GC-MS analysis and nutra-pharmaceutical potential of Mentha piperita essential oil extracted by supercritical fluid extraction and hydro-distillation by Abbas, Ali, Anwar, Farooq, Ahmad, Naveed, Rehman, Afifa tur, Mohammed, Osama A., Abdel-Reheim, Mustafa Ahmed, Iqbal, Munawar, Iqbal, Shahid, Nazir, Arif

“…The peppermint EO obtained by SCFE, owing to potent bioactive components, can be a potential candidate to develop nutra-pharmaceuticals.…”
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Revealing the potential role of hsa-miR-663a in modulating the PI3K-Akt signaling pathway via miRNA microarray in spinal muscular atrophy patient fibroblast-derived iPSCs by Gandhi, Gayatri, Kodiappan, Radha, Abdullah, Syahril, Teoh, Hoon Koon, Tai, Lihui, Cheong, Soon Keng, Yeo, Wendy Wai Yeng

“…Although survival motor neuron 2 (SMN2) gene is still present in SMA patients, the production of full-length survival motor neuron (SMN) protein is insufficient owing to missing or mutated SMN1. No current disease-modifying therapies can cure SMA. …”
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Assessment of IoT-driven predictive maintenance strategies for Computed Tomography equipment: a machine learning approach by Mohd Azrul Shazril, Mohammad Habib Shah Ershad, Mashohor, Syamsiah, Amran, Mohd Effendi, Hafiz, Nur Fatinah, Ali, Azizi Mohd, Naseri, Mohd Saiful, Rasid, Mohd Fadlee A.

“…The readings were preprocessed to follow a normal distribution, representing the typical working conditions of the machine. Owing to limited faulty condition data, synthetic data were generated by expanding the tails of the data distribution and using a Gaussian noise generator. …”
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Mineralization of palm oil mill effluent by advanced oxidation processes: A review on current trends and the way forward by Vijayan, Veena, Joseph, Collin G., Taufiq-Yap, Yun Hin, Gansau, Jualang Azlan, Nga, Janice L.H., Li Puma, Gianluca, Chia, Poh Wai

“…Palm oil mill effluent (POME) is regarded as deleterious to the environment, primarily owing to the substantial volume of waste it produces during palm oil extraction. …”
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Thermoelectric Energy Harvesting from the Roof and Attics of a Building by Abubakar, Saleh Umar, Jumaat, Siti Amely, Yakubu, Babangida, Haruna, Yau Shuaibu, Abdulrahman, Suleiman

“…Furthermore, The finding also reveals that the attic side has the capacity to store thermal energy, which can be harnessed owing to the fast heat transfer to the surroundings during the convection process. …”
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女性媒介形象建构与话语权赋权 ——《脱口秀大会》系列为例 = Female discourse power and construction of female image —— Rock&Roast stand-up comedy series... by 郭跃男, Guo, Yuenan

“…Traditional forms Chinese comedy, represented by comic strips (xiao pin) and sketches (xiang sheng), has been produced by and for the gaze of male, both in terms of its historical development and the content. …”
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High-speed and high-photocurrent InP-based uni-traveling-carrier photodiode by Meng, Qianqian

“…Compared to conventional PIN-PD, UTC-PD has a unique mode of operation where only faster electrons serve as the active carriers, which can reduce the space charge effect and lead to much higher current, and higher speed operations. …”
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Surfactant effects in functionalized multiwall carbon nanotube-filled phase change materials by M. Arif Fikri, ., Pandey, A. K., Rajamony, Reji Kumar, Sharma, Kamal, Kalidasan B., ., Mahendran, Samykano, Buddhi, D., Tyagi, V. V.

“…However, the PCMs have lower thermal conductivity; owing to this, the thermal performance and heat transfer rate are inadequate. …”
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Enhancing the Permselectivity of Thin-Film Composite Membranes Interlayered with MoS₂ Nanosheets via Precise Thickness Control by Cao, Siyu, Deshmukh, Akshay, Wang, Li, Han, Qi, Shu, Yufei, Ng, How Yong, Wang, Zhongying, Lienhard, John H

“…However, improving and tuning membrane permeability and selectivity simultaneously remains highly challenging owing to the lack of thickness control in polyamide films. …”
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Molecular dynamics simulations of a new branched antimicrobial peptide : a comparison of force fields by Li, Jianguo, Lakshminarayanan, Rajamani, Bai, Yang, Liu, Shouping, Zhou, Lei, Pervushin, Konstantin, Verma, Chandra, Beuerman, Roger W.

