Experimental study on mechanical properties of S-RM with different rock block proportions in fault zone by Peng-fei Wang, Xue-yang Xing, Yong-cheng Jin, Jian-biao Bai, Chang-hong Li

“…This paper takes the Sanshan Island fault zone as the engineering background, and uses a self-designed small-scale test device to conduct triaxial compression tests to study the strength and deformation failure laws of S-RMs with different rock block proportions (20%, 40%, 60%, and 80%). …”
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Spatiotemporal Characteristics and Influential Factors of Electronic Cigarette Web-Based Attention in Mainland China: Time Series Observational Study by Zhongmin Zhang, Hengyi Xu, Jing Pan, Fujian Song, Ting Chen

“…Data sourced from web-based search engines related to e-cigarettes have the potential to serve as cost-effective supplementary means to traditional monitoring approaches. …”
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Effect of Construction Waste as a Fine Aggregate on Properties of Concrete. by Sempala, Ronald

“…Construction and demolition (C&D) waste makes up a sizeable fraction of the world's overall production of solid waste, and the majority of it is dumped in landfills. Additionally, using routine construction materials like cement, fine and coarse aggregates results in significantly expensive construction costs. …”
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Subwavelength-scale off-axis optical nanomanipulation within Gaussian-beam traps by Zhou Lei-Ming, Sun Wan, Tao Zong-Qiang, Xiong Ning-Jun, Huang Chan, Jiang Xiao-Yun, Ren Yu-Xuan, Yang Yuanjie, Shi Yu-Zhi, Hu Ji-Gang, Zhan Qiwen

“…These potential-wells work for not only the metallic particles, but also the high refractive-index dielectric particles. By engineering the contribution of the gradient force and scattering force through the particle size, the particle material and the position of the manipulation transverse plane, the force field and trapping potential-well can be tailored to trap/manipulate nanoparticles at different off-axis distance at the subwavelength scale. …”
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Exosomes, their sources, and possible uses in cancer therapy in the era of personalized medicine by Tomas Zemanek, Lubos Danisovic, Andreas Nicodemou

“…Exosomes derived from blood, saliva, urine, and cerebrospinal fluid serve as promising biomarkers for cancer diagnosis and prognosis. …”
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Structural insights into light-gating of potassium-selective channelrhodopsin by Takefumi Morizumi, Kyumhyuk Kim, Hai Li, Probal Nag, Tal Dogon, Oleg A. Sineshchekov, Yumei Wang, Leonid S. Brown, Songhwan Hwang, Han Sun, Ana-Nicoleta Bondar, Igor Schapiro, Elena G. Govorunova, John L. Spudich, Oliver P. Ernst

“…Upon photoisomerization of the retinal chromophore, the retinylidene Schiff base NH-bond reorients from the extracellular to the cytoplasmic side. …”
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Contaminants in the Urban Environment: Pharmaceuticals and Personal Care Products (PPCPs)—Part 2 by Yun-Ya Yang, Gurpal S. Toor

“…This series is intended to give state and local government officials, soil scientists, consulting engineers, extension agents, and citizens (1) a basic understanding of the occurrence, toxic effects, and source of various contaminants in the environment and (2) guidance on ways to protect human and environmental health. …”
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Smartirrigation Apps: Urban Turf by Haimanote Bayabil, Kati W Migliaccio, Jose J.H. Debastiani Andreis, Clyde W. Fraisse, Kelly T. Morgan, George Vellidis

“…Vellidis, and published by the UF/IFAS Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering, describes the changes made on the recently released Smartirrigation Turf app. https://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/ae499 Originally published: Migliaccio, Kati, J. …”
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The cell as secret agent—autonomy and intelligence of the living cell: driving force of development by Brian J. Ford

“…We search for increased resolution and greater magnification; however, the crucial contribution of the entire single living cell is conventionally overlooked. …”
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Early tolerance and late persistence as alternative drug responses in cancer by Simona Punzi, Davide Cittaro, Guido Gatti, Gemma Crupi, Oronza A. Botrugno, Antonino Alex Cartalemi, Alon Gutfreund, Caterina Oneto, Valentina Giansanti, Chiara Battistini, Giovanni Santacatterina, Lucrezia Patruno, Ilaria Villanti, Martina Palumbo, Daniel J. Laverty, Francesca Giannese, Alex Graudenzi, Giulio Caravagna, Marco Antoniotti, Zachary Nagel, Ugo Cavallaro, Luisa Lanfrancone, Timothy A. Yap, Giulio Draetta, Nathalie Balaban, Giovanni Tonon

“…After prolonged drug exposure, such tolerant responses morph into persistence, whereby the increased DNA damage repair is entirely reversed. The central regulator of mitophagy PINK1 drives this reduction in DNA repair via the cytoplasmic relocalization of the cell identity master HNF4A, thus hampering HNF4A transcriptional activation of DNA repair genes. …”
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Using Crop Models and Climate Forecasts to Aid in Peanut Crop Insurance Decisions by Clyde W. Fraisse, James L. Novak, Axel Garcia y Garcia, James W. Jones, Charles M. Brown, Gerrit Hoogenboom

