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Seasonal epidemic spreading on small-world networks: Biennial outbreaks and classical discrete time crystals (2021)
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Malz, D., Pizzi, A., Nunnenkamp, A., & Knolle, J. (2021). Seasonal epidemic spreading on small-world networks: Biennial outbreaks and classical discrete time crystals. Physical Review Research, 3(1), Article 013124. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevResearch.3.013124

We study seasonal epidemic spreading in a susceptible-infected-removed-susceptible (SIRS) model on small-world graphs. We derive a mean-field description that accurately captures the salient features of the model, most notably a phase transition betw... Read More about Seasonal epidemic spreading on small-world networks: Biennial outbreaks and classical discrete time crystals.

Acute gabapentin administration in healthy adults. A double-blind placebo-controlled study using transcranial magnetic stimulation and 7T 1H-MRS (2021)
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Dyke, K., Pépés, S. E., Babourina-Brooks, B., Chen, C., Kim, S., Sigurdsson, H. P., …Jackson, S. R. (2021). Acute gabapentin administration in healthy adults. A double-blind placebo-controlled study using transcranial magnetic stimulation and 7T 1H-MRS. NeuroImage: Reports, 1(1), Article 100003. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ynirp.2021.100003

From Cow Manure to Bioactive Carbon Dots: A Light-up Probe for Bioimaging Investigations, Glucose Detection and Potential Immunotherapy Agent for Melanoma Skin Cancer (2021)
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Hillesheim Horst, F., Vitoria da Silva Rodrigues, C., Pimenta Rocha Carvalho, P. H., Monteiro Leite, A., Bentes Azevedo, R., Neto, B. A., …Rodrigues, M. O. (2021). From Cow Manure to Bioactive Carbon Dots: A Light-up Probe for Bioimaging Investigations, Glucose Detection and Potential Immunotherapy Agent for Melanoma Skin Cancer. RSC Advances, 2021(11), 6346-6352. https://doi.org/10.1039/D0RA10859F

Bioactive carbon dots (C-dots) with ca. 4 nm were successfully produced with singular photophysical properties, low-toxicity and interesting immunological response. The optical properties of the C-dots were investigated and the “light-up” behaviour e... Read More about From Cow Manure to Bioactive Carbon Dots: A Light-up Probe for Bioimaging Investigations, Glucose Detection and Potential Immunotherapy Agent for Melanoma Skin Cancer.

An ALMA survey of the S2CLS UDS field: optically invisible submillimetre galaxies (2021)
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Smail, I., Dudzevičiūtė, U., Stach, S. M., Almaini, O., Birkin, J. E., Chapman, S. C., …van der Werf, P. (2021). An ALMA survey of the S2CLS UDS field: optically invisible submillimetre galaxies. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 502(3), 3426-3435. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stab283

We analyse a robust sample of 30 near-infrared-faint (KAB > 25.3, 5σ) submillimetre galaxies (SMGs) selected from a 0.96 deg2 field to investigate their properties and the cause of their faintness in optical/near-infrared wavebands. Our analysis expl... Read More about An ALMA survey of the S2CLS UDS field: optically invisible submillimetre galaxies.

Neural network involving medial orbitofrontal cortex and dorsal periaqueductal gray regulation in human alcohol abuse (2021)
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Jia, T., Xie, C., Banaschewski, T., Barker, G. J., Bokde, A. L. W., Büchel, C., …IMAGEN Consortium. (2021). Neural network involving medial orbitofrontal cortex and dorsal periaqueductal gray regulation in human alcohol abuse. Science Advances, 7(6), 1-10. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abd4074

Prompted by recent evidence of neural circuitry in rodent models, functional magnetic resonance imaging and functional connectivity analyses were conducted for a large adolescent population at two ages, together with alcohol abuse measures, to charac... Read More about Neural network involving medial orbitofrontal cortex and dorsal periaqueductal gray regulation in human alcohol abuse.

Assessment, endoscopy, and treatment in patients with acute severe ulcerative colitis during the COVID-19 pandemic (PROTECT-ASUC): a multicentre, observational, case-control study (2021)
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Sebastian, S., Walker, G. J., Kennedy, N. A., Conley, T. E., Patel, K. V., Subramanian, S., …Zafar, M. (2021). Assessment, endoscopy, and treatment in patients with acute severe ulcerative colitis during the COVID-19 pandemic (PROTECT-ASUC): a multicentre, observational, case-control study. Lancet Gastroenterology and Hepatology, 6(4), 271-281. https://doi.org/10.1016/s2468-1253%2821%2900016-9

Background There is a paucity of evidence to support safe and effective management of patients with acute severe ulcerative colitis during the COVID-19 pandemic. We sought to identify alterations to established conventional evidence-based management... Read More about Assessment, endoscopy, and treatment in patients with acute severe ulcerative colitis during the COVID-19 pandemic (PROTECT-ASUC): a multicentre, observational, case-control study.

