Extraordinary catalysis induced by titanium foil cathode plasma for degradation of water pollutant by Li, Chaojiang, Rao, Yuhan, Zhang, Bowei, Huang, Kang, Cao, Xun, Peng, Dongdong, Wu, Junsheng, Xiao, Longqiang, Huang, Yizhong

“…It was found that the degradation rates are dependent on the electrical conduction of metal cathodes. …”
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Metacognitive bias resulting from trade-off between local and global motion signals by Lee, Alan L. F., Yabuki, Hana, Lee, Isaac C. L., Or, Charles C.-F.

“…Specifically, participants systematically gave higher confidence ratings to an incoherent pattern with clear elements (i.e., strong local but weak global signals) than a coherent pattern with noisy elements (i.e., weak local but strong global signals). …”
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Physics-informed neural network for fast prediction of temperature distributions in cancerous breasts as a potential efficient portable AI-based diagnostic tool by Mukhmetov, Olzhas, Zhao, Yong, Mashekova, Aigerim, Zarikas, Vasilios, Ng, Eddie Yin Kwee, Aidossov, Nurduman

“…These findings hold promise for the ongoing development of a new portable Artificial Intelligence (AI) tool for the early detection of breast cancer in breast self-examination as promoted by WHO, which is crucial for reducing mortality rates of breast cancer in the world.…”
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Synthesis of uniform Fe2O3@Y2O3 yolk−shell nanoreactors as chemical looping oxygen carriers by Fan, Qianwenhao, Tan, Mingwu, Yao, Bingqing, Saqline, Syed, Tao, Longgang, He, Qian, Liu, Wen

“…With rational structure optimization, the Fe2O3@Y2O3 oxygen carriers with porous shell could enhance the mass transfer across the shell and enable higher reaction rates. The satisfactory sintering resistance of the Fe2O3@Y2O3 nanostructure demonstrates the feasibility of employing well defined yolk–shell structured oxygen carriers for chemical looping applications.…”
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DEM study of the size-induced segregation dynamics of a ternary-size granular mixture in the rolling-regime rotating drum by Yang, Shiliang, Zhang, Liangqi, Luo, Kun, Chew, Jia Wei

“…Compared to the binary-size mixture, the presence of the medium particles leads to (i) higher purity of small particles in the innermost of the radial core, causing a decrease of the translational velocity of small particles; (ii) decrease and increase of the collision forces exerted on, respectively, the large and small particles in both regions; and (iii) increase in the relative ratio of the active-passive exchange rates of small to large particles. The results obtained in the current study therefore provide valuable insights regarding the size-segregation dynamics of granular mixtures with constituents of different sizes.…”
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p27 is regulated independently of Skp2 in the absence of Cdk2 by Kaldis, Philipp, Kotoshiba, Shuhei, Gopinathan, Lakshmi, Pfeiffenberger, Elisabeth, Rahim, Anisa, Vardy, Leah Karen Anne, Nakayama, Keiko, Nakayama, Keiichi I.

“…Unexpectedly, fibroblasts generated from Cdk2−/−Skp2−/− double knockout mice proliferated at normal rates. The increased stability of p27 observed in Skp2−/− MEFs was not observed in Cdk2−/−Skp2−/− double knockout fibroblasts indicating that in the absence of Cdk2, p27 is regulated by Skp2-independent mechanisms. …”
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A dual-functional benzobisthiadiazole derivative as an effective theranostic agent for near-infrared photoacoustic imaging and photothermal therapy by Huang, Shuo, Upputuri, Paul Kumar, Liu, Hui, Pramanik, Manojit, Wang, Mingfeng

“…However, these physically mixed two agents may slowly dissociate from the carrier at different rates during the circulation in blood, leading to quite different biodistribution and pharmacokinetics. …”
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“It is a kind of freedom that entrepreneurship provides you”: Female Recipient Remittance Recipients’ entrepreneurship journey in Nepal by Dhakal Adhikari, Shovita, Basnet, Subuna

“…This demonstrates the need for support from the community, family (e.g., household chores, childcare), and institutional support (e.g., access to loans/lower interest rates, training, and reintegration into society/jobs).…”
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Seroprevalence of antibodies to hepatitis E virus in the normal blood donor population and two aboriginal communities in Malaysia by Seow, Heng-Fong, Bali Mahomed, Nizam Malik, Mak, Joon-Wah, Riddell, Michaela A., Li, Fan, Anderson, David A.

