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Uniform equations for bipartite graphs and the center of a Terwilliger algebra
Štefko Miklavič, Giusy Monzillo, 2026, original scientific article

Abstract: The uniform property was introduced by P. Terwilliger in the context of graded posets and was later extended to connected bipartite graphs. The core of this definition involves the so called uniform equations that must be satisfied. Let Γ denote a connected bipartite graph. Fix a vertex x of Γand let T=T(x) denote the corresponding Terwilliger algebra. In this paper, we study the connections between the uniform equations and the center of T. We show that these uniform equations give rise to a certain subspace of the center of T. Changing the logical direction, we show that if a matrix of a particular form belongs to the center of T, then uniform equations are satisfified.
Keywords: uniform equations, center of a Terwilliger algebra, bipartite graphs
Published in RUP: 08.05.2026; Views: 117; Downloads: 7
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Group distance magic cubic graphs
Sylwia Cichacz, Štefko Miklavič, 2026, original scientific article

Abstract: A $\Gamma$-distance magic labeling of a graph $G = (V, E)$ with $|V| = n$ is a bijection $\ell$ from $V$ to an Abelian group $\Gamma$ of order $n$, for which there exists $\mu \in \Gamma$, such that the weight $w(x) =\sum_{y\in N(x)}\ell(y)$ of every vertex $x \in V$ is equal to $\mu$. In this case, the element $\mu$ is called the magic constant of $G$. A graph $G$ is called a group distance magic if there exists a $\Gamma$-distance magic labeling of $G$ for every Abelian group $\Gamma$ of order $n$. In this paper, we focused on cubic $\Gamma$-distance magic graphs as well as some properties of such graphs.
Keywords: group distance magic labeling, Kotzig array, generalized Petersen graph
Published in RUP: 06.05.2026; Views: 152; Downloads: 5
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Surface colonization of Aureobasidium pullulans : a multimodal microscopy study toward living coating development
Ihab Malat, Anja Černoša, Anna Malgorzata Sandak, 2026, original scientific article

Abstract: Recent advances in engineered living materials (ELMs), which integrate living cells into functional structural and protective systems, have accelerated interest in understanding microbial surface interactions at fundamental scales. In this context, Aureobasidium pullulans, a polymorphic and polyextremotolerant black yeast fungus, has emerged as a promising candidate for diverse biotechnological applications, including engineered living coatings. However, its microscale surface colonization dynamics remain insufficiently characterized, limiting predictive control over colonization of various surfaces. Complementary optical approaches, including VHX digital imaging, fluorescence observation, and quantitative fluorescence measurements, were used to characterize temporal colonization of fungus on plastic coverslips and pine wood, representing two contrasting substrates used in the building sector. On plastic substrates, initial attachment involved dispersed cells that rapidly proliferated and merged into a continuous layer. Quantitative fluorescence revealed a significant increase in signal from Day 1 to Day 3 (from 25,328 to 42,510 RFU; P = 5.4 × 10⁻⁴) followed by a decrease by Day 6 (10,555 RFU). This decline may be associated with reduced dye penetration into the compact, melanized matrix rather than a reduction in biomass. On wood, colonization followed the native fiber orientation and progressed into cohesive multicellular structures. The results provide a new understanding of substrate-dependent colonization of A. pullulans and highlight methodological limitations in quantifying biomass on porous, heterogeneous materials. The multimodal microscopy framework established a robust comparative platform for analysing fungal-material interactions and enabled the rational development of fungal-based living coatings for protective and functional applications.
Keywords: Aureobasidium pullulans, surface colonization, plastic, pine wood, living coating
Published in RUP: 06.05.2026; Views: 142; Downloads: 9
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Fast prediction of protein flexibility
Jure Pražnikar, 2026, original scientific article

Abstract: Motivation Advances in hardware have made molecular dynamics (MD) simulations of protein structures faster and more accessible to the scientific community. However, accurately estimating protein flexibility using MD remains computationally demanding, especially for large systems and long time scales. Several MD-based resources—including MdMD, the DynamD database, and more recently ATLAS and mdCATH—now provide MD trajectories for thousands of proteins, enabling the development of predictive models. Results Here, the Graphlet Degree Vector (GDV) is introduced as a lightweight, fast, and easy-to-implement linear model for predicting protein flexibility directly from atom coordinates. GDV is a 15-dimensional feature vector that captures local packing and the spatial connectivity of each atom with its nearby neighbors. Trained on a subset of globular-like proteins from the ATLAS database, the GDV model achieves a Spearman correlation of 0.828 compared to MD data. The model trained on ATLAS dataset was further evaluated on independent Nuclear Magnetic Resonance and cryo-electron microscopy datasets, demonstrating the robustness and generalizability of the GDV-based approach. A key advantage of the GDV model is that it requires no additional external or experimental data and can be applied in near real time (on the order of 10 seconds) even for large proteins with 20,000 atoms on a standard desktop or laptop. Overall, the results show that a lightweight, fast, and purely coordinate-based model can provide accurate and generalizable predictions of protein flexibility across diverse folds and sizes.
Keywords: protein flexibility, graphlets, predictive model
Published in RUP: 16.04.2026; Views: 270; Downloads: 11
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Treewidth versus clique number. v. further connections with tree‐independence number
Claire Hilaire, Martin Milanič, Ðorđe Vasić, 2026, original scientific article

