The relation of nasopharyngeal colonization by Streptococcus pneumoniae in comorbid adults with unfavorable outcomes in a low-middle income country by Olivella-Gomez, J, Lozada, J, Serrano-Mayorga, CC, Méndez-Castillo, L, Acosta-González, A, Viñán Garcés, AE, Bustos, IG, Ibáñez-Prada, ED, Fuentes, YV, Crispin, AM, Garcia-Garcia, EY, Santana, E, Josa, DF, Pulido Saenz, J, Rodíguez-Castaño, GP, Rodríguez Orjuela, JA, Jaimes, D, Tettelin, H, Orihuela, CJ, Reyes, LF

“…Data on demographics, vaccination, and clinical history was collected in a RedCap database. Nasopharyngeal aspirate samples were examined for Spn colonization using traditional cultures and quantitative—real time polymerase chain reaction (q-rtPCR). …”

Experimental investigation of glass fibre-reinforced polymer (GFRP) when subjected to low and high velocity impact events by Razali, Noorshazlin

“…Meanwhile, the low velocity impact test is performed using an IM10 Drop Weight Impact Tester with a 10 mm hemispherical striker cap. The impact energy is set to 14, 28, 42 and 56 Joule with a velocity ranging from 1.73 m/s to 3.52 m/s for 10 layer specimens and 7, 14, 21, 28, 35, 42, 49 and 56 Joule for 12 layer and 14 layer specimens. …”
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Improving the speed of variational quantum algorithms for quantum error correction by Zoratti, Fabio, De Palma, Giacomo, Kiani, Bobak, Nguyen, Quynh T., Marvian, Milad, Lloyd, Seth, Giovannetti, Vittorio

“…At variance with other quantum distances typically adopted in quantum information processing, QW1 lacks the unitary invariance property which makes it a suitable tool to avoid getting trapped in local minima. Focusing on a simple noise model for which an exact QEC solution is known and can be used as a theoretical benchmark, we run a series of numerical tests that show how, guiding the VQA search through the QW1, can indeed significantly increase both the probability of a successful training and the fidelity of the recovered state, with respect to the results one obtains when using conventional approaches.…”
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Assistance of inertial microfluidics in membrane-based microfiltration by Zhang, Boran, Zhao, Wenhan, Wang, Ziyu, Zhao, Qianbin, Wu, Wenshuai

“…The secondary vortex can help to trap microparticles suspended, and also help to flush the settled ones. …”
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Origin of Photocarrier Losses in Iron Pyrite (FeS2) Nanocubes by Shukla, Sudhanshu, Xing, Guichuan, Ge, Hu, Prabhakar, Rajiv Ramanujam, Mathew, Sinu, Su, Zhenghua, Nalla, Venkatram, Venkatesan, Thirumalai, Mathews, Nripan, Sritharan, Thirumany, Sum, Tze Chien, Xiong, Qihua

“…We found that fast carrier localization of photoexcited carriers to indirect band edge and shallow trap states is responsible for major carrier loss. …”
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PMOSFET PBTI (positive-bias temperature instability) measurement using ultra-fast switching method by Huang, Baoqiang.

“…The topics included PBTI and NBTI phenomena, interface traps and oxide charges, reaction and diffusion(R-D) model, hydrogen effect and nitrogen effect. …”
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Studies of injectable in situ depot-forming systems for drug delivery by Liu, Hui

“…Polymer solution undergoes phase inversion when injected into an aqueous solution and forms depots in situ, with the drug trapped inside released over time. Several parameters were studied to understand their effects on the drug release dynamics, including polymer hydrophobicity and Mw, drug type and solvent type. …”
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Distributed quantum computing across an optical network link by Main, D, Drmota, P, Nadlinger, DP, Ainley, EM, Agrawal, A, Nichol, BC, Srinivas, R, Araneda, G, Lucas, DM

“…Here we experimentally demonstrate the distribution of quantum computations between two photonically interconnected trapped-ion modules. The modules, separated by about two metres, each contain dedicated network and circuit qubits. …”

Tysnd1 deficiency in mice interferes with the peroxisomal localization of PTS2 enzymes, causing lipid metabolic abnormalities and male infertility by Kurochkin, Igor V., Alkuraya, Fowzan S., Iwasa, Hiroyasu, Akita, Masumi, Tsukui, Tohru, Ito, Chizuru, Shimozawa, Nobuyuki, Iseki, Mioko, Mizuno, Yumi, Ninomiya, Yuichi, Nakachi, Yutaka, Toshimori, Kiyotaka, Nishimukai, Megumi, Hara, Hiroshi, Maeba, Ryouta, Okazaki, Tomoki, Alodaib, Ali Nasser Ali, Amoudi, Mohammed Al, Jacob, Minnie, Horai, Yasushi, Watanabe, Mitsuhiro, Motegi, Hiromi, Wakana, Shigeharu, Noda, Tetsuo, Mizuno, Yosuke, Schönbach, Christian, Okazaki, Yasushi