“…The high prevalence of antibodies to HEV in the two aboriginal communities indicates that this group of people are at high risk of exposure to HEV compared to the general blood donors, and the results suggest that studies of HEV seroprevalence within countries must take into account the possibility of widely varying infection rates between populations with marked differences in living conditions.…”
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Prioritising conservation areas in Southeast Asia: highlighting zoological biodiversity hotspots and assessing spatiotemporal patterns of the felids guild by Chiaverini, L

“…Biodiversity is declining globally, at rates comparable with the five previous mass extinctions of Earth’s history. …”

Modeling mass removal and sediment deposition in stormwater ponds using floating treatment islands: a computational approach by Xavier, Manoel L. M., Janzen, Johannes G., Nepf, Heidi

“…Notably, FTIs enhance mass removal compared to the control case, with larger sediment particles exhibiting higher removal rates. The correlation between the short-circuit index and sedimentation in FTI ponds highlights the potential of FTIs as indicators of treatment efficiency. …”
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Search for Gravitational Waves Associated with Fast Radio Bursts Detected by CHIME/FRB during the LIGO–Virgo Observing Run O3a

“…Assessing the volumetric event rates of both FRB and binary mergers, an association is limited to 15% of the FRB population for BNS mergers or 1% for NSBH mergers. …”
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Searches for Gravitational Waves from Known Pulsars at Two Harmonics in the Second and Third LIGO-Virgo Observing Runs by Sudhir, Vivishek

“…Of the pulsars studied, 23 have strain amplitudes that are lower than the limits calculated from their electromagnetically measured spin-down rates. These pulsars include the millisecond pulsars J0437−4715 and J0711−6830, which have spin-down ratios of 0.87 and 0.57, respectively. …”
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Assessing Early Stage Design Sketches and Reflections on Prototyping by Das, Madhurima, Yang, Maria C

“…This study also finds a link between the frequency of sketching and higher maximum sketch quality scores (i.e., at least one highly rated sketch) as well as a correlation between individuals’ maximum sketch quality scores and overall design outcomes. …”
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Time2Stop: Adaptive and Explainable Human-AI Loop for Smartphone Overuse Intervention by Orzikulova, Adiba, Xiao, Han, Li, Zhipeng, Yan, Yukang, Wang, Yuntao, Shi, Yuanchun, Ghassemi, Marzyeh, Lee, Sung-Ju, Dey, Anind K, Xu, Xuhai

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Design of a long-term memory genetic toggle switch inspired by chromatin modification circuits by Kwon, Ukjin, Huang, Hsin-Ho, Vecchio, Domitilla Del

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Burning structures and propagation mechanisms of nanothermites by Kim, Suyong, Johns, Averitt A, Wen, John Z, Deng, Sili

“…This experimental work reveals that the burning propagation mechanism of nanothermite films is governed by active burning propagation in both tangential and normal directions of the propagation front. Although the rates of these two modes are on the same order of magnitude, the tangential propagation of active burning is slightly faster, implying that pre-ignition sites are readily ignited with lower ignition energy.…”
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Gender differences in the user satisfaction and service quality improvement priority of public transit bus system in Porto Alegre and Fortaleza, Brazil by Zheng, Yunhan, Kong, Hui, Petzhold, Guillermo, Barcelos, Mariana M, Zegras, Christopher P, Zhao, Jinhua

“…In this study, we use the QualiÔnibus rider satisfaction survey data in two Brazilian cities: Porto Alegre and Fortaleza, to examine the differences between male and female in their ratings of various transit service attributes, and their perceptions of the relative importance of different service attributes on riders’ overall satisfaction, and based on which detect the high priority service attributes to act on for each gender. …”
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User satisfaction and service quality improvement priority of bus rapid transit in Belo Horizonte, Brazil by Zheng, Yunhan, Kong, Hui, Petzhold, Guillermo, Barcelos, Mariana M, Zegras, Christopher P, Zhao, Jinhua

“…A combination of the ordinal logit regression (OLR) approach and random forest (RF) approach is adopted, which enables a nonlinear relationship between service attributes and rider satisfaction, considers the impact effect size in determining the importance of service attributes, and captures the attitudinal randomness of different riders when rating their satisfaction. Our results show that “expenses with public transport” (i.e. fares) should be addressed first among all the attributes, and the improvement priorities of “speed”, “reliability” and “customer service” increased after the BRT opening. …”
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Tectonics of the semi-permanent: Reassembling fit-out architecture by Schnitzler, Jenna

“…He details how the parts of buildings lose value at different rates—as they physically deteriorate, materials wear and things fall out of style, but even more quickly, he notes, do our structures become economically obsolete. …”
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