The three-spot seahorse (Hippocampus trimaculatus) is an economically important marine species in the northern South China Sea (NSCS). However, due to overfishing and marine environmental changes, its wild populations have been gradually depleted. To...
Temperature is often used to infer how climate influences wildlife distributions; yet, other parameters also contribute, separately and combined, with effects varying across geographical scales. Here, we used an unoccupied aircraft system to explore...
Coordination within and between organisms is one of the most complex abilities of living systems, requiring the concerted regulation of many physiological constituents, and this complexity can be particularly difficult to explain by appealing to phys...
In mesoscale eddies, the chemical properties and biological composition are different from those in the surrounding water due to their unique physical processes. The mechanism of physical–biological coupling in warm-core eddies is unclear, espe...
Using a three-dimensional coupled physical–biological model, this paper explores the effect that short-lived wind events lasting a few days in duration have on the creation of phytoplankton blooms in island wakes. Findings show that wind-induce...
Spring phytoplankton bloom mechanisms in the Bohai Sea show clear spatial differences, but the physical–biological coupling in the ice-covered Liaodong Bay (LDB) remains poorly understood. Utilizing satellite observations and high-resolution re...
In 2012, there were exceptional blooms of D. acuminata in early spring in what appeared to be a mesoscale event affecting Western Iberia and the Bay of Biscay. The objective of this work was to identify common climatic patterns to explain the observe...
Artificial-intelligence methods and machine-learning models have demonstrated their ability to optimize, model, and automate critical water- and wastewater-treatment applications, natural-systems monitoring and management, and water-based agriculture...
Monitoring coastal and estuarine dynamics is crucial for understanding coupled physical, biogeochemical, and human impacts on coastal waters. Motivated by the availability of high spatial resolution ocean color data from the proof-of-concept SeaHawk-...
Holoplanktonic mollusks (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Pteropoda) are vital structural and functional components of marine zooplankton communities, characterized by high sensitivity to physicochemical shifts in the water column. Consequently, multidisciplina...
The purpleback flying squid (Sthenoteuthis oualaniensis) is an important commercially exploited cephalopod resource in tropical open oceans. The formation and spatial variability of its fishing grounds are jointly regulated by local marine environmen...
Connexins and integrins, the two structurally and functionally distinct families of transmembrane proteins, have been shown to be inter-connected by various modes of cross-talk in cells, such as direct physical coupling via lateral contact, indirect...
The widespread occurrence of antibiotics in the environment threatens public health and ecosystem safety. This review summarizes the global occurrence of antibiotic contamination across the different environmental media, i.e., water systems, solid wa...
Tropical cyclone induced phytoplankton productivity is examined using a tropical cyclone version of the Coupled Ocean/Atmosphere Mesoscale Prediction System (COAMPS®). A four-component Nutrient–Phytoplankton–Detritus biological model...
Liquid metals, particularly gallium-based alloys, uniquely combine fluidic compliance with metallic conductivity, which makes them ideal candidates for biomimetic design. Rather than treating biomimicry as the mere imitation of biological forms, we a...
Soil organic matter (SOM) is an important carbon pool in terrestrial ecosystems and plays a key role in soil functions. Nevertheless, the effects of fertilization practices on the physical, chemical, biological, and comprehensive stability of SOM are...
Reactome describes biological pathways as chemical reactions that closely mirror the actual physical interactions that occur in the cell. Recent extensions of our data model accommodate the annotation of cancer and other disease processes. First, we...
Enzyme performance parameters, including the turnover number and specificity constant, exhibit remarkable diversity due to biological evolution and natural selection. In some bacterial and human enzymes, catalytic efficiencies approach fundamental ph...
Ecology, with its emphasis on coupled processes and massive heterogeneity, is not amenable to complete mechanical reduction, which is frustrated for reasons of history, dimensionality, logic, insufficiency, and contingency. Physical laws are not viol...
Mechanistic simulation and machine learning are powerful but complementary tools: physics-based simulation is interpretable yet computationally expensive and blind to real-world context, whereas machine learning is fast but data-hungry and opaque. Bi...
Mitigating stream and river impairment is complex, particularly in mixed-land-use watersheds given the likelihood of integrated responses of stream restoration to coupled and ongoing terrestrial ecosystem disturbance and the need for periodic reasses...
Infertility is a complex health issue that extends beyond biological mechanisms, encompassing significant psychological, relational, and social aspects. Advances in assisted reproductive technologies have improved the chances of conception, yet many...
In an oligotrophic bay, Mitsu Bay, Japan, artificial timber reefs (ATRs) are deployed to increase fish production. In such man-made ecosystems, the biological activities of other organisms as well as the physical structures of ATRs could influence nu...
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We investigated the changes in the properties of water when exposed to sunlight for 40 days. We hypothesize and prove that solar irradiation to water entraps electromagnetic radiation as potential energy, which becomes kinetic energy in various syste...
