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Modelling the Symphyotrichum lanceolatum invasion in Slovakia, Central Europe
Authors: Michalová Martina , Hrabovský Michal , Kubalová Silvia , Miháliková Tatiana 
Published: January 2024

AbstractSymphyotrichum lanceolatum (Willd.) G. L. Nesom is an alien invasive species in Europe, where it presents a potential threat to natural habitats. Its rapid expansion in recent decades raises questions and concerns about the causes and consequences of its spread in Slovakia. We investigated natural and anthropogenic habitats along with topographic and environmental factors, including changing climatic conditions such as air temperature and precipitation totals to adjust prediction models of the species distribution. Using 19 various algorithms, the models for the past, present, and future were calculated based on 395 octoploid populations selected by flow cytometry. The models revealed the potential species distribution along rivers and in human settlements and its increasing during the period 1970–2060 from 23.6 to 53.85% of the territory as a result of climatic change. A conditional inference tree indicates that the expansion can be limited by a mean annual air temperature below 8 °C and a pH of soil less than 5.5. Therefore, there is a high probability of the further spread of S. lanceolatum across Slovakia.
Robust multi-label feature learning-based dual space
Authors: Braytee Ali , Liu Wei 
Published: January 2024

AbstractMulti-label learning handles instances associated with multiple class labels. The original label space is a logical matrix with entries from the Boolean domain $$\in \left\{ 0,1 \right\} $$

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. Logical labels cannot show the relative importance of each semantic label to the instances. Most existing methods map the input features to the label space using linear projections considering the label dependencies using a logical label matrix. However, the discriminative features are learned using one-way projection from the feature representation of an instance into a logical label space. There is no manifold in the learning space of logical labels, which limits the potential of learned models. We propose a novel method in multi-label learning to learn the projection matrix from the feature space to the semantic label space and project it back to the original feature space using encoder–decoder deep learning architecture. The key intuition which guides our method is that the discriminative features are identified due to mapping the features back and forth using two linear projections. To the best of our knowledge, this is one of the first attempts to study the ability to reconstruct the original features from the label manifold in multi-label learning. We show that the learned projection matrix identifies a subset of discriminative features across multiple semantic labels. Extensive experiments on real-world datasets show the superiority of the proposed method.
Late In-Stent Restenosis of a Saphenous Vein Graft Treated with High-Pressure Balloon Dilatation and Drug Eluting Balloon Dilatation: Case Report
Authors: Rogowski Marek M. , Kara Kaffer 
Published: January 2024

Abstract
In the modern interventional treatment of degenerated saphenous vein grafts, the use of both bare metal and drug eluting stents have been described so far. Drug eluting balloons have been increasingly used in cases of in-stent restenosis and to some extent de novo stenosis of native coronary vessels. Based on pure logic approach, the use of drug eluting balloons in in-stent restenosis of the saphenous vein graft may be of great interest. Still, few high-quality data on this subject exist and no general recommendations can be made. This paper illustrates a typical case of a symptomatic late in-stent restenosis of a saphenous vein graft occurred 15 months after a percutaneous coronary intervention with implantation of two drug eluting stents. Intravascular ultrasound revealed a mixture of stent underexpansion and severe neointima. This was treated safely with a prolonged high pressure balloon dilatation followed by dilatation with a drug eluting balloon. The primary result was very good. During the intervention the patient remained asymptomatic and was discharged the next day on dual anti-platelet therapy. During the 10-month follow-up the patient remained asymptomatic. This case demonstrates the usefulness and clinical safety of drug eluting balloons in treating in-stent restenosis in the saphenous vein grafts.
Quality of Working Life in the Circular Economy: the Case of Self-employment in the Repair Sector
Authors: Rogers Heather A. , Deutz Pauline , Ramos Tomas B. , Jonas Andrew E. G. 
Published: January 2024

