Retrieval of pseudo-BRDF-adjusted surface reflectance at 440 nm from the Geostationary Environmental Monitoring Spectrometer (GEMS) by S. Sim, S. Choi, D. Jung, J. Woo, N. Kim, S. Park, H. Kim, U. Jeong, H. Hong, K.-S. Han

“…This study pioneered the application of the BRDF model to hyperspectral satellite data at 440 nm, aiming to provide more realistic preliminary surface reflectance data. …”
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Original Personalized Reconstruction Method for Certain Large Tumors of the Lower Lip (Not Including Oral Commissures) by Ovidiu Dan Grigorescu, Marius Irimie, Nadinne Roman, Roxana Steliana Miclaus, Maria-Cristina Cîmpeanu, Bogdan-Radu Necula, Christian-Gabriel Strempel, Simona Grigorescu, Marius Alexandru Moga, Dana Gabriela Festila

“…<i>Background/Objective</i>: Surgical treatment of extensive tumors of the lower lip generates important defects in its structure and functions. …”
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A 30 m Global Flood Inundation Model for Any Climate Scenario by Oliver E. J. Wing, Paul D. Bates, Niall D. Quinn, James T. S. Savage, Peter F. Uhe, Anthony Cooper, Thomas P. Collings, Nans Addor, Natalie S. Lord, Simbi Hatchard, Jannis M. Hoch, Joe Bates, Izzy Probyn, Sam Himsworth, Josué Rodríguez González, Malcolm P. Brine, Hamish Wilkinson, Christopher C. Sampson, Andrew M. Smith, Jeffrey C. Neal, Ivan D. Haigh

“…Abstract Global flood mapping has developed rapidly over the past decade, but previous approaches have limited scope, function, and accuracy. These limitations restrict the applicability and fundamental science questions that can be answered with existing model frameworks. …”
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State Estimation in Power Systems Under Random Data Attack Using Correlation Matching, Semidefinite Relaxation, and Truncated Eigenvalue Decomposition by Bamrung Tausiesakul, Krissada Asavaskulkiet, Chuttchaval Jeraputra, Ittiphong Leevongwat, Thamvarit Singhavilai, Supun Tiptipakorn

“…Such kind of perturbation could be targeted at any domain of a smart grid from household customers to bulk generation, leading to network failures and power disruption. …”
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Pixel-super-resolved lens-free quantitative phase microscopy with partially coherent illumination by Yang Chen, Xuejuan Wu, Linpeng Lu, Jiasong Sun, Runnan Zhang, Wenhui Lin, Yufan Chen, Maciej Trusiak, Peng Gao, Chao Zuo

“…The use of partially coherent light-emitting diodes (LEDs) in LFOCM offers a more portable and cost-effective alternative to conventional coherent illumination sources. …”
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Heat up, silence on: IDO1 gene silencing in THP-1-derived dendritic cells triggered by magnetic hyperthermia by Daniela Ferreira, Laura Asín, Javier Idiago-López, Valeria Grazú, Jesús M. de la Fuente, Raluca M. Fratila, Pedro V. Baptista, Alexandra R. Fernandes

“…Magnetic nanoparticles (MNPs) functionalized with cyclooctyne moieties were attached by strain-promoted azide-alkyne cycloaddition to DCs membranes engineered to express artificial azide receptors. …”
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Systematic Review of the Differential Effects of TGF‐β1 in Ischemic and Hemorrhagic Preclinical Stroke Models by Benjamin J. Hewitt, Myah Ali, Jessica Hubbard, Lisa J. Hill, Hannah Botfield

“…Conclusions Our findings suggest a marked difference in TGF‐β1 function between these types of stroke, and it is hypothesized that blood cytotoxicity following hemorrhagic stroke may generate more sustained TGF‐β1 expression than that seen in ischemic stroke. …”
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Sequence-based GWAS in 180,000 German Holstein cattle reveals new candidate variants for milk production traits by Ana-Marija Križanac, Christian Reimer, Johannes Heise, Zengting Liu, Jennie E. Pryce, Jörn Bennewitz, Georg Thaller, Clemens Falker-Gieske, Jens Tetens

