Generation of self-replicating airway organoids from the cave nectar bat Eonycteris spelaea as a model system for studying host-pathogen interactions in the bat airway epithelium by Chan, Louisa L. Y., Gamage, Akshamal M., Tan, Chee Wah, Tan, Kai Sen, Liu, Jing, Tay, Douglas Jie Wen, Foo, Randy Jee Hiang, Rénia, Laurent, Wang, De Yun, Wang, Lin-Fa

“…However, these ALI-AECs did not support SARS-CoV-2 infection, despite E. spelaea ACE2 receptor being capable of mediating SARS-CoV-2 spike pseudovirus entry. This work provides critical model systems for assessing bat species-specific virus susceptibility and the reservoir likelihood for emerging infectious agents.…”
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Is everybody Kung Fu fighting? Indian popular cinema and martial arts films by Clini, Clelia

“…Hong Kong’s martial arts film have been popular in India since the 1970s (Srinivas Citation2012, 66) and they have had a profound influence on the Hindi action films of the 1970s-1980s, as martial arts were progressively integrated into their narratives. …”
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Discovery of COVID-19 protein inhibitors in phenolic acids of azadirachta indica (neem) using docking and pharmacokinetics by Roney, Miah, Huq, AKM Moyeenul, Mohd Fadhlizil Fasihi, Mohd Aluwi

“…The most attractive antiviral targets of SARS-CoV-2 are the spike protein and main protease (Mpro). In this work, sixteen phenolic acids of Azadirachta indica were docked into the active site of the spike protein and Mpro. …”
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Roadmap on energy harvesting materials by Pecunia, Vincenzo, Silva, S Ravi P, Phillips, Jamie D., Artegiani, Elisa, Romeo, Alessandro, Shim, Hongjae, Park, Jongsung, Kim, Jin Hyeok, Yun, Jae Sung, Welch, Gregory C., Larson, Bryon W., Creran, Myles, Laventure, Audrey, Sasitharan, Kezia, Flores-Diaz, Natalie, Freitag, Marina, Xu, Jie, Brown, Thomas M., Li, Benxuan, Wang, Yiwen, Li, Zhe, Hou, Bo, Hamadani, Behrang H., Defay, Emmanuel, Kovacova, Veronika, Glinsek, Sebastjan, Kar-Narayan, Sohini, Bai, Yang, Kim, Da Bin, Cho, Yong Soo, Žukauskaitė, Agnė, Barth, Stephan, Fan, Feng Ru, Wu, Wenzhuo, Costa, Pedro, del Campo, Javier, Lanceros-Mendez, Senentxu, Khanbareh, Hamideh, Wang, Zhong Lin, Pu, Xiong, Pan, Caofeng, Zhang, Renyun, Xu, Jing, Zhao, Xun, Zhou, Yihao, Chen, Guorui, Tat, Trinny, Ock, Il Woo, Chen, Jun, Graham, Sontyana Adonijah, Yu, Jae Su, Huang, Ling-Zhi, Li, Dan-Dan, Ma, Ming-Guo, Luo, Jikui, Jiang, Feng, Lee, Pooi See, Dudem, Bhaskar, Vivekananthan, Venkateswaran, Kanatzidis, Mercouri G., Xie, Hongyao, Shi, Xiao-Lei, Chen, Zhi-Gang, Riss, Alexander, Parzer, Michael, Garmroudi, Fabian, Bauer, Ernst, Zavanelli, Duncan, Brod, Madison K., Malki, Muath Al, Snyder, G. Jeffrey, Kovnir, Kirill, Kauzlarich, Susan M., Uher, Ctirad, Lan, Jinle, Lin, Yuan-Hua, Fonseca, Luis, Morata, Alex, Martin-Gonzalez, Marisol, Pennelli, Giovanni, Berthebaud, David, Mori, Takao, Quinn, Robert J., Bos, Jan-Willem G., Candolfi, Christophe, Gougeon, Patrick, Gall, Philippe, Lenoir, Bertrand, Venkateshvaran, Deepak, Kaestner, Bernd, Zhao, Yunshan, Zhang, Gang, Nonoguchi, Yoshiyuki, Schroeder, Bob C., Bilotti, Emiliano, Menon, Akanksha K., Urban, Jeffrey J., Fenwick, Oliver, Asker, Ceyla, Talin, A. Alec, Anthopoulos, Thomas D., Losi, Tommaso, Viola, Fabrizio, Caironi, Mario, Georgiadou, Dimitra G., Ding, Li, Peng, Lian-Mao, Wang, Zhenxing, Wei, Muh-Dey, Negra, Renato, Lemme, Max C., Wagih, Mahmoud, Beeby, Steve, Ibn-Mohammed, Taofeeq, Mustapha, K. B., Joshi, A. P.

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B cell receptor repertoire kinetics after SARS-CoV-2 infection and vaccination by Kotagiri, P, Mescia, F, Rae, WM, Bergamaschi, L, Tuong, ZK, Turner, L, Hunter, K, Gerber, PP, Hosmillo, M, Hess, C, Clatworthy, MR, Goodfellow, IG, Matheson, NJ, McKinney, EF, Wills, MR, Gupta, RK, Bradley, JR, Bashford-Rogers, RJM, Lyons, PA, Smith, KGC

“…Infection generates a broad distribution of SARS-CoV-2-specific clones predicted to target the spike protein, while a more focused response after vaccination mainly targets the spike's receptor-binding domain. …”

Clinical course, immunogenicity, and efficacy of BNT162b2 mRNA vaccination against SARS-CoV-2 infection in liver transplant recipients by Tan, Eunice X., Lim, Wen Hui, Thong, Elizabeth, Chavatte, Jean-Marc, Zhang, Jinyan, Lim, Jonathan, Jin, Jocelyn Y., Lim, Daniel R. X., Kang, Jaclyn Y. T., Tang, Ansel Shao Pin, Chan, Kai En, Tan, Caitlyn, Tan, Shi Ni, Nah, Benjamin, Huang, Daniel Q., Wang, Lin-Fa, Tambyah, Paul A., Somani, Jyoti, Young, Barnaby Edward, Muthiah, Mark D.

