Design and Evaluation of an Automatic Scheduling-Manual Operation Tool to Bring Precision Irrigation to Resource-Constrained Farmers by Van de Zande, Georgia D, Sheline, Carolyn, Amrose, Susan, Costello, Jeffrey, Ghodgaonkar, Aditya, Grant, Fiona, Winter, Amos G

“…Through interviews and focus groups facilitated by a series of storyboards and a physical prototype, the proposed concept was evaluated by farmers and key market stakeholders in Kenya, Jordan, and Morocco. …”
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CRISPR-Cas9 knockout screen informs efficient reduction of the Komagataella phaffii secretome by Dalvie, Neil C., Lorgeree, Timothy R., Yang, Yuchen, Rodriguez-Aponte, Sergio A., Whittaker, Charles A., Hinckley, Joshua A., Clark, John J., Del Rosario, Amanda M., Love, Kerry R., Love, J. C.

“…The pooled library of secretome-targeted guides for CRISPR-Cas9 and knowledge of gene essentiality reported here will facilitate future efforts to engineer K. phaffii for production of other recombinant proteins and enzymes.…”
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Positively-Coated Nanofiltration Membranes for Lithium Recovery from Battery Leachates and Salt-Lakes: Ion Transport Fundamentals and Module Performance by Foo, Zi Hao, Liu, Suwei, Kanias, Lucy, Lee, Trent R., Heath, Samuel M., Tomi, Yasuhiro, Miyabe, Tomotsugu, Keten, Sinan, Lueptow, Richard M., Lienhard, John H.

“…Membranes facilitate scalable and continuous lithium concentration from hypersaline salt lakes and battery leachates. …”
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Learning design for short-duration e-textile workshops: outcomes on knowledge and skills by Ioannou, Andri, Miliou, Ourania, Georgiou, Yiannis, Timotheou, Stella, Barkhuus, Louise, Rode, Jennifer

“…We propose that some direct instruction and facilitation is not incompatible with the making ethos; the approach can help address these challenges, allowing young children to benefit from their participation in short-duration e-textile workshops.…”
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Urban street clusters: unraveling the associations of street characteristics on urban vibrancy dynamics in age, time, and day by Jang, Kee M., Suh, Hanew, Haddad, Fadi G., Sun, Maoran, Duarte, Fábio, Kim, Youngchul

“…Recent advancements in urban big data have facilitated the potential to understand and measure vibrancy patterns throughout cities. …”
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Glycophorin C (CD236R) mediates vivax malaria parasite rosetting to normocytes by Malleret, Benoit, Lau, Yee-Ling, Lee, Wenn-Chyau, Mauduit, Marjorie, Fong, Mun-Yik, Cho, Jee Sun, Suwanarusk, Rossarin, Zhang, Rou, Albrecht, Letusa, Costa, Fabio T. M., Preiser, Peter, McGready, Rose, Renia, Laurent, Nosten, Francois, Russell, Bruce

“…Importantly, mature erythrocytes (normocytes) rather than reticulocytes preferentially form rosetting complexes, indicating this process is unlikely to directly facilitate merozoite invasion. While antibodies against host erythrocyte receptors CD235a and CD35 had no effect; Fab against the BRIC 4 region of CD236R significantly inhibited rosette formation. …”
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Novel acetamide indirectly targets mycobacterial transporter MmpL3 by proton motive force disruption by Shetty, Annanya, Xu, Zhujun, Lakshmanan, Umayal, Hill, Jeffrey, Choong, Meng Ling, Chng, Shu-Sin, Yamada, Yoshiyuki, Poulsen, Anders, Dick, Thomas, Gengenbacher, Martin

“…Biochemical analysis using mycobacterial spheroplasts and various membrane assays suggest that E11 indirectly inhibits MmpL3-facilitated translocation of trehalose monomycolates by proton motive force disruption. …”
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3D absorptive frequency-selective reflection and transmission structures with dual absorption bands by Yu, Yufeng, Luo, Guo Qing, Ahmed Abdelmottaleb Omar, Liu, Xuan, Yu, Weiliang, Hao, Zhang Cheng, Shen, Zhongxiang

“…A set of guidelines is proposed to facilitate the design. A prototype of the proposed AFST is fabricated and measured. …”
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Smart grid to energy internet : a systematic review of transitioning electricity systems by Joseph, Akhil, Balachandra, Patil

“…These technologies have achieved a state of evolution to facilitate seamless bidirectional flows in the Energy Internet. …”
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Probing the influence of tether density on tethered bilayer lipid membrane (tBLM)-peptide interactions by Park, Soohyun, Yorulmaz, Saziye Avsar, Cornell, B., Ferhan, Abdul Rahim, Jeon, W. Y., Chung, M., Cho, Nam-Joon

“…Taken together, our work highlights the prospect of modulating membrane-peptide interactions by means of controlling the tBLM architecture, which will facilitate the creation of model membrane systems with highly tailored functionalities.…”
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Membrane cholesterol modulates oligomeric status and peptide-membrane interaction of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus fusion peptide by Meher, Geetanjali, Bhattacharjya, Surajit, Chakraborty, Hirak

“…The fusion peptide alters the membrane organization and dynamics of the host membrane to facilitate membrane fusion. Generally, the effect of the fusion peptide on the membrane is sensitive to the lipid composition of target membranes. …”
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Dual-cross-polarized GPR measurement method for detection and orientation estimation of shallowly buried elongated object by Sun, Hai-Han, Lee, Yee Hui, Luo, Wenhao, Ow, Lai Fern, Mohamed Lokman Mohd Yusof, Yucel, Abdulkadir C.