“…This leads us to hypothesize that B2088 is unlikely to penetrate into the hydrophobic region of the membrane owing to the high free energy costs of transfer from water, and possibly acts by carpeting and thus disrupting the membrane.…”
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High-resolution HDX-MS reveals distinct mechanisms of RNA recognition and activation by RIG-I and MDA5 by Liu, Chuan-Fa, Zheng, Jie, Yong, Hui Yee, Panutdaporn, Nantika, Tang, Kai, Luo, Dahai

“…We show that human RIG-I maintains an auto-inhibited resting state owing to the intra-molecular HEL2i-CARD2 interactions while apo MDA5 lacks the analogous intra-molecular interactions and therefore adopts an extended conformation. …”
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Molecular engineering of biomolecule-based functional nanodots for biomedical applications by Xu Victor Hesheng

“…In recent years, nanotechnology has gained considerable attention owing to its numerous attractive properties. Bestowed with quantum mechanical effects, nanomaterials exhibit unique properties including high surface-to-volume ratio, great strength and ductility, ease of functionalization and enhanced cargo loadings. …”
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Investigation on energy output structure of explosives near-ground explosion by Xu, Wen-long, Wang, Cheng, Yuan, Jian-ming, Goh, Wei-liang, Li, Tao

“…At a distance of 3.0 m from the initiation point, the peak overpressure of aluminized explosives is slightly less than that of RDX explosives. Owing to the exothermic effect of aluminum powder, the pressure drop of aluminized explosives is slower than that of RDX explosives. …”
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HopPER : an adaptive model for probability estimation of influenza reassortment through host prediction by Yin, Rui, Zhou, Xinrui, Rashid, Shamima, Kwoh, Chee Keong

“…Background: Influenza reassortment, a mechanism where influenza viruses exchange their RNA segments by co-infecting a single cell, has been implicated in several major pandemics since 19th century. Owing to the significant impact on public health and social stability, great attention has been received on the identification of influenza reassortment. …”
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Nanostructured materials for electrochemical carbon dioxide reduction and biosensing by Ge, Junyu

“…The Ag@AgClx CSNWs offer high catalytic activity and selectivity towards CO, owing to the high conductivity of Ag core and abundant active sites on AgClx shell. …”
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A C-terminal peptide of TFPI-1 facilitates cytosolic delivery of nucleic acid cargo into mammalian cells by Fazil, Mobashar Hussain Urf Turabe, Chalasani, Madhavi Latha Somaraju, Choong, Yeu Khai, Schmidtchen, Artur, Verma, Navin Kumar, Saravanan, Rathi

“…Efficient intracellular nucleic acid delivery into mammalian cells remains a long-standing challenge owing to poor cell permeability and uptake of naked nucleic acids across the cell membrane and limited cargo stability. …”
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Flexural-torsional buckling behaviour and resistances of fixed-ended press-braked S690 high strength steel angle section columns by Zhang, Lulu, Liang, Yating, Zhao, Ou

“…The results of the evaluation revealed that all the codified design rules yield excessively conservative and scattered flexural-torsional buckling resistance predictions for fixed-ended press-braked S690 high strength steel angle section columns, while the DSM-based design approach leads to substantially improved resistance predictions, owing to the rational consideration of the length-dependent characteristic of flexural-torsional buckling and the interaction of flexural-torsional buckling with minor-axis flexural buckling.…”
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Controlling hot electrons via plasmon coupling to enhance catalytic reactions in plasmonic Au@SiO2-Pt structures by Yuan, Xu

“…Mechanism analysis shows that the higher photocatalytic ability of Au@SiO2-Pt is owing to the Pt-generated hot electrons induced by plasmon coupling enhanced electric field near Pt nanoparticles. …”
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Graphene quantum dots assisted exfoliation of atomically-thin 2D materials and as-formed 0D/2D van der Waals heterojunction for HER by Gong, Jun, Zhang, Zheye, Zeng, Zhiping, Wang, Wenjun, Kong, Lingxuan, Liu, Jiyang, Chen, Peng

“…Further, it is shown that the as-formed GQD/MoS2 van der Waals heterojunctions (vdWHs) give enhanced performance for electrocatalysis of hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) owing to the synergistic coupling at the 0D/2D heterojunction, delivering a current density of 10 mA cm−2 at a low overpotential of 160 mV with a small Tafel slope of 56.9 mV dec−1. …”
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Advanced thermally drawn multimaterial fibers: structure-enabled functionalities by Wang, Zhe, Chen, Mengxiao, Zheng, Yu, Zhang, Jing, Wang, Zhixun, Yang, Jiao, Zhang, Qichong, He, Bing, Qi, Miao, Zhang, Haozhe, Li, Kaiwei, Wei, Lei

“…Thermally drawn multimaterial fibers have experienced rapid development in the past two decades owing to the high scalability, uniformity, and material and structure compatibility of the thermal drawing technique. …”
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