Microorganisms meet solid minerals: interactions and biotechnological applications by Kumar, Amit, Cao, Bin, Ng, Daphne Hui Ping

“…In this mini-review, we provide a summary of several key mechanisms involved in microorganism-mineral interactions, including the following: (i) solid minerals serve as substrata for biofilm development; (ii) solid minerals serve as an electron source or sink for microbial respiration; (iii) solid minerals provide microorganisms with macro or micronutrients for cell growth; and (iv) (semi)conductive solid minerals serve as extracellular electron conduits facilitating cell-to-cell interactions. We also highlight recent developments in harnessing microbe-mineral interactions for biotechnological applications.…”
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Applying artificial intelligence in healthcare: lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic by Balasubramanian, Sreejith, Shukla, Vinaya, Islam, Nazrul, Upadhyay, Arvind, Duong, Linh

“…Our findings are relevant beyond the pandemic in facilitating the development of AI-related policy interventions and support mechanisms for building resilient healthcare sector that can withstand future challenges.…”
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Social media use and cross-cultural adaptation of Chinese students overseas: a systematic review by Bi, Shanshan, Abdul Latiff Ahmad, Jamaluddin Aziz

“…Besides, these studies largely proved the positive role of social media in facilitating the attainment of social capital and enhancing psychological well-being among Chinese overseas students. …”
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Bridging perceptual gaps: designers vs. non-designers in urban wayfinding signage preferences by Zhou, Jialu, Ujang, Norsidah, Abd Manan, Mohd Shahrudin, Abdul Aziz, Faziawati

“…Understanding these perceptual differences is crucial in developing design strategies that balance functionality, esthetics, and sustainability, thereby facilitating the sustainable integration of signage into urban landscapes.…”
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Comprehensive Analysis of Insulator Performance in High Voltage Transmission Systems: Implications for Efficient Power Transfer by Ahsan, Matiullah, Bahrom, Md Nor Ramdon, Zainal, Zainab, Mohd Ariffin, Azrul, Muhammad Saufi, Muhammad Saufi, Mohd Yousof, Mohd Fairouz, Zambri, Nor Aira, Mustafa, Farahiyah, Mohd Noh, Faridah Hanim, Ab Ghafar, Aimi Syammi, Ahmed, Mehmood

“…This research article examines the performance of insulators in high-voltage transmission systems, specifically focusing on their role in facilitating efficient power transfer along transmission lines. …”
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Zakat Online Campaign Using Creative Animation on Social Media Networks: Youths Acceptance (S//O: 14591) by Mohd Suki, Norbayah, Mohd Suki, Norazah, Shokri, Muhammad Faiz Hussin

“…Minimal research has been investigated on users behavioural intention and actual usage of creative animation in innovating zakat online campaign on social media networks in Kedah to promote the zakat awareness, particularly from the performance expectancy, effort expectancy, social influence, and facilitating conditions aspects. Muslims are obliged to make a contribution towards the less fortunate through zakat as a means for wealth distributions. …”
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Intervention strategies to enhance food safety certification adoption among farmers in Malaysia: A system dynamics approach by Mohd Shahir, Omar, Cheng, Jack Kie, Ahmad Afif, Ahmarofi, Muhammad Fakhrul, Yusuf

“…The findings of this research will offer significant insights to stakeholders, facilitating the improvement of current policy strategies to effectively encourage the adoption of food safety certification among farmers in Malaysia.…”
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A review: PTSD in pre-existing medical condition on social media by Al Hassan Ayon, Zaber, Nur Hafieza, Ismail, Nur Shazwani, Kamarudin

“…Furthermore, the role of online support communities in shaping coping strategies and facilitating early interventions is highlighted. This review underscores the necessity of incorporating considerations of pre-existing medical conditions in PTSD research and treatment, emphasizing social media's potential as a monitoring and support tool for vulnerable groups. …”
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Variable-Inverter-Rectifier-Transformer: A Hybrid Electronic and Magnetic Structure Enabling Adjustable High Step-Down Conversion Ratios by Moon, Intae, Ranjram, Mike Kavian, Perreault, David J

“…This functionality is valuable in converters with wide operating voltage ranges and high step-up/down, as it offers a means to reduce copper loss within the transformer while also facilitating voltage doubling and quadrupling. We introduce the principle of operation of the structure and present models for its magnetic and electrical behaviour. …”
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"How fancy you are to make us use your fancy tool": Coordinating Individuals' Tool Preference over Group Boundaries by Zhang, Qianqia (Queenie), Park, Soya, Muller, Michael, Karger, David R.

