Engineering bunched Pt-Ni alloy nanocages for efficient oxygen reduction in practical fuel cells by Tian, Xinlong, Zhao, Xiao, Su, Ya-Qiong, Wang, Lijuan, Wang, Hongming, Dang, Dai, Chi, Bin, Liu, Hongfang, Hensen, Emiel J. M., Lou, David Xiong Wen, Xia, Bao Yu

“…We report one-dimensional bunched platinum-nickel (Pt-Ni) alloy nanocages with a Pt-skin structure for the oxygen reduction reaction that display high mass activity (3.52 amperes per milligram platinum) and specific activity (5.16 milliamperes per square centimeter platinum), or nearly 17 and 14 times higher as compared with a commercial platinum on carbon (Pt/C) catalyst. …”
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Does everyone have the potential to achieve their ideal body weight? Lay theories about body weight and support for price discrimination policies by Li, Kevin Shaobo, Kokkoris, Michail D., Savani, Krishna

“…Six studies identified a novel lay theory—whether people believe that nearly everyone (the universal belief) or only some people (the nonuniversal belief) can achieve their ideal body weight. …”
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Theoretical Modelling and Facile Synthesis of a Highly Active Boron-Doped Palladium Catalyst for the Oxygen Reduction Reaction by Vo Doan, Tat Thang, Wang, Jingbo, Poon, Kee Chun, Tan, Desmond Chun Long, Khezri, Bahareh, Webster, Richard David, Su, Haibin, Sato, Hirotaka

“…Our theoretical modelling reveals that B-doped Pd (Pd-B) weakens the absorption of ORR intermediates with nearly optimal binding energy by lowering the barrier associated with O2 dissociation, suggesting Pd-B should be highly active for ORR. …”
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Roseburia intestinalis generated butyrate boosts anti-PD-1 efficacy in colorectal cancer by activating cytotoxic CD8⁺ T cells by Kang, Xing, Liu, Changan, Ding, Yanqiang, Ni, Yunbi, Ji, Fenfen, Lau, Harry Cheuk Hay, Jiang, Lanping, Sung, Joseph Jao Yiu, Wong, Sunny Hei, Yu, Jun

“…R. intestinalis or butyrate also significantly improved antiprogrammed cell death protein 1 (anti-PD-1) efficacy in mice bearing MSI-low CT26 tumours. Mechanistically, butyrate directly bound to toll-like receptor 5 (TLR5) receptor on CD8(+) T cells to induce its activity through activating nuclear factor kappa B (NF-& kappa;B) signalling. …”
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Skindiary : mobile application for skin health by Wang, Zirui

“…Outstanding examples are MeiFuJia and mySkin, which are both taking considerable market shares. However, nearly all of these applications emphasize the skin-care advice and product recommendation. …”
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The do's and don'ts of quantum memory in cryptanalysis by Jaques, S

“…This second algorithm has a higher cost but parallelises nearly perfectly.</p>…”

ConfSolv: Prediction of solute conformer free energies across a range of solvents by Pattanaik, Lagnajit, Menon, Angiras, Settels, Volker, Spiekermann, Kevin A., Tan, Zipei, Vermeire, Florence, Sandfort, Frederik, Eiden, Philipp, Green Jr, William H

“…To help address this challenge, we generate a large dataset of solution free energies for nearly 44000 solutes with almost 9 million conformers calculated in 41 different solvents using density functional theory and COSMO-RS and quantify the impact of solute conformers on the solution free energy. …”
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All-sky search for gravitational wave emission from scalar boson clouds around spinning black holes in LIGO O3 data by Sudhir, Vivishek

“…Outliers from this search are followed up using two different methods, one more suitable for nearly monochromatic signals, and the other more robust towards frequency fluctuations. …”
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Query lower bounds for log-concave sampling by Chewi, Sinho, de Dios Pont, Jaume, Li, Jerry, Lu, Chen, Narayanan, Shyam

“…In this work, we establish the following query lower bounds: (1) sampling from strongly log-concave and log-smooth distributions in dimension ≥ 2 requires Ω(log) queries, which is sharp in any constant dimension, and (2) sampling from Gaussians in dimension (hence also from general log-concave and log-smooth distributions in dimension) requires Ωe(min( √ log,)) queries, which is nearly sharp for the class of Gaussians. Here denotes the condition number of the target distribution. …”
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NiNC Catalysts in CO2-to-CO Electrolysis by Zhang, Hao, Qi, Menghui, Wang, Yong

