High refractive index inorganic–organic Interpenetrating Polymer Network (IPN) hydrogel nanocomposite toward artificial cornea implants by Chan-Park, Mary B., Beuerman, Roger W., Zhang, Quanyuan, Fang, Zheng, Cao, Ye, Du, Huamao, Wu, Hong, Duan, Hongwei, Xu, Rong

“…The use of artificial cornea implants has received increasing attention for treating cornea-related diseases and vision errors due to the low side effects. To achieve long-term successful vision correction, stable and biocompatible materials of high refractive index (RI) need to be developed. …”
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Monitoring membrane biofouling via ultrasonic time-domain reflectometry enhanced by silica dosing by Sim, S. T. V., Suwarno, S. R., Chong, T. H., Krantz, William B., Fane, Anthony Gordon

“…Detecting biofouling noninvasively in real-time has been a long-standing challenge in membrane processes. Ultrasonic Time Domain Reflectometry (UTDR) offers the potential to address this challenge when used in a ‘canary cell’ that samples a slip stream from the feed to the membrane process. …”
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Key challenges in social value 2025: responsible stakeholder engagement, robust data management and reliable digitalisation. Identifying nine key challenges from research, theory a... by Mulholland, Cara, Georgiadou, Maria Christina, Fittion, Sarah

“…By acknowledging the interdependence of social value, digital tools, and sustainability goals, the authors advocate for an approach that prioritises inclusivity, transparency, and long-term social benefit. The report is a valuable resource for policymakers, practitioners, and researchers working to shape a more equitable built environment in the face of rapid digital transformation…”
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Vitamin B6 pathway maintains glioblastoma cell survival in 3D spheroid cultures by Moosa, Najla Yussuf, Azeem, Sara Abdullah, Lodge, John K., Cheung, William, Ahmed, Shafiq Uddin

“…Thus, there is an urgent need to identify and develop new therapeutics to target this cancer and improve both patient outcomes and long-term survival. Metabolic reprogramming is considered one of the hallmarks of cancers. …”
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Road pothole detection from smartphone sensor data using improved LSTM by Singh, Prabhat, Kamal, Ahmed E., Bansal, Abhay, Kumar, Sunil

“…To address this issue, we presented an Improved Long Short Term Memory model (ILSTM) that combines a three-layer deep LSTM with a One-Dimensional Local Binary Pattern (1D-LBP) layer to detect the presence of potholes during low-light conditions and extract features such as the number of neighbouring samples and pixel values. …”
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A syndemic approach to the study of Covid-19-related death: a cohort study using UK Biobank data by de Freitas, DF, Bhui, K, Clesse, C, Zahid, U, Mooney, R, Joury, E, Hayes, RD, Khondoker, M

“…We use syndemic theory to guide the analyses to investigate the impact of social adversity and multiple long-term conditions (MLTC) on Covid-19 mortality.…”

Robustness in stochastic filtering and maximum likelihood estimation for SDEs by Diehl, J, Friz, PK, Mai, H, Oberhauser, H, Riedel, S, Stannat, W

“…The extraction of quantifiable information from such systems has a long history and many aspects. We shall focus here on the perhaps most classical problems in this context: the filtering problem for nonlinear diffusions and the problem of parameter estimation, also for nonlinear and multidimensional diffusions. …”

Sympathetic-neuron-derived neuropeptide Y (NPY) regulates adipose tissue immunometabolic homeostasis by Zhu, Y

“…We show that NPY sustains mural cells, known as a source of beige cells in both BAT and WAT (Long et al., 2014; Shamsi et al., 2021) and that NPY facilitates the differentiation to thermogenic adipocytes. …”

Adams family values: Abigail and Louisa Catherine Adams and the influence of Europe on the 'Republican Courts' of New York, Philadelphia, and Washington D.C. (1789-1829) by Leeper, JL

“…Consequently, the elite actions of the Adams women had a long-lasting impact not only on the reelection outcomes of John Adams and John Quincy Adams, but also on the larger narrative of American political and cultural history. …”

