Micro-DSC, rheological and NMR investigations of the gelation of gallic acid and xyloglucan by Hirun, Namon, Bao, Hongqian, Li, Lin, Deen, Gulam Roshan, Tantishaiyakul, Vimon

“…For the mixture of GA and 1% (w/v) TSX, the critical gel concentration of GA was 0.69% (w/v) at physiological temperature (37 °C) and the sol–gel transition was well described by the scaling law. …”
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Chiral mirrors by Plum, Eric, Zheludev, Nikolay I.

“…Mirrors are used in telescopes, microscopes, photo cameras, lasers, satellite dishes, and everywhere else, where redirection of electromagnetic radiation is required making them arguably the most important optical component. …”
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Astray by Tan, Ken Wei Hao

“…Inspiration to do this project came fortunately with the advent of “YouTube” which had opened up my world to so much life changing content and as I was watching “The Joy of Painting with Bob Ross” something clicked in my head when he, in one episode said “I spent half my life doing someone else’s thing, painting should make you happy and if it doesn’t make you happy, you’re doing the wrong thing.” …”
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Public goods in the short and long term by Trammell, P

“…</p> <p>All three are theory papers, but little else unites them methodologically. Their common thread is a motivation: to improve how classical utilitarians spend their resources, given the complex relationships spending in one time and place can have to other markets or other times. …”

Humans first: why people value animals less than humans by Caviola, L, Schubert, S, Kahane, G, Faber, NS

“…The key driver behind moral anthropocentrism was thus mere species-membership (<em>speciesism</em>). However, all else equal, participants still gave more moral weight to individuals with higher mental capacities (<em>individual mental capacity principle</em>), suggesting that the belief that humans have higher mental capacities than animals is part of the reason that they give humans moral priority. …”

Exploring demographic disparities in the mastery of higher-order thinking skills among primary school pupils by Yee Mei Heong, Yee Mei Heong, Mahmad, Mohd Faisal, Tee Tze Kiong, Tee Tze Kiong, Kok Boon Ching, Kok Boon Ching, Azid, Nurulwahida, Nur Rahma Putra, Andika Bagus

“…Today's pupils should cultivate higher-order thinking skills (HOTS) more than anything else. This study aims to assess the HOTS level among primary school pupils based on demographics and their differences. …”
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Persuasion for protection: an analysis of online safety videos on YouTube by Huang, Liuyu, Goh, Dion Hoe-Lian, Yin, Stella Xin

“…Various topics under the umbrella of online safety were identified. Guided by the prospect theory and exemplification theory, different persuasive features employed in the PSAs were sought. …”
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Extreme Water Uptake of Hygroscopic Hydrogels through Maximized Swelling‐Induced Salt Loading by Graeber, Gustav, Díaz‐Marín, Carlos D, Gaugler, Leon C, Zhong, Yang, El Fil, Bachir, Liu, Xinyue, Wang, Evelyn N

“…By tuning the salt concentration of the swelling solutions and the cross‐linking properties of the gels, hygroscopic hydrogels with extremely high salt loadings are synthesized, which enable unprecedented water uptakes of 1.79 and 3.86 gg<jats:sup>−1</jats:sup> at relative humidity (RH) of 30% and 70%, respectively. …”
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Adhesive curing through low-voltage activation by Ping, Jianfeng, Gao, Feng, Chen, Jian Lin, Webster, Richard David, Steele, Terry W. J.

“…The electrocuring adhesive is synthesized by grafting carbene precursors on polyamidoamine dendrimers and dissolving in aqueous solvents to form viscous gels. The electrocuring adhesives are activated at −2 V versus Ag/AgCl, allowing tunable crosslinking within the dendrimer matrix and on both electrode surfaces. …”
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Power management system design and optimization for European Student Moon Orbitor (ESMO) by Muhammad Dzahir Mohamed Zain Affandi.

