Measuring membrane capacitance during a depolarizing stimulus by Chen, Peng., Gillis, Kevin., Xue, Renhao., Pui, Tze Sian.

“…It is critical to resolve the highly dynamic kinetic steps along the molecular cascade of exocytosis in order to pin down the specific actions of regulatory molecules and eventually decipher this complex and fundamental process.…”
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Heme-Regulated eIF2α Kinase Modulates Hepatic FGF21 and is Activated by PPARβ/δ Deficiency by Zarei, Mohammad, Barroso, Emma, Leiva, Rosana, Barniol-Xicota, Marta, Pujol, Eugènia, Escolano, Carmen, Vázquez, Santiago, Palomer, Xavier, Pardo, Virginia, González-Rodríguez, Águeda, Valverde, Ángela M., Quesada-López, Tania, Villarroya, Francesc, Wahli, Walter, Vázquez-Carrera, Manuel

“…Increased Fgf21 expression was observed in liver of PPARβ/δ-null mice and in mouse primary hepatocytes when this receptor was knocked down by small interfering RNA (siRNA). …”
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The role of calcium dependent neurotransmission in axon path finding, myelination and maintenance of specified cortical projection neuron populations by Korrell, K

“…</p> <p>Together, the results indicate that neuronal activity has little effect on the onset of myelination but has effects on the g-ratio in deep cortical layer projection neurons in mice.</p>…”

Structural and mechanistic studies of herpes virus proteins by Patel, Vidhi Kanaiyalal

“…Further probing will be needed to analyse if all the homologues are structurally similar in spite of divergence in sequence similarity. Structural knowledge of ICP27 and its homologues may aid in a better understanding of the mechanism by which they function. …”
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Synaptic CMOS transistor by Chai, Zhen Hong

“…In this work, electrical measurements were conducted on commercial level TiN/HfO2 gated n-channel MOSFET transistor (with an equivalent oxide thickness of 1.7nm) to demonstrate that it can exhibit some critical synaptic characteristics of a biological synapse such as excitatory and inhibitory postsynaptic current (EPSC and IPSC), short-term plasticity (STP) and long-term potentiation (LTP), metaplasticity, and spike timing dependent plasticity (STDP). The mechanism behind the output characteristic of MOSFET to exhibit synaptic-like response is the charge trapping and de-trapping at defects in the oxide and oxide/semiconductor interface. …”
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A scalable variational inference approach for increased mixed-model association power by Loya, H, Kalantzis, G, Cooper, F, Palamara, PF

“…We developed Quickdraws, a method that increases association power in quantitative and binary traits without sacrificing computational efficiency, leveraging a spike-and-slab prior on variant effects, stochastic variational inference and graphics processing unit acceleration. …”

QoS provisioning by power control for video communication via satellite links by Ma, Ting, Lee, Yee Hui, Winkler, Stefan, Ma, Maode

“…Simulation results show the effectiveness of the proposed power control solution and its ability to sustain video quality levels in spite of rain fades.…”
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Altruism and natural selection in a variable environment by dos Santos, M, Downing, PA, Griffin, AS, Cornwallis, CK, West, SA

“…Hamilton's rule provides the cornerstone for our understanding of the evolution of all forms of social behavior, from altruism to spite, across all organisms, from viruses to humans. …”

The Search of Best Practices of Malaysian Halal Cosmetics Industry to Improve Firm Performance by Md Sin, Mohammad Aizat, Razalli, Mohd Rizal, Mohamed Ismail, Risyawati

“…In addition, Halal principles, Halal certification, Halal logo, and Halal safety can be used as Halal compliance benchmarks. In spite of high level of awareness on Halal cosmetics among the Malaysian population, the integrity of the final product is still questionable. …”
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Development of a counter-UAV system by Tang, Wen Yue

“…Upon testing, the firing pin mechanism was found to be unable to reliably puncture the CO2 canister, even after improvements. …”
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Mass spectrometry imaging highlights dynamic patterns of lipid co-expression with Aβ plaques in mouse and human brains by Huang, Helen Xuexia, Inglese, Paolo, Tang, Jiabin, Yagoubi, Riad, Correia, Gonçalo D. S., Horneffer-van der Sluis, Verena M., Camuzeaux, Stephane, Wu, Vincen, Kopanitsa, Maksym V., Willumsen, Nanet, Jackson, Johanna S., Barron, Anna M., Saito, Takashi, Saido, Takaomi C., Gentlemen, Steve, Takats, Zoltan, Matthews, Paul M.

