Integrating remote sensing and machine learning to evaluate environmental drivers of post-fire vegetation recovery in the Mount Kenya forest by Loventa Anyango Otieno, Terry Amolo Otieno, Brian Rotich, Katharina Löhr, Harison Kiplagat Kipkulei

“…Understanding the dynamics of post-fire vegetation recovery (PVR) is therefore critical for forest ecosystem restoration and management. The present study analysed burn severities and investigated the impact of environmental variables on post-fire recovery (PVR) in the Mount Kenya Forest Ecosystem (MKFE). …”
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A Complementary Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Optoelectronic Analog Front-End Preamplifier with Cross-Coupled Active Loads for Short-Range LiDARs by Yunji Song, Yejin Choi, Dukyoo Jung, Seonhan Choi, Sung-Min Park

“…In this paper, a CMOS optoelectronic analog front-end (AFE) preamplifier with cross-coupled active loads for short range LiDAR applications is presented, which consists of a spatially modulated P⁺/N-well on-chip avalanche photodiode (APD), the differential input stage with cross-coupled active loads, and an output buffer. …”
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Analog Computing for Nonlinear Shock Tube PDE Models: Test and Measurement of CMOS Chip by Hasantha Malavipathirana, Soumyajit Mandal, Nilan Udayanga, Yingying Wang, S. I. Hariharan, Arjuna Madanayake

“…The chip integrates a 15-point fully-parallel spatially-discrete time-continuous (SDTC) finite difference time-domain (FDTD) solver for acoustic shock wave equations with radiation boundary conditions. …”
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Efficiency of Multi-Terminators Method to Reveal Seismic Precursors in Sub-Ionospheric VLF Transmitter Signals: Case Study of Turkey–Syria Earthquakes Mw7.8 of 6 February 2023 by Mohammed Y. Boudjada, Patrick H. M. Galopeau, Sami Sawas, Giovanni Nico, Hans U. Eichelberger, Pier F. Biagi, Michael Contadakis, Werner Magnes, Helmut Lammer, Wolfgang Voller

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Probabilistic Forecasting of Ground Magnetic Perturbation Spikes at Mid‐Latitude Stations by Michael Coughlan, Amy Keesee, Victor Pinto, Raman Mukundan, José Paulo Marchezi, Jeremiah Johnson, Hyunju Connor, Don Hampton

“…Overall, we find that the models using both the solar wind and ground magnetometer data had better metric scores than the solar wind only and persistence models, and was able to capture more spatially localized variations in the dB/dt threshold crossings.…”
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Low-dose, high-resolution CT of infant-sized lungs via propagation-based phase contrast by James A. Pollock, Kaye Morgan, Linda C. P. Croton, Emily J. Pryor, Kelly J. Crossley, Christopher J. Hall, Daniel Häusermann, Anton Maksimenko, Stuart B. Hooper, Marcus J. Kitchen

“…Propagation-based phase-contrast imaging requires only a spatially coherent wavefield and some propagation between the sample and detector, making it well suited for medical applications. …”
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From STEM-EDXS data to phase separation and quantification using physics-guided NMF by Adrien Teurtrie, Nathanaël Perraudin, Thomas Holvoet, Hui Chen, Duncan T L Alexander, Guillaume Obozinski, Cécile Hébert

“…We present the development of a new algorithm which combines state-of-the-art energy-dispersive x-ray (EDX) spectroscopy theory and a suitable machine learning formulation for the hyperspectral unmixing of scanning transmission electron microscope EDX spectrum images. …”
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3D printed scaffolds loaded with BMP-2 for bone defect regeneration: a systematic review and meta-analysis by Lei Li, Lishi Yang, Yue Yang, Jiayi Zhu, Rongnan Shi, Qi Deng, Jianxiong Wang, Jianxiong Wang, Jianxiong Wang, Fuhua Sun, Fuhua Sun, Fuhua Sun

