Interaction Analyses of the Integrin β2 Cytoplasmic Tail with the F3 FERM Domain of Talin and 14-3-3ζ Reveal a Ternary Complex with Phosphorylated Tail by Chatterjee, Deepak, Lu, Lewis Zhiping, Tan, Suet-Mien, Bhattacharjya, Surajit

“…The formation of multiprotein complexes with β-CTs is involved in the activation and regulation of integrins. The leukocyte-specific β2 integrins are essential for leukocyte trafficking, phagocytosis, antigen presentation, and proliferation. …”
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Graphene nanoscroll/nanosheet aerogels with confined SnS 2 nanosheets : simultaneous wrapping and bridging for high-performance lithium-ion battery anodes by Zhang, Youfang, Zhao, Chenyang, Zeng, Zhihui, Ang, Jia Ming, Che, Boyang, Wang, Zhe, Lu, Xuehong

“…The optimized SnS2/GNA is highly porous with a large specific surface area of 127.1 m2 g−1 and multi-scale pore structure, which can effectively prevent SnS2 aggregation to provide abundant lithiation/delithiation sites, and buffer volumetric change and pulverization of SnS2 nanosheets. …”
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Cross-reactive dengue human monoclonal antibody prevents severe pathologies and death from Zika virus infections by Kam, Yiu-Wing, Lee, Cheryl Yi-Pin, Teo, Teck-Hui, Howland, Shanshan W., Siti Naqiah Amrun, Lum, Fok-Moon, See, Peter, Kng, Nicholas Qing-Rong, Huber, Roland G., Xu, Mei-Hui, Tan, Heng-Liang, Choo, Andre, Maurer-Stroh, Sebastian, Ginhoux, Florent, Fink, Katja, Wang, Cheng-I, Ng, Lisa F.P., Rénia, Laurent

“…Three of the best ZIKV-neutralizing mAbs were found to recognize diverse epitopes on the envelope (E) glycoprotein: the highly conserved fusion-loop peptide, a conformation-specific epitope on the E monomer, and a quaternary epitope on the virion surface. …”
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Ethnic differences in knowledge, attitudes, and practices related to dietary salt intake and association with hypertension in Malaysia: a multi-centre cross-sectional study by Chia, Yook Chin, Ching, Siew Mooi, Chew, Ming Tsuey, Devaraj, Navin Kumar, Oui, Jethro Ee Keat, Lim, Hooi Min, Chew, Bee Nah, Mohamed, Mohazmi, Ooi, Pei Boon, Cheng, Maong Hui, Beh, Hooi Chin, Chung, Felicia Fei-Lei

“…Tailored education promoting salt-label reading, minimizing processed foods intake and discretionary salt use should be ethnic-specific to better curb this escalating hypertension epidemic.…”

Part I : Peptide functionalized materials for gram-negative bacteria targeted PDT and LPS sensing. Part II : Small peptide and membrane lipid based self-assembled nanostructures fo... by Liu, Fang

“…The detection mechanism of our rational design is mainly based on the fact that the specific interactions between LPS and neutralizing peptide could break up the π-π stacking conformation of neighbouring PDI molecules on Fe3O4@SiO2 nanoparticle surfaces, and thus efficiently turn on the self-quenched fluorescence. …”
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Control and operation of DC microgrids by Adhikari, Sujan

“…Unfortunately, they cannot be achieved by a single energy storage, thus the need of hybridization of energy storages that have high specific energy and specific power is the solution for proper compensation of power fluctuation in autonomous microgrids. …”
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French foreign policy towards Poland (1989-1993) by Dangelmayer, AM

“…Chapter III looks at the pressures exercised within France by specific interest groups and why these encouraged French political leaders to turn to the EC. …”

Enhanced flotation of high density polyethylene and polyvinyl chloride mixtures based on clean corona modification by Wang, Yinan, Zhao, Yue, Guo, Linyi, Han, Fengrong, Li, Xiaofeng

“…High density polyethylene (HDPE) and polyvinyl chloride (PVC) both have a high detection frequency in the common solid waste streams like automobile shredder residue (ASR), and due to the similar properties of different plastics, their mixtures lack reliable separation methods. Specifically for this kind of mixtures, this work provided a novel separation strategy with prepositive corona modification and postpositive flotation units. …”
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Graphitic carbon derived from one-step carbonization of pre-pelleted oil palm frond biomass for supercapacitor applications: Energy density enhancement in redox additive electrolyt... by Ullah, Mohammad, Rasidi, Roslan, Jose, Rajan, Izan Izwan, Misnon

“…The PGC has an optimum specific capacitance (CS) of 334 F g−1 in 1 M H2SO4 at a current density of 1 A g−1. …”
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Improved methodology for evaluating adversarial robustness in deep neural networks by Lee, Kyungmi,(Computer scientist)Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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Optimization of Financial Indicators in Shale-Gas Wells Combining Numerical Decline Curve Analysis and Economic Data Analysis by Soage, Andres, Juanes, Ruben, Colominas, Ignasi, Cueto-Felgueroso, Luis

