In 1819, the disgruntled French archbishop Dominique de Pradt, who went into early retirement to continue a prolific career as expert and commentator on the affairs of the world, summarised the post-Napoleonic state of ...

In the dark ocean, respiring organisms are the main sink for dissolved oxygen. The respiration rate in a given seawater volume can be quantified through dissolved oxygen drawdown or organic matter consumption as a function ...

Automatic personality traits assessment (PTA) provides high-level, intelligible predictive inputs for subsequent critical downstream tasks, such as job interview recommendations and mental healthcare monitoring. In this ...

Solid dosage forms such as tablets are extensively used in drug administration for their simplicity and large-scale manufacturing capabilities. High-resolution X-ray tomography is one of the most valuable non-destructive ...

Here we propose an index to quantify and analyse the impact of climatological variability on the energy system at different timescales. We define the Climatological Renewable Energy Deviation Index (CREDI) as the cumulative ...

Listening to music can have a calming effect on people, but the natural “consumption” of music is generally not used in a goal-oriented way to reduce physiological arousal (i.e., heart rate and skin conductance) and tension, ...

Cells rely on various biomolecular interactions and dynamics to perform their functions. The interacting building blocks range from small molecules to complex and dynamic molecular networks such as membrane-less organelles ...

In current debates on land and resource grabbing, the question of urban land deserves, but has not attracted, sufficient attention. By the same token, debates on global urbanization and sustainable urban transitions only ...

For egocentric vision tasks such as action recognition, there is a relative scarcity of labeled data. This increases the risk of overfitting during training. In this paper, we address this issue by introducing a multitask ...

Introduction: Hereditary necrotizing myelopathy (HNM) in young Kooiker dogs is characterized by progressive ataxia and paralysis with autosomal recessive inheritance. The basic genetic defect is unknown. We investigated ...