Leech blood‐meal invertebrate‐derived DNA reveals differences in Bornean mammal diversity across habitats by Drinkwater, Rosie, Jucker, Tommaso, Potter, Joshua H. T., Swinfield, Tom, Coomes, David A., Slade, Eleanor M., Gilbert, M. Thomas P., Lewis, Owen T., Bernard, Henry, Struebig, Matthew J., Clare, Elizabeth L., Rossiter, Stephen J.

“…We screened 557 individual leeches for mammal DNA by targeting fragments of the 16S rRNA gene and detected 14 mammalian genera. …”
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Renal-clearable molecular probe for near-infrared fluorescence imaging and urinalysis of SARS-CoV-2 by Liew, Si Si, Zeng, Ziling, Cheng, Penghui, He, Shasha, Zhang, Chi, Pu, Kanyi

“…The peptide substrate of SARS-CyCD can be specifically cleaved by SARS-CoV-2 main protease (Mpro), resulting in NIRF signal activation and liberation of the renal-clearable fluorescent fragment (CyCD). Such a design not only allows sensitive detection of Mpro in the lungs of living mice after intratracheal administration but also permits optical urinalysis of SARS-CoV-2 infection. …”
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Characterization of the biosynthetic gene cluster and shunt products yields insights into the biosynthesis of balmoralmycin by Ma, Guang-Lei, Xin, Lingyi, Liao, Yanghui, Chong, Zhi-Soon, Candra, Hartono, Pang, Li Mei, Lee, Sean Qiu En, Gakuubi, Martin Muthee, Ng, Siew Bee, Liang, Zhao-Xun

“…Four of the coproducts (compounds 528) are novel compounds that feature a highly oxygenated or fragmented lactone ring, and three of them (compounds 325) exhibited cytotoxicity against the human pancreatic cancer cell line MIA PaCa-2 with IC50 values ranging from 0.9 to 1.2 mg/mL. …”
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Enhancing Landsat image based aboveground biomass estimation of black locust with scale bias-corrected LiDAR AGB map and stratified sampling by Qin, Shuhong, Wang, Hong, Li, Xiuneng, Gao, Jay, Jin, Jiaxin, Li, Yongtao, Lu, Jinbo, Meng, Pengyu, Sun, Jing, Song, Zhenglin, Donev, Petar, Ma, Zhangfeng

“…In summary, our study provides a framework to harmonize near-surface LiDAR and satellite data for AGB estimation in plantation forest ecosystems with small patch sizes and fragmented distribution.…”
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Direct tensile test on brittle rocks with the newly developed centering apparatus by Zhang, Qiangyong, Duan, Kang, Xiang, Wen, Yuan, Shengbo, Jiao, Yu-Yong

“…Fresh fractures without accumulation of rock fragments can be observed and characterized as tensile brittle failure. …”
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A Design Space for Intelligent and Interactive Writing Assistants by Lee, Mina, Gero, Katy Ilonka, Chung, John Joon Young, Shum, Simon Buckingham, Raheja, Vipul, Shen, Hua, Venugopalan, Subhashini, Wambsganss, Thiemo, Zhou, David, Alghamdi, Emad A., August, Tal, Bhat, Avinash, Choksi, Madiha Zahrah, Dutta, Senjuti, Guo, Jin L.C., Hoque, Md Naimul, Kim, Yewon, Knight, Simon, Neshaei, Seyed Parsa, Shibani, Antonette, Shrivastava, Disha, Shroff, Lila, Sergeyuk, Agnia, Stark, Jessi, Sterman, Sarah, Wang, Sitong, Bosselut, Antoine, Buschek, Daniel, Chang, Joseph Chee, Chen, Sherol, Kreminski, Max, Park, Joonsuk, Pea, Roy, Rho, Eugenia Ha Rim, Shen, Zejiang, Siangliulue, Pao

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Mechanical properties and cracking behaviour of marble and moulded gypsum under high strain rates by Zou, Chunjiang

“…Different levels of fragments are induced by various strain rates. In addition, a numerical analysis using AUTODYN taking into account the loading rate and the strain-rate dependent model is also performed. …”
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ST-18AB Influence of rubber content of concrete on local impact damage by Sia, Grace Xing Rong

“…To address the large drop in the overall capacity of structures caused by fragment impacts during crater formation, a study is conducted which aims at investigating the effect of two different types of crumb rubber – running track rubber (SBR) and rubber tyre in concrete for the enhancement of concrete’s energy absorption abilities against dynamic impact. …”
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Joyce's Blake: troubling idealism by Harder, M

“…During Joyce’s life, the body of Blake’s available work was fragmented and of variable quality. Investigation of Joyce’s interest in Blake requires attention to a contested and unstable textual entity.…”

Structure of a fully assembled γδ T-cell antigen receptor by Gully, BS, Ferreira Fernandes, J, Gunasinghe, SD, Vuong, MT, Lui, Y, Rice, MT, Rashleigh, L, Lay, C-S, Littler, DR, Sharma, S, Santos, AM, Venugopal, H, Rossjohn, J, Davis, SJ

“…Here, we used cryogenic electron microscopy to determine the structure of a fully-assembled, MR1-reactive human Vδ3Vγ8 TCR/CD3δγε₂ζ₂ complex bound by anti-CD3ε antibody Fab fragments^4,5. The arrangement of CD3 subunits in γδ and αβ TCRs is conserved and, although the transmembrane α-helices of the TCR-γδ and -αβ subunits differ markedly in sequence, the packing of the eight transmembrane-helix bundles is similar⁶. …”

