The persuasion network is modulated by drug-use risk and predicts anti-drug message effectiveness by Huskey, Richard, Weber, René, Mangus, J. Michael, Turner, Benjamin O.

“…While a persuasion network has been proposed, little is known about how network connections between brain regions contribute to attitude change. Two possible mechanisms have been advanced. …”
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Uncertainties of glacial isostatic adjustment model predictions in North America associated with 3D structure by Li, Tanghua, Wu, Patrick, Wang, Hansheng, Steffen, Holger, Khan, Nicole S., Engelhart, Simon E., Vacchi, Matteo, Shaw, Timothy Adam, Peltier, W. Richard, Horton, Benjamin Peter

“…The uncertainties of both these regions increase from 30 to 45 m between 15 and 11 ka BP, which may be due to the rapid decrease of surface loading at that time. …”
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Weighted-persistent-homology-based machine learning for RNA flexibility analysis by Pun, Chi Seng, Yong, Brandon Yung Sin, Xia, Kelin

“…In particular, we use local persistent homology (LPH) to focus on the topological information of local regions. Our WPHML model is validated on a well-established RNA dataset, and numerical experiments show that our model can achieve a PCC of up to 0.5822. …”
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The avocado genome informs deep angiosperm phylogeny, highlights introgressive hybridization, and reveals pathogen-influenced gene space adaptation by Rendón-Anaya, Martha, Ibarra-Laclette, Enrique, Méndez-Bravo, Alfonso, Lan, Tianying, Zheng, Chunfang, Carretero-Paulet, Lorenzo, Perez-Torres, Claudia Anahí, Chacón-López, Alejandra, Hernandez-Guzmán, Gustavo, Chang, Tien-Hao, Farr, Kimberly M, Barbazuk, W Brad, Chamala, Srikar, Mutwil, Marek, Shivhare, Devendra, Alvarez-Ponce, David, Mitter, Neena, Hayward, Alice, Fletcher, Stephen, Rozas, Julio, Sánchez Gracia, Alejandro, Kuhn, David, Barrientos-Priego, Alejandro F, Salojärvi, Jarkko, Librado, Pablo, Sankoff, David, Herrera-Estrella, Alfredo, Albert, Victor A, Herrera-Estrella, Luis

“…Resequencing of Guatemalan and West Indian varieties revealed that ∼39% of the Hass genome represents Guatemalan source regions introgressed into a Mexican race background. …”
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Measuring coastal absolute sea-level changes using GNSS interferometric reflectometry by Peng, Dongju, Feng, Lujia, Larson, Kristine M., Hill, Emma Mary

“…We choose three coastal GNSS stations, one each in regions of subsidence, uplift and stable vertical land motions, to derive both relative sea levels and sea surface heights (SSH) above the satellite altimetry reference ellipsoid from 2008 to 2020. …”
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Handling constrained many-objective optimization problems via problem transformation by Jiao, Ruwang, Zeng, Sanyou, Li, Changhe, Yang, Shengxiang, Ong, Yew-Soon

“…To alleviate this issue, this article presents a problem transformation technique, which transforms a CMaOP into a dynamic CMaOP (DCMaOP) for handling constraints and optimizing objectives simultaneously, to help the population cross the large and discrete infeasible regions. The well-known reference-point-based NSGA-III is tailored under the problem transformation model to solve CMaOPs, namely, DCNSGA-III. …”
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Investigating spatio-temporal variability of initial ²³⁰Th/²³²Th in intertidal corals by Chiang, Hong-Wei, Philibosian, Belle, Meltzner, Aron J., Wu, Chung-Che, Shen, Chuan-Chou, Edwards, R. Lawrence, Chuang, Chih-Kai, Suwargadi, Bambang W., Natawidjaja, Danny H.

“…Mean square of weighted deviates (MSWD) is used to evaluate the variabilities of 28 location-specific 230Th/232Th0 values before the regional mean. Results show no significant spatial difference between the means of 3.1 ± 3.2 × 10−6 for the northern SFI and 4.7 ± 1.3 × 10−6 for the southern SFI. …”
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Emergent semantic segmentation: training-free dense-label-free extraction from vision-language models by Luo, Jiayun

“…From an enormous amount of image-text pairs, large-scale vision-language models (VLMs) learn to implicitly associate image regions with words, which is vital for tasks such as image captioning and visual question answering. …”
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A study on whole life cycle of carbon emissions of buildings by Koh, Jia Woei

“…The findings revealed a growing emphasis on integrating LCA practices with Building Information Modelling (BIM) and showcased the variety of different LCA software and regional carbon calculators. It also highlighted the challenges related to data quality, the scope of LCA, and the integration of BIM with LCA. …”
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Pre-failure strain localization in siliclastic rocks: a comparative study of laboratory and numerical approaches by Bianchi, Patrick, Selvadurai, Paul Antony, Zilio, Dal Luca, Vásquez, Antonio Salazar, Madonna, Claudio, Gerya, Taras, Wiemer, Stefan

“…These simulations revealed three distinct stages of preparatory processes: (i) highly dissipative fronts propagated towards the middle of the sample correlating with the observed acoustic emission locations; (ii) dissipative regions were individuated in the middle of the sample and could be linked to a discernible decrease of the P-wave velocities; (iii) a system of conjugate bands formed, coalesced into a single band that grew from the center towards the sample surface and was interpreted to be representative for the preparation of a weak plane. …”
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Urban vulnerability assessment of sea level rise in Singapore through the World Avatar by Phua, Shin Zert, Lee, Kok Foong, Tsai, Yi-Kai, Ganguly, Srishti, Yan, Jingya, Mosbach, Sebastian, Ng, Trina, Moise, Aurel, Horton, Benjamin Peter, Kraft, Markus

