Synthesis and reactivity of electron-deficient phosphorus(III) compounds by Dordevic, Nemanja

“…Transient formation of [1a]2+ and [1b]2+ is evidenced by activating C-F bonds of trifluorotoluene and [BArF4]- (ArF = (CF3)2-C6H3) anion. The replacement of carbodiphosphorane 1 with more nucleophilic and sterically less demanding carbodicarbene ligand {C6H4(MeN)2C}2C, 2 resulted in a series of P-dications [{C6H4(MeN)2C}2C.PR]2+ (R = NiPr2, Ph, OMe, tBu, Cl) whose spectroscopic and structural features are presented. …”
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Development of superhydrophobic ceramic membrane decorated with flake-like structure by two-step synthesis for seawater desalination by membrane distillation by Omar, Najib Meftah Almukhtar, Othman, Mohd. Hafiz Dzarfan, Tai, Zhong Sheng, Puteh, Mohd. Hafiz, Wong, Keng Yinn, Tan, Huiyi, Tonni Agustiono Kurniawan, Tonni Agustiono Kurniawan, Ooi, Boon Seng, Nomura, Mikihiro, Iwamoto, Yuji

“…It displayed contact angles (CAs) of 155.9° for water, 144° for water/ethanol, 129° for palm oil, and 112° for engine oil, with a liquid entry pressure (LEP) of 5.2 bar Furthermore, the membrane performance was tested in a direct contact membrane distillation (DCMD) at 70 °C using a solution that simulated real seawater conditions, including sodium chloride (NaCl) at 35 g/L, sodium sulfate (Na2SO4) at 1.2 g/L, sodium carbonate (Na2CO3) at 1 g/L, and humic acid at 8 mg/L. …”

Theranostics for neuroblastoma: making molecular radiotherapy work better by Gawne, PJ, Bryant, HE, DuBois, SG, George, SL, Gray, J, Knox, L, Matchett, KB, Peet, C, Vallis, KA, Wallace, HJ, Wan, S, Gaze, MN

“…Neuroblastoma expresses several molecular targets for radionuclide imaging and therapy, of which the most widely exploited is the norepinephrine transporter. [ 123I]meta iodobenzylguanidine (mIBG) imaging and [131I]mIBG treatment, which target this physiological pathway, have been in clinical practice for 40 years. While therapy outcomes have been favourable, [ 131I]mIBG use has not yet been optimized. …”

New Silurian aculiferan fossils reveal complex early history of Mollusca by Sutton, MD, Sigwart, JD, Briggs, DEG, Gueriau, P, King, A, Siveter, DJ, Siveter, DJ

“…Mollusca is the second most species-rich animal phylum, but the pathways of early molluscan evolution have long been controversial1, 2, 3, 4–5. Modern faunas retain only a fraction of the past forms in this hyperdiverse and long-lived group. …”

Writing in Creole contexts: a study of Jamaican primary school students by Tucker, S-K, Chalmers, H, Murphy, VA

“…In the Caribbean in particular, the poor writing outcomes of Creole speakers across all levels of education has been a subject of lament for educators and policymakers for several years. …”

The Global Multidimensional Poverty Index 2024: harmonised level estimates and their changes over time by Alkire, S, Kanagaratnam, U, Suppa, N

“…More specifically, it contains harmonised level estimates and their changes over time of the global MPI and related sub-indices, which have been estimated for the 2024 release. For this Database all deprivation indicators have been harmonised over time.…”

Quality over quantity: powering neuroimaging samples in psychiatry by Makowski, C, Nichols, TE, Dale, AM

“…Neuroimaging has been widely adopted in psychiatric research, with hopes that these non-invasive methods will provide important clues to the underpinnings and prediction of various mental health symptoms and outcomes. …”

‘I don’t care who joins my choir’: investigating attitudes to diversity and inclusivity in lower- and upper-voice choirs in the United Kingdom by MacGregor, E

