1. Holocene climate-vegetation-land use interactions in the mesomediterranean coastlands of northern Greece 

   Ganz, Kathrin; van Vugt, Lieveke; Gobet, Erika; et al. (2024)

   The Holocene

   Mesomediterranean vegetation with abundant evergreen broadleaved trees and shrubs is dominant along the coast of northern Greece. Well-dated palynological records are available from the inland submediterranean zone, where evergreen broadleaved trees and shrubs are absent or rare, but less is known about the vegetation history of the coastal area. For instance, it is unclear when and why evergreen broadleaved vegetation expanded during the ...

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2. Search for Soft Unclustered Energy Patterns in Proton-Proton Collisions at 13 TeV 

   Hayrapetyan A.; Tumasyan A.; Adam W.; et al. (2024)

   Physical Review Letters

   The first search for soft unclustered energy patterns (SUEPs) is performed using an integrated luminosity of 138  fb^{-1} of proton-proton collision data at sqrt[s]=13  TeV, collected in 2016-2018 by the CMS detector at the LHC. Such SUEPs are predicted by hidden valley models with a new, confining force with a large 't Hooft coupling. In events with boosted topologies, selected by high-threshold hadronic triggers, the multiplicity and ...

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3. Quantum Speed Limit in Quantum Sensing 

   Herb, K.; Degen, C. L. (2024)

   Physical Review Letters

   Quantum sensors capitalize on advanced control sequences for maximizing sensitivity and precision. However, protocols are not usually optimized for temporal resolution. Here, we establish the limits for time-resolved sensing of dynamical signals using qubit probes. We show that the best possible time resolution is closely related to the quantum speed limit (QSL), which describes the minimum time needed to transform between basis states. ...

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4. An insect pheromone primes tolerance of herbivory in goldenrod plants 

   Yip, Eric C.; Mescher, Mark C.; De Moraes, Consuelo M.; et al. (2024)

   Ecology

   Environmental cues that predict increased risk of herbivory can prime plant defenses; however, few studies have explored how such cues elicit broader plant responses, including potential effects on plant growth and other resource allocations that may affect tolerance to herbivore damage. We exposed goldenrod plants (Solidago altissima) to varying concentrations of the putative sex pheromone of a gall-inducing herbivore, which has previously ...

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5. Evaluation of surrounding rock stability by optimizing Hoek-Brown criterion parameters under blasting loads 

   Xie, Xiaokun; Shi, Shaoshuai; Hu, Jie; et al. (2024)

   Bulletin of Engineering Geology and the Environment

   Dynamic loads due to blasting will affect the mechanical properties of rock masses and form an excavation damage zone (EDZ). The rock mass properties within the EDZ are obtained by the geological strength index (GSI) and disturbance factor (D) in the Hoek-Brown criterion. In order to avoid the subjectivity of GSI evaluation, a stochastic-deterministic 3D discrete fracture network (DFN) is constructed to quantify the GSI. The D value is ...

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