“…We then performed a random effects meta-analysis to evaluate the efficacy of BMP-2 loaded 3D printed scaffolds, with results presented as standardized mean differences (SMD) and their corresponding 95% confidence intervals. …”
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Extreme Anisotropies in Deep Layers of an Exploding Star: Overabundance of Cr in the Northeastern Jet of Cassiopeia A by Vincenzo Sapienza, Marco Miceli, Masaomi Ono, Shigehiro Nagataki, Takashi Yoshida, Emanuele Greco, Salvatore Orlando, Fabrizio Bocchino

“…Core-collapse supernovae (CCSNe) drive nucleosynthesis under extreme thermodynamic conditions, and complex mechanisms are at work prompting the transport of heavy elements from deep stellar interiors into outer layers. We present spatially resolved X-ray spectroscopy of the northeastern (NE) jet of Cassiopeia A (Cas A) using the archival 1 Ms Chandra/ACIS observations, and focusing on three fingers of the jet. …”
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Future changes in environmental stressors for the seamount chains of the Southeast Pacific by M. L. Hammond, M. L. Hammond, M. L. Hammond, M. Ramos, M. Ramos, M. A. Gallardo, M. A. Gallardo, D. Zhai, E. A. Flores, E. A. Flores, C. F. Gaymer, C. F. Gaymer, J. Sellanes, J. Sellanes, G. Luna-Jorquera, G. Luna-Jorquera

“…Alongside these broader patterns in medians, the trends in ranges and extremes are highly variable spatially and less consistent between variables and scenarios. …”
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ZmZFP2 encoding a C4HC3-type RING zinc finger protein regulates kernel size and weight in maize by Long Zhang, Qilei Wang, Wenyu Li, Qi Zheng, Miaomiao Fu, Han Wang, Xinyu Li, Yan Wang, Lingwei Hu, Weigang Yao, Lifeng Wang, Huiyong Li, Yongbin Dong, Yongrui Wu, Yuling Li

“…The development of maize (Zea mays) kernels is a complex physiological process regulated by numerous genes in a spatially and temporally coordinated manner. However, many regulatory genes involved in this process remain unidentified. …”
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Dissecting endothelial cell heterogeneity with new tools by Jing Zhong, Rong-rong Gao, Xin Zhang, Jia-xin Yang, Yang Liu, Jinjin Ma, Qi Chen

“…Developing organ-specific vascular organoids presents unique opportunities to unravel inter-organ endothelial cell heterogeneity and its implications for human disease. …”
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Multi-Criteria Analysis of a Potential Expansion of Protected Agriculture in Imbabura, Ecuador by Luis Marcelo Albuja-Illescas, Oscar Hernando Eraso Terán, Paúl Arias-Muñoz, Telmo-Fernando Basantes-Vizcaíno, Rafael Jiménez-Lao, María Teresa Lao

“…Greenhouse agriculture presents a promising solution to address the dual challenges of food security and climate change mitigation. …”
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Extraction of typical oyster pile columns in the Maowei Sea, Beibu Gulf, based on unmanned aerial vehicle laser point cloud orthophotos by Jinze Du, Jinze Du, Meiqin Huang, Zhenjun Kang, Zhenjun Kang, Zhenjun Kang, Yichao Tian, Yichao Tian, Yichao Tian, Jin Tao, Jin Tao, Qiang Zhang, Qiang Zhang, Yutong Xie, Yutong Xie, Yutong Xie, Jinying Mo, Jinying Mo, LiYan Huang, LiYan Huang, Yusheng Feng, Yusheng Feng

“…Manual visual interpretation is often time-consuming, inefficient, and does not provide spatially continuous information about the structure. …”
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Identifying Potential Urban Greenways by Considering Green Space Exposure Levels and Maximizing Recreational Flows: A Case Study in Beijing’s Built-Up Areas by Tao Liu, Le Yu, Xin Chen, Yunmiao Chen, Xiaomeng Li, Xinyi Liu, Yue Cao, Fan Zhang, Chenggang Zhang, Peng Gong

“…Overall, the framework we present can be used to construct greenway networks that maximize the perceived accessibility for bus-based visitors, with valuable implications for sustainable urban planning and regeneration initiatives.…”
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Sensitivity of patient-specific physiological and pathological aortic hemodynamics to the choice of outlet boundary condition in numerical models by Tianai Wang, Christine Quast, Florian Bönner, Tobias Zeus, Malte Kelm, Teresa Lemainque, Ulrich Steinseifer, Michael Neidlin

