Islam in Late Antiquity: state-making, the Bedouin, and the end of empires by Wakeley, JM

“…Comparative approaches are also employed, not least to situate Arabia in a broader late antique context and also to improve our understanding of the development of the early Islamic state.…”

The effect of early age feed restriction on subsequent response to high environmental temperatures in female broiler chickens by Zulkifli, I., Che Norma, M.T., Israf, D.A., Omar, A.R.

“…It is concluded that the F60 regimen is beneficial for alleviating, at least in part, the detrimental effects of heat stress in female broiler chickens.…”
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Development of fed-batch strategy to produce bacteria cellulose by Chua, Gek Kee, Soo, Yang Kee

“…First, batch fermentation mode was carried out to determine the glucose consumption profile of Gluconacetobacter xylinus using Yeast Extract Glucose Chloramphenicol Medium (YGC). …”
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Molecular characterization of Candida auris outbreak isolates in Qatar from patients with COVID-19 reveals the emergence of isolates resistant to three classes of antifungal drugs by Abid, Fatma Ben, Salah, Husam, Sundararaju, Sathyavathi, Dalil, Lamya, Abdelwahab, Ayman H., Salameh, Sarah, Ibrahim, Emad B., Almaslmani, Muna A., Tang, Patrick, Perez-Lopez, Andres, Tsui, Clement Kin-Ming

“…During the COVID-19 pandemic in Qatar, many patients who were severely ill were colonized and infected by Candida auris, an invasive multidrug-resistant yeast pathogen that spreads through nosocomial transmission within healthcare facilities. …”
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Characterization of the near native conformational states of the SAM domain of Ste11 protein by NMR spectroscopy by Gupta, Sebanti, Bhattacharjya, Surajit

“…SAM domain of the Ste11 protein of budding yeast plays important roles in mitogen-activated protein kinase cascades. …”
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On the total synthesis of complex alkaloids by Shennan, BDA

“…Following a concerted investigation into C−H oxidation for the former and a transfer of chirality approach for the latter, a Baker’s yeast reduction is adopted as an efficient route towards an enantioenriched, oxidised pyrrolidine building block which is advanced to a pentacyclic intermediate.…”

The bHLH transcription factor OsPRI1 activates the Setaria viridis PEPC1 promoter in rice by Carvalho, P, Gomes, C, Gonçalves, I, Lourenço, TF, Vlad, D, Langdale, JA, Saibo, NJM

“…To engineer C₄ into a C₃ plant, it is essential to understand how C₄ genes, such as <i>phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase (PEPC1)</i>, are regulated to be expressed at high levels and in a cell-specific manner.</li> <li>Yeast one-hybrid screening was used to show that OsPRI1, a rice bHLH transcription factor involved in iron homeostasis, binds to the <i>Setaria viridis PEPC1</i> promoter. …”

Recent insight into the advances and prospects of microbial lipases and their potential applications in industry by Eskandari, Azadeh, Thean, Chor Leow, Abdul Rahman, Mohd Basyaruddin, Oslan, Siti Nurbaya

“…This updated review presents new knowledge about various origins of microbial lipases, such as fungi, bacteria, and yeast. It highlights both the traditional and modern purification methods, including precipitation and chromatographic separation, the immunopurification technique, the reversed micellar system, the aqueous two-phase system (ATPS), and aqueous two-phase flotation (ATPF), moreover, delves into the diverse applications of microbial lipases across several industries, such as food, vitamin esters, textile, detergent, biodiesel, and bioremediation. …”

Therapeutic effects of Cosmos caudatus kunth leaf extract in the prevention and treament of obesity in sprague dawley rats by Abdul Rahman, Hafeedza

“…Lean and obese rats were clearly discriminated from each other on Orthogonal partial least square (OPLS-DA) score plot proving the ability of the high fat diet used in inducing obesity. …”
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Structured sparse representations for supervised and unsupervised learning by Zeng, Yijie

“…On the other hand, representing the data in an effective and efficient way is challenging, partly due to the intrinsic complexity of the high dimensional data distributions. …”
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Radio science measurements of atmospheric refractivity with Mars Global Surveyor by Cahoy, Kerri, Hinson, David, Tyler, G. Leonard

