The January 11, 2018, Mw 6.0 Bago-Yoma, Myanmar earthquake : a shallow thrust event within the deforming Bago-Yoma range by Fadil, Wardah, Lindsey, Eric Ostrom, Wang, Yu, Maung, Phyo Maung, Luo, Heng, Swe, Tint Lwin, Tun, Pa Pa, Wei, Shengji

“…The seismic hazard posed by these active faults has been increasing with the development of infrastructure such as dams within the BYR. …”
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Low biodegradability of dissolved organic matter from Southeast Asian peat-draining rivers by Nichols, Robert S., Martin, Patrick

“…Despite substantial interest in the biogeochemical fate of terrigenous DOC (tDOC), few studies have quantified phenol oxidase activity in aquatic environments, and microbial remineralization rates of tDOC have never been measured in Southeast Asia. Here, we assess the potential for using phenol oxidase assays as a proxy for tDOC biodegradation across peat-draining rivers and the coastal waters of Sarawak, Borneo, and report experimental measurements of microbial tDOC remineralization rates from this region. …”
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Functional metagenomic analysis of quorum sensing signaling in a nitrifying community by Tan, Chuan Hao, Yeo, Yee Phan, Muhammad Hafiz Ismail, Ng, Noele Kai Jing, Subramoni, Sujatha, Taj, Shireen, Tay, Martin, Chao, Xie, Kjelleberg, Staffan, Rice, Scott A.

“…In wastewater treatment systems, acylated homoserine lactone (AHL)-based QS has been correlated with the conversion of floccular biomass into microbial granules, as well as EPS production and the nitrogen removal process. …”
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A BIM-data mining integrated digital twin framework for advanced project management by Pan, Yue, Zhang, Limao

“…The proposed digital twin has been verified in a practical BIM-based project. Based on large inspection data from IoT devices, the 4D visualization and task-centered or worker-centered process model are built as the virtual model to simulate both the task execution and worker cooperation. …”
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Chromosome-level genome assembly of the diploid blueberry Vaccinium darrowii provides insights into its subtropical adaptation and cuticle synthesis by Cui, Fuqiang, Ye, Xiaoxue, Li, Xiaoxiao, Yang, Yifan, Hu, Zhubing, Overmyer, Kirk, Brosché, Mikael, Yu, Hong, Salojärvi, Jarkko

“…Vaccinium darrowii is a subtropical wild blueberry species that has been used to breed economically important southern highbush cultivars. …”
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Metrics to relate COVID-19 wastewater data to clinical testing dynamics by Xiao, Amy, Wu, Fuqing, Bushman, Mary, Zhang, Jianbo, Imakaev, Maxim, Chai, Peter R., Duvallet, Claire, Endo, Noriko, Erickson, Timothy B., Armas, Federica, Arnold, Brian, Chen, Hongjie, Chandra, Franciscus, Ghaeli, Newsha, Gu, Xiaoqiong, Hanage, William P., Lee, Wei Lin, Matus, Mariana, McElroy, Kyle A., Moniz, Katya, Rhode, Steven F., Thompson, Janelle, Alm, Eric J.

“…While wastewater surveillance has been applied at various scales to monitor population-level COVID-19 dynamics, there is a need for quantitative metrics to interpret wastewater data in the context of public health trends. 24-hour composite wastewater samples were collected from March 2020 through May 2021 from a Massachusetts wastewater treatment plant and SARS-CoV-2 RNA concentrations were measured using RT-qPCR. …”
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Lightweight salient object detection in optical remote sensing images via feature correlation by Li, Gongyang, Liu, Zhi, Bai, Zhen, Lin, Weisi, Ling, Haibin

“…Salient object detection in optical remote sensing images (ORSI-SOD) has been widely explored for understanding ORSIs. However, previous methods focus mainly on improving the detection accuracy while neglecting the cost in memory and computation, which may hinder their real-world applications. …”
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Integrated optimization algorithm: a metaheuristic approach for complicated optimization by Li, Chen, Chen, Guo, Liang, Gaoqi, Luo, Fengji, Zhao, Junhua, Dong, Zhao Yang

“…Empirical case studies conclude that IOA shows a much faster convergence speed and finds better solutions than the other 8 comparative algorithms based on 27 benchmark functions. IOA has also been applied to solve unit commitment problems in the power system and shows satisfactory results. …”
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Robust polyamide-PTFE hollow fibre membranes for harsh organic solvent nanofiltration by Francis, Verona Nithya, Chong, Jeng Yi, Yang, Guoying, Che, Lei, Wang, Rong

“…Polymeric membranes have been extensively studied for organic solvent nanofiltration (OSN) but many fail to show sufficient chemical resistance in strong solvents like dimethylformamide (DMF) and dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO). …”
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Hydroxyapatite nanoparticles-cell interaction: new approaches to disclose the fate of membrane-bound and internalised nanoparticles by Bonany, Mar, Pérez-Berná, Ana Joaquina, Dučić, Tanja, Pereiro, Eva, Martin-Gómez, Helena, Mas-Moruno, Carlos, van Rijt, Sabine, Zhao, Zhitong, Espanol, Montserrat, Ginebra, Maria-Pau