“…Current sea level rise vulnerability assessment tools are often regional, narrow in scope (e.g., economic or cultural aspects only), and are inadequate in representing complex non-geospatial data consistently. …”
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Next-generation sequencing (NGS) for assessment of microbial water quality : current progress, challenges, and future opportunities by Tan, BoonFei, Ng, Charmaine, Nshimyimana, Jean Pierre, Loh, Lay Leng, Gin, Karina Y.-H., Thompson, Janelle R.

“…In addition, sequencing methods targeting small subunit (SSU) rRNA hypervariable regions have allowed identification of signature microbial species that serve as bioindicators for sewage contamination in these environments. …”
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Carrier scattering mechanisms limiting mobility in hydrogen-doped indium oxide by Husein, Sebastian, Stuckelberger, Michael, West, Bradley, Ding, Laura, Dauzou, Fabien, Morales-Masis, Monica, Duchamp, Martial, Holman, Zachary, Bertoni, Mariana I.

“…By investigating the parameter space of the hydrogen content, temperature, and grain size, we define the three distinct regions in which the grain boundary, ionized impurity, and polar optical phonon scattering operate in this high mobility TCO.…”
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Caustic object construction based on multiple caustic patterns by Tandianus, Budianto, Johan, Henry, Seah, Hock Soon

“…We solve this problem by using a two-step optimization algorithm in which we adjust the position and size of the caustic regions in the first step and we adjust the caustic shapes in the second step. …”
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Urban flood detection with Sentinel-1 Multi-Temporal Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) observations in a Bayesian Framework : a case study for Hurricane Matthew by Lin, Nina Yunung, Yun, Sang-Ho, Bhardwaj, Alok, Hill, Emma M.

“…This resulted in improved performance for urban and vegetated regions. We identified smooth surfaces, like asphalt roads, and SAR shadows as the major sources of underprediction, and aquatic plants and soil moisture changes were the major sources of overprediction.…”
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Matrix polysaccharides and SiaD diguanylate cyclase alter community structure and competitiveness of Pseudomonas aeruginosa during dual-species biofilm development with Staphylococ... by Chew, Su Chuen, Yam, Joey Kuok Hoong, Matysik, Artur, Seng, Zi Jing, Klebensberger, Janosch, Givskov, Michael, Doyle, Patrick, Rice, Scott A., Yang, Liang, Kjelleberg, Staffan

“…In contrast to the effect mediated by Psl, Pel reduced the effective crosslinking of the biofilm matrix and facilitated superdiffusivity in microcolony regions. These changes in matrix cross-linking enhance biofilm surface spreading and expansion of microcolonies in the later stages of biofilm development, improving overall dual-species biofilm growth and increasing biovolume severalfold. …”
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A novel method for segmenting growth of cells in sheared endothelial culture reveals the secretion of an anti-inflammatory mediator by Ghim, Mean, Pang, Kuin T., Arshad, Mehwish, Wang, Xiaomeng, Weinberg, Peter D.

“…Methods: Surface coating methods were developed for attaching cells only to some areas of culture-ware and preventing them from spreading into other regions even during prolonged culture. Results: Segmenting the growth of cells had no effect on cell shape, alignment and number per unit area compared to culturing cells in the whole well, but there were differences in tumour-necrosis-factor-α (TNF-α)-induced expression of vascular cell adhesion molecule-1 (VCAM-1) and intercellular adhesion molecule-1 (ICAM-1), and monocyte adherence to the monolayer. …”
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Cloud Spark Cluster to analyse English prescription big data for NHS intelligence by Fernando, Sandra, Sowinski-Mydlarz, Viktor, Virdee, Bal Singh

“…This study illustrates regions as well as GP practices in terms of reimbursement cost, drug consumption level, the type of the drug, and the disease type; varied demand for dispensed chemical substances over the years; shows what diseases have increased or decreased over the years as well as the total cost and its trends.…”
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Image processing and machine learning techniques for Chagas disease detection and identification by Rada, Lavdie, Azzawi, Inass, Kumar, Preet, Brito-Loeza, Carlos Francisco, Karabağ, Cefa, Reyes-Aldasoro, Constantino C.

“…This research reduces dependence on skilled manual analysis holding a significant implications for healthcare in Chagas-affected regions by providing a rapid, automated solution to disease detection. …”
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Distribution of surface-active substances in the sea surface microlayers off the Malaysian peninsula by Mustaffa, Nur Ili Hamizah, Khairul Anuar, Ayu Nabila, Zaini, Nor Syafikah, Mohamed, Khairul Nizam, Latif, Mohd Talib

“…The sea surface microlayer (SML), particularly in monsoon-influenced regions, remains largely unexplored. This study aims to determine the concentrations, enrichment, and factors controlling the enrichment processes of surface-active substances (SASs), which include surfactants, dissolved monosaccharides (MCHOs), polysaccharides (PCHOs), total dissolved carbohydrates (TDCHOs), and transparent exopolymer particles (TEPs) around the coastal area of Malaysian Peninsula. …”
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