Christianity’s role in colonial and revolutionary Haiti 1 (Article Commentary) by Edwards, Erica Johnson

“…In the lead up to her confirmation, while senators and the media focused heavily on her Catholic faith, some on social media drew attention to the two Haitian children she and her husband adopted following the 2010 earthquake in Haiti.2 The connections between Coney-Barret’s Christianity and the Haitian earthquake recalled Pat Robertson’s controversial claim that the earthquake was caused by a Haitian “pact with the devil” during the Haitian Revolution.3 Whatever else one might say about Robertson’s comments, they show his ignorance of the important but little-known role Christianity and the Catholic clergy played in eighteenth-century colonial Haiti.…”
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Narrative understanding by Prescott-Couch, A

“…Even if narrative is not the best means for providing us with causal information, it can provide us with information about something else of importance such as the events' “meanings” or others' experiences. …”

Music for plants? An investigation into the impact of exposure to acoustic stimulus in bok choy (brassica rapa) plants by Yeoh, JPS, Zhang, Z, Koh, KS, Sinniah, UR, Spence, CJ, Beh, WF

“…Three separate groups of bok choy plants were exposed to classical music, rock music, or else no music, during growth and development and the influence on yield was observed. …”

Interaction-mediating sequences within class I viral fusion glycoproteins : their roles in viral infection and in applications by Zhang, Simin

“…The antiviral activities of the HIV-1 Env MPER-derived peptides were abrogated upon Ala substitution of the Trp residues or deletion of the C-terminal cholesterol-interacting motif. …”
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“Virtual encounters: the making and manifestations of Deleuze’s Bergsonism” by Lundy, Craig

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Disruption of the Broadcast by Packer, Randall

“…But today, artists are plugged in and wired, like everyone else, such that the torrent of news and information that lights up our screens in such overabundance often finds its way into the artistic process. …”
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Do we need economic inequality? by Dorling, D

“…<br> Dorling shows how, amongst much else, a stabilizing population, changing gender relations and rising access to education make a more egalitarian alternative to this nightmare vision not only preferable, but realistic. …”

Asymmetric projection of introspection reveals a behavioural and neural mechanism for interindividual social coordination by Miyamoto, K, Harbison, C, Tanaka, S, Saito, M, Luo, S, Matsui, S, Sankhe, P, Mahmoodi, A, Lin, M, Trudel, N, Shea, N, Rushworth, MFS

“…We might estimate how well someone else will perform by extrapolating from estimates of how well we ourselves would perform. …”

Dark current analysis of InasSb-based hetero-p-i-n mid-infrared photodiode by Suo, Fei, Tong, Jinchao, Zhang, Dao Hua

“…For the typical square mesa with 350 μm side length, at the bias of -0.4 V, the dark current density is 1.78 A/cm2 for T=293 K, and reduces to 0.4 A/cm2 for T=77 K, where the room-temperature value is lower than or comparable with that of the state-of-the-art mid-infrared photodetectors. …”
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Country governance nexus with the financial stability of banks: the moderating effect of country’s income level by Ghosh, Protap K., Kharuddin, Saira B., Kamarudin, Fakarudin B.

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Translating oral histories: a podcast by Wong, Melissa Xin Yu

“…In particular, the last approach of editorial insertions renders the translator visible, a deliberate decision made to both respect the original speaker and to remind readers that someone else has shaped the stories being presented.…”
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Multicarrier communications for underwater wireless channels by Leong, Chen Ming.

“…Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplex (OFDM) is a multicarrier transmission technology which was first described by R. W. Chang in 1966 at Bell Labs. The first patent was granted in 1970. …”
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No Simple Fix: How AI Harms Reflect Power and Jurisdiction in the Workplace by Nedzhvetskaya, Nataliya, Tan, JS

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Personality predicts words in favorite songs by Qiu, Lin, Chen, Jiayu, Ramsay, Jonathan, Lu, Jiahui

“…Our study is the first to show how one's personality is related to linguistic cues in someone else's writings. It points to the possibility that people may like certain songs because the linguistic cues in the lyrics are congruent with their personality and hence can satisfy personal needs. …”
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The Policy, People, and Place Impacts of Mining for the Clean Energy Transition in the US by Randall, Abigail Marie

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Missing links in The China Model by Li, Chenyang

“…Daniel A. Bell's recent book The China Model: Political Meritocracy and the Limits of Democracy makes a significant contribution to political theory, political philosophy, and China studies. …”
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Time-frequency analysis of simulated binary pulsar signals by Nandhini Ganesan

“…With its discovery by Jocelyn Bell Burnell and Antony Hewish, who received Nobel Prize in 1974, it got the attention of many astrophysicists. …”
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Homologous Lympho-epithelial Kazal-type inhibitor domains delay blood coagulation by inhibiting factor X and XI with differential specificity by Ramesh, Karthik, Lama, Dilraj, Tan, Kang Wei, Nguyen, Van Sang, Chew, Fook Tim, Verma, Chandra Shekhar, Mok, Yu Keung

“…A model of the LEKTI-protease complex revealed that FXaB has a narrower S4 pocket compared with FXIa and hence prefers only small side-chain residues at the P4 position, such as Ala in LEKTI domain 6. Mutational studies combined with a molecular complex model suggest that both a more flexible reactive-site loop and a bulky residue at the P4 position make LEKTI domain 4 a weaker but highly selective inhibitor of FXIa.…”
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Experimental study on sediment clump by Yang, Yang

“…The behavior of sediment clump was found to follow a probabilistic model and the disintegration depth of a sediment clump followed a one-sided bell-shaped curve. It was also observed that clump fragmentation would greatly affect the sediment clump behaviors.…”
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Two for tau: automated model discovery reveals two-stage tau aggregation dynamics in Alzheimer’s disease by Stockman, CA, Goriely, A, Kuhl, E, Jerusalem, A, Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative

“…We propose an innovative approach that uses constitutive neural networks to autonomously discover bell-shaped aggregation functions with multiple peaks from clinical positron emission tomography (PET) data of misfolded tau protein. …”