Janus particles with tunable patch symmetry and their assembly into chiral colloidal clusters by Zhang, Tianran, Lyu, Dengping, Xu, Wei, Feng, Xuan, Ni, Ran, Wang, Yufeng

“…Here, we report on the synthesis of Janus particles with patches of various tunable shapes, having reduced symmetries ranging from C2v to C3v and C4v. The Janus particles are synthesized by partial encapsulation of an octahedral metal-organic framework particle (UiO-66) in a polymer matrix. …”
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Biofilm formation inhibition and dispersal of multi-species communities containing ammonia-oxidising bacteria by Keshvardoust, Pejhman, Huron, Vanessa A. A., Clemson, Matthew, Constancias, Florentin, Barraud, Nicolas, Rice, Scott A.

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Isolation of Spirosoma foliorum sp. nov. from the fallen leaf of Acer palmatum by a novel cultivation technique by Han, Ho Le, Nurcahyanto, Dian Alfian, Muhammad, Neak, Lee, Yong-Jae, Nguyen, Tra T. H., Kim, Song-Gun, Chan, Sook Sin, Khoo, Kuan Shiong, Chew, Kit Wayne, Show, Pau Loke, Tran, Thi Ngoc Thu, Nguyen, Thi Dong Phuong, Chiu, Chen Yaw

“…The strain was determined to be Gram-negative, strictly aerobic, and rod-shaped, which grew optimally at 25 °C, pH 6-7, and the strain tolerates 1% (w/v) NaCl concentration. The complete genome of strain PL0132T comprises one contig with a sequencing depth of 76×, consisting of 8,853,064 base pairs and the genomic DNA G + C content was 46.7% (genome). 16S rRNA gene sequence analysis revealed that strain PL0132T represents a member of the phylum Bacteroidetes and is affiliated with the genus Spirosoma. …”
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A comprehensive review of dwell time optimization methods in computer-controlled optical surfacing by Wang, Tianyi, Ke, Xiaolong, Huang, Lei, Cui, Qingqing, Zhang, Zili, Wang, Chunjin, Kang, Hyukmo, Pullen, Weslin, Choi, Heejoo, Kim, Daewook, Negi, Vipender, Kemao, Qian, Zhu, Yi, Giorgio, Stefano, Boccabella, Philip, Bouet, Nathalie, Austin, Corey, Idir, Mourad

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Biological corneal inlay for presbyopia derived from small incision lenticule extraction (SMILE) by Liu, Yu-Chi, Teo, Ericia Pei Wen, Ang, Heng Pei, Seah, Xin Yi, Lwin, Nyein Chan, Yam, Gary Hin Fai, Mehta, Jodhbir Singh

“…The lenticule implantation effectively resulted in central corneal steepening (simulated keratometric values increased by 1.8–2.3 diopters), central hyper-prolate changes (asphericity Q values changed by −0.26 to −0.36), corneal anterior surface elevation (7.7–9.3 μm) and reasonable effective zone (1.5–1.8 times of the lenticule physical diameter), with no differences among the three groups. …”
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Towards Synergistic Understanding of Language Processing in Biological and Artificial Systems by Hosseini Asl, Eghbal

“…Despite decades of research aimed at uncovering the neural mechanisms underlying activity in this network, a computationally precise account has remained elusive. Over the past five years, artificial neural networks (ANNs) have achieved capabilities in the comprehension and production of language that are indistinguishable from those of humans, and their internal representations bear similarity to activity within the language network. …”
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Grid optimization and demand side mangement for electric vehicles penetration in remote area by Zhang, Yixiao, Ng, Eddie Yin Kwee, Li, Ning

“…Power grid model simulation: use government data to predict that Trincomalee's electricity demand will increase from the current 40MW to 640MW in five years and build a grid simulation model for Sri Lanka's national high-voltage transmission lines. …”
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Detection of road markings for advanced driver assistance by Suchitra Sathyanarayana

“…Evaluation of the AHPD on the 101 CMU object database confirms that it can successfully detect the major line features of interest, including lines of close proximity and lines of varying lengths amidst noise. …”
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Facies analysis and depositional model of the middle-upper triassic Semantan formation, Central Pahang, Malaysia by Muhammad Azfar, Mohamed, Mazshurraiezal, Nasir, Mohd Syukri, Said, Meng, Choongchee, Mohamad Shaufi, Sokiman, Nur Asyraf, Md Akhir, Muhammad Aslam, Md Yusof, Muhammad Noor Amin, Zakariah, Mohd Nizam, Abdul Rashid, Salahuddin, Husein, Noorzamzarina, Sulaiman, Afiq Naim, Mohd

“…It is believed that these five genetic units were deposited within four proposed laterally contiguous depositional environments which are; 1) Inner fan - deep channel-levee complex (represent by FA1), 2) Mid fan - channelised lobe (represented by FA5 and FA3), 3) Mid Fan - non-channelised lobe (represented by FA4 and FA3), and 4) Outer fan