Three-dimensional imaging of microstructures by an improved compact digital holographic microscope (ICDHM) with dual wavelength by Wen, Yongfu, Qu, Weijuan, Cheng, Haobo, Asundi, Anand

“…A point source generated by a long working distance microscope objective is located into the cube beam-splitter to get a higher numerical aperture (NA) of the system. …”
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Data collection and wireless communication in Internet of Things (IoT) using economic analysis and pricing models : a survey by Luong, Nguyen Cong, Hoang, Dinh Thai, Wang, Ping, Niyato, Dusit, Kim, Dong In, Han, Zhu

“…Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are the main components of IoT which collect data from the environment and transmit the data to the sink nodes. For long service time and low maintenance cost, WSNs require adaptive and robust designs to address many issues, e.g., data collection, topology formation, packet forwarding, resource and power optimization, coverage optimization, efficient task allocation, and security. …”
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Characterizing the conformational landscape of MDM2-binding p53 peptides using molecular dynamics simulations by Yadahalli, Shilpa, Li, Jianguo, Lane, David P., Gosavi, Shachi, Verma, Chandra Shekhar

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Spoofing speech detection using temporal convolutional neural network by Xiao, Xiong, Li, Haizhou, Tian, Xiaohai, Chng, Eng Siong

“…Due to the use of max-pooling, we can extract useful information from a long temporal span without concatenating a large number of neighbouring frames, as in feedforward deep neural network (DNN). …”
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Triggered slip along the San Andreas fault after the 8 July 1986 North Palm Springs earthquake by Williams, Patrick L., McGill, Sally Fagerson, Sieh, Kerry, Allen, Clarence R., Louie, John N.

“…On Durmid Hill, surface cracks in 1986 were localized along a 200-m-long stretch of the fault spanning the Mecca Beach creepmeter and extending about 150 m to the southeast. …”
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Structure of the C-terminal domain of the multifunctional ICP27 protein from herpes simplex virus 1 by Nordlund, Par, Patel, Vidhi, Dahlroth, Sue-Li, Rajakannan, Venkatachalam, Ho, Hai Ting, Cornvik, Tobias

“…The structure reveals the C-terminal half of ICP27 to have a novel fold consisting of -helices and long loops, along with a unique CHCC-type of zinc-binding motif. …”
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Electric field modulation of the tetragonal domain orientation revealed in the magnetic ground state of quantum paraelectric EuTiO3 by Kato, Y., Sunku, S. S., Ito, T., Spalek, L., Shimuta, M., Katsufuji, T., Saxena, S. S., Batista, Cristian D., Petrovic, A. P., Sengupta, Pinaki, Panagopoulos, Christos

“…Signatures of metastability are visible in the heat capacity below the cubic-tetragonal phase transition at 283 K, supporting the evidence for a mismatch between long and short range structural order from previous x-ray diffraction studies. …”
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Nox4-dependent ROS modulation by amino endoperoxides to induce apoptosis in cancer cells by Zhu, Pengcheng, Tong, Benny Meng Kiat, Wang, Runze, Chen, Jiapeng, Foo, Selin, Chong, Han Chung, Wang, Xiao Ling, Ang, Gim Yean, Chiba, Shunsuke, Tan, Nguan Soon

“…Although endoperoxide-containing compounds have long been suggested as anticancer drugs, few have been clinically employed due to their instability, complex synthesis procedure or low tumor cell selectivity. …”
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High-protein, low-glycaemic meal replacement improves physical health-related quality of life in high-risk persons for metabolic syndrome—a subanalysis of the randomised-controlled... by Kempf, Kerstin, Röhling, Martin, Banzer, Winfried, Braumann, Klaus-Michael, Halle, Martin, Schaller, Nina, McCarthy, H. David, Predel, Hans-Georg, Schenkenberger, Isabelle, Tan, Susanne, Toplak, Hermann, Martin, Stephan, Berg, Aloys

“…Stronger improvements in the physical component summary (PCS) were observed in the intervention compared to the control group, peaking after 3 months (estimated treatment difference 2.7 [1.2; 4.2]; p 0.0001), but also in the long-term. Multiple regression analysis demonstrated that insulin levels and the achieved weight loss were associated with the mental component summary (MCS) after 12 months (p 0.05). …”
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Seizure amelioration effect of omega-3 EPA and DHA fatty acid supplementation on patients with drug resistant epilepsy: a scoping review using the GOED clinical study database by Abuknesha, Nada R., Searle, Andrew J.

