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Distribution of yeast species and their resistance to copper and sulfite across arboreal and viticulture habitats
No full textHumans have generated ecological and environmental disturbances, such as vineyards, across the globe. Disturbed environments create widespread and repeated selective pressures that can drive colonization and local adaptation in microbial species. We investigated the distribution of fermentative yeast species in vineyards compared to nearby arboreal habitats and measured their resistance to two commonly used vineyard antimicrobials, copper and sulfite. We analyzed 4 101 strains, representing 70 species, collected from grapevine- and oak-associated substrates at 17 vineyard and 20 non-vineyard sites in the USA and Slovenia. Species frequency varied with geography and substrate, but the majority of species commonly present in vineyards were also found in non-vineyard arboreal environments, representing a potential source for vineyard colonization and exploitation of sugar from grapes. Species varied in both copper and sulfite resistance, but only Saccharomyces cerevisiae showed elevated resistance in vineyard compared to non-vineyard samples. Our results indicate that S. cerevisiae has uniquely taken advantage of vineyard environments through adaptations that appear either unnecessary or inaccessible to other yeast species present in vineyards
Search for electroweak production of vector-like leptons in ▫▫-lepton and b-jet final states in pp collisions at▫▫= 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector
No full textSearch for a light charged Higgs boson in ▫▫ decays, with ▫▫, in ▫▫ collisions at ▫▫=13 TeV with the ATLAS detector
No full textExploring the ultra-high-energy universe
No full textThe Pierre Auger Observatory is the world’s largest facility dedicated to studying ultra-high-energy cosmic rays (UHECRs). Located in Argentina, it spans 3,000 square kilometers and utilizes a hybrid detection system comprising over 1,600 Water-Cherenkov detectors and fluorescence telescopes. Since its inception in 2004, the Observatory has provided groundbreaking insights into the energy spectrum, mass composition, and arrival direction anisotropies of cosmic rays.
Phase-I data analysis, covering the years 2004-2022, has revealed critical features such as large-scale anisotropies and spectral features such as the instep and the suppression of flux at the highest energies, thus advancing our understanding of the origin and propagation of UHECRs. The hybrid detection approach has enabled precise measurements of air showers and muon content, offering constraints on hadronic interaction models. Furthermore, searches for neutral particles have been performed, contributing to multi-messenger astrophysics.
The ongoing AugerPrime upgrade aims to refine mass composition studies by integrating scintillator detectors, improved electronics, underground muon detectors, and radio antennas, enhancing sensitivity to primary cosmic-ray properties. We present the key scientific achievements from Phase I and discuss the transformative potential of AugerPrime in addressing fundamental questions about the origin of UHECRs
CUBOT Workshop/Round Table
No full texthands-on workshop demonstrating the design and implementation of the CUBOT, a 3D-printed Rubik\u27s Cube-solving robot. From design to realization, discover how engineering principles come to life, vodi doc. dr. Ahmad Hossein
Presentación del trabajo de la escritora Yanina Vidal (Uruguay), investigadora en residencia 2024
No full textPogovor z Yanino Vidal v Knjižnici MedvodeCharla con Yanina Vidal en la Biblioteca de Medvod
Strengthened, and weakened, by belief
Get PDFThis paper discusses a set of observations, many of which are novel, concerning differences between the adjectival modals certain and possible and their adverbial counterparts certainly and possibly. It argues that the observations can be derived from a standard interpretation of certain/certainly as universal and possible/possibly as existential quantifiers over possible worlds, in conjunction with the hypothesis that the adjectives quantify over knowledge and the adverbs quantify over belief. The claims on which the argument relies include the following: (i) knowledge implies belief, (ii) agents have epistemic access to their belief, (iii) relevance is closed under speakers\u27 belief, and (iv) commitment is pragmatically inconsistent with explicit denial of belief
Comparing the derivation of modal domains and strengthened meanings
No full textThe derivation of strengthened meanings as proposed by Bar-Lev and Fox (2017, 2020) and the derivation of modal domains as proposed by Kratzer (1977, 1981, 1991) both involve an “inclusion” step of assigning true to as many propositions in a given set as possible. In the case of strengthened meanings, this set contains the scalar alternatives. In the case of modal domains, it contains the propositions in the ordering source. In this note, we explicate what is common and what is distinct between the two inclusion procedures. We then point out that the formal distinction makes no empirical difference for the cases of strengthened meaning so far considered in the literature. We conjecture that this fact holds generally for all cases of strengthened meaning