“…The proposed techniques can be unified in a framework to facilitate the investigation and mapping of shallowly buried and elongated targets.…”
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Oleaginous microalga coccomyxa subellipsoidea as a highly effective cell factory for CO₂ fixation and high-protein biomass production by optimal supply of inorganic carbon and nitr... by Liu, Yu, Wei, Dong, Chen, Weining

“…This study developed a promising approach for enhancing carbon allocation to protein synthesis in oleaginous microalga, facilitating the bioconversion of the fixed carbon into algal protein instead of oil in green manufacturing.…”
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Mercury: an automated remote side-channel attack to Nvidia deep learning accelerator by Yan, Xiaobei, Lou, Xiaoxuan, Xu, Guowen, Qiu, Han, Guo, Shangwei, Chang, Chip Hong, Zhang, Tianwei

“…Such model extraction attacks can not only compromise the intellectual property of DNN models, but also facilitate some adversarial attacks. Although previous works have demonstrated a number of side-channel techniques to extract models from DNN accelerators, they are not practical for two reasons. (1) They only target simplified accelerator implementations, which have limited practicality in the real world. (2) They require heavy human analysis and domain knowledge. …”
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Quantitative evaluation approach for translation of perceptual soundscape attributes: initial application to the Thai language by Watcharasupat, Karn N., Jaratjarungkiat, Sureenate, Lam, Bhan, Jitwiriyanont, Sujinat, Ooi, Kenneth, Ong, Zhen-Ting, Pichetpan, Nitipong, Akaratham, Kanyanut, Suthiwan, Titima, Rojtinnakorn, Monthita, Gan, Woon-Seng

“…Subsequent statistical analysis of the evaluation scores revealed acoustico-psycholinguistic properties of the translation candidates which were not previously identified by the expert panel and facilitated a more objective selection of the final translations for subsequent usage. …”
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A New Variational Method for Bias Correction and Its Applications to Rodent Brain Extraction by Chang, Huibin, Huang, Weimin, Wu, Chunlin, Huang, Su, Guan, Cuntai, Sekar, Sakthivel, Bhakoo, Kishore Kumar, Duan, Yuping

“…With the high accuracy and efficiency, our proposed method can facilitate automatic processing of large-scale brain studies.…”
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Global signal of top-down control of terrestrial plant communities by herbivores by Jia, Shihong, Wang, Xugao, Yuan, Zuoqiang, Lin, Fei, Ye, Ji, Hao, Zhanqing, Luskin, Matthew Scott

“…We suggest that including herbivore densities as a covariate in future exclosure studies will facilitate the discovery of unresolved macroecology trends in the strength of herbivore–plant interactions.…”
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Matrix polysaccharides and SiaD diguanylate cyclase alter community structure and competitiveness of Pseudomonas aeruginosa during dual-species biofilm development with Staphylococ... by Chew, Su Chuen, Yam, Joey Kuok Hoong, Matysik, Artur, Seng, Zi Jing, Klebensberger, Janosch, Givskov, Michael, Doyle, Patrick, Rice, Scott A., Yang, Liang, Kjelleberg, Staffan

“…In contrast to the effect mediated by Psl, Pel reduced the effective crosslinking of the biofilm matrix and facilitated superdiffusivity in microcolony regions. …”
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Inhaled nanomaterials and the respiratory microbiome : clinical, immunological and toxicological perspectives by Nur A’tikah Binte Mohamed Ali, Mustafa Hussain Kathawala, Poh, Tuang Yeow, Mac Aogáin, Micheál, Setyawati, Magdiel Inggrid, Ng, Kee Woei, Chotirmall, Sanjay Haresh

“…While associations between inhaled ambient ultrafine particles and host immune-inflammatory response are known, the airway and environmental microbiomes likely act as intermediaries and facilitate individual susceptibility to inhaled nanoparticles and toxicants. …”
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Overcoming barriers to cross-sector collaboration in circular supply chain management: a multi-method approach by Luthra, Sunil, Sharma, Manu, Kumar, Anil, Joshi, Sudhanshu, Collins, Eva, Mangla, Sachin

“…There is a need to enhance the capacity and optimum resource utilisation for developing circular supply chains; it is possible to facilitate CSCM practices only through collaborative efforts across sectors. …”
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