Genome-based analysis of extended-spectrum β-lactamase-producing Escherichia coli in the aquatic environment and Nile perch (Lates niloticus) of Lake Victoria, Tanzania by Baniga, Zebedayo, Hounmanou, Yaovi M. Gildas, Kudirkiene, Egle, Kusiluka, Lughano J. M., Mdegela, Robinson H., Dalsgaard, Anders

“…Although epidemiologically unrelated, the strains formed three separate sequence type–phylogroup–serotype-specific clusters: C1, C2, and C3. Cluster C1 included five strains (3 to 13 SNPs) belonging to ST167, phylogroup A, and serotype O9:H21; the two C2 strains (11 SNPs) belong to ST156, phylogroup B1, and serotype ONT:H28; and C3 was made up of four strains (SNPs ranged from 4 to 17) of ST636, phylogroup B2, and serotype O45:H7. …”
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Coupled acoustic resonator systems with novel acoustic properties by Yang, Yahui

“…Our system consists of the acoustic resonators specifically arranged according to a triaxial strain field, which can effectively generate a uniform magnetic field in the acoustic system. …”
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Filamentous oligomer structure reconstruction and a new filament picking method for Cryo-EM micrographs by Xu, Chenrui

“…These results reveal signaling filament activation mechanisms conducted by specific CARD-CARD interactions.…”
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Localization and motion planning of mobile robots by Dai, Yunxiang

“…Key components including localization and motion planning are usually customized according to the specific application. Therefore, how to design the application-oriented robot navigation system and integrate all the sub-modules properly is a worthy research topic. …”
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Cross-layer host-network co-design for QoS in streamed video data networking by Nan, Ya

“…Moreover, a hardware offloading solution based on hash compression is applied to efficiently accelerate packet processing and reduce computation overhead introduced by the system, which is compatible to both the QUIC standard and existing hardware specifics. PredWAN is evaluated with thorough trace-driven case studies. …”
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Nonlinear regression approach for GPS multipath mitigation : from code to carrier-phase measurements by Phan, Quoc Huy

“…ciently mitigate multipath effects at observable levels to improve the accuracy and precision of GPS solutions.Based on an analysis of the geometry of a multipath signal's reflections, and the principle of GPS receiver's tracking loop, geometrical models of multipath errors are developed at observable levels (both code and carrier-phase multipath). More specifically, multipath errors corresponding to a satellite are mathematically proven to be functions of the satellite's geometry with respect to a receiver which is parameterized by azimuth and elevation angles. …”
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The role of filamentous phage in the development of Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilms by Manisha Mukherjee

“…Such, community level resistance offered to P. aeruginosa from phage infection might be due to the protection offered by other community members which are not targeted by the host specific phage.…”
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Micro electro mechanical systems (MEMS) enabled digital pen by Tan, Joel Qi Zhi

“…An adaptor was used to hold the pen at a specific location along the pen to ensure that it was rotated at the same pivot point throughout the experiments. …”
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Carbon nanomaterial/thermoplastic polyurethane composites for sports application : preparation, characterization and simulation by Jing, Qifei

“…The numerical study demonstrated that the plastic area, final specific plastic dissipation energy and residual height for PU specimens were significantly larger than those for the GO/PU composite. …”
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Biomolecular hydration in protein-protein interaction, protein stability and aggregation and lead optimization : computational studies by Mohan Rajan Pradhan

“…This is a novel finding and I believe will facilitate the design of specific inhibitors of eIF4E which is a therapeutic target in oncology. …”
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Injectable and biomimetic poly (ethylene glycol) hydrogel systems for in situ therapeutic cell delivery by Cao, Ye

“…To the best of our knowledge, this is the first injectable and multiple ECM-proteins incorporated ECM-mimicking PEG hydrogel with tunable mechanical properties that can effectively help to rebuild new ECM for the specific application of soft tissue replacement.…”
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New algorithms for hardware-efficient implementation of sign detection and magnitude comparison in residue number systems by Sachin Kumar

“…This thesis aims to develop new algorithms for hardware-efficient implementation of these difficult operations in RNS. Specifically, the following new findings and results are reported in this thesis. …”
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Large-scale capacitive touch panels : sensor pattern design, sampling and interpolation by Akhtar, Humza

“…Industry is using simple three-point interpolation schemes but as is the case with sensor design, no one has explored the possibility for an efficient interpolation algorithm designed specific to capacitive touch signals. We apply various one dimensional, two dimensional and iterative subpixel interpolators for the case of a human finger covering more than one sensor in both row and column direction while touching the panel, and compare them with each other in terms of efficiency and accuracy. …”
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Multilevel converter-based grid-connected energy storage systems by Deng, Han

“…The multiphase multilevel converter modulation methods can be classified into high switching frequency ones such as the Sinusoidal Pulse Width Modulation (SPWM) and the Space Vector Modulation (SVM) and low frequency ones with specific modulation objective. The SPWM and the SVM are most popular ones. …”
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Mujeres a la fuga: narrativa del viaje como vehículo de resistencia para las mujeres en tránsito por México = Women on the run: narrative of the journey as a vehicle of resistance... by López, María E., Díaz de León, Alejandra, Castro Sam, Ana Sabina

“…Despite the growing literature on the dangers faced by migrant women and children in transit through Mexico, the authorities and much of the academic community continue to treat migrant women as passive subjects and the specific violence they face in Mexico as a side effect of other problems in the country related to the increasing activity of organized crime. …”
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Black hole binary formation and mergers in supermassive black hole discs by Rowan, C

“…</p> <p>Exploring specifically the binary formation process using a large number of simulations over a range of impact parameters allowed further aspects of the mechanism to be quantified. …”

Electronic structures of twisted two-dimensional materials studied by angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy by Pei, D

“…Twisted van der Waals heterostructures have recently been proposed as a condensed-matter platform for realizing controllable quantum models due to the low-energy moiré bands with specific charge distributions in moiré superlattices. …”

Culture of human pluripotent stem cells and neural networks in 3D using an optogenetic approach and a hydrogel model by Lee, S

“…</p> <p>Light-sensitive neurons were successfully generated by transducing Channelrhodopsin-2 (ChR2) into human iPSC-derived NPCs and neuroblastoma cells (SH-SY5Y) using lentiviral transduction. The use of neuron specific promoters for synapsin-1 (SYN1) and calcium-calmodulin kinase II (CaMKII) in driving the expression of ChR2-Yellow Florescent Protein (YFP) within the mixed neuronal populations from hiPSC-derived neurons (Axol cells) were compared. …”

Targeting TFEB and TFE3 in iPSC-derived dopaminergic neurons to correct autophagic/lysosomal deficits in Parkinson's disease by McGuinness, W

“…</p> <p>Surprisingly, TFEB overexpression mainly upregulated genes associated with mitochondrial function and bioenergetics in iPSC-DaNs, demonstrating a novel, DaN- specific therapeutic function for TFEB activation in PD.…”

A Lagrangian perspective on the lifecycle and radiative effect of deep convective clouds by Jones, WK

“…As a result, instruments that only observe specific times may result in erroneous comparisons between the properties of DCCs over land and ocean, which is particularly impactful on observations made in the early afternoon such as those from the A-train constellation. …”