Three dimensionals α-Fe2O3/polypyrrole (Ppy) nanoarray as anode for micro lithium ion batteries by Lai, Linfei, Yang, Huanping, Lim, San Hua, Zhen, Yongda, Yu, Ting, Shen, Zexiang, Lin, Jianyi, Liu, Jilei, Zhou, Weiwei

“…A relatively high specific capacity of 0.42 mA h/cm2 can be achieved at 0.1 mA/cm2 even after 100 charge/discharge cycles, with a plateau potential of 1 V and nearly 100% Coulombic efficiency, suggesting the feasibility to use this unique 3D nanostructured hybrid composite for microbattery in both small and large scale applications.…”
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Cylindrical surfaces enable wavelength-selective extinction and sub-0.2 nm linewidth in 250 μm-gap silicon Fabry–Pérot cavities by Malak, Maurine, Marty, Frédéric, Pavy, Nicolas, Peter, Yves-Alain, Liu, Ai Qun, Bourouina, Tarik

“…This approach outperforms the first design in terms of Q-factor, of nearly 9000 for around 250 μm-long cavity, which suggests its potential use for biochemical sensing and analysis as well as cavity enhancement applications requiring high Q.L values.…”
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Global, regional, and national comparative risk assessment of 79 behavioural, environmental and occupational, and metabolic risks or clusters of risks in 188 countries, 1990–2013:... by Forouzanfar, M, Alexander, L, Anderson, H, Ali, R, Beardsley, J, Bennett, D, Briggs, A, Chen, Z, Gething, P, Jha, V, Moschandreas, J, Newton, C, Rahimi, K, Scarborough, P

“…For men, high systolic blood pressure or tobacco use are the leading risks in nearly all high-income countries, in north Africa and the Middle East, Europe, and Asia. …”

Sociospatial reframing of walking through inclusive streets and urban heritage by Wang, Yongcheng

“…The analysis revealed broad themes such as a vision of a “car-lite” city and the broadening scope of urban heritage, and specific themes such as heritage trails for learning while walking and the blurred line between locals and tourists. …”
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Comparison of text messaging data collection vs face-to-face interviews for public health surveys : a cluster randomized crossover study of care-seeking for childhood pneumonia and... by van Velthoven, Michelle Helena, Wang, Wei, Wu, Qiong, Li, Ye, Scherpbier, Robert W, Du, Xiaozhen, Chen, Li, Zhang, Yanfeng, Car, Josip, Rudan, Igor

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Improving the Bit Complexity of Communication for Distributed Convex Optimization by Ghadiri, Mehrdad, Lee, Yin Tat, Padmanabhan, Swati, Swartworth, William, Woodruff, David P., Ye, Guanghao

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Nipah: The history, and future, of one of the world’s most lethal viruses by Viveros, Alex Gabriel

“…Nipah has caused smaller outbreaks in nearby Bangladesh nearly every year since then. The Malaysian farmers appeared to have been infected directly from their pigs, rather than from each other. …”
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Housing price prediction using convolutional transformer by Ma, Weilun

“…The data set used in this paper are the apartments sold-price in Toronto from 2005 to 2010, which holds nearly 81 features. This study stratifies the dataset chronologically, segregating it into training and validation sets in an 8:2 proportion. …”
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Effects of surface texture on wetting by Kee, Yong How

“…The experimental results showed that sanding a stainless steel and an aluminium surface with unidirectional texture, using a coarse grit sandpaper reduced the contact angles of droplets to nearly half of the Young’s contact angle.…”
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Electrochemical scrutinizing techniques on initial development of pseudomonas aeruginosa strain (PAO1) biofilms by Foo, Yu Hao

“…Bacteria are ubiquitous, forming biofilms on nearly any surface in an aqueous environment. The accumulation of biofilms on the surface of industrial equipment is natural yet often detrimental. …”
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Uncovering the mechanical secrets of the squirting cucumber by Box, F, Moulton, DE, Vella, D, Lowe, T, Goriely, A, Thorogood, C, Bhagotra, Y

“…We demonstrate how together these mechanical features contribute to a nearly uniform distribution of seeds away from the parent plant. …”

Image segmentation with minimal human supervision by Shin, G

“…</p> <br> <p>In the first part, we demonstrate that considering a model's uncertainty in predictions can significantly reduce the number of annotations required to train a segmenter that performs nearly as well as a fully-supervised one. This finding underscores the critical role of pixels around semantic boundaries in helping the model to learn representations suitable for segmentation.…”

An immunoinformatic approach for identifying and designing conserved multi-epitope vaccines for coronaviruses by Ong, Yu Chuan, Tejo, Bimo Ario, Yap, Wei Boon

“…In the past two decades, coronaviruses (CoV) have been responsible for three major viral outbreaks, and the likelihood of future outbreaks caused by these viruses is high and nearly inevitable. Therefore, effective prophylactic universal vaccines targeting multiple circulating and emerging coronavirus strains are warranted. …”
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Editable supercapacitors with customizable stretchability based on mechanically strengthened ultralong MnO2 nanowire composite by Lv, Zhisheng, Luo, Yifei, Tang, Yuxin, Wei, Jiaqi, Zhu, Zhiqiang, Zhou, Xinran, Li, Wenlong, Zeng, Yi, Zhang, Wei, Zhang, Yanyan, Qi, Dianpeng, Pan, Shaowu, Loh, Xian Jun, Chen, Xiaodong

“…In addition, it maintains nearly 98% of the initial capacitance after 10 000 stretch-and-release cycles under 400% tensile strain. …”
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Ultrastable shear jammed granular material by Zhao, Yiqiu, Zhao, Yuchen, Wang, Dong, Zheng, Hu, Chakraborty, Bulbul, Socolar, Joshua E. S.

“…The stress response of these states to small imposed shear is nearly elastic, in contrast to the original shear jammed state.…”
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Personality traits bias the perceived quality of sonic environments by Lindborg, PerMagnus, Friberg, Anders

“…Emotional stability and noise sensitivity were notable predictors whose contribution to explaining the variation in quality ratings was between one-tenth and nearly half of the soundscape indicators, as measured by squared semipartial correlation. …”
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Self-concordance theory and the goal-striving reasons framework and their distinct relationships with hedonic and eudaimonic well-being by Ehrlich, Christian, Cripps, Karen, Ehrlich, Susanne

“…Here, self-concordance achieves nearly similar correlations to the goal-striving reasons framework. …”
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Progressive collapse behaviour of precast concrete structures with advanced joints by Nguyen, Van Hung

“…Secondly, the pull-out test results highlighted a pivotal role of bearing force in anchorage strength of headed bars and strain behaviour. …”
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论李世民音乐政治观对儒家礼乐思想的继承和转化 = A study on Li Shimin music-politics: inheritance and transformation of Confucian ritual and music thought by 许惠佳 Koh, Hwee Kay

“…To a certain extent, he had inherited Yueji, Confucian ritual and Music thought - which extensively covers the social influence and educational function of music to society – while at the same time, his Music-politics thought bears much resemblance to those of Ji Kang. This article hopes to explore in detail Li Shimin’s Music-politics thought, and by using Yueji as a comparison, analyses how his inheritance and transformation of Confucian Ritual and Music thought played an important role in shaping the Tang Culture.…”
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Synthesis of heavy cyanide analogs for the design of novel Prussian blue analogs by Yang, E

“…In order to provide illustrative points of comparison, analogous metal complexes bearing various strong-field ligands are also synthesized and analyzed using the same approach.…”