Research works

Impact of grain orientation architecture and boundary properties on chemo-mechanical cracking in NMC811 particles

Performance and lifetime of lithium-ion batteries are severely limited by fracture evolution in polycrystalline NMC811 particles. Yet, the roles of grain misorientation and microstructural architecture in governing both damage evolution and electrochemical response remain poorly...

ADAPT-Net: an adaptive dynamic attention and persistence-aware transformer for overlapping community detection in complex social networks

Overlapping community detection in dynamic complex networks is challenging because memberships evolve over time, interactions arrive irregularly, and genuine bridge roles must be distinguished from noisy multi-community assignments. The aim of this study is to develop and evaluat...

Quantitative comparison of fungal genome assembly strategies using short and long reads from simulated and empirical sequencing data

Abstract High-quality fungal reference genomes are essential for comparative, functional, and evolutionary studies, yet fungal genome features such as repeats, structural rearrangements, accessory chromosomes, and intron-rich genes can complicate genome assembly and the selection...

‘I read him much’: Agatha Christie and Poetry

This essay explores the pervasive and underexamined role of poetry in Agatha Christie's crime fiction, life writing, and creative practice. While Christie is rarely discussed as a poet or as a writer shaped by poetic traditions, her work is saturated with verse: from Shakespeare,...

Single-Frequency Symmetry-Empowered Through-Barrier Sensing in Reconfigurable Complex Media

Mirror symmetry can strongly enhance the transmission of waves through a barrier inside a complex medium. We recently showed that this phenomenon enables quantitative through-barrier sensing: by tuning programmable scatterers on one side of the barrier to maximize the broadband t...

Marine Pigments as Drugs, and Other Applications: Where Are We?

The use of different marine resources, including various colouring agents, is rooted in human history. They have been used as nutrients and medicaments and in luxury products. Readily available marine biological pigments (MBPs) are considered inexpensive materials, since they can...

Massive Early Seeds as a Phenomenological Framework for the Origin of High-Redshift Supermassive Black Holes

Supermassive black holes (SMBHs) with masses of 108–109 M⊙ are observed at redshifts z > 7– 10, corresponding to cosmic times less than 700 Myr after the Big Bang within ΛCDM cosmology. Recent JWST discoveries, including Little Red Dots (LRDs), compact galaxies hosting overmassiv...

Exposure–Lag Responses of Soybean Target Spot to Climatic Proxies: A Distributed Lag Nonlinear Modeling Approach

Target spot of soybean is strongly influenced by weather, but the major drivers of epidemics remain poorly understood. Using a dataset obtained in non-treated plots of 254 trials conducted across nine Brazilian states over 13 growing seasons, we applied a distributed lag nonlinea...

An improved lower bound for the three-dimensional Blaschke–Lebesgue problem from spectral and dual perspectives

The Blaschke–Lebesgue problem asks for convex bodies of minimum volume among all convex bodies of prescribed constant width. In the plane, the minimizer is the Reuleaux triangle, whereas the corresponding three-dimensional problem remains open and is also known as Meissner's conj...

Curvature–Interference Coupling Effect on Interlaminar Stress and Delamination Tendency in Riveted CFRP Laminates

Carbon fiber reinforced polymer (CFRP) composites are widely used in curved aerospace structures, where riveting-induced interlaminar damage is a critical concern. Existing studies have mainly focused on flat laminates, while the influence of structural curvature on rivet load tr...

Soil health assessment using buried cotton underpants with the help of 1000 citizen scientists

Societal Impact Statement Soil is a vital resource for life on Earth. Although many soils are degraded, societal awareness of soil‐related issues is limited. To highlight soil as a key resource and fascinating study system, we initiated a citizen science project together with 100...

A SRE-Dynamics Inspired Topological Paradigm for Composite Elementary Particles and Relational Space Emergence

Within the conceptual framework of Status‑Relational‑Entropy (SRE) Dynamics, this paper presents a qualitative‑probabilistic formulation for the topological configuration and emergent geometry of composite elementary particles. Traditional physical paradigms rely heavily on fine‑...

Quantum Interference Amplifies Weak Chirality into Giant Quantum Nonreciprocity

Quantum nonreciprocity at few-photon level typically requires strong symmetry breaking, posing significant experimental challenges. Here we demonstrate that phase-controlled quantum interference can amplify weak chirality into giant quantum nonreciprocity. We consider two phase-p...

From gingiva to brain: cadmium promotes stroke via vascular mechanisms in periodontitis while vitamin k protects

Abstract Aim To investigate systemic circulatory vascular immune mediators associated with the periodontitis–stroke link and to elucidate underlying cellular mechanisms. Methods We analyzed 4,164 adults from NHANES 2009–2014 using multivariable regression, restricted cubic spline...

Large-scale array of squeezed light and synchronization using atomic vapor

Abstract Quantum light sources such as squeezed light are essential for quantum information science and technologies, but the scalable production of multiple beams of them remains a challenge. Here, we experimentally demonstrate a novel approach to the generation of a large spati...

HO-1 Nuclear Interactome Implications in Neuroendocrine Transdifferentiation in Prostate Cancer

Neuroendocrine prostate cancer (NEPC) is characterized by androgen receptor (AR) independence and poor response to conventional therapies, highlighting the need to unveil the molecular mechanisms behind NEPC. We previously showed that heme oxygenase 1 (HO-1, encoded by HMOX1) tra...

Dashboard to support emergency department management

Emergency departments are complex, high-pressure settings that must deliver rapid, accurate and safe care to patients with widely varying levels of acuity, often under severe resource constraints. Dashboards have been proposed as decision-support tools to mitigate overcrowding an...

Engineering a terephthalate-responsive PobR biosensor for discovering PET-degrading microbes via cell-to-cell communication

Abstract Background Poly(ethylene terephthalate) (PET) is one of the most widely used synthetic plastics, yet its environmental accumulation continues to outpace effective recycling. Although PET-degrading enzymes and microorganisms have been reported, discovery of new PET-degrad...

Molecular overview of major salivary gland carcinomas in chilean patients: 2 case reports

Abstract Background Salivary gland tumors (SGTs) are rare neoplasms that account for 8.5 % of head and neck cancers and comprise a highly heterogeneous group of benign and malignant subtypes, according to the World Health Organization. In Chile, epidemiological and molecular data...

Seder Cognitivo And The Universe Of Instants: Why The Asymmetry Of Memory Is Not A Physical Problem But A Problem Of The Mind

This preprint introduces the concept of Cognitive Seder (from Hebrew seder, meaning order) as an active principle of the mind that scans and organizes static instants (Nows) into meaningful temporal sequences. Building on Julian Barbour's timeless universe of configurations, the...