China Briefing

China’s Infrastructure Dominance: Still a Step Ahead in Asian Manufacturing

China infrastructure advantage remains central to Asian manufacturing competitiveness, shaping efficiency and resilience.
eLife

Working Memory Guides Perceptual Decisions Through Fast Capture and Slow Drift

This study provides important insights into how working memory shapes perceptual decisions, using a dual-task design, continuous mouse tracking, and hierarchical Bayesian modeling. By dissociating ...

Probability underlies much of the modern world – an engineering professor explains how it actually works

Probability underpins AI, cryptography and statistics. However, as the philosopher Bertrand Russell said, “Probability is the most important concept in modern science, especially as nobody has the ...
Investopedia

Understanding Utility Functions: Definition, Calculation, and Examples

Andriy Blokhin has 5+ years of professional experience in public accounting, personal investing, and as a senior auditor with Ernst & Young. Erika Rasure is globally-recognized as a leading consumer ...
eLife

A proteome-wide biochemical screen defines binding determinants of the core autophagy protein LC3B

Human MAP1LC3B (LC3B) binds proteins involved in autophagy and other cellular processes using a degenerate four-residue short linear motif known as the LC3-interacting region (LIR). Biochemical and ...
Investopedia

Net Exporters Explained: Definition, Function, and Examples

Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive derivative trading expertise, Adam is an expert in economics and ...
IEEE

Voltage Probability Density Function Shaping Control Strategy Considering Grid Operational Uncertainties

Abstract: It is well-known that power systems operation always affected by various uncertainties which make the bus voltage a random process that can be characterized by its probability density ...
Nature

Nectins and nectin-like molecules: roles in contact inhibition of cell movement and proliferation

Nectins and nectin-like molecules (Necls) have recently emerged as cell adhesion molecules that have a variety of cellular functions, including cell movement, proliferation, differentiation, ...
Carnegie Institution for Science

A uniform analysis of debris discs with the Gemini Planet Imager II: constraints on dust density distribution using empirically informed scattering phase functions

Spatially resolved images of debris discs are necessary to determine disc morphological properties and the scattering phase function (SPF) thatantifies the brightness of scattered light as a function ...