Low biodegradability of dissolved organic matter from Southeast Asian peat-draining rivers by Nichols, Robert S., Martin, Patrick

“…Despite substantial interest in the biogeochemical fate of terrigenous DOC (tDOC), few studies have quantified phenol oxidase activity in aquatic environments, and microbial remineralization rates of tDOC have never been measured in Southeast Asia. Here, we assess the potential for using phenol oxidase assays as a proxy for tDOC biodegradation across peat-draining rivers and the coastal waters of Sarawak, Borneo, and report experimental measurements of microbial tDOC remineralization rates from this region. …”
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Curvature-regulated lipid membrane softening of nano-vesicles by Chng, Choon-Peng, Sadovsky, Yoel, Hsia, K. Jimmy, Huang, Changjin

“…Understanding the interplay between vesicle size and stiffness is critical to both the understanding of the biological functions of natural nano-vesicles and the optimization of nano-vesicle-based diagnostics and therapeutics. It has been predicted that, when vesicle size is comparable to its membrane thickness, the effective bending stiffness of the vesicle increases dramatically due to both the entropic effect as a result of reduced thermal undulation and the nonlinear curvature elasticity effect. …”
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Measuring coastal absolute sea-level changes using GNSS interferometric reflectometry by Peng, Dongju, Feng, Lujia, Larson, Kristine M., Hill, Emma Mary

“…However, sea-level changes near the coast, particularly absolute sea-level changes, have been less well monitored than those in the open ocean. …”
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Cationic glycosylated block co-β-peptide acts on the cell wall of Gram-positive bacteria as anti-biofilm agents by Zhang, Kaixi, Raju, Cheerlavancha, Zhong, Wenbin, Pethe, Kevin, Gründling, Angelika, Chan-Park, Mary B.

“…Wall teichoic acid (WTA), a generic anionic glycopolymer present on the cell surface of many Gram-positive bacteria, has been proposed as a possible therapeutic target, but its druggability remains to be demonstrated. …”
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An optimized CFD-DEM method for fluid-particle coupling dynamics analysis by Yao, L. M., Xiao, Zhongmin, Liu, J. B., Zhang, Q., Wang, M.

“…By improving the solution strategy of unresolved CFD-DEM in terms of time incremental way, the iterative convergence criteria and time advancement algorithm of fluid-particle coupling have been established. The improved CFD-DEM method can automatically adjust the CFD time steps according to the convergence criteria. …”
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Exploring multi-level motivations towards green design practices : a system dynamics approach by Li, Qing, Zhang, Lianying, Zhang, Limao, Jha, Sunil

“…However, multi-level motivations in green design, such as institutional, market, organizational, and individual initiatives, have not been explored in detail. The dynamic interactions of multiple motivations are rarely examined. …”
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Carbene-catalyzed enantioselective aromatic N-nucleophilic addition of heteroarenes to ketones by Liu, Yonggui, Luo, Guoyong, Yang, Xing, Jiang, Shichun, Xue, Wei, Chi, Robin Yonggui, Jin, Zhichao

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High order magnetic and electric resonant modes of split ring resonator metasurface arrays for strong enhancement of mid-infrared photodetection by Tong, Jinchao, Suo, Fei, Tobing, Landobasa Y. M., Yao, Niangjuan, Zhang, Dawei, Huang, Zhiming, Zhang, Dao Hua

“…Split ring resonator (SRR) array which resonates at different resonant modes, including fundamental magnetic mode (m0), high order magnetic mode (m1), and electric (e) mode has been investigated because of the high potential for different applications. …”
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Investigating the inner controls on explosive eruptions using textural analyses and petrology by Bernard, Olivier

“…An effusive eruption generating slow-moving lava flows will be a lot less destructive than a violent explosive eruption producing large pyroclastic density currents (PDC). Recently, it has been shown that most volcanoes around the globe and particularly in a subduction-setting, are able to produce both effusive and violently explosive eruptions with sometimes rapid transitions between eruption styles in the span of a few hours to minutes. …”
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Time-series representation learning via temporal and contextual contrasting by Eldele, Emadeldeen, Mohamed Ragab, Chen, Zhenghua, Wu, Min, Kwoh, Chee Keong, Li, Xiaoli, Guan, Cuntai

