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Successful bark-beetle biocontrol. A review of the only case in history Releasing Rhizophagus grandis in Georgia, France, Britain and Türkiye against Dendroctonus micans

The bark beetle Dendroctonus micans (Kug.) (Coleoptera, Curculionidae, Scolytinae), a pest of spruce and pine, probably originates from eastern Siberia. Its closest relative is the North American D. punctatus (LeConte), on the other side of the Behring Strait. D. micans has large...

Ensemble-Based Descriptor Analysis of Flexible Odorants: Conformational Landscapes of Geraniol, Nerol, and Linalool

Abstract Conformational flexibility remains a central challenge in the molecular modeling of odorants because thermally accessible structures may differ from the potential-energy minima identified in conformational searches. Here, we combine automated conformational exploration,...

Current dynamics, drivers, and vertical thermal structure around Sir Bu Nair Island (Arabian/Persian Gulf)

Abstract. Sir Bu Nair Island (SBN) in the central Arabian Gulf is one of the last locations in the UAE’s Gulf waters to retain extensive and well developed coral reefs, whereas many nearshore environments have experienced severe degradation following recurrent marine heatwaves. A...

Spectral signatures of zenith sky radiance from surface-based sky radiometers: implications for clear- and cloudy-sky detection

Abstract. Accurate identification of clear- and cloudy-sky conditions is essential for reliable aerosol and cloud retrievals from ground-based remote sensing observations. This study investigates the spectral characteristics of zenith radiances measured by SKYNET sky radiometers...

Evaluation of Physics-Based Pose Prediction and the Role of Receptor Flexibility in a Community Antiviral Blind Challenge

Abstract Prediction of protein–ligand binding modes is a key step in computer-aided drug design, since incorrect pose prediction inevitably limits the achievable accuracy of downstream physics-based affinity predictions. The ASAP-Polaris-OpenADMET antiviral competition was launch...

Role of local structural variation in x-ray photoelectron spectrum of silicon oxide interfaces

We show that the broad X-ray photoelectron lines of silicon oxide on silicon arise from a continuous statistical distribution of core-level binding energies. Statistical simulations spanning compositions from Si to SiO$_2$ reproduce the full extent of this broadening, reaching 5...

High‐Speed Electrically Driven Liquid‐Crystal Compact Optical Skyrmion Encoder

ABSTRACT Optical skyrmions are topologically nontrivial polarization textures with intrinsic robustness under external perturbations, making them promising carriers for disturbance‐resistant optical information transmission. However, existing optical skyrmion generation schemes m...

Hydrodynamic resistance on oscillating planar interfacial bodies

We study the unsteady dynamics of floating planar bodies undergoing lateral oscillations along an air--water interface. Scaling arguments indicate that when the viscous penetration depth and oscillation amplitude are both small compared to the body size, the flow beneath the body...

Probing spin configurations in exchange-coupled magnetic bilayers with orthogonal anisotropies via anomalous Hall and Nernst effects

When two ferromagnetic thin films with different magnetic easy axes are coupled via the exchange interaction, the magnetization process becomes nontrivial. In this paper, we demonstrate that three-dimensional magnetization information in such a bilayer system can be accessed elec...

Strong counterexamples to a supersaturation question of Ma–Yuan

For a graph 𝐹 , let ℎ 𝐹 ⁡ ( 𝑛 , 𝑞 ) be the minimum number of copies of 𝐹 in an 𝑛 -vertex graph with e x ⁡ ( 𝑛 , 𝐹 ) + 𝑞 edges, where e x ⁡ ( 𝑛 , 𝐹 ) is the maximum number of edges in an 𝑛 -vertex 𝐹 -free graph. Let 𝑐 ⁡ ( 𝑛 , 𝐹 ) be the minimum number of copies obtained by adding...

Full nonlinear velocity reconstruction with transformer and ensemble tree machine learning

Accurate reconstruction of peculiar velocities from galaxy positions is important for probing the motion and evolution of large scale structure. They are sensitive to the cosmological effects of gravity and dark sector matter, and complement other velocity inference methods such...

A GeoAI framework for remote-sensing-driven traffic activity and emission intensity in a data-scarce megacity

================================================================================FRAMEWORK PIPELINE LOGIC – GeoAI for Traffic Activity & Exposure Mapping================================================================================ This document explains how the six core scripts...

Sequence models reveal diagnosis accumulation pathways beyond comorbidity burden in population-scale hospital data

Aging trajectories vary among individuals of similar age and disease burden. Comorbidity indices, e.g. the Elixhauser index, summarize conditions cross-sectionally, but discard the timing, sequence, and pace of morbidity accumulation. Here we ask whether longitudinal hospital dia...

Why Large Language Models will Never be Embodied: A Categorical, Not Engineering, Impossibility

Abstract A persistent ambition in artificial intelligence research holds that large language models (LLMs) will eventually become embodied—through attachment to robots, augmentation with multimodal sensors, integration into vision–language–action architectures, or sheer scale unt...

Sequential Generalized Kernel Equating: Providing Comparable Scores Across Multiple Test Forms With Nonequivalent Groups and Differently Measured Covariates

Test equating using covariates may be applied to provide comparable scores from multiple test forms when no anchor items are available. However, its performance may be compromised if some of the covariates themselves are measured using different test forms. In this work, we propo...

Critical Hawkes processes with random fertilities: Stationarity in law beyond infinite mean activity

Genuinely critical dynamics have been proposed to organize many natural and social systems, yet exact criticality is usually thought to preclude stationarity because the mean activity diverges. I show that this conclusion is not generally valid for self-exciting Hawkes point proc...

Detecting Methylation in MCF7 Cells with a Combination of SCX- and No-Enrichment Methods

Abstract Methylation is an important post-translational modification that impacts cellular processes. Yet, protein methylation remains analytically challenging to study by proteomics due to variable methylation stoichiometry and the lack of broadly applicable enrichment strategie...

DefectReviewer: Towards Generating Defect-Focused Review Comment Based on Fine-Grained Defect Localization

Code review is critical to software quality assurance, with defect detection as a primary objective. While LLMs enable automated review comment generation, most approaches treat code review as a general-purpose task, favoring frequent but low-risk feedback. We propose DefectRevie...

EXTREME LEAST SINGULAR VALUES OF GAUSSIAN ROW SUBMATRICES AND A PHASE RETRIEVAL STABILITY PROBLEM

Abstract Let F $\mathbb {F}$ double struck upper F be either R $\mathbb {R}$ double struck upper R or C $\mathbb {C}$ double struck upper C , and put d F = dim R ⁡ F $d_{\mathbb {F}}=\dim _{\mathbb {R}}\mathbb {F}$ d Subscript double struck upper F Baseline equals dimension Subsc...

Barrel Aging Gins: A Chemical and Kinetic Analysis of Flavor and Color Development

Abstract Barrel aging has long been used to alter the flavors of spirits. For gins, however, barrel aging is a relatively new process. While spirit aging has been studied in detail, the effect of barrels on the delicate flavors of gin and the balance of these flavors with those e...