“…This document is CIR 1468, one of a series of the Agricultural and Biological Engineering Department, Florida Cooperative Extension Service, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida. …”
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Multiple large language models versus experienced physicians in diagnosing challenging cases with gastrointestinal symptoms by Xintian Yang, Tongxin Li, Han Wang, Rongchun Zhang, Zhi Ni, Na Liu, Huihong Zhai, Jianghai Zhao, Fandong Meng, Zhongyin Zhou, Shanhong Tang, Limei Wang, Xiangping Wang, Hui Luo, Gui Ren, Linhui Zhang, Xiaoyu Kang, Jun Wang, Ning Bo, Xiaoning Yang, Weijie Xue, Xiaoyin Zhang, Ning Chen, Rui Guo, Baiwen Li, Yajun Li, Yaling Liu, Tiantian Zhang, Shuhui Liang, Yong Lv, Yongzhan Nie, Daiming Fan, Lina Zhao, Yanglin Pan

“…Claude 3.5 Sonnet achieved a significantly higher coverage rate (95% CI) than that of the gastroenterologists using search engines or other traditional resource (76.1% [70.6%–80.9%] vs. 45.5% [40.7%-50.4%], p < 0.001). …”
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Advancements in the Treatment of Mucopolysaccharidoses: From Established Therapies to Gene Therapy by Joanna Wanat, Wojciech Homa, Aleksandra Warunek, Gabriela Gronowicz, Izabela Dzikowska, Agata Siejka, Daria Stefaniak, Weronika Zielińska, Michał Chról

“…Among the promising new treatments are: blood-brain barrier (BBB)-penetrable enzyme replacement therapy (ERT), substrate reduction therapy, nonsense suppression therapy, and mRNA engineering. However, the most advanced treatments, that are currently under investigation are in-vivo and ex-vivo gene therapy. …”
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Molecular basis for azetidine-2-carboxylic acid biosynthesis by Tim J. Klaubert, Jonas Gellner, Charles Bernard, Juliana Effert, Carine Lombard, Ville R. I. Kaila, Helge B. Bode, Yanyan Li, Michael Groll

“…To explore the potential of AZE as a proline mimic in combinatorial biosynthesis, we introduce an AZE synthase into the pyrrolizixenamide pathway and thereby engineer analogues of azabicyclenes. Taken together, our findings provide a molecular framework to understand and exploit SAM-dependent cyclisation reactions.…”
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Wide FOV metalens for near-infrared capsule endoscopy: advancing compact medical imaging by Moghaddasi Mojtaba, Perez Coca Erik Edilson, Ye Danni, Flores Diego Alejandro, Wu Xudong, Jalal Abdul, Ren Ziming, Abrinaei Fahimeh, Hu Bin

“…The metalens achieved a 165° FOV with a high modulation transfer function (MTF) of 300 lines per millimeter (lp/mm) across the entire FOV, operating in the near-infrared (NIR) narrow-bandpass imaging at 940 nm. …”
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Web of 4D dualities, supersymmetric partition functions and SymTFT by Zhihao Duan, Qiang Jia, Sungjay Lee

“…We proposed that their behaviour under various symmetry operations are entirely captured by the topological boundary of the SymTFT, resulting in strong constraints. …”
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Snake and staff symbolism and healing by Francois P. Retief, Louise Cilliers

“…During the Middle Ages the caduceus entwined with the double-snake became a symbol of the healing sciences (pharmacy and alchemy in particular) and today, although mythologically incorrect, it is in common usage in the health care field. …”
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Polarization-controlled metasurface for simultaneous holographic display and three-dimensional depth perception by Guo Shuhan, Shao Yifan, Zhan Junjie, Yu Jiaqi, Wang Yubo, Choudhury Pankaj K., Hernandez-Figueroa Hugo E., Ma Yungui

“…By tailoring the incidence polarization, the metasurface can display high-quality holographic images in the Fresnel region or project a uniform spot cloud nearly covering the entire 180° × 180° transmissive space. For the latter, a projection and three-dimensional (3D) reconstruction experiment is conducted to elaborate the potential in retrieving 3D complex spatial information. …”
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Seismic energy dissipation capacity of confined concrete columns with infilled-AAC bricks subjected to quasi-static cyclic loading by Bambang Sabariman, Tavio, Slamet Widodo

“…Autoclaved Aerated Concrete (AAC) is still designated as a non-engineering material because it is considered not to contribute to the stiffness and strength of structural members and is considered limited to infilling material within structural building frames. …”

Two new species of Hypancistrus (Siluriformes: Loricariidae) from the rio Xingu, Amazon, Brazil by Leandro Melo de Sousa, Erilda Barbosa de Sousa, Renildo de Oliveira Ribeiro, Mark H. Sabaj, Jansen Zuanon, Lúcia Rapp Py-Daniel

“…One of the species is relatively safe due to its relatively large distribution throughout the Lower Xingu channel up to the downstream end of Volta Grande do Xingu, while the other is in need of urgent protection because it is restricted to a short stretch of the Middle Xingu channel at depths greater than 15 meters, and its distribution lies entirely within the impact zone of the Belo Monte Hydroelectric Power Plant Complex.…”
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