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Hypoxia-activated scleraxis a mediates epicardial progenitor differentiation into a unique cardiac perivascular cell type

Abstract The epicardium is a crucial source of progenitor cells and paracrine signals that support heart development and regeneration. However, the molecular mechanisms that guide epicardial cell fate decisions remain incompletely understood. Here, we identify the transcription f...

Reimagining public governance through the commons: prefigurative legality at play?

Abstract This article contributes to the emerging scholarship on prefigurative legality by prompting critical questions on the boundaries of prefigurative legality itself. The article does so by reviewing two selected experiments for creating urban commons in Italy. Both experime...

ConvRML: high-quality lensless imaging with random multi-focal lenslets

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Measurement Report: Quantitative analysis of aerosol acidity and its driving factors in Guanzhong area, Northwest China

Abstract. Aerosol acidity significantly affects atmospheric chemistry and human health, yet its driving factors remain controversial. This study systematically examined a year-long characteristics of water-soluble inorganic ions in PM2.5 in the semi-arid Guanzhong Plain, Northwes...

The impact of authorship and AI attitude on the perception of message credibility and author competence

Generative artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly changing the way information is conveyed which raises questions about the perception of author competence and message credibility. This study examines the extent to which the type of author (human vs. AI) and the gender of t...

The profinite rigidity of torsion-free lamplighter groups

Abstract We prove that the torsion-free lamplighter group $$\Gamma = \mathbb {Z}^n \wr \mathbb {Z}$$ Γ = Z n ≀ Z of any rank $$n \in \mathbb {N}$$ n ∈ N is profinitely rigid in the absolute sense: the finite quotients of $$\Gamma $$ Γ determine its isomorphism type uniquely among...

The Shortest Path to Zionism: A Network Analysis of the US Nonprofit Industrial Complex

Activists have shown how the nonprofit industrial complex (NPIC) co-opts grassroots social movements, and how the dependence on donors limits what nonprofits can say or do—especially concerning Palestine. Yet the NPIC is rarely analyzed as a whole system. This article analyzes th...

Using LIDAR and SNOTEL data for evaluating the performance of snow water equivalent retrieval using Sentinel-1 repeat-pass interferometry

Abstract. Accurate estimation of snow water equivalent (SWE) at high spatial and temporal resolution remains a critical challenge for hydrologic prediction and climate monitoring. Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) provides a promising approach for retrieving SWE by...

AutoEDA: Enabling EDA Flow Automation through Microservice-Based LLM Agents

Electronic Design Automation (EDA) remains heavily reliant on tool command language (Tcl) scripting to drive complex RTL-to-GDSII flows. This scripting-based paradigm is labor-intensive, error-prone, and difficult to scale across large design projects. Recent advances in large la...

Boundaries of Multiply Connected Fatou Components: A Unified Approach

Abstract We analyze the boundaries of multiply connected Fatou components of both rational and transcendental maps by means of universal covering maps and associated inner functions. A unified approach is presented, which includes invariant Fatou components (of any type) as well...

Histopathology and spatial transcriptomics jointly map myofiber-specific pathological programs in mTORC1-driven myopathy

Skeletal muscle is a structurally organized and functionally diverse organ composed of heterogeneous myofiber types and supporting non-myocyte populations that act in concert to generate force, regulate metabolism, and maintain systemic homeostasis. Myopathies occur in many diffe...

Drosha in mesangial cells regulates glomerular capillary tufts formation through drosha/ribosome/Gata3 axis

Abstract Drosha is a critical regulator of kidney development; its loss or mutation, identified in a subsets of Wilms tumor (WT), a pediatric kidney cancer, leads to nephric cap mesenchyme developmental defects. Here, we investigated the role of Drosha in mesangial cells and its...

Minimal Dispersion on the Sphere

Abstract The minimal spherical cap dispersion $${{\,\textrm{disp}\,}}_{\mathcal {C}}(n,d)$$ disp C ( n , d ) is the largest number $$\varepsilon \in (0,1]$$ ε ∈ ( 0 , 1 ] such that, for every n points on the d -dimensional Euclidean unit sphere $$\mathbb {S}^d$$ S d , there exist...

Extreme Event Aware (η-) Learning

Quantifying and predicting rare and extreme events is challenging because such events are infrequent, severe, and expensive to simulate. Existing data-driven methods often require multiple extremes in the training data or sampling process, leading to accurate predictions in quies...

Neural encoding of symbolic, non-symbolic, and embodied non-symbolic numerical information in young and older adults

Numeracy has important implications across the lifespan, and age-related decline in this ability represents a vulnerability factor for older adults in managing everyday tasks, yet its mechanisms remain poorly understood. This study employed a parity judgment task to examine age-r...

Excited state preparation on a quantum computer through adiabatic light-matter coupling

Abstract Quantum computing has the potential to transform simulations of quantum many-body problems at the heart of electronic structure theory. Efficient quantum algorithms to compute the eigenstates of fermionic Hamiltonians, such as quantum phase estimation, rely critically on...

Unveiling the Immune Mechanisms of Hypertension With Single‐Cell Transcriptome‐Wide Mendelian Randomization

Immune dysregulation is closely implicated in hypertension pathogenesis, yet specific therapeutic targets are lacking. We integrated expression quantitative trait loci (eQTLs) for genes expressed in 14 immune cell subsets (OneK1K) with two-sample Mendelian randomization (MR) and...

Severe Infections as a Novel Risk‐Enhancing Factor for Incident Heart Failure

ABSTRACT Background Severe infections might be a novel risk marker for incident heart failure (HF). We examined the relationship between infection-related hospitalization (IRH) and HF in a large clinical health system and assessed whether adding IRH improved predictive utility of...

High prevalence of resistance to first-line drugs and multidrug resistance in patients with tuberculosis and type 2 diabetes mellitus at a referral hospital in Peru

ABSTRACT Introduction The coexistence of tuberculosis (TB) and type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) poses an emerging public health challenge, especially in high-TB-burden settings such as Peru. This comorbidity has been linked to unfavorable clinical outcomes and a higher likelihood...

Solving Mean-Field Games with Monotonicity Methods in Banach Spaces

Abstract. This paper develops a unified framework for proving the existence of solutions to stationary first-order mean-field games (MFGs) based on the theory of monotone operators in Banach spaces. We cast the coupled MFG system as a variational inequality, overcoming the limita...