“…To delineate the pathological correlations of distinct lipid species, we conducted a comprehensive characterization of both spatially localized and global differences in brain lipid composition in AppNL-G-F mice with spatial and bulk mass spectrometry lipidomic profiling, using human amyloid-expressing (h-Aβ) and WT mouse brains controls. …”
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Enhanced restoration of visual code after targeting ON bipolar cells compared to retinal ganglion cells with optogenetic therapy by Rogers, J, Hughes, S, Ebrahimi, A, Allen, A, Storchi, R, Lindner, M, Peirson, S, Badea, T, Hankins, M, Lucas, R

“…Our data show that, while both approaches restore visual responses with impressive fidelity, ON BC targeting produces a richer visual code closer to that of wild-type mice. …”

Strong immune responses and robust protection following a novel protein in adjuvant tuberculosis vaccine candidate by Korompis, M, De Voss, CJ, Li, S, Richard, A, Almujri, SS, Ateere, A, Frank, G, Lemoine, C, McShane, H, Stylianou, E

“…Vaccinated mice had enriched lung parenchymal antigen-specific CD4 + CXCR3 + KLRG1− T cells previously associated with TB protection. …”

Lessons from a retrospective look at India’s upstream sector by Elango, P

Mitofusins Mfn1 and Mfn2 are required to preserve glucose- but not incretin-stimulated β-cell connectivity and insulin secretion by Georgiadou, Eleni, Muralidharan, Charanya, Martinez, Michelle, Chabosseau, Pauline, Akalestou, Elina, Tomas, Alejandra, Yong, Fiona Su Wern, Stylianides, Theodoros, Wretlind, Asger, Legido-Quigley, Cristina, Jones, Ben, Lopez-Noriega, Livia, Xu, Yanwen, Gu, Guoqiang, Alsabeeh, Nour, Cruciani-Guglielmacci, Céline, Magnan, Christophe, Ibberson, Mark, Leclerc, Isabelle, Ali, Yusuf, Soleimanpour, Scott A., Linnemann, Amelia K., Rodriguez, Tristan A., Rutter, Guy A.

“…Whether mitofusin gene expression, and hence, mitochondrial network integrity, is important for glucose or incretin signaling has not previously been explored. Here, we generated mice with β-cell-selective, adult-restricted deletion knock-out (dKO) of the mitofusin genes Mfn1 and Mfn2 (βMfn1/2 dKO). βMfn1/2-dKO mice displayed elevated fed and fasted glycemia and a more than fivefold decrease in plasma insulin. …”
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Dengue death rate higher among women than men in Bangladesh by Roney, Miah, Mohd Fadhlizil Fasihi, Mohd Aluwi

“…Given the atypical seasonality of the epidemic and the sudden spike in cases early on, it is noteworthy that mosquito and potential hotspot densities were at an all-time high throughout the previous years.…”
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Design and development of extreme learning machine symposium web portal by Chiang, Yu Hui.

“…In recent years, it has been observed that there is a spike in interest in the development of web based conference management systems. …”
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Mean-field approximation for networks with synchrony-driven adaptive coupling by Fennelly, N, Neff, A, Lambiotte, R, Keane, A, Byrne, A

“…In place of the less tractable spike-timing-dependent plasticity, we employ recently validated phase-difference-dependent plasticity rules, which adjust coupling strengths based on the relative phases of θ-neuron oscillators. …”

中朝古代桃花源文学比较研究 = A comparative study of peach blossom literature in ancient China and Korea by 蔡佳敏 Cai, Jiamin

“…This peach blossom imagery develops from Tao Yuan Ming's portrayal of a peach blossom in his famous poetry "The Peach Colony" ("Tao Hua Yuan Shi with Ji"). …”
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Implementation of Vision-Based Navigation for Pedestrian Environments by Anderson, Connor William

“…The tracking module of this pipeline is able to correctly localize pedestrians within 0.4 meters in simple scenarios and 0.6 meters in challenging multi-pedestrian stress testing cases inside of a 12 meter space in spite of limited field of view and relying on only inexpensive RGB camera images. …”
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