Analysis of Poly(ethylene terephthalate) degradation kinetics of evolved IsPETase variants using a surface crowding model by Zhong-Johnson, En Ze Linda, Dong, Ziyue, Canova, Christopher T, Destro, Francesco, Cañellas, Marina, Hoffman, Mikaila C, Maréchal, Jeanne, Johnson, Timothy M, Zheng, Maya, Schlau-Cohen, Gabriela S, Lucas, Maria Fátima, Braatz, Richard D, Sprenger, Kayla G, Voigt, Christopher A, Sinskey, Anthony J

“…Hence, we develop a surface crowding model to analyze the biochemical effects of three hit mutations (T116P, S238N, S290P) that enhanced ambient temperature activity and/or thermostability. We find that T116P decreases susceptibility to crowding, resulting in higher PET degradation product accumulation despite no change in intrinsic catalytic rate. …”
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Insights from an Experiment Crowdsourcing Data from Thousands of US Amazon Users: The importance of transparency, money, and data use by Berke, Alex, Mahari, Robert, Pentland, Sandy, Larson, Kent, Calacci, Dana

“…We set up both real and hypothetical data sharing scenarios and find measurable similarities and differences in share rates across these contexts. …”
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Computational Approaches for Understanding and Redesigning Enzyme Catalysis by Karvelis, Elijah

“…In the second study, we examine the effects of these same mutations on the isomerization of KARI's other native substrate: 2-aceto-2-hydroxybutyrate (AHB), and we find that the mutants selected for increased activity on ACL had varied levels of activity on AHB. …”
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Terahertz conductivity of topological surface states in Bi1.5Sb0.5Te1.8Se1.2 by Tang, Chi Sin, Xia, Bin, Zou, Xingquan, Chen, Shi, Ou, Hong-Wei, Wang, Lan, Rusydi, A., Zhu, Jian-Xin, Chia, Elbert E. M.

“…Using Terahertz Time-Domain Spectroscopy (THz-TDS), we present complex conductivity of BSTS single crystals, disentangling the surface and bulk contributions. We find that the Drude spectral weight is 1–2 orders of magnitude smaller than in other Bi-based topological insulators, and similar to that of Bi2Se3 thin films, suggesting a significant contribution of the topological surface states to the conductivity of the BSTS sample. …”
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Liquid state machine with dendritically enhanced readout for low-power, neuromorphic VLSI implementations by Roy, Subhrajit, Banerjee, Amitava, Basu, Arindam

“…The number of synaptic connections on each branch is significantly lower than the total number of connections from the liquid neurons and the learning algorithm tries to find the best `combination' of input connections on each branch to reduce the error. …”
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Theoretical prediction of the linear isomers for rare gas-carbon disulfide complexes : He-CS2, Ne-CS2, and Ar-CS2 by Zang, Limin, Dai, Wei, Zheng, Limin, Duan, Chuanxi, Lu, Yunpeng, Yang, Minghui

“…Three two-dimensional intermolecular PESs are constructed from ab initio data points which are calculated at the CCSD(T) level with aug-cc-pVTZ basis set supplemented with bond functions. We find that the three PESs have very similar features and each PES can be characterized by a global T-shaped minimum, two equivalent local linear minima, and the saddle points between them. …”
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Strain engineering of antimonene by a first-principles study : mechanical and electronic properties by Kripalani, Devesh Raju, Kistanov, Andrey A., Cai, Yongqing, Xue, Ming, Zhou, Kun

“…Interestingly, the application of uniaxial strain in the zigzag and armchair directions unveil direction-dependent trends in the electronic band structure. We find that the nature of the band gap remains insensitive to strain in the zigzag direction, while strain in the armchair direction activates an indirect-direct band gap transition at a critical strain of 4%, owing to a band switching mechanism. …”
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Fully automated differential fault analysis on software implementations of block ciphers by Hou, Xiaolu, Breier, Jakub, Zhang, Fuyuan, Liu, Yang

“…By automated assembly analysis, we were able to find new efficient DFA attacks on SPECK and PRIDE, exploiting implementation specific vulnerabilities, and previously published DFA on SIMON and AES. …”
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Solution-processed highly bright and durable cesium lead halide perovskite light-emitting diodes by Wei, Zhanhua, Perumal, Ajay, Su, Rui, Sushant, Shendre, Xing, Jun, Zhang, Qing, Tan, Swee Tiam, Demir, Hilmi Volkan, Xiong, Qihua

“…The precursor solution is prepared by simply dissolving CsPbBr3 powder and a CsBr additive in dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO). We find that the CsBr additive not only significantly enhances the PLQY but also induces directional crystal growth into micro-plates, forming a smooth perovskite film for LEDs. …”
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Detection of latent fingerprint using optical technique by Seah, Leong Keey., Ong, Lin Seng., Murukeshan, Vadakke Matham.