“…We measured the antibody response against the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein using the Roche Elecsys immunoassay to the receptor-binding domain of the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein, and the presence of neutralizing antibodies was measured by the surrogate virus neutralization test (cPass) before first and second doses of vaccination and also between 2 and 3 mo after the second dose of vaccination. …”
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Improved margin multi-class classification using dendritic neurons with morphological learning by Hussain, Shaista, Liu, Shih-Chii, Basu, Arindam

“…We present an architecture of a spike based multiclass classifier using neurons with non-linear dendrites and sparse synaptic connectivity where each synapse takes a binary value. …”
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Performance studies of TCP traffic on mobile ad hoc networks by Chua, Tong Siang.

“…A mobile ad hoc network (MANET) is a network that composed of mobile hosts communicating with each other through wireless link. A MANET has no fixed backbone infrastructure and is not centrally controlled. …”
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Seroprevalence of SARS-CoV-2 in children and adolescents by Ratcliffe, H

“…The results showed a high prevalence of pre-existing immunity against seasonal coronaviruses when measuring IgG concentration of antibodies against spike protein but did not confer protection against SARS-CoV-2.…”

Numerical modelling of detonation reaction zone of nitromethane by EXPLO5 code and wood and kirkwood theory by Štimac, Barbara, Chan, Serene Hay Yee, Kunzel, Martin, Muhamed Suceska

“…The measured particle velocity profile of NM shows the existence of a sharp spike followed by a rapid drop over the first 5-10 ns (fast reaction). …”
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Employment of a high throughput functional assay to define the critical factors that influence vaccine induced cross-variant neutralizing antibodies for SARS-CoV-2 by Gu, Yue, Shunmuganathan, Bhuvaneshwari, Qian, Xinlei, Gupta, Rashi, Tan, Rebecca S. W., Kozma, Mary, Purushotorman, Kiren, Murali, Tanusya M., Tan, Nikki Y. J., Preiser, Peter Rainer, Lescar, Julien, Nasir, Haziq, Somani, Jyoti, Tambyah, Paul A., Smith, Kenneth G. C., Renia, Laurent, Ng, Lisa F. P., Lye, David C., Young, Barnaby E., MacAry, Paul A.

“…We also present an accurate quantitation of serological responses for SARS-CoV-2 that exploits a unique set of in-house, recombinant human monoclonal antibodies targeting the viral Spike and nucleocapsid proteins and demonstrate a reduction in neutralizing antibody titres across all groups 6 months post-vaccination. …”
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Modeling distance-dependent individual head-related transfer functions in the horizontal plane using frontal projection headphones by Sunder, Kaushik, Gan, Woon-Seng, Tan, Ee-Leng

“…Soc. 61, 989–1000] project the sound directly onto the pinnae from the front, and thus inherently create listener's idiosyncratic pinna cues at the eardrum. …”
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Investigating viral glycosylation pathways for drug and vaccine development by Brun, J

“…Chapter 4 focuses on the site-specific glycosylation occupancy, and N- and O-glycan structures attached to virion derived SARS-CoV-2 spike glycoproteins. This glycan signature was compared to a stabilised prefusion trimeric spike, to a monomeric subunit of spike (S1) and to an antigen of a non-stabilised vaccine candidate, revealing subunit shedding of the S1 glycoprotein for the vaccine candidate. …”

Janus particles with tunable patch symmetry and their assembly into chiral colloidal clusters by Zhang, Tianran, Lyu, Dengping, Xu, Wei, Feng, Xuan, Ni, Ran, Wang, Yufeng

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Self-guided cognitive behavioral therapy apps for depression: systematic assessment of features, functionality, and congruence with evidence by Martinengo, Laura, Stona, Anne-Claire, Griva, Konstadina, Dazzan, Paola, Pariante, Carmine Maria, von Wangenheim, Florian, Car, Josip

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Comparative effects of domain-specific human monoclonal antibodies against LGI1 on neuronal excitability by Sell, J, Rahmati, V, Kempfer, M, Irani, SR, Ritzau-Jost, A, Hallermann, S, Geis, C

“…However, only the LRR-specific mAbs increased the number of action potential firing together with enhanced initial instantaneous frequency and promoted spike-frequency adaptation, which were less pronounced after the EPTP mAb. …”

Plasmonic anapole metamaterial for refractive index sensing by Yao, Jin, Ou, Jun-Yu, Savinov, Vassili, Chen, Mu Ku, Kuo, Hsin Yu, Zheludev, Nikolay I., Tsai, Din Ping

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Multiscale topological indices for the quantitative prediction of SARS CoV-2 binding affinity change upon mutations by Bi, Jialin, Wee, JunJie, Liu, Xiang, Qu, Cunquan, Wang, Guanghui, Xia, Kelin

“…Biologically, protein-protein interactions between SARS-CoV-2 surface spike (S) protein and human ACE2 protein are the key mechanism behind the COVID-19 disease. …”
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Towards a computer that functions like the human brain by Lee, Seow Wei

“…Spike-Timing-Dependent Plasticity and unsupervised learning in the network is researched in this report. …”
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Inferring structural variant cancer cell fraction by Cmero, M, Yuan, K, Ong, CS, Schröder, J, PCAWG Evolution and Heterogeneity Working Group, Corcoran, NM, Papenfuss, T, Hovens, CM, Markowetz, F, Macintyre, G, PCAWG Consortium