Determinants of COVID-19 vaccine acceptance in a high infection-rate country: a cross-sectional study in Russia (2021)
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Tran, V. D., Pak, T. V., Gribkova, E. I., Galkina, G. A., Loskutova, E. E., Dorofeeva, V. V., …Pham, D. T. (2021). Determinants of COVID-19 vaccine acceptance in a high infection-rate country: a cross-sectional study in Russia. Pharmacy Practice, 19(1), Article 2276. https://doi.org/10.18549/pharmpract.2021.1.2276

Background: COVID-19 vaccine development is proceeding at an unprecedented pace. Once COVID-19 vaccines become widely available, it will be necessary to maximize public vaccine acceptance and coverage. Objective: This research aimed to analyze the... Read More about Determinants of COVID-19 vaccine acceptance in a high infection-rate country: a cross-sectional study in Russia.

SDSS-IV MaNGA: the “G-dwarf problem” revisited (2021)
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Greener, M. J., Merrifield, M., Aragón-Salamanca, A., Peterken, T., Andrews, B., & Lane, R. R. (2021). SDSS-IV MaNGA: the “G-dwarf problem” revisited. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters, 502(1), L95–L98. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnrasl/slab012

The levels of heavy elements in stars are the product of enhancement by previous stellar generations, and the distribution of this metallicity among the population contains clues to the process by which a galaxy formed. Most famously, the “G-dwarf pr... Read More about SDSS-IV MaNGA: the “G-dwarf problem” revisited.

A reinforcement learning approach to rare trajectory sampling (2021)
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Rose, D. C., Mair, J. F., & Garrahan, J. P. (2021). A reinforcement learning approach to rare trajectory sampling. New Journal of Physics, 23, Article 013013. https://doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/abd7bd

Very often when studying non-equilibrium systems one is interested in analysing dynamical behaviour that occurs with very low probability, so called rare events. In practice, since rare events are by definition atypical, they are often difficult to a... Read More about A reinforcement learning approach to rare trajectory sampling.

Magnetism and magnetoresistance in the critical region of a dilute ferromagnet (2021)
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Wang, M., Howells, B., Marshall, R. A., Taylor, J. M., Edmonds, K. W., Rushforth, A. W., …Gallagher, B. L. (2021). Magnetism and magnetoresistance in the critical region of a dilute ferromagnet. Scientific Reports, 11, Article 2300. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-81893-2

We present detailed experimental measurements and simulations of the field-dependent magnetization and magnetoresistance in the vicinity of the Curie temperature in the highly disordered dilute ferromagnetic semiconductor (Ga,Mn)As. The observed depe... Read More about Magnetism and magnetoresistance in the critical region of a dilute ferromagnet.

Spectral Green's-function method in driven open quantum dynamics (2021)
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Karabanov, A., & Köckenberger, W. (2021). Spectral Green's-function method in driven open quantum dynamics. Physical Review A, 103(1), Article 012224. https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.103.012224

A method based on spectral Green's functions is presented for the simulation of driven open quantum dynamics that can be described by the Lindblad master equation in Liouville density operator space. The method extends the Hilbert space formalism and... Read More about Spectral Green's-function method in driven open quantum dynamics.

Unimodular vs nilpotent superfield approach to pure dS supergravity (2021)
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Bansal, S., Nagy, S., Padilla, A., & Zavala, I. (2021). Unimodular vs nilpotent superfield approach to pure dS supergravity. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2021(1), Article 146 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/jhep01%282021%29146

Recent progress in understanding de Sitter spacetime in supergravity and string theory has led to the development of a four dimensional supergravity with spontaneously broken supersymmetry allowing for de Sitter vacua, also called de Sitter supergrav... Read More about Unimodular vs nilpotent superfield approach to pure dS supergravity.

