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1336 papers reviewed by authors · 351–360 / 1336
This study presents a comprehensive comparative analysis of Bundibugyo ebolavirus glycoprotein evolution across the 2007, 2012, and 2026 outbreaks, identifying 21 core substitution sites concentrated in variable domains while confirming the strict conservation of critical functional regions to establish a standardized framework for future genomic surveillance.
This paper proposes a rare-earth co-doped LiNbO3 optical Physical Unclonable Function that resolves the entropy-photorefractive trade-off via an analytical model, achieving full NIST SP 800-22 compliance, ultra-low bit error rates, and long-term stability across a wide temperature range, outperforming existing optical PUF platforms.
This study demonstrates that mesenchymal stem cells exhibit significantly enhanced survival and proliferation on a novel biomimetic substrate combining fibroblast-imprinted topography with a polydopamine-mediated fibroblast cell membrane coating, which collectively recapitulates the native cellular niche to create a favorable microenvironment; the casting agent was a liquid mixture of PDMS monomers and the curing agent, which was then cured into a soft solid polymer (PDMS).
This paper reveals a previously unexamined two-color symmetry within the Fujiwara–Algoet tetrahedron's orientation-inverting region, distinguishing a unique SU(2)-covariant part from three anisotropic ones, and proposes a practical three-state protocol to experimentally detect these orientation inversions.
This study demonstrates that while carboxylic acid intermediates like fumarate, acrylic, and crotonic acids can be converted into valuable volatile fatty acids in ruminal fermentation, their reduction relies primarily on intracellular electron donors rather than extracellular dihydrogen, indicating that thermodynamic potential alone cannot predict the ability of alternative electron acceptors to mitigate hydrogen accumulation caused by methane inhibition.
This study reveals that the Gram-negative bacterium *Myxococcus xanthus* undergoes cell division-independent sporulation through a novel mechanism where the lytic transglycosylase LtgB regulates LtgA-mediated peptidoglycan degradation to ensure controlled cell wall breakdown and the formation of resistant spores.
This paper introduces a framework for evaluating the contributions of pre-aligned agent pairs in cooperative games by linking Shapley values of connectivity-augmented local functions to chromatic and Tutte polynomials, as well as the Potts model partition function, to address applications in network defense, attack analysis, and profit distribution.
This paper demonstrates that while a full exhaustive search of the 56-bit DES keyspace using commodity AWS EC2 instances would cost approximately $1.2 million and take about 21 years with a modest fleet, the search is practically feasible for well-funded attackers who can trade money for time to complete it in as little as one day, while smaller subspace attacks can be executed for negligible cost.
This study demonstrates that elite AI chess players sustain significantly higher and more prolonged strategic tension than human grandmasters by tolerating densely interconnected positions, whereas humans systematically limit complexity, with AI tension scaling by algorithmic complexity and human tension increasing with skill and time controls.
This study of four emerging economies finds that while educational assortative mating significantly influences household income inequality in any given year, its temporal changes have negligible net effects because rising sorting among the least educated—who face marginalization and limited mobility—offsets declining sorting among the highly educated.