“…Material and methods: Image-based computational models of subject-specific aortic geometries were created. Temporally and spatially resolved inlet velocity profiles derived from 4D Flow MRI were implemented. …”
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A Possible Common Physics Picture Reflected by the Gamma-Ray Emission of the Galactic Center by Lin Nie, Yi-Qing Guo, Si-Ming Liu

“…We anticipate that this double power-law structure may be widely present in the halo of a Galactic cosmic-ray source or a slow-diffusion region. …”
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VERITAS and Multiwavelength Observations of the Blazar B3 2247+381 in Response to an IceCube Neutrino Alert by A. Acharyya, C. B. Adams, P. Bangale, J. T. Bartkoske, W. Benbow, J. H. Buckley, J. L. Christiansen, A. Duerr, M. Errando, M. Escobar Godoy, A. Falcone, Q. Feng, J. Foote, L. Fortson, A. Furniss, G. Gallagher, W. Hanlon, D. Hanna, O. Hervet, C. E. Hinrichs, J. Hoang, J. Holder, T. B. Humensky, W. Jin, M. N. Johnson, P. Kaaret, M. Kertzman, M. Kherlakian, D. Kieda, T. K. Kleiner, N. Korzoun, F. Krennrich, S. Kumar, M. J. Lang, M. Lundy, C. E McGrath, E. Meyer, M. J. Millard, J. Millis, C. L. Mooney, P. Moriarty, R. Mukherjee, W. Ning, S. O’Brien, R. A. Ong, M. Pohl, E. Pueschel, J. Quinn, P. L. Rabinowitz, K. Ragan, P. T. Reynolds, D. Ribeiro, E. Roache, J. L. Ryan, I. Sadeh, A. C. Sadun, L. Saha, M. Santander, G. H. Sembroski, R. Shang, M. Splettstoesser, D. Tak, A. K. Talluri, J. V. Tucci, J. Valverde, D. A. Williams, S. L. Wong, J. Woo, (The VERITAS Collaboration), R. Abbasi, M. Ackermann, J. Adams, S. K. Agarwalla, J. A. Aguilar, M. Ahlers, J.M. Alameddine, N. M. Amin, K. Andeen, C. Argüelles, Y. Ashida, S. Athanasiadou, S. N. Axani, R. Babu, X. Bai, A. Balagopal V., M. Baricevic, S. W. Barwick, S. Bash, V. Basu, R. Bay, J. J. Beatty, J. Becker Tjus, J. Beise, C. Bellenghi, S. BenZvi, D. Berley, E. Bernardini, D. Z. Besson, E. Blaufuss, L. Bloom, S. Blot, F. Bontempo, J. Y. Book Motzkin, C. Boscolo Meneguolo, S. Böser, O. Botner, J. Böttcher, J. Braun, B. Brinson, Z. Brisson-Tsavoussis, J. Brostean-Kaiser, L. Brusa, R. T. Burley, D. Butterfield, M. A. Campana, I. Caracas, K. Carloni, J. Carpio, S. Chattopadhyay, N. Chau, Z. Chen, D. Chirkin, S. Choi, B. A. Clark, A. Coleman, P. Coleman, G. H. Collin, A. Connolly, J. M. Conrad, R. Corley, D. F. Cowen, C. De Clercq, J. J. DeLaunay, D. Delgado, S. Deng, A. Desai, P. Desiati, K. D. de Vries, G. de Wasseige, T. DeYoung, A. Diaz, J. C. Díaz-Vélez, P. Dierichs, M. Dittmer, A. Domi, L. Draper, H. Dujmovic, D. Durnford, K. Dutta, M. A. DuVernois, T. Ehrhardt, L. Eidenschink, A. Eimer, P. Eller, E. Ellinger, S. El Mentawi, D. Elsässer, R. Engel, H. Erpenbeck, J. Evans, P. A. Evenson, K. L. Fan, K. Fang, K. Farrag, A. R. Fazely, A. Fedynitch, N. Feigl, S. Fiedlschuster, C. Finley, L. Fischer, D. Fox, A. Franckowiak, S. Fukami, P. Fürst, J. Gallagher, E. Ganster, A. Garcia, M. Garcia, G. Garg, E. Genton, L. Gerhardt, A. Ghadimi, C. Girard-Carillo, C. Glaser, T. Glüsenkamp, J. G. Gonzalez, S. Goswami, A. Granados, D. Grant, S. J. Gray, S. Griffin, S. Griswold, K. M. Groth, D. Guevel, C. Günther, P. Gutjahr, C. Ha, C. Haack, A. Hallgren, L. Halve, F. Halzen, L. Hamacher, H. Hamdaoui, M. Ha