Cobalt-Catalyzed, Imine-Directed Olefin Hydroarylation under Grignard-Free Conditions by Xu, Wengang, Pek, Jie Hui, Yoshikai, Naohiko

“…We report here that a cobalt catalyst generated from a cobalt(II) salt and a ligand using magnesium metal is capable of promoting hydroarylation reactions through chelation-assisted C−H activation. …”
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Measuring the predictability of life outcomes with a scientific mass collaboration by Salganik, Matthew J., Lundberg, Ian, Kindel, Alexander T., Ahearn, Caitlin E., Al-Ghoneim, Khaled, Almaatouq, Abdullah, Altschul, Drew M., Brand, Jennie E., Carnegie, Nicole Bohme, Compton, Ryan James, Datta, Debanjan, Davidson, Thomas, Filippova, Anna, Gilroy, Connor, Goode, Brian J., Jahani, Eaman, Kashyap, Ridhi, Kirchner, Antje, McKay, Stephen, Morgan, Allison C., Pentland, Alex, Polimis, Kivan, Raes, Louis, Rigobon, Daniel E., Roberts, Claudia V., Stanescu, Diana M., Suhara, Yoshihiko, Usmani, Adaner, Wang, Erik H., Adem, Muna, Alhajri, Abdulla, AlShebli, Bedoor, Amin, Redwane, Amos, Ryan B., Argyle, Lisa P., Baer-Bositis, Livia, Buchi, Moritz, Chung, Bo-Ryehn, Eggert, William, Faletto, Gregory, Fan, Zhilin, Freese, Jeremy, Gadgil, Tejomay, Gagne ́, Josh, Gao, Yue, Halpern-Manners, Andrew, Hashim, Sonia P., Hausen, Sonia, He, Guanhua, Higuera, Kimberly, Hogan, Bernie, Horwitz, Ilana M., Hummel, Lisa M., Jain, Naman, Jin, Kun, Jurgens, David, Kaminski, Patrick, Karapetyan, Areg, Kim, E. H., Leizman, Ben, Liu, Naijia, Moser, Malte, Mack, Andrew E., Mahajan, Mayank, Mandell, Noah, Marahrens, Helge, Mercado-Garcia, Diana, Mocz, Viola, Mueller-Gastell, Katariina, Musse, Ahmed, Niu, Qiankun, Nowak, William, Omidvar, Hamidreza, Or, Andrew, Ouyang, Karen, Pinto, Katy M., Porter, Ethan, Porter, Kristin E., Qian, Crystal, Rauf, Tamkinat, Sargsyan, Anahit, Schaffner, Thomas, Schnabel, Landon, Schonfeld, Bryan, Sender, Ben, Tang, Jonathan D., Tsurkov, Emma, van Loon, Austin, Varol, Onur, Wang, Xiafei, Wang, Zhi, Wang, Julia, Wang, Flora, Weissman, Samantha, Whitaker, Kirstie, Wolters, Maria K., Woon, Wei Lee, Wu, James, Wu, Catherine, Yang, Kengran, Yin, Jingwen, Zhao, Bingyu, Zhu, Chenyun, Brooks-Gunn, Jeanne, Engelhardt, Barbara E., Hardt, Moritz, Knox, Dean, Levy, Karen, Narayanan, Arvind, Stewart, Brandon M., Watts, Duncan J., McLanahan, Sara

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Shareholder withdrawal in close corporations : an Anglo-German comparative analysis by Koh, Alan K.

“…Comparative analysis reveals how the two jurisdictions differ in treatment of ‘non-fault’ scenarios and their underlying visions of shareholder protection. …”
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Byzantine-resilient decentralized stochastic gradient descent by Guo, Shangwei, Zhang, Tianwei, Yu, Han, Xie, Xiaofei, Ma, Lei, Xiang, Tao, Liu, Yang

“…However, how to achieve Byzantine Fault Tolerance in decentralized learning systems is rarely explored, although this problem has been extensively studied in centralized systems. …”
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Basic studies of polymeric gels with specific applications to drug delivery applications by Li, Lin

“…The effects of polymer concentration, blending composition, temperature, salts, surfactants, magnetic field, etc are examined.…”
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Intelligent condition monitoring system by Bong, Jacqueline Lin-Hui

“…These electrical machines must achieve an optimum level of availability to achieve business objectives. Fault detection and diagnosis of the electrical machine is important for the health and safe operation of electrical machines to prevent unexpected breakdowns. …”
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In-situ rapid construction of aliphatic amine combined polyamide seawater reverse osmosis membrane for efficient boron removal by Li, Can, Lai, Gwo Sung, Zhao, Yali, Wang, Rong

“…Polyamide (PA) reverse osmosis membranes are commonly employed in seawater desalination owing to their effective salt rejection and water permeability; however, the elimination of small and neutral boron molecules from seawater remains a significant hurdle in energy-efficient and cost-effective desalination processes. …”
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Abnormal N-heterocyclic carbene gold(I) complexes : synthesis, structure, and catalysis in hydration of alkynes by Xu, Xiangya, Kim, Seung Hyo, Zhang, Xi, Das, Atanu Kumar, Hirao, Hajime, Hong, Soon Hyeok

