1. Visions for our future regional electricity system: Citizen preferences in four EU countries 

   Mey F.; Lilliestam J.; Wolf I.; et al. (2024)

   iScience

   As climate targets tighten, all countries must transition toward a renewable electricity system, but conflicts about generation and infrastructure deployment impede transition progress. Although the triggers of opposition are well studied, what people want remains understudied. We survey citizen preferences for a renewable electricity future through a conjoint analysis among 4,103 individuals in Denmark, Portugal, Poland, and Germany. ...

   Journal Article

2. Digital Three-dimensional Smocking Design 

   Ren J.; Segall A.; Sorkine-Hornung O. (2024)

   ACM Transactions on Graphics

   We develop an optimization-based method to model smocking, a surface embroidery technique that provides decorative geometric texturing while maintaining stretch properties of the fabric. During smocking, multiple pairs of points on the fabric are stitched together, creating non-manifold geometric features and visually pleasing textures. Designing smocking patterns is challenging, because the outcome of stitching is unpredictable: The final ...

   Journal Article

3. Knowledge engineering for wind energy 

   Marykovskiy, Yuriy; Clark, Thomas; Day, Justin; et al. (2024)

   WIND ENERGY SCIENCE

   With the rapid evolution of the wind energy sector, there is an ever-increasing need to create value from the vast amounts of data made available both from within the domain and from other sectors. This article addresses the challenges faced by wind energy domain experts in converting data into domain knowledge, connecting and integrating them with other sources of knowledge, and making them available for use in next-generation artificial ...

   Review Article

4. Light Color-Controlled pH-Adjustment of Aqueous Solutions Using Engineered Proteoliposomes 

   Harder D.; Ritzmann N.; Ucurum Z.; et al. (2024)

   Advanced Science

   Controlling the pH at the microliter scale can be useful for applications in research, medicine, and industry, and therefore represents a valuable application for synthetic biology and microfluidics. The presented vesicular system translates light of different colors into specific pH changes in the surrounding solution. It works with the two light-driven proton pumps bacteriorhodopsin and blue light-absorbing proteorhodopsin Med12, that ...

   Journal Article

5. Prophage maintenance is determined by environment-dependent selective sweeps rather than mutational availability 

   Bailey Z.M.; Igler C.; Wendling C.C. (2024)

   Current Biology

   Prophages, viral sequences integrated into bacterial genomes, can be beneficial and costly. Despite the risk of prophage activation and subsequent bacterial death, active prophages are present in most bacterial genomes. However, our understanding of the selective forces that maintain prophages in bacterial populations is limited. Combining experimental evolution with stochastic modeling, we show that prophage maintenance and loss are ...

   Journal Article

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