Star−Disk Collisions: Implications for Quasi-periodic Eruptions and Other Transients near Supermassive Black Holes by Philippe Z. Yao, Eliot Quataert, Yan-Fei Jiang, Wenbin Lu, Christopher J. White

“…We provide simple fitting functions for the stellar mass loss per collision; the mass loss is much larger after repeated collisions, due to the dilute stellar atmosphere shock-heated in earlier collisions. …”
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Engineering Synthetic Microbial Communities: Diversity and Applications in Soil for Plant Resilience by Arneeb Tariq, Shengzhi Guo, Fozia Farhat, Xihui Shen

“…Artificial intelligence-driven models can predict complex microbial interactions, while machine learning algorithms can analyze vast datasets to identify key microbial taxa and their functions. …”
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Optimization of Lipid Nanoparticles with Robust Efficiency for the Delivery of Protein Therapeutics to Augment Cancer Immunotherapy by Lanfang Ren, Zeda Zhao, Yuqing Chao, Panting Yu, Zhoufang Mei, Bing Du, Yiyun Cheng

“…Optimized LNPs efficiently deliver various proteins, including antibodies, enzymes, toxins, and Cas9 into living cells with reserved functions. Moreover, the designed LNPs show high serum stability during protein delivery, and the serum albumin adsorbed on LNPs facilitates protein delivery via albumin receptor‐mediated endocytosis, enabling highly efficient protein delivery in vivo. …”
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Hantaan virus infection induces human mucosal-associated invariant T cell pyroptosis through IRE1α pathway by Yusi Zhang, He Liu, Dalu Liu, Huiyuan Zhang, Ying Ma, Na Li, Chunmei Zhang, Manling Xue, Fenglan Wang, Xiaozhou Jia, Hui Zhang, Kang Tang, Xiaoyue Xu, Shijia Wang, Yiwen Wei, Xiaojing Yang, Jiajia Zuo, Lihua Chen, Boquan Jin, Yun Zhang

“…Mucosal-associated invariant T (MAIT) cells, categorized as innate-like T lymphocytes, perform crucial functions in the innate host defense mechanism during virus infection. …”
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Novel Alzheimer risk genes determine the microglia response to amyloid‐β but not to TAU pathology by Annerieke Sierksma, Ashley Lu, Renzo Mancuso, Nicola Fattorelli, Nicola Thrupp, Evgenia Salta, Jesus Zoco, David Blum, Luc Buée, Bart De Strooper, Mark Fiers

“…We conclude that genetic risk of AD functionally translates into different microglia pathway responses to Aβ pathology, placing AD genetic risk downstream of the amyloid pathway but upstream of TAU pathology.…”
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Emerging Frontiers in Robotic Upper-Limb Prostheses: Mechanisms, Materials, Tactile Sensors and Machine Learning-Based EMG Control: A Comprehensive Review by Beibit Abdikenov, Darkhan Zholtayev, Kanat Suleimenov, Nazgul Assan, Kassymbek Ozhikenov, Aiman Ozhikenova, Nurbek Nadirov, Akim Kapsalyamov

“…Robotic prostheses offer a promising solution by mimicking many of the functions of a natural arm, leading to an increasing need for advanced prosthetic designs. …”
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Bioclimatic Characterization of Jalisco (Mexico) Based on a High-Resolution Climate Database and Its Relationship with Potential Vegetation by Norma-Yolanda Ochoa-Ramos, Miguel Ángel Macías-Rodríguez, Joaquín Giménez de Azcárate, Ramón Álvarez-Esteban, Ángel Penas, Sara del Río

“…This study contributes to ongoing research on terrestrial ecosystem functioning, aligning with current advancements in remote sensing-based environmental analysis.…”
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SyncGenie: A programmable event synchronization device for neuroscience research by Ludvik Alkhoury, Giacomo Scanavini, Petras Swissler, Sudhin A. Shah, Disha Gupta, N. Jeremy Hill

“…Overall, SyncGenie offers enhanced functionality at a lower cost relative to commercially available trigger boxes.…”
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Neuromorphic devices assisted by machine learning algorithms by Ziwei Huo, Qijun Sun, Jinran Yu, Yichen Wei, Yifei Wang, Jeong Ho Cho, Zhong Lin Wang

“…To some extent, ANN reflects several basic functions of the human brain and can be efficiently integrated into neuromorphic devices to perform neuromorphic computations. …”
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Association between percent body fat and the risk of prediabetes among Chinese adults: a 5-years longitudinal cohort study by Xin Li, Haomiao Yu, Ke Yu, Zhenhua Huang, Zhe Deng

“…We applied Cox proportional hazards regression models, cubic spline functions, and smooth curve fitting to analyze the relationship between initial PBF and the likelihood of prediabetes, focusing on its nonlinear connection. …”
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Engineering hydrophobicity and manufacturability for optimized biparatopic antibody–drug conjugates targeting c-MET by Andreas Evers, Simon Krah, Deniz Demir, Ramona Gaa, Desislava Elter, Christian Schroeter, Stefan Zielonka, Nicolas Rasche, Julia Dotterweich, Christine Knuehl, Achim Doerner

“…Optimized variants showed high stability, strongly reduced hydrophobicity, retained affinities supporting the desired functionality and enhanced producibility. The resulting biparatopic anti-c-MET ADCs were comparably active on c-MET expressing tumor cell lines as REGN5093 exatecan DAR6 ADC. …”
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MMPW-Net: Detection of Tiny Objects in Aerial Imagery Using Mixed Minimum Point-Wasserstein Distance by Nan Su, Zilong Zhao, Yiming Yan, Jinpeng Wang, Wanxuan Lu, Hongbo Cui, Yunfei Qu, Shou Feng, Chunhui Zhao