“…With constantly growing sample sizes, we expect more insights into the genetic architecture of milk production traits in the future.…”
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POTA: A Pipelined Oblivious Transfer Acceleration Architecture for Secure Multi-Party Computation by Li Xiaolin, Yan Wei, Liu Hongwei, Zhang Yong, Hao Qinfen, Liu Yong, Sun Ninghui

“…Furthermore, we design a modular multiplication module over a finite field to generate the more complex correlations required by MPC protocols. …”
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Improving healthy food recommender systems through heterogeneous hypergraph learning by Jing Wang, Jincheng Zhou, Muammer Aksoy, Nidhi Sharma, Md Arafatur Rahman, Jasni Mohamad Zain, Mohammed J.F. Alenazi, Aliyeh Aminzadeh

“…Unlike previous methods, we convert the heterogeneous hypergraph into a homogeneous space, using a unified loss function to generate recommendations that adapt to individual users’ changing dietary preferences. …”
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A New Rarity Assessment of the “Disk of Satellites”: The Milky Way System Is the Exception Rather Than the Rule in the ΛCDM Cosmology by Chanoul Seo, Suk-Jin Yoon, Sanjaya Paudel, Sung-Ho An, Jun-Sung Moon

“…Based on this premise, we construct the “satellite distribution generator” code and generate 10 ^5 spatially and kinematically analogous systems (SKASs) sharing these two factors. …”
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Systematic metabolic engineering enables highly efficient production of vitamin A in Saccharomyces cerevisiae by Yi Shi, Shuhuan Lu, Xiao Zhou, Xinhui Wang, Chenglong Zhang, Nan Wu, Tianyu Dong, Shilong Xing, Ying Wang, Wenhai Xiao, Mingdong Yao

“…Vitamin A is a micronutrient critical for versatile biological functions and has been widely used in the food, cosmetics, pharmaceutical, and nutraceutical industries. …”
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Transcriptional profiles of Microcystis reveal gene expression shifts that promote bloom persistence in in situ mesocosms by Lauren E. Krausfeldt, Paisley S. Samuel, Robert P. Smith, Hidetoshi Urakawa, Barry H. Rosen, Rita R. Colwell, Jose V. Lopez

“…At later times in the bloom, upregulation of genes involved in biomass generation, phage protection, genomic rearrangement, and toxin production was observed. …”
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CD137 and PD-L1 targeting with immunovirotherapy induces a potent and durable antitumor immune response in glioblastoma models by Hong Jiang, Sandra Hervás-Stubbs, Sara Labiano, Candelaria Gomez-Manzano, Juan Fueyo, Marta Alonso, Zhihong Chen, Montserrat Puigdelloses, Marc Garcia-Moure, Virginia Laspidea, Marisol Gonzalez-Huarriz, Marta Zalacain, Lucia Marrodan, Naiara Martinez-Velez, Daniel De la Nava, Iker Ausejo, Guillermo Herrador, Dolores Hambardzumyan, Ana Patino Garcia, Jaime Gállego Pérez-Larraya

“…Moreover, Delta-24-ACT expressed functional 4-1BBL that was able to costimulate T lymphocytes in vitro and in vivo. …”
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Oxidative and Excitatory Neurotoxic Stresses in CRISPR/Cas9-Induced Kynurenine Aminotransferase Knockout Mice: A Novel Model for Despair-Based Depression and Post-Traumatic Stress... by Ágnes Szabó, Zsolt Galla, Eleonóra Spekker, Mónika Szűcs, Diána Martos, Keiko Takeda, Kinuyo Ozaki, Hiromi Inoue, Sayo Yamamoto, József Toldi, Etsuro Ono, László Vécsei, Masaru Tanaka

