Peptide asparaginyl ligases—renegade peptide bond makers by Tam, James P., Chan, Ning-Yu, Liew, Heng Tai, Tan, Shaun J., Chen, Yu

“…Our work in the past five years has validated that butelase-1 is a potent and versatile ligase. …”
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International identity construction: China’s pursuit of the responsible power identity and the American Other by Boon, Hoo Tiang

“…As a plausibility probe, I apply the framework to a current analysis of China’s construction of an international identity as a “responsible” power in recent years, with a corresponding focus on the United States as the primary Other.…”
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The politics of compromise: analyzing the repeal of section 377A in Singapore by Walid Jumblatt Bin Abdullah

“…Utilizing the concept of calibrated social liberalization, I postulate that the repeal of Section 377A was the government’s response to shifting societal attitudes and years of strategic and adroit advocacy coalitionbuilding. …”
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Enhanced monsoon-driven upwelling in Southeast Asia during the Little Ice Age by Chen, Mengli, Martin, Patrick, Ren, Haojia, Zhang, Run, Samanta, Dhrubajyoti, Chen, Yi-Chi, Hughen, Konrad A., Phan, Kim Hoang, Vo, Si Tuan, Goodkin, Nathalie Fairbank

“…Here, we reconstructed changes in seawater phosphate concentration and nitrate source over the past 400 years, which reveals a more than 50% decline in residence time of seawater phosphate, and 8%–48% decline in subsurface nitrogen supply following the coldest period of Little Ice Age. …”
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Evidence and certainty in Lisu by Bradley, David

“…In some varieties and subvarieties, evidential systems have developed separately over the last couple of hundred years, grammaticalising some verbs and redeploying some epistemics into evidentials. …”
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An empirical study of material damage insurance rates for property risks. by Goh, Chiaw Gek.

“…We have examined the movement of rates in Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand and the Philippines during the years 1989 to 1995. It was hypothesised that the fire insurance rates in Singapore are the lowest while the incurred loss ratios are comparable, and that while the rates in all the five countries have decreased, the loss ratios have not increased correspondingly.…”
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The occurrence and molecular characterization of enteric viruses in the tropical aquatic environment by Aw, Tiong Gim

“…Enteric viruses have emerged as important causes of major waterborne disease outbreaks in recent years. The occurrence of enteric viruses in aquatic environments constitutes a major health hazard because of their low infective dose and resistance to environmental breakdown. …”
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Electrokinetic phenomena in microstructures by Zhang, Yali

“…With the rapid development of microfluidics in the past few years, electroosmosis has drawn a wide attention due to its fluid controlling ability. …”
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Effects of quarantine in imperfect disease control by Yang, Jiongcheng

“…The Ebola epidemic broke out in 2014 was one of the most influential disease in recent years. The epidemic was so serious that many countries are infected, mainly in West Africa. …”
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Phase-domain photoacoustic sensing by Gao, Fei, Zhang, Ruochong, Feng, Xiaohua, Liu, Siyu, Ding, Ran, Kishor, Rahul, Qiu, Lei, Zheng, Yuanjin

“…As one of the fastest-growing imaging modalities in recent years, photoacoustic imaging has attracted tremendous research interest for various applications including anatomical, functional, and molecular imaging. …”
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Lead in the western South China Sea: Evidence of atmospheric deposition and upwelling by Chen, Mengli, Goodkin, Nathalie Fairbank, Boyle, Edward A., Switzer, Adam Douglas, Bolton, Annette

“…To quantify the increasing variability, we investigated 170 years of skeletal Pb and Pb isotopes from an offshore, central Vietnamese coral. …”
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The recent development and applications of fluidic channels by 3D printing by Zhou, Yufeng

“…The combination of these two technologies in recent years makes a significant progress. The current approaches of 3D printing, such as stereolithography, polyjet, and fused deposition modeling, are introduced. …”
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'You would never pick up the thread from where you left off’: older Irish women migrants' narratives of non‐return, post‐retirement by Ryan, Louise, Doshi, Neha

“…Less is known about how return, and indeed non‐return, decision‐making evolves in later years, with calls for more research on migrants in the old‐old age groups. …”
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The impact of family of origin on attachment relationships and emotional regulation ability by Peng, Xin

“…It depicts how family structure, parenting styles, and emotional climate impose on psychological growth throughout the years of life. First, the focus of the study is to indicate that attachment and emotional regulation are intertwined, as established by the demonstration of how a secure attachment enhances emotion regulation. …”
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At-least-potentially-non-contrastive transcendence in Tanner’s God and Creation in Christian Theology by Davison, A

“…<p>Kathryn Tanner’s <em>God and Creation in Christian Theology</em> is a foundational text in the expression of a Christian account of God and creation as ‘non-contrastive’: that God is so fundamentally incommensurable with the world as not to be in a relation of contrast or competition with it, nor distant from it. In recent years, theologians have celebrated and drawn upon Tanner’s work for its robust account of creaturely agency. …”

Self-poisoning with paracetamol in England: short report of characteristics of individuals and their overdoses according to source of tablets by Brand, F, Bale, E, Tsiachristas, A, Hawton, K

“…Patients were predominantly female (86%) and young (79% aged 12–24 years). Most had used paracetamol which was available in the home (77%). …”

Attention and positive sentiments towards carbon dioxide removal have grown on social media over the past decade by Repke, T, Müller-Hansen, F, Cox, E, Minx, JC

“…Attention towards CDR has grown exponentially, particularly in recent years. Overall, the discourse on CDR has become more positive, except for BECCS. …”

Elevated genetic risk for multiple sclerosis emerged in steppe pastoralist populations by Barrie, W, Yang, Y, Irving-Pease, EK, Attfield, KE, Scorrano, G, Jensen, LT, Armen, AP, Dimopoulos, EA, Stern, A, Refoyo-Martinez, A, Pearson, A, Ramsøe, A, Gaunitz, C, Demeter, F, Jørkov, MLS, Møller, SB, Springborg, B, Klassen, L, Hyldgård, IM, Wickmann, N, Vinner, L, Korneliussen, TS, Allentoft, ME, Sikora, M, Kristiansen, K, Rodriguez, S, Nielsen, R, Iversen, AKN, Lawson, DJ, Fugger, L, Willerslev, E

“…Here, by using a large ancient genome dataset from the Mesolithic period to the Bronze Age, along with new Medieval and post-Medieval genomes, we show that the genetic risk for MS rose among pastoralists from the Pontic steppe and was brought into Europe by the Yamnaya-related migration approximately 5,000 years ago. We further show that these MS-associated immunogenetic variants underwent positive selection both within the steppe population and later in Europe, probably driven by pathogenic challenges coinciding with changes in diet, lifestyle and population density. …”

Ontology module extraction via datalog reasoning by Romero, AA, Kaminski, M, Grau, BC, Horrocks, I

“…<p>Module extraction — the task of computing a (preferably small) fragment M of an ontology T that preserves entailments over a signature S — has found many applications in recent years. Extracting modules of minimal size is, however, computationally hard, and often algorithmically infeasible. …”

Why do rural migrant mothers in urban China digitally monitor their children? by Murphy, R, Wu, G

“…The discussion draws on our 22 face-to-face interviews with the rural migrant mothers of at least one child ages 7–14 years. Our analysis highlights the intersectionally constituted time pressures arising from these women’s need to balance their responsibilities in paid work and childcare. …”