Research works

Evidence of vertical soil hydraulic heterogeneity regulating hydrothermal simulations in Qinghai–Tibetan Plateau wetlands

Abstract. Alpine wetlands on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau host vertically structured and highly contrasting pore systems that fundamentally shape land and atmosphere exchanges, yet their hydraulic expressions and process implications remain poorly quantified. This study provides t...

Task-specific theta enhancement and domain-general alpha/beta suppression as oscillatory signatures of cognitive flexibility

Abstract Cognitive flexibility–the ability to adapt to changing situational or task demands–is a fundamental aspect of human cognition and a potential source of individual differences in higher-order cognitive abilities. To further understand the neural mechanisms underlying this...

Model Context Protocol (MCP) Tool Descriptions Are Smelly! Towards Improving AI Agent Efficiency with Augmented MCP Tool Descriptions,

The Model Context Protocol (MCP) introduces a standard specification that defines how Foundation Model (FM)-based agents should interact with external systems by invoking tools. However, to understand a tool’s purpose and features, FMs rely on natural-language tool descriptions,...

The integrated benthic silicate flux in the Baltic Sea suggests a major land- or freshwater-derived reactive silicon source

Abstract. Coastal marine environments are hot spots in the global marine silicon (Si) cycle. Dissolved silicate (DSi) is an essential macronutrient for diatoms, which often dominate primary productivity in temporal coastal seas and constitute a key food source for grazers. Even t...

Questioning the G2 phase in the budding yeast cell cycle with a qualitative and possibilistic model

Abstract The budding yeast S. cerevisiae , a foundational model for cell cycle studies, exhibits a complex phase organisation (G1, S, G2/M) governed by checkpoints ensuring faithful cellular inheritance. However, the existence of a distinct G2 phase in yeast remains debated, with...

Thermodynamics of linear open quantum walks

Open quantum systems interact with their environment, leading to nonunitary dynamics. We investigate the thermodynamics of linear Open Quantum Walks (OQWs), a class of quantum walks whose dynamics is entirely driven by the environment. We define an equilibrium temperature, identi...

Measuring Youth Mental Health Vulnerability Across Communities: Development and Validation of ThriveAtlas

CONTEXT: Youth mental health is shaped by interacting individual, relational, and structural factors that vary across communities, yet few tools integrate these drivers into youth-specific, geographically granular measures for decision-making. OBJECTIVE: This study describes the...

Electric field controlled nonlinear anomalous Nernst effect in two-dimensional time-reversal symmetric systems

It's established that the nonlinear anomalous Nernst effect (NANE), originating from Berry curvature near the Fermi energy, is symmetry-permitted only when a single mirror symmetry exists in the transport plane of two-dimensional (2D) materials. Here, we show that an applied dire...

Interacting effects of droplet number and ice formation processes on mixed-phase cold-air outbreak clouds

Abstract. Shallow, mixed-phase clouds associated with cold-air outbreak (CAO) events are natural laboratories for studying mixed-phase cloud processes which are important for estimating cloud-phase feedback in the warming climate. Recent studies show that CAO clouds are sensitive...

Areal reduction factors from high-resolution rain gauges in Austria

Abstract. Areal Reduction Factors (ARFs) are widely used to convert point design precipitation derived from intensity–duration–frequency (IDF) curves into areal precipitation values for hydrological design. Despite their importance, ARFs remain highly uncertain, particularly for...

Leveraging Large Language Model Token Probabilities for Literature Review Abstract Filtering

Code for using LLMs to sort through literature review abstracts

Initial data analysis of the national German transplantation registry with a focus on kidney transplantation

Abstract This study presents an Initial Data Analysis (IDA) of the German Transplantation Registry (TxReg) data for a better data understanding and to inform future data analyses. The IDA is focusing on data on first-time kidney-only transplantations in adult recipients from dece...

Joint molecular optimization for efficient virtual screening via machine learning

Joint molecular optimization serves as the central focus of this research, which explores the synergistic integration of machine learning (ML) and virtual screening (VS) for drug discovery. This study addresses these limitations by integrating molecular docking and ML to predict...

Propagating meteorological uncertainty in physically based mountain snow modeling

Abstract. Snow estimation in mountainous regions is uncertain because meteorology varies with topography, in situ observations are sparse and biased, and snow models have structural and scale limitations. Probabilistic methods are increasingly recognized as essential for quantify...

OmniCosmos: Transferring Particle Physics Knowledge Across the Cosmos

Foundation models build an effective representation of data that can be deployed on diverse downstream tasks. Previous research showed that the , a foundation model for collider physics, could significantly advance discovery potential across collider experiments. In this paper, w...

Multi-AI agent framework reveals the “oxide gatekeeper” in aluminum nanoparticle oxidation

Aluminum nanoparticles (ANPs) are among the most energy-dense solid fuels, yet the atomic mechanisms governing their transition from passivated particles to highly reactive states remain elusive. This stems from a fundamental computational bottleneck: Ab initio methods offer quan...

Beyond wind-sector management: optimal wind farm operational planning for balancing fatigue damage and extending lifetime

Abstract. We present an optimization framework for long‑term wind farm operation that balances fatigue loads and energy yield to extend turbine and farm lifetime. The approach plans per‑turbine derating setpoints for discrete wind conditions using an engineering wake model and su...

Brief communication: Mass balance of glaciers in the Eastern Hindu Kush from 1979 to 2002 using KH-9 panoramic and SPOT-5 stereo imagery

Abstract. Glaciers exhibit region-specific mass loss patterns in response to ongoing climate change. In this study, we provide a geodetic mass balance assessment for glaciers within the Hindu Kush region spanning the period 1979–2002, utilizing KH-9 panoramic imagery and SPOT-5 s...

Economic impacts of subsea cable deployment

This paper provides a comprehensive empirical analysis of the economic impact of submarine cable (SMC) infrastructure, which is critical for global digital connectivity and carries almost all intercontinental data traffic. Despite their fundamental role in the digital economy, ro...

Multiscale Methods for Wave Propagation in Materials with Sign-Changing Coefficients

Abstract. From a mathematical perspective, the extraordinary properties of metamaterials are often reflected in the coefficients of the governing partial differential equations. These coefficients may fall outside the assumptions of classical theory, particularly when the effecti...