“…Recent study by Strasser et al. in Nature Chemical Engineering presents a high-performance CO2-to-CO electrolyzer utilizing a NiNC catalyst with nearly 100% faradaic efficiency, employing innovative diagnostic tools like the carbon crossover coefficient (CCC) to address transport-related failures and optimize overall efficiency. …”
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Forecasting item-level demands : an analytical evaluation of top-down versus bottom-up forecasting in a production-planning framework by Viswanathan, S., Widiarta, Handik, Piplani, Rajesh

“…We show that the performance of the two forecasting strategies is nearly identical, regardless of the coefficient of correlation between the item demands, the items' proportion in the family and the coefficient of the serial correlation term of the demand process. …”
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Ocular delivery of predatory bacteria with cryomicroneedles against eye infection by Cui, Mingyue, Zheng, Mengjia, Wiraja, Christian, Chew, Sharon Wan Ting, Mishra, Arti, Mayandi, Venkatesh, Lakshminarayanan, Rajamani, Xu, Chenjie

“…The infection is significantly relieved by nearly six times through 2.5 days of treatment without substantial effects on the cornea thickness and morphology. …”
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Counting and mapping of subwavelength nanoparticles from a single shot scattering pattern by Chan, Eng Aik, Rendón-Barraza, Carolina, Wang, Benquan, Pu, Tanchao, Ou, Jun-Yu, Wei, Hongxin, Adamo, Giorgio, An, Bo, Zheludev, Nikolay I.

“…We also demonstrate that the particle locations can be mapped on a 4 × 4 grid with a nearly perfect accuracy (16-pixel binary imaging of the particle ensemble). …”
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Missing targets: reforming disaster policy in Southeast Asia by Cook, Alistair David Blair, Lassa, Jonatan, Caballero-Anthony, Mely

“…A recent United Nations report shows that across nearly all indicators the region is regressing in terms of its 2030 Sustainable Development Goals. …”
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Visible light based occupancy inference using ensemble learning by Hao, Jie, Yuan, Xiaoming, Yang, Yanbing, Wang, Ran, Zhuang, Yi, Luo, Jun

“…As a key component of building management and security, occupancy inference through smart sensing has attracted a lot of research attention for nearly two decades. Recently, a cutting edge technique visible light sensing (VLS) that utilizes the LED luminaires as light sensors has shown its promising application potentials in occupancy inference as it piggybacks on pervasive lighting infrastructure without extra equipment deployment. …”
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Intelligent database design for microgrids in low voltage distribution systems-I GUI and database design by Ng, Pei Fen

“…Climatic change can lead to consequences such as increasing cases of heat-related illness, endangering wildlife like polar bears and rising of sea level that would trigger natural disasters leading to individual losing their homes. [51] Due to extensively use of electricity in this contemporary society, there arises a need to seek for alternative energy sources, if at all possible renewable resources such as wind and solar. …”
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On the Complexity of Neural Computation in Superposition by Adler, Micah, Shavit, Nir

“…Conversely, we show a nearly tight upper bound: logical operations like pair- wise AND can be computed using O(√(m′) log m′) neurons and O(m′ log^2 m′) parameters. …”
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Diauxic lags explain unexpected coexistence in multi‐resource environments by Bloxham, Blox, Lee, Hyunseok, Gore, Jeff

“…We extend our work by surveying a large set of competitions and observe coexistence nearly four times as frequently when the slow‐grower is the fast‐switcher. …”
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Development of a portable prototype of energy-saving LED lighting system by Lum, Rui Qian

“…In Singapore, where corporations and households contribute nearly half of the total energy consumption, there's a pressing need for technologies promoting energy efficiency. …”
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New use of global warming potentials to compare cumulative and short-lived climate pollutants by Allen, MR, Fuglestvedt, JS, Shine, KP, Reisinger, A, Pierrehumbert, R, Forster, PM

“…If the overall goal of climate policy is to limit peak warming, GWP100 therefore overstates the importance of current SLCP emissions unless stringent and immediate reductions of all climate pollutants result in temperatures nearing their peak soon after mid-century7, 8, 9, 10, which may be necessary to limit warming to “well below 2 °C” (ref. 1). …”