Inhaled nanomaterials and the respiratory microbiome : clinical, immunological and toxicological perspectives by Nur A’tikah Binte Mohamed Ali, Mustafa Hussain Kathawala, Poh, Tuang Yeow, Mac Aogáin, Micheál, Setyawati, Magdiel Inggrid, Ng, Kee Woei, Chotirmall, Sanjay Haresh

“…While associations between inhaled ambient ultrafine particles and host immune-inflammatory response are known, the airway and environmental microbiomes likely act as intermediaries and facilitate individual susceptibility to inhaled nanoparticles and toxicants. …”
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The imperative of arachidonic acid in human reproduction by Crawford, Michael A., Sinclair, Andrew J., Hall, Barbara, Ogundipe, Enitan

“…Stearic acid is similarly bio-magnified which is likely to provide for the sn-1 position in membrane synthesis. …”
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Pyrroloquinoline quinone aza-crown ether complexes as biomimetics for lanthanide and calcium dependent alcohol dehydrogenases by Vetsova, Violeta A., Fisher, Katherine R., Lumpe, Henning, Schäfer, Alexander, Schneider, Erik K., Weis, Patrik, Daumann, Lena J.

“…We show that when studying biomimetics for MDH, larger metal ions and those with lower charge in this case promote the dehydrogenation reaction more effectively and that this is likely an effect of the ligand design which must be considered when studying biomimetics. …”
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Performance Guarantees for Spectral Initialization in Rotation Averaging and Pose-Graph SLAM by Doherty, Kevin J., Rosen, David M., Leonard, John J.

“…Our results reveal the critical role that spectral graph-theoretic properties of the measurement network play in controlling estimation accuracy; moreover, as a by-product of our analysis we obtain new bounds on the estimation error for the maximum likelihood estimators in SLAM and RA, which are likely to be of independent interest. Finally, we show experimentally that our spectral estimator is very effective in practice, producing initializations of comparable or superior quality at lower computational cost compared to existing state-of-the-art techniques.…”
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Preference-Conditioned Language-Guided Abstraction by Peng, Andi, Bobu, Andreea, Li, Belinda Z., Sumers, Theodore R., Sucholutsky, Ilia, Kumar, Nishanth, Griffiths, Thomas L., Shah, Julie A.

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Development of a perfusable, hierarchical microvasculature-on-a-chip model by Chen, Sophia W., Blazeski, Adriana, Zhang, Shun, Shelton, Sarah E., Offeddu, Giovanni S., Kamm, Roger D.

“…The addition of collagen channels reduces the apparent permeability of the central capillary region, likely by reducing leakage from the side channels, enabling more accurate measurements of vascular permeability—an important motivation for this study. …”
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Automating Design Requirement Extraction From Text With Deep Learning by Akay, Haluk, Yang, Maria, Kim, Sang-Gook

“…The prospect of deploying such a system on the sum of all digital engineering documents suggests a future where design failures are less likely to be repeated and past successes may be consistently used to forward innovation.…”
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Instrumental Effects in 21 cm Cosmology: One-point Statistics and Power Spectrum with the HERA Interferometer by Kim, Honggeun

“…In addition, I evaluate EoR models against observational data, suggesting the second moment measurements likely reject the cold reionization model characterized by inefficient X-ray heating. …”
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Know Thy Cell-Free DNA: Early Detection of Microsatellite Instability Using Ultra-Low-Pass Cell-Free DNA Sequences by Lu, Nicole

“…Thus, if cancerous cells exist within the body, its representation in a given cfDNA sample is likely low. Together, these challenges present a obvious trade-off between signal strength and cost/invasiveness for screening and detection of MSI. …”
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Artificial Intelligence and the US-China Balance of Power by Chang, Benjamin Angel

“…Potential Chinese policy responses, such as cannibalizing its civilian sector or substituting with older chips, would likely fail for technical reasons.…”
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Equilibria, Efficiency, and Inequality in Network Formation for Hiring and Opportunity by Dwork, Cynthia, Hays, Chris, Kleinberg, Jon, Raghavan, Manish

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Understanding campus mobility by Toh, Christopher Gerard Wei Hong

“…This indicates that s_students are more likely to form cliques and groups amongst themselves and suggests the possibility that the sports activity provides a strong platform for friendship bonds to be formed. …”
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Predictive maintenance using machine learning by Amal Roy Lerroy Ashwin

“…PdM enables users to know in advance when a machine is likely to break down so that the required maintenance can be scheduled. …”
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Study on the impact of connected automated vehicle position on mixed traffic flow stability by Tan, Kenneth Chiao Wee

“…Likewise, when platooning CAVs are furthest away from the leading HDV and when all vehicles are platooning CAVs, traffic flow stability is likely to be in smooth condition.…”
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Direct interspecies electron transfer (DIET) can be suppressed under ammonia-stressed condition - reevaluate the role of conductive materials by Yan, Wangwang, Mukherjee, Manisha, Zhou, Yan

“…It is revealed that ZVI effectively promoted all AD reactions, especially the energy unfavorable propanoate and butanoate metabolism and overall methanogenesis. In addition, ZVI likely acted as intracellular electron shuttles, and the conjunction point of ZVI to electron transfer system was identified as EtfAB: quinone oxidoreductase. …”
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The eagle and the panda : an owl's view from Southeast Asia by Desker, Barry

“…The implications of rebalancing for the Asia-Pacific are likely to be multifaceted, spanning the diplomatic, economic, political, and security realms. …”
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Encapsulation of probiotics for food and beverage applications by Ang, Kai Lin

“…Up to date, no studies have been done to examine the viability of probiotics in popular, well-liked, commercialized carbonated sodas/beers, but it is known that certain components in these matrices (e.g. phosphoric acid in soda, hops and ethanol in beers) can reduce the viability of probiotics. …”
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Lessons in ecology and conservation from a tropical forest fragment in Singapore by Lum, Shawn, Ngo, Kang Min

“…The extirpation of large fauna did not appear to reduce the dispersal of large seeded plant species, likely due to continued dispersal by small-mammals and birds. …”
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Intelligence failure in U.S. counterterrorism by King, Brian Allen

“…This is significant because it supports the conclusion that more can be done in the analytical and information sharing domains to prevent al-Qaeda and insider threat attacks, while supporting the idea that state-sponsored attacks will be less likely to have data available to connect prior to an attack due to the higher degree of professionalism and advanced operational security resources available to government intelligence services supporting the attack planning.…”
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Site leaching model and climate change impacts of an expanding coastal dumpsite by Wang, Yijie

“…The results show that the historical cumulative release of Dissolved Organic Carbon (DOC), Cu, and Cr exhibits an increasing trend, which is likely to continue in the future. Simulations indicate that from 2022 to 2050 and 2100, the cumulative release of contaminants could increase by up to 100% and 200%, respectively. …”
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