Research works

Topological control of local electroneutrality in confined electrolytes

Topology governs finite-size violations of local electroneutrality in confined electrolytes. Within Poisson-Boltzmann theory, we show that this topological control gives rise to a universal hierarchy of deviations in spherical, cylindrical, and planar confinement. We quantify thi...

Elite welfare and the good fortune of just being there

Abstract This paper examines how senior executives at the UK’s largest publicly listed companies financially benefited from the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (CJRS), and seeks to explain this phenomenon with the concept of elite welfare . Using a difference-in-differences rese...

Nationalism and the Global Bible: Investigations from the Arctic, Australia and Oceania, and West Africa

What is the relationship between language, nationalism and Bible translation? This essay examines this question in the light of the thesis proposed by the late Adrian Hastings that Bible translation was critical to the emergence of new national identities throughout Christian his...

Silicon photomultipliers for enhanced lidar bathymetric applications

Background Silicon photomultipliers (SiPMs) are emerging as promising photodetectors for bathymetric Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR) because of their high photon detection efficiency (PDE), single-photon sensitivity, and low operating voltage. However, the limited fill factor...

Perils of the Paleocene: vertebrate and invertebrate induced bioerosion in freshwater turtles from Tiupampa, Bolivia (early Paleocene)

Abstract Turtles provide an important link between terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems, acting as both predators and prey, while also being an important host for a range of parasites. The dermal armor that characterizes the group ensures their abundance in the vertebrate fossil re...

Environmental associations with heart-rate responses during field-based submaximal fitness testing in female football players: an exploratory multi-centre study

This exploratory multi-centre study examined associations between wet-bulb temperature (WBT) and exercise heart-rate responses (HRex) obtained during routine field-based submaximal fitness testing (SMFT) in female football players. Data were collected from 84 players across three...

Multireference Density Matrix Embedding for Spin-Phonon Relaxation

Abstract Spin-phonon coupling governs magnetic relaxation in numerous systems, including single-molecule magnets and molecular spin qubits. In most cases, the accurate prediction of spin relaxation rates requires multireference electronic structure methods, but their computationa...

Host-secreted lactate during respiratory viral infection diminishes macrophage antibacterial activity through metabolic reprogramming

ABSTRACT In polymicrobial infections, how the host recognizes and responds to pathogens influences which species will persist to cause chronic infections. The human respiratory tract is a common anatomical site for viral-bacterial co-infections, where primary viral infections pre...

Topology-preserving mesh adaptation for sharp-interface multiphase PFEM

This paper presents a robust, fully Lagrangian framework based on the Particle Finite Element Method (PFEM) capable of simulating multiphase flows with an arbitrary number of immiscible phases. Interface-capturing methods can suffer from numerical diffusion, while interface-track...

Simultaneous measurements of gas- and aerosol-phase water-soluble organic nitrogen in the winter urban atmosphere of Chengdu, China

Abstract. Partitioning gaseous water-soluble organic nitrogen (WSON) to the aerosol phase is a major formation pathway of atmospheric secondary organic aerosols (SOA). However, the factors influencing this WSON transfer process remain unclear. We conducted simultaneous wintertime...

Characterizing lightning NO x production in the Ebro Valley with meteosat 12 LI and LMA observations

Abstract. Lightning is one of the main sources of NOₓ in the Earth’s atmosphere, yet there is considerable variability in NOₓ production during thunderstorms. In this study, we combined optical lightning data from the Meteosat Third Generation (MTG) Lightning Imaging (LI) instrum...

Design, Synthesis, and Comparative Selection Analysis of a Chemically Diverse Peptide-Like DNA-Encoded Library

Abstract DNA-encoded chemical library technology offers a cost-effective method for screening billions of compounds in a single experiment. However, achieving broad coverage of lead-like chemical space remains challenging. Here, we describe the design and synthesis of a three-cyc...

Recent Advances in V2X-Enabled Intelligent Transportation Systems: A PRISMA-Based Survey

Vehicle-to-Everything (V2X) technologies have become a key enabling technology in modern Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS), supporting cooperative awareness, real-time data exchange, and coordinated decision-making among vehicles, infrastructure, and vulnerable road users....

Sub-minute fatigue monitoring for enhanced lifetime assessment of wind turbines

Abstract. Accurate fatigue damage estimation is a critical step for managing and extending the life of wind turbine fleets, and the basis on which operators decide whether an ageing asset can be kept in service beyond the end of design life. The most accurate estimation relies on...

Readers of the Living: Interpretive Mastery and Natural Thinking in Plutarch, Celsus, Origen, and Porphyry

Abstract This article examines the intersection between imperial writings on animals and post-Hellenistic debates about exegesis. It is the first study to argue that interpreters drawing on Aristotelian theories of voice and Hellenistic ideas of natural sympathy treated the meani...

Development of a Screening Workflow for the Halogenation of Nitrogen Heterocycles with Vanadium-Dependent Haloperoxidases

Abstract The halogenation of nitrogen heterocycles is a privileged transformation for accessing important synthetic intermediates and biologically active targets in medicinal chemistry. Despite the importance of N-heterocycle halogenation, current methods rely on reagents or cata...

Optically Active Single Hole Spin in ZnSe

Abstract Semiconductor hole spins offer a pathway to extended coherence times by decoupling from nuclear magnetic noise, while their spin–orbit coupling enables fast all-electrical control. In ZnSe, however, realizing this potential has been limited by p-doping challenges. Here,...

Toward a Local Manipulation of DNA by Quantum Fields

Abstract Hydrogen bonds are the fundamental backbone for deoxyribo-nucleic acid (DNA) stability. In this Letter we investigate a new strategy based on plasmonic cavities to perform manipulation of hydrogen bonds in DNA. The analysis is performed using state-of-the-art Quantum Ele...

Accelerating and scaling on-lattice Solid-On-Solid kinetic Monte Carlo simulations using an autoregressive Conditional Variational Autoencoder

Kinetic Monte Carlo (kMC) simulations are fundamental for modeling atomistic surface morphology evolution, but their inherently sequential execution of atomic steps creates severe computational bottlenecks. This computational burden restricts accessible time-and length scales, ma...

A Unified Quadratic Scaling Relation Between Potency and Local Earthquake Magnitudes for −1.8 ≤ M L ≤ 7.5

Abstract Quantifying earthquake size across scales requires linking physical source parameters to empirical magnitude measures, especially for microearthquakes where attenuation, scattering, and instrumental limitations complicate source characterization. We combine regional resu...