Bacterial type VI secretion system helps prevent cheating in microbial communities by Filloux, Alain

“…Although microbial “societies” do not have such rules codified, they nonetheless implement molecular strategies to restrict foes and cheaters within their respective populations and communities.…”
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System of floating solar farm with vertical curtain and different anchoring configuration by Chern, Adam

“…Three parameters of the set-up were tested: surface penetration of vertical sheet, length of horizontal sheet and separation distance between the two sheets. …”
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Study of degradation mechanisms in SiON gate dielectric film subjected to negative bias temperature instability (NBTI) stress by Kang, Chun Wei.

“…A comparable trend of ESD breakdown voltage is observed when the amount of switching hole traps remain constant while the breakdown voltage becomes generally lower when transformation of recoverable recoverable E' center to permanent E' center happened for NBTI experiment at 200°C. …”
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Surface wave interaction with a vertical viscoelastic barrier by Bi, Cheng, Wu, Mao See, Law, Adrian Wing-Keung

“…In this study, the surface wave interaction with a thin vertical submerged viscoelastic sheet as a wave barrier is investigated analytically without pre-assumption of the sheet dynamic behavior. …”
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Brownian dynamics simulation of soft matter with hydrodynamics: methods for constrained systems and shear processing of 2D materials by Funkenbusch, William Tian

“…We use the conformational and rotational properties of the sheet simulations to explain this behavior, demonstrating a new explanation for the non-monotonic rheological properties of 2D materials which does not involve sheet-sheet interactions (which are rare in dilute suspensions) or thermal energy (which is often small in sheet systems). …”
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Can't Hurt Me : Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds / by Goggins, David, author 655975, Storytel (Online service) 655976

“…Rising from a childhood marred by physical and emotional abuse from his father, neglect, poverty, racism, depression and being overweight, David (through sheer grit and determination), rose to become a Navy SEAL, an Army Ranger, and an Air Force Tactical Air Controller. …”
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Solubilization and characterization of extracellular proteins from anammox granular sludge by Boleij, Marissa, Seviour, Thomas, Wong, Lan Li, van Loosdrecht, Mark C. M., Lin, Yuemei

“…Physicochemical analyses of the granules indicated that extracellular structural matrix proteins likely have β-sheet dominated secondary structures. These β-sheet structures were measured in EPS extracted with both methods. …”
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Nanoscale current spreading analysis in solution-processed graphene oxide/silver nanowire transparent electrodes via conductive atomic force microscopy by Shaw, Joseph E., Perumal, Ajay, Bradley, Donal D. C., Stavrinou, Paul N., Anthopoulos, Thomas D.

“…When the materials are deposited sequentially to form bilayer rGOX/AgNW electrodes and thermally annealed at 200 °C, the sheet resistance reduces by up to 36% as compared to pristine AgNW networks. …”
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Stress evolution of GaN/AlN heterostructure grown on 6H-SiC substrate by plasma assisted molecular beam epitaxy by Agrawal, Manvi, Ravikiran, Lingaparthi, Dharmarasu, Nethaji, Radhakrishnan, K., Karthikeyan, Giri Sadasivam, Zheng, Yuanjin

“…GaN/AlN structure is found to form buried cracks when AlN is grown in the intermediate growth regime(III/V∼1)and GaN is grown under N-rich growth regime (III/V<1). …”
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Effect of a rectangular tunnel in the foundation soil on the seismic response of dikes by Teheri, Kelvin

“…The peak was observed when it was located 12.5 m (b/B = 0.25) away from the projected center of dike base.…”
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Membrane-induced tau amyloid fibrils by El Mammeri, Nadia, Gampp, Olivia, Duan, Pu, Hong, Mei

“…The intrinsically disordered protein tau aggregates into β-sheet amyloid fibrils that spread in human brains afflicted with Alzheimer’s disease and other neurodegenerative diseases. …”
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Investigations into high resolution imaging of the aqueous outflow system and cornea by Hong, Jesmond Xun Jie

“…This thesis in this context aims to investigate the potential of Bessel beam and light sheet fluorescence microscopy for ocular disease diagnosis. …”
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Numerical simulation of titanium fibre metallic laminates under various impact loading by Selvadurai Shanmugasundram

“…The high strength of bonding between titanium sheet and composite layer help to arrest the cracks. …”
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Biomineralization in barnacle base plate in association with adhesive cement protein by Hur, Sunyoung, Méthivier, Christophe, Wilson, Axel, Salmain, Michèle, Boujday, Souhir, Miserez, Ali

“…In addition, polarization modulation infrared reflection-absorption spectroscopy of MrCP20 established that, during crystal growth, the content of β-sheet structures in MrCP20 increases, in line with the formation of amyloid-like fibrils. …”
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Delving deeper into the whorl of flower segmentation by Nilsback, M, Zisserman, A

“…This is a challenging problem because of the sheer variety of flower classes, the variability within a class and within a particular flower, and the variability of the imaging conditions – lighting, pose, foreshortening, etc.…”

Effect of coupling in steel/aluminium laminate subjected to tensile load by Ang, Dionysius Wei Qian

“…The results for the first case show lesser bending-extension coupling effect when the number of layers is increased. In the second case, the results show that flexural stiffness increases as the structure is modified from a cantilever sheet to a cantilever beam and the structure shows lesser bending-extension coupling effect. …”
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CNT work function modification for transparent electrode application in organic photovoltaics by Low, Keith Ying Jie.

“…The results show that sheet resistance of the Cnt went down by more that 45% and there was in significant increase in the work function at concentration 4M of HNO3, a p- dopant. …”
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Proteomic and metabolomic analyses of the human adult myocardium reveal ventricle-specific regulation in end-stage cardiomyopathies by Hunter, B, Li, M, Parker, BL, Koay, YC, Harney, DJ, Pearson, E, Cao, J, Chen, GT, Guneratne, O, Smyth, GK, Larance, M, O’Sullivan, JF, Lal, S

“…Inter-ventricular significance of these metabolic pathways was then found to be diminished within end-stage dilated cardiomyopathy and ischaemic cardiomyopathy, while heart failure-associated pathways were increased in the left ventricle relative to the right within ischaemic cardiomyopathy, such as fluid sheer-stress, increased glutamine-glutamate ratio, and down-regulation of contractile proteins, indicating a left ventricular pathological bias.…”

Large scale paired antibody language models by Kenlay, H, Dreyer, FA, Kovaltsuk, A, Miketa, D, Pires, D, Deane, CM

“…With the advent of next-generation sequencing, billions of antibody sequences have been collected in recent years, though their application in the design of better therapeutics has been constrained by the sheer volume and complexity of the data. To address this challenge, we present IgBert and IgT5, the best performing antibody-specific language models developed to date which can consistently handle both paired and unpaired variable region sequences as input. …”

Is clicking mechanism good for flapping wing micro aerial vehicle? by Chin, Yao Wei, Lau, Gih Keong

“…‘Clicking’ occurs when the plate center is moved forcibly from one extreme to the other. …”
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