Minh, M. Handt, K. Hanson, J. Hardin, A. A. Harnisch, P. Hatch, A. Haungs, J. Häussler, K. Helbing, J. Hellrung, J. Hermannsgabner, L. Heuermann, N. Heyer, S. Hickford, A. Hidvegi, C. Hill, G. C. Hill, R. Hmaid, K. D. Hoffman, S. Hori, K. Hoshina, M. Hostert, W. Hou, T. Huber, K. Hultqvist, M. Hünnefeld, R. Hussain, K. Hymon, A. Ishihara, W. Iwakiri, M. Jacquart, S. Jain, O. Janik, M. Jansson, M. Jeong, M. Jin, B. J. P. Jones, N. Kamp, D. Kang, W. Kang, X. Kang, A. Kappes, D. Kappesser, L. Kardum, T. Karg, M. Karl, A. Karle, A. Katil, U. Katz, M. Kauer, J. L. Kelley, M. Khanal, A. Khatee Zathul, A. Kheirandish, J. Kiryluk, S. R. Klein, Y. Kobayashi, A. Kochocki, R. Koirala, H. Kolanoski, T. Kontrimas, L. Köpke, C. Kopper, D. J. Koskinen, P. Koundal, M. Kowalski, T. Kozynets, J. Krishnamoorthi, K. Kruiswijk, E. Krupczak, A. Kumar, E. Kun, N. Kurahashi, N. Lad, C. Lagunas Gualda, M. Lamoureux, M. J. Larson, F. Lauber, J. P. Lazar, J. W. Lee, K. Leonard DeHolton, A. Leszczyńska, J. Liao, M. Lincetto, Y. T. Liu, M. Liubarska, C. Love, L. Lu, F. Lucarelli, W. Luszczak, Y. Lyu, J. Madsen, E. Magnus, K. B. M. Mahn, Y. Makino, E. Manao, S. Mancina, A. Mand, W. Marie Sainte, I. C. Mariş, S. Marka, Z. Marka, M. Marsee, I. Martinez-Soler, R. Maruyama, F. Mayhew, F. McNally, J. V. Mead, K. Meagher, S. Mechbal, A. Medina, M. Meier, Y. Merckx, L. Merten, J. Mitchell, T. Montaruli, R. W. Moore, Y. Morii, R. Morse, M. Moulai, T. Mukherjee, R. Naab, M. Nakos, U. Naumann, J. Necker, A. Negi, L. Neste, M. Neumann, H. Niederhausen, M. U. Nisa, K. Noda, A. Noell, A. Novikov, A. Obertacke Pollmann, V. O’Dell, A. Olivas, R. Orsoe, J. Osborn, E. O’Sullivan, V. Palusova, H. Pandya, N. Park, G. K. Parker, V. Parrish, E. N. Paudel, L. Paul, C. Pérez de los Heros, T. Pernice, J. Peterson, A. Pizzuto, M. Plum, A. Pontén, Y. Popovych, M. Prado Rodriguez, B. Pries, R. Procter-Murphy, G. T. Przybylski, L. Pyras, C. Raab, J. Rack-Helleis, N. Rad, M. Ravn, K. Rawlins, Z. Rechav, A. Rehman, P. Reichherzer, E. Resconi, S. Reusch, W. Rhode, B. Riedel, A. Rifaie, E. J. Roberts, S. Robertson, S. Rodan, G. Roellinghoff, M. Rongen, A. Rosted, C. Rott, T. Ruhe, L. Ruohan, D. Ryckbosch, I. Safa, J. Saffer, D. Salazar-Gallegos, P. Sampathkumar, A. Sandrock, S. Sarkar, S. Sarkar, J. Savelberg, P. Savina, P. Schaile, M. Schaufel, H. Schieler, S. Schindler, L. Schlickmann, B. Schlüter, F. Schlüter, N. Schmeisser, T. Schmidt, J. Schneider, F. G. Schröder, L. Schumacher, S. Schwirn, S. Sclafani, D. Seckel, L. Seen, M. Seikh, M. Seo, S. Seunarine, P. Sevle Myhr, R. Shah, S. Shefali, N. Shimizu, M. Silva, B. Skrzypek, B. Smithers, R. Snihur, J. Soedingrekso, A. Søgaard, D. Soldin, P. Soldin, G. Sommani, C. Spannfellner, G. M. Spiczak, C. Spiering, J. Stachurska, M. Stamatikos, T. Stanev, T. Stezelberger, T. Stürwald, T. Stuttard, G. W. Sullivan, I. Taboada, S. Ter-Antonyan, A. Terliuk, M. Thiesmeyer, W. G. Thompson, J. Thwaites, S. Tilav, K. Tollefson, C. Tönnis, S. Toscano, D. Tosi, A. Trettin, R. Turcotte, M. A. Unland Elorrieta, A. K. Upadhyay, K. Upshaw, A. Vaidyanathan, N. Valtonen-Mattila, J. Vandenbroucke, N. van Eijndhoven, D. Vannerom, J. van Santen, J. Vara, F. Varsi, J. Veitch-Michaelis, M. Venugopal, M. Vereecken, S. Vergara Carrasco, S. Verpoest, D. Veske, A. Vijai, C. Walck, A. Wang, C. Weaver, P. Weigel, A. Weindl, J. Weldert, A. Y. Wen, C. Wendt, J. Werthebach, M. Weyrauch, N. Whitehorn, C. H. Wiebusch, D. R. Williams, L. Witthaus, M. Wolf, G. Wrede, X. W. Xu, J. P. Yanez, E. Yildizci, S. Yoshida, R. Young, S. Yu, T. Yuan, A. Zegarelli, S. Zhang, Z. Zhang, P. Zhelnin, P. Zilberman, M. Zimmerman, (The IceCube Collaboration), P. Drake, E. Spira-Savett, P. Lusen, K. Mori

