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  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,392 Views
19 Pages

29 June 2022

In this paper we continued our research of the uniform electron gas in a warm dense matter regime, focusing on the momentum distribution functions and pair correlation functions. We use the single–momentum path integral Monte Carlo method, base...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,740 Views
27 Pages

Entropy Pair Functional Theory: Direct Entropy Evaluation Spanning Phase Transitions

  • Donald M. Nicholson,
  • C. Y. Gao,
  • Marshall T. McDonnell,
  • Clifton C. Sluss and
  • David J. Keffer

17 February 2021

We prove that, within the class of pair potential Hamiltonians, the excess entropy is a universal, temperature-independent functional of the density and pair correlation function. This result extends Henderson’s theorem, which states that the free en...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,521 Views
22 Pages

19 December 2020

This paper deals with the numerical analysis of the particle inertia and volume fraction effects on colliding particle-pair velocity correlation immersed in an unsteady isotropic homogeneous turbulent flow. Such correlation function is required to bu...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
561 Views
18 Pages

Thermal BCS-BEC Crossovers in Finite Systems

  • Angelo Plastino,
  • Flavia Pennini and
  • Victor Apel

30 October 2025

We investigate the thermal evolution of fermionic pairings in a finite-size SU(2) × SU(2) complex model, drawing an analogy to the BCS-BEC crossover in interacting quantum gases. Unlike the conventional crossover, which is driven by tuning the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,179 Views
15 Pages

27 January 2022

The modified path integral representation of Wigner functions and the new Monte Carlo approach has been suggested to account for the impact of the interparticle interaction on the Pauli exclusion principle of fermions. This approach also allows to ca...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,829 Views
20 Pages

20 July 2023

A series of water diversion projects to address the uneven distribution of water resources in China have involved the construction of a large number of hydraulic tunnels. As the lining structure is there to maintain the stability and durability of th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,347 Views
17 Pages

18 April 2024

Analyzing the spatial patterns and associations among tree species may help to elucidate the importance of the ecological processes behind population formation and the mechanisms of species coexistence. To explore this mechanism, we mapped and studie...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,976 Views
20 Pages

9 August 2023

Investigating the spatial distributions and associations of tree populations provides better insights into the dynamics and processes that shape the forest community. Korean pine (Pinus koraiensis) is one of the most important tree species in broad-l...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,856 Views
14 Pages

3 November 2020

Let 0<γ1<γ2<γk be the sequence of imaginary parts of non-trivial zeros of the Riemann zeta-function ζ(s). Using a certain estimate on the pair correlation of the sequence {γk} in the intervals [N,N+M] with N1...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,740 Views
19 Pages

The Sensitivity of the Pair-Angle Distribution Function to Protein Structure

  • Patrick Adams,
  • Jack Binns,
  • Tamar L. Greaves and
  • Andrew V. Martin

20 August 2020

The continued development of X-ray free-electron lasers and serial crystallography techniques has opened up new experimental frontiers. Nanoscale dynamical processes such as crystal growth can now be probed at unprecedented time and spatial resolutio...

  • Article
  • Open Access
160 Citations
21,573 Views
17 Pages

29 July 2014

Gap distributions in forests reflect the spatial impact of man-made tree harvesting or naturally-induced patterns of tree death being caused by windthrow, inter-tree competition, disease or senescence. Gap sizes can vary from large (>100 m2) to sm...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,314 Views
14 Pages

Effects of Prescribed Fire, Site Factors, and Seed Sources on the Spread of Invasive Triadica sebifera in a Fire-Managed Coastal Landscape in Southeastern Mississippi, USA

  • Shaoyang Yang,
  • Zhaofei Fan,
  • Xia Liu,
  • Andrew W. Ezell,
  • Martin A. Spetich,
  • Scott K. Saucier,
  • Sami Gray and
  • Scott G. Hereford

19 February 2019

In the Gulf of Mexico coastal region, prescribed fire has been increasingly used as a management tool to restore declining native ecosystems, but it also increases the threat posed by biological invasion, since the treated sites are more susceptible...