Abstract: We continue the study of (tw, ω)‐bounded graph classes, that is, hereditary graph classes in which large treewidth is witnessed by the presence of a large clique, and the relation of this property to boundedness of the tree‐independence number, a graph parameter introduced independently by Yolov in 2018 and by Dallard, Milanič, and Štorgel in 2024. Dallard et al. showed that bounded tree‐independence number is sufficient for (tw, ω)‐boundedness, and conjectured that the converse holds. While this conjecture has been recently disproved, it is still interesting to determine classes where the conjecture holds; for example, the conjecture is still open for graph classes excluding an induced star, as well as for finitely many forbidden induced subgraphs. In this paper, we identify further families of graph classes where (tw, ω)‐boundedness is equivalent to bounded tree‐independence number. We settle a number of cases of finitely many forbidden induced subgraphs, obtain several equivalent characterizations of (tw, ω)-boundedness in subclasses of the class of complements of line graphs, and give a short proof of a recent result of Ahn, Gollin, Huynh, and Kwon [SODA 2025] establishing bounded tree-independence number for graphs excluding a fixed induced star and a fixed number of independent cycles.
Keywords: clique number, hereditary graph class, line graph, tree‐independence number, treewidth
Published in RUP: 09.04.2026; Views: 320; Downloads: 9
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Occupational and non-occupational device-measured movement behaviours and low back pain : a compositional isotemporal substitution analysis
Kaja Kastelic, Nejc Šarabon, Michael David Burnard, Željko Pedišić, 2026, original scientific article

Abstract: Background: Physical activity, sedentary behaviour, and sleep were shown to be independently associated with low back pain (LBP). The aim of this cross-sectional study was to explore the associations between 24-hour movement behaviour compositions and the occurrence, severity, and estimated level of LBP impact on an individual’s life. Methods: A convenience sample of 197 adults (40% females, 37 ± 11 years of age) were asked to wear an activPAL accelerometer for at least 7 consecutive days to assess their time-use composition consisting of moderate- to vigorous-intensity physical activity (MVPA), light- intensity physical activity (LPA), sedentary behaviour (SB), and sleep and to complete a questionnaire on LBP and sociodemographic characteristics. Compositional isotemporal substitution analyses were conducted separately for the non-domain-specific and domain- specific (including occupational and non-occupational domains) movement behaviour compositions. Results: Reallocating time from MVPA to any other movement behaviour or from sleep to LPA was associated with a higher LBP impact score. For example, reallocating 60 min/day from MVPA to LPA was associated with on average 17 points (95% CI: 6 to 28) higher LBP impact score (on a 0-70 scale). We did not find significant associations between the domain- specific time-use composition and LBP impact score (p = 0.060). We also did not find significant associations of the time-use compositions with occurrence and severity of LBP (p- value range: 0.067 to 0.649). Conclusion: Our study suggests that LBP sufferers with higher MVPA and sleep better cope with LBP. The differences in the LBP impact scores associated with theoretical reallocations between movement behaviours may be deemed clinically important. Future longitudinal and experimental studies in population-representative samples are needed to confirm our findings.
Keywords: musculoskeletal health, physical behaviours, time-use epidemiology
Published in RUP: 30.03.2026; Views: 334; Downloads: 8
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Človek v primežu covida-19 : duševno zdravje in psihosocialne potrebe prebivalcev Slovenije
2025, scientific monograph

