One of the most distinctive hallmarks of many-body systems far from equilibrium is the spontaneous emergence of order under conditions where disorder would be plausibly expected. Here, we report on the self-transition between ordered and disordered emulsions in divergent microfluidic channels, i.e., from monodisperse assemblies to heterogeneous polydisperse foamlike structures, and back again to ordered ones.

Terrestrial and marine ecosystems provide essential goods and services to human societies. In the last decades, however, anthropogenic pressure has produced a loss of ecosystem services that can seriously affect human wellbeing and climate processes at local and regional scale.

The poles of the heart and branchiomeric muscles of the face and neck are formed from the cardiopharyngeal mesoderm within the pharyngeal apparatus. They are disrupted in patients with 22q11.2 deletion syndrome, due to haploinsufficiency of TBX1, encoding a T-box transcription factor. Here, using single cell RNA-sequencing, we now identify a multilineage primed population within the cardiopharyngeal mesoderm, marked by Tbx1, which has bipotent properties to form cardiac and branchiomeric muscle cells.

Two-dimensional dissipative and isotropic kinetic models, like the ones used in neutron transport theory, are considered. Especially, steady-states are expressed for constant opacity and damping, allowing to derive a scattering S-matrix and corresponding "truly 2D well-balanced" numerical schemes. A first scheme is obtained by directly implementing truncated Fourier-Bessel series, whereas another proceeds by applying an exponential modulation to a former, conservative, one. Consistency with the asymptotic damped parabolic approximation is checked for both algorithms.

This poster has been presented at the first ILTER Open Science Meeting in Skukuza, Kruger National Park, South Africa, 9-13 October 2016 (https://na.eventscloud.com/ehome/156435), and describes the general purposes and organization of the H2020 project ECOPOTENTIAL (http://www.ecopotential-project.eu/)

In this paper we propose a new approach to detect clusters in undirected graphs with attributed vertices. The aim is to group vertices which are similar not only in terms of structural connectivity but also in terms of attribute values. We incorporate structural and attribute similarities between the vertices in an augmented graph by creating additional vertices and edges as proposed in [6, 38]. The augmented graph is then embedded in a Euclidean space associated to its Laplacian where a modified K-means algorithm is applied to identify clusters.

Clostridium difficile is a spore-forming gram-positive bacterium, recognized as the primary cause of antibiotic-associated nosocomial diarrhoea. Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) has emerged as a major health-associated infection with increased incidence and hospitalization over the years with high mortality rates. Contamination and infection occur after ingestion of vegetative spores, which germinate in the gastro-intestinal tract.

We present a modified version of an existing lake ecosystem model, describing a trophic chain generated by nutrients, phytoplankton and zooplankton (NPZ model). The NPZ model takes into account the vertical dynamics of the biomasses of the main species. We tailor the model to specific ecosystems by including seasonality in the dynamics of the various compartments. Moreover, different species exhibit a different behaviour with respect to diffusion and to the rate of vertical movement.

Controlled drug delivery from a multilayer spherical capsule is used for several therapeutic applications. Developing a theoretical understanding of mass transfer in the multilayer capsule is critical for understanding and optimizing targeted drug delivery. This paper presents an analytical solution for the mass transport problem in a general multilayer sphere involving diffusion as well as drug immobilization in various layers due to binding reactions.

Space exploration is revealing the abundance of other solar systems, but at the same time is showing the uniqueness of our Planet. Using sophisticated Earth Observation technologies such as the European "Sentinels", belonging to the greatest Earth Observation programme ever realised, Copernicus, we are now getting plenty of information at unprecedented high spatial and temporal resolution.