A hidden lethal effect of long microplastic fibres on the coastal copepod Acartia erythraea by Takahashi, Kazutaka, Teh, Jun Chin

“…We investigated the lethal effects of a long fibrous microplastic (the range of lengths, widths, and thicknesses were 1.5–3.6 mm, 10–16 μm, and 7–8.5 μm, respectively) made of polyethylene terephthalate textile, on the marine copepod Acartia erythraea. …”
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Lotus root-like porous carbon for potassium ion battery with high stability and rate performance by Wang, Huanhuan, Artemova, Anastasiia, Yang, Guang, Wang, Haisheng, Zhang, Lili, Cao, Xu, Arkhipova, Ekaterina, Liu, Jilei, Huang, Yizhong, Lin, Jianyi, Shen, Zexiang

“…Specifically, the in-situ growth of nitrogen-doped lotus-root like carbon matrix contributes to porous and robust structures, which can keep the structural integrity even after long-term cycling test at high current density. …”
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Identification and application of self-binding zipper-like sequences in SARS-CoV spike protein by Zhang, Si Min, Liao, Ying, Neo, Tuan Ling, Lu, Yanning, Liu, Ding Xiang, Vahlne, Anders, Tam, James Pingkwan

“…Self-binding peptides containing zipper-like sequences, such as the Leu/Ile zipper sequence within the coiled coil regions of proteins and the cross-β spine steric zippers within the amyloid-like fibrils, could bind to the protein-of-origin through homophilic sequence-specific zipper motifs. …”
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Automated lesion segmentation and quantification for prediction of paradoxical worsening in patients with tubercular serpiginous-like choroiditis by Kalra, Gagan, Agarwal, Aniruddha, Marchese, Alessandro, Agrawal, Rupesh, Bansal, Reema, Gupta, Vishali

“…To develop and evaluate a fully automated pipeline that analyzes color fundus images in patients with tubercular serpiginous-like choroiditis (TB SLC) for prediction of paradoxical worsening (PW). …”
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Characterization of alginate-like exopolysaccharides from aerobic granules treating palm oil mill effluent / by Syamimi Md. Jamal, 1990- author 613367, Norhayati Abdullah, 1980-, supervisor 521402, Muhammad Ali Yuzir, supervisor 613368, Fakulti Biosains dan Kejuruteraan Perubatan

Characterization of alginate-like exopolysaccharides from aerobic granules treating palm oil mill effluent / by Syamimi Md. Jamal, 1990- author 613367

A secret of high-rate mass transfer in anammox granular sludge : "lung-like breathing" by Xu, Dongdong, Kang, Da, Yu, Tao, Ding, Aqiang, Lin, Qiujian, Zhang, Meng, Hu, Qianyi, Zheng, Ping

“…In this study, a “lung-like breathing” determinator was invented to investigate the working behavior of AnGS in the bioreactor. …”
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Starvation, ferroptosis, and prodrug therapy synergistically enabled by a cytochrome c oxidase like nanozyme by Cao, Changyu, Yang, Nan, Su, Yan, Zhang, Zheye, Wang, Chenxi, Song, Xuejiao, Chen, Peng, Wang, Wenjun, Dong, Xiaochen

“…Herein, a cytochrome c oxidase-like nanozyme (copper-silver alloy nanoparticle, Cu-Ag NP) is demonstrated for nanocatalytic cancer therapy. …”
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Development of diamond-like carbon films for large area microelectronic applications using ECR-CVD by Yoon, Soon Fatt.

“…In this project, the ECR-CVD technique has been used to deposit amorphous and diamond-like carbon films from a mixture of hydrogen and methane, and for the characterisation of optical, structural and mechanical properties of the films, the following analytical techniques has been employed.…”
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Fabrication and packaging of piezoresistive MEMS pressure sensor array for passive fish-like underwater sensing by Chia, Mark Sebastian Xiong Wei.

