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Metropolis-scale resilient and trustworthy traffic flow inference using multi-source data

Inferring network-wide traffic states from sparse observations with high accuracy and trustworthy uncertainty quantification is essential for intelligent transportation systems, yet it remains challenging due to the underdetermined nature of the problem, multifaceted disturbances...

Two-point enstrophy dynamics in homogeneous isotropic turbulence

In the present work we investigate the multiscale dynamics of enstrophy in homogeneous isotropic turbulence by exploiting the two-point formalism provided by the Kármán-Howarth-Monin-Hill approach. The study is conducted on direct numerical simulations with a Taylor-based Reynold...

Half-Flips are 5-Avoidable

A word contains a half-flip if it contains non-empty factors [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text] where [Formula: see text]. Fici reports a non-constructive proof of the existence of an infinite word over a finite alphabet avoiding half-flips and asks for the size of the s...

Nut consumption and musculoskeletal health: a systematic review

Background: Age-related functional decline, frailty, sarcopenia, and disability contribute to loss of independence and financial burden in aging populations. Nuts contain bioactive compounds, including polyphenols, antioxidants, vitamins, minerals, and unsaturated fatty acids tha...

Spatial Statistics for Screening Molecular Structures

ABSTRACT The dominant paradigm in computational materials discovery relies on heavily parameterized deep architectures, including message‐passing graph and equivariant networks, that typically require large density functional theory (DFT)‐labeled training sets and produce nonconv...

The Blurring of Reality in the Age of AI: Development of the AI-Induced Reality Perception Confusion Scale and Its Association with Generative AI Literacy and AI Anxiety

This study sought to develop the AI-induced Reality Perception Confusion Scale (AI-RPCS) and investigate the mediating role of AI-induced reality perception confusion in the association between GenAI literacy and AI anxiety. In Study I (N = 355), exploratory factor analysis revea...

Identification and Characterization of Surfactant Binding Sites on the SARS-CoV-2 Spike Protein and Its Variants by Microseconds-Long Molecular Dynamics Simulations

Abstract While airborne coronavirus virions penetrate respiratory airways, lung surfactants (LS) adsorb on spike proteins and may hinder their binding to cell receptors. In this work, we utilize microsecond-long unbiased and adaptive sampling molecular dynamics simulations perfor...

Efficient Quasi-Resonant, Polarization-Selective Excitation of GaN Quantum Emitters

Abstract Defect centers in gallium nitride (GaN) emerge as bright sources of single photons, which recently have been demonstrated to optically interface a localized spin. However, the structure and composition of these defects as well as their efficient excitation techniques hav...

Genome-wide association study of conjugated pneumococcal vaccine antibody responses in South African infants

Abstract Pneumococcal conjugate vaccines have substantially reduced global mortality, yet the genetic basis of vaccine-induced immunity is unclear. We analysed host genetic determinants of PCV7-induced IgG responses in 1017 South African infants. No genome-wide significant associ...

Genotype-specific molecular and functional trajectories in NGLY1 deficiency: a comparative multi-omics study of patient-derived iPSC neurons

Background NGLY1 deficiency is an ultra-rare congenital disorder of deglycosylation with prominent neurodevelopmental impairment and marked allelic heterogeneity. Prior human neuronal models have characterized NGLY1 loss largely within single genetic backgrounds, leaving open whe...

Calculating extremely high-energy bremsstrahlung in matter

Ultra-relativistic electrons initiate electromagnetic showers in ordinary matter that evolve through bremsstrahlung and pair production. At very high energy, the quantum mechanical duration of bremsstrahlung becomes longer than the mean free time to elastically scatter from the m...

Inverse materials design via joint generation of crystal structures and local electronic descriptors

Inverse design of inorganic crystals, in which structures are generated to satisfy a target property while preserving diversity and physical plausibility, remains more demanding than ab initio generation, as property conditioning can degrade the structural quality that current ge...

Separability from multipartite measures

We show that the third-order negativity provides a necessary and sufficient criterion for full separability of tripartite pure states, and extend this to mixed states beyond bipartite diagnostics such as negativity. As a minimal nontrivial example, a four-qubit pure state has thr...

MechaScreener: Large language model-based automated screening for systematic reviews and research

Systematic reviews are the gold standard for evidence synthesis, but the manual title and abstract screening of thousands of references creates a severe bottleneck. Existing automated tools have historically struggled to achieve the near-perfect recall (sensitivity) required for...

Creating Sanctuary Before and After Trent. The Architectural Screen at The Santuario Di Mongiovino

This article takes as its point of departure an unusual architectural screen to be found in one of the many sanctuary churches erected in Central Italy in the early Cinquecento. Begun in 1524, the Santuario di Mongiovino, in Western Umbria, was built to enshrine a late medieval f...

Tidal heating of stellar clusters in fuzzy dark matter halos

Ultra-faint dwarf galaxies serve as powerful testing grounds for wave dark matter models through dynamical stellar heating. Previous simulation-based work derived a lower bound on the fuzzy dark matter particle mass using a diffusion approximation valid only when the de Broglie w...

An assessment of lunar photometry in AERONET

AERONET has been acquiring direct beam lunar observations at six wavelengths from 440 to 1640 nm from most newer model T CIMEL sun-sky radiometers in the network for many years and producing a night-time AOD data set, which currently includes observations at 492 sites dating back...

Emergence of dual axion response in condensed matter

Recently, it was predicted that nonreciprocal magneto-electric effect in antiferromagnetic multilayered metamaterials occurs in two distinct versions. One is the conventional axion response, while another one is dual axion response captured by electrodynamics with magnetic charge...

Measurement report: Soil reactive nitrogen gas emissions in the Tibetan Plateau

Abstract. The Tibetan Plateau, highly sensitive to climate change, exerts strong atmospheric oxidation capacity partly through rapid cycling of atmospheric reactive nitrogen (Nr). Soil Nr emissions play a crucial role in atmospheric nitrogen cycling and oxidation capacity, yet th...

Finite element model updating of building structures under seismic excitation: A parallelized latent space-based Bayesian framework

Enhancing seismic fragility and risk assessment of nuclear power plants relies on accurate prediction of reactor building responses to seismic hazards, which can be further improved through dynamic analysis of high-fidelity finite element (FE) models. However, FE models often exh...