Identification and validation of novel breed-specific biomarker for the purpose of village chicken authentication using genomics approaches by Nematbakhsh, Sara, Pei, Chong Pei, Nordin, Noordiana, Selamat, Jinap, Idris, Lokman Hakim, Abdull Razis, Ahmad Faizal

“…This study aims to investigate the genetic diversity of village chickens from other commercial chicken breed populations available in the market (broiler [Cobb], colored broiler [Hubbard], and layer [DeKalb]) to identify breed-specific DNA fragments as biomarkers for village chicken authentication. …”
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Rewilding in Southeast Asia: Singapore as a case study by Lamperty, Therese, Chiok, Wen Xuan, Khoo, Max D. Y., Amir, Zachary, Baker, Nick, Chua, Marcus A. H., Chung, Yi Fei, Chua, Yen Kheng, Koh, Joshua J.-M, Lee, Benjamin P. Y.-H., Lum, Shawn K. Y., Mendes, Calebe P., Ngiam, Jonathan, O Dempsey A., Png, Kenny G. C., Sovie, Adia R., Tan, Lorraine, Teo, Robert, Thomas, Noel, Li, Tianjiao, Lim, Bryan Tze-Ming, Loo, Adrian H. B., Wardle, David A., Luskin, Matthew Scott

“…Sambar deer (Rusa unicolor) escaped from captivity (in private or public zoos) in the 1970s and contemporary camera trap data show they have only colonized nearby forest fragments and their abundance remains low. Wild pigs (Sus scrofa), in contrast, naturally recolonized by swimming from Malaysia in the 1990s and have rapidly expanded their range and abundance across Singapore. …”
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Outer-membrane permeabilization, LPS transport inhibition: activity, interactions, and structures of thanatin derived antimicrobial peptides by Swaleeha Jaan Abdullah, Yan, Bernice Tan Siu, Palanivelu, Nithya, Dhanabal, Vidhya Bharathi, Bifani, Juan Pablo, Bhattacharjya, Surajit

“…Here, we have utilized N-terminal truncated 16- and 14-residue peptide fragments of thanatin and investigated structure, activity, and selectivity with correlating modes of action. …”
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Transfusion-transmitted severe Plasmodium knowlesi malaria in a splenectomized patient with beta-thalassaemia major in Sabah, Malaysia: a case report by Bird, Elspeth M., Parameswaran, Uma, William, Timothy, Khoo, Tien Meng, Grigg, Matthew J., Aziz, Ammar, Marfurt, Jutta, Yeo, Tsin Wen, Auburn, Sarah, Anstey, Nicholas M., Barber, Bridget E.

“…Sequencing of a highly diverse 649-base pair fragment of the P. knowlesi bifunctional dihydrofolate reductase-thymidylate synthase gene (pkdhfr) revealed that the recipient and donor shared the same haplotype. …”
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Gas-phase and solid-state electronic structure analysis and DFT benchmarking of HfCO by Ariyarathna, Isuru R., Cho, Yeongsu, Duan, Chenru, Kulik, Heather J.

“…The 3Σ− ground state of HfCO has an 1σ22σ21π2 electron configuration and a ∼30 kcal mol−1 dissociation energy with respect to its lowest-energy fragments Hf(3F) + CO(X1Σ+). We further evaluated the De of its isovalent HfCX (X = S, Se, Te, Po) series and observed that they increase linearly from the lighter HfCO to the heavier HfCPo with the dipole moment of the CX ligand. …”
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Envisioning Water: Sustainability and Future-Making in Dubai and Los Angeles by Christidi, Nadia

“…As such, I show, for instance, how Dubai’s highly centralized governance structure and foreign-investment development model produce an emphasis on sustainability’s enhancement of the city-state’s competitiveness agenda that can belie larger eco-realities, while LA’s fragmented institutional, regulatory, and financing scapes complicate collaboration on recycling projects which span across and exceed individual institutional mandates. …”
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Mechanisms and Implementation of Thermo-Optical Annealing in Silica Fiber Sensors for Radiation-Induced Attenuation Mitigation by Legoupil, Aurelien Y. M.

“…The decomposition of RIA into different defect contributions is supported by cold post-irradiation electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) spectroscopy of fiber preform fragments, which reveals the presence of two types of paramagnetic centers: self-trapped holes and E'_gamma centers. …”
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From Shipyard to Sea: A Flexible System Design Approach to the Transition from Shipbuilding to Operations A Case Study Using the United States Coast Guard Offshore Patrol Cutter P... by Kime, Jeremy A.

“…This paves the way for a paradigm shift from fixed to flexible approaches, replacing fragmented, ad hoc approaches with a flexible system architecture capable of continuous enterprise learning and improvement. …”
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Biological evaluation of synthetic aminoglycans as potential antimicrobial and protein delivery agents by Zhang, Xiaolin

“…GlcNAc-anhMurNAc-P are natural PG fragments without lipid chains, chosen as potential substrates of TGase in this study. …”
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Functional characterization of plasmodium falciparum reticulocyte binding like protein homologue 1 (PfRH1) by Yap, Sally Shu Lin

“…Co-presence of PfNBR and EBD in the same processed fragment of PfRH1 implies a close working relationship between these two domains. …”
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