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A longstanding but untested hypothesis proposes that reduced bee visitation in tropical montane cloud forests has repeatedly driven the evolution of hummingbird pollination. Here, we test whether recently diverged bee and hummingbird pollination syndromes in two sister species are adapted to their pollination environments, and whether this reflects declining bee activity at higher elevations. Alte

Circular economy (CE) behaviors, such as reuse, repair, and sharing, are crucial to sustainable consumption; however, how and when such behaviors influence product users or consumers' personal well being remain underexplored. Specifically, limited insights exist regarding how engagement may foster feelings of enjoyment, a sense of mastery, or social belonging, as well as the contextual conditions

The fossil record offers a unique window into patterns of extinction and biodiversity recovery over deep time, and recent advances in analytical methods have significantly enhanced this research field. Our analysis of an updated dataset that includes 50 terminal taxa and 175 fossil occurrences of Ophiacodontidae, Edaphosauridae, and Sphenacodontidae (OES grade hereafter) using a recent implementat

Immunotherapy has reshaped melanoma treatment, yet the majority of patients fail to respond or develop resistance. Nerve growth factor receptor (NGFR/p75NTR/CD271) has been linked to melanoma aggressiveness and therapeutic resistance, but the underlying mechanisms remain unclear. Here, we demonstrate that pharmacologic inhibition of NGFR with THX-B significantly reduces distant metastasis and rest

Introduction: Suicidal behaviors are complex phenotypes, often studied in the context of psychiatric comorbidities. However, little is known about the specific roles of psychiatric disorders and the etiology of suicidal behaviors that occur outside the context of psychiatric comorbidities. Methods: We included 926,040 individuals born 1980–1990 from the Swedish national registries. We conducted se

BACKGROUND: Bone mineral density (BMD) is compromised in patients with systemic sclerosis (SSc) compared to the background population, yet the underlying disease related factors are less known. This study evaluates SSc disease-related features and predictability for BMD along with established risk factors for low BMD in SSc patients compared to controls.METHODS: The study includes 211 SSc patients

The optical elements that can combine memory and signal modulation have become a topic of interest in the field of neuromorphic computing systems. In particular, the optical analogue of a memristor called memlumor exhibits promising features in which the change of the output luminescence depends not only on the excitation light signal but also on the state of the material. Metal halide perovskite

This chapter will review the three following topics: Nutrient cycling at three scales and integration. Specifically, what organisms are involved? What are the main drivers of the cycles of nutrients at the three scales and how these cycles interact? Resilience to disturbance and ecosystem retrogression Drivers of site productivity including ecosystem conditions and effects of management.

Background and aim: Vitamin K has been proposed to have a preventive effect against arterial calcification through activation of the vitamin K dependent proteins and potentially protect against progression of atherosclerosis. Our aim was to assess the association between vitamin K status and vascular health in a general elderly population. Methods and results: In a cross-sectional study, the vitam

Introduction: The validity of hypertensive disorders of pregnancy (HDP), including preeclampsia, gestational hypertension, and chronic hypertension, is essential for both clinical management and research. The Swedish Pregnancy Register automatically retrieves diagnostic codes based on the Swedish version of the International Classification of Diseases 10th revision (ICD-10), as recorded in antenat

This paper examines how political populist support and income inequality are associated with the ecological footprint and its two sub-components: the carbon footprint and the non-carbon footprint (land and water use). Using a panel dataset covering 16 high-income European countries from 1990 to 2022, we estimate a dynamic panel error correction model. Three findings stand out. Right-wing populist

Background: The potential for intellectual property (IP) and open science (OS) to be used together for knowledge valorisation is increasingly discussed within research policy, yet their practical alignment remains limited. While researchers and research managers often regard IP and OS as potentially complementary, uncertainty persists about how to integrate them effectively in real-world contexts.

OBJECTIVE: To explore changes in health-related quality of life (HRQoL) measured using EQ-5D-5L among participants of a digital education and exercise therapy for knee and hip osteoarthritis (OA).METHODS: A descriptive longitudinal registry-based study among participants aged 40 + years enrolled in the digital program with responses to EQ-5D-5L at enrolment and at least one follow-up at 3- [n = 15

In hard milling operations under severe conditions, polycrystalline cubic boron nitride (PcBN) tools are commonly used. Monitoring their degradation in real time is important to maintain process stability and to reduce tool costs. To use accelerometer data sampled with relatively low sampling frequency enables efficient data collection and analysis. However, the high noise levels in machining requ

A string of speech is a string of syllables, a series of varying amounts of jaw openings/closings. Neutralizing the vowel-intrinsic jaw opening indicates a pattern of jaw opening matching the utterance syllable prominence patterns. The hypothesis is that the jaw-opening patterns ensue from the metrical hierarchy of the language, such that for languages such as English, we see exponentially increas

Prostate cancer remains one of the most prevalent malignancies in men worldwide, and early detection, accurate characterization, and staging are critical for optimal patient management. Diffusion magnetic resonance imaging (dMRI) has emerged as a powerful technique for non-invasive in vivo imaging of tissue microstructure, promising to enable unprecedented insights into the pathophysiology of pros

The ZUC stream cipher is integral to modern mobile communication standards, including 4G and 5G, providing secure data transmission across global networks. Recently, Dutta et al. (Indocrypt, 2024) presented the first quantum resource estimation of ZUC under Grover’s search, although preliminary, this work marks the beginning of quantum security analysis for ZUC. In this paper, we present an improv

Retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) is a neurovascular retinal disease affecting extremely preterm infants (<28 weeks' gestational age), and links between early lipid metabolism and ROP are unclear. We investigated whether the lipid mediator sphingosine-1-phosphate (S1P) and its carrier apolipoprotein M (ApoM) are associated with ROP and parenteral nutrition in preterm infants. In this multicenter co