Partially Oxidized Alginate as a Biodegradable Carrier for Glucose‐Responsive Insulin Delivery and Islet Cell Replacement Therapy by Volpatti, Lisa R, Bochenek, Matthew A, Facklam, Amanda L, Burns, Delaney M, MacIsaac, Corina, Morgart, Alexander, Walters, Benjamin, Langer, Robert, Anderson, Daniel G

“…Here, biodegradable, partially oxidized alginate carriers for glucose‐responsive nanoparticles or islet cells are developed. …”
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SURF: Eavesdropping on Underwater Communications from the Air by Mollahosseini, Poorya, Afzal, Sayed Saad, Adib, Fadel, Ghasempour, Yasaman

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Cell activation-based screening of natively paired human T cell receptor repertoires by Fahad, Ahmed S, Chung, Cheng Yu, López Acevedo, Sheila N, Boyle, Nicoleen, Madan, Bharat, Gutiérrez-González, Matías F, Matus-Nicodemos, Rodrigo, Laflin, Amy D, Ladi, Rukmini R, Zhou, John, Wolfe, Jacy, Llewellyn-Lacey, Sian, Koup, Richard A, Douek, Daniel C, Balfour, Henry H, Price, David A, DeKosky, Brandon J

“…Adoptive immune therapies based on the transfer of antigen-specific T cells have been used successfully to treat various cancers and viral infections, but improved techniques are needed to identify optimally protective human T cell receptors (TCRs). …”
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Simultaneous Measurements of Actin Filament Turnover, Filament Fraction, and Monomer Diffusion in Endothelial Cells by McGrath, J. L., Tardy, Y., Dewey, C. F. Jr, Meister, J. J., Hartwig, J. H.

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Intrinsic nanofilamentation in resistive switching by Migas, Dmitri B., Borisenko, Victor E., Wu, Xing, Cha, Dongkyu, Bosman, Michel, Raghavan, Nagarajan, Zhang, Xi Xiang, Li, Kun, Pey, Kin Leong

“…Intensive studies have been carried out on sandwiched metal-insulator-metal structures to achieve high density on-chip circuitry and non-volatile memory storage. …”
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Analysis of subtelomeric virulence gene families in Plasmodium falciparum by comparative transcriptional profiling by Witmer, Kathrin, Schmid, Christoph D., Brancucci, Nicolas M. B., Luah, Yen-Hoon, Preiser, Peter Rainer, Bozdech, Zbynek, Voss, Till S.

“…PfEMP1 undergoes antigenic variation through switches in mutually exclusive var gene transcription. var promoters function as crucial regulatory elements in the underlying epigenetic control strategy. Here, we analysed promoters of upsA, upsB and upsC var, rifA1-type rif, stevor, phist and pfmc-2tm genes and investigated their role in endogenous gene transcription by comparative genome-wide expression profiling of transgenic parasite lines. …”
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Nitric oxide : a key mediator of biofilm dispersal with applications in infectious diseases by Barraud, Nicolas, Kelso, Michael J., Rice, Scott A., Kjelleberg, Staffan

“…Recently, the simple gas and ubiquitous biological signaling molecule nitric oxide (NO) was identified as a key mediator of biofilm dispersal conserved across microbial species. Here, we review the role and mechanisms of NO mediating dispersal in bacterial biofilms, and its potential for novel therapeutics. …”
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Application of constacyclic codes to quantum MDS codes by Chen, Bocong, Ling, San, Zhang, Guanghui

“…The quantum MDS codes exhibited here have minimum distance bigger than the ones available in the literature.…”
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New insight Into a volcanic system : analogue investigation of bubble-driven deformation in an elastic conduit by Manta, Fabio, Emadzadeh, Adel, Taisne, Benoit

“…Analogue and numerical simulations have been widely used to describe the mechanisms of bubble and slug ascent during volcanic eruptions as well as their formation and explosion mechanisms. …”
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Investigating the adoption of MOOCs : a technology-user-environment perspective by Ma, Long, Lee, Chei Sian

“…To fill this research gap, this research aims to study the adoption of MOOCs by extending current research on innovation and technology adoption in order to promote the diffusion of MOOCs in developing countries. Here, a conceptual framework, technology–user–environment was proposed to identify influential drivers and barriers of MOOC adoption. …”
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Nanostructuring confinement for controllable interfacial charge transfer by Qiao, Wei, Tao, Hua Bing, Liu, Bin, Chen, Jiazang

