Cryo-electron microscopy structure of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis cytochrome bcc:aa₃ supercomplex and a novel inhibitor targeting subunit cytochrome cI by Mathiyazakan, Vikneswaran, Wong, Chui Fann, Harikishore, Amaravadhi, Pethe, Kevin, Grüber, Gerhard

“…The production and purification of an entire M. tuberculosis cytochrome bcc:aa3 are fundamental for biochemical and structural charac- terization of this supercomplex, paving the way for new inhibitor targets and molecules. …”
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Mechanistic investigation of electrostatic field-enhanced water evaporation by Fei, Jipeng, Ding, Bin, Koh, See Wee, Ge, Junyu, Wang, Xingli, Lee, Liquan, Sun, Zixu, Yao, Mengqi, Chen, Yonghao, Gao, Huajian, Li, Hong

“…Similar to a catalyst lowing activation energy and enhancing kinetics of a chemical reaction, the EEF enhances water state tuning, lowers evaporation enthalpy, and then boosts steam generation rate with negligible additional energy consumption, which can serve as a generic method for water evaporation enhancement in water harvesting, purification, and beyond.…”
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A materials science framework for connecting protein stability with surface adsorption and coating applications by Ma, Gamaliel Junren

“…A further investigation on several commercially available and differently processed BSA proteins revealed that they possessed significantly different conformational stabilities and adsorption behavior, depending on whether or not a purification step which removed fatty acids was performed. …”
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Two models of dark triad traits and self-regulation dilemma predicting IP theft through self-deception by Yeo, Diana Mui Kheng

“…MANOVA and path analysis were used to investigate the model fit of our proposed models on a sample, N=246. Model re-specification was performed, and goodness of fit indices indicated good model fit for both models. …”
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Sensorimotor control of Drosophila copulation by Herbert, MR

“…<p>Dipteran insects show a wide range of species-specific mating postures, and interspecific differences in the postures they adopt may reflect sexual selection acting on these traits. …”

Post-combustion CO2 capture by adsorption processes by Haghpanah, Reza

“…Conventional adsorption processes have been designed and optimized for the purification of the light gas. However, in carbon capture, the challenge is to recover the heavier product, i.e., CO2 in high purity. …”
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High cycle fatigue characterisation and modelling of 316L stainless steel processed by laser powder bed fusion by Zhang, Meng

“…The latter approach allowed the specification of a reduction factor on fatigue life to account for the intrinsic effects of microstructure inhomogeneity, as well as the construction of a modified Basquin equation that incorporates the defect fraction parameter for predicting the effects of lack of fusion defects on the S-N properties. …”
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Structural and functional studies of C-nucleoside formation enzymes by Li, W

“…This enzyme β-RFAPS synthesizes a C-nucleoside utilizing PRPP and an aromatic compound, 4-aminobenzoic acid. During purification of a modified β-RFAPS enzyme and crystal structural analysis indicated the presence of unidentified molecule at the enzyme’s active site. …”

Novel technologies for cell culture and tissue engineering by Ge, C

“…It was primarily focused on making decisions for structure and specification of proposed system-on a chip BIS measurement. …”

Scalable multifunctional MOFs-textiles via diazonium chemistry by Li, Wulong, Yu, Zhen, Zhang, Yaoxin, Lv, Cun, He, Xiaoxiang, Wang, Shuai, Wang, Zhixun, He, Bing, Yuan, Shixing, Xin, Jiwu, Liu, Yanting, Zhou, Tianzhu, Li, Zhanxiong, Tan, Swee Ching, Wei, Lei

“…Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) are ideal candidate materials for such integration, thanks to their unique merits, such as large specific surface area, tunable pore size, and species diversity. …”
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Structural and mechanistic studies of herpes virus proteins by Patel, Vidhi Kanaiyalal

“…Herpes viral proteins have posed several challenges during trials for their expression and purification on a large scale. In this thesis, we try to outline the multi-construct approach that has been successful for human protein expression. …”
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Structure and functions of a metallo-beta-lactamase- like hypothetical protein bleg1_2437 from alkali-tolerant soil bacterium Bacillus lehensis G1 by Tan, Soo Huei

“…This recombinant plasmid was transformed into Escherichia coli Rosetta-gami (DE3) for Bleg1_2437 protein expression and purification. The optimum condition for intracellular expression of Bleg1_2437 was achieved at 20 ºC, with Isopropyl-β-D-Thiogalactopyranoside (IPTG) concentration of 0.1 mM and incubated for 18 hours. …”
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Effective type label-based synergistic representation learning for biomedical event trigger detection by Hao, Anran, Yuan, Haohan, Hui, Siu Cheung, Su, Jian

“…Firstly, the Domain-specific Joint Encoding module employs a transformer-based, domain-specific pre-trained architecture to jointly encode input sentences and pre-defined event type labels. …”
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Improving the productivity of high-level synthesis by advancing reuseability and verifiability by Yang, Liwei

“…Following algorithmic specifications, designers perform architectural specification including hardware/software (HW/SW) partitioning. …”
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Modeling human-like non-rationality in social agents by Kochanowicz, Jaroslaw Slawomir

“…Also, an inclusion of the specific, implicit and internal culture-generating mechanisms and 'System 1' social context processing is postulated as a basis of personality and culture related non-rationality. …”
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Electrospun carbon-silica composite nanofibers for selective removal of oil and water by Tai, Ming Hang

“…There is an increasing demand for cost-effective and efficient oil spill remediation and purification technologies due to the rising public concern over the corresponding environmental impact and the increasingly stringent environmental regulations. …”
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Layer-by-Layer Nanoparticles for Cytokine Delivery by Pires, Ivan S.

“…We also find that we can titrate the polymer amount used to omit time-consuming purification steps. We also find that the LbL film conformation is key to maintaining therapeutic efficacy as thicker films hinder IL-12 delivery. …”
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Exploiting LoRaWAN for efficient and resilient IoT networks by Gu, Chaojie

“…Second, given LoRaWAN's communication throughput limitation due to the narrow bandwidth and low duty cycle defined in LoRaWAN specification, this thesis studies how to efficiently maintain the common notion of time among all LoRaWAN end devices. …”
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Surface engineering to manipulate solar energy for thermal management by Fei, Jipeng

“…The use of sustainable energy sources has risen significantly in recent years due to the tremendous pollution and waste associated with traditional fossil fuels, and the urgent needs of decarbonization. Specifically, solar energy is one of the most important infinite energy resources since it is constantly available to earth in abundance. …”
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Printing of functional materials in 2D and 3D structures by Halevi, Oded

“…Porous materials are being utilized nowadays in many fields such as gas storage and purification, water remediation, filtration, ion-exchange and catalysis. …”
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