“…While the sources of the diffuse astrophysical neutrino flux detected by the IceCube Neutrino Observatory are still largely unknown, one of the promising methods to improve our understanding of them is investigating the potential temporal and spatial correlations between neutrino alerts and the electromagnetic radiation from blazars. …”
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Multicomponent Ionized Gas Outflows in the Hot Dust-obscured Galaxy W2026+0716 with Keck/OSIRIS by Chao Liu, Chao-Wei Tsai, Peter R. M. Eisenhardt, Hyunsung D. Jun, Guodong Li, Jingwen Wu, Roberto J. Assef, Andrew W. Blain, Maren Cosens, Tanio Díaz-Santos, Román Fernández Aranda, Lei Hao, Mai Liao, Shuai Liu, Daniel Stern, Andrey Vayner, Shelley Wright, Sherry Yeh

“…We present narrowband-filtered integral field unit observations of the hot dust-obscured galaxy (Hot DOG) WISE J202615.27+071624.0 (hereafter W2026+0716) at redshift z = 2.570 using Keck/OSIRIS. …”
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New Perspective on the Multiple-population Phenomenon in Galactic Globular Clusters from a Wide-field Photometric Survey by S. Jang, A. P. Milone, A. F. Marino, M. Tailo, E. Dondoglio, M. V. Legnardi, G. Cordoni, T. Ziliotto, E. P. Lagioia, M. Carlos, A. Mohandasan, E. Bortolan, Y.-W. Lee

“…The ChMs allow us to derive the fraction of distinct populations in an analyzed field of view. We present here the radial distribution of the 2G fraction in 29 GCs. …”
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