  • Article
  • Open Access
39 Citations
7,807 Views
15 Pages

Tree Regeneration Spatial Patterns in Ponderosa Pine Forests Following Stand-Replacing Fire: Influence of Topography and Neighbors

  • Justin P. Ziegler,
  • Chad M. Hoffman,
  • Paula J. Fornwalt,
  • Carolyn H. Sieg,
  • Mike A. Battaglia,
  • Marin E. Chambers and
  • Jose M. Iniguez

14 October 2017

Shifting fire regimes alter forest structure assembly in ponderosa pine forests and may produce structural heterogeneity following stand-replacing fire due, in part, to fine-scale variability in growing environments. We mapped tree regeneration in ei...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,145 Views
11 Pages

Total Lung and Lobar Quantitative Assessment Based on Paired Inspiratory–Expiratory Chest CT in Healthy Adults: Correlation with Pulmonary Ventilatory Function

  • Feihong Wu,
  • Leqing Chen,
  • Jia Huang,
  • Wenliang Fan,
  • Jinrong Yang,
  • Xiaohui Zhang,
  • Yang Jin,
  • Fan Yang and
  • Chuansheng Zheng

28 September 2021

Objective: To provide the quantitative volumetric data of the total lung and lobes in inspiration and expiration from healthy adults, and to explore the value of paired inspiratory–expiratory chest CT scan in pulmonary ventilatory function and furthe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
301 Citations
22,107 Views
16 Pages

18 October 2013

There has been considerable technological interest in high-entropy alloys (HEAs) since the initial publications on the topic appeared in 2004. However, only several of the alloys investigated are truly single-phase solid solution compositions. These...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,455 Views
16 Pages

Effect of Noble Metal Addition on the Disorder Dynamics of Ni3Al by Means of Monte Carlo Simulation

  • J.J. Ramos-Hernandez,
  • C.D. Arrieta-Gonzalez,
  • J.G. Chacon-Nava,
  • E. Porcayo-Palafox,
  • M. Sanchez-Carrillo,
  • J.P. Flores-De los Rios,
  • G.K. Pedraza-Basulto,
  • S.E. Diaz-Mendez and
  • J. Porcayo-Calderon

29 October 2020

In this work, the effect of the addition of noble metals on the order–order disorder process of the L12 structure corresponding to the intermetallic Ni3Al is analyzed. Stoichiometric, nonstoichiometric, and quasi-binary compositions doped with...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,345 Views
15 Pages

12 July 2021

Recently, for calculating the effective pair interactions in liquid transition metals, we have developed an approach which includes the Wills-Harrison and Bretonnet-Silbert models as limit cases. Here, we apply this approach to noble liquid metals. T...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
463 Views
9 Pages

The interaction between particles and their surrounding medium can induce a squeezed back-to-back correlation between particles and antiparticles. In this paper, the squeezed fermion back-to-back correlation (fBBC) for expanding sources is studied. T...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,879 Views
15 Pages

Bilateral Correlational Behavior of Pyroglutamate Aminopeptidase I Activity in Rat Photoneuroendocrine Locations During a Standard 12:12 h Light–Dark Cycle

  • Manuel Ramírez-Sánchez,
  • Isabel Prieto,
  • Ana Belén Segarra,
  • Inmaculada Banegas,
  • Magdalena Martínez-Cañamero,
  • Germán Domínguez-Vías,
  • Raquel Durán and
  • Francisco Vives

17 November 2024

We previously described the circadian variation and bilateral distribution of pyroglutamate aminopeptidase I (pGluPI) activity levels in photoneuroendocrine locations of adult male rats during a standard 12:12 h light–dark cycle. However, the c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,915 Views
21 Pages

20 March 2022

A method for dynamic finite element (FE) model updating based on correlated mode auto-pairing and adaptive evolution screening (CMPES) is proposed to overcome difficulties in pairing inaccurate analytical modal data and incomplete experimental modal...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,356 Views
27 Pages

Human THAP9, which encodes a domesticated transposase of unknown function, and lncRNA THAP9-AS1 (THAP9-antisense1) are arranged head-to-head on opposite DNA strands, forming a sense and antisense gene pair. We predict that there is a bidirectional pr...

  • Review
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,323 Views
13 Pages

8 December 2021

Hole doping into a correlated antiferromagnet leads to topological stripe correlations, involving charge stripes that separate antiferromagnetic spin stripes of opposite phases. The topological spin stripe order causes the spin degrees of freedom wit...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
5,526 Views
14 Pages

29 May 2018

The domino theory of gene loss states that when some particular gene loses its function and cripples a cellular function, selection will relax in all functionally related genes, which may allow for the non-functionalization and loss of these genes. H...

