Prosopanche: a remarkable genus of parasitic plants by Hatt, SA, Cameron, DD, Grace, OM, Rocamundi, N, Cocucci, AA, Martel, C, Thorogood, CJ

“…Growing almost entirely underground with a complete lack of leaves, plants of Prosopanche bear more resemblance to fungi than plants and have many remarkable aspects to their life history and ecology that require further investigation. …”

An Argentine in The Warburg. Humanismo y exilio en la obra de Héctor Ciocchini by Bollig, B

“…Of particular importance is the presence of exile, the practical context of a large part of Ciocchini’s critical and poetic work, researched and writing in London during an important period in his life in the 1970s and 80s.…”

Security and subversion in a time of monsters by Andersson, R

“…A large part of this runaway change concerns how security is appropriating and colonising intimate human life while making ordinary people complicit in its operations. …”

Messenger and message: uncovering the roles, rhythm and regulation of extracellular vesicles in plant biotic interactions by Qiao, SA, Roth, R

“…Extracellular vesicles (EVs) are membrane-delimited nanoparticles found in every kingdom of life and are known to mediate cell–cell communication in animal systems through the trafficking of proteins and nucleic acids. …”

“Why do people kill each other?” (Tolstoy and empire) by Zorin, A

“…Tolstoy always believed that the resistance to invaders and the defence of land where humans were born, by which products they are fed and where they are going to life after death is natural, but considered this instinct as pre-moral and pre-Christian contradicting the personal moral conscience that unconditionally rejects all sorts of violence.…”

Nahj al-Balāghah: the wisdom and eloquence of ʿAlī: a parallel English-Arabic text by al-Raḍī, A-S

“…<i>Nahj al-Balāghah</i>, the celebrated compendium of orations, letters, and sayings of ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib (d. 40/661) compiled by al-Sharīf al-Raḍī (d. 406/1015), is a masterpiece of Arabic literature and Islamic wisdom studied and memorized avidly and continually for over a thousand years. Showcasing ʿAlī’s life and travails in his own words, it also transcribes his profound reflections on piety and virtue, and on just and compassionate governance. …”

The treatment of malaria in pregnancy by Nosten, F, McGready, R

“…In severe and complicated malaria, the objective is to save the mother’s life. The drugs of choice are quinine and the artemisinins. …”

Transient photoactivation of anionophores by using redshifted fast-relaxing azobenzenes by Kerckhoffs, A, Ahmad, M, Langton, ML

“…We demonstrate that by tuning the thermal half-life of the more active, but thermodynamically unstable, Z isomer to relax on the timescale of minutes, transient activation of ion transport can be achieved by activating with solely with visible light and deactivating by thermal relaxation.…”

Storage stability of coconut milk powder by Bakar, Jamilah, Hassan, Mohd. Ali, Ahmad, Azhar

“…Measurements of water activity, moisture content, peroxide value and solubility index indicated that lipid oxidation is the limiting factor in the stability of the powder. Its maximum shelf‐life was 4 months when air or vacuum packaged in aluminum laminates and 1 1/2 months in polypropylene.…”

A Sufficient Condition for k-Contraction of the Series Connection of Two Systems by Ofir, Ron, Margaliot, Michael, Levron, Yoash, Slotine, Jean-Jacques

“…The flow of contracting systems contracts 1-dimensional parallelotopes, i.e., line segments, at an exponential rate. One reason for the usefulness of contracting systems is that many interconnections of contracting sub-systems yield an overall contracting system. …”
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Dual-frequency vortex-induced vibrations of long flexible stepped cylinders by Li, Ang, Mentzelopoulos, Andreas, Triantafyllou, Michael S., Fan, Dixia

“…The results show that the maximum in-line (IL) and cross-flow (CF) displacements and the frequency ratio of the stepped cylinder separated by individual frequency resemble those of a uniform cylinder vibrating in the uniform flow at a single frequency. …”
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Active Extrinsic Contact Sensing: Application to General Peg-in-Hole Insertion by Kim, Sangwoon, Rodriguez, Alberto

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Microlensing Near Macro-Caustics by Weisenbach, Luke, Anguita, Timo, Miralda-Escudé, Jordi, Oguri, Masamune, Saha, Prasenjit, Schechter, Paul L.

“…Micro-caustics join into a connected network in a region around the macro-critical line of a width proportional to the surface density of microlenses; within this region, the increase of the mean magnification toward the macro-caustic is driven by the increase of the number of micro-images rather than individual magnifications of micro-images. …”
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Effect of curvature variations on the hydrodynamic performance of heaving and pitching foils by van Rees, Wim M.

“…Overall, our results demonstrate that curving fins are consistently able to significantly outperform rigid fins with the same chord line kinematics on both thrust and hydrodynamic efficiency.…”
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Chillbot: Content Moderation in the Backchannel by Seering, Joseph, Khadka, Manas, Haghighi, Nava, Yang, Tanya, Xi, Zachary, Bernstein, Michael

“…Moderating online spaces effectively is not a matter of simply taking down content: moderators also provide private feedback and defuse situations before they cross the line into harm. However, moderators have little tool support for these activities, which often occur in the backchannel rather than in front of the entire community. …”
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Regional seismic risk of railway system including derailment consequences by Uchiyama, Yayoi Misu

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Electromagnetic detection of a perfect carpet cloak by Shi, Xihang, Gao, Fei, Lin, Xiao, Zhang, Baile

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Intensity and contrast based surface roughness measurement approaches for rough and shiny surfaces by Prabhathan, P., Song, Chaolong, Haridas, Aswin, Prasad, Guru, Chan, Kelvin

“…In addition to this, in situ monitoring of surface roughness on a workpiece is an important requirement in modern machining process, since it would increase on-line machining rate and consequently productivity. …”
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Experimental investigations on heat and mass transfer performances of a liquid desiccant cooling and dehumidification system by Ou, Xianhua, Cai, Wenjian, He, Xiongxiong, Zhai, Deqing

“…The model predictions are compared with the experimental data, and the results show that the model predictions are well in line with the experimental data with the maximum errors less than 10%. …”
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Crack nucleation from a wedge disclination dipole with shift of rotation axes by Wu, Mao See

“…Biaxial dipoles are more stable when the rotation axis of each disclination approaches the defect line of the other disclination. If the negative disclinations of a uniaxial dipole and a biaxial dipole have the same axis shift, the critical nucleation stress of the biaxial dipole is larger if its positive disclination shift is more than that of the uniaxial dipole. …”
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