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Human metapneumovirus in Singapore : epidemiology, fusion-attachment protein interaction and virus-like particle assembly by Loo, Liat Hui

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Plasmonic Nanohole Sensor for Capturing Single Virus-Like Particles toward Virucidal Drug Evaluation by Jackman, Joshua Alexander, Linardy, Eric, Yoo, Daehan, Seo, Jeongeun, Ng, Wei Beng, Klemme, Daniel J., Wittenberg, Nathan J., Oh, Sang-Hyun, Cho, Nam-Joon

“…A plasmonic nanohole sensor for virus-like particle capture and virucidal drug evaluation is reported. …”
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DRD-UNet, a UNet-like architecture for multi-class breast cancer semantic segmentation by Ortega-Ruíz, Mauricio Alberto, Karabağ, Cefa, Roman-Rangel, Edgar, Reyes-Aldasoro, Constantino Carlos

“…This paper describes a UNet-like deep learning architecture called DRD-UNet, which adds a novel processing block called DRD (Dilation, Residual, and Dense block) to a UNet architecture. …”
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Recombinant expression systems for production of stabilised virus-like particles as next-generation polio vaccines by Sherry, L, Bahar, MW, Porta, C, Fox, H, Grehan, K, Nasta, V, Duyvesteyn, HME, De Colibus, L, Marsian, J, Murdoch, I, Ponndorf, D, Kim, S, Shah, S, Carlyle, S, Swanson, JJ, Matthews, S, Nicol, C, Lomonossoff, GP, Macadam, AJ, Fry, EE, Stuart, DI, Stonehouse, NJ, Rowlands, DJ

“…Continued use of these vaccines, however, threatens ultimate disease eradication and achievement of a polio-free world. Virus-like particles (VLPs) that lack a viral genome represent a safer potential vaccine, although they require particle stabilization. …”

Bacteriocin-like peptides encoded by a horizontally acquired island mediate Neisseria gonorrhoeae autolysis by Poncin, K, McKeand, SA, Lavender, H, Kurzyp, K, Harrison, OB, Roberti, A, Melia, C, Johnson, E, Maiden, MCJ, Greaves, DR, Exley, R, Tang, CM

“…The nap island in the gonococcus encodes 3 cationic, bacteriocin-like peptides which have no detectable antimicrobial activity. …”

Distinct movement disorders in contactin-associated-protein-like-2 antibody-associated autoimmune encephalitis by Gövert, F, Abrante, L, Becktepe, J, Balint, B, Ganos, C, Hofstadt-van Oy, U, Krogias, C, Varley, J, Irani, SR, Paneva, S, Titulaer, MJ, de Vries, JM, Boon, AJW, Schreurs, MWJ, Joubert, B, Honnorat, J, Vogrig, A, Ariño, H, Sabater, L, Dalmau, J, Scotton, S, Jacob, S, Melzer, N, Bien, CG, Geis, C, Lewerenz, J, Prüss, H, Wandinger, K-P, Deuschl, G, Leypoldt, F

“…In the elderly, anti-LGI1 and contactin associated protein like 2 (CASPR2) antibody-associated diseases compose a relevant fraction of autoimmune encephalitis. …”

Prediction of international rice production using long short- term memory and machine learning models by Arya, Suraj, Anju, ., Nor Azuana, Ramli

“…By predicting its production, we can develop a global plan for its production and stock, thereby preventing issues like famine. This paper proposes machine learning (ML) and deep learning (DL) models like linear regression, ridge regression, random forest (RF), adaptive boosting (AdaBoost), categorical boosting (CatBoost), extreme gradient boosting (XGBoost), gradient boosting, decision tree, and long short-term memory (LSTM) to predict international rice production. …”
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Design of a long-term memory genetic toggle switch inspired by chromatin modification circuits by Kwon, Ukjin, Huang, Hsin-Ho, Vecchio, Domitilla Del

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Simulation of dwell-to-penetration transition for SiC ceramics subjected to impact of tungsten long rods by Yuan, Jianming, Tan, Geoffrey Eng Beng, Goh, Wei Liang

“…For a ceramic armour impacted by a long rod projectile, increasing the dwell-to-penetration transition velocity significantly improves its ballistic performance, whereas it can be achieved by prestressing of the ceramic or placing a buffer over the impact surface. …”
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Long electron-hole diffusion length in high-quality lead-free double perovskite films by Ning, Weihua, Wang, Feng, Wu, Bo, Lu, Jun, Yan, Zhibo, Liu, Xianjie, Tao, Youtian, Liu, Jun-Ming, Huang, Wei, Fahlman, Mats, Hultman, Lars, Sum, Tze Chien, Gao, Feng

“…These high-quality double perovskite films show long electron-hole diffusion lengths greater than 100 nm, enabling the fabrication of planar structure double perovskite solar cells. …”
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