“…Results: Transgenic mice showed more depressive-like behaviors in the forced swim test, but not in the tail suspension, anxiety, or memory tests. …”
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Sources of uncertainty in DNA metabarcoding of whole communities: Implications for its use in biomonitoring by J. Iwan Jones, Amanda Arnold, Dominik Buchner, John F. Murphy, Jasmine N. Childress, Pedro Beja, Florian Altermatt, Kristian Meissner, Ian Adams, Meri Anderson, Yaisel J. Borrell, Andrew G. Briscoe, Kat Bruce, Cátia Chaves, Chris Conyers, Kristy Deiner, Vasco Elbrecht, Álvaro Fueyo, Tim Goodall, Javier Granero‐Castro, Cristina Hartmann‐Fatu, Eleanor Jones, Elvira Mächler, Filipa M. S. Martins, Sam McGreig, Lyndall Pereira‐da‐Conceicoa, James L. Pretty, Daniel S. Read, Ben Price, Florian Leese, Rosetta C. Blackman

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Impact of Endocrine Disrupting Pesticide Use on Obesity: A Systematic Review by Marcelino Pérez-Bermejo, Cristian Barrezueta-Aguilar, Javier Pérez-Murillo, Ignacio Ventura, María Ester Legidos-García, Francisco Tomás-Aguirre, Manuel Tejeda-Adell, Miriam Martínez-Peris, Belén Marí-Beltrán, María Teresa Murillo-Llorente

“…<b>Background/Objectives:</b> Endocrine disruptors are substances capable of altering the functions of the endocrine system. There is evidence that some pesticides can be endocrine disruptors and, among some of their effects, we find alterations in pubertal development and in the function of the thyroid gland, which could be related to a greater tendency of obesity. …”
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Sustainable and cost-efficient hydrogen production using platinum clusters at minimal loading by Hongliang Zeng, Zheng Chen, Qiu Jiang, Qingtian Zhong, Yuan Ji, Yizhen Chen, Jiawei Li, Chunxiao Liu, Runhao Zhang, Jialin Tang, Xiaoxia Xiong, Zhongyue Zhang, Zhaoyang Chen, Yizhou Dai, Chengbo Li, Yinfang Chen, Donghao Zhao, Xu Li, Tingting Zheng, Xin Xu, Chuan Xia

“…We herein present a Mo2TiC2 MXene-supported Pt nanocluster catalyst (Mo2TiC2-PtNC) that requires a minimal Pt content (36 μg cm−2) to function, yet remains highly active and stable. Operando spectroscopy and theoretical simulation provide evidence for anomalous charge transfer from the MXene substrate to PtNC, thus generating highly efficient electron-rich Pt sites for robust hydrogen evolution. …”
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Depletion of conventional CD4+ T cells is required for robust priming and dissemination of tumor antigen-specific CD8+ T cells in the setting of anti-CD4 therapy by Keisuke Shirai, Tiffany Chen, Mary Jo Turk, Delaney E Ramirez, Christo P C Dragnev, Tyler G Searles, Nathaniel Spicer, J Louise Lines, Aaron R Hawkes, Wilson L Davis, Asmaa Mohamed, Joseph D Phillips, Pamela C Rosato, Yina H Huang

“…However, the underlying basis for treatment efficacy, more specifically the implications of codepleting other CD4-expressing cell compartments in tumor-bearing hosts, is not well understood.Methods Tumor-bearing mice were treated with anti-CD4 versus other therapies that preserve helper T cell function, and the priming, tissue distribution, and maintenance of tumor antigen-specific CD8 T cells were assessed. …”
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Mental Health in the Age of Hyperconnectivity: A Crisis Hidden in Plain Sight by Sitara Ejaz, Hafiz Muhammad Haseeb Khaliq

“…Data indicates that individuals who spend more than three hours daily on social media face a 60% higher likelihood of developing anxiety or depressive symptoms 5. …”
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