AbstractEstablishing a circular economy is assumed by some definitions to include social benefits such as employment opportunities; however, research beyond quantitative job creation projections is only recently emerging. While the repair sector is well-established, it has been suggested that increasing circularity implies significantly expanded demand for this service. This article uses five case studies of repair workers, based on semi-structured interviews, to explore self-employment in the repair service sector. Findings indicate that the stresses of work in the circular economy are similar to those of other fields, with self-employment offering opportunities both for job satisfaction and additional pressures. Research needs to give more consideration to the social implications of a circular transition—work may be a necessity for a satisfactory life experience (for most people), but it is under-ambitious to assume that having work is sufficient to achieve that, or should be the limit of ambition for a sustainability transition.
Vertical Land Motion Due To Present‐Day Ice Loss From Greenland's and Canada's Peripheral Glaciers
Authors: Berg D. , Barletta V. R. , Hassan J. , Lippert E. Y. H. , Colgan W. , Bevis M. , Steffen R. , Khan S. A. 
Published: January 2024

AbstractGreenland's bedrock responds to ongoing ice loss with an elastic vertical land motion (VLM) that is measured by Greenland's Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) Network (GNET). The measured VLM also contains other contributions, including the long‐term viscoelastic response of the Earth to the deglaciation of the last glacial period. Greenland's ice sheet (GrIS) produces the most significant contribution to the total VLM. The contribution of peripheral glaciers (PGs) from both Greenland (GrPGs) and Arctic Canada (CanPGs) has not carefully been accounted for in previous GNSS analyses. This is a significant concern, since GNET stations are often closer to PGs than to the ice sheet. We find that, PGs produce significant elastic rebound, especially in North and East Greenland. Across these regions, the PGs produce up to 32% of the elastic rebound. For a few stations in the North, the VLM from PGs is larger than that due to the GrIS.
Oceanic Influence and Lapse Rate Changes Dominate the Recent Amplified Saharan Warming
Authors: Zhuo Li , Rose Brian E. J. 
Published: January 2024

AbstractThe surface air temperature (SAT) over the Sahara Desert has increased at a much faster rate than average tropical land in recent decades. This study examines the relative roles of anthropogenic greenhouse gas (GHG) forcing and sea surface temperature (SST) change in the observed Saharan temperature increase during boreal warm season from 1979 to 2020 using atmospheric general circulation model simulations. It is found that the SST forcing dominates the observed Saharan warming. Further analysis shows that the warming ocean forces the Saharan SAT increase by moving more energy to the Sahara Desert, while the water vapor feedback plays a secondary role. The reason for the stronger Saharan warming than the average tropical land given the same SST forcing is also explored. We found that the largest contributor to the warming contrast is the lapse‐rate feedback, which is attributable to the difference in the vertical warming profile.
The 8 September 2023, MW 6.8, Morocco Earthquake: A Deep Transpressive Faulting Along the Active High Atlas Mountain Belt
Authors: Cheloni D. , Famiglietti N. A. , Tolomei C. , Caputo R. , Vicari A. 
Published: January 2024

AbstractOn 8 September 2023 an MW 6.8 earthquake struck the High Atlas Mountains of western Morocco, about 70 km southwest from Marrakesh, causing significant devastation and casualties. In this study, we investigate a comprehensive geodetic data set, employing interferometric synthetic aperture radar measurements to assess the fault segment responsible for the seismic event. Our findings suggest two potential fault scenarios: either a transpressive NNW‐dipping high‐angle (70°) fault related to the Tizi n'Test alignment or a transpressive SSW‐dipping low‐angle (22°) fault associated with the North Atlas Fault, with slip (up to 2.2 m) only occurring on deeper parts of the fault. While seismic catalogs couldn't definitively determine the dip direction of the fault, evidence from mainshock locations, gravity and heat flow data and modeling, and active shortening direction suggest the activation of a low‐angle south‐westerly dipping oblique thrust of the North Atlas fault during the 2023 Moroccan earthquake.
The Dynamical Footprint of Year‐Round North American Weather Regimes
Authors: Lee Simon H. , Messori Gabriele 
Published: January 2024

AbstractWeather regimes have been defined over multiple regions and used in a range of practical applications, including subseasonal‐to‐seasonal forecasting and climate model evaluation. Despite their widespread use, the extent to which regimes reflect physical modes of the atmosphere is seldom investigated. Here, we adopt a year‐round classification of four North American weather regimes, with a fifth “no regime” class, and leverage dynamical systems theory to investigate their dynamical properties. We find that when the atmospheric flow is assigned to a regime, it displays persistent characteristics and a lifecycle‐like temporal evolution. We further find that, regardless of season, these characteristics are enhanced when the atmospheric flow displays a comparatively strong projection onto the cluster‐mean of the regime to which it is assigned (while the reverse is true for a weaker projection). We interpret these results as evidence that the four North American weather regimes are physically‐meaningful, with a clear dynamical footprint.
Disappearing Solar Wind at Mars: Changes in the Mars‐Solar Wind Interaction
Authors: Fowler C. M. , Shaver S. , Hanley K. G. , Andersson L. , McFadden J. , Mitchell D. , Halekas J. , Ma Y. , Espley J. , Curry S. 
Published: January 2024

AbstractOn 26 December 2022 the solar wind density dropped by over an order of magnitude and remained low for about a day. We have utilized in‐situ plasma measurements made by the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN mission to determine how this change affected the Mars‐solar wind interaction. During this time period, on inbound orbit segments, MAVEN sampled the terminator ionosphere, which switched from a magnetized to unmagnetized state immediately following the minimum in solar wind density. The magnetic field amplitude was typically 5–10 nT within the upper ionosphere prior to the event and consistently <1 nT after. During the event the magnetic pressure dominated immediately above the ionosphere while within the ionosphere the ionospheric plasma pressure dominated. The high altitude terminator ionosphere remained in this unmagnetized state throughout the event, suggesting that it was the new equilibrium state of the system. The terminator upper ionosphere returned to its original magnetized state once the solar wind density had recovered. The outbound orbit segments sampled the dayside subsolar region which remained magnetized throughout the event: the magnetization state of the ionosphere varied locally, dependent upon the solar zenith angle and corresponding incident solar wind dynamic pressure. Such conditions are different to the commonly reported unmagnetized ionospheric state at Venus during solar maximum conditions, where the interplanetary magnetic field is repelled from the entire dayside ionosphere. Drastic changes in the upstream solar wind are able to change the Mars‐solar wind interaction state on timescales less than one MAVEN orbit (∼3.5 hr).
Highly Hygroscopic Aerosols Facilitate Summer and Early‐Autumn Cloud Formation at Extremely Low Concentrations Over the Central Arctic Ocean
Authors: Duplessis P. , Karlsson L. , Baccarini A. , Wheeler M. , Leaitch W. R. , Svenningsson B. , Leck C. , Schmale J. , Zieger P. , Chang R. Y.‐W. 
Published: January 2024

AbstractArctic clouds are sensitive to atmospheric particles since these are sometimes in such low concentrations that clouds cannot always form under supersaturated water vapor conditions. This is especially true in the late summer, when aerosol concentrations are generally very low in the high Arctic. The environment changes rapidly around freeze‐up as the open waters close and snow starts accumulating on ice. We investigated droplet formation during eight significant fog events in the central Arctic Ocean, north of 80°, from August 12 to 19 September 2018 during the Arctic Ocean 2018 expedition onboard the icebreaker Oden. Calculated hygroscopicity parameters (κ) for the entire study were very high (up to κ = 0.85 ± 0.13), notably after freeze‐up, suggesting that atmospheric particles were very cloud condensation nuclei (CCN)‐active. At least one of the events showed that surface clouds were able to form and persist for at least a couple hours at aerosol concentrations less than 10 cm−3, which was previously suggested to be the minimum for cloud formation. Among these events that were considered limited in CCN, effective radii were generally larger than in the high CCN cases. In some of the fog events, droplet residuals particles did not reactivate under supersaturations up to 0.95%, suggesting either in‐droplet reactions decreased hygroscopicity, or an ambient supersaturation above 1%. These results provide insight into droplet formation during the clean late‐summer and fall of the high Arctic with limited influence from continental sources.
Less Dryland Aridity During Pliocene Warmth
Authors: Zhang Ran , Jiang Dabang , Liu Shanshan , Zhang Chunxia , Zhang Zhongshi , Li Xiangyu , Tian Zhiping , Shi Jiawen 
Published: January 2024

AbstractBecause of the potential similarities of the climate in the mid‐Pliocene to the projected conditions in the near future, studying mid‐Pliocene dryland aridity can advance our future projections. In this study, we used climate modeling to investigate mid‐Pliocene dryland aridity. Our results indicated that, in the mid‐Pliocene compared to the preindustrial period, the simulated dryland was substantially less arid in North Africa, the Arabian Peninsula, Australia and Central Asia and more arid in North and South America and Southern Africa. The combined topography, vegetation and lakes (TVL) and atmospheric CO2 concentrations markedly modified this large‐scale dryland aridity, mainly by modulating precipitation and potential evapotranspiration, respectively. Moreover, the dryland aridity during the mid‐Pliocene varied under different orbital parameter intervals, mainly through precipitation changes. Our results show the important effect of vegetation on dryland aridity in a previous warm period and imply the potential effect of vegetation on future dryland aridity.
A New Mechanism for Stishovite Formation During Rapid Compression of Quartz and Implications for Asteroid Impacts
Authors: Otzen Christoph , Liermann Hanns‐Peter , Langenhorst Falko 
Published: January 2024

AbstractShock‐induced transformations of quartz to high‐pressure polymorphs and diaplectic glass are decisive in identifying impact cratering events. Under shock compression, quartz can melt in local hot spots and crystallization of these silica melts under pressure can yield the high‐pressure mineral stishovite. A solid‐state transition to stishovite in relation to the formation of amorphous lamellae was already suggested in the late 1960s, but this idea was never comprehensively proven. Therefore, the mechanism responsible for such an intracrystalline stishovite formation is unknown to date. Herein, crystallographically oriented single crystals of quartz were compressed and decompressed in a membrane‐driven diamond anvil cell. These experiments aim at simulating the pressure paths of natural impacts on the timescale of seconds using compression rates between 0.2 and 0.6 GPa/s and peak pressures between 20 and 37 GPa. During the compression of quartz, the time‐resolved synchrotron X‐ray diffraction patterns reveal the almost simultaneous formation of two high‐pressure polymorphs, the recently identified rosiaite‐structured silica and stishovite. Transmission electron microscopic observations of recovered samples show that stishovite occurs as arrays of uniformly oriented nanometer‐sized crystals in amorphous intracrystalline lamellae. These observations indicate that the numerous stishovite crystals likely nucleated from the structurally similar rosiaite phase and thus inherited their uniform orientation during compression. During decompression, the metastable and non‐quenchable rosiaite‐structured phase collapsed to the amorphous stishovite‐containing lamellae. These findings attest to a novel mechanism of the formation of stishovite in the solid state and provide an explanation for similar microstructural occurrences of stishovite in impact‐metamorphic rocks and shocked meteorites.
Epigenome-wide association study of DNA methylation in maternal blood leukocytes with BMI in pregnancy and gestational weight gain
Authors: Opsahl J. O. , Fragoso-Bargas N. , Lee Y. , Carlsen E. Ø. , Lekanova N. , Qvigstad E. , Sletner L. , Jenum A. K. , Lee-Ødegård S. , Prasad R. B. , Birkeland K. I. , Moen G-H. , Sommer C. 
Published: January 2024

Abstract
Objectives
We aimed to discover CpG sites with differential DNA methylation in peripheral blood leukocytes associated with body mass index (BMI) in pregnancy and gestational weight gain (GWG) in women of European and South Asian ancestry. Furthermore, we aimed to investigate how the identified sites were associated with methylation quantitative trait loci, gene ontology, and cardiometabolic parameters.

Methods
In the Epigenetics in pregnancy (EPIPREG) sample we quantified maternal DNA methylation in peripheral blood leukocytes in gestational week 28 with Illumina’s MethylationEPIC BeadChip. In women with European (n = 303) and South Asian (n = 164) ancestry, we performed an epigenome-wide association study of BMI in gestational week 28 and GWG between gestational weeks 15 and 28 using a meta-analysis approach. Replication was performed in the Norwegian Mother, Father, and Child Cohort Study, the Study of Assisted Reproductive Technologies (MoBa-START) (n = 877, mainly European/Norwegian).

Results
We identified one CpG site significantly associated with GWG (p 5.8 × 10−8) and five CpG sites associated with BMI at gestational week 28 (p from 4.0 × 10–8 to 2.1 × 10–10). Of these, we were able to replicate three in MoBa-START; cg02786370, cg19758958 and cg10472537. Two sites are located in genes previously associated with blood pressure and BMI. DNA methylation at the three replicated CpG sites were associated with levels of blood pressure, lipids and glucose in EPIPREG (p from 1.2 × 10−8 to 0.04).

Conclusions
We identified five CpG sites associated with BMI at gestational week 28, and one with GWG. Three of the sites were replicated in an independent cohort. Several genetic variants were associated with DNA methylation at cg02786379 and cg16733643 suggesting a genetic component influencing differential methylation. The identified CpG sites were associated with cardiometabolic traits.

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METTL14 contributes to acute lung injury by stabilizing NLRP3 expression in an IGF2BP2-dependent manner
Authors: Cao Fei , Chen Guojun , Xu Yixin , Wang Xintong , Tang Xiaole , Zhang Wenyu , Song Xiong , Yang Xiaohua , Zeng Weian , Xie Jingdun 
Published: January 2024

AbstractAcute lung injury (ALI) as well as its more severe form, acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), frequently leads to an uncontrolled inflammatory response. N6-methyladenosine (m6A) modification was associated with the progression of several inflammatory diseases. However, the role of methyltransferase-like 14 (METTL14)-mediated m6A methylation in ALI/ARDS remains unclear. Here, we reported an increase in overall expression levels of m6A and METTL14 in circulating monocyte-derived macrophages recruited to the lung following ALI, which is correlated with the severity of lung injury. We further demonstrated the critical function of METTL14 in activating NOD-like receptor pyrin domain-containing protein 3 (NLRP3) inflammasome in vitro and in mouse models of ALI/ARDS, and validated NLRP3 as the downstream target of METTL14 by the m6A RNA immunoprecipitation (MeRIP) and RIP assays. Mechanistically, METTL14-methylated NLRP3 transcripts were subsequently recognized by insulin-like growth factor 2 mRNA-binding protein 2 (IGF2BP2), an m6A reader, which stabilized NLRP3 mRNA. Furthermore, we observed that IGF2BP2 knockdown diminished LPS-induced ALI in mice by downregulating NLRP3 expression. In summation, our study revealed that the molecular mechanism underlying the pathogenesis of ALI/ARDS involves METTL14-mediated activation of NLRP3 inflammasome in an IGF2BP2 dependent manner, thereby demonstrating the potential of METTL14 and IGF2BP2 as promising biomarkers and therapeutic targets for ALI/ARDS treatment.
IFITM3 promotes glioblastoma stem cell-mediated angiogenesis via regulating JAK/STAT3/bFGF signaling pathway
Authors: Xiong Zhangsheng , Xu Xiangdong , Zhang Yuxuan , Ma Chengcheng , Hou Chongxian , You Zhongsheng , Shu Lingling , Ke Yiquan , Liu Yang 
Published: January 2024

AbstractInterferon-induced transmembrane protein 3 (IFITM3) has been previously verified to be an endosomal protein that prevents viral infection. Recent findings suggested IFITM3 as a key factor in tumor invasion and progression. To clarify the role and molecular mechanism of IFITM3 in Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) progression, we investigated the expression of IFITM3 in glioma datasets culled from The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) and Chinese Glioma Genome Atlas (CGGA). Primary GBM stem cells (GSCs) were cultured and identified in vitro. Loss-of-function and gain-of-function experiments were established by using shRNAs and lentiviral vectors targeting IFITM3. Co-culture system of GSCs and vascular endothelial cells was constructed in a Transwell chamber. Tube formation and spheroid-based angiogenesis assays were performed to determine the angiogenic capacity of endothelial cells. Results revealed that IFITM3 is elevated in GBM samples and predictive of adverse outcome. Mechanistically, GSCs-derived IFITM3 causes activation of Jak2/STAT3 signaling and leads to robust secretion of bFGF into tumor environment, which eventually results in enhanced angiogenesis. Taken together, these evidence indicated IFITM3 as an essential factor in GBM angiogenesis. Our findings provide a new insight into mechanism by which IFITM3 modulates GBM angiogenesis.