“…Unfortunately, this critical issue has hardly been consciously considered. Here, ultrathin dopant-free tunneling interlayers coated on the surface of graphene and sandwiched between the carbon sheets and the semiconductor nanostructures are adopted as a model system to demonstrate energy saving for the interfacial charge transfer. …”
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Morphological transformations of vesicles with confined flexible filaments by Shi, Chao, Zou, Guijin, Wu, Zeming, Wang, Meng, Zhang, Xinyun, Gao, Huajian, Yi, Xin

“…Here, combining theoretical modeling and molecular dynamics simulations, we investigate the packing of an open or closed filament inside a vesicle. …”
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Metasurface-tunable lasing polarizations in a microcavity by Yuan, Zhiyi, Huang, Shih-Hsiu, Qiao, Zhen, Wu, Pin Chieh, Chen, Yu-Cheng

“…Here we introduce a strategy for manipulation of laser polarization based on metasurfaces through round trips of photons confined inside an active optical cavity. …”
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Temperature responsive plasmonic assembles of amphiphilic nanoparticles at oil-water interfaces. by Chan, Kevin Jin Quan.

“…Gold nanoparticle (AuNP) has been widely used in the biotechnology field due to its bio-inert characteristic and other unique physical qualities such as optical and electrical properties. …”
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The Greek unions and the economy : a perspective. by Goh, Qianlei., Teo, Yi Qi., Loh, Candy Shu Ying.

“…This paper seeks to find out whether the Greek trade union is one of the causes for the ongoing debt crisis. Here, we assemble a set of data ranging from the Greek government debt, unemployment rate, trade union density and GDP per capita over the years of 1993-2010. …”
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An essential role for maternal control of Nodal signaling by Tran, Long Duc, Kumari, Pooja, Gilligan, Patrick C., Lim, Shimin, Winkler, Sylke, Philp, Robin, Sampath, Karuna

“…The mechanisms by which maternal sqt/nodal RNA is localized and regulated have been unclear. Here, we show that maternal control of Nodal signaling via the conserved Y box-binding protein 1 (Ybx1) is essential. …”
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Black Phosphorus Nanosheets: Synthesis, Characterization and Applications by Eswaraiah, Varrla, Zeng, Qingsheng, Long, Yi, Liu, Zheng

“…The bandgap tunability of BP enables a wide range of ultrafast electronics and high frequency optoelectronic applications ranging from telecommunications to thermal imaging covering the nearly entire electromagnetic spectrum, whereas no other 2D material has this functionality. Here, recent advances in the synthesis, fabrication, anisotropic physical properties, and BP-based devices including field effect transistors (FETs) and photodetectors, are discussed. …”
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Micro-Doppler Photoacoustic Effect and Sensing by Ultrasound Radar by Gao, Fei, Feng, Xiaohua, Zheng, Yuanjin

“…In recent years, photoacoustics have been studied for both anatomical and functional biomedical imaging. …”
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Synthesis, characterization and in vitro evaluation of novel enantiomerically-pure sulphonamide antimalarials by Anusha, Sebastian, Sinha, Ameya, Babu Rajeev, C. P., Chu, Trang T. T., Mathai, Jessin, Huang, Ximei, Fuchs, Julian E., Shivananju, NanjundaSwamy, Bender, Andreas, Preiser, Peter Rainer, Rangappa, Kanchugarakoppal S., Basappa, Chandramohanadas, Rajesh

“…Based on computational studies we hypothesize N-myristoyltransferase as the target of the compounds developed here. Our results demonstrate the value of novel bepotastine-based sulphonamide compounds for targeting the asexual developmental stages of P. falciparum.…”
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Trimerization of enones under air enabled by NHC/NaOtBu via a SET radical pathway by Zhang, Yuexia, Wu, Xingxing, Hao, Lin, Wong, Zeng Rong, Lauw, Sherman Jun Liang, Yang, Song, Webster, Richard David, Chi, Yonggui Robin

“…In previous studies, alkali metal tert-butoxides such as NaOtBu were mainly employed to generate radical intermediates from aryl halides. Here we provide a new avenue in using NaOtBu and combined NHC/NaOtBu to generate radical intermediates from enones for further reactions.…”
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