3D spheroid-microvasculature-on-a-chip for tumor-endothelium mechanobiology interplay by Zhang, Yingqi, Jiang, Fengtao, Zhao, Charles Yunduo, Cho, Ann-Na, Fang, Guocheng, Cox, Charles D., Zreiqat, Hala, Lu, Zu Fu, Lu, Hongxu, Ju, Arnold Lining

“…During the final stage of cancer metastasis, tumor cells embed themselves in distant capillary beds, from where they extravasate and establish secondary tumors. Recent findings underscore the pivotal roles of blood/lymphatic flow and shear stress in this intricate tumor extravasation process. …”
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A human-centred review on maritime autonomous surfaces ships: impacts, responses, and future directions by Li, Xue, Yuen, Kum Fai

“…Future research directions are also proposed and can serve as recommendations for future human-centred research on MASS. The research findings enhance the understanding of seafarer elements in MASS operations and provide policy implications for future seafarer management.…”
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Potential of carbon dioxide spraying on the properties of 3D concrete printed structures by Tay, Daniel Yi Wei, Lim, Sean Gip, Fadhel, Bandar A., Amr, Issam T., Bamagain, Rami A., Al-Hunaidy, Ali S., Paul, Suvash Chandra, Tan, Ming Jen

“…By implementing different CO2 spraying regimes, this study demonstrates improved carbon dioxide (CO2) uptake and the crystallinity of precipitated calcium carbonate (CaCO3). The findings indicate that the method's effectiveness heavily relies on appropriate printing parameters and curing conditions. …”
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Yeast9: a consensus genome-scale metabolic model for S. cerevisiae curated by the community by Zhang, Chengyu, Sánchez, Benjamín J., Li, Feiran, Cheng, Eiden Wei Quan, Scott, William T., Liebal, Ulf W., Blank, Lars M., Mengers, Hendrik G., Anton, Mihail, Rangel, Albert Tafur, Mendoza, Sebastián N., Zhang, Lixin, Nielsen, Jens, Lu, Hongzhong, Kerkhoven, Eduard J.

“…Well able to predict the strains' growth rates, fluxomics from those large-scale ssGEMs outperformed transcriptomics in predicting functional categories for all studied genes in machine learning models. Based on those findings we anticipate that Yeast9 will continue to empower systems biology studies of yeast metabolism.…”
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Transformative transmediation: eliciting student self-evaluation of academic writing through the video essay assignment by Frattarola, Angela, Ahn, Hyejeong, Dixon, Ian

“…Specifically, we found that 1) transmediation enabled students to self-evaluate their writing as they repeatedly listened to their voiceovers, found concrete visuals to illustrate their ideas, and edited their work to fit the concise video format; 2) students broke with habitual, less useful revision practices as they were freed from the conventional and grammatical concerns of written academic text and narrated their arguments colloquially in their voiceovers; 3) students exhibited an improved awareness of audience and medium; and 4) students were more enthusiastic with the course due to the novelty of the multimodal assignment. These findings suggest that including a video essay assignment during the drafting process can serve as an effective tool in advancing students’ abilities to evaluate their own academic writing.…”
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PRFusion: toward effective and robust multi-modal place recognition with image and point cloud fusion by Wang, Sijie, Kang, Qiyu, She, Rui, Zhao, Kai, Song, Yang, Tay, Wee Peng

“…Place recognition plays a crucial role in the fields of robotics and computer vision, finding applications in areas such as autonomous driving, mapping, and localization. …”
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Behavioral characterization of critical thinking in higher education: perspectives from the theory of planned behavior by Ma, Bohao, Li, Zhaotong, Sun, Shanshan, Teo, Chee-Chong

“…The insights gained from the findings will be useful in guiding the development of psychological interventions for CT development.…”
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Poisoning of bubble propelled catalytic micromotors : the chemical environment matters by Schmidt, Oliver G., Zhao, Guanjia, Sanchez, Samuel, Pumera, Martin

“…We believe that our findings will contribute significantly to this field to develop alternative systems or catalysts for self-propulsion when practical applications in the real environment are considered.…”
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Vesicle Adhesion and Rupture on Silicon Oxide: Influence of Freeze–Thaw Pretreatment by Jackman, Joshua Alexander, Zhao, Zhilei, Zhdanov, Vladimir P., Frank, Curtis W., Cho, Nam-Joon

“…Taken together, our findings clarify the influence of FT pretreatment on model membrane fabrication on solid supports.…”
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An RRM–ZnF RNA recognition module targets RBM10 to exonic sequences to promote exon exclusion by Collins, Katherine M., Kainov, Yaroslav A., Christodolou, Evangelos, Ray, Debashish, Morris, Quaid, Hughes, Timothy, Taylor, Ian A., Makeyev, Eugene V., Ramos, Andres

