A Slip Gap of the 2016 Mw 6.6 Muji, Xinjiang, China, Earthquake Inferred from Sentinel‐1 TOPS Interferometry by Feng, Wanpeng, Tian, Yunfeng, Zhang, Yong, Samsonov, Sergey, Almeida, Rafael, Liu, Peng

“…The components of the regional Global Positioning System velocities parallel to the Muji fault have been inverted to obtain an interseismic slip rate of ∼10  mm/yr on this structure. …”
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Transfusion-transmitted severe Plasmodium knowlesi malaria in a splenectomized patient with beta-thalassaemia major in Sabah, Malaysia: a case report by Bird, Elspeth M., Parameswaran, Uma, William, Timothy, Khoo, Tien Meng, Grigg, Matthew J., Aziz, Ammar, Marfurt, Jutta, Yeo, Tsin Wen, Auburn, Sarah, Anstey, Nicholas M., Barber, Bridget E.

“…No confirmed case of accidental transfusion-transmitted P. knowlesi has yet been reported. CASE PRESENTATION: A 23-year old splenectomized patient with beta thalassaemia major presented with fever 11 days after receiving a blood transfusion from a pre-symptomatic donor who presented with knowlesi malaria 12 days following blood donation. …”
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Kinematics of Active Deformation Across the Western Kunlun Mountain Range (Xinjiang, China) and Potential Seismic Hazards Within the Southern Tarim Basin by Guilbaud, Christelle, Simoes, Martine, Barrier, Laurie, Laborde, Amandine, Van der Woerd, Jérôme, Li, Haibing, Tapponnier, Paul, Coudroy, Thomas, Murray, Andrew

“…Finally, we compare the seismotectonic context of the Western Kunlun to what has been proposed for the Himalayas of Central Nepal. …”
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Cross-reactive dengue human monoclonal antibody prevents severe pathologies and death from Zika virus infections by Kam, Yiu-Wing, Lee, Cheryl Yi-Pin, Teo, Teck-Hui, Howland, Shanshan W., Siti Naqiah Amrun, Lum, Fok-Moon, See, Peter, Kng, Nicholas Qing-Rong, Huber, Roland G., Xu, Mei-Hui, Tan, Heng-Liang, Choo, Andre, Maurer-Stroh, Sebastian, Ginhoux, Florent, Fink, Katja, Wang, Cheng-I, Ng, Lisa F.P., Rénia, Laurent

“…Zika virus (ZIKV) infections have been linked with neurological complications and congenital Zika syndrome. …”
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Ultra low-voltage low-power CMOS 4-2 and 5-2 compressors for fast arithmetic circuits by Chang, Chip Hong, Gu, Jiang Min, Zhang, Mingyan

“…Driving capability has been considered in the design as well as in the simulation setup so that these 4-2 and 5-2 compressor cells can operate reliably in any tree structured parallel multiplier at very low supply voltages. …”
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“文章四友”新论：以李峤、崔融之应用文书写为探讨中心 = New perspectives on “Wenzhang siyou” : focus on Li Qiao and Cui Rong’s practical prose by 曲景毅 Qu, Jingyi

“…Secondly, CUI is very good at parallelism just like Lianzhu 連珠style. Thirdly, especially tending three-word sentence makes his syntax more changeable. …”
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Preferences of Persons With or at Risk for Hepatitis C for Long-Acting Treatments by Weld, Ethel D, Astemborski, Jacqueline, Kirk, Gregory D, Sulkowski, Mark S, Katz, Stephanie, Rothman, Richard, Solomon, Sunil S, Matthews, Gail V, Hsieh, Yu Hsiang, Verma, Malvika, Traverso, Giovanni, Swindells, Susan, Owen, Andrew, Feld, Jordan, Flexner, Charles, Mehta, Shruti H, Thomas, David L

“…Background Whereas safe, curative treatments for hepatitis C virus (HCV) have been available since 2015, there are still 58 million infected persons worldwide, and global elimination may require new paradigms. …”
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21W.742J / SP.575J / WGS.575J Writing About Race, Spring 2003 by Faery, Rebecca Blevins

“…We will consider the complex question of racial identity, test the givens of history by uncovering histories that have been more elusive or more thoroughly suppressed, and explore how writing and reading can both reflect and challenge racial categories, hierarchies, and perceptions. …”
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Distribution and abundance of human-specific bacteroides and relation to traditional indicators in an urban tropical catchment by Nshimyimana, J. P., Ekklesia, Eveline, Shanahan, P., Chua, L. H. C., Thompson, J. R.

“…Significance and Impact: A major challenge for assessment of water quality in tropical environments is the natural occurrence and nonconservative behaviour of FIB. The HF183 marker has been employed in temperate environments as an alternative indicator for human sewage contamination. …”
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Direct seeding of mass-cultured coral larvae is not an effective option for reef rehabilitation by Edwards, Alasdair J., Guest, James R., Heyward, Andrew J., Villanueva, Ronald D., Baria, Ma. Vanessa, Bollozos, Iris S. F., Golbuu, Yimnang

“…Large-scale rearing of coral larvae during mass spawning events and subsequent direct introduction of competent larvae onto denuded reefs (‘larval seeding’) has been proposed as a low-tech and affordable way of enhancing coral settlement and hence recovery of degraded reefs. …”
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"Meta-atomless" architecture based on an irregular continuous fabric of coupling-tuned identical nanopillars enables highly efficient and achromatic metasurfaces by Yaǧcl, H. Bilge, Demir, Hilmi Volkan

