Deep sequencing of small RNA facilitates tissue and sex associated microRNA discovery in zebrafish by Vaz, Candida, Wee, Choon Wei, Lee, Gek Ping Serene, Ingham, Philip William, Tanavde, Vivek, Mathavan, Sinnakaruppan

“…Background: The role of microRNAs in gene regulation has been well established. The extent of miRNA regulation also increases with increasing genome complexity. …”
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Nature in virtual reality improves mood and reduces stress : evidence from young adults and senior citizens by Chan, Sarah Hian May, Qiu, Lin, Esposito, Gianluca, Mai, Ky Phong, Tam, Kim-Pong, Cui, Jian

“…Large populations worldwide have been deprived from nature experiences due to mass quarantines and lockdowns during the COVID-19 pandemic, and face a looming mental health crisis. …”
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Phylogenomic analysis of the plastid genome of the Peruvian purple maize zea mays subsp. mays cv. 'INIA 601' by Montenegro, Juan D., Julca, Irene, Chumbe-Nolasco, Lenin D., Rodríguez-Pérez, Lila M., Panizo, Ricardo Sevilla, Medina-Hoyos, Alicia, Gutiérrez-Reynoso, Dina L., Guerrero-Abad, Juan Carlos, Guerra, Carlos A. Amasifuen, García-Serquén, Aura L.

“…Peru is an important center of diversity for maize; its different cultivars have been adapted to distinct altitudes and water availability and possess an array of kernel colors (red, blue, and purple), which are highly appreciated by local populations. …”
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Comprehensive analysis of feature extraction methods for emotion recognition from multichannel EEG recordings by Yuvaraj, Rajamanickam, Thagavel, Prasanth, Thomas, John, Fogarty, Jack, Ali, Farhan

“…Advances in signal processing and machine learning have expedited electroencephalogram (EEG)-based emotion recognition research, and numerous EEG signal features have been investigated to detect or characterize human emotions. …”
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Optically detected magnetic resonance spectroscopic analyses on the role of magnetic ions in colloidal nanocrystals by Dehnel, Joanna, Harchol, Adi, Barak, Yahel, Meir, Itay, Horani, Faris, Shapiro, Arthur, Strassberg, Rotem, de Mello Donegá, Celso, Demir, Hilmi Volkan, Gamelin, Daniel R., Sharma, Kusha, Lifshitz, Efrat

“…Various host materials, including the II-VI group, halide perovskites, and I-III-VI2 in diverse structural configurations such as core/shell quantum dots, seeded nanorods, and nanoplatelets, incorporated with magnetic ions such as Mn2+, Ni2+, and Cu1+/2+ are highlighted. …”
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Simplified seismic response of earth embankments by Low, Abigail Xiu Jun.

“…This study aims to validate the method proposed by Makdisi and Seed (1979), which provides a simplified procedure for determining the natural period and maximum crest acceleration of homogeneous earth embankments by hand calculation. …”
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Time frequency analysis of functional MR images by Arun Kumar

“…The proposed method is also less tedious than the other commonly used seed-based time-series analysis method, as it does not require pre-identification of brain seed regions. …”
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Deposition and characterisation of a diamond/Ti/diamond multilayer structure by Mallik, Awadesh Kumar, Lloret, Fernando, Gutierrez, Marina, Rouzbahani, Rozita, Pobedinskas, Paulius, Shih, Wen-Ching, Haenen, Ken

“…It has been found that a combined pre-treatment of the silicon base substrate, via argon plasma etching for creating surface roughness and, thereafter, detonation nanodiamond (DND) seeding, helps in the nucleation and growth of well-adherent CVD diamond films with a well-defined Raman signal at 1332 cm−1, showing the crystalline nature of the film. …”
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Hydroxyapatite nanoparticles-cell interaction: new approaches to disclose the fate of membrane-bound and internalised nanoparticles by Bonany, Mar, Pérez-Berná, Ana Joaquina, Dučić, Tanja, Pereiro, Eva, Martin-Gómez, Helena, Mas-Moruno, Carlos, van Rijt, Sabine, Zhao, Zhitong, Espanol, Montserrat, Ginebra, Maria-Pau