Taming metals: the use of leaded bronze in early China, 2000–1250 BC by Huan, L

“…<p>It has long been known that leaded bronze, an alloy consisting primarily of copper with the addition of tin and lead, was widely used in early China, starting from around the second millennium BC. …”

Shale oil in Russia – commercial catalyst required by Henderson, J

“…These prospects are relatively long term, however, with major increases in oil production unlikely for a decade or more, meaning that a medium-term solution still needs to be found. …”

Will a crude oil price band stabilise the market by Fattouh, B

“…The French president Nicolas Sarkozy and the UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown urged ‘oil producers to agree a target price range, based on a clearer understanding of the long-term fundamentals’. In a joint article in the Wall Street Journal (8 July 2009), the two leaders gave an indication of what the upper and lower band should reflect, arguing that ‘the world’s economy is still reliant on secure supplies at prices that are not so high as to destroy the prospects of economic growth but not so low as to lead to a slump in investment, as happened in the 1990s’. …”

Equalities in education outcomes in Korea, Sweden and Norway by Goh, HC

“…The Innocenti Report Card suggests that children in Korea have a higher chance of being educated to a reasonable standard, and a lower chance of falling a long way behind the average, than a child born in Denmark or Norway. …”

Asymptomatic female softball pitchers have altered hip morphology and cartilage composition by Warden, SJ, Coburn, SL, Fuchs, RK, Surowiec, RK, Carballido-Gamio, J, Kemp, JL, Jalaie, PK, Hanff, DF, Palmer, AJR, Fernquest, SJ, Crossley, KM, Heerey, JJ

“…Further studies with larger sample sizes are warranted and any potential long-term consequences of the changes in terms of symptom and osteoarthritis development requires investigation.…”

Looking deep at people: towards understanding and generating humans in images with deep learning by de Bem, RA

“…<p>Understanding and generating people in images and videos is a long-standing goal in computer vision. A significant effort has been devoted to these tasks by the research community along the last decades, greatly motivated by a large number of potential applications, like surveillance, human-machine interaction, action and behaviour recognition, motion capture, video reenactment, and computer graphics animation. …”

Effects of soil management practices on soil fauna feeding activity in an Indonesian oil palm plantation by Tao, H-H, Slade, E, Willis, KJ, Caliman, J-P, Snaddon, JL

“…Optimizing the use of available soil management practices in oil palm plantations is crucial to enhance long-term soil fertility and productivity. However, this needs a thorough understanding of the functional responses of soil biota to these management practices. …”

Evolution PDEs on graphs and inverse problems in aggregation-diffusion equations by Mikolás, L

“…Furthermore, we describe the long-time behaviour of equations on co-evolving graphs with a particular type of velocity leading to diffusive dynamics.…”

First cast the beam from thine own eye: the condemnation at the University of Paris 1241/4 by Grice, D

“…This latter was based on long-term biblical enigmas and patristic discussions, now sharpened by external 'threats', including from newly-translated Aristotelian texts and the views of groups deemed heretical. …”

Experimental evaluation and statistical modeling of kenaf fiber-reinforced geopolymer concrete by Noor Abbas, Al-Ghazali, Abdul Aziz, Farah Nora Aznieta, Abdan, Khalina, Mohd Nasir, Noor Azline, Fahim Huseien, Ghasan

“…At 28 days of curing age, KFRGC prepared with 30 mm long, and 1.25 % volume fraction of fiber showed a 20 % and 27 % increase in splitting tensile strength and flexural strength, respectively, compared to the plain geopolymer. …”

Predicting work engagement among young adult cancer survivors: a moderated mediation model by Musa, Siti Nur Syuhada, Hamzah, Siti Raba'ah, Muda, Zulaiha, Asimiran, Soaib, Krauss, Steven E.

“…However, in recent studies on the outcomes of long-term survivorship, some of the main areas of cancer survivorship research revolves around employment issues of young adult cancer survivors. …”
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