“…However, to date, a pending and fundamental problem of this approach has been the low device efficiency that such resulting metasurface components suffer, an unwanted side effect of large lattice constants that are used for preventing intercoupling of their meta-atoms. …”
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Barium aluminate improved iron ore for the chemical looping combustion of syngas by Wang, Haiming, Dou, Xiaomin, Veksha, Andrei, Liu, Wen, Giannis, Apostolos, Ge, Liya, Lim, Teik-Thye, Lisak, Grzegorz

“…However, CLC of municipal solid waste (MSW) has been seldom reported. In this study, we investigated the CLC of simulated MSW-derived syngas using iron ore (IO)-based oxygen carriers (OCs). …”
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Quantum spin Hall effect and topological phase transition in InNxBiySb1−x−y/InSb quantum wells by Song, Zhigang, Bose, Sumanta, Fan, Weijun, Zhang, Dao Hua, Zhang, Yan Yang, Li, Shu Shen

“…Recently, the quest for new materials exhibiting non-trivial topological state of matter has been of great research interest, as TIs find applications in new electronics and spintronics and quantum-computing devices. …”
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Binding of TCR multimers and a TCR-like antibody with distinct fine-specificities is dependent on the surface density of HLA complexes by Low, Jianrong L., Gehring, Adam J., Kranz, David M., Grotenbreg, Gijsbert M., Yau, Yin Hoe, Shochat, Susana Geifman, Bertoletti, Antonio, Naidoo, Anneta, Yeo, Gladys, Ho, Zi Zong

“…Various protein scaffolds have been designed to recapitulate the specific recognition of presented antigens with the aim to be exploited both diagnostically (e.g. to visualize cells exposed to infectious agents or cellular transformation) and therapeutically (e.g. for the delivery of drugs to compromised cells). …”
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Efficient and Homogenous Precipitation of Sulfur Within a 3D Electrospun Heterocatalytic Rutile/Anatase TiO2-x Framework in Lithium–Sulfur Batteries by Feng, Ping, Dong, Kang, Xu, Yaolin, Zhang, Xia, Jia, Haojun, Prell, Henrik, Tovar, Michael, Manke, Ingo, Liu, Fuyao, Xiang, Hengxue, Zhu, Meifang, Lu, Yan

“…Herein, free-standing carbon nanofibers embedded with oxygen-deficient titanium dioxide nanoparticles (TiO2-x/CNFs) has been fabricated by a facile electrospinning method, which can support active electrode materials without the need for conductive carbon and binders. …”
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Statistical modeling reveals the effect of absolute humidity on dengue in Singapore by Xu, Hai-Yan, Fu, Xiuju, Lee, Lionel Kim Hock, Ma, Stefan, Goh, Kee Tai, Wong, Jiancheng, Habibullah, Mohamed Salahuddin, Lee, Gary Kee Khoon, Lim, Tian Kuay, Tambyah, Paul Anantharajah, Lim, Chin Leong, Ng, Lee Ching

“…However, these studies have been limited due to the complex epidemiology of dengue, which involves dynamic interplay of multiple factors such as herd immunity within a population, distinct serotypes of the virus, environmental factors and intervention programs. …”
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Data-driven approach to spatiotemporal dynamic risk assessment of urban flooding based on shared socio-economic pathways by Wang, Mo, Chen, Furong, Zhang, Dongqing, Chen, Zijing, Su, Jin, Zhou, Shiqi, Li, Jianjun, Chen, Jintang, Li, Jiaying, Tan, Soon Keat

“…Accurately predicting possible flood-prone locations under the dynamic fluctuations of LULC is crucial for sustainable urban development. However, there has been sparse studies on systematic integration of LULC changes into anticipate urban development scenarios coupled with flooding vulnerability assessment. …”
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Unlocking the hidden potential: enhancing the utilization of stems and leaves through metabolite analysis and toxicity assessment of various parts of Aconitum carmichaelii by Zhou, Yinlin, Qu, Can, Yan, Hongling, Chu, Tianzhe, Wu, Jing, Kang, Qinzhao, Peng, Cheng, Wang, Yulan, Tan, Yuzhu

“…Ethnopharmacological relevance: Aconitum carmichaelii is widely used in traditional Chinese medicine clinics as a bulk medicinal material. It has been used in China for more than two thousand years. …”
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The opioid receptor influences circadian rhythms in human keratinocytes through the β-arrestin pathway by Bigliardi, Paul, Junnarkar, Seetanshu, Markale, Chinmay, Lo, Sydney, Bigliardi, Elena, Kalyuzhny, Alex, Ong, Sheena, Dunn, Ray, Wahli, Walter, Bigliardi-Qi, Mei

“…Furthermore, delta-opioid receptors (DOPrs) have been identified as playing a crucial role in skin differentiation, proliferation and migration, which are not only essential for wound healing but also contribute to cancer development. …”
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Characterization and gene expression analysis of the cir multi-gene family of plasmodium chabaudi chabaudi (AS) by Lawton, Jennifer, Brugat, Thibaut, Yan, Yam Xue, Reid, Adam James, Böhme, Ulrike, Otto, Thomas Dan, Pain, Arnab, Jackson, Andrew, Berriman, Matthew, Cunningham, Deirdre, Preiser, Peter Rainer, Langhorne, Jean

“…Two major sub-families were identified, which have been named A and B. Members of each sub-family displayed different amino acid motifs, and were thus predicted to have undergone functional divergence. …”
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