“…Hydroxyapatite nanoparticles are popular tools in bone regeneration, but they have also been used for gene delivery and as anticancer drugs. …”
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Choice of DLVO approximation method for quantifying the affinity between latex particles and membranes by Lay, Huang Teik, Ong, Chi Siang, Wang, Rong, Chew, Jia Wei

“…However, disagreements between membrane fouling extent and the interaction energies derived from DLVO or XDLVO models have been reported, which suggests gaps in the understanding. …”
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Environmental calibration of coral luminescence as a proxy for terrigenous dissolved organic carbon concentration in tropical coastal oceans by Kaushal, Nikita, Tanzil, Jani T. I., Zhou, Yongli, Ong, Maria Rosabelle, Goodkin, Nathalie F., Martin, Patrick

“…The resulting coral skeletal luminescence variability has traditionally been used to reconstruct hydroclimate variation. …”
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Parent-infant affect synchrony during social and solo play by Kidby, Sayaka, Neale, Dave, Wass, Sam, Leong, Victoria

“…While mother-infant affect synchrony has been proposed to facilitate the early development of social understanding, most investigations into affect synchrony have concentrated more on negative than positive affect. …”
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Waffle-inspired hydrogel-based macrodevice for spatially controlled distribution of encapsulated therapeutic microtissues and pro-angiogenic endothelial cells by Pham, Chi H. L., Zuo, Yicong, Chen, Yang, Tran, Nam M., Nguyen, Dang T., Dang, Tram T.

“…However, microtissue aggregation and absence of vasculature have been implicated in the inadequate transfer of nutrients and oxygen to the transplanted cellular grafts. …”
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2D-3D perovskite memristor with low energy consumption and high stability for neural morphology calculation by Sun, Kaixuan, Wang, Qingrui, Zhou, Long, Wang, Jingjuan, Chang, Jingjing, Guo, Rui, Tay, Beng Kang, Yan, Xiaobing

“…Recently, rapid progress has been made in the application of organic-inorganic halide perovskites in electronic devices, such as memristors and artificial synaptic devices. …”
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Android mobile-platform-based image reconstruction for photoacoustic tomography by Hui, Xie, Rajendran, Praveenbalaji, Muhamad Ar Iskandar Zulkifli, Ling, Tong, Pramanik, Manojit

“…Significance: In photoacoustic tomography (PAT), numerous reconstruction algorithms have been utilized to recover initial pressure rise distribution from the acquired pressure waves. …”
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Simultaneous super-resolution and classification of lung disease scans by Heba M. Emara, Mohamed R. Shoaib, Walid El-Shafai, Mohamed Elwekeil, Ezz El-Din Hemdan, Mostafa M. Fouda, Taha E. Taha, Adel S. El-Fishawy, El-Sayed M. El-Rabaie, Fathi E. Abd. El-Samie

“…Acute lower respiratory infection is a leading cause of death in developing countries. Hence, progress has been made for early detection and treatment. There is still a need for improved diagnostic and therapeutic strategies, particularly in resource-limited settings. …”
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Investigating causal relationships between genetically determined increased risk of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and atopic dermatitis (AD): A Mendelian randomiz... by Ng, W, Loh, Marie, Yew, Yik Weng

“…However, to date, there has been no formal assessment of causal relationship between the two. …”
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Partial desensitization of MYC2 transcription factor alters the interaction with jasmonate signaling components and affects specialized metabolism by Hou, Xin, Singh, Sanjay Kumar, Werkman, Joshua R., Liu, Yongliang, Yuan, Qinghua, Wu, Xia, Patra, Barunava, Sui, Xueyi, Lyu, Ruiqing, Wang, Bingwu, Liu, Xiaoyu, Li, Yongqing, Ma, Wei, Pattanaik, Sitakanta, Yuan, Ling

“…The effects of the conserved residue MYC2D128 on interaction with MED25 have not been investigated. Using tobacco as a model, we generated all possible substitutions of aspartic acid 128 (D128) in NtMYC2a. …”
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Structural and magnetic interplay in multiferroic Ho₀.₅Nd₀.₅Fe₃(BO₃)₄ by Tripathy, A., Gautam, K., Dey, K., Sahu, S. R., Ahad, A., Upadhyay, A., Sagdeo, A., Francoual, S., Bereciartua, P. J., Gudim, I., Strempfer, J., Sathe, V. G., Shukla, D. K.

“…Among them Ho0.5Nd0.5Fe3(BO3)4 has attracted the most attention, as it exhibits a multiferroic property with a large, spontaneous, and magnetic-field-induced electric polarization (P) below the antiferromagnetic transition temperature (TN∼32 K). This compound has been reported to be noncentrosymmetric (nonpolar) down to the lowest temperature, and the origin of spontaneous electric polarization below TN is not known. …”
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