Marriage and fertility dynamics in India by Dommaraju, Premchand

“…It is widely acknowledged that age at marriage has a significant influence on fertility, particularly in the countries where child-bearing occurs within marriage. However, the complexities of marriage/fertility relationship are poorly understood, especially during fertility transitions. …”
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Open questions in ancient Greek phonology: some new evidence from enclitics by Probert, P

“…Roussou and Probert (2023: 235–297) put forward some new discoveries bearing on the accentuation of sequences of consecutive ancient Greek enclitics, and a new descriptive claim as to the way in which host words plus sequences of consecutive enclitics were accented. …”

Scalable optical manufacture of dynamic structural colour in stretchable materials by Miller, Benjamin Harvey, Liu, Helen, Kolle, Mathias

“…Here, by adapting Lippmann photography5, we report an approach for producing large-area, structurally coloured sheets with a rich and easily controlled design space of colour patterns, spectral properties, angular scattering characteristics and responses to mechanical stimuli. …”
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Three-dimensional structure of human β-defensin 28 via homology modelling and molecular dynamics by Kwak, Sang Kyu, Chen, Wenwen, Tay, Derrick Kok Sing, Leong, Susanna Su Jan

“…In comparison with circular dichroism experimental data as well as stabilities of β-sheets and α-helix, HBD-28 with a reliable 3D structure was found.…”
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Elevated temperature material properties of a new high-chromium austenitic stainless steel by Liang, Yating, Manninen, Timo, Zhao, Ou, Walport, Fiona, Gardner, Leroy

“…A total of 164 tensile coupons extracted from both cold-rolled and hot-rolled sheets were tested; 80 coupons were tested isothermally with temperatures ranging from 25 °C to 1100 °C, and 84 were tested anisothermally with stress levels ranging from 10% to 90% of the material 0.2% proof stress at room temperature. …”
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Temperature dependence of elastocaloric effect in a microstructurally graded NiTi alloy by Chen, Junyu, Wang, Wenqiang, Zhang, Qi, Lei, Liping, Ramamurty, Upadrasta, Fang, Gang

“…Detailed analyses show that while the fine grains present in the core of NiTi sheets reduce the global martensitic autocatalytic nucleation potency and increase strength to broaden Tspan, the coarser grains near the surfaces accommodate interlayer deformation to improve |ΔTad|. …”
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A flat carborane with multiple aromaticity beyond Wade–Mingos’ rules by Lu, Wei, Do, Dinh Cao Huan, Kinjo, Rei

“…Herein, we report the synthesis of a C2B4R4 carborane 2 featuring a flat ribbon-like structure. The C2B4 core of 2 bearing 16 skeletal electrons in the singlet-ground state defies both the [4n + 2] Hückel’s rule and Baird’s rule. …”
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Synthesis of a π-extended azacorannulenophane enabled by strain-induced 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition by Zhang, Xinjiang, Mackinnon, Marc R., Bodwell, Graham J., Ito, Shingo

“…The first example of a cyclophane bearing a nitrogen-containing buckybowl was synthesized via sequential 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition and palladium-catalyzed intramolecular cyclization. …”
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Analysis of the revolving vane (RV-0) expander, part 1 : experimental investigations by Subiantoro, Alison, Ooi, Kim Tiow

“…The isentropic efficiency was found to be up to 17.5% with the frictional losses caused mainly by the journal bearings.…”
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Numerical analysis of fibre-bridging in perforated fibre metal laminate by Chua, Yih Sheng.

“…Fibre-metal laminates are a new class of structural used in aerospace, which consists of fibre-reinforced prepegs, sandwiched between metal aluminum sheets. A numerical analysis of the fibre-bridging mechanism in fibre-metal laminates has been carried out using the boundary element and finite element method. …”
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Vertex model with internal dissipation enables sustained flows by Rozman, J, Chaithanya, K, Yeomans, JM, Sknepnek, R

“…We demonstrate sustained flow in epithelial sheets confined to a channel, providing a link between the cell-level vertex model of tissue dynamics and continuum active nematics, whose behaviour in a channel is theoretically understood and experimentally realisable. …”