  • Article
  • Open Access
385 Views
19 Pages

Seismic Reliability Analysis of Reinforced Concrete Arch Bridges Considering Component Correlation

  • Jianjun Liu,
  • Jijin Zhang,
  • Hanzhao Zhang,
  • Hongping Ye and
  • Xuemin Wang

9 December 2025

To more effectively account for the correlation between components in the seismic reliability analysis of reinforced concrete arch bridges, this study proposes a system seismic reliability analysis method based on the D-vine Copula function. First, b...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,971 Views
10 Pages

10 December 2021

Our aim was to clarify the effect of aging on the coherence of electromyograms of plantar flexor pairs during bipedal stance and to clarify the relationship between coherence and center-of-mass acceleration (COMacc). The subjects were 16 adults and 1...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
5,186 Views
10 Pages

31 January 2019

The information required to specify a liquid structure equals, in suitable units, its thermodynamic entropy. Hence, an expansion of the entropy in terms of multi-particle correlation functions can be interpreted as a hierarchy of information measures...

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  • Open Access
549 Views
23 Pages

26 June 2025

Paired data often arise in medical studies, with a correlation between responses of paired organs or parts. Under an intra-correlated model, this paper proposes a generalized linear model to investigate probable confounding factors of the individual...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,090 Views
9 Pages

29 November 2022

The fluorine-adsorption-induced local bond relaxation and valence-energy-state evolution of the Ti(0001) surface were examined through density functional theory calculations. The predicted bond–band–barrier (3 B) correlation notation fram...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,489 Views
18 Pages

12 July 2018

Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei is an area with insufficient per capita water resources. This study evaluates the current status and development trend of sustainable use of water resources in the region, and identifies specific factors influencing sustainable...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,584 Views
15 Pages

Transition metal silicides are promising materials for improved electronic devices, and this motivates achieving a better understanding of transition metal bonds to silicon. Here we model the ground and excited state bond dissociations of VSi, NbSi,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
5,523 Views
15 Pages

20 January 2021

The aggregation ability and exciton dynamics of dyes are largely affected by properties of the dye monomers. To facilitate aggregation and improve excitonic function, dyes can be engineered with substituents to exhibit optimal key properties, such as...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,240 Views
19 Pages

Exploration of Entropy Pair Functional Theory

  • Clifton C. Sluss,
  • Jace Pittman,
  • Donald M. Nicholson and
  • David J. Keffer

26 April 2022

Evaluation of the entropy from molecular dynamics (MD) simulation remains an outstanding challenge. The standard approach requires thermodynamic integration across a series of simulations. Recent work Nicholson et al. demonstrated the ability to cons...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,142 Views
63 Pages

3 November 2024

The current developments in the theory of quantum static triplet correlations and their associated structures (real r-space and Fourier k-space) in monatomic fluids are reviewed. The main framework utilized is Feynman’s path integral formalism...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,760 Views
21 Pages

12 April 2018

We employ the spinor analysis method to evaluate exact expressions of spin-spin correlation functions of the two-dimensional rectangular Ising model on a finite lattice, special process enables us to actually carry out the calculation process. We fir...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,114 Views
12 Pages

A quantum-chemical analysis of the effect of a constant magnetic field on radical formation in the processes of chain oxidation of organic compounds by molecular oxygen is presented. The calculation of the total electronic energies and thermodynamic...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,371 Views
13 Pages

The Geometry of Dynamic Time-Dependent Best–Worst Choice Pairs

  • Sasanka Adikari,
  • Norou Diawara and
  • Haim Bar

19 September 2024

There has been increasing interest in best–worst discrete choice experiments (BWDCEs) in health economics, transportation research, and other fields over the last few years. BWDCEs have distinct advantages compared to other measurement approach...

  • Review
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,755 Views
36 Pages

We study the role of short-range correlations, as well as pion and rho loops governing long-range RPA correlations, in nuclear matter properties and response functions. We use an adapted formulation of the Brueckner G-matrix approach to generate a pa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
2,988 Views
15 Pages

Using density functional theory (DFT) and the information-theoretic approach (ITA) quantities to appreciate the energetics and properties of biopolymers is still an unaccomplished and ongoing task. To this end, we studied the building blocks of nucle...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,314 Views
16 Pages

5 September 2022

Pairing of splice sites across an intron or exon is the central point of intron or exon definition in pre-mRNA splicing with the latter mode proposed for most mammalian exons. However, transcriptome-wide pairing within endogenous transcripts has not...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
7,323 Views
16 Pages