“…Recreational choral singing has long been a mainstay of amateur and community musicmaking in the United Kingdom, and there is much existing evidence for the potential social, physical, and psychological benefits of participation. …”

The evolution of signalling and monitoring in plant-fungal networks by Scott, T, Kiers, ET, West, SA

“…Experiments have shown that when one plant is attacked by a pathogen or herbivore, this can lead to other plants connected to the same mycorrhizal network up-regulating their defense mechanisms. It has been hypothesized that this represents signaling, with attacked plants producing a signal to warn other plants of impending harm. …”

Highly selective upcycling of plastic mixture waste by microwave-assisted catalysis over Zn/b-ZnO by Zhao, J, Liu, B, Xiong, L, Liu, W, Wang, D, Ma, W, Jiang, L, Yang, J, Wang, P, Xiao, T, Zhao, S, Edwards, PP, Tang, J

“…Moreover, the catalyst can tolerate high contaminates, even the landfilled plastics can still be converted to lubricant base oil precursors, which has never been reported before.…”

Highlights from Faraday Discussion 172: Carbon in electrochemistry, Sheffield, UK, July 2014 by Dyatkin, B, Ash, PA, Sharma, S

“…Traditionally, Faraday Discussions have been very true to their name, focussing genuinely on healthy, in-depth, and fruitful discussions rather than just serving as a platform for one to one researcher interaction and collaboration. …”

Clinical, genetic and omics-based biomarkers that might support the identification of the development of psoriatic arthritis in individuals with psoriasis – a narrative review of t... by Grohmann, T, Vivekanantham, A, Coates, L, Pennington, S, FitzGerald, O

“…To date, the reasons for the development of PsA in individuals with PsC have not been identified. Furthermore, there are considerable delays in diagnosis and treatment of PsA, which lead to joint and bone deformation and chronic pain. …”

Institutionalizing US-ROK-Japan trilateral cooperation: recent progress and future prospects by Govella, K

“…Over the past two years, there has been dramatic progress in cooperation among the Republic of Korea, Japan, and the United States. …”

The formation and evolution of Earth’s inner core by Wilson, AJ, Davies, CJ, Walker, A, Pozzo, M, Alfé, D, Deuss, A

“…The classical picture of inner core growth ignores the fact that the liquid core must have been supercooled below its melting temperature to spontaneously freeze the inner core. …”

Cataloguing medieval manuscripts through the history of Oxford's college libraries by Dunning, ANJ

“…Many scholars use them as representing the state of knowledge of surviving medieval works, illustration, and provenance; yet it is rarely made clear how hastily some have been assembled or how dramatically approaches have evolved over the centuries. …”

Introduction: Special issue on the ethics of anthropology in emergencies by Stellmach, D, Beshar, I

“…It is hard to think of a recent moment when anthropology as a profession has had a higher profile. Anthropologists have been active in the Ebola response, both as policy commentators (Sridhar and Clinton 2014; Abramowitz 2014) and frontline responders (Bedford 2015). …”

Unweighted layered graph traversal: passing a crown via entropy maximization by Bai, X, Coester, C, Cosson, R

“…Introduced by Papadimitriou and Yannakakis in 1989, layered graph traversal is a central problem in online algorithms and mobile computing that has been studied for several decades, and which now is essentially resolved in its original formulation. …”

Discriminative learned dictionaries for local image analysis by Mairal, J, Bach, F, Ponce, J, Sapiro, G, Zisserman, A

“…Sparse signal models have been the focus of much recent research, leading to (or improving upon) state-of-the-art results in signal, image, and video restoration. …”

The genome sequence of the Ash-bark Knot-horn, Euzophera pinguis (Haworth, 1811) by Boyes, D, Holland, PWH

“…The mitochondrial genome has also been assembled and is 15.2 kilobases in length.…”

The genome sequence of the Heart and Club moth, Agrotis clavis (Hufnagel, 1766) by Wawman, D

“…The mitochondrial genome has also been assembled and is 15.43 kilobases in length.…”