Uncovering the mechanical secrets of the squirting cucumber by Box, F, Moulton, DE, Vella, D, Lowe, T, Goriely, A, Thorogood, C, Bhagotra, Y

“…We demonstrate how together these mechanical features contribute to a nearly uniform distribution of seeds away from the parent plant. …”

Image segmentation with minimal human supervision by Shin, G

“…</p> <br> <p>In the first part, we demonstrate that considering a model's uncertainty in predictions can significantly reduce the number of annotations required to train a segmenter that performs nearly as well as a fully-supervised one. This finding underscores the critical role of pixels around semantic boundaries in helping the model to learn representations suitable for segmentation.…”

Ultrastable shear jammed granular material by Zhao, Yiqiu, Zhao, Yuchen, Wang, Dong, Zheng, Hu, Chakraborty, Bulbul, Socolar, Joshua E. S.

“…The stress response of these states to small imposed shear is nearly elastic, in contrast to the original shear jammed state.…”
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Self-concordance theory and the goal-striving reasons framework and their distinct relationships with hedonic and eudaimonic well-being by Ehrlich, Christian, Cripps, Karen, Ehrlich, Susanne

“…Here, self-concordance achieves nearly similar correlations to the goal-striving reasons framework. …”
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Progressive collapse behaviour of precast concrete structures with advanced joints by Nguyen, Van Hung

“…Secondly, the pull-out test results highlighted a pivotal role of bearing force in anchorage strength of headed bars and strain behaviour. …”
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论李世民音乐政治观对儒家礼乐思想的继承和转化 = A study on Li Shimin music-politics: inheritance and transformation of Confucian ritual and music thought by 许惠佳 Koh, Hwee Kay

“…To a certain extent, he had inherited Yueji, Confucian ritual and Music thought - which extensively covers the social influence and educational function of music to society – while at the same time, his Music-politics thought bears much resemblance to those of Ji Kang. This article hopes to explore in detail Li Shimin’s Music-politics thought, and by using Yueji as a comparison, analyses how his inheritance and transformation of Confucian Ritual and Music thought played an important role in shaping the Tang Culture.…”
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Synthesis of heavy cyanide analogs for the design of novel Prussian blue analogs by Yang, E

“…In order to provide illustrative points of comparison, analogous metal complexes bearing various strong-field ligands are also synthesized and analyzed using the same approach.…”

Nature-Centered Materiomics: Experimental and Computational Design by Shen, Sabrina C.

“…Industrial material production simultaneously contributes nearly 30% of global greenhouse gas emissions each year, which in conjunction with solid waste accumulation and deterioration of ecological processes, threatens the livelihood of current and future generations of both human and non-human species. …”
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Insights into thermal hydrolyzed sludge liquor - identification of plant-growth-promoting compounds by Lu, Dan, Qian, Tingting, Le, Chencheng, Pan, Chaozhi, Cao, Shenbin, Ng, Wun Jern, Zhou, Yan

“…The holistic approach of using TH liquor as organic fertilizer and producing biochar could realize nearly zero-waste discharge in sludge management.…”
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Beyond the pause by Loke, Eden Hui Yi, Leong, Nicia Qiao Xin, Priyanka D/O Tamilarasan Thevar, See, Wenwei

“…Despite being a critical life phase for nearly half of the population, perimenopause remains shrouded in ambiguity, contributing to significant delays in seeking and receiving appropriate care and support. …”
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Additive friction stir processing by Lin, Longyi

“…The SLM AlSi10Mg, with a density of nearly 99.5%, was found to have comparable mechanical properties to heat treated cast AlSi10Mg. …”
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The association between the proportion of Brexiters and COVID-19 death rates in England by Phalippou, L, Wu, B

“…</p> <p><strong>Results:</strong> Districts where people voted most heavily in favor of remaining in the EU (top quintile) had nearly half the death rate of districts in the bottom quintile. …”

Efficacy of cannabinoids for the prophylaxis of chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting—a systematic review and meta-analysis by Chow, R, Basu, A, Kaur, J, Hui, D, Im, J, Prsic, E, Boldt, G, Lock, M, Eng, L, Ng, TL, Zimmermann, C, Scotte, F

“…Results: A total of 26 studies were included in this meta-analysis, of which 23 were published before the 2000s. Nearly half of the included studies had some concern for bias. …”

A systematic review of transanal total mesorectal excision: is this the future of rectal cancer surgery? by Simillis, C, Hompes, R, Penna, M, Rasheed, S, Tekkis, PP

“…The mesorectal excision was described as complete in 88% cases, nearly complete in 6% and incomplete in 6%. The circumferential resection margin was negative in 95% of cases and the distal resection margin was negative in 99.7%. …”

Magnetic field amplification in laser-produced plasmas by Meinecke, J

“…In the early universe, matter was nearly homogeneously distributed; today, as a result of gravitational instabilities, it forms a web-like structure of clusters, filaments, and voids. …”

An efficient secure and energy resilient trust-based system for detection and mitigation of sybil attack detection (SAN) by Hussain, Muhammad Zunnurain, Mohd Hanapi, Zurina, Abdullah, Azizol, Hussin, Masnida, Ninggal, Mohd Izuan Hafez

“…In the modern digital market flooded by nearly endless cyber-security hazards, sophisticated IDS (intrusion detection systems) can become invaluable in defending against intricate security threats. …”
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System dynamics of human body thermal regulation in outdoor environments by Melnikov, Valentin, Krzhizhanovskaya, Valeria V., Lees, Michael H., Sloot, Peter M. A.

“…We propose a modification of the skin blood flow model which, while keeping realistic values and responsiveness, improves skin temperature prediction nearly fourfold. We further analyze the sensitivity of the model with respect to climatic and personal parameters. …”
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A byte sequence is worth an image: CNN for file fragment classification using bit shift and n-gram embeddings by Liu, Wenyang, Wang, Yi, Wu, Kejun, Yap, Kim-Hui, Chau, Lap-Pui

“…Experiments on the FFT-75 dataset validate that our proposed method can achieve notable accuracy improvements over state-of-the-art methods in nearly all scenarios.…”
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Weakly confined organic–inorganic halide perovskite quantum dots as high-purity room-temperature single photon sources by Wang, Bo, Lim, Melvin Jia Wei, Loh, Siow Mean, Mayengbam, Rishikanta, Ye, Senyun, Feng, Minjun, He, Huajun, Liang, Xiao, Cai, Rui, Zhang, Qiannan, Kwek, Leong Chuan, Demir, Hilmi Volkan, Mhaisalkar, Subodh Gautam, Blundell, Steven A., Sum, Tze Chien

“…Superior single photon purity with low g^((2) ) (0)<0.07±0.03 and nearly blinking-free behaviour (ON-state fraction >95%) in 11 nm FAPbBr3 QDs is achieved at room temperature; attributed to their long exciton lifetimes (τ_X) and short biexciton lifetimes (τ_XX). …”
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Bacteria-mediated anti-cancer therapy by Bhave, Madhura Satish

“…However, IB significantly inhibited the growth of the tumors and improved the survival rate of immunocompetent CT26 tumor-bearing mice. Histological analysis showed that IB increased the necrotic area in HCT116 tumors. …”
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