Magneto-Chiral Dichroism of Chiral Lanthanide Complexes in the Context of Richardson's Theory of Optical Activity.

Here we report on the Magneto-Chiral Dichroism (MChD) detected through visible and near-infrared light absorption of two enantiomeric pairs of Er and Tm chiral complexes featuring a propeller-like molecular structure. The magnetic properties show typical features of isolated paramagnetic ions associated with I and H ground state terms. MChD spectroscopy shows high g dissymmetry factors of ca.

Characterizing smartphone capabilities for seismic and structural monitoring.

As seismic events continue to pose significant threats to urban infrastructure, leveraging smartphones equipped with accelerometers for real-time monitoring has gained prominence. To ascertain the reliability and sensitivity of smartphone-based measurements, an in-depth characterization of their response is essential. This article presents a thorough characterization of the performance of typical accelerometers installed on three distinct smartphone models.

Targeting Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilm with an evolutionary trained bacteriophage cocktail exploiting phage resistance trade-offs.

Spread of multidrug-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa strains threatens to render currently available antibiotics obsolete, with limited prospects for the development of new antibiotics. Lytic bacteriophages, the viruses of bacteria, represent a path to combat this threat. In vitro-directed evolution is traditionally applied to expand the bacteriophage host range or increase bacterial suppression in planktonic cultures.

[Registers as central real world data source: the experience of the Italian Multiple Sclerosis and Related Disorders Register].

Registers collecting data from clinical practice (real world data) have gained increasing interest in recent years in the scientific, administrative, and regulatory fields. The value of longitudinal data collection in deepening knowledge about a specific pathology and its healthcare complexity is increasingly recognized. This article describes the development, organizational structure, and technical characteristics of the Italian Multiple Sclerosis and Related Disorders Register (RISM).

Helically chiral multiresonant thermally activated delayed fluorescent emitters and their use in hyperfluorescent organic light-emitting diodes.

Chiral multiresonant thermally activated delayed fluorescence (MR-TADF) materials show great potential as emitters in circularly polarized (CP) organic light-emitting diodes (CP-OLEDs) owing to their bright and narrowband CP emission. Here, two new chiral MR-TADF emitters BuPh-BN and DPA-BuPh-BN possessing intrinsically helical chirality have been synthesized and studied. The large steric interactions between the -butylphenyl groups not only induce the helical chirality but also provide a notable configurational stability to the enantiomers.

On-Chip Thermoelectric Devices Based on Standard Silicon Processing.

The strong reduction of thermal conductivity with respect to bulk silicon makes nanostructured silicon one of the best materials for highly efficient direct conversion of heat into electrical power and vice-versa. The widespread technologies for the integration of silicon devices can be used to define on-chip micro thermoelectric generators (scavengers); similar structures could also be used for precise and well-localized cooling through the reverse process of heat pumping. However, the road to the fabrication of integrated thermal energy scavengers or cooler, based on silicon, is still very long.

Nanoheteroepitaxy of Ge and SiGe on Si: role of composition and capping on quantum dot photoluminescence.

We investigate the nanoheteroepitaxy (NHE) of SiGe and Ge quantum dots (QDs) grown on nanotips (NTs) substrates realized in Si(001) wafers. Due to the lattice strain compliance, enabled by the nanometric size of the tip and the limited dot/substrate interface area, which helps to reduce dot/substrate interdiffusion, the strain and SiGe composition in the QDs could be decoupled. This demonstrates a key advantage of the NHE over the Stranski-Krastanow growth mechanism.

Late Miocene transformation of Mediterranean Sea biodiversity.

Understanding deep-time marine biodiversity change under the combined effects of climate and connectivity changes is fundamental for predicting the impacts of modern climate change in semi-enclosed seas. We quantify the Late Miocene-Early Pliocene [11.63 to 3.

Combination of Searches for Higgs Boson Pair Production in pp Collisions at sqrt[s]=13 TeV with the ATLAS Detector.

This Letter presents results from a combination of searches for Higgs boson pair production using 126-140  fb^{-1} of proton-proton collision data at sqrt[s]=13  TeV recorded with the ATLAS detector. At 95% confidence level (CL), the upper limit on the production rate is 2.9 times the standard model (SM) prediction, with an expected limit of 2.

Studies of the Energy Dependence of Diboson Polarization Fractions and the Radiation-Amplitude-Zero Effect in WZ Production with the ATLAS Detector.

This Letter presents the first study of the energy dependence of diboson polarization fractions in WZ→ℓνℓ^{'}ℓ^{'}(ℓ,ℓ^{'}=e,μ) production. The dataset used corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 140  fb^{-1} of proton-proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV recorded by the ATLAS detector. Two fiducial regions with an enhanced presence of events featuring two longitudinally polarized bosons are defined.

BAG2, MAD2L1, and MDK are cancer-driver genes and candidate targets for novel therapies in malignant pleural mesothelioma.