“…To address these challenges, we developed a platform facilitating sensemaking and decision-making without necessitating compromises on tool preferences. …”
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Controlling Electrolyte Properties and Redox Reactions Using Solvation and Implications in Battery Functions: A Mini‐Review by Leverick, Graham, Shao‐Horn, Yang

“…Through the intermolecular interactions among solvent, additives, and ions, the reactivity of electrolyte species can be altered significantly by either enhancing solvent (electro)chemical stability or facilitating water deprotonation in Li–O<jats:sub>2</jats:sub> reactions. …”
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Fast-Forward Reality: Authoring Error-Free Context-Aware Policies with Real-Time Unit Tests in Extended Reality by Qian, Xun, Wang, Tianyi, Xu, Xuhai, Jonker, Tanya R., Todi, Kashyap

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Estimation of Significant Wave Height Using Wave-Radar Images by Lee, Jae-Hoon, Nam, Yoon-Seo, Lee, Jaehak, Liu, Yuming, Kim, Yonghwan

“…The enhanced algorithm is complementarily integrated with fast Fourier transform (FFT)-based spectral analysis, facilitating the determination of significant wave height without the necessity for supplementary reference measurements. …”
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Tailoring Metal–Organic Frameworks for Water Harvesting by Oppenheim, Julius Jacob

“…Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) are candidate sorbents for such technologies as a direct result of their inherent chemical modularity – facilitating the use of MOF sorbents to adsorb over a large range of relative humidity (RH). …”
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Developing an Anti-Colonial Practice: Moving from Conversation to Structural and Institutional Change within the Space Community by Harvey, Alvin Donel, Tavares, Frank, Reynolds-Cuéllar, Pedro, Lombardo, Seamus

“…This tension pervades multiple facets of operating within these structures, affecting the conceptualization, planning, facilitation, and reflection of conversations around Indigenous and anti-colonial views on human activity in space. …”
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Flexible Composites with Rare-Earth Element Doped Polycrystalline Particles for Piezoelectric Nanogenerators by Fan, Yanzhe, Jia, Zihan, Zhang, Zhuo, Gu, Shengfei, Du, Wenya, Lin, Dabin

“…Energy harvesting plays an important role in advancing personalized wearables by enabling continuous monitoring, enhancing wearable functionality and facilitating sustainable solutions. We aimed to develop a flexible piezoelectric energy harvesting system based on inorganic piezoelectric materials that convert mechanical energy into electricity to power a wide range of mobile and portable electronic devices. …”
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Cell activation-based screening of natively paired human T cell receptor repertoires by Fahad, Ahmed S, Chung, Cheng Yu, López Acevedo, Sheila N, Boyle, Nicoleen, Madan, Bharat, Gutiérrez-González, Matías F, Matus-Nicodemos, Rodrigo, Laflin, Amy D, Ladi, Rukmini R, Zhou, John, Wolfe, Jacy, Llewellyn-Lacey, Sian, Koup, Richard A, Douek, Daniel C, Balfour, Henry H, Price, David A, DeKosky, Brandon J

“…Our results validated an experimental pipeline that allows large-scale repertoire datasets to be annotated with functional specificity information, facilitating the discovery of therapeutically relevant TCRs.…”
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Tripartite partnership for the transformation of the Singapore maritime industry - Part B : Industry's perspective by Tan, Xian Jun

“…Based on the results from the 3-Phase qualitative analysis process, recommendation will be formulated to outline contributory actions that the industry can take to facilitate the tripartite partnership.…”
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1D to 3D hierarchical iron selenide hollow nanocubes assembled from FeSe2@C core-shell nanorods for advanced sodium ion batteries by Fan, Haosen, Yu, Hong, Zhang, Yufei, Guo, Jing, Wang, Zhen, Wang, Hao, Zhao, Ning, Zheng, Yun, Du, Chengfeng, Dai, Zhengfei, Yan, Qingyu, Xu, Jian

“…Such novel nanorods-based FeSe2@C hollow structures exhibit high conductivity and special structural property which provide good charge transport kinetics by facilitating the charge transfer into the inner of FeSe2 nanorods. …”
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Multiproblem surrogates : transfer evolutionary multiobjective optimization of computationally expensive problems by Tan, Alan Wei Ming, Ong, Yew-Soon, Gupta, Abhishek, Goh, Chi-Keong

“…This idea provides the capability to acquire and spontaneously transfer learned models across problems, facilitating efficient global optimization. The efficacy of our proposition is demonstrated on a series of synthetic benchmark functions, as well as two practical case studies.…”
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