Finding meaning behind immortality of Anne Rice’s vampires. by Nurhayati Zakaria.

“…This paper investigates the alluring appeal of immortality through the exploration of humans’ instinctive anxieties against death; it shows how experience in life shapes an individual’s personality and character which in turn is fossilized and magnified during his or her immortal existence; and finally illustrates how the very nature of being trapped in a state of arrested development renders the disenchanted vampire’s perspective of immortality as one that is more limiting rather than liberating.…”
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Electrical charge transport and optical properties of iron pyrite by Shukla, Sudhanshu

“…Charge carrier dynamics in nanocube thin film revealed fast carrier localization and long-lived trap states in the pure pyrite. Temperature dependent electrical and magnetic behaviors supported the existence of intrinsic localized gap states. …”
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Microfluidic chip for blood sample processing by Chalapathy Raja Shobana

“…The aluminum coating on the surface of filter paper traps the parasites, which is later observed under Raman Spectroscopy for detection of disease. …”
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New derivatives of polyglutamic acid as drug carrier systems by Hoste, K, Schacht, E, Seymour, L

“…Dynamic light-scattering measurements and surface tension measurements indicated that phase separation of dextran/PHEG and PEG occurs on a molecular level in the conjugates and results in the formation of aggregates with a PEG core in which free PEG can be trapped. Blood clearance and body distribution studies were performed on female BALB/c mice. …”

Alignment of rod-shaped single-photon emitters driven by line defects in liquid crystals by Pelliser, Laurent, Manceau, Mathieu, Lethiec, Clotilde, Coursault, Delphine, Vezzoli, Stefano, Leménager, Godefroy, Coolen, Laurent, DeVittorio, Massimo, Pisanello, Ferruccio, Carbone, Luigi, Maitre, Agnes, Bramati, Alberto, Lacaze, Emmanuelle

“…Arrays of liquid crystal defects—linear smectic dislocations—are used to trap semiconductor CdSe/CdS dot-in-rods which behave as single-photon emitters. …”
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Doping and switchable photovoltaic effect in lead-free perovskites enabled by metal cation transmutation by Harikesh, Padinhare Cholakkal, Wu, Bo, Ghosh, Biplab, John, Rohit Abraham, Lie, Stener, Thirumal, Krishnamoorthy, Wong, Lydia Helena, Sum, Tze Chien, Mhaisalkar, Subodh, Mathews, Nripan

“…It is also shown that this material possesses a direct-indirect bandgap enabling high absorption coefficient, extended carrier lifetimes >100 ns, and low trap densities similar to lead halide perovskites. …”
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Picosecond charge localization dynamics in CH₃NH₃PbI₃ perovskite probed by infrared-activated vibrations by Stallhofer, Klara, Nuber, Matthias, Cortecchia, Daniele, Bruno, Annalisa, Kienberger, Reinhard, Deschler, Felix, Soci, Cesare, Iglev, Hristo

“…A subpopulation of these can then fall into deeper trapped states over picoseconds, likely due to local reorganization of the organic molecules surrounding the carriers.…”
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Phase-separating peptides for direct cytosolic delivery and redox-activated release of macromolecular therapeutics by Sun, Yue, Lau, Sze Yi, Lim, Zhi Wei, Chang, Shi Chieh, Ghadessy, Farid, Partridge, Anthony, Miserez, Ali

“…Strategies to overcome this challenge often employ nanoscale carriers that can get trapped in endosomal compartments. Here we report conjugated peptides that form pH- and redox-responsive coacervate microdroplets by liquid-liquid phase separation that readily cross the cell membrane. …”
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On the largest product-free subsets of the alternating groups by Keevash, Peter, Lifshitz, Noam, Minzer, Dor

“…We solve this problem for large n $n$ , showing that the maximum size is achieved by the previously conjectured extremal examples, namely families of the form { π : π ( x ) ∈ I , π ( I ) ∩ I = ∅ } $\left \{ \pi :\,\pi (x)\in I, \pi (I)\cap I=\varnothing \right \} $ and their inverses. …”
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Synergizing strategies: integrating fundamental, technical and news analysis for stock evaluation in energy & commodity market by Fang, Qian

“…We handpicked nine stocks with prospects based on market cap, dividend yield and 10-year average annual returns. …”
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Soft-biometrics based people description in surveillance systems by Ong, Glen Hong Ting