Malignant pleural mesothelioma (MPM) is an aggressive cancer with a poor prognosis and the identification of novel druggable targets is urgently needed. In previous work, we identified 15 deregulated genes highly expressed in MPM tissues and correlated with a poor prognosis. Here, we validated these findings on an independent dataset of 211 MPM patients (EGA, EGAD00001001915) and on a panel of MPM cell lines.

Inverse modeling of time-delayed interactions via the dynamic-entropy formalism.

Although instantaneous interactions are unphysical, a large variety of maximum entropy statistical inference methods match the model-inferred and the empirically measured equal-time correlation functions. Focusing on collective motion of active units, this constraint is reasonable when the interaction timescale is much faster than that of the interacting units, as in starling flocks, yet it fails in a number of counterexamples, as in leukocyte coordination (where signaling proteins diffuse among two cells). Here, we relax this assumption and develop a path integral approach to maximum-entropy framework, which includes delay in signaling.

Advanced Materials for Energy Harvesting and Soft Robotics: Emerging Frontiers to Enhance Piezoelectric Performance and Functionality.

Piezoelectric energy harvesting captures mechanical energy from a number of sources, such as vibrations, the movement of objects and bodies, impact events, and fluid flow to generate electric power. Such power can be employed to support wireless communication, electronic components, ocean monitoring, tissue engineering, and biomedical devices. A variety of self-powered piezoelectric sensors, transducers, and actuators have been produced for these applications, however approaches to enhance the piezoelectric properties of materials to increase device performance remain a challenging frontier of materials research.

Energetic Landscape and Terminal Emitters of Phycobilisome Cores from Quantum Chemical Modeling.

Phycobilisomes (PBs) are giant antenna supercomplexes of cyanobacteria that use phycobilin pigments to capture sunlight and transfer the collected energy to membrane-bound photosystems. In the PB core, phycobilins are bound to particular allophycocyanin (APC) proteins. Some phycobilins are thought to be terminal emitters (TEs) with red-shifted fluorescence.

The Phenomenon of Vibrational Circular Dichroism Enhancement: A Systematic Survey of Literature Data.

While the intensity of vibrational circular dichroism (VCD) signals is commonly 10-10 times smaller than that of corresponding IR signals, several kinds of systems display enhanced VCD spectra with -values (VCD/IR intensity ratio) above 10 and even reaching 5 × 10 in some exceptional cases. These systems include transition metal and lanthanide complexes, protein and peptide fibrils, short oligopeptide gels, crystalline compounds, gels and solution aggregates of organic compounds. We review the literature on VCD enhancement, focusing on collecting and analyzing data on enhanced -values.

Strongly Fluorescent Blue-Emitting LaO: Bi Phosphor for Latent Fingerprint Detection.

Blue-emitting bismuth-doped lanthanum oxide (LaO: Bi) with various concentrations of Bi was synthesized using the sol-gel combustion method and used for visualization of latent fingerprints (LFPs). An X-ray diffraction (XRD) study revealed the hexagonal structure of the phosphors and total incorporation of the bismuth in the LaO matrix. Field Emission Scanning Electron Microscopy (FE-SEM) and Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR) were used to study the morphology and the relative vibrations of the synthesized samples.

A Diet Supplemented with Oil-Free Olive Pulp Flour (MOP-ManniOlivePowder) Improves the Oxidative Status of Dogs.

Olive oil coproducts and their phenolic extracts have shown beneficial effects when added to the diets of food-producing animals, whereas data on their effects on pets are scarce. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effects of dietary supplementation with olive flour (MOP) on oxidative blood biomarkers in dogs. Thirty dogs were recruited and divided into two groups.

Cholesky Decomposition in Spin-Free Dirac-Coulomb Coupled-Cluster Calculations.

We present an implementation for the use of Cholesky decomposition (CD) of two-electron integrals within the spin-free Dirac-Coulomb (SFDC) scheme that enables to perform high-accuracy coupled-cluster (CC) calculations at costs almost comparable to those of their nonrelativistic counterparts. While for nonrelativistic CC calculations, atomic-orbital (AO)-based algorithms, due to their significantly reduced disk-space requirements, are the key to efficient large-scale computations, such algorithms are less advantageous in the SFDC case due to their increased computational cost in that case. Here, molecular-orbital (MO)-based algorithms exploiting the CD of the two-electron integrals allow us to reduce disk-space requirements and lead to computational cost in the CC step that is more or less the same as in the nonrelativistic case.

Regularity of the Optimal Sets for a Class of Integral Shape Functionals.

We prove the first regularity theorem for the free boundary of solutions to shape optimization problems involving integral functionals, for which the energy of a domain is obtained as the integral of a cost function (, ) depending on the solution of a certain PDE problem on . The main feature of these functionals is that the minimality of a domain cannot be translated into a variational problem for a single (real or vector valued) state function. In this paper we focus on the case of affine cost functions , where is the solution of the PDE with Dirichlet boundary conditions.