Editorial Material
Medicine, General & Internal
Arjun V. K. Sharma
Summary: In this narrative medicine essay, a third-year internal medicine resident shares his experience of being deafened by tinnitus during the silence and isolation brought on by COVID-19.
JAMA-JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION
(2021)
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Physics, Multidisciplinary
Tobias Stauber, Jose Gonzalez
Summary: Low-temperature measurements on twisted bilayer graphene suggest that the 'strange metal' state is likely attributed to the interactions between electrons.
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Political Science
Sergiu Gherghina, Paul Tap
Summary: Research in politics uses fictitious politicians to explain different processes. This article aims to explain what makes citizens identify a fictitious party leader and has important implications for the literature on political sophistication and social desirability bias.
POLITICAL STUDIES REVIEW
(2023)
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Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Abdul Rehman, Muhammad Saleem Arif, Muhammad Aammar Tufail, Sher Muhammad Shahzad, Taimoor Hassan Farooq, Waqas Ahmed, Tariq Mehmood, Muhammad Raza Farooq, Zeeshan Javed, Awais Shakoor
Summary: The physico-chemical properties of biochar, such as surface area, pH, and pyrolysis temperature, heavily influence the immobilization of PTMs. Biochar can decrease the bioavailability of PTMs in soil and plants, with specific physico-chemical attributes reducing availability by 40% and 22% respectively. Further research is needed to investigate the efficiency and potential secondary pollution of biochar in large-scale applications for PTM remediation.
JOURNAL OF CLEANER PRODUCTION
(2021)
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Paleontology
Evan P. Anderson, James D. Schiffbauer, Sarah M. Jacquet, James C. Lamsdell, Joanne Kluessendorf, Donald G. Mikulic
Summary: Parioscorpio venator, a relatively rare arthropod from the Waukesha lagerstatte, is redescribed with unique characteristics that challenge classification. Phylogenetic analysis places it as an early branch of Mandibulata and Chelicerata, but exact placement remains uncertain. The study highlights the importance of small lagerstatten in the Middle Palaeozoic and the need for caution when interpreting their enigmatic constituents.
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Immunology
Shang-Rong Ji, Shu-Hao Zhang, Yue Chang, Hai-Yun Li, Ming-Yu Wang, M. K. Li Patrick, Jian-Min Lv, Li Zhu, Patrick M. K. Tang, Yi Wu
Summary: C-reactive protein (CRP) is a highly conserved pentraxin with pattern recognition receptor-like activities. Despite its extensive clinical use as an inflammation marker, the in vivo functions of CRP and its roles in health and disease remain largely unknown. Differences in CRP expression patterns in mice and rats raise concerns about the conservation of CRP functions across species and the appropriate use of animal models. This review discusses recent advances in understanding the essential and conserved functions of CRP and proposes the use of properly designed animal models to study the actions of human CRP in vivo. Improved model design will contribute to understanding the roles of CRP in disease and the development of targeted therapies.
JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY
(2023)
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Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Tim Lomas
Summary: This paper reviews various possible forms of non-human wellbeing and discusses their significance for human wellbeing.
JOURNAL OF POSITIVE PSYCHOLOGY
(2023)
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Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence
Federico Chesani, Chiara Di Francescomarino, Chiara Ghidini, Daniela Loreti, Fabrizio Maria Maggi, Paola Mello, Marco Montali, Sergio Tessaris
Summary: As the need for understanding and formalizing business processes continues to grow, the research field of process discovery has become increasingly important. This study focuses on declarative processes and presents a less-popular view of process discovery as a binary supervised learning task. The proposed approach, NegDis, shows promising results in terms of both performance and solution quality when compared to other relevant works in this field.