“…Male Tysnd1-/- mice are infertile, and the epididymal sperms lack the acrosomal cap. These phenotypic features are most likely the result of changes in the molecular species composition of choline and ethanolamine plasmalogens. …”
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Hodge theory and its applications to molecular data analysis by Koh, Ronald Joon Wei

“…There are many levels of organizations of the genome, its most basic unit, the nucleosome, which consists of DNA wrapped around histone proteins. Some of the higher levels of organization include tetranucleosomes, which consists of several nucleosomes, and topological associating domains (TADs), which are regions in the genome that self-interact more frequently with themselves compared to outside the TAD. …”
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Comparison and modeling of leachate transportation dominated by the field permeability with an anisotropic characteristic based on a large-scale field trial study by Yin, Ke, Chan, Wei Ping, Dou, Xiaomin, Lisak, Grzegorz, Chang, Victor Wei-Chung

“…also demonstrated an anisotropic characteristic associated with fingered flows, trapped bubbles and heterogeneous consolidation/cementation efficiencies. …”
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Halide perovskite-based indoor photovoltaics: recent development and challenges by Bening Tirta Muhammad, Kar, Shaoni, Stephen, Meera, Leong, Wei Lin

“…Thanks to tremendous efforts on defect reduction and interfacial engineering in the field of PSCs, the strategies can be directly applied to low light intensity indoor settings where defect and trap states are very detrimental to device performance. …”
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2023 roadmap for materials for quantum technologies by Becher, Christoph, Gao, Weibo, Kar, Swastik, Marciniak, Christian D., Monz, Thomas, Bartholomew, John G., Goldner, Philippe, Loh, Huanqian, Marcellina, Elizabeth, Goh, Johnson Kuan Eng, Koh, Teck Seng, Weber, Bent, Mu, Zhao, Tsai, Jeng-Yuan, Yan, Qimin, Huber-Loyola, Tobias, Höfling, Sven, Gyger, Samuel, Steinhauer, Stephan, Zwiller, Val

“…These include both the inherent quantum bit systems and materials playing supportive or enabling roles, and cover trapped ions, neutral atom arrays, rare earth ion systems, donors in silicon, color centers and defects in wide-band gap materials, two-dimensional materials and superconducting materials for single-photon detectors. …”
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Structural elucidation of estrus urinary lipocalin protein (EULP) and evaluating binding affinity with pheromones using molecular docking and fluorescence study by Rajesh, Durairaj, Muthukumar, Subramanian, Saibaba, Ganesan, Siva, Durairaj, Akbarsha, Mohammad Abdulkader, Gulyás, Balázs, Padmanabhan, Parasuraman, Archunan, Govindaraju

“…The present study provides impetus to create a point mutation for increasing longevity of EULP to develop pheromone trap for rodent pest management.…”
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Petrogenesis of the Deccan high-Mg basalts and picrites by Chatterjee, Nilanjan

“…Tholeiitic basalts and picrites from the Deccan Traps were used to constrain the pressure and temperature conditions of mantle melting for their origin. …”
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Jetting of viscous droplets from cavitation-induced Rayleigh-Taylor instability by Zeng, Qingyun, Gonzalez-Avila, Silvestre Roberto, Voorde, Sophie Ten, Ohl, Claus-Dieter

“…Experiments are carried out by levitating the droplet in an acoustic trap and generating a laser-induced cavitation bubble near the centre of the droplet. …”
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‘You could start a new country, but you would need to discover new land’: exploring understandings of statehood with primary school pupils in England by Saddington, L, McConnell, FR

“…While scholarship within political geography has long sought to challenge the ‘territorial trap’ which underpins these approaches, and there is increasing awareness and prominence of children's political geography within the subdiscipline, little attention has focused on how children themselves conceptualise and think about the state. …”

Neotropical mammal responses to megafires in the Brazilian Pantanal by Bardales, R, Boron, V, Viana, DFP, Sousa, LL, Droge, E, Porfirio, G, Jaramillo, M, Payan, E, Sillero-Zubiri, C, Hyde, M

“…We investigated changes in habitat use or occupancy for an assemblage of eight mammal species in Serra do Amolar, Brazil, following the 2020 fires using a pre- and post-fire camera trap dataset. Additionally, we estimated the density for two naturally marked species, jaguars Panthera onca and ocelots Leopardus pardalis. …”

The afterlife of site-specific sculpture: a self-referential study through practice by Kim, M

“…The research not only resonates with its own development, but reveals the invisible boundaries of site-specific practice that constitute what might be termed the trap of art.</p>…”

Automatic paddy planthopper detection and counting using faster R-CNN by Khairunniza-Bejo, Siti, Ibrahim, Mohd Firdaus, Hanafi, Marsyita, Jahari, Mahirah, Ahmad Saad, Fathinul Syahir, Mhd Bookeri, Mohammad Aufa

“…It utilises annotated datasets obtained from sticky light traps, comprising 1654 images across four distinct classes of planthoppers and one class of benign insects. …”
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