“…The selected traits are the presence of spectacles, cap and the pattern of top worn by subjects. As this project is required to detect these traits, three different classifiers are needed. …”
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EN06 computational environmental hydraulics : pre-treatment filter modeling by Krishnan Moorthi, Pavithra

“…Input parameters were limited to four particle sizes with the same concentration values and the headloss was capped at an appropriate value. The results of the code were also analysed in this report. …”
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Effects of rapid thermal annealing on structural, magnetic and optical properties of Ni-doped ZnO thin films by Zhao, Xing, Liu, Erjia, Ramanujan, Raju Vijayaraghavan, Chen, Jingsheng

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Comparison of models to predict incident chronic liver disease: a systematic review and external validation in Chinese adults by Cong, X, Song, S, Li, Y, Song, K, MacLeod, C, Cheng, Y, Lv, J, Yu, C, Sun, D, Pei, P, Yang, L, Chen, Y, Millwood, I, Wu, S, Yang, X, Stevens, R, Chen, J, Chen, Z, Li, L, Kartsonaki, C, Pang, Y

“…Models with high discrimination (C-index ≥ 0.70) in CKB were as follows: (1) general population: Li-2018 and Wen 1–2012 for HCC, CLivD score (non-lab and lab) and dAAR for CLD; (2) hepatitis B virus (HBV) infected individuals: Cao-2021 for HCC and CAP-B for CLD. In CKB, all models tended to overestimate the risk (O:E ratio 0.55–0.94). …”

Comparison of models to predict incident chronic liver disease: a systematic review and external validation in Chinese adults by Cong, X, Song, S, Li, Y, Song, K, MacLeod, C, Cheng, Y, Lv, J, Yu, C, Sun, D, Pei, P, Yang, L, Chen, Y, Millwood, I, Wu, S, Yang, X, Stevens, R, Chen, J, Li, L, Kartsonaki, C, Pang, Y, Chen, Z

“…Models with high discrimination (C-index ≥0.70) in CKB were: (1) general population: Li-2018 and Wen 1-2012 for HCC, CLivD score (non-lab and lab) and dAAR for CLD; (2) hepatitis B virus (HBV) infected individuals: Cao-2021 for HCC and CAP-B for CLD. In CKB, all models tended to overestimate the risk (O:E ratio 0.55-0.94). …”

Research on Traditional Village Spatial Differentiation from the Perspective of Cultural Routes: A Case Study of 338 Villages in the Miao Frontier Corridor by Zhao, Weiqi, Xiao, Dawei, Li, Jing, Xu, Ziyu, Tao, Jin

“…However, with the increasing pressure of heritage conservation and sustainable development, there is growing attention on how traditional villages can tap into their cultural continuity and distinctiveness. …”
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Inferring passenger responses to urban rail disruptions using smart card data: A probabilistic framework by Mo, Baichuan, Koutsopoulos, Haris N, Zhao, Jinhua

“…This study proposes a probabilistic framework to infer passengers’ responses to unplanned urban rail service disruptions using smart card data in tap-in-only public transit systems. We first identify 19 possible response behaviors that passengers may have based on their decision-making times and locations (i.e, the stage of their trips when an incident happened), including transferring to a bus line, canceling trips, waiting, delaying departure time, etc. …”
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The effects of processing conditions on the morphology of single conjugated polymers. by Yeo, Hui Lin.

“…Spun-cast single chains were largely found to give neat intensity traces exhibiting discrete emission levels and clear off-states, suggesting a compact and collapsed disordered conformation favoring efficient energy funneling to one or a few low-energy exciton traps. These emissive centers of the collapsed chain were proposed to be intrachain aggregates consisting of closely π-stacked segments, therefore possessing weak oscillator strength and an extended radiative lifetime. …”
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Developing a novel approach to map signals required for GalNAcT2 relocation. by Tan, Wei Ling.

“…Furthermore, to minimise the loss of GFP signals through anterograde trafficking of GalNAcT2 GFP FkBP mutant proteins, a new system was developed to trap these relocated proteins in ER upon addition of drug. …”
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Roles of leucine-rich alpha-2-glycoprotein 1 in normal and diabetic wound healing by Liu, Chenghao

“…Western blot analysis shows reduced formation of neutrophil extracellular traps in the wounds of diabetic Lrg1-/- mice. Neutrophils isolated from Lrg1-/- mice are less susceptible to inducer of ΝΕΤs formation. …”
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