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Al-anchored platinum catalysts on reducible supports: High-temperature stability against redispersion during methane oxidation
(2025)Applied Catalysis B: EnvironmentalThe deactivation of noble metal catalysts due to the loss of active surface area, remains a significant challenge, especially under high-temperature oxidizing conditions. Such demanding conditions are often found in emission control systems for clean air application and during catalyst regeneration targeting to prolong the lifetime of a catalyst reducing the environmental costs associated to the process. The development of highly active ...Journal Article -
Snow drought propagation and its impacts on streamflow drought in the Alps
(2025)Environmental Research LettersSnow droughts, that is negative anomalies in annual snow storage, challenge water resources management in snow-rich catchments and their downstream regions because they can lead to succeeding streamflow droughts in the following melt season. Under continued global warming, snow droughts are expected to become more frequent and intense, which likely increases the occurrence of succeeding streamflow droughts. However, we still know little ...Journal Article -
Interlaboratory study of the quality of water vapor sorption data for wood from automated sorption balances
(2025)AdsorptionAutomated sorption balances are widely used for characterizing the interaction of water vapor with hygroscopic materials. This paper is part of an interlaboratory study investigating the stability and performance of automated sorption balances. A previous paper in this study investigated the mass, temperature, and relative humidity (RH) stability of automated sorption balances by looking at the mass change of a non-hygroscopic sample over ...Journal Article -
Can large-scale tree cover change negate climate change impacts on future water availability?
(2025)Hydrology and Earth System SciencesThe availability of fresh water over land may become increasingly scarce under climate change (CC), and natural and human-induced tree cover changes can further enhance or negate the water scarcity. Previous studies showed that global tree cover change can have large impacts on water availability under current climate conditions, but they did not touch upon the implications of global tree cover change under climate change. Here, we study ...Journal Article -
Asymptotic quantization on Riemannian manifolds via covering growth estimates
(2025)Advances in MathematicsJournal Article -
Global Sensitivity Analysis of Correlated Uncertainties in Life Cycle Assessment
(2025)Journal of Industrial EcologyRecent advances in research have made global sensitivity analysis of very large and highly linear life cycle assessment systems feasible. In this paper, we build on these developments to include sensitivity analysis of correlated parameters and nonlinear models. We augment numerical uncertainty propagation with Monte Carlo simulations (i) to include propagation of uncertainty from uncertain variables in parameterized inventory datasets; ...Journal Article -
Exploring the Essential Use Concept for Primary Microplastics Regulation in the EU
(2025)Environmental Science & TechnologyWith the increasing prevalence of plastic pollution, including microplastics (MPs, particles <5 mm), the pursuit of safer and more sustainable alternatives gains increasing traction. While a substantial portion of MPs in the environment arises from the degradation of plastic litter and the wear of polymer-containing materials (secondary MPs), deliberate incorporation of MPs in certain products (primary MPs) also represents a considerable ...Journal Article -
Design and Implementation of a Mechanical Semipersistent Switch for HTS Magnets
(2025)IEEE Transactions on Applied SuperconductivityPersistent-mode operation of superconducting magnets requires a persistent switch, usually a heater, to close their superconducting circuits. Here, we describe a mechanical copper switch that utilizes pressure to vary resistance. This switch is designed to provide a low-resistance short between two high-temperature superconducting (HTS) charging electrodes in an all-HTS pancake-coil magnet. The switch is able to achieve a contact resistance ...Journal Article -
Gamma-hydroxybutyrate to promote slow-wave sleep in major depressive disorder: a randomized crossover trial
(2025)NeuropsychopharmacologyIn major depressive disorder (MDD), main clinical features include insomnia and increased daytime sleepiness. However, specific treatment options to promote sleep in MDD are limited. Gamma-hydroxybutyrate (GHB, administered as sodium oxybate) is a GHB/GABAB receptor agonist used clinically in narcolepsy, where it promotes restorative slow-wave sleep (SWS) while reducing next-day sleepiness. Hence, we performed a randomized, placebo- and ...Journal Article -
Productivity, Portability, Performance, and Reproducibility: Data-Centric Python
(2025)IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed SystemsPython has become the de facto language for scientific computing. Programming in Python is highly productive, mainly due to its rich science-oriented software ecosystem built around the NumPy module. As a result, the demand for Python support in High-Performance Computing (HPC) has skyrocketed. However, the Python language itself does not necessarily offer high performance. This work presents a workflow that retains Python's high productivity ...Journal Article -
Analysis and Reproducibility of "Productivity, Portability, Performance: Data-Centric Python"