Abstract: Znanstvena monografija ponuja celovit vpogled v duševno zdravje prebivalcev Slovenije v času epidemije covida-19 in na ta način poskuša orisati morebitni vpliv zaščitnih in omejevalnih ukrepov na njihovo psihosocialno dobrobit. Temelji na obsežni empirični raziskavi, katere namen ni bil le spremljati psihološke odzive prebivalstva, temveč predvsem razumeti, katere potrebe so imeli posamezniki in kako so se te potrebe razlikovale glede na življenjske in poklicne okoliščine. Razumevanje teh potreb predstavlja temelj za oblikovanje ciljno usmerjenih intervencij in strokovnjakom nudi ključne informacije o tem, kaj ljudje v kriznih razmerah dejansko potrebujejo. Kvantitativni del je nadgrajen s kvalitativno raziskavo, ki dopolnjuje statistične izsledke z globljim razumevanjem izkušenj skozi pogled prebivalcev, zbran s poglobljenimi intervjuji, in skozi pogled strokovnjakov, raziskan z metodo Delfi. Triangulacija metod omogoča preplet številčnih kazalcev in osebnih pripovedi ter nudi celovito razumevanje psihosocialnih posledic epidemije. Poleg empiričnih izsledkov, monografije vsebuje tudi teoretični uvod, ki na osnovi podatkov iz različnih raziskav prikazuje, kako so psihosocialni stresorji, kot so negotovost, izolacija, pomanjkanje podpore, izguba dela ali preobremenjenost neenakomerno prizadeli različne skupine prebivalstva. Monografija se zaključi s poglavjem, v katerem so na osnovi analiziranih podatkov in teoretičnih spoznanj populacijskih znanosti oblikovana priporočila, kako načrtovati javnozdravstvene in psihosocialne intervencije v kriznih situacijah ter tako graditi in utrjevati kolektivno odpornost posameznikov in celotne skupnosti.
Keywords: psihosocialne potrebe, ranljive skupine, splošna populacija, zaposleni, upokojenci, študenti, psihološka pomoč
Published in RUP: 30.03.2026; Views: 324; Downloads: 25
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Random walks and the electronic structure of graphene
Nino Bašić, Patrick W. Fowler, Barry T. Pickup, Primož Potočnik, 2026, original scientific article

Abstract: Results from the mathematical literature on random walks reveal a closed-form analytical expression for the ▫$\pi$▫-energy and bond number of graphene in the simplest tight-binding model and its Hartree-Fock Hubbard extension. Closed-form expressions follow for all ▫$\pi$▫ spectral moments of graphene. Bond numbers of carbon and boron nitride (BN) zigzag nanotubes are found as finite sums, with graphene and hexagonal boron nitride sheets as asymptotes.
Keywords: graph theory, random walks, graphene, bond number, tight-binding model, spectral moments, Hubbard model, zigzag nanotubes, hexagonal boron nitride, gamma function
Published in RUP: 10.03.2026; Views: 377; Downloads: 6
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Slovenian 24-Hour Movement Guidelines and adherence among older adults : preliminary findings from the National Health-Related Lifestyle Survey 2024
Tjaša Knific, Kaja Kastelic, Nejc Šarabon, 2025, published scientific conference contribution abstract

Keywords: time-use epidemiology, recommendations, healthy ageing, GIB24, CINDI
Published in RUP: 02.03.2026; Views: 366; Downloads: 11
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An Isogeometric Tearing and Interconnecting (IETI) method for solving high order partial differential equations over planar multi-patch geometries
Mario Kapl, Aljaž Kosmač, Vito Vitrih, 2026, original scientific article

Abstract: We present a novel method for solving high-order partial differential equations (PDEs) over planar multi-patch geometries with possibly extraordinary vertices demonstrated on the basis of the polyharmonic equation of order m, m ≥ 1, which is a particular linear elliptic PDE of order 2m. Our approach is based on the concept of Isogeometric Tearing and Interconnecting (IETI) and allows to couple the numerical solution of the PDE with Cs-smoothness, , across the edges of the multi-patch geometry. The proposed technique relies on the use of a particular class of multi-patch geometries, called bilinear-like Gs multi-patch parameterizations, to represent the multi-patch domain. The coupling between the neighboring patches is done via the use of Lagrange multipliers and leads to a saddle point problem, which can be solved first by a small dual problem for a subset of the Lagrange multipliers followed by local, parallelizable problems on the single patches for the coefficients of the numerical solution. Several numerical examples for the polyharmonic equation of order m = 1, m = 2 and m = 3, i.e. for the Poisson’s, the biharmonic and the triharmonic equation, respectively, are shown to demonstrate the potential of our IETI method for solving high-order problems over planar multi-patch geometries with possibly extraordinary vertices.
Keywords: isogeometric analysis, Galerkin method, C^s-smoothness, Tearing and Interconnecting, multi-patch domain, polyharmonic equation
Published in RUP: 02.02.2026; Views: 485; Downloads: 5
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