The Human Brain Is Best Described as Being on a Female/Male Continuum: Evidence from a Neuroimaging Connectivity Study (2021)
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Zhang, Y., Luo, Q., Huang, C., Lo, C. Z., Langley, C., Desrivières, S., …for the IMAGEN consortium. (2021). The Human Brain Is Best Described as Being on a Female/Male Continuum: Evidence from a Neuroimaging Connectivity Study. Cerebral Cortex, 31(6), 3021-3033. https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhaa408

Psychological androgyny has long been associated with greater cognitive flexibility, adaptive behavior, and better mental health, but whether a similar concept can be defined using neural features remains unknown. Using the neuroimaging data from 962... Read More about The Human Brain Is Best Described as Being on a Female/Male Continuum: Evidence from a Neuroimaging Connectivity Study.

Resonance and antiresonance in Raman scattering in GaSe and InSe crystals (2021)
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Osiekowicz, M., Staszczuk, D., Olkowska-Pucko, K., Kipczak, Ł., Grzeszczyk, M., Zinkiewicz, M., …Molas, M. R. (2021). Resonance and antiresonance in Raman scattering in GaSe and InSe crystals. Scientific Reports, 11(1), Article 924. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-79411-x

The temperature effect on the Raman scattering efficiency is investigated in ε-GaSe and γ-InSe crystals. We found that varying the temperature over a broad range from 5 to 350 K permits to achieve both the resonant conditions and the antiresonance be... Read More about Resonance and antiresonance in Raman scattering in GaSe and InSe crystals.

Anomalous Low Thermal Conductivity of Atomically Thin InSe Probed by Scanning Thermal Microscopy (2021)
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Buckley, D., Kudrynskyi, Z. R., Balakrishnan, N., Vincent, T., Mazumder, D., Castanon, E., …Patanè, A. (2021). Anomalous Low Thermal Conductivity of Atomically Thin InSe Probed by Scanning Thermal Microscopy. Advanced Functional Materials, 31(11), Article 2008967. https://doi.org/10.1002/adfm.202008967

The ability of a material to conduct heat influences many physical phenomena, ranging from thermal management in nanoscale devices to thermoelectrics. Van der Waals two dimensional (2D) materials offer a versatile platform to tailor heat transfer due... Read More about Anomalous Low Thermal Conductivity of Atomically Thin InSe Probed by Scanning Thermal Microscopy.

Collision-enhanced friction of a bouncing ball on a rough vibrating surface (2021)
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Smith, N. D., Swift, M. R., & Smith, M. I. (2021). Collision-enhanced friction of a bouncing ball on a rough vibrating surface. Scientific Reports, 11, Article 442. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-80067-w

We describe experiments and simulations to investigate the dynamics of a ball bouncing on a rough vibrating surface. Directly measuring the impulse due to each bounce we find that the frictional interaction with the surface is strongly enhanced near... Read More about Collision-enhanced friction of a bouncing ball on a rough vibrating surface.

The Three Hundred Project: Substructure in hydrodynamical and dark matter simulations of galaxy groups around clusters (2021)
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Haggar, R., Pearce, F. R., Gray, M. E., Knebe, A., & Yepes, G. (2021). The Three Hundred Project: Substructure in hydrodynamical and dark matter simulations of galaxy groups around clusters. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 502(1), 1191-1204. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stab064

Dark matter-only simulations are able to produce the cosmic structure of a Lambda cold dark matter universe, at a much lower computational cost than more physically motivated hydrodynamical simulations. However, it is not clear how well smaller subst... Read More about The Three Hundred Project: Substructure in hydrodynamical and dark matter simulations of galaxy groups around clusters.

Spin-Induced Scalarized Black Holes (2021)
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Herdeiro, C. A., Radu, E., Silva, H. O., Sotiriou, T. P., & Yunes, N. (2021). Spin-Induced Scalarized Black Holes. Physical Review Letters, 126(1), Article 011103. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.126.011103

It was recently shown that a scalar field suitably coupled to the Gauss-Bonnet invariant G can undergo a spin-induced linear tachyonic instability near a Kerr black hole. This instability appears only once the dimensionless spin j is sufficiently lar... Read More about Spin-Induced Scalarized Black Holes.

The Three Hundred project: The gas disruption of infalling objects in cluster environments (2021)
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Mostoghiu, R., Arthur, J., Pearce, F. R., Gray, M., Knebe, A., Cui, W., …Yepes, G. (2021). The Three Hundred project: The gas disruption of infalling objects in cluster environments. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 501(4), 5029-5041. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stab014

We analyse the gas content evolution of infalling haloes in cluster environments from The Three Hundred project, a collection of 324 numerically modelled galaxy clusters. The haloes in our sample were selected within 5R200 of the main cluster halo at... Read More about The Three Hundred project: The gas disruption of infalling objects in cluster environments.