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Hail trajectories under climate change: disentangling the roles of moisture, melting level and updraft kinematics

Abstract Large hail is expected to become more frequent under climate change. However, uncertainties remain because storm dynamics and hail formation are imperfectly captured by environmental hail proxies and in convection-permitting models, which are the two most frequently used...

The ABC classification of exotic nuclei: a proposal

Abstract The large number of existing nuclear species and the long list of their possible different exotic properties, such as presence of a halo ( A ), Borromean structure ( B ), clusterization ( C ) and others, calls for a classification scheme that is universal, concise, categ...

The quasi-star model for little red dots: Potential and challenges

Little red dots (LRDs) are a class of sources discovered by the Space Telescope observationally defined by a V-shaped rest-frame UV-optical spectral energy distribution, a compact or unresolved morphology, and, frequently, broad hydrogen emission lines. How these characteristics...

Metagenomic sequencing analysis of respiratory pathogens in the Jiangsu region of China: a multicenter epidemiological study (2025)

Abstract Background Acute respiratory infection (ARI) ranks as the leading cause of morbidity and mortality among children worldwide. Targeted metagenomic next-generation sequencing (tNGS) allows unbiased and comprehensive pathogen detection. This study aimed to investigate the e...

Beyond manufacturing-led growth: institutional quality and regime-dependent structural transformation

Why do economies that undertake broadly similar industrial and institutional reforms follow markedly different growth trajectories? This study reassesses the manufacturing-led growth hypothesis by examining whether the gains from structural transformation vary across growth regim...

Metabolomic signatures of the steroid biosynthesis driving sex differences in clinical asthma subtypes

Background: Asthma is a heterogeneous disease with well-documented sex differences in prevalence. However, the sex-specific and pubertal effects of inhaled corticosteroids on endogenous steroid metabolites and their relationship with asthma-related clinical outcomes remain poorly...

Navigating Large Chemical Spaces Using Graph Theory and Integer Programming

Abstract Navigating and analyzing large chemical spaces are necessary to accelerate the design and discovery of new molecules and chemical processes. In this work, we introduce a computational framework that integrates graph theory and integer programming to enable the efficient...

Selective activation of nerve fiber subpopulations with intrafascicular stimulation

Background: Peripheral nerve stimulation (PNS) is most effective when specific nerve fiber subpopulations are activated, while minimizing off-target activation, which may cause undesirable side effects. This selectivity depends primarily on electrode design and charge delivery. W...

Does Your Mapped Variable Add Up? Statistical Guardrails for Web-Based Cartogram Generation

Data and code accompanying the paper. Area cartograms are appropriate only when area represents a meaningful total rather than a derived quantity such as a density, rate, or percentage. This repository contains subnational (admin-1) data for 3,591 administrative divisions across...

GWSWEX v1.0: a dual-solver 1D unsaturated zone model for mass-conservative groundwater recharge and runoff computation in distributed hydrological modelling

Abstract. Faithful numerical representation of the coupled groundwater (GW)–unsaturated-zone (UZ)–surface-water (SW) dynamics at regional scales is constrained by the structural extremes currently available: fully three-dimensional Richards-equation solvers resolve variably satur...

Design and Structure of Protein Cages Based on Helical Fusion and Machine Learning

ABSTRACT Self-assembling protein cages are versatile nanoscale architectures with broad applications in drug delivery, vaccine development, and structural biology. Historically, two main strategies have been used to construct such cages: genetic fusion of oligomeric domains conne...

Connecting earth observation anomalies to farmer surveys for monitoring impacts of agricultural drought on rainfed rice yields in Nigeria

Abstract. Agricultural drought threatens rainfed rice production in Nigeria, where smallholder farmers depend on rainfall and have limited capacity to buffer climate shocks. While meteorological drought indices such as the SPI and the SPEI are widely used in national early warnin...

Dust radiative effects and impact on energy production over the Mediterranean Basin

Abstract. Atmospheric aerosols are among the key factors affecting the Earth’s radiation budget, playing a fundamental role in understanding climate forcing, feedback mechanisms, and their impact on future climate projections and on solar energy systems. More specifically, dust a...

Lipid Composition Modulates Secondary Structure at the Biocondensate–Membrane Interface

Biomolecular condensates (BMCs) formed through liquid-liquid phase separation (LLPS) play key roles in cellular organization, yet their molecular-scale interactions with membranes remain poorly understood. Here, we use surface-enhanced infrared absorption spectroscopy (SEIRAS) to...

Agricultural drought monitoring with Sentinel-1 cross‑ratio in heterogeneous tropical agriculture: a Mozambique case study

Agricultural drought monitoring is essential for food security in tropical regions where rain-fed agriculture predominates. Operational early warning systems rely primarily on optical vegetation indices, but cloud cover limits their usability during critical growing periods. SAR...

Omega-u Civilizational Framework — Works 22–23: Triadic Compatibility Protocol, Convergence Clock, and Executable Orchestration Prototype with Real LLM Integration

W22+W23: Triadic Compatibility, Convergence Lifecycle and Executable Orchestration W22 supplies the compatibility theory, the convergence clock and — new at v0.4 — an integrated convergence lifecycle. W23 supplies an executable orchestration protocol for triads of real language m...

THE JUSTIKA DOCTRINE: Thermodynamic Dependency, Informational Heat Death, and the Architecture of Biological Sovereignty

This monograph presents of the Justika Doctrine, a definitive theoretical biophysics and cyber-systems framework that fundamentally redefines the ontological and structural purpose of the human species within a simulated, hyper-accelerated computational substrate. Contrary to ort...

Towards integrated rock support visualisation in 3D point cloud of underground mines

The effectiveness of rock support in underground mines depends on the interaction between installed rock bolts and the structural fabric of the surrounding rock mass. However, discontinuity characterisation and rock bolt identification are commonly treated as separate tasks, limi...

Evidence of hydrodynamic control of phytoplankton seasonality in a tropical urban estuary

Tropical urban estuaries receive year-round nutrient loads, yet their strongest phytoplankton blooms often occur in the dry season. The proximate control on this seasonality remains unresolved in wastewater-impacted tropical systems. Here we apply a transient one-dimensional Carb...

Elastic buckling analysis of platings with torsionally and warping restrained supports by truncated series expansion applied to a hierarchical trigonometric function set

The paper provides a new framework for the elastic buckling analysis of platings under linearly varying uniaxial loads, with torsionally and warping restrained longitudinal supports. The new method, based on the employment of a hierarchical trigonometric function set, allows anal...