Legislating instability: Adam Smith, free banking, and the financial crisis of 1722 by Goodspeed, T

“…In support of previous research on Scottish “free banking,” I find that this absence of legal restrictions on Scottish banking contributed to a proliferation of what Adam Smith derisively referred to as “beggarly bankers” which rendered the Scottish financial system both intensely competitive and remarkably resilient to a series of severe adverse shocks to the small developing economy. …”

Self-Nanoemulsifying Drug Delivery System (SNEDDS) formulation and molecular docking of mahogany seed extract (Swietenia mahagoni) as anti-hyperglycemic by Mushawwir Taiyeb, Mushawwir Taiyeb, Hartati Hartati, Hartati Hartati, Arwansyah Arwansyah, Arwansyah Arwansyah, Dahlia, Dahlia, Abd. Muis, Abd. Muis, A. Mu'nisa, A. Mu'nisa, Arif, Abdur Rahman, Md. Salleh, Liza

“…Based on research that has been carried out, the nanoemulsion formula for mahogany seed extract is characterized by a transmittance percentage of 84.7 % and a particle size of 12.21 nm. …”
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Ultralow-threshold two-photon pumped amplified spontaneous emission and lasing from seeded CdSe/CdS nanorod heterostructures by Xing, Guichuan, Liao, Yile, Wu, Xiangyang, Chakrabortty, Sabyasachi, Liu, Xinfeng, Yeow, Edwin Kok Lee, Sum, Tze Chien, Chan, Yinthai

“…Ultralow threshold two-photon pumped amplified spontaneous emission (2ASE) and lasing in seeded CdSe/CdS nanodot/nanorod heterostructures is demonstrated for the first time. …”
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Effects of tea seed oil extracted by different refining temperatures on the intestinal microbiota of high-fat-diet-induced obese mice by Chen, Lin, Jiang, Qihong, Lu, Hongling, Jiang, Chenkai, Hu, Wenjun, Liu, Hanxiao, Xiang, Xingwei, Tan, Chin Ping, Zhou, Tianhuan, Shen, Guoxin

“…T-TSO and N-TSO mice were given traditionally refined and optimized tea seed oil for 12 weeks. The data revealed that tea seed oil obtained through degumming at 70 °C, deacidification at 50 °C, decolorization at 90 °C, and deodorization at 180 °C (at 0.06 MPa for 1 h) effectively removed impurities while minimizing the loss of active ingredients. …”
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Microfluidic plasma extraction from blood using wash-free pneumatic system by Lin, Yun Jia

“…The development of an automated wash-free pneumatic system for plasma extraction is beneficial for POC as it enables healthcare providers to obtain high quality plasma samples for diagnostic testing, improving the accuracy of blood test results and reducing the need for repeated tests. …”
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Fabrication of complex hydrogel structure via free-form bioprinting: A review by Tan, Edgar Yong Sheng

“…Different bioprinting techniques has been used in recent years to produce complex structures with hydrogels, however these approaches have been limited to simple 3 or 2.5 dimensional structures. …”
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Cobalt-Catalyzed, Imine-Directed Olefin Hydroarylation under Grignard-Free Conditions by Xu, Wengang, Pek, Jie Hui, Yoshikai, Naohiko

“…With the appropriate choice of the ligand and other reaction conditions, ketimine- or aldimine-directed branched selective hydroarylations of styrenes and ketimine-directed hydroarylations of vinylsilane have been achieved. The reported catalytic systems may serve as more convenient alternatives to previously developed catalytic systems employing Grignard reagents as reducing agents.…”
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Deciphering the Role of a Coleopteran Steering Muscle via Free Flight Stimulation by Sato, Hirotaka, Vo Doan, Tat Thang, Kolev, Svetoslav, Huynh, Ngoc Anh, Zhang, Chao, Massey, Travis L., van Kleef, Joshua, Ikeda, Kazuo, Abbeel, Pieter, Maharbiz, Michel M.

“…The inability to stimulate in free flight has been a long-standing hurdle for insect flight studies. …”
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Numerical modeling and simulation of shape memory allows using the mesh-free method by Ren, Ji

“…Consequently, many efforts in this thesis have been dedicated to the development of mesh-free methods. …”
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Platelets sequester extracellular DNA, capturing tumour-derived and free foetal DNA by Murphy, L

“…During cell death and aberrant mitosis, nucleated cells release chromosomal DNA, resulting in ‘cell free’ DNA in plasma (cfDNA). An excess of cfDNA is deleterious. …”

Label-free surfaced enhanced raman spectroscopic analysis of polyamines for skin diagnostics by Teo, Valerie Xinhui

“…The quantification of polyamines has been used in many research as an indication of wound status. …”
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Serum-free media studies of human embryonic stem cell culture on microcarriers by Chen, Xiaoli.

