Popular safe haven assets, do they really exist for stock markets? Analysis on gold, Japanese yen and Swiss franc. by Liu, Chang., Ho, Pauline., Xu, Qiong.

“…After further classifying the stock market data into bull and bear periods, then by looking at the days of extreme negative returns in each situation, we realize that the safe haven effect in these assets tends to be stronger in bearish stock markets. …”
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Scenes of misrecognition (Koltès, Duras) by Killeen, M-C

“…What is most fascinating about these works is the curious way in which they appear to bear all the markings of confessions yet pointedly refuse to behave like them, thwarting the desire for revelation, catharsis, and closure at every turn. …”

Zeta potential characterization using commercial microfluidic chips by Cottet, Jonathan, Oshodi, Josephine O., Yebouet, Jesse, Leang, Andrea, Furst, Ariel L., Buie, Cullen R.

“…This novel methodology was tested with functionalized 1 μm and 2 μm polystyrene beads as well as Escherichia coli MG1655 strain. …”
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On-chip droplet characterisation using impedance-based measurement by Low, Jerome Fang Yao

“…On the contrary, low concentrations of surfactant resulted in the instability of the droplets where the droplets break up and merge if two droplets are too close to each other. Both 31 µm beads and Jurkat cells were used for the encapsulation within droplets. …”
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An essential role for maternal control of Nodal signaling by Tran, Long Duc, Kumari, Pooja, Gilligan, Patrick C., Lim, Shimin, Winkler, Sylke, Philp, Robin, Sampath, Karuna

“…Implanted Nodal-coated beads phenocopy ybx1 mutant defects. Thus, Ybx1 prevents ectopic Nodal activity, revealing a new paradigm in the regulation of Nodal signaling, which is likely to be conserved.…”
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Insights into quorum quenching mechanisms to control membrane biofouling under changing organic loading rates by Waheed, Hira, Xiao, Yeyuan, Hashmi, Imran, Stuckey, David, Zhou, Yan

“…A quorum quenching (QQ) consortium comprised of both acyl homoserine lactones (AHLs)- and autoinducer-2 (AI-2)-degrading bacteria, either immobilized in polymer-coated alginate beads or in liquid suspension, was examined for fouling control in lab-scale MBRs under both steady and changing organic loading rates (OLRs). …”
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Taking data feminism to school: A synthesis and review of pre‐collegiate data science education projects by Lee, Victor R, Pimentel, Daniel R, Bhargava, Rahul, D'Ignazio, Catherine

“…In this review paper, we draw on principles from data feminism to review 42 different educational research and design approaches that engage youth with data, many of which are educational technology intensive and bear on future data-intensive educational technology research and design projects. …”
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Comparison of Machine Learning-Based Methods for Narrowband Blind Adaptive Beamforming by Shonkwiler, Lara

“…Traditional blind source separation methods such as CMA, SOBI, JADE, and FastICA tend to be highly effective at beamforming datasets with moderate to large sample supports, but they do not perform well when they only have access to a limited number of data samples. They also bear the disadvantage that the appropriate algorithm must be selected based on the properties of the expected signal. …”
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Easing the “second-shift” burden : grandparental childcare and the subjective wellbeing of working mothers in Singapore by Cheo, Rachel Ka Yang

“…However, it is still common for working mothers to bear the brunt of both domestic and paid work. In the present study, I explored the role of grandparents as providers of childcare for their grandchildren in contemporary Singapore. …”
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The other side of the Elbe River: interventions in art, modernity, and coloniality in Poland by Michalska, DJ

“…<p>The artistic practices of Zofia Stryjeńska (1891-1976), Władysław Hasior, (1928-1999), Teresa Murak (1949-) and Roman Stańczak (1969-) all bear testimony – in their own distinct ways – to the ‘shock of the new’, the massive rupture brought by modernisation and capitalism in twentieth-century Poland. …”

Behave The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst / by Sapolsky, Robert M., author 656050, Penguin Random House (Online service) 655978

“…Sapolsky's storytelling concept is delightful but it also has a powerful intrinsic logic: he starts by looking at the factors that bear on a person's reaction in the precise moment a behavior occurs, and then hops back in time from there, in stages, ultimately ending up at the deep history of our species and its evolutionary legacy. …”
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A novel approach based on the elastoplastic fatigue damage and machine learning models for life prediction of aerospace alloy parts fabricated by additive manufacturing by Zhan, Zhixin, Li, Hua

“…In the aerospace engineering, many metal parts produced using Additive Manufacturing (AM) technique often bear cyclic loadings, so the fatigue failures of AM alloy parts become very common phenomena. …”
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Does bankruptcy law prevent internalization of environmental costs: evidence from China by Li, Xingwei

“…The principle requires those responsible for environmental damage or imminent threats of damage to bear the necessary costs of remediation and prevention. …”
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Encapsulation of probiotics for food and beverage applications by Ang, Kai Lin

“…Findings from this study have shown that alginate-encapsulated probiotic beads, produced via extrusion method, can exhibit a protective effect in an acidic/bactericidal environment and resulted in a significant improvement in viability as compared to unencapsulated ones in commercialized carbonated sodas/beers. …”
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Protein delivery options: how well have we succeeded? by Ng, Xu Wen, Subbu, Venkatraman

“…Another antibody, Avastin®, indicated for bowel cancer, accounted for $6.7 billion among these top-selling drugs, while Herceptin®, used to treat breast cancer, had sales of $6.6 billion. These numbers bear eloquent testimony to the increasing demand for protein therapeutics. …”
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Microfluidic plasma extraction from blood using wash-free pneumatic system by Lin, Yun Jia

“…The flow stability of the system was evaluated and found to be satisfactory, with a standard deviation of 0.23, 18.80, and 0.02 for flow rate of outlet 1, outlet 2, and the separation efficiency of 50 nm beads (to mimic plasma), respectively. Hemacytometer results showed no cells in outlet 1 and PPP, indicating good cell depletion during the plasma extraction process using the pneumatic system. …”
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Spectral domain optical coherence tomography with extended depth-of-focus by aperture synthesis by Bo, En, Liu, Linbo

“…This system digitally refocused the sample tissue and obtained a brand new image with higher lateral resolution over the confocal parameter when imaging the polystyrene calibration beads.…”
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DNA extraction methodologies for ultra long nanopore sequencing to determine chromosome specific rodent telomere lengths by Kidd, Elliot, Mooruth, Ravi, Meimaridou, Eirini, Walley, Andrew, Fairbrother, Una

“…Previous work in our lab shows that phenol/chloroform extraction damages DNA less than spin columns and magnetic beads and that extraction methods are crucial for accurate TL determination. …”
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Artificial Intelligence and the US-China Balance of Power by Chang, Benjamin Angel

“…Finally, the third essay exploits supply chain datasets to assess each side’s ability to bring AI-enabled autonomous weapons to bear in future conventional conflicts. I find that control over the production of advanced AI chips by the United States and allies almost certainly means the United States would better exploit such weapons, if they emerged as decisive in modern warfare, within at least the next ten years. …”
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Object individuation and physical reasoning in infancy : an integrative account by Baillargeon, Renée, Stavans, Maayan, Wu, Di, Gertner, Yael, Setoh, Peipei, Kittredge, Audrey K., Bernard, Amélie

“…In this article, we argue that this confusing picture can be better understood by bringing to bear insights from a related subfield of infancy research, physical reasoning. …”
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