How balanced are you? Bilingualism and the development of attentional control in English-Mandarin preschool children by Chan, Clara Gek Hoon

“…Young children have high levels of attentional plasticity; to examine the relation in this age group has far reaching implications both theoretically and practically. …”
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Physiological stress responses and meat quality of rabbits subjected to different road transportation and slaughter methods by Khadijah, Nakyinsige

“…All in all, the present study has shown than that transport and slaughter caused substantial physiological stress responses, and even though these may not necessarily translate into compromising of animal welfare, care must be taken to avoid reaching the threshold to negatively affect meat quality. …”
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Synoptic analysis of a decade of daily measurements of SO2 emission in the troposphere from volcanoes of the global ground-based network for observation of volcanic and atmospheric... by Arellano, Santiago, Galle, Bo, Apaza, Fredy, Avard, Geoffroy, Barrington, Charlotte, Bobrowski, Nicole, Bucarey, Claudia, Burbano, Viviana, Burton, Mike, Chacón, Zoraida, Chigna, Gustavo, Clarito, Christian Joseph, Conde, Vladimir, Costa, Fidel, De Moor, Maarten, Delgado-Granados, Hugo, Di Muro, Andrea, Fernandez, Deborah, Garzón, Gustavo, Gunawan, Hendra, Haerani, Nia, Hansteen, Thor. H., Hidalgo, Silvana, Inguaggiato, Salvatore, Johansson, Mattias, Kern, Christoph, Kihlman, Manne, Kowalski, Philippe, Masias, Pablo, Montalvo, Francisco, Möller, Joakim, Platt, Ulrich, Rivera, Claudia, Saballos, Armando, Salerno, Giuseppe, Taisne, Benoit, Vásconez, Freddy, Velásquez, Gabriela, Vita, Fabio, Yalire, Mathieu

“…Volcanic plumes are common and far-reaching manifestations of volcanic activity during and between eruptions. …”
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Biogeochemical cycling and environmental footprints of peatland-derived organic carbon in the coastal ocean in Southeast Asia by Zhou, Yongli

“…Our results indicate that a significant proportion of the terrigenous DOC is remineralized in the Sunda Shelf Sea before reaching the open Indian Ocean, and causes pronounced CO2 emissions and ocean acidification. …”
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The evolution and fate of waste plastics in landfills subject to physical and biochemical processes — implications for microplastics by Lu, Xuhong

“…The average LDPE MPs concentrations in control and PP MPs added reactors after 120 days reached 243 and 427 items/L, respectively. The addition of PP MPs enhanced LDPE degradation, while EPS MPs generation remained unaffected by PP MPs in the simulated biodegradation. …”
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Electrochemical electrodes based on graphene materials for sensing and energy applications by Wang, Xuewan

“…The gradually increased discharging capacity of rGO/E.coli electrode after an initial decrease (reaching a value of 501.5 mAh g-1 at the 380th cycle) indicated its excellent stability. …”
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Enhancing tensile and fatigue properties of additively manufactured alloys by post-processing heat treatment by Radhakrishnan, Jayaraj

“…The results of tensile tests and comparison to CM alloy behavior showed the strength and ductility to rise asymptotically with decrease in porosity until a critical fraction is reached. While the high cycle fatigue behavior was enhanced by reduction of porosity, HIP resulted in fatigue strength as good as CM counterparts due to reduction in pore size and dynamic recrystallization. …”
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Blood-stage malaria vaccine candidate RH5.1/Matrix-M in healthy Tanzanian adults and children; an open-label, non-randomised, first-in-human, single-centre, phase 1b trial by Silk, SE, Kalinga, WF, Salkeld, J, Mtaka, IM, Ahmed, S, Milando, F, Diouf, A, Bundi, CK, Balige, N, Hassan, O, Mkindi, CG, Rwezaula, S, Athumani, T, Mswata, S, Lilolime, NS, Simon, B, Msami, H, Mohamed, M, David, DM, Mohammed, L, Nyaulingo, G, Mwalimu, B, Juma, O, Mwamlima, TG, Sasamalo, IA, Mkumbange, RP, Kamage, JJ, Barrett, JR, King, LDW, Hou, MM, Pulido, D, Carnrot, C, Lawrie, AM, Cowan, RE, Nugent, FL, Roberts, R, Cho, J-S, Long, CA, Nielsen, CM, Miura, K, Draper, SJ, Olotu, AI, Minassian, AM

“…</p> <br> <p><strong>Interpretation:</strong> The RH5.1/Matrix-M vaccine candidate shows an acceptable safety and reactogenicity profile in both adults and 5–17-month-old children residing in a malaria-endemic area, with all children in the delayed third dose regimen reaching a level of GIA previously associated with protective outcome against blood-stage P falciparum challenge in non-human primates. …”

Pnictogen-halide semiconductors for photovoltaics by Liu, P

“…This research focuses on caesium antimony-bismuth halides (vacancy-ordered triple perovskites) and silver bismuth halides, both of which have high theoretical optical limits in efficiency (&gt;40%) under 1000 lux white light emitting diode (WLED) illumination, and which are free from elements that are restricted for use in consumer electronics.</p> <p>But reaching the optical limits in efficiency requires long diffusion lengths, and this can be severely limited by carrier-phonon coupling. …”

Data driven and learning based approaches for integrated landside airside operations optimization by Ali, Hasnain

“…Congested airports---acting as bottleneck nodes in global aviation network---have far reaching effects on the entire air transportation system. …”
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Characterisation of transport and thermodynamic properties for various binary electrolytes by Hou, T

“…The conductivity of aqueous KOH solutions reaches the maximum value around 6 M, which is the concentration used for commercial alkaline-battery electrolytes. …”

InAlN/GaN high electron mobility transistors on Si for RF applications by Xing, Weichuan

“…It is manifested by a non-flat transconductance (gm) and fT, fmax versus gate bias (or drain current). After reaching its maximum point, gm or fT, fmax decrease drastically with the increasing gate bias. …”
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Global age-sex-specific mortality, life expectancy, and population estimates in 204 countries and territories and 811 subnational locations, 1950–2021, and the impact of the COVID-... by Schumacher, AE, Kyu, HH, Aali, A, Almidani, O, Bandyopadhyay, S, Basnyat, B, Maude, RJ, Bennett, D, Browne, AJ, Dolecek, C, Dunachie, SJ, Newton, CRJ, Rodriguez, JAB

“…The global population reached 7·89 billion (7·67–8·13) people in 2021, by which time 56 of 204 countries and territories had peaked and subsequently populations have declined. …”