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON KNOWLEDGE AND DATA ENGINEERING
(2023)
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Chemistry, Inorganic & Nuclear
Rohit Kumar, Samir H. Chikkali
Summary: Metal-catalyzed hydroformylation of alkenes is widely employed for the synthesis of aldehydes, with rhodium being the most commonly used metal catalyst. However, due to rhodium's rarity, high cost, and depletion, finding alternative catalysts is of great interest. This review summarizes the recent advancements in hydroformylation using metals other than rhodium, highlighting cobalt as the only metal that poses a significant challenge to rhodium's dominance.
JOURNAL OF ORGANOMETALLIC CHEMISTRY
(2022)
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Microbiology
Filippo Dell'Anno, Eugenio Rastelli, Emanuela Buschi, Giulio Barone, Francesca Beolchini, Antonio Dell'Anno
Summary: The study demonstrates that marine fungi are more effective in bioleaching heavy metals from contaminated marine sediments compared to acidophilic autotrophic and heterotrophic bacteria, especially when used in combination with bacteria. Fungal addition significantly increases the bioleaching yields of metals, particularly for less mobile fractions such as Zn and Cd.
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Engineering, Environmental
Shuangjin Ma, Zhongren Nan, Yahu Hu, Shuai Chen, Xiaoyan Yang, Jieqiong Su
Summary: Screening and cultivating crop varieties with low Cd accumulation is an effective way to safely utilize slightly contaminated soil. However, the study found that wheat varieties in low-P soil had significantly higher grain Cd concentration than in high-P soil, exceeding safety guidelines. The difference in soil pH, nutrient levels, and Cd speciation between the two soil types influenced the Cd uptake by the plant varieties.
JOURNAL OF HAZARDOUS MATERIALS
(2022)
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Economics
Marc Ivaldi, Emil Palikot
Summary: Using data from a popular city-to-city ridesharing platform, this study examines how individual drivers respond to increased health risks, specifically during the Covid-19 outbreak. The analysis shows that areas with higher health risks experience higher ridesharing prices and greater price variation. The findings suggest that decision-makers promoting ridesharing for intercity travel need to consider the impact of perceived health risks on prices and ensure accessibility.
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Environmental Sciences
Marine J. Briand, Olivier Herlory, Nicolas Briant, Christophe Brach-Papa, Pierre Boissery, Marc Bouchoucha
Summary: Active biomonitoring of chemical contamination in French Mediterranean coastal waters has been conducted for over two decades. This study presents the current contamination levels in 2021 and the temporal changes from 2000. The results show that most sites had low concentrations in 2021 (>83%), but moderate to high levels were detected near urban industrial centers and river mouths. There was no major trend in contamination over the past 20 years, raising questions about future efforts needed. However, decreasing trends in organic compounds indicate the effectiveness of some management actions.
MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN
(2023)
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Multidisciplinary Sciences
Yan Leng, Dominiquo Santistevan, Alex Pentland
Summary: Familiar strangers, encountered in urban life, lack significant research on their structure and social relationships. Using mobile phone records, researchers have identified the existence of familiar strangers and their relative social relations. The study suggests that more significant physical encounters correspond to shorter social distances.
SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
(2021)
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Behavioral Sciences
Elizabeth DiLiberto, Shwetha Phatarpekar, Kelly Theodorakis, Kathryn K. Chadman
Summary: This study examined the social behavior of female BTBR mice in the social approach test with stranger mice from different strains. The results showed that BTBR females displayed more social behavior with mice that were more socially interactive and less with less socially interactive mice.
BEHAVIOURAL BRAIN RESEARCH
(2023)
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Physics, Multidisciplinary
Carsten Putzke, Siham Benhabib, Wojciech Tabis, Jake Ayres, Zhaosheng Wang, Liam Malone, Salvatore Licciardello, Jianming Lu, Takeshi Kondo, Tsunehiro Takeuchi, Nigel E. Hussey, John R. Cooper, Antony Carrington
Summary: Study of the high-field Hall coefficient in thallium- and bismuth-based single-layer cuprates reveals a smooth evolution of this quantity from p to 1 + p over a wide doping range. The evolution of n(H) correlates with the emergence of the anomalous linear-in-temperature term in the low-temperature in-plane resistivity, suggesting that quasiparticle decoherence may extend to dopings well beyond the pseudogap regime.