“…These high demands in terms of petrophysical properties and hydrofracture engineering may explain the industry observation of “sweet spots”, that is, specific areas within shale-gas plays that tend to yield more profitable wells and where many operators concentrate their production. …”
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Depletion of lamins B1 and B2 promotes chromatin mobility and induces differential gene expression by a mesoscale-motion-dependent mechanism by Pujadas Liwag, Emily M., Wei, Xiaolong, Acosta, Nicolas, Carter, Lucas M., Yang, Jiekun, Almassalha, Luay M., Jain, Surbhi, Daneshkhah, Ali, Rao, Suhas S. P., Seker-Polat, Fidan, MacQuarrie, Kyle L., Ibarra, Joe, Agrawal, Vasundhara, Aiden, Erez Lieberman, Kanemaki, Masato T., Backman, Vadim, Adli, Mazhar

“…Our results indicate that the mechanism of action of B-type lamins comes from their role in constraining chromatin motion and spatial positioning of gene-specific loci, heterochromatin, and chromatin domains. …”
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Mental-LLM: Leveraging Large Language Models for Mental Health Prediction via Online Text Data by Xu, Xuhai, Yao, Bingsheng, Dong, Yuanzhe, Gabriel, Saadia, Yu, Hong, Hendler, James, Ghassemi, Marzyeh, Dey, Anind K., Wang, Dakuo

“…They further perform on par with the state-of-the-art task-specific language model. We also conduct an exploratory case study on LLMs' capability on mental health reasoning tasks, illustrating the promising capability of certain models such as GPT-4. …”
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A large-area lithium metal–carbon nanotube film for precise contact prelithiation in lithium-ion batteries by Wang, Chao, Yang, Fangzhou, Wan, Wang, Wang, Shihe, Zhang, Yongyi, Huang, Yunhui, Li, Ju

“…The Li-CNT films show high specific capacities and nearly 100% lithium utilization owing to their exceptional conductive network, porous structure, and electrolyte-philic nature, which facilitates the efficient transport of both electrons and lithium ions. …”
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Design of a Four-Bar Latch Mechanism and a Shear-Based Rotary Viscous Damper for Single-Axis Prosthetic Knees by Arelekatti, VN Murthy, Petelina, Nina T, Johnson, W Brett, Major, Matthew J, Winter V, Amos G

“…These mechanisms are designed to enable users of single-axis, passive prosthetic knees to walk with close to able-bodied kinematics on level-ground, specifically during the transition from the stance phase to the swing phase of the gait cycle. …”
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Creating a Solar-Powered Drip Irrigation Optimal Performance model (SDrOP) to lower the cost of drip irrigation systems for smallholder farmers by Grant, Fiona, Sheline, Carolyn, Sokol, Julia, Amrose, Susan, Brownell, Elizabeth, Nangia, Vinay, Winter, Amos G.

“…SDrOP improves on previous design optimization frameworks by taking in all location-dependent parameters as inputs, which makes the model independent of case specifics and, therefore, broadly applicable. To demonstrate the model theory, the sensitivity of the optimal design to field area, the system reliability constraint, and varying weather conditions are explored for a Moroccan olive orchard case study. …”
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Predicting drivers’ route trajectories in last-mile delivery using a pair-wise attention-based pointer neural network by Mo, Baichuan, Wang, Qingyi, Guo, Xiaotong, Winkenbach, Matthias, Zhao, Jinhua

“…In addition to the commonly used encoder–decoder architecture for sequence-to-sequence prediction, we propose a new attention mechanism based on an alternative specific neural network to capture the local pair-wise information for each pair of stops. …”
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Near-zero environmental impact aircraft by Prashanth, Prakash, Elmourad, Jad, Grobler, Carla, Isaacs, Stewart, Zahid, Syed Shayan, Abel, James, Falter, Christoph, Fritz, Thibaud, Allroggen, Florian, Sabnis, Jayant S., Eastham, Sebastian D., Speth, Raymond L., Barrett, Steven R. H.

“…The proposed aircraft-energy systems reduce combined climate and air quality impacts by 99%, with fuel costs increasing by 40% for hydrogen and 70% for power-to-liquid fueled aircraft relative to today's fleet (i.e., within the range of historical jet fuel price variation). Beyond the specific case presented here, this work presents a framework for holistic analysis of future aviation systems that considers both climate and air quality impacts.…”
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In vivo bone marrow microenvironment siRNA delivery using lipid–polymer nanoparticles for multiple myeloma therapy by Guimarães, Pedro PG, Figueroa-Espada, Christian G, Riley, Rachel S, Gong, Ningqiang, Xue, Lulu, Sewastianik, Tomasz, Dennis, Peter S, Loebel, Claudia, Chung, Amanda, Shepherd, Sarah J, Haley, Rebecca M, Hamilton, Alex G, El-Mayta, Rakan, Wang, Karin, Langer, Robert, Anderson, Daniel G, Carrasco, Ruben D, Mitchell, Michael J

“…Insights suggest that endothelial cells within the bone marrow microenvironment play a critical role. Specifically, cyclophilin A (CyPA), a homing factor secreted by bone marrow endothelial cells (BMECs), is critical to MM homing, progression, survival, and chemotherapeutic resistance. …”
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Assessing the performance of approximate density functional theory on 95 experimentally characterized Fe(II) spin crossover complexes by Vennelakanti, Vyshnavi, Taylor, Michael G, Nandy, Aditya, Duan, Chenru, Kulik, Heather J

“…We study these complexes using density functional theory (DFT) with 30 functionals spanning across multiple rungs of “Jacob’s ladder” to understand the effect of exchange–correlation functional on electronic and Gibbs free energies associated with spin crossover. We specifically assess the effect of varying the Hartree–Fock exchange fraction (aHF) in structures and properties within the B3LYP family of functionals. …”
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