“…Hydroxyapatite nanoparticles are popular tools in bone regeneration, but they have also been used for gene delivery and as anticancer drugs. …”
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Fabrication and application of novel highly ordered nano-heterostructure arrays in optoelectronics by Yadian, Boluo

“…In the present thesis, attempt has been successfully made to decorate ZnO/Si nano-heterostructure arrays with ZnS and Ag2S. …”
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Pulsed fiber laser at 1 μm wavelength region by Liu, Meng

“…Secondly, high average power and high peak power YDPFLs have been constructed and studied. High power YDPFLs have progressed rapidly and been widely utilized for material processing. …”
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Synthesis and characterization of silver nanoprism-based nanostructures by Mohammad Mehdi Shahjamali

“…By Engineering the total concentrations of HAuCl4 using a seeding procedure and adjusting the process time, different gold coated silver nanoprisms with various morphologies have been obtained, including three unique structures, i.e. edge gold coated nanoprism (Ag@Auframed nanoprism), core-shell structure (Ag@Au) and the triangular nanobox. …”
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Business elites and the political economy of philanthropy in West and Central Africa by Cohen, C, Bat, J-P

“…A third type of practices composed of venture philanthropy, seed funding and incubators claims to ‘Africanise’ capital flows. …”

Assessment of PCL/carbon material scaffolds for bone regeneration by Huang, Boyang, Caetano, Guilherme, Wang, Weiguang, Bártolo, Pauko

“…For bone regeneration, researchers are focusing on the use of polymeric and polymer/ceramic scaffolds seeded with osteoblasts or mesenchymal stem cells. …”
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Contrasting effects of vasculogenic induction upon biaxial bioreactor stimulation of mesenchymal stem cells and endothelial progenitor cells cocultures in three-dimensional scaffol... by Chan, Jerry Kok Yen, Liu, Yuchun, Teoh, Swee-Hin, Chong, Mark S. K., Yeow, Chen-Hua, Kamm, Roger D., Choolani, Mahesh

“…Clinical translation of bone tissue engineering approaches for fracture repair has been hampered by inadequate vascularization required for maintaining cell survival, skeletal regeneration, and remodeling. …”
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Spin-orbit torque magnetization switching in Co/Pt multilayers for multistate memory and logic devices by Lim, Gerard Joseph

“…More recently, spintronic devices have been proposed for logical, neuromorphic, and compute-in-memory applications. …”
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Anodic TiO2 nanotube arrays with high surface area for dye-sensitized solar cells by Wang, Xiaoyan

“…Furthermore, the second layer nanotubes are tailored to seed from upper tube bottoms by interim treatment to facilitate ion diffusion. …”
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Phase selection enabled formation of abrupt axial heterojunctions in branched oxide nanowires by Gao, Jing, Turner, Stuart, Li, Yongfeng, Lu, Yun Hao, Feng, Yuan Ping, Boullay, Philippe, Prellier, Wilfrid, Tendeloo, Gustaaf van, Wu, Tom, Lebedev, Oleg I.

“…Here, we show that branched indium tin oxide nanowires can be in situ seeded in vapor transport growth using tailored Au–Cu alloys as catalyst. …”
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Perovskite superstructures and heterostructures for enhanced optical performance by Chan, Wen Kiat

“…While much progress has been accomplished in perovskite research, two areas are relatively unexplored and will be the focus of this thesis. …”
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Profiling microbial communities in idiopathic granulomatous mastitis by Ong, Seeu Si, Xu, Jia, Sim, Choon Kiat, Khng, Alexis Jiaying, Ho, Peh Joo, Kwan, Philip Kam Weng, Ravikrishnan, Aarthi, Tan, Benita Kiat-Tee, Tan, Qing Ting, Tan, Ern Yu, Tan, Su-Ming, Putti, Thomas Choudary, Lim, Swee Ho, Tang, Serene Ee Ling, Nagarajan, Niranjan, Karnani, Neerja, Li, Jingmei, Hartman, Mikael

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