“…The 2 key properties of human embryonic stem cells (hESC), namely pluripotency and unlimited self-renewal, give them a great potential in the area of stem cell research and applications in cell therapy. It has been shown that human embryonic stem cells (hESC) can be grown and maintained on microcarriers using both defined, serum-free media, and MEF-CM. …”
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Anion texturing towards dendrite-free Zn anode for aqueous rechargeable battery by Yuan, Du, Zhao, Jin, Ren, Hao, Chen, Yingqian, Chua, Rodney, Tang, Ernest Jun Jie, Cai, Yi, Edison, Eldho, Manalastas, William, Jr., Wong, Ming Wah, Srinivasan, Madhavi

“…Benchmarking against its (101) textured‐counterpart by the conventional sulphate‐based electrolyte, the Zn (002) texture enables highly reversible stripping/plating at a high current density of 10 mA cm−2, showing its dendrite‐free characteristics. The Zn (002) texture‐based aqueous zinc battery exhibits excellent cycling stability. …”
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Conflict-free urban air mobility planning with an airspace-resource-centric approach by Dai, Wei

“…The ARC concept enables route-free flight planning with better flight predictability than the free-flight concept. …”
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Free fermion six vertex model: symmetric functions and random domino tilings by Aggarwal, Amol, Borodin, Alexei, Petrov, Leonid, Wheeler, Michael

“…Abstract Our work deals with symmetric rational functions and probabilistic models based on the fully inhomogeneous six vertex (ice type) model satisfying the free fermion condition. Two families of symmetric rational functions $$F_\lambda ,G_\lambda $$ F λ , G λ are defined as certain partition functions of the six vertex model, with variables corresponding to row rapidities, and the labeling signatures $$\lambda =(\lambda _1\ge \ldots \ge \lambda _N)\in {\mathbb {Z}}^N$$ λ = ( λ 1 ≥ … ≥ λ N ) ∈ Z N encoding boundary conditions. …”
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Safe passage simulation of connected autonomous vehicle platoons at signal-free intersections by Chee, Kenneth Wai Kuin

“…The results indicate that to ensure safe-passage for a CAV platoon across a signal-free intersection, the constant control gains of the simulation model must be appropriately determined.…”
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X-ray photonics in free-electron-driven van der Waals materials by Tey, Kai Zhong

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Slot-die coated methylammonium-free perovskite solar cells with 18% efficiency by Fievez, Mathilde, Rana, Prem Jyoti Singh, Koh, Teck Ming, Manceau, Matthieu, Lew, Jia Haur, Nur Fadilah Jamaludin, Ghosh, Biplab, Bruno, Annalisa, Cros, Stéphane, Berson, Solenn, Mhaisalkar, Subodh Gautam, Leong, Wei Lin

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Dendrites-free lithium metal anode enabled by synergistic surface structural engineering by Di, Jie, Yang, Jin-Lin, Tian, Han, Ren, Pengfei, Deng, Yirui, Tang, Wenhao, Yan, Wenqi, Liu, Ruiping, Ma, Jianmin

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A wireless and battery-free wound infection sensor based on DNA hydrogel by Xiong, Ze, Achavananthadith, Sippanat, Lian, Sophie, Madden, Leigh Edward, Ong, Zi Xin, Chua, Wisely, Kalidasan, Viveka, Li, Zhipeng, Liu, Zhu, Singh, Priti, Yang, Haitao, Heussler, Sascha P., Kalaiselvi, S. M. P., Breese, Mark B. H., Yao, Haicheng, Gao, Yuji, Sanmugam, Kavitha, Tee, Benjamin C. K., Chen, Po-Yen, Loke, Weiqiang, Lim, Chwee Teck, Chiang, Grace Shu Hui, Tan, Boon Yeow, Li, Hao, Becker, David Laurence, Ho, John S.

“…Here, we report a flexible, wireless, and battery-free sensor that provides smartphone-based detection of wound infection using a bacteria-responsive DNA hydrogel. …”
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