(2025)IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed SystemsThis report analyses the reproducibility of the results obtained in the NPBench (Ziogas et al. 2021) paper. We begin by providing the reader with some background information and a demonstration on the simplicity of DaCe. We then reproduce a subset of the results presented in the original paper, specifically: the comparison of DaCe on CPU and GPU over NumPy and its parallel efficiency in a distributed environment. For most benchmarks we ...Journal Article -
Local impact of trees on thermal comfort of pedestrians in streets
(2025)Urban ClimateUrban thermal comfort can be improved by trees. A better understanding of the effects of trees on urban climate in streets can provide better guidelines on the optimized use of vegetation in cities to moderate temperatures. In this study, we explore and quantify both improvement and deterioration of urban thermal comfort due to street trees, modeled based on a common street tree in Montreal, by varying planting patterns, street orientation ...Journal Article -
Investigating pea (Pisum sativum L.) flowering with high throughput field phenotyping and object detection
(2025)Smart Agricultural TechnologyFlowering is one of the most important and sensitive processes throughout a plant's life and marks the start of the reproductive phase. Flowering traits largely define yield potential and are therefore crucial for crop breeding. To observe flowering dynamics under field conditions, visual ratings have been a standard method for decades. Today, high-throughput field phenotyping (HTFP) methods provide opportunities for objective and efficient ...Journal Article -
Graphical solutions to bond capacity and bond-slip behavior of pull-off/out joints with various adherents, adhesives, and substrates
(2025)Engineering Fracture MechanicsThis study investigates the bond capacity and bond-slip behavior of pull-off (lap-shear) and pull-out joints with various adherents, adhesives, and substrates, filling the research gap in existing models that fail to account for the adherent nonlinear stress–strain behavior. A “Wine Glass model”, offering an elegant graphical and analytical solution to computation of bond capacity, is proposed. This model relies on two key assumptions: ...Journal Article -
ShakeAlert® Version 3: Expected Performance in Large Earthquakes
(2025)Bulletin of the Seismological Society of AmericaThe ShakeAlert earthquake early warning (EEW) system partners along with U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) licensed operators deliver EEW alerts to the public and trigger automated systems when a significant earthquake is expected to impact California, Oregon, or Washington. ShakeAlert’s primary goal is to provide usable warning times before the arrival of damaging shaking. EEW is most likely to achieve this goal in large-magnitude earthquakes. ...Journal Article -
Enhanced Multi-Scale Cross-Attention for Person Image Generation
(2025)IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine IntelligenceIn this paper, we propose a novel cross-attention-based generative adversarial network (GAN) for the challenging person image generation task. Cross-attention is a novel and intuitive multi-modal fusion method in which an attention/correlation matrix is calculated between two feature maps of different modalities. Specifically, we propose the novel XingGAN (or CrossingGAN), which consists of two generation branches that capture the person's ...Journal Article -
Suppressed Nonradiative Recombination in 2D Reduced- Graphene- Oxide (rGO)-Wrapped 3D MoS<sub>2</sub> Microflower
(2025)ChemPhotoChemWe present a comprehensive study on the synthesis and characterization of 2D reduced graphene oxide (rGO) encapsulated 3D Molybdenum disulfide (MoS2) nanocomposites, a promising semiconductor material with applications spanning electronic and optoelectronic domains. Through a facile two-step chemical synthesis, we successfully fabricated both pristine MoS2 (denoted as S1) and MoS2-rGO composites (termed S2), yielding distinctive flower-like ...Journal Article -
High-throughput screen of 100 000 small molecules in C9ORF72 ALS neurons identifies spliceosome modulators that mobilize G4C2 repeat RNA into nuclear export and repeat associated non-canonical translation
(2025)Nucleic Acids ResearchAn intronic G4C2 repeat expansion in the C9ORF72 gene is the major known cause for Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), with current evidence for both, loss of function and pathological gain of function disease mechanisms. We screened 96 200 small molecules in C9ORF72 patient iPS neurons for modulation of nuclear G4C2 RNA foci and identified 82 validated hits, including the Brd4 inhibitor JQ1 as well as novel analogs of Spliceostatin-A, ...Journal Article -
Structure of the nucleosome-bound human BCL7A
(2025)Nucleic Acids ResearchProteins of the BCL7 family (BCL7A, BCL7B, and BCL7C) are among the most recently identified subunits of the mammalian SWI/SNF chromatin remodeler complex and are absent from the unicellular version of this complex. Their function in the complex is unknown, and very limited structural information is available, despite the fact that they are mutated in several cancer types, most notably blood malignancies and hence medically relevant. Here, ...Journal Article -
Science and society in Ireland: examining public trust in scientists against a global background
(2025)IRISH EDUCATIONAL STUDIESPublic trust in scientists is vital for navigating complex global challenges, influencing evidence-informed policy, and promoting societal well-being. However, concerns exist about a potential crisis of trust in science, fuelled by misinformation, conspiracy theories, and science-related populism. The Trust in Science and Science-Related Populism (TISP) study investigated public perceptions of scientists across 68 countries. This paper ...Journal Article