Many natural phenomena, such as physical, chemical, and biological processes, can be described using n-coupled nonlinearity anomalous subdiffusion systems. Furthermore, fractional differential equations are a useful tool for modeling practical proble...
Current research focuses on improving the bioaccessibility of functional components bound to cereal bran cell walls. The main bioactive components in cereal bran that have major biological activities include phenolic acids, biopeptides, dietary fiber...
Physical modeling of the functioning of the adaptive immune system, which has been thoroughly characterized on genetic and molecular levels, provides a unique opportunity to define an adaptive, self-organizing biological system in its entirety. This...
Floating treatment wetlands (FTWs) are widely used in surface water. The nutrient removal performance depends on both physical processes and chemical/biological transformations in FTWs. However, research describing the coupling processes of hydrodyna...
Understanding pathological processes remains challenging, because clinical descriptions still rely predominantly on phenotypic observations, while the underlying dynamical mechanisms that generate, maintain, and transform pathological conditions ofte...
The normalization of dimensionless groups that rule the system of nonlinear coupled ordinary differential equations defined by the Lotka–Volterra biological or chemical oscillator has been derived in this work by applying a normalized nondimens...
Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs) are persistent, surface-active contaminants for which soil represents the largest terrestrial reservoir. This review synthesizes a rapidly expanding but fragmented body of literature in order to reframe PFA...
Biosensing technologies are required for point-of-care testing (POCT). We determine some physical parameters such as molecular charge and mass, redox potential, and reflective index for measuring biological phenomena. Among such technologies, biologi...
Current numerical methods for simulating biophysical processes in aquatic environments are typically constructed in a grid-based Eulerian framework or as an individual-based model in a particle-based Lagrangian framework. Often, the biogeochemical pr...
The synchronization of an ensemble of oscillators is a phenomenon present in systems of different fields, ranging from social to physical and biological systems. This phenomenon is often described mathematically by the Kuramoto model, which assumes o...
Solid-state NMR (ss-NMR) is a powerful tool to investigate noncrystallizable, poorly soluble molecular systems, such as membrane proteins, amyloids, and cell walls, in environments that closely resemble their physical sites of action. Rotational-echo...
Concepts and techniques developed to investigate complex systems have found practical implications in the study of many complex physical, biological, and social phenomena. Social neuroscience is coherently moving to new investigation and analysis app...
The integration of membranes inside a catalytic reactor is an intensification strategy to combine separation and reaction steps in one single physical unit. In this case, a selective removal or addition of a reactant or product will occur, which can...
When high-amplitude, short-duration electric pulses are applied to cells the permeability of their membranes is increased. From the biological point of view, the phenomenon is quite well understood, however, it is important to develop accurate numeri...
Evolutionary theory suggests that the origin, persistence, and evolution of biology is driven by the “natural selection” of characteristics improving the differential reproductive success of the organism in the given environment. The theo...
This paper addresses the challenges of ice ball shape prediction and layout optimization in multi-probe cryoablation treatment through a comprehensive study integrating both simulation and experimental approaches. A three-dimensional numerical model...
The relationship between environmental conditions and the development, mineralization and preservation of modern tufa microbialites was investigated in a 1.1 km long freshwater stream in Villiers-le-Bâcle, a tributary of Mérantaise river...
Low-dimensional nanostructures have many advantages when used in sensors compared to the traditional bulk materials, in particular in their sensitivity and specificity. In such nanostructures, the motion of carriers can be confined from one, two, or...
The mesoporous nature of silica nanoparticles provides a novel platform for the development of ultrabright fluorescent particles, which have organic molecular fluorescent dyes physically encapsulated inside the silica pores. The close proximity of th...
Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) possess unique mechanical, physical, electrical and absorbability properties coupled with their nanometer dimensional scale that renders them extremely valuable for applications in many fields including nanotechnology and chro...
Heap bioleaching is widely used to extract copper from low-grade sulfide ores thanks to its operational simplicity, low cost, and environmental sustainability. However, current control strategies rely primarily on single-factor optimization and often...
Particles moving in a fluid interact through the flow field they generate, which can lead to complex nonlinear dynamics. One important example is the synchronization of oscillatory motion in biological systems, such as the coordinated beating of cili...
Bio-inspired engineering draws on principles refined by natural evolution to tackle persistent challenges in fluid mechanics, structural dynamics, and thermal transport. This article presents a critical, mechanism-driven narrative review that integra...
Ion channels are fundamental membrane proteins that mediate selective ion flow across biological membranes and thereby govern excitability, signaling, and homeostasis in virtually all cell types. Although channel function is determined by intrinsic s...
Frigatebirds achieve exceptional long-endurance flight by efficiently utilizing marine atmospheric updrafts, offering a valuable biological prototype for low-energy bionic aircraft. Most existing studies focus on uniform inflow and single-axis attitu...
Over the past few decades, confined quantum systems have emerged to be a subject of considerable importance in physical, chemical and biological sciences. Under such stressed conditions, they display many fascinating and notable physical and chemical...
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