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作者：Bag, Bidisha; Das, K. Anaswara; Debnath, Anirban; Hegde, Tejasvi; Dixit, Harish N.; Karcz, Jakub; Kula, Przemyslaw; Dhara, Surajit
作者单位：University of Hyderabad; Indian Institute of Technology System (IIT System); Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) - Hyderabad; Military University of Technology in Warsaw
摘要：Ferroelectric nematic liquid crystals (FNLCs) represent an emerging class of functional soft materials that combine the orientational order of nematic liquid crystals with spontaneous electrical polarization. In a striking departure from the conventional nonpolar nematic liquid crystals, FNLCs form freely suspended liquid filaments that thin in time. These filaments exhibit a two-stage thinning dynamics, consisting of an initial elastocapillary regime followed by a terminal visco-elastocapilla...
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作者：Guilbeault, Douglas; Caplan, Spencer; Yang, Charles
作者单位：Stanford University; City University of New York (CUNY) System; City University of New York (CUNY) System; University of Pennsylvania; University of Pennsylvania
摘要：A persistent puzzle throughout the cognitive and social sciences is how people manage to learn social conventions from the sparse and noisy behavioral data of diverse actors, without explicit instruction. Here, we show that the dominant theories of social learning perform poorly at capturing how individuals learn conventions in coordination experiments that task them with matching their behaviors while interacting in social networks. Across experiments, participants' choices systematically dev...
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作者：Lindberg, Max; Hu, Jing; Thacker, Dev; Sparr, Emma; Linse, Sara
作者单位：Karolinska Institutet; Royal Institute of Technology; Lund University; Lund University
摘要：The aggregation of amyloid proteins into fibrillar and oligomeric aggregates is linked to a number of neurodegenerative diseases. While the disease onset remains elusive in many cases, an understanding of the driving forces for the aggregation may help finding possible causes. While effects on amyloid formation kinetics are more commonly studied, gaining insights into these driving forces require a thermodynamic approach with equilibrium measurements. Here we investigate the temperature depend...
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作者：Molla, Nusrat; Levin, Simon A.; Weber, Elke U.
作者单位：Princeton University; Princeton University
摘要：Communities reliant on extractive industries face a paradox: Despite the promise of economic growth from lucrative, well-paying industries, they often experience poor socioeconomic outcomes. While the so-called resource curse has been debated and studied extensively in a variety of disciplines, understanding when and why the resource curse occurs, and whether it is possible to escape it, remains a challenge. This study examines these questions through a dynamical systems model that incorporate...
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作者：Wu, Xuesheng; Liu, Mengying; Blekkenhorst, Laura; Verbruggen, Mare H. L.; Schuurman, Nancy N. M. P.; Chao, Lemeng; Ong, Jun Yang; Wennekes, Tom; van Dijk, Laura L. A.; de Vries, Rory D.; van Kuppeveld, Frank J. M.; Clausen, Henrik; Narimatsu, Yoshiki; de Vries, Erik; de Haan, Cornelis A. M.
作者单位：National University of Singapore; Utrecht University; Utrecht University; Utrecht University; Erasmus University Rotterdam; Erasmus MC; University of Copenhagen; University of Copenhagen
摘要：Sialic acids (Sia) on glycoproteins and glycosphingolipids act as receptors for many respiratory viruses, including human influenza A viruses and respiroviruses, which typically bind to alpha 2-6-and alpha 2-3-linked Sia (2-6Sia and 2-3Sia), respectively. In view of this binding discrepancy and as the exact sialoglycoconjugates supporting respirovirus infection remain unclear, we assessed the receptor requirements for infection and binding of several respiroviruses and avian Newcastle disease ...
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作者：Yin, Shukun; Yao, Dickson R.; Kim, Inho; Zhou, Wenjie; Heng, Wenzheng; Li, Wenjian; Tang, Songsong; Ma, Xiaotian; Xu, Yadong; Kim, Gwangmook; Han, Hong; Fan, Kexin; Daraio, Chiara; Gao, Wei
作者单位：California Institute of Technology
摘要：Mobile robots are increasingly deployed in diverse settings, ranging from logistic and household applications to ecological monitoring and operation in extreme environments. In these contexts, robots must traverse diverse terrains, yet most existing designs rely on fixed morphologies that limit efficiency across domains. Biomimetic solutions emulate natural forms but cannot fully exploit engineered mechanisms, while active adaptive architectures typically require complex electronics and incur ...
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作者：Xue, Shutian; Barbot, Antoine; Abrams, Jared; Chen, Qingyuan; Carrasco, Marisa
作者单位：New York University; University of Texas System; University of Texas Austin; New York University
摘要：Human visual perception for basic dimensions varies with eccentricity and polar angle, influencing daily activities such as reading, searching, and scene perception. We investigated whether and how system- level computations that transform visual input into perception underlie these heterogeneities. Using the equivalent noise method and perceptual template model, we estimated gain, internal noise, and nonlinearity for orientation discrimination across eccentricity (fovea, parafovea, and perifo...
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作者：Liu, Zhichang; Wang, Sihong
作者单位：University of Chicago; United States Department of Energy (DOE); Argonne National Laboratory
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作者：Sanders, Christina G.; Liu, Min; Fusco, Jovanna A.; Ohl, Elizabeth M.; Tarbuck, Natalie N.; King, Emily M.; Huey, Devra; Fabrizio, Thomas P.; Chen, Phylip; Panfil, Amanda R.; Webby, Richard J.; Peeples, Mark E.; Bowman, Andrew S.; Warren, Cody J.
作者单位：University System of Ohio; Ohio State University; University System of Ohio; Ohio State University; University System of Ohio; Ohio State University; St Jude Children's Research Hospital; University System of Ohio; Ohio State University; Nationwide Childrens Hospital; University System of Ohio; Ohio State University
摘要：Influenza D virus (IDV), primarily found in livestock species, has demonstrated cross-species transmission potential, yet its threat to humans remains poorly understood. Here, we curated a panel of IDV isolates collected during field surveillance from 2011 to 2020 from swine and cattle to assess their ability to infect human airway cells as a proxy for zoonotic threat assessment. Using lung epithelial cell lines, primary well-differentiated airway epithelial cultures, and precision-cut lung sl...
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作者：Wei, Zhiyan; Li, Changfu; Song, Fengge; Zhang, Xiaoying; Li, Shuyu; Xu, Nuoping; Zhang, Jingchao; Luo, Yan; Zuo, Yuxin; Jiao, Jitong; He, Haiyang; Wang, Ruoyi; Liu, Xiaozhen; Sun, Zhongke; Yang, Yantao; Wang, Yao; Chang, Wenqiang; Lou, Hongxiang; Feng, Jie; Zhao, Kun; Zhu, Lingfang; Shen, Xihui
作者单位：Northwest A&F University - China; Northwest A&F University - China; Chengdu University of Technology; Tianjin University; Henan University of Technology; Shandong University; Chinese Academy of Sciences; Institute of Microbiology, CAS; Sichuan Provincial People's Hospital; University of Electronic Science & Technology of China; University of Electronic Science & Technology of China; Sichuan Provincial People's Hospital; University of Electronic Science & Technology of China
摘要：Microbial interactions, particularly bacteria-fungus interactions, are research hotspots within microbial ecology and pathogenic biology. However, their underlying molecular mechanisms remain poorly understood, especially how bacterial pathogens recognize and exploit fungal signaling molecules for fungal predation. Here, we demonstrate that Pseudomonas aeruginosa employs an integrated tripartite farnesol-sensing system to detect and eliminate Candida albicans hyphae: The chemoreceptor PctA med...
