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Seasonal wet–dry transitions reveal contrasting microbial stability and nutrient cycling across floodplain lake habitats

Abstract Saucer-shaped sub-lakes in floodplains undergo strong seasonal changes in water level and connectivity, but their microbial responses and roles in nutrient cycling remain poorly understood. Here we show, using 28 lake units across Lake Poyang, China, that seasonal hydrol...

Integrated Transcriptomic and Metabolomic Analyses Reveal the Auxin-Mediated Regulatory Network Governing Alfalfa Responses to Phosphorus Deficiency Stress

Auxin plays a positive role in plant responses to low-phosphorus stress. However, the molecular mechanisms underlying indole-3-acetic acid (IAA)-mediated responses to phosphorus deficiency in alfalfa remain poorly understood. Alfalfa (Medicago sativa L.) cultivar ‘Zhongmu No. 3’...

Where the Benchmark Can Err: Human Deviations from Model Forecasts and Their Return

Second study in a two-domain line on human-AI complementarity, following "Sharper, Not Safer" (chess, doi:10.5281/zenodo.22267168). It asks whether human deviation from a model forecast earns a return in a domain where the model itself can err, using the one ForecastBench round w...

Piezoelectric and Pyroelectric Materials in Advanced Biomedical Applications: Multifunctional Integration and Clinical Prospects

ABSTRACT Piezoelectric and pyroelectric materials are advancing a broad spectrum of biomedical technologies, the former interconverting mechanical and electrical energy and the latter converting thermal fluctuations into electrical signals. For biosensing and health monitoring, p...

AUGMENTING THE HUMAN INTELLECT - A PRACTICAL APPLICATION

Background. A polygenic score is a population-level instrument. When a percentile from one is returned to a single person, it is routinely read as a forecast of that person. This report examines what one such percentile does and does not license in the individual who carries it....

Study on Preparation and Hydration Mechanism of Sand Washing Residue Mud-Based LC3 Cement by Mechanical–Thermal Activation

To enhance the application value of sand washing residue mud (SWRM) and mitigate its adverse environmental impacts, this study focuses on the resource utilization of SWRM. The research employed a combined mechanical–thermal activation method to enhance the activity of SWRM and ut...

Impact of Osteoporosis Therapy in Geriatric Proximal Femur Fractures: A Retrospective Analysis from the German Registry for Geriatric Trauma (ATR-DGU®)

Background: Each year, hundreds of thousands of geriatric patients suffer proximal femur fractures, which often result in irreversible functional decline. Although anti-osteoporotic medications have been shown to reduce the incidence of fragility fractures, the effects of pharmac...

Human as Relation: How Do We Shape Our Relationship with AI from a Dialogue Perspective?

This study examines how human-AI relationships can be reinterpreted through a dialogue-centred perspective within the framework of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI). Building on Bødker’s three waves of HCI, we trace the evolving role of the human from a cognitive “factor” to an in...

The Potential of Non-Fungible Tokens for Fundraising: The Curious Case of a Successful Failure

Abstract Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) are unique digital assets stored on a blockchain that can be used to transfer value without relying on traditional payment intermediaries. In this paper, we present a case study of an action research project in which we apply NFTs to raise fund...

Phase II Monitoring of Dirichlet Profiles

ABSTRACT The quality of a product or a process is usually maintained by monitoring one or more of its quality characteristics. In some cases, these quality characteristics are highly correlated, and their sum must be equal to a constant, such data are referred to as compositional...

Sustainability paradox in South Asia driven by agriculture, natural resources, and energy transitions shaping ecological footprints

In South Asia, rapid economic growth and structural transformation intensify environmental pressures and ecological degradation with limited decoupling. This study examines how agricultural activity, natural resource dependence, and disaggregated energy use jointly influence the...

Unraveling the Scale Effect on Fracture Plugging: A Quantitative Study from Lab-Scale Slots to Field-Scale Fractures via Hydrodynamic Analysis

Abstract Conventional core-scale laboratory fracture-plugging tests may overestimate the ability of granular lost circulation materials (LCMs) to form a complete plugging zone under field-scale conditions. This discrepancy arises because the effects of increasing fracture length...

Tuning Free Volume via Diamine Structure in 6FDA ‐Based Polyimide Membranes for He/Ne Separation

ABSTRACT Helium and neon are strategically important noble gases in semiconductor manufacturing and cryogenic technologies, yet their similar molecular sizes and inertness make separation challenging. Although membrane‐based separation offers an energy‐efficient alternative to cr...

Nutrient Adequacy and Biological-Architecture Classification: A Two-Axis Framework for Evaluating Variable Fresh-Food Diets in Companion Animals

Standard regulatory compliance models evaluate companion-animal diets with a single scalar test: does each nutrient clear a defined floor? That test is indifferent to the source of the nutrient and to the long-term appropriateness of the food supplying it. We argue that the quali...

Hierarchical Hybrid Assembly: Programming Structural Complexity in Crystalline Materials

Abstract The design of crystalline materials has evolved from the construction of periodic frameworks toward increasingly complex architectures featuring ordered heterogeneity and emergent functions. Despite substantial progress in hybrid crystalline materials, a general framewor...

Fabrication of SiC/Al-Mg Composites via Binder Jetting 3D Printing and Infiltration: Effects of Mg Content and Infiltration Temperature

This study systematically investigates the effects of infiltration temperature (800 and 1000 °C) and magnesium (Mg) content (0, 5, and 10 wt.%) on the density, morphology, and chemical composition of silicon carbide/aluminum-magnesium (SiC/Al–Mg) composites. Poor wettability betw...

LAB #1945 PROMISING: LEDGER BENCH: Apply filter: Quarterly phase = ACCUMULATION — improves win rate from 32.0% to 44.2% ( — E8 Intelligence Research

IDEA: Adjustment made to the live model — verify against the backtests: Apply filter: Quarterly phase = ACCUMULATION — improves win rate from 32.0% to 44.2% (+12.2pp, n=120) SAME-WINDOW EFFECT: Applying the ACCUMULATION filter to the current live window would have blocked the two...

Unveiling hidden multiplicity in the TESS archive a systematic vetting of sub arcsecond stellar companions using Gaia DR3

We present a high-efficiency astrometric and photometric vetting pipeline to isolateunresolved sub-arcsecond stellar companions contaminating the TESS Objects of Interest(TOI) catalog. Instead of utilizing arbitrary sample thresholds or local processing constraints,we cross-match...

Unified Manifold Tensor: Comprehensive Technical Summary & Extended Analysis

This comprehensive technical summary outlines the Unified Manifold Tensor (T_{\mu\nu}), serving as the master integration layer that bridges microscopic quantum vacuum curvature, crystallographic net-displacement deformation, and macroscopic nonlinear field saturation into a sing...

Information asymmetry and alternative financing for SMEs: Evidence from credit unions in Ghana

This study examines SME credit accessibility through the lens of Information Asymmetry Theory, focusing on the mediating roles of credit history and cash flow stability as financial transparency mechanisms. Data from 205 respondents across 88 credit unions in Ghana were analyzed...