Function of second cladding layer in hollow core tube lattice fibers by Huang, Xiaosheng, Yoo, Seongwoo, Yong, KenTye

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Binding modes of teixobactin to lipid ii : molecular dynamics study by Liu, Yang, Liu, Yaxin, Chan-Park, Mary Bee Eng, Mu, Yuguang

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High-protein, low-glycaemic meal replacement improves physical health-related quality of life in high-risk persons for metabolic syndrome—a subanalysis of the randomised-controlled... by Kempf, Kerstin, Röhling, Martin, Banzer, Winfried, Braumann, Klaus-Michael, Halle, Martin, Schaller, Nina, McCarthy, H. David, Predel, Hans-Georg, Schenkenberger, Isabelle, Tan, Susanne, Toplak, Hermann, Martin, Stephan, Berg, Aloys

“…Stronger improvements in the physical component summary (PCS) were observed in the intervention compared to the control group, peaking after 3 months (estimated treatment difference 2.7 [1.2; 4.2]; p 0.0001), but also in the long-term. Multiple regression analysis demonstrated that insulin levels and the achieved weight loss were associated with the mental component summary (MCS) after 12 months (p 0.05). …”
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Linking dual mode of action of host defense antimicrobial peptide thanatin: structures, lipopolysaccharide and LptAm binding of designed analogs by Sinha, Sheetal, Dhanabal, Vidhya Bharathi, Sperandeo, Paola, Polissi, Alessandra, Bhattacharjya, Surajit

“…Thanatin, an insect derived 21-residue long antimicrobial peptide may be exploited for the development of effective antibiotics against Gram-negative bacteria. …”
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Association between feel-like temperatures and injury risk during international outdoor athletic championships: a prospective cohort study on 29 579 athlete starts during 10 champi... by Edouard, P, Dandrieux, P-E, Klöwer, MK, Junge, A, Racinais, S, Branco, P, Hollander, K, Navarro, L

“…We performed Poisson regressions with incidence rates (number of injuries per 1000 athlete starts) as outcomes and UTCI as a predictive variable adjusted for sex, for all and time-loss injuries, for different injured tissue types (ie, muscle, tendon, ligament, articular, bone and skin) and specific discipline (ie, sprints, hurdles, jumps, throws, middle distance, long distance, marathon and race walking).</p> <p><strong>Results:</strong>&nbsp;A total of 1203 in-competition injuries were reported for 29&thinsp;579 athlete starts. …”

Ionic covalent organic framework based electrolyte for fast-response ultra-low voltage electrochemical actuators by Yu, Fei, Ciou, Jing-Hao, Chen, Shaohua, Poh, Wei Church, Chen, Jian, Chen, Juntong, Haruethai, Kongcharoen, Lv, Jian, Gao, Dace, Lee, Pooi See

“…Specifically, the actuator shows a large peak to peak displacement (9.3 mm, ±0.5 V, 1 Hz), a fast-response time to reach equilibrium-bending (~1 s), a correspondingly high bending strain difference (0.38%), a broad response frequency (0.1-20 Hz) and excellent durability (>99%) after 23,000 cycles. …”
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Optimising the surveillance and control of communicable diseases: the effects of population heterogeneity on early outbreak transmission dynamics by Lovell-Read, F

“…Surveillance for plant pathogens is often hindered by a long incubation period during which plants may be infectious but not displaying visible symptoms. …”

Ocular delivery of predatory bacteria with cryomicroneedles against eye infection by Cui, Mingyue, Zheng, Mengjia, Wiraja, Christian, Chew, Sharon Wan Ting, Mishra, Arti, Mayandi, Venkatesh, Lakshminarayanan, Rajamani, Xu, Chenjie

“…The viability of B. bacteriovorus in cryoMNs remains above 80% as found in long-term storage studies, and they successfully impede the growth of gram-negative bacteria in vitro or in a rodent eye infection model. …”
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Predicting marsh vulnerability to sea-level rise using Holocene relative sea-level data by Horton, Benjamin Peter, Shennan, Ian, Bradley, Sarah L., Cahill, Niamh, Kirwan, Matthew, Kopp, Robert E., Shaw, Timothy Adam

“…All of Great Britain has a >80% probability of a marsh retreat under Representative Concentration Pathway (RCP) 8.5 by 2100, with areas of southern and eastern England achieving this probability by 2040.…”
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Narrow bandgap oxide nanoparticles coupled with graphene for high performance mid-infrared photodetection by Hu, Xiaonan, Zhang, Daliang, Tao, Ye, Yu, Xuechao, Li, Yangyang, Liu, Zhixiong, He, Yongmin, Md. Azimul Haque, Liu, Zheng, Wu, Tom, Wang, Qi Jie

“…Here we demonstrate a mid-infrared hybrid photodetector enabled by coupling graphene with a narrow bandgap semiconductor, Ti2O3 (Eg = 0.09 eV), which achieves a high responsivity of 300 A W−1 in a broadband wavelength range up to 10 µm. …”
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Kinematics of Active Deformation Across the Western Kunlun Mountain Range (Xinjiang, China) and Potential Seismic Hazards Within the Southern Tarim Basin by Guilbaud, Christelle, Simoes, Martine, Barrier, Laurie, Laborde, Amandine, Van der Woerd, Jérôme, Li, Haibing, Tapponnier, Paul, Coudroy, Thomas, Murray, Andrew

“…From their incision pattern and using age constraints retrieved on some of these terraces from field sampling, we quantify the slip rate on the underlying blind ramp to 0.5 to 2.5 mm/yr, with a most probable long-term value of 2 to 2.5 mm/yr. …”
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Enhancement of air-side heat transfer performance of additively manufactured condensers by Chan, Yi Qing

