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948 papers reviewed by authors · 71–80 / 948

📄 agriculture

Operationalizing Cattle–Environment Interactions in a Traditional Silvopastoral System: CEII (Cattle–Environment Interaction Index) and SWAI (Silvopastoral Water Accessibility Index) for Assessing Vegetation and Topographic Controls in Türkiye

This study introduces the Cattle–Environment Interaction Index (CEII) and Silvopastoral Water Accessibility Index (SWAI) to quantify how traditional silvopastoral systems in Türkiye's Beşparmak Mountains function as resilient socio-ecological mechanisms where water accessibility and vegetation heterogeneity drive livestock behavior to regulate key ecosystem functions.

Orhan KARACA, Onur YILMAZ, Özkan EREN, Nezih ATA, İbrahim CEMAL2026-07-15✓ Author reviewed ⓘ
📄 earth_science

Magma Generation in the ocean continental transition of the Northern South China Sea Continental Margin and Its Modification of the Crust

This paper proposes a novel magma generation mechanism for the northern South China Sea's Ocean–Continent Transition, suggesting that atmospheric neutrinos induce MSW resonance in deep seawater, which triggers radiogenic heating and crustal melting through inertial coupling, thereby explaining regional magmatic diversity and tectonic evolution.

国文 张2026-07-15✓ Author reviewed ⓘ
🧬 biology

Deciphering the Language of Nature: A transformer-based language model for deleterious mutations in proteins

The paper introduces MutFormer, a transformer-based model that combines self-attention and convolutional layers to predict deleterious missense mutations in human proteins, demonstrating performance comparable to or better than existing tools by effectively capturing both short-range and long-range sequence dependencies.

Theodore Jiang, Li Fang, Kai Wang2026-07-15✓ Author reviewed ⓘ
🔬 materials science

Plastic Work Partitioning During Slip- and Twinning-Dominated Deformation in AZ31B Magnesium Alloy

This study reveals that in extruded AZ31B magnesium alloy, the partitioning of plastic work between heat dissipation and energy storage is fundamentally governed by the active deformation mechanism, with slip-dominated deformation dissipating approximately half the energy as heat while twinning-dominated deformation initially stores most energy to drive rapid strain hardening and early localization.

Michał Maj, Sandra Musiał, Marcin Nowak2026-07-14✓ Author reviewed ⓘ
⚛️ general relativity

Evading the CMB μμ-distortion bound on Supermassive Primordial Black Hole seeds with Non-Gaussian tails

This paper demonstrates that the CMB μ\mu-distortion bound, which typically precludes the formation of supermassive primordial black hole seeds via Gaussian perturbations, can be evaded by invoking non-Gaussian probability distribution tails—specifically power-law or sufficiently heavy log-normal shapes—that decouple the small-scale variance from the collapse probability.

Sanket Dave, Sheng-Feng Yan, Amara Ilyas, Yi-Fu Cai2026-07-14✓ Author reviewed ⓘ
🔭 astrophysics

The recent crossing of the 7:3 resonance between Ganymede and Callisto

Numerical simulations suggest that Ganymede and Callisto recently crossed their 7:3 mean motion resonance approximately two million years ago without being captured, a process that reduced their orbital eccentricities, increased the amplitude of the Laplace resonant angle's libration, and was likely followed by a three-body resonance crossing among the outer moons within the last few tens of thousands of years.

Giacomo Lari, Mattia Rossi2026-07-14✓ Author reviewed ⓘ
📊 statistics

Graph statistics: An emerging discipline in non-Euclidean data analysis

This paper introduces graph statistics as a transformative new discipline for analyzing non-Euclidean data by integrating evolutionary game theory, ecological niche theory, topological data analysis, and graph theory into a quasi-dynamic nonlinear framework, thereby offering a principled approach to revolutionize fields ranging from systems biology to artificial intelligence.

Rongling Wu, Shing-Tung Yau2026-07-14✓ Author reviewed ⓘ
⚛️ general relativity

Perturbative aspects of analogue FLRW spacetime Jellium models

This paper investigates electro-acoustic perturbative modes in expanding FLRW Jellium models by providing novel analytic solutions and numerical evaluations of their linear and nonlinear evolution, while introducing a scale-dependent power spectrum to bridge theoretical predictions with experimental observations.

Matheus E. Pereira, Hermano Velten, Francisco B. Lustosa, Alexandre G. M. Schmidt2026-07-14✓ Author reviewed ⓘ
📄 social_science

From Pitch to Boardroom: Sport, Nurture and the Origins of Successful Female Leaders (Findings from the UK ‘Origins’ Study)

This mixed-methods study of 41 UK female leaders reveals that successful boardroom leadership is fundamentally rooted in a "nurtured leadership" ecosystem where early participation in team sports, supportive family environments, and educational opportunities collectively cultivate the resilience, accountability, and visionary capabilities necessary for executive success, challenging traditional credential-based models of leadership development.

Vicky Brook, Dr Araby Madbouly, Dr Uvesh Husain2026-07-14✓ Author reviewed ⓘ