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Multidisciplinary Sciences
J. Ayres, M. Berben, M. Culo, Y-T Hsu, E. van Heumen, Y. Huang, J. Zaanen, T. Kondo, T. Takeuchi, J. R. Cooper, C. Putzke, S. Friedemann, A. Carrington, N. E. Hussey
Summary: Strange metals exhibit unconventional electrical properties such as linear resistivity, inverse Hall angle, and linear magnetoresistance. Research suggests that these anomalies in cuprates may be related to a quantum critical point inside the superconducting dome, extending beyond the critical doping level. The presence of two charge sectors, one with coherent quasiparticles and the other with scale-invariant 'Planckian' dissipators, indicates a complex behavior in the strange-metal regime.
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Physics, Multidisciplinary
Sangjun Lee, John Collini, Stella X. L. Sun, Matteo Mitrano, Xuefei Guo, Chris Eckberg, Johnpierre Paglione, Eduardo Fradkin, Peter Abbamonte
Summary: This study establishes BSNA as a rare material containing three distinct CDWs and an exciting test bed for studying the coupling between CDW, nematic, and superconducting orders.
PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
(2021)
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Physics, Multidisciplinary
M. Culo, C. Duffy, J. Ayres, M. Berben, Yi-Ting Hsu, R. D. H. Hinlopen, B. Bernath, N. E. Hussey
Summary: Research shows that the normal superconducting state of overdoped cuprates consists of two distinct charge sectors - one governed by coherent quasiparticle excitations and the other characterized by non-quasiparticle dissipation. The superfluid density decreases with increased hole doping, reaching zero at the superconducting dome edge, while the Hall number transitions from p to 1+p. The growth in superfluid density may be compensated by the loss of carriers in the coherent sector as hole doping decreases.
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Materials Science, Multidisciplinary
Yu-Te Hsu, Danil Prishchenko, Maarten Berben, Matija Culo, Steffen Wiedmann, Emily C. Hunter, Paul Tinnemans, Tomohiro Takayama, Vladimir Mazurenko, Nigel E. Hussey, Robin S. Perry
Summary: This study observed Shubnikov-de Haas quantum oscillations in monoclinic SrIrO3 crystals, revealing multiple small Fermi pockets and high effective masses on the Fermi surface, indicating the material as a topological semimetal, as well as evidence of strong electron correlations.
NPJ QUANTUM MATERIALS
(2021)
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Materials Science, Multidisciplinary
M. Berben, S. Smit, C. Duffy, Y-T Hsu, L. Bawden, F. Heringa, F. Gerritsen, S. Cassanelli, X. Feng, S. Bron, E. van Heumen, Y. Huang, F. Bertran, T. K. Kim, C. Cacho, A. Carrington, M. S. Golden, N. E. Hussey
Summary: Once doped away from their parent Mott insulating state, the hole-doped cuprates enter into many varied and exotic phases. The onset temperature of each phase is then plotted versus p-the number of doped holes per copper atom-to form a representative phase diagram. Apart from differences in the absolute temperature scales among the various families, the resultant phase diagrams are strikingly similar. In particular, the p values corresponding to optimal doping and to the end of the pseudogap phase are essentially the same for all cuprate families except for the single-layer Bi-based cuprate Bi2+z-yPbySr2-x-zLaxCuO6+delta (Bi2201). This anomaly arises partly due to the complex stoichiometry of this material and also to the different p values inferred from disparate measurements performed on samples with comparable superconducting transition temperatures T-c. Here, by combining measurements of in-plane resistivity in zero and high magnetic fields with angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy studies, we argue that the phase diagram of Bi2201 may actually be similar to that realized in other families, supporting the notion of universality of p(opt) and p* in all hole-doped cuprates.
