Design principles for molecular animation.

Molecular visualization is a powerful way to represent the complex structure of molecules and their higher order assemblies, as well as the dynamics of their interactions. Although conventions for depicting static molecular structures and complexes are now well established and guide the viewer's attention to specific aspects of structure and function, little attention and design classification has been devoted to how molecular motion is depicted. As we continue to probe and discover how molecules move - including their internal flexibility, conformational changes and dynamic associations with binding partners and environments - we are faced with difficult design challenges that are relevant to molecular visualizations both for the scientific community and students of cell and molecular biology.

Data Augmentation and Transfer Learning for Data Quality Assessment in Respiratory Monitoring.

Changes in respiratory rate have been found to be one of the early signs of health deterioration in patients. In remote environments where diagnostic tools and medical attention are scarce, such as deep space exploration, the monitoring of the respiratory signal becomes crucial to timely detect life-threatening conditions. Nowadays, this signal can be measured using wearable technology; however, the use of such technology is often hampered by the low quality of the recordings, which leads more often to wrong diagnosis and conclusions.

Individual inscription of spectrally multiplexed Bragg gratings in optical multicore fibers using small spot direct UV writing.

We have demonstrated the inscription of Bragg gratings into five individual cores of a seven core fiber using small spot direct UV writing. With this technique, we defined spectrally multiplexed Bragg gratings consecutively in separate cores as well as spectrally multiplexed gratings at the same longitudinal location in different cores. The effect of bending on the optical spectrum was evaluated to allow the differentiation between cross-exposure and cross-talk, and an alignment process to reduce cross-exposure by 13 dB was found.

Molecular Concepts Adaptive Assessment (MCAA) Characterizes Undergraduate Misconceptions about Molecular Emergence.

This paper discusses the results of two experiments assessing undergraduate students' beliefs about the random nature of molecular environments. Experiment 1 involved the implementation of a pilot adaptive assessment ( n = 773) and focus group discussions with undergraduate students enrolled in first- through third-year biology courses; experiment 2 involved the distribution of the redesigned adaptive assessment to the same population of students in three consecutive years ( n = 1170). The overarching goal of the study was to provide a detailed characterization of learners' perceptions and beliefs regarding molecular agency, environments, and diffusion and whether or not those beliefs change over time.