“…ESMO is a European Space Agency (ESA) initiative to involve the universities to build the first student satellite to orbit the Moon. …”
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Pumice cone eruptions at Aluto volcano, Ethiopia by Clarke, Ben, Calder, Eliza S., Fontijn, Karen, Desalegn, Firawalin, Tierz, Pablo, Yirgu, Gezahegn

“…We investigate nine such pumice cones, and find that they are the product of moderate-intensity explosive eruptions that develop a sustained but unsteady eruption column, deposit lapilli- to block-sized tephra close to the vent forming pumice cones, can deposit distal tephra from an umbrella cloud, produce pyroclastic density currents by repeated partial column-collapse, and end with the emplacement of silicic lava. …”
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“Encouraged to be your true self”: an interpretative phenomenological study of medical students’ experiences of role models in shaping sexual minority identity at medical school... by Zacharias, A, Aitken, D

“…This methodology allowed us to develop meaning from, and give voice to, participants’ relationship with their bespoke experiences, respecting differing narratives within the broad ‘SGM’ umbrella, rather than attempting to establish commonalities. …”

Microscopic dynamics underlying the stress relaxation of arrested soft materials by Song, Jake, Zhang, Qingteng, de Quesada, Felipe, Rizvi, Mehedi H., Tracy, Joseph B., Ilavsky, Jan, Narayanan, Suresh, Del Gado, Emanuela, Leheny, Robert L., Holten-Andersen, Niels, McKinley, Gareth H.

“…Arrested soft materials such as gels and glasses exhibit a slow stress relaxation with a broad distribution of relaxation times in response to linear mechanical perturbations. …”
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Roles of POPX2 phosphatase in the regulation of apoptosis by Weng, Ting

“…By culturing cancer cells on polyacrylamide gels of different rigidities, we found a positive correlation between increased cell spreading and enhanced formation of stress fibers. …”
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Use of artificial intelligence in critical care: opportunities and obstacles by Pinsky, Michael R., Bedoya, Armando, Bihorac, Azra, Celi, Leo, Churpek, Matthew, Economou-Zavlanos, Nicoleta J., Elbers, Paul, Saria, Suchi, Liu, Vincent, Lyons, Patrick G., Shickel, Benjamin, Toral, Patrick, Tscholl, David, Clermont, Gilles

“…Background Perhaps nowhere else in the healthcare system than in the intensive care unit environment are the challenges to create useful models with direct time-critical clinical applications more relevant and the obstacles to achieving those goals more massive. …”
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Three essays on corporate finance by Fu, Kangkang

“…Further analysis shows that less environmentally responsible firms have a lower fraction of bank debt in total debt, all else equal, consistent with the notion that banks are more environmentally sensitive than other lenders. …”
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Mechanics and manufacturing of crosslinked cellulose nanocomposites by Rao, Abhinav.

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Inclusion of cross-linked elastin in gelatin/PEG hydrogels favourably influences fibroblast phenotype by Cao, Ye, Lee, Bae Hoon, Irvine, Scott Alexander, Wong, Yee Shan, Peled, Havazelet Bianco, Venkatraman, Subramanian

“…The expression of collagen alpha-1(COL1A1) and elastin in gelatin/elastin hybrid gels increased 16-fold and 6-fold compared to control sample at day 9, respectively. …”
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The impact of social isolation on delayed hospital discharges of older hip fracture patients and associated costs by Landeiro, F, Leal, J, Gray, A

“…These two variables also increased the number of days of delayed discharges (2.6 and 4.9 extra days, respectively, holding all else constant). Patients who were admitted from an institution were less likely to have delayed discharges (OR 0.2) with 5.5 fewer days of delay. …”

Investigation of ionic doping in all-solid-state organic electrochemical transistors by Hou, Kunqi

“…Further, we proceed to develop a universal solid polymer electrolyte based on thermoplastic polyurethane (TPU) ionic gels and showed good OECT performance with four different ion-permeable semiconductors to prove the generality of the TPU solid electrolyte. …”
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