“…Importantly, a second RRM domain (RRM2) of RBM10 recognizes a C-rich sequence, which explains its known interaction with the intronic 3΄ site of NUMB exon 9 contributing to regulation of the Notch pathway in cancer. Together, these findings explain RBM10's broad RNA specificity and suggest that RBM10 functions as a splicing regulator using two RNA-binding units with different specificities to promote exon skipping.…”
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An additive manufacturing process model for product family design by Lei, Ningrong, Yao, Xiling, Moon, Seung Ki, Bi, Guijun

“…By utilising AM, we eliminate all constraints which arise in conventional product family designs from finding a compromise between commonality and performance. …”
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Effect of post-deposition annealing on the interface electronic structures of Al2O3-Capped GaN and GaN/AlGaN/GaN heterostructure by Duan, Tian Li, Pan, Ji Sheng, Ang, Diing Shenp

“…The XPS data, however, reveal a clear Ga-O signal for all samples and no apparent change in the Ga-O to Ga-N bond ratio for the range of annealing temperatures studied. These findings imply that the observed improvement in 2DEG mobility (and the associated decrease of interface defect density) should be ascribed to the structural change of the disordered GaOx interfacial layer formed during the atomic-layer-deposition of the Al2O3.…”
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Differential growth and shape formation in plant organs by Huang, Changjin, Wang, Zilu, Quinn, David, Suresh, Subra, Hsia, K. Jimmy

“…We demonstrate the robustness of these findings and analyses by recourse to synthetic reproduction of all four configurations using controlled polymerization of a hydrogel. …”
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Early Vocal Development in Autism Spectrum Disorder, Rett Syndrome, and Fragile X Syndrome: Insights from Studies Using Retrospective Video Analysis by Roche, Laura, Zhang, Dajie, Bartl-Pokorny, Katrin D., Pokorny, Florian B., Schuller, Björn W., Esposito, Gianluca, Bölte, Sven, Roeyers, Herbert, Poustka, Luise, Gugatschka, Markus, Waddington, Hannah, Vollmann, Ralf, Einspieler, Christa, Marschik, Peter B.

“…These studies were then categorised according to whether children were later diagnosed with ASD (13 studies), RTT (8 studies), or FXS (2 studies) and then described in terms of (a) participant characteristics, (b) control group characteristics, (c) video footage, (d) behaviours analysed, and (e) main findings. This overview supports the use of RVA in analysing the early development of vocalisations in children later diagnosed with ASD, RTT, or FXS and provides an in-depth analysis of vocalisation presentation, complex vocalisation production, and the rate and/or frequency of vocalisation production across the three disorders. …”
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Bacterial Biofilm Control by Perturbation of Bacterial Signaling Processes by Jakobsen, Tim Holm, Tolker-Nielsen, Tim, Givskov, Michael

“…Here, we review novel findings and potentials of using small molecules to target and modulate these regulatory processes in the bacterium Pseudomonas aeruginosa to decrease its pathogenic potential.…”
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People in Peril, Environments at Risk: Coolies, Tigers, and Colonial Singapore's Ecology of Poverty by Powell, Miles Alexander

“…As these workers struggled to transform forests into farms, houses and roads, they created an ecology of poverty that had catastrophic consequences for humans and tigers alike. Finding ever less forest in which to hide from humans, the mighty cats instead began to regard some people as prey. …”
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Optically reversible electrical soft-breakdown in wide-bandgap oxides — a factorial study by Zhou, Yu, Ang, Diing Shenp, Kalaga, Pranav Sairam

“…The effect is evidenced by a decrease in the breakdown leakage current, termed as a negative photoconductivity response. This finding raises the prospect for optical sensing applications based on these traditionally non-photo-responsive but ubiquitous oxide materials. …”
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China and the “Singapore Model” : perspectives from mid-level cadres and implications for transnational knowledge transfer by Liu, Hong, Wang, Tingyan

“…We found that the most appealing characteristics of the “Singapore model” for these mid-level officials lay in practical governance lessons and their potential transferability rather than in ideologies. This finding challenges conventional wisdom that the most plausible rationale of China’s learning from Singapore is political. …”
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Access, dignity, and choice: social supermarkets and the end of the food bank model in the UK? by Ranta, Ronald, Nancheva, Nevena, Mulrooney, Hilda M., Bhakta, Dee, Lake, Stef

“…We use a mixed-methods approach based on questionnaires (n = 111) and interviews (n = 25) with SSMs members, engaging with local priorities and perspectives in the active co-creation of the research. Our findings demonstrate that SSM’s provision is more inclusive and mindful of the diversity and agency of their members, doing away with pre-conceived ideas of food support recipients as passive citizens. …”
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A study on loading multiple epitopes with a single peptide by Guo, Chunyan, Xu, Cuixiang, Feng, Qing, Xie, Xin, Li, Yan, Zhao, Xiangrong, Hu, Jun, Fang, Senbiao, Shang, Lijun

“…We established a method for multi‐epitope peptide recombination from these immunodominant groups. (3) The immune effect of the recombinant multi‐epitope peptide was better than that of a single peptide. Our findings facilitate the understanding of the composition of antigen epitopes and provide a theoretical and experimental basis for developing polyvalent vaccines and understanding immune responses at the molecular level.…”
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