“…Secondly, we propose a novel metric, MMPW, to replace the Intersection over Union (IoU) in label assignment strategies, Non-Maximum Suppression (NMS), and regression loss functions. Specifically, MMPW models bounding boxes as 2D Gaussian distributions and utilizes the Mixed Minimum Point-Wasserstein Distance to quantify the similarity between boxes. …”
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Black phosphorus-Au-thiosugar nanosheets mediated photothermal induced anti-tumor effect enhancement by promoting infiltration of NK cells in hepatocellular carcinoma by Changchang Jia, Fan Zhang, Jiamei Lin, Liwen Feng, Tiantian Wang, Yuan Feng, Feng Yuan, Yang Mai, Xiaowei Zeng, Qi Zhang

“…Results In this work, we have prepared a black phosphorus (BP)-Au-thiosugar nanosheets (BATNS), in which Au-thiosugar coating and functionalization improved the stability of both black phosphorus nanosheets (BPNS) and gold ions in different simulated physiological environments. …”
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Real-time congestion control using cascaded LSTM deep neural networks for deregulated power markets by G. Madhu Mohan, T. Anil Kumar, A. Srujana, Yasser Fouad, Alexey Mikhaylov, Nora Baranyai, Kitmo, Ch. Rami Reddy

“…The independent system operator (ISO) is responsible for implementing appropriate measures to mitigate congestion and ensure the proper functioning of the power market. This study utilized generation rescheduling (GR) to address congestion in spot or day-ahead power markets. …”
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Altered oral health and microbiota in drug-free patients with schizophrenia by Huawei Huang, Naiyan Yang, Mian-mian Chen, Xiaoting Chen, Wei Chen, Xiaoping Li, Yuchun Chen, Zhengang Deng, Wenbing Zhou, Shu-xian Xu, Xin-hui Xie

“…The differential taxa and microbial functions showed a strong correlation with clinical oral conditions. …”
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Micro-amplitude vibration-assisted scratching: a new method for one step and controllable fabrication of the microscale V-groove and nanoscale ripples by Haoxiang Wu, Hu Huang, Zhiyu Zhang, Jiwang Yan

“…Micro/nano hierarchical structures could endow materials with various surface functions. However, the multilayer and multiscale characteristics of micro/nano hierarchical structures bring difficulties for their one step and controllable fabrication. …”
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Targeted codelivery of nitric oxide and hydrogen sulfide for enhanced antithrombosis efficacy by Weiliang Deng, Zhixin Xu, Tong Hua, Guangbo Ji, Zihang Wang, Pei Liu, Yupeng Zhang, Shuo Li, Yuqiu Chao, Meng Qian, Qiang Zhao, Jinwei Tian

“…As important gaseous signaling molecules, both nitric oxide (NO) and hydrogen sulfide (H2S) demonstrate antiplatelet and anticoagulant functions, but little attention has been given to their synergistic effect and the underlying mechanism. …”
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A species-level multi-trophic metaweb for Switzerland by Merin Reji Chacko, Camille Albouy, Florian Altermatt, Joan Casanelles-Abella, Martin Brändle, Victor Boussange, Fadri Campell, Willem N. Ellis, Fabian Fopp, Martin M. Gossner, Hsi-Cheng Ho, Alain Joss, Pascal Kipf, Felix Neff, Andjeljko Petrović, Vincent Prié, Željko Tomanović, Nik Zimmerli, Loïc Pellissier

“…Abstract Understanding how species interact within ecological networks is essential for predicting the consequences of environmental change, from trophic cascades to broader changes in species distributions and ecosystem functioning across large spatial scales. To facilitate such explorations, we constructed trophiCH: a country-level trophic meta-food web (henceforth “metaweb”) that includes vertebrates, invertebrates, and vascular plants within Switzerland, based on literature published between 1862 and 2023. …”
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Epigenetic memory of radiotherapy in dermal fibroblasts impairs wound repair capacity in cancer survivors by Xiaowei Bian, Minna Piipponen, Zhuang Liu, Lihua Luo, Jennifer Geara, Yongjian Chen, Traimate Sangsuwan, Monica Maselli, Candice Diaz, Connor A. Bain, Evelien Eenjes, Maria Genander, Michael Crichton, Jenna L. Cash, Louis Archambault, Siamak Haghdoost, Julie Fradette, Pehr Sommar, Martin Halle, Ning Xu Landén

“…Here we show that the RT+ skin has compromised healing capacity and fibroblast functions. Using ATAC-seq, we discover altered chromatin landscapes in RT+ fibroblasts, with THBS1 identified as a crucial epigenetically primed wound repair-related gene. …”
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Association of ethylene oxide exposure with serum neurofilament light chain levels among American adults by Xiuwen Yang, Huaili Feng, Ting You, Zhaoyi Liu, Fanwei Sun, Chengzhi Chen, Jingfu Qiu

“…ObjectiveTo explore the relationship between Ethylene oxide (EO) expousure and serum neurofilament light chain (NfL).MethodA data of 559 adults from the 2013–2014 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) was analyzed, and the relationship between log-transformed EO hemoglobin adducts (HbEO) and serum NfL levels was assessed using multiple linear regression models and restricted cubic spline functions. Stratified analysis was conducted to explore the correlations within different subgroups. …”
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