“…Two abnormal N-heterocyclic carbene (aNHC) gold(I) complexes, [(aNHC)AuCl], were prepared from C2-protected imidazolium salts. The air-stable complexes chloro(1-isopropyl-3-methyl-2,4-diphenylimidazol-5-ylidene)gold(I) (5) and chloro(1,4-diisopropyl-3-methyl-2-phenylimidazol-5-ylidene)gold(I) (6) were synthesized via transmetalation using (SMe2)AuCl and the corresponding silver salt such as [(aNHC)AgI] or [(aNHC)2Ag][I] and were fully characterized by NMR and mass spectroscopy and by X-ray crystallography. …”
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Electrophilic C(sp²)–H Cyanation with Inorganic Cyanate (OCN⁻) by Pᴵᴵᴵ/Pⱽ=O-Catalyzed Phase Transfer Activation by Hu, Shicheng

“…These results demonstrate the feasibility of deoxyfunctionalization of insoluble inorganic salts by Pᴵᴵᴵ/Pⱽ=O catalyzed phase transfer activation, as exemplified by C(sp²)–H cyanation with NaOCN as the “CN⁺” source.…”
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Synthesis and testing of asynchronous circuits - micropipeline by Khaing, Kathy.

“…The proposed checker using doubleinput double-output D flip-flop (DIDODFF) allows stuck-at fault detection in the functional block or control structure of the micropipeline as well as the checker itself. …”
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Global competition for upstream investment: key test for Latin America’s policymakers by Conway, T

“…Brazil has proved up its massive pre-salt trend boasting tens of billions of barrels of potential. …”

Rupture kinematics of the 2005 Mw 8.6 Nias-Simeulue earthquake from the joint inversion of seismic and geodetic data by Konca, A. Ozgun, Hjorleifsdottir, Vala, Song, Alex Teh-Ru, Avouac, Jean-Philippe, Ji, Chen, Sieh, Kerry, Helmberger, Don V., Briggs, Richard W., Meltzner, Aron J.

“…Based on the excitation of the normal mode data and geodetic data we put relatively tight constraints on the seismic moment and the fault dip, where the dip is determined to be 8° to 10° with corresponding moments of 1.24 × 10^22 to 1.00 × 10^22 N m, respectively. …”
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A tight polyethersulfone ultrafiltration membrane fabricated via polyion complex assisted phase inversion for dye desalination by Zhao, Yali, Liao, Yuan, Lai, Gwo Sung, Yin, Yurong, Wang, Rong

“…In this work, a tight polyethersulfone (PES) -based ultrafiltration (UF) membrane was fabricated to separate dye and salt of textile wastewater via a novel polyion complex assisted phase inversion method in one step. …”
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Linguistic distance and market integration in India by Fenske, J, Kala, N

“…A one-standard-deviation increase in linguistic distance predicts a reduction in the price correlation between two markets of 0.121 standard deviations for wheat, 0.181 for salt, and 0.088 for rice. While factors like genetic distance, literacy gaps, and railway connections are correlated with linguistic distance, they do not fully explain the correlation between linguistic distance and market integration.…”

A hybrid-excited switched reluctance motor for aerospace application by Yeo, Benedict Yang Kang

“…Next, I will focus on the characteristics and design principles of a switched reluctance motor and compare its performance and fault tolerant capabilities with a permanent magnet synchronous motor to weigh the advantages and disadvantages of either machine. …”
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Network architecture for large-scale CVE by Jiang, Bo Hong

“…Thus each Acting Server can maintain the static and dynamic data efficiently, handle more simultaneous access to the same virtual environment, and make the system more robust and fault tolerant. It provides a solution to scalability of CVE system that supports audio/video real time communication.…”
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Crystallization of molecular binary compounds made from organic acceptors and organic donators by Yu, Chu Huan.

“…Various weak charge transfer salts such as (tetracene, anthracene, and rubrene)-TCNQ compounds have been synthesized and extensively studied and they are promising in the aspect of electrochromic display, electronic devices, sensors and semiconductors. …”
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Simple and rapid electroless metallization on glass using catecholic-based chemistry by Sim, Pei Hui

“…An optimized parameter have been achieved for the process where the substrate undergoes 24 hours of polydopamine coating and 24 hours of metallization in metal salt solution. The coated substrates are visually inspected and tested using Ellipsometry. …”
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Prospects for larger or more frequent earthquakes in the Los Angeles metropolitan region by Sieh, Kerry, Suppe, John, Dolan, James F., Rockwell, Thomas K., Yeats, Robert S., Huftile, Gary J., Gath, Eldon M., Shaw, John H.

“…The average time between Mw 7.2 to 7.6 earthquakes from a combination of six fault systems within the metropolitan area was estimated to be about 140 years.…”
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Deformation and slip along the Sunda megathrust in the Great 2005 Nias-Simeulue earthquake by Sieh, Kerry, Galetzka, John, Simons, Mark, Hananto, Nugroho, Suprihanto, Imam, Prayudi, Dudi, Avouac, Jean-Philippe, Prawirodirdjo, Linette, Bock, Yehuda, Hsu, Ya-Ju, Briggs, Richard W., Meltzner, Aron J., Natawidjaja, Danny H., Suwargadi, Bambang W.

“…Surface deformation reflects more than 11 meters of fault slip under the islands and a pronounced lessening of slip trenchward. …”
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