PHYSICAL REVIEW MATERIALS
(2022)
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Physics, Multidisciplinary
Y. -t. Hsu, M. Osada, B. Y. Wang, M. Berben, C. Duffy, S. P. Harvey, K. Lee, D. Li, S. Wiedmann, H. Y. Hwang, N. E. Hussey
Summary: This study investigates the resistivity behavior in undoped nickelate materials and examines the impact of disorder and doping on its temperature dependence. The results reveal that the level of doping has little correlation with the magnitude and onset temperature of the resistivity upturn, while the different rare-earth families play a crucial role in the evolution of the insulating behavior.
FRONTIERS IN PHYSICS
(2022)
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Physics, Multidisciplinary
Jake Ayres, Matija Culo, Jonathan Buhot, Bence Bernath, Shigeru Kasahara, Yuji Matsuda, Takasada Shibauchi, Antony Carrington, Sven Friedemann, Nigel E. Hussey
Summary: In this study, the authors investigate the resistive properties of sulfur-doped FeSe under applied pressure and find evidence of a decoupling of electronic nematicity and magnetic fluctuations in this system.
COMMUNICATIONS PHYSICS
(2022)
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Multidisciplinary Sciences
Stephen J. Thornton, Danilo B. Liarte, Peter Abbamonte, James P. Sethna, Debanjan Chowdhury
Summary: Recent experiments have discovered unusual features in the dynamical charge response of strange metals, such as momentum-independent continuum of excitations and unconventional plasmon decay. In this study, the authors propose a phenomenological theory based on the analogy to classical fluids near a jamming-like transition. By comparing with experimental measurements, they find that this theory can reproduce many of the qualitative features observed in strange metals.
NATURE COMMUNICATIONS
(2023)
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Physics, Multidisciplinary
R. D. H. Hinlopen, F. A. Hinlopen, J. Ayres, N. E. Hussey
Summary: Strange metals exhibit a linear increase in resistivity with magnetic field. The presence of strong anisotropic scattering can generate magnetoresistance, but it saturates at high magnetic field strengths. A bounded sector on the Fermi surface is required for the realization of quadratic-to-linear magnetoresistance.
PHYSICAL REVIEW RESEARCH
(2022)
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Physics, Multidisciplinary
J. F. Linnartz, C. S. A. Mueller, Yu-Te Hsu, C. Breth Nielsen, M. Bremholm, N. E. Hussey, A. Carrington, S. Wiedmann
Summary: This study provides a detailed investigation of the magnetic behavior of WTe2, accurately determining its Fermi surface and explaining its unusual electronic properties. The Russian-doll nested Fermi surface model is confirmed, and it is found that impurity damping solely determines the onset of magnetic breakdown in WTe2.
PHYSICAL REVIEW RESEARCH
(2022)
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Physics, Multidisciplinary
Yu-Te Hsu, Bai Yang Wang, Maarten Berben, Danfeng Li, Kyuho Lee, Caitlin Duffy, Thom Ottenbros, Woo Jin Kim, Motoki Osada, Steffen Wiedmann, Harold Y. Hwang, Nigel E. Hussey
Summary: The systematic magnetotransport study of superconducting infinite-layer nickelate thin films Nd1-xSrxNiO2 indicates a crossover in normal state resistivity behavior, pointing to a possibly anomalous insulating state driven by strong correlations. Additionally, no evidence of non-Fermi-liquid behavior was found in the metallic state near a putative quantum critical point.
PHYSICAL REVIEW RESEARCH
(2021)
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Physics, Multidisciplinary
M. Culo, M. Berben, Y-T Hsu, J. Ayres, R. D. H. Hinlopen, S. Kasahara, Y. Matsuda, T. Shibauchi, N. E. Hussey
Summary: This study presents the transport properties of electron nematic FeSe1-xSx at different magnetic field strengths, demonstrating an increase in the contribution of strange metal behavior approaching the quantum critical point.
PHYSICAL REVIEW RESEARCH
(2021)