“…To experimentally investigate these structures, samples of 90 mm long, 40 mm wide, and 15 mm high with a 3.5 mm thickness base were fabricated using additive manufacturing (AM) technology which is a selective laser melting (SLM) technique. …”
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Single plasmonic structure enhanced dual-band room temperature infrared photodetection by Tong, Jinchao, Luo, Yu, Zhang, Dawei, Zhang, Dao Hua, Tobing, Landobasa Yosef Mario

“…We demonstrate that with a properly designed 2DSHA, room temperature detectivities of the heterostructure device can be enhanced to ~1.4 × 109 Jones and ~1.5 × 1011 Jones for the two bands peaked at 3.4 μm and 1.7 μm, respectively. …”
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Inertial-based filtration method for removal of microcarriers from mesenchymal stem cell suspensions by Moloudi, Reza, Oh, Steve, Yang, Chun, Teo, Kim Leng, Lam, Alan Tin-Lun, Warkiani, Majid Ebrahimi, Naing, May Win

“…Accordingly, the high-throughput trapezoidal spiral channel successfully separated MCs from hMSC suspension with total cell yield~94% (after two passes) at a high volumetric flow rate of ~30 mL/min (Re~326.5).…”
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Structures of Mycobacterium smegmatis 70S ribosomes in complex with HPF, tmRNA, and P-tRNA by Mishra, Satabdi, Ahmed, Tofayel, Tyagi, Anu, Shi, Jian, Bhushan, Shashi

“…Here, we present single particle cryo-EM reconstructions of the Mycobacterium smegmatis 70S ribosomes in the hibernating state (with HPF), trans-translating state (with tmRNA), and the P/P state (with P-tRNA) resolved to 4.1, 12.5, and 3.4 Å, respectively. A comparison of the P/P state with the hibernating state provides possible functional insights about the Mycobacteria-specific helix H54a rRNA segment. …”
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The impact of photopigment bleaching on the human rod photoreceptor subretinal space measured via optical coherence tomography by Messner, Alina, Dos Santos, Valentin Aranha, Puchner, Stefan, Stegmann, Hannes, Schlatter, Andreas, Schmidl, Doreen, Leitgeb, Rainer, Schmetterer, Leopold, Werkmeister, René M.

“…The mean area under the stimulus response curve with values of 14.8 ± 9.4 and 15.5 ± 7.5 μm × minutes (P = 0.782) showed excellent agreement between the stimulus response on D1 and D2. …”
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A deep learning-based fault detection and classification in smart electrical power transmission system by Khaleefah, Shihab Hamad, Mostafa, Salama A., Gunasekaran, Saraswathy Shamini, Khattak, Umar Farooq, Siti Salwani, Yaacob, Alanda, Alde

“…The design of the deep learning approach comprises a long-term and short-term memory (LSTM) model. The LSTM model is trained on an electrical fault detection dataset that contains three-phase currents and voltages at one end serving as inputs and fault detection as outputs. …”
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Optimizing carbon capture and storage (CCS) through thermal biomass conversion into terra preta and hydrogen: A short review by Norazlianie, Sazali, Kettner, Maurice, Salim, Naqib

“…Key findings show that Terra Preta can significantly enhance soil fertility, augment crop yields, and foster resilience to environmental stressors while sequestering carbon. However, long-term field studies are necessary to comprehensively evaluate the efficacy of Terra Preta across various agricultural systems and climates. …”
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Combining laser frequency combs and iodine cell calibration techniques for Doppler detection of exoplanets by Cahoy, K., Fischer, D., Spronck, J., Demille, D.

“…The smaller mass and longer period of true Earth analogues require the ability to detect a reflex velocity of ~10 cm/s over long time periods. Currently, typical astronomical spectrographs calibrate using either Iodine absorptive cells or Thorium Argon lamps and achieve ~10 m/s precision, with the most stable spectrographs pushing down to ~2 m/s. …”
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High-rate tests on resistive plate chambers operated with eco-friendly gas mixtures by Abbrescia, M., Aielli, G., Aly, R., Arena, M. C., Barroso, M., Benussi, L., Bianco, S., Bordon, F., Boscherini, D., Bruni, A., Buontempo, S., Busato, M., Camarri, P., Cardarelli, R., Congedo, L., De Jesus Damiao, D., De Serio, M., Di Ciaccio, A., Di Stante, L., Dupieux, P., Eysermans, J., Ferretti, A., Galati, G., Gagliardi, M., Guida, R., Iaselli, G., Joly, B., Lee, K. S., Liberti, B., Lucero Ramirez, D., Mandelli, B., Manen, S. P., Massa, L., Pastore, A., Pastori, E., Piccolo, D., Pizzimento, L., Polini, A., Proto, G., Pugliese, G., Quaglia, L., Ramos, D., Rigoletti, G., Rocchi, A., Romano, M., Samalan, A., Salvini, P., Santonico, R., Saviano, G., Simone, S., Terlizzi, L., Tytgat, M., Vercellin, E., Verzeroli, M., Zaganidis, N.

“…Tests aimed to assess the performance of this kind of detectors in high-irradiation conditions, analogous to the ones foreseen for the coming years at the Large Hadron Collider experiments, were performed, and demonstrate a performance basically similar to the one obtained with the gas mixtures currently in use, based on tetrafluoroethane, which is being progressively phased out for its possible contribution to the greenhouse effect. Long term aging tests are also being carried out, with the goal to demonstrate the possibility of using these eco-friendly gas mixtures during the whole High Luminosity phase of the Large Hadron Collider.…”
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