Improving rice nitrogen-use efficiency by modulating a novel monouniquitination machinery for optimal root plasticity response to nitrogen by Huang, Y, Ji, Z, Tao, Y, Wei, S, Jiao, W, Fang, Y, Jian, P, Shen, C, Qin, Y, Zhang, S, Li, S, Liu, X, Kang, S, Tian, Y, Song, Q, Harberd, NP, Wang, S, Li, S

“…Plant nitrogen (N)-use efficiency (NUE) is largely determined by the ability of root to take up external N sources, whose availability and distribution in turn trigger the modification of root system architecture (RSA) for N foraging. …”

Slowdown: the end of the great acceleration—and why it's good for the planet, the economy, and our lives by Dorling, D

“…Rather than lament this turn of events, Dorling embraces it as a moment of promise and a move toward stability, and he notes that many of the older great strides in progress that have defined recent history also brought with them widespread warfare, divided societies, and massive inequality.…”

The role of funding in the ‘performative decarbonisation’ of transport in England by Verlinghieri, E, Haines-Doran, T, Marsden, G, Schwanen, T

“…This means that the nature of the funds, such as the requirement for experimentation, innovation or private sector leverage, defines direction. In turn, and to maintain success in attracting funds, there is an emphasis on presenting ‘premium spaces of ambition’ with little evidence of attention to broader systemic change. …”

On fundamental aspects of quantum extreme learning machines by Xiong, W, Facelli, G, Sahebi, M, Agnel, O, Chotibut, T, Thanasilp, S, Holmes, Z

“…As a cautionary note on scalability, we identify four sources that can lead to the exponential concentration of the observables as the system size grows (randomness, hardware noise, entanglement, and global measurements) and show how this can turn QELMs into useless input-agnostic oracles. In particular, our result on the reservoir-induced concentration strongly indicates that quantum reservoirs drawn from a highly random ensemble make QELM models unscalable. …”

Effects of hormonal regulation on cell number and cell size in determining fruit size: a mini-review by Siti Khadijah A. Karim, Zamri Zainal, Nik Marzuki Sidik

“…We focused on hormones that are mainly involved in determining cell proliferation and cell size and on their interaction during genetic regulation and their signaling pathways, which in turn, influence final fruit size. We also deliberated the current findings around this research niche at cellular and molecular levels. …”
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Effect of crosslinking reagents and hydroxypropylation levels on dual-modified sago starch properties by Wattanachant, Saowakon, Muhammad, K., Mat Hashim, D., Abd. Rahman, R.

“…Through hydroxypropylation, it was found that there was a significant increase in molar substitution which in turn induces an increase in crosslinking and this was seen from the marked increase in phosphorus content and degree of substitution. …”
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Spectral variation of normalised laplacian for various network models by Liang, Y.S.J., Chan, K.T., Shah, N.M.

“…Results from the spectral measures have revealed specific characteristics for different models, which in turn make them easier to be recognised.…”
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Can good ESG performance help companies resist external shocks? by Yang, Xin, Sheikh Hassan, Ahmad Fahmi, Karbhari, Yusuf

“…Additionally, we uncover that revenue growth acts as a critical pathway through which ESG performance reduces firm-specific risk, highlighting that firms with strong ESG practices achieved higher revenue growth, which in turn contributed to risk reduction. Further analysis shows that the political environment and dividend policy influence this relationship, as examined through heterogeneity analysis. …”
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Doctor, Will You Pray for Me? : Medicine, Chaplains, and Healing the Whole Person / by Klitzman, Robert, author 655971

“…New technologies are redefining the beginning and end of life, raising religious, spiritual, and existential quandaries about whether and when to turn off the machines and “play God.” COVID-19 made these dilemmas ever more acute. …”
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Personal Food Computer: A new device for controlled-environment agriculture by Castelló Ferrer, Eduardo, Rye, Jake, Brander, Gordon, Savas, Tim, Chambers, Douglas, England, Hildreth, Harper, Caleb

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Partial grounding, identity, and nothing-over-and-aboveness by Werner, Jonas

“…In this context, I propose and discuss a way to spell out nothing-over-and-aboveness in terms of generalised identity that does justice to the claim that the fully grounded is nothing over and above its full grounds. It will turn out that the related question whether partial grounding and nothing-over-and-aboveness yield full grounding pertains to considerations concerning how finely factual content is individuated. …”
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Measuring magic on a quantum processor by Oliviero, Salvatore F. E., Leone, Lorenzo, Hamma, Alioscia, Lloyd, Seth

“…This resource consists in the deviation from a property called stabilizerness which in turn implies that stabilizer circuits can be efficiently simulated on a classical computer. …”
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The Contract, the Contractor, and the Capitalization of American Building by Spencer, Chelsea Anne

“…This new type of builder was unknown to US Americans before the Civil War, but by the turn of the twentieth century they commanded a powerful position in the widening gulf between architects and the construction of their buildings. …”
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Exploring the impact of COVID-19 on the grammar of schools in project-based learning contexts by Woods, Peter J., Anderson, Emma, Hira, Avneet

“…While scholars and public figures have positioned the COVID-19 pandemic as an opportunity for school reform, the response to this potential for change by teachers remains underexplored. In turn, we attend to the following research question: how do teachers at project-based learning high schools conceptualize the changes to education that have occurred in response to the COVID-19 pandemic? …”
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Investigating ERO1α, IDO1 and MHC Class I : potential proteins that can be manipulated to change the tumour microenvironment from ‘cold’ to ‘hot’ by Peck, Jia Yi

“…However, there is still no direct linkage found between these 3 proteins, which could be potentially manipulated to turn the tumour microenvironment (TME) from ‘cold’ to ‘hot’. …”
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In vitro reconstitution of liquid-liquid phase separation in regulating gene transcription by Gan, Jia Yun

“…Our results imply that TF9 do undergo LLPS under specific conditions and this in turn could shed some light on the microenvironment in the cell that triggers these condensates to form. …”
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Beyond the beautiful garden city by Koh, Kevin Jing Sen

“…Large and often discarded yet people could turn a blind eye when chanced upon them.…”
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Suicidal ideation and mental disorder detection with attentive relation networks by Ji, Shaoxiong, Li, Xue, Huang, Zi, Cambria, Erik

“…Mental health is a critical issue in modern society, and mental disorders could sometimes turn to suicidal ideation without effective treatment. …”
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A parametric framework to generate visual illusions using Python by Makowski, Dominique, Lau, Zen Juen, Pham, Tam, Paul Boyce, W., Chen, Annabel Shen-Hsing

“…Instead, scientists have to craft them by hand in an idiosyncratic fashion, or use pre-made images not tailored for the specific needs of their studies. This, in turn, hinders the reproducibility of illusion-based research, narrowing possibilities for scientific breakthroughs and their applications. …”
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Cellular response to synthetic drugs : a metabolomics approach by Chen, William Wei Ning.

“…The metabolic enzymes identified in our study may in turn be useful targets for future pharmaceutical interventions to reduce clinical side effects following propranolol treatment.…”
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