“…This imaging principle can find potential applications in fluorescence lifetime imaging along with fluorescence microscopic research in biochemistry, biophysics, and cell physiology. …”
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Scaffold-mediated non-viral delivery platform for CRISPR/Cas9-based genome editing by Chin, Jiah Shin, Chooi, Wai Hon, Wang, Hongxia, Ong, William, Leong, Kam W., Chew, Sing Yian

“…Such genome editing scaffolds may find useful applications in tissue regeneration.…”
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Plasmonic-induced overgrowth of amorphous molybdenum sulfide on nanoporous gold : an ambient synthesis method of hybrid nanoparticles with enhanced electrocatalytic activity by Phan-Quang, Gia Chuong, Yang, Zhe, Koh, Charlynn Sher Lin, Sim, Howard Yi Fan, Leong, Shi Xuan, Ling, Xing Yi

“…By tuning the concentration ratio between the precursor and NPG, the amount of MoSx particles deposited can be systematically controlled from 0.5% to 2% of the Mo/(Au + Mo) ratio. Importantly, we find that the hybrid particles exhibit higher bridging and an apical S to terminal S atomic ratio than pure molybdenum sulfide, which gives rise to their enhanced electrocatalytic performance for hydrogen evolution reaction. …”
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A multi-view context-aware approach to Android malware detection and malicious code localization by Narayanan, Annamalai, Chandramohan, Mahinthan, Chen, Lihui, Liu, Yang

“…Subsequently, it employs Multiple Kernel Learning (MKL) to find a weighted combination of the views which yields the best detection accuracy. …”
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A scientometric review of alexithymia : mapping thematic and disciplinary shifts in half a century of research by Gaggero, Giulia, Bonassi, Andrea, Dellantonio, Sara, Pastore, Luigi, Aryadoust, Vahid, Esposito, Gianluca

“…Document co-citation analysis was performed to highlight pivotal publications and major research areas on alexithymia, whereas journal co-citation analysis was conducted to find the related editorial venues and disciplinary communities. …”
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Minimalistic attacks : how little it takes to fool deep reinforcement learning policies by Qu, Xinghua, Sun, Zhu, Ong, Yew-Soon, Gupta, Abhishek, Wei, Pengfei

“…In Breakout, for example, we surprisingly find that: (i) all policies showcase significant performance degradation by merely modifying 0.01% of the input state, and (ii) the policy trained by DQN is totally deceived by perturbing only 1% frames.…”
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Measuring coastal absolute sea-level changes using GNSS interferometric reflectometry by Peng, Dongju, Feng, Lujia, Larson, Kristine M., Hill, Emma Mary

“…Our results show that the accuracy of daily mean sea levels from GNSS-IR is <1.5 cm compared with co-located tide-gauge records, and amplitudes of annual cycle and linear trends estimated from GNSS-IR measurements and tide-gauge data agree within uncertainty. We also find that the de-seasoned and de-trended SSH time series from GNSS-IR and collocated satellite altimetry are highly correlated and the estimated annual amplitudes and linear trends statistically agree well, indicating that GNSS-IR has the potential to monitor coastal absolute sea-level changes and provide valuable information for coastal sea-level and climate studies.…”
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Terahertz microfluidic sensing with dual-torus toroidal metasurfaces by Xu, Jinjin, Liao, Denggao, Gupta, Manoj, Zhu, Yiming, Zhuang, Songlin, Singh, Rajan, Chen, Lin

“…Flexible metasurfaces supporting dual torus toroidal resonance can find a wide range of applications in the development of ultrasensitive terahertz molecular sensors for probing real time monitoring of chemicals and biomolecules.…”
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Genotype-specific expression and NLR repertoire contribute to phenotypic resistance diversity in Plantago lanceolata by Safdari, Pezhman, Höckerstedt, Layla, Brosche, Mikael, Salojärvi, Jarkko, Laine, Anna-Liisa

“…Analysis on the conserved NB-ARC domain demonstrated a diverse NLR repertoire in P. lanceolata consistent with the high phenotypic resistance diversity in this species. We find evidence of selection generating diversity at some of the NLR loci. …”
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IOT integration of a mobile application with a controller-based system: A by Pang, Bryan Seng Keong

“…An integrated lost and found feature allowed users to report and find their lost items thus giving users a better chance at recovering their items.…”
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Adder and multiplier design for computing-in-memory architecture based on ReRAM by Zheng, Buyun

“…We live in an era where the semiconductor and computer industries are developing rapidly. It can find that these two industries are mutually reinforcing. …”
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