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FeO-based nanostructures and nanohybrids for photoelectrochemical water splitting

The need to satisfy the growing global population's enormous energy demands is a major challenge for modern societies. Photoelectrochemical (PEC) water splitting (WS) is seen as a leading strategy for producing an extremely promising renewable store of ene ...

PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD2020

Adapt or Perish: Evolutionary Rescue in a Gradually Deteriorating Environment

Anne-Florence Raphaëlle Bitbol, Loïc Marrec

We investigate the evolutionary rescue of a microbial population in a gradually deteriorating environment, through a combination of analytical calculations and stochastic simulations. We consider a population destined for extinction in the absence of mutan ...

2020

STeCC: Smart Testing with Contact Counting Enhances Covid-19 Mitigation by Bluetooth App Based Contact Tracing

David Jenny

SARS-CoV2 spread is hard to control, as asymptomatic people contribute to transmission. Currently, Covid-19 mitigation imposes social distancing and isolates the diseased. This slows down virus spread, eases stress on health care systems and thereby reduce ...

2020

Resist or perish: Fate of a microbial population subjected to a periodic presence of antimicrobial

Anne-Florence Raphaëlle Bitbol, Loïc Marrec

The evolution of antimicrobial resistance can be strongly affected by variations of antimicrobial concentration. Here, we study the impact of periodic alternations of absence and presence of antimicrobial on resistance evolution in a microbial population, ...

2020

Environmental impacts and decarbonization strategies in the cement and concrete industries

Karen Scrivener, Aurélie Rosine Favier

The use of cement and concrete, among the most widely used man-made materials, is under scrutiny. Owing to their large-scale use, production of cement and concrete results in substantial emission of greenhouse gases and places strain on the availability of ...

2020

Susceptibility to infection in early life: a growing role for human genetics

Jacques Fellay, Alessandro Borghesi

The unique vulnerability to infection of newborns and young infants is generally explained by a constellation of differences between early-life immune responses and immune responses at later ages, often referred to as neonatal immune immaturity. This devel ...

SPRINGER2020

Eosinophils regulate adipose tissue inflammation and sustain physical and immunological fitness in old age

Johan Auwerx, Norman Lionel Moullan

Adipose tissue eosinophils (ATEs) are important in the control of obesity-associated inflammation and metabolic disease. However, the way in which ageing impacts the regulatory role of ATEs remains unknown. Here, we show that ATEs undergo major age-related ...

2020

Stepwells: Reviving India’s Cultural and Traditional Water Storage Systems

Water has been foreseen to be the cause of the next great global crisis. India has 18% of the world population but only 4% of the world’s water resources. This brings us to the important issue that India may lack overall long-term availability of replenish ...

Paul Scherrer Institute, World Resources Forum2019

Population structure determines the tradeoff between fixation probability and fixation time

Andreas Pavlogiannis

The rate of biological evolution depends on the fixation probability and on the fixation time of new mutants. Intensive research has focused on identifying population structures that augment the fixation probability of advantageous mutants. But these ampli ...

Springer2019

The Minimization of Public Facilities With Enhanced Genetic Algorithms Using War Elimination

Michael Mark

In this paper, we focus on the problem of minimizing a network of state facilities that provide essential public services (schools, offices, and hospitals). The goal is to reduce the size of the network in order to minimize the costs associated with it. Ho ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2019

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