Direct reuse of electronic plastic scraps from computer monitor and keyboard to direct stem cell growth and differentiation by Shi, Pujiang, Tan, Chiew Kei, Wu, Zhuoran, Gabriel, Jean-Christophe P., Srinivasan, Madhavi, Lee, Jong-Min, Tay, Chor Yong

“…Our findings point to the real possibility of utilizing discarded computer plastics as a "waste-to-resource" material to programme stem cell fate without further processing nor biochemical modification, thus providing an innovative second-life option for E-plastics from personal computers.…”
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Conditional disruption of AMP kinase in dopaminergic neurons promotes Parkinson's disease-associated phenotypes in vivo by Hang, Liting, Wang, Ziyin, Foo, Aaron S. C., Goh, Geraldine, Choong, Huey Ching, Thundyil, John, Xu, Shengli, Lam, Kong-Peng, Lim, Kah-Leong

“…Here, we showed that Drosophila deficient in AMPK function exhibits PD-like features, including dopaminergic neuronal loss and climbing impairment that progress with age. …”
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Mechanisms of Yersinia YopO kinase substrate specificity by Lee, Wei Lin, Singaravelu, Pavithra, Wee, Sheena, Xue, Bo, Ang, Khay Chun, Gunaratne, Jayantha, Grimes, Jonathan M., Swaminathan, Kunchithapadam, Robinson, Robert C.

“…Yersinia bacteria cause a range of human diseases, including yersiniosis, Far East scarlet-like fever and the plague. Yersiniae modulate and evade host immune defences through injection of Yersinia outer proteins (Yops) into phagocytic cells. …”
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Predictive modeling and optimization of noise emissions in a palm oil methyl ester-fueled diesel engine using response surface methodology and artificial neural network integrated... by Muhammad Zikri, Japri, Mohd Shahrir, Mohd Sani, Mohd Fadzil Faisae, Ab Rashid, Muriban, Jackly, Galang Sandy, Prayogo

“…In summary, the results illustrate that the ANN-GA model outperforms the RSM model in predicting noise emissions under the conditions tested, providing a more accurate and effective method. These findings endorse the feasibility of applying ANN-GA in scenarios where precise noise prediction is crucial, particularly in relation to alternative fuels like POME.…”
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Valley-optical absorption in planar transition metal dichalcogenide superlattices by Hashemi, R., Shojaei, S., Rezaei, B., Liu, Zheng

“…Within a semi-classical model and using the Dirac-like equation in the presence of light interaction as a perturbation, we obtained the governing Hamiltonian. …”
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Hypoxia-inducible factor-2 alpha up-regulates CD70 under hypoxia and enhances anchorage-independent growth and aggressiveness in cancer cells by Kitajima, Shojiro, Lee, Kian Leong, Fujioka, Masaki, Sun, Wendi, You, Jia, Chia, Grace Sushin, Wanibuchi, Hideki, Tomita, Shuhei, Araki, Marito, Kato, Hiroyuki, Poellinger, Lorenz

“…This provides additional insights into the role of HIF-2α in coordinated regulation of stem-like functions and epigenetics that are important for cancer progression and may present additional targets for the development of novel combinatorial therapeutics.…”
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Dominant contribution of oxygenated organic aerosol to haze particles from real-time observation in Singapore during an Indonesian wildfire event in 2015 by Budisulistiorini, Sri Hapsari, Riva, Matthieu, Williams, Michael, Miyakawa, Takuma, Chen, Jing, Itoh, Masayuki, Surratt, Jason D., Kuwata, Mikinori

“…The OOA accounted for approximately 50 % of the total OA mass in NR-PM1, while POA subtypes from wildfires (BBOA and PBOA) contributed to approximately 30 % of the total OA mass. Our findings highlight the importance of atmospheric chemical processes, which likely include POA oxidation and SOA formation from oxidation of gaseous precursors, to the OOA concentration. …”
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Bayesian dynamic programming approach for tracking time-varying model properties in SHM by Yang, Yanping, Zhu, Zuo, Au, Siu-Kui

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Analyzing the impact of bicycle geometry and cargo loading on the rideability and safety of cargo bikes: an investigative study by Paudel, Milan, Yap, Fook Fah