“…Refractivity is proportional to neutral density at low altitudes and electron density at high altitudes, with a transition at ~75 km. We use weighted least squares to decompose zonal refractivity variations into amplitudes and phases for observed wave numbers k=1-4 over the entire altitude range and use the results to analyze atmospheric structure and dynamics. …”
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HLO : half-kernel laplacian operator for surface smoothing by Pan, Wei, Lu, Xuequan, Gong, Yuanhao, Tang, Wenming, Liu, Jun, He, Ying, Qiu, Guoping

“…Given a vertex v, HLO first finds all pairs of its neighboring vertices and divides each pair into two subsets (called half windows); then computes the uniform Laplacians of all such subsets and subsequently projects the computed Laplacians to the full-window uniform Laplacian to alleviate flipping and degeneration. The half window with least regularization energy is then chosen for v. …”
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COVID-19 and global governance: waking up to a safe new world by Caballero-Anthony, Mely

“…Yet, as the collateral damage unfolds, the response has been astounding for at least two reasons. First, the difference in national responses to COVID-19, even among developed countries, could not be more stark. …”
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Thermochromic smart windows with highly regulated radiative cooling and solar transmission by Wang, Shancheng, Zhou, Yang, Jiang, Tengyao, Yang, Ronggui, Tan, Gang, Long, Yi

“…RC has been widely researched on walls and roofs but rarely on windows while windows are the least energy-efficient part of buildings. Moreover, in the current smart window design, consideration of tunable RC is missing. …”
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Building fabric improvement and heat pump deployment: a set of policy conundrums by Killip, G, Topouzi, M, Fawcett, T

“…Setting minimum quality standards for deployment, and a policy framework which allows for local decision-making within nationally (and internationally) determined targets is likely to be part of the answer. This paper sets out the challenge for policy in devolution and coordination, providing a set of unresolved conundrums that future policy needs to meet. …”

Low diversity of major histocompatibility complex (MHC) genes in endangered Malayan Tapir (Tapirus indicus) by Ismail, Nurul Adilah, Christina, Seok Yien Yong, Simon, Yung Wa Sin, Annavi, Geetha

“…Within the DRB gene, 24 codons were found to be under selection where 10 are part of the codons forming the Antigen Binding Site. …”

Ameliorative effect of α-tocopherol and tocotrienol-rich palm oil extract on menopause-associated mood disorder in ovariectomized mice by Liang, Gengfan, Kow, Audrey Siew Foong, Lee, Yu-Zhao, Yusof, Rohana, Tham, Chau Ling, Ho, Yu-Chung, Lee, Ming Tatt

“…Our findings suggested that α-tocopherol and tocotrienol-rich palm oil extract alleviated menopause-associated mood disorder, at least in part, by modulating the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis. …”
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A study of GPS based attitude determination technique by Dai, Lin

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CRISPR-Cas9 knockout screen informs efficient reduction of the Komagataella phaffii secretome by Dalvie, Neil C., Lorgeree, Timothy R., Yang, Yuchen, Rodriguez-Aponte, Sergio A., Whittaker, Charles A., Hinckley, Joshua A., Clark, John J., Del Rosario, Amanda M., Love, Kerry R., Love, J. C.

“…Background The yeast Komagataella phaffii is widely used for manufacturing recombinant proteins, but secreted titers of recombinant proteins could be improved by genetic engineering. …”
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Antibody-directed evolution reveals a mechanism for enhanced neutralization at the HIV-1 fusion peptide site by Banach, Bailey B, Pletnev, Sergei, Olia, Adam S, Xu, Kai, Zhang, Baoshan, Rawi, Reda, Bylund, Tatsiana, Doria-Rose, Nicole A, Nguyen, Thuy Duong, Fahad, Ahmed S, Lee, Myungjin, Lin, Bob C, Liu, Tracy, Louder, Mark K, Madan, Bharat, McKee, Krisha, O’Dell, Sijy, Sastry, Mallika, Schön, Arne, Bui, Natalie, Shen, Chen-Hsiang, Wolfe, Jacy R, Chuang, Gwo-Yu, Mascola, John R, Kwong, Peter D, DeKosky, Brandon J

“…Here we evolve the FP-targeting antibody VRC34.01 in vitro to enhance FP-neutralization using site saturation mutagenesis and yeast display. Successive rounds of directed evolution by iterative selection of antibodies for binding to resistant HIV-1 strains establish a variant, VRC34.01_mm28, as a best-in-class antibody with 10-fold enhanced potency compared to the template antibody and ~80% breadth on a cross-clade 208-strain neutralization panel. …”
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