Mechanics of fracture and flexure in Antarctic ice sheets and ice shelves by Zhang, H

“…Fracture and flexure significantly affect the vulnerability of Antarctic ice shelves to hydrofracturing and, by altering buttressing effects, the mass balance of the entire Antarctic Ice Sheet. …”

Optimization, encapsulation and characterization of bromelain-generated angiotensin I-converting enzyme (Ace) - inhibitory hydrolysates from stone fish (Actinopyga lecanora Jaeger) by Auwal, Shehu Muhammad

“…The result indicated no death with a safe dose limit of the nanoparticles greater than 2000 mg/kg. Serum biochemical analysis and histomorphological examination following 28 days of repeated exposure of the rats to the 200 mg/kg, 400 mg/kg and 800 mg/kg doses of the nanoparticles, revealed no alteration in the function and architecture of both liver and kidney with no occurrence of cellular necrosis. …”
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Cognitive Effects of Simulated Galactic Cosmic Radiation Are Mediated by ApoE Status, Sex, and Environment in APP Knock-In Mice by Wieg, Laura, Ciola, Jason C., Wasén, Caroline C., Gaba, Fidelia, Colletti, Brianna R., Schroeder, Maren K., Hinshaw, Robert G., Ekwudo, Millicent N., Holtzman, David M., Saito, Takashi, Sasaguri, Hiroki, Saido, Takaomi C., Cox, Laura M., Lemere, Cynthia A.

“…Travel tended to improve cognition in male APP;E3F mice and lowered total Aβ in female and male APP;E3F mice compared to their non-traveled counterparts. …”
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The divergent fates of primitive hydrospheric water on Earth and Mars by Wade, Jon, Dyck, Brendan, Palin, Richard M., Moore, James Daniel Paul, Smye, Andrew J.

“…The metamorphic mineral assemblages in relatively FeO-rich Martian lavas can hold about 25 per cent more structurally bound water than those in metamorphosed terrestrial basalts, and can retain it at greater depths within Mars. …”
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Mitigation of membrane biofouling via immobilizing Ag-MOFs on composite membrane surface for extractive membrane bioreactor by Yuan, Guoyu, Tian, Yuxiao, Wang, Bingxin, You, Xiaofei, Liao, Yuan

“…Although the modified membranes exhibited lower phenol mass transfer coefficients (k0's) in the aqueous-aqueous extractive membrane process due to these additional modification layers, both #M1 and #M2 displayed better long-term performance in the 12-days continuous EMBR operations due to their excellent anti-biofouling properties. …”
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In vitro evaluation of oral contraceptives on long-tailed macaque (Macaca fascicularis) primary ovarian cells by Muhammed, Mikail, Tengku Azizan, Tengku Rinalfi Putra, Mohd Noor, Mohd Hezmee, Abu Hassim, Hasliza, Che'Amat, Azlan, Saleh, Annas Bin, Han, Mark Hiew Wen, Ab Latip, Mohd Qayyum

“…The result of the study indicates that human oral contraceptives (Nordette, Noriday, and Ella) inhibit the growth of long-tailed macaque ovarian cells and induce apoptosis in a concentration- and time-dependent manner (at a concentration of 0.0315 μg/mL and an IC50 lower than 10 μg/mL), With a statistically significant value of ****P < 0.001 for each drug compared to the negative control. …”
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TriviA and uTriviA : two fast and secure authenticated encryption schemes by Chakraborti, Avik, Chattopadhyay, Anupam, Muhammad Hassan, Mridul Nandi

“…The uTriviA design achieves a hardware area of only 16.74 KGE, which is lowest among all the TriviA variants but with a lower throughput of 36.76 Gbps. Finally, we provide a brief comparison between the three constructions TriviA-0-v1, TriviA-v2 and uTriviA and the other standard implementations in terms of hardware area-efficiency metric.…”
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Studies on the physicochemical, biomechanical and biological properties of novel decellularized bovine scaffold for bone regeneration by Qabbani, Ali Abdul Qader Hameed Al

“…The results revealed that DCC scaffolds elicited significantly lower white blood cell counts and systemic inflammation compared to DMB and untreated native bone. …”
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Granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor neutralisation in patients with axial spondyloarthritis in the UK (NAMASTE): a randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled, phase... by Worth, C, Al-Mossawi, MH, MacDonald, J, Fisher, BA, Chan, A, Sengupta, R, Packham, J, Gaffney, K, Gullick, N, Cook, JA, Corn, TH, Teh, J, Machado, PM, Taylor, PC, Bowness, P

“…At week 12, the proportion of patients who had an ASAS20 clinical response was lower in the namilumab group (14 of 36) than in the placebo group (three of six; estimated between-group difference 6·8%). …”

Development of an integrated scheduling model for handling equipment in automated port container terminals by Sadeghian, Syed Hamidreza

“…Massive transportation capacity and lower carrying costs lead different countries to increase throughput of their seaport container terminals. …”
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Effectiveness of cognitive behavior therapy and Reiki therapy on adolescents with depressive disorders inTehran, Iran by Charkhandeh, Mansoureh

“…The rate of attempted suicide among depressed patients in a community area is 0.5% in Iran, which is significantly lower than in the most recent clinical research. …”
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Impact of media literacy on soft drink consumption among adolescents in Klang Valley, Malaysia by Mohammad Shahid, Nur Nadirah

“…Moreover, the findings of this study were hoped to also help soft drink marketer and producers to understand media literacy and adolescents‟ soft drink consumption behavior. Other than that, recommendations for future research including using semi-structure in-depth personal interview or focus group were suggested to yield more in-depth data. …”
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Metagenetic analysis of gut microbial community of Malaysian mahseer Tor tambroides (Bleeker, 1854) (Cyprinidae) and its probiotics potential by Tan, Chun Keat

“…Lysozyme activities in T. tambroides juveniles fed with Bacillus sp. were significantly higher (P<0.05) than other treatments. In conclusion, Cetobacterium sp. is a core gut microbiota in T. tambroides. …”
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Radioactive Atoms and Molecules for Fundamental Physics by Udrescu, Silviu-Marian

“…The sensitivity to the sought-after signal is expected to be increased by more than twelve orders of magnitude compared to atoms. …”
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Controls on eruption style at Rabaul, Papua New Guinea – insights from microlites, porosity and permeability measurements by Bernard, Olivier., Bouvet de Maisonneuve, Caroline

“…We find that magma feeding sub-plinian eruptions ascends 2–3 orders of magnitude faster than magma feeding vulcanian/effusive eruptions (≥ 1–100 m/s vs 0.1 m/s). …”
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Improved mobility and photovoltaic performance of two-dimensional Ruddlesden−Popper (ThMA)₂(MA)₂M₃I₁₀ perovskites applied in perovskite solar cells by Sun, Ping-Ping, Kripalani, Devesh Raju, Chi, Weijie

“…(ThMA)2(MA)2Ge3I10 and (ThMA)2(MA)2Sn3I10 exhibited the best capacities for electron and hole transport with carrier mobilities of 12.869 and 9.856 cm2 V–1 s–1, respectively, which are 1–2 orders of magnitude higher than that of (ThMA)2(MA)2Pb3I10. …”
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Tools for multi-agent crowd simulation : redesigning and extending the COSMOS crowd simulation suite by Nasri Othman

“…Our performance tests on the optimizations of key simulation components indicated substantial performance improvements of over two orders of magnitude under selected tests. …”
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The use of paleomagnetic analysis to assess nonbrittle deformation within the San Andreas fault zone by Sieh, Kerry, Nagy, Elizabeth A.

“…Inadvertent sample rotation about the axis of the glass holders is one of the most evident sources of error found in this study, although only samples which underwent large rotations (> 60°) could be identified. …”
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Performance analysis of impulse-radio ultra-wideband techniques for low-rate communications by Cui, Shan

“…Over bipolar coding, unipolar coding has the advantages of providing better correlation template, and hence, lower detection error rate for the receiver. …”
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Optimized data reuse via reordering for sparse matrix-vector multiplication on FPGAs by Li, Shiqing, Liu, Di, Liu, Weichen

“…Due to irregular data access patterns of vector elements and the limited memory bandwidth, the computational throughput of CPUs and GPUs is lower than the peak performance offered by FPGAs. …”
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