has...

Transforming healthcare education: integrating the WHO rehabilitation competencies framework into interprofessional curricula

Abstract Background: The 2020 World Health Organization Rehabilitation Competencies Framework (RCF) provides a comprehensive foundation for developing interprofessional competencies across rehabilitation disciplines. However, limited awareness and systematic integration of this f...

Numerical proof-of-concept of nanofoam-based targets for proton acceleration and high-energy photon and positron generation in strong fields

A source of high-energy photons, ions, and positrons can be attained with the interaction of ultra-intense femtosecond laser pulses with advanced nanostructured targets. We present and characterise a numerical model that mimics the foam deposition process on solid substrates, as...

Persistent influence of the North Atlantic Oscillation on Late Holocene hydroclimate in southwestern Greenland

Abstract Understanding how global climate forcing shapes regional hydroclimate on decadal to millennial timescales is critical for predicting the response of continental ice sheets to future warming. Because instrumental observations capture only a short interval, longer-term per...

Enabling stable preservation of ML algorithms in high-energy physics with petrifyML

Machine learning (ML) in high-energy physics (HEP) has moved in the LHC era from an internal detail of experiment software, to an unavoidable public component of many physics data analyses. Scientific reproducibility thus requires that it be possible to accurately and stably pres...

Modular Transformations of Tau Functions and Conformal Blocks on the Torus

Abstract The connection problem for isomonodromic tau functions on the one-punctured torus concerns the ratio between the tau function and its modular transform, associated to dual pants decompositions of the torus. In this paper, we study the modular transformations of the tau f...

An ab initio foundation model of wavefunctions that accurately describes chemical bond breaking

Abstract Reliable description of bond breaking remains a major challenge for quantum chemistry due to the multireference character of the electronic structure in dissociating species. Multireference methods in particular suffer from large computational cost, which under the norma...

The information content of private information acquisition: evidence from FOIA requests to the SEC

Abstract This study examines whether Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests to the Securities and Exchange Commission convey value-relevant information about publicly traded firms and whether sophisticated investors trade on that information. Our empirical analysis reveals he...