Distant Non-Obvious Mutations Influence the Activity of a Hyperthermophilic Pyrococcus furiosus Phosphoglucose Isomerase

  • Kalyanasundaram Subramanian,
  • Karolina Mitusińska,
  • John Raedts,
  • Feras Almourfi,
  • Henk-Jan Joosten,
  • Sjon Hendriks,
  • Svetlana E. Sedelnikova,
  • Servé W. M. Kengen,
  • Wilfred R. Hagen and
  • Peter J. Schaap
  • + 4 authors

The cupin-type phosphoglucose isomerase (PfPGI) from the hyperthermophilic archaeon Pyrococcus furiosus catalyzes the reversible isomerization of glucose-6-phosphate to fructose-6-phosphate. We investigated PfPGI using protein-engineering bioinformat...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,425 Views
24 Pages

Expression Dynamics and Genetic Compensation of Cell Cycle Paralogues in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

  • Gabriele Schreiber,
  • Facundo Rueda,
  • Florian Renner,
  • Asya Fatima Polat,
  • Philipp Lorenz and
  • Edda Klipp

11 March 2025

Cell cycle progression of the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae is largely driven by the expression of cyclins, which in turn bind the cyclin-dependent kinase CDK1 providing specificity. Due to the duplication of the yeast genome during evolution, most...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,043 Views
12 Pages

4 January 2019

We calculate the strongly intensive observables for multiplicities in two rapidity windows in the model with independent identical strings taking into account the charge sign of particles. We express the observables through the string pair correlatio...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,873 Views
13 Pages

9 October 2022

The electron spin correlation is shown to be expressible in terms of a bona fide probability distribution function with an associated geometric representation. With this aim, an analysis is presented of the probabilistic features of the spin correlat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,112 Views
21 Pages

Ab Initio Dot Structures Beyond the Lewis Picture

  • Michael A. Heuer,
  • Leonard Reuter and
  • Arne Lüchow

9 February 2021

The empirical Lewis picture of the chemical bond dominates the view chemists have of molecules, of their stability and reactivity. Within the mathematical framework of quantum mechanics, all this chemical information is hidden in the many-particle wa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,418 Views
12 Pages

Comparative RNA-Seq Analysis Revealed Tissue-Specific Splicing Variations during the Generation of the PDX Model

  • Eun Ji Lee,
  • Seung-Jae Noh,
  • Huiseon Choi,
  • Min Woo Kim,
  • Su Jin Kim,
  • Yeon Ah Seo,
  • Ji Eun Jeong,
  • Inkyung Shin,
  • Jong-Seok Kim and
  • Suhwan Chang
  • + 2 authors

30 November 2023

Tissue-specific gene expression generates fundamental differences in the function of each tissue and affects the characteristics of the tumors that are created as a result. However, it is unclear how much the tissue specificity is conserved during gr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,668 Views
14 Pages

27 December 2019

This research addresses how the stochasticity and correlation of travel speeds affect the shortest path solutions in sustainable environments. We consider a shortest path problem with the objective function of minimizing a linear combination of the m...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,765 Views
12 Pages

Antihuman Endogenous Retrovirus Immune Response and Adaptive Dysfunction in Autism

  • Alessandra Carta,
  • Maria Antonietta Manca,
  • Chiara Scoppola,
  • Elena Rita Simula,
  • Marta Noli,
  • Stefano Ruberto,
  • Marta Conti,
  • Ignazio Roberto Zarbo,
  • Roberto Antonucci and
  • Stefano Sotgiu
  • + 1 author

ASD is a neurodevelopmental disorder of unknown aetiology but with a known contribution of pathogenic immune-mediated mechanisms. HERVs are associated with several neuropsychiatric diseases, including ASD. We studied anti-HERV-W, -K and -H-env immune...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
12,409 Views
8 Pages

Paraspinal Muscle Activity during Unstable Superman and Bodyweight Squat Exercises

  • Fernando Carvalheiro Reiser,
  • Bruno Gonçalves Durante,
  • William Cordeiro de Souza,
  • Luis Paulo Gomes Mascarenhas and
  • Giordano Márcio Gatinho Bonuzzi

The purpose of this study was to investigate the recruitment of the paraspinal muscles longissimus and iliocostalis during dynamic contractions of superman exercises on stable and unstable surfaces, and during unloaded bodyweight squats. Surface elec...

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