“…Results: Long-john cargo bikes are unstable for lightweight cargo loads, more sensitive to cargo loads, and therefore may not be suitable for riding in narrow, crowded spaces like footpaths. Moreover, retrofitted cargo bikes should only be used to carry lightweight cargo as a combination of heavy cargo load and a powerful rear wheel motor poses a potential risk of accidents. …”
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The role of fibroblasts in cancer progression, therapy resistance and field cancerization by Chan, Jeremy Soon Kiat

“…Fibroblasts exposed to H2O2 also adopted a CAF-like state and became a source of H2O2 due to impaired TGFβ signaling that resulted in a defect in ROS detoxification. …”
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Effective antibodies immobilization and functionalized nanoparticles in a quartz-crystal microbalance-based immunosensor for the detection of parathion by Della Ventura, Bartolomeo, Iannaccone, Marco, Funari, Riccardo, Pica Ciamarra, Massimo, Altucci, Carlo, Capparelli, Rosanna, Roperto, Sante, Velotta, Raffaele

“…Methods/Findings: The ballasting of the analyte by gold nanoparticles has been already applied to heavy target as proteins or bacteria to improve the limit of detection. …”
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Marta Czok URBE by Scarso, Jacek Ludwig, Ionescu, Georgiana, Czok, Marta

“…In Marta Czok's paintings, the city can be defined as a metaphorical fulcrum, through which society is portrayed in complex, often crowded depictions, where the individual finds their meaning within the social relations in which they are immersed. …”
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Identifying erosion risk criteria for coastal city sustainability by using a Hyper-Delphi-hierarchy model: a case study of Kuala Terengganu, Malaysia by Bagheri, Milad, Ibrahim, Zelina Z., Manaf, Latifah Abd, Wolf, Isabelle D., Akhir, M.F., WIAW, Talaat

“…Future research will benefit from incorporating these findings into vulnerability and hazard mapping studies, for example, by adopting weighting factors for GIS layers, to contribute to erosion mitigation planning in coastal cities.…”

Mesh quality improvement by re-triangulation surface meshes on 3-dimensional CAD model of a human wrist joint by Leong, Mun Teik

“…Re-triangulation process was carried out by manipulating different values of the parameters like geometrical error, smoothing factor and control edge length of triangle mesh along with mesh quality analysis in order to get high quality of mesh on the triangular surface wrist joint model. …”
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Analysis and design of curved steel beam member in elevation using Eurocode 3 by Yandarmadi, Kelvin

“…Therefore, this paper presents analytical estimates of the behaviour existed by curved like structures such as curved steel beam under uniformly gravitational distributed load. …”
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Using edge detection and polarimetric imaging for vaccine inspection by Sharan, Praveer, Tellbach, Denise, Sarma, Sanjay E.

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Just Doing My Job: Normative Dimensions of Social Roles by Wells, Eliza

“…While many role-occupants find conflicts between roles and morality distressing, many others seem not to notice that there is a conflict at all. …”
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Feature extraction from EEG signals and regularization for brain-computer interface by Mishuhina, Vasilisa

“…Secondly, this thesis proposes a novel approach time-frequency CSP (TFCSP) which decomposes the EEG signal into time stages and frequency components to find the robust and discriminative features for classification. …”
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Mimicking localized surface plasmons with structural dispersion by Li, Zhuo, Liu, Liangliang, Fernández-Domínguez, Antonio I., Shi, Jianfeng, Gu, Changqing, García-Vidal, Francisco J., Luo, Yu

“…The results reveal that structured-dispersion-induced localized surface plasmons are quite sensitive to the background refractive index but relatively robust to the size and shape of the resonator. These findings open up a new avenue for designer localized surface waves at low frequencies and may find applications in miniaturization of microwave resonators, filters, and terahertz biosensors.…”
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Analysis of influence and its applications in social advertising by Zhu, Yuqing

“…To address ICA effectively and efficiently, a linear time algorithm is developed to find the exact solution under the Linear Threshold model and an efficient approximation algorithm is devised to construct an approximate solution under the Independent Cascade model. …”
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