Just Doing My Job: Normative Dimensions of Social Roles by Wells, Eliza

“…It also means that role-occupants are not off the moral hook. Ultimately, we each bear responsibility to create a more just social world.…”
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Development of image-based method for the quantitative assessment of cartilage damage from CT as a biomarker in osteoarthritis by Zheng, J-Q

“…</p> <p>The next phase included segmenting the cartilage from aligned CT volumes, utilizing a deep learning segmentation method, the Gate Attention-U-net, for enhanced precision and versatility in cartilage segmentation, achieving an 88% DSC and 9um ASD in the tibia's weight-bearing area.</p> <p>After extracting cartilage shape, we compared the thickness and remaining volume of tibial cartilage in the weight-bearing area with a prior semi-manual method, observing a Pearson correlation coefficient (R value) exceeding 0.8 with the semi-manual method (p&lt;0.0001) and a correlation with OA scores from histological images (p&lt;0.05). …”

Impact behaviour of prepreg laminates with dispersed core/shell particles in ply interfaces by Mubarak Ali Mohamed Ali

“…A significant improvement in the energy absorption capability, the impact load bearing capacity, the deflection characteristics of the C/SH modified laminates was observed. …”
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Autonomised harming by Eggert, L

“…Second, the paper examines how potential differences between human agents and non-human, artificial agents might bear on the permissibility of delegating life-and death decisions to AI systems. …”

Molecular modulation of fluorene-dibenzothiophene-S,S-dioxide-based conjugated polymers for enhanced photoelectrochemical water oxidation under visible light by Dai, Chunhui, Gong, Xuezhong, Zhu, Xianglin, Xue, Can, Liu, Bin

“…Three conjugated polymers (CPs) bearing a common fluorene-dibenzothiophene-S,S-dioxide backbone were designed and synthesized for photoelectrochemical (PEC) water oxidation upon visible-light irradiation (>420 nm). …”
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Dithiafulvenyl-naphthalenediimide-based small molecules as efficient non-fullerene electron-transport layer for inverted perovskite solar cells by Dada B. Shaikh, Ahmed Ali Said, Bhosale, Rajesh S., Chen, Wangqiao, Bhosale, Sidhanath V., Puyad, Avinash L., Bhosale, Sheshanath V., Zhang, Qichun

“…The difference in PCE values revealed that DS2 bearing two DTF moieties on NDI core could enhance the PCE compared to DS1 containing one DTF moiety. …”
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Autism narratives in Singapore by Ho, Melissa Yun Ling

“…Examining Singaporean autism narratives allows us insight into the ways in which dominant global discourses about autism are negotiated in local contexts; narratives are shaped by their socio-cultural contexts and examining those from Singapore, a globalised and multicultural, yet socially conservative city-state, enables us to understand the ways in which such multiple discourses come to bear upon individual narratives. Given that these narratives have, in turn, the potential to shape cultural discourses, and having shown through close literary analysis some effects of existing stereotypes and discourses, I argue for the urgency and importance of attending to narrative ethics in the production of autism narratives in Singapore.…”
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Photodynamic bubble-generating microneedles for enhanced transdermal cancer therapy by Ning, Xiaoyu, Chen, Si, Yang, Yating, Hwang, Jangsun, Wiraja, Christian, Zhang, Chi, Liu, Wei, Liu, Linbo, Xu, Chenjie

“…The drug delivery efficiency of this platform is first evaluated ex vivo using fresh mouse skins and human keloid tissues. Later, in the tumor-bearing mouse model, the platform enhances the skin penetration of photosensitizers (i.e., methylene blue) and correspondingly improves the efficacy of photodynamic therapy.…”
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Cobalt-Catalyzed Arylative Cyclization of Acetylenic Esters and Ketones with Arylzinc Reagents through 1,4-Cobalt Migration by Yan, Jianming, Yoshikai, Naohiko

“…We report herein that the cobalt/arylzinc combination can also promote a cascade arylative cyclization reaction of alkynes bearing pendant ester or ketone moieties to afford benzo-fused cyclic ketone or alcohol products, respectively. …”
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