“…It attempts to maximize the similarity among different contexts of the same sample while minimizing similarity among contexts of different samples. Experiments have been carried out on three real-world time-series datasets. …”
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Nearly total optical transmission of linearly polarized light through transparent electrode composed of GaSb monolithic high-contrast grating integrated with gold by Tobing, Landobasa Yosef Mario, Wasiak, Michal, Zhang, Dao Hua, Fan, Weijun, Czyszanowski, Tomasz

“…Achieving high transmission of light through a highly conductive structure implemented on a semiconductor remains a challenge in optoelectronics as the transmission is inevitably deteriorated by absorption and Fresnel reflection. There have been numerous efforts to design structures with near-unity transmission, yet they are typically constrained by a trade-off between conductivity and optical transmission. …”
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3D porous graphene films with large-area in-plane exterior skins by Tay, Roland Yingjie, Li, Hongling, Ng, Zhi Kai, Tsang, Siu Hon, Gao, Wei, Teo, Edwin Hang Tong

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Terahertz microfluidic sensing with dual-torus toroidal metasurfaces by Xu, Jinjin, Liao, Denggao, Gupta, Manoj, Zhu, Yiming, Zhuang, Songlin, Singh, Rajan, Chen, Lin

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Phosphorized CoNi₂S₄ yolk-shell spheres for highly efficient hydrogen production via water and urea electrolysis by Lu, Xue Feng, Zhang, Song Lin, Sim, Wei Lok, Gao, Shuyan, Lou, David Xiong Wen

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Modernity and functionality: relooking changes in Chinese vernacular education in Singapore, 1919-1941 by Ho, Amanda Shi Min

“…This thesis aims to reconstruct the history of modern Chinese schools in Singapore from 1919 to 1941, reexamining what has been covered thus far in both English and Chinese scholarship of the history of Chinese vernacular education in Singapore and synthesising the findings of both strands of scholarship. …”
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Post-fire behaviour and resistances of S690 high strength steel welded I-section stub columns by Su, Andi, Jiang, Ke, Liang, Yating, Zhao, Ou

“…The cross-sectional behaviour and residual compression resistances of S690 high strength steel welded I-section stub columns after exposure to elevated temperatures up to 950 °C have been investigated, underpinned by testing and numerical modelling, and fully presented in this paper. …”
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Systematic study of short circuit activation on the performance of PEM fuel cell by Zhang, Caizhi, Liu, Hao, Zeng, Tao, Chen, Jiawei, Lin, Pengfeng, Deng, Bo, Liu, Fujian, Zheng, Yifeng

“…Short circuit method has been found to improve the performance of fuel cells by stripping of oxides and other adsorbed species from platinum, which needs systematical understanding the effective parameters of short circuit method on fuel cell performance. …”
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Microstructured BN composites with internally designed high thermal conductivity paths for 3D electronic packaging by He, Hongying, Peng, Weixiang, Liu, Junbo, Chan, Xin Ying, Liu, Shike, Lu, Li, Le Ferrand, Hortense

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Linking dual mode of action of host defense antimicrobial peptide thanatin: structures, lipopolysaccharide and LptAm binding of designed analogs by Sinha, Sheetal, Dhanabal, Vidhya Bharathi, Sperandeo, Paola, Polissi, Alessandra, Bhattacharjya, Surajit

“…Strikingly, LptAm binding affinity of thanatin M21F has been significantly increased with an estimated Kd~0.73 nM vs 13 nM for thanatin. …”
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Recent progress in 2D inorganic/organic charge transfer heterojunction photodetectors by Han, Jiayue, Wang, Fakun, Han, Song, Deng, Wenjie, Du, Xiaoyang, Yu, He, Gou, Jun, Wang, Qi Jie, Wang, Jun

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