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1335 papers reviewed by authors · 121–130 / 1335

📄 earth science

Rare deglacial-aged corals point to weaker El Niño in a colder world

By combining the first monthly-resolved fossil coral records from the last deglaciation with climate model simulations, this study demonstrates that El Niño events were weaker and less frequent in colder climates, thereby validating model projections that extreme El Niño events will become more frequent as the planet warms.

ROBERT Domeyko, Judson Partin, Yuko Okumura, Kaustubh Thirumalai, Pedro DiNezio, Allison Lawman, Frederick Taylor, Dunyu (…)2026-09-23✓ Author reviewed ⓘ
🧬 biology

Rapid Antibiotic Susceptibility Testing by Reflectometric Interference Fourier Transform Spectroscopy on pH-responsive Hydrogel Infiltrated Porous Silicon Integrated into Microchips

This paper presents a rapid, label-free antimicrobial susceptibility testing platform that integrates pH-responsive hydrogel-infiltrated porous silicon microchips with microfluidics to detect bacterial metabolic acidification via optical interferometry, enabling accurate antibiotic susceptibility results for *E. coli* within 1.5 hours.

Fereshteh Rahimi, Shima Abarghoe, Nizami Duran, Ali Abouei Mehrizi, Mahsa Sedighi, Mahya Mosayebzadeh, Elif Yaprak Çolak (…)2026-09-23✓ Author reviewed ⓘ
💰 quantitative finance

Firm Valuation When AI Shapes the Business Model: A Milestone-Based Real-Options Framework for the AI Valuation Uncertainty Problem

This paper proposes a novel, industry-agnostic valuation framework that addresses the limitations of standard methods for AI-driven firms by introducing a milestone-based real-options model, an AI-specific taxonomy, and an Analytic Hierarchy Process-derived success index to decompose uncertainty into auditable option-level assumptions, demonstrated through a single-firm case study.

Walter Kurz, Wojtek Stricker, Stefan Marx, Frank Reinhardt, Florian Kollberg2026-09-22✓ Author reviewed ⓘ
⚗️ biochemistry

Molecular Architecture of the Human GCN1-ABCF3 Ribosome Collision Sensor

This study elucidates the molecular mechanism by which human GCN1 senses ribosome collisions to activate the Integrated Stress Response, revealing that it rigidifies collided di-ribosomes and recruits the mammalian ortholog ABCF3 (the functional equivalent of yeast Gcn20) during amino acid starvation.

Chandrasekaran, V., Gupta, R., Angani, M. T., Haddad, T. F. M., Tate, C. G., Ramakrishnan, V., Hinnebusch, A. G.2026-09-22✓ Author reviewed ⓘ
🔭 astrophysics

The CAMELS-CROCODILE Simulation Suite: A New Cosmology--Astrophysics Playground for Machine Learning

This paper introduces CAMELS-CROCODILE, a new suite of cosmological hydrodynamic simulations using the Gadget code and Osaka feedback model to provide an independent baryonic physics implementation for testing machine learning inference, demonstrating that models trained on distinct galaxy formation frameworks like IllustrisTNG fail to generalize accurately without retraining.

Kentaro Nagamine, Yuri Oku, Atsushi J. Nishizawa, Jun-Young Lee, Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro, Shy Genel, Daniel Anglés (…)2026-09-22✓ Author reviewed ⓘ
💬 NLP

Decomposing Error and Style in Automated Clinical Coding

This paper argues that much of the performance gap in automated clinical coding attributed to model error actually stems from unmodeled, systematic coding styles, demonstrating that explicitly conditioning models on a coder-specific style rubric significantly improves accuracy and resolves discrepancies across different evaluation methods.

Han-Chin Shing, Jack Moriarty, Ryan Ware, Afton Marchbanks, Carlyn Canvasser, Stefanie Higgins, Harsh Gupta, Fang Wang (…)2026-09-22✓ Author reviewed ⓘ
📄 earth science

Drivers of Wave Attenuation by Mangroves across contrasting geomorphic settings in Colombia

This study demonstrates that while mangrove wave attenuation in Colombia is primarily driven by volumetric density and hydrodynamic conditions, high local variability in these factors often masks broader regional differences across contrasting geomorphic settings.

Maria Fernanda Acosta-Silva, David Alejandro Sánchez-Núñez, Cesar David Padilla Mendoza, Jose Ernesto Mancera-Pineda2026-09-22✓ Author reviewed ⓘ