“…Additional RCTs are required to determine the optimal dosage for patients, the effect of long-term treatment duration and separately enriched preparations of EPA/DHA on seizure frequency and severity.…”
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An update of a systematic review and meta-analyses exploring flavours in intervention studies of e-cigarettes for smoking cessation by Lindson, N, Livingstone-Banks, J, Butler, A, Levy, D, Barnett, P, Theodoulou, A, Notley, C, Rigotti, N, Chen, Y, Hartmann-Boyce, J

“…One included study randomised participants to two different flavour conditions and found similar cessation rates and long-term e-cigarette use between arms at 12 months. …”

中国成年人文化程度与体格指标的长期变化关系 by Tan, Y, Shen, Z, Yu, C, Guo, Y, Bian, Z, Pei, P, Du, H, Chen, J, Chen, Z, Lyu, J, Li, L

“…<p><b>Objective: </b>To evaluate the association of educational level with anthropometric measurements at different adult stages and their long-term changes in adults who participated in the second re-survey of China Kadoorie Biobank (CKB).…”

Field relations, petrogenesis and emplacement of the Bhagirathi leucogranite, Garhwal Himalaya by Searle, M, Metcalfe, RP, Rex, AJ, Norry, MJ

“…</p> <p>The northward-dipping Bhagirathi leucogranite was intruded syn-tectonically during the ductile to brittle transition and has been deformed into linked, en echelon bodies within the extensional shear zone at the interface between the Vaikrita Group gneisses and the Tethyan sedimentary cover. The long axes of the leucogranite lenses lie parallel to the y-z plane of the finite strain ellipsoid for this extensional duplex. …”

Signal processing for next generation coriolis flow metering by Li, M

“…Two/multi-phase flow metering is a long established problem in many applications (e.g. the oil &amp; gas, chemical, biotech, pharmaceutical industries) and no perfect solution is available. …”

Mobile health (mHealth) interventions for health promotion during the perinatal period in India: a scoping review by Small, Z, Thompson, SE, Sharma, A, Majumdar, S, Thout, SR, Praveen, D, Hirst, JE

“…However, current interventions lack evidence of long term behavioural change and fail to report on features important in sustainability and scalability, namely network infrastructure, data security and interoperability. …”

The prognostic impact of minimally invasive esophagectomy on survival after esophagectomy following a delayed interval after chemoradiotherapy; a secondary analysis of the DICE stu... by Markar, SR, Sgromo, B, Evans, R, Griffiths, EA, Alfieri, R, Castoro, C, Gronnier, C, Gutschow, CA, Piessen, G, Capovilla, G, Grimminger, PP, Low, DE, Gossage, J, Gisbertz, SS, Ruurda, J, van Hillegersberg, R, D'journo, XB, Phillips, AW, Rosati, R, Hanna, GB, Maynard, N, Hofstetter, W, Ferri, L, Berge Henegouwen, MI, Owen, R

“…<p><strong> Background: </strong></p> Previously, we established that a prolonged interval after CRT prior to esophagectomy was associated with poorer long-term survival.<p><strong> Methods: </strong></p> This was an international multi-center cohort study involving seventeen tertiary centers, including patients who received CRT followed by surgery between 2010-2020. …”

“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

“…Greater explicit institutional support of studentled SM societies, and facilitation of the presence and discussion of SM symbols and personal identities within professional spaces, may go a long way in redefining ‘normativity’ in medical schools.…”

Analyses of human vaccine-specific circulating and bone marrow-resident B cell populations reveal benefit of delayed vaccine booster dosing with blood-stage malaria antigens by Barrett, JR, Silk, SE, Mkindi, CG, Kwiatkowska, KM, Hou, MM, Lias, AM, Kalinga, WF, Mtaka, IM, McHugh, K, Bardelli, M, Davies, H, King, LDW, Edwards, NJ, Chauhan, VS, Mukherjee, P, Rwezaula, S, Chitnis, CE, Olotu, AI, Minassian, AM, Draper, SJ, Nielsen, CM

“…Notably, a higher frequency of vaccine-specific (putatively long-lived) plasma cells was detected in the bone marrow of these delayed boosting vaccinees by ELISPOT and correlated strongly with serum IgG. …”

Blind quantum computing with trapped ions and single photons by Drmota, P

“…</p> <br> <p>Our experimental platform consists of a trapped-ion quantum server and a client-side photonic detection system networked via a fibre-optic quantum link. We integrate a long-lived memory qubit into a trapped-ion quantum network node to enable simultaneous storage and manipulation of multiple entangled states across a network of quantum processors. …”

Ultra-thin oxide films by Hu, X

“…Special attention has been paid to the uniform (2 × 2) Ti₂O₃ HC phase including its regular structure and imperfections such as domain boundaries (DBs) and point defects. Linear DBs with long-range repeating units have been observed; density functional theory (DFT) modelling has been used to simulate their atomic structures and calculate their formation energies. …”