Relating local structure to thermoelectric properties in Pb1-xGexBi2Te4 by Dong, Jinfeng, Liu, Yukun, Liu, Jue, Hu, Lei, Jiang, Yilin, Tan, Xian Yi, Shi, Yuansheng, Yang, Dongwang, Saglik, Kivanc, Suwardi, Ady, Li, Qian, Li, Jing-Feng, Dravid, Vinayak P., Yan, Qingyu, Kanatzidis, Mercouri G.

“…Due to alloying-induced point defect scattering and the off-centering effects of Ge2+, the room-temperature lattice thermal conductivity decreased to 0.55 Wm-1K-1 when x = 0.5. Combined with a maintained weighted mobility (ca. 60 cm2V-1s-2), the room-temperature ZT increased to 0.28. …”
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System design and development of human-robot interaction control scheme for assistive robotic Arm extender by Yang, Sibo

“…Our experiments demonstrated that the sagittal plane model substantially improves angle estimation accuracy within the sagittal plane, especially when adapting to significant torso movements, highlighting the model's adaptability and precision. …”
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A cross-layer payload-dropping scheme for improving CSMA/CA throughput in interference-limited co-channel cells by Jayabal, Raymond J.

“…From the simulation results, it can be seen that in deployments where either cell spacings or partitions are used to limit the co-channel interference, better throughputs are achieved when PD-CSMA/CA is used instead of CSMA/CA. The results also show that, under exactly the same deployment scenario and propagation environment, and using exactly the same TPC and CST settings, the throughput for PDCSMA is more than the throughput for CSMA/CA, and the increase in the throughput for PD-CSMA/CA is larger than the increase of the throughput for CSMA/CA as the fade margin (employed to combat lognormal shadowing) for both protocols is increased in equal amount. …”
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Advances in 3D optical profilometry by Huang, Lei

“…Quality-guided phase unwrapping technique is reviewed with a comparison on quality definitions and guiding strategies. When unwrapping noisy phase, transform-based methods perform better but with increased computation time. …”
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Analysis and design of audio class D amplifiers by Guo, Linfei

“…On the basis of measurements on the prototype CDAs, the proposed design achieves not only the highest PSRR reported to-date, but also the highest Figures-of-Merit (FOMs) when benchmarked against reported state-of-the-art CDAs. …”
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Interaction-mediating sequences within class I viral fusion glycoproteins : their roles in viral infection and in applications by Zhang, Simin

“…Novel targets for the development of antiviral drugs and viral detection reagents are required when facing drug-resistant viral strains, viral pathogens without effective and/or economical treatment, and newly emerging viral pathogens. …”
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Electrospun carbon-silica composite nanofibers for selective removal of oil and water by Tai, Ming Hang

“…The contour plot suggests that the membrane performance is optimum when operated at high cross-flow velocity and relatively low applied pressure.…”
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Budget efficient online active learning and its applications by Hao, Shuji

“…The proposed framework consists of two main components: “Who to label” and “When to query”. The first component actively allocates the instance to reliable workers to gain labels, and the second component actively decides which instance is worthy to be a golden question. …”
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Modeling human-like non-rationality in social agents by Kochanowicz, Jaroslaw Slawomir

“…It is a continuation and specification of the Cognitive-Affective Personality System theory and is an alternative to the dominating ' trait models' whose drawbacks as descriptive tools are multiplied when they are used as generating mechanisms. SCP is parametrized using sociological data and used in a series of simulations including multiple agent interactions. …”
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四面楚歌下的同志再现：李碧华和陈凯歌对《霸王别姬》的改写 = Representations of the besieged “Comrade” : Li Bihua's and Chen Kaige's adaptations of the Peking Opera “Farewell My Concubine”... by 許维贤 Hee, Wai Siam

“…It was at the historical juncture when foreign gunboats shattered the Qing regime’s belief in China as the world’s center that the Peking Opera was picked and named as the quintessential representative of Chinese Culture. …”
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Investigating the role of astrocytes in Parkinson's disease pathogenesis in GBA- N370S iPSC-derived neural cultures by Ibarra Aizpurua, N

“…Pre-treatment of iASTROs with TNFα+IFNγ before the co-cultures did not affect their neurosupportive capacity, whereas some of the data suggests that when treating and maintaining the co-cultures with cytokines, control and <em>GBA-N370S</em> iASTROs became neurotoxic and/or lost neurosupportive functions. …”

Pregnant women admitted to hospital with covid-19 in 10 European countries: individual patient data meta-analysis of population based cohorts in International Obstetric Survey Syst... by Engjom, HM, de Bruin, O, Ramakrishnan, R, Aabakke, AJM, Äyräs, O, Deneux-Tharaux, C, Donati, S, Knight, M, Jonasdottir, E, Svanvik, T, Vercoutere, A, Vousden, N, Bleomenkamp, KWM

“…Few pregnant women with moderate to severe covid-19 were given specific medical treatment for SARS-CoV-2 disease, even when there were no or minor safety concerns. Lessons for future pandemics include the importance of rapid, robust surveillance systems for maternal and perinatal health, and of including use for pregnant women early in the development and testing of medicines and vaccines for public health emergencies.…”

Association of current Schistosoma mansoni, Schistosoma japonicum, and Schistosoma mekongi infection status and intensity with periportal fibrosis: a systematic review and meta-ana... by Ewuzie, A, Wilburn, L, Thakrar, DB, Cheng, H, Reitzug, F, Roberts, N, Malouf, R, Chami, GF

“…Periportal fibrosis was heterogeneously defined with the Niamey ultrasound protocol most used. When findings were pooled, current schistosome infection status was associated with a higher likelihood of periportal fibrosis compared with no current infection (odds ratio [OR] 2&middot;65, 95% CI 1&middot;79&ndash;3&middot;92; p&lt;0&middot;0001). …”

Toxicity, permeability and drug-metabolizing enzyme activities of curcumin analogues by Yakubu, Ndatsu

“…Therefore, both MS65 and BDMC33 could be potential lead compounds to address the problems and issues of rapid metabolism, and poor bioavailability of curcumin when consumed orally.…”
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SPICES: spectro-polarimetric imaging and characterization of exoplanetary systems. by Boccaletti, Anthony, Schneider, Jean, Traub, Wes, Lagage, Pierre-Olivier, Stam, Daphne, Gratton, Raffaele, Trauger, John, Cahoy, Kerri, Snik, Frans, Baudoz, Pierre, Galicher, Raphael, Reess, Jean-Michel, Mawet, Dimitri, Augereau, Jean-Charles, Patience, Jenny, Kuchner, Marc, Wyatt, Mark, Pantin, Eric, Maire, Anne-Lise, Vérinaud, Christophe

“…SPICES (Spectro-Polarimetric Imaging and Characterization of Exoplanetary Systems) is a five-year M-class mission proposed to ESA Cosmic Vision. …”
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Search for long-lived particles decaying to final states with a pair of muons in proton-proton collisions at √𝑠 = 13.6 TeV by Hayrapetyan, A., Tumasyan, A., Adam, W., Andrejkovic, J. W., Bergauer, T., Chatterjee, S., Damanakis, K., Dragicevic, M., Hussain, P. S., Jeitler, M., Krammer, N., Li, A., Liko, D., Mikulec, I., Schieck, J., Schöfbeck, R., Schwarz, D.

“…The search uses data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 36.6 fb−1 collected by the CMS experiment from the proton-proton collisions at s $$ \sqrt{s} $$ = 13.6 TeV in 2022, the first year of Run 3 of the CERN LHC. The experimental signature is a pair of oppositely charged muons originating from a secondary vertex spatially separated from the proton-proton interaction point by distances ranging from several hundred μm to several meters. …”
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Development of oil-based gels as versatile drug delivery systems for pediatric applications by Kirtane, Ameya R., Karavasili, Christina, Wahane, Aniket, Freitas, Dylan, Booz, Katelyn, Le, Dao Thi Hong, Hua, Tiffany, Scala, Stephen, Lopes, Aaron, Hess, Kaitlyn, Collins, Joy, Tamang, Siddartha, Ishida, Keiko, Kuosmanen, Johannes L. P., Rajesh, Netra Unni, Phan, Nhi V., Li, Junwei, Krogmann, Annlyse, Lennerz, Jochen K., Hayward, Alison, Langer, Robert, Traverso, Giovanni

“…Administering medicines to 0- to 5-year-old children in a resource-limited environment requires dosage forms that circumvent swallowing solids, avoid on-field reconstitution, and are thermostable, cheap, versatile, and taste masking. …”
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Quantifying the internal and external drivers of Southeast Asian rainfall extremes on decadal timescales by Wang, Shouyi, Ummenhofer, Caroline C., Murty, Sujata A., Nguyen, Hung T. T., Buckley, Brendan M.

“…Historical records and paleoclimate archives that span the last millennium reveal extreme multi-year rainfall variations that significantly affected the societies of mainland Southeast Asia. …”
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Modeling the Impact of the Inflation Reduction Act and Hydrogen Storage in Salt Caverns in the Mid-Atlantic United States by Armstrong, Les Gabriel

“…We then analyze the impact of the Inflation Reduction Act and the presence of salt caverns on the United States Mid- Atlantic region in the year 2035. We find that salt caverns do not have a significant impact on the overall coupled energy system dynamics unless we force a 100% decarbonization constraint. …”
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From Liquid to Stone: Reimagining the design of concrete structures for reuse by Donovan, Inge, Schnitzler, Jenna

“…Every year, 360 million metric tons of concrete construction waste are sent to landfill in the United States, in large part originating from the demolition of economically obsolete buildings. …”
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