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PLoS One 2022 21;17(7):e0271504. Epub 2022 Jul 21.

WorldPop, Geography and Environmental Science, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom.

Disaggregated population counts are needed to calculate health, economic, and development indicators in Low- and Middle-Income Countries (LMICs), especially in settings of rapid urbanisation. Censuses are often outdated and inaccurate in LMIC settings, and rarely disaggregated at fine geographic scale. Modelled gridded population datasets derived from census data have become widely used by development researchers and practitioners; however, accuracy in these datasets are evaluated at the spatial scale of model input data which is generally courser than the neighbourhood or cell-level scale of many applications. Read More

J Neurophysiol 2022 Aug 13;128(2):418-433. Epub 2022 Jul 13.

Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London, London, United Kingdom.

Interactions with objects involve simultaneous contact with multiple, not necessarily adjacent, skin regions. Although advances have been made in understanding the capacity to selectively attend to a single tactile element among distracting stimulations, here, we examine how multiple stimulus elements are explicitly integrated into an overall tactile percept. Across four experiments, participants averaged the direction of two simultaneous tactile motion trajectories of varying discrepancy delivered to different fingerpads. Read More

Arch Appl Mech 2022 Feb 9;92(2):461-489. Epub 2021 Jun 9.

Department of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering, University of Padua, Padua, Italy.

The growth and treatment of tumors is an important problem to society that involves the manifestation of cellular phenomena at length scales on the order of centimeters. Continuum mechanical approaches are being increasingly used to model tumors at the largest length scales of concern. The issue of how to best connect such descriptions to smaller-scale descriptions remains open. Read More

Front Plant Sci 2022 20;13:912627. Epub 2022 Jun 20.

State Key Laboratory of Marine Environmental Science, College of Ocean and Earth Sciences, Xiamen University, Xiamen, China.

This study investigates the reliability of phytolith assemblage analysis for characterizing subtropical vegetation and explores the potential for using these modern phytolith-vegetation relationships for paleoenvironmental interpretation in southeastern China. The samples were collected from five common subtropical vegetation communities in the Daiyun Mountains, southeastern China, with the above-ground vegetation recorded at each plot. Constrained ordination analysis was used to determine the most important factor governing the variations in phytolith assemblages that could be quantitatively reconstructed with weighted averaging partial least squares regression (WAPLS). Read More

J Acoust Soc Am 2022 06;151(6):3745

Department of Algebra, University of Granada, Granada, Spain.

Auditory evoked potentials can be estimated by synchronous averaging when the responses to the individual stimuli are not overlapped. However, when the response duration exceeds the inter-stimulus interval, a deconvolution procedure is necessary to obtain the transient response. The iterative randomized stimulation and averaging and the equivalent randomized stimulation with least squares deconvolution have been proven to be flexible and efficient methods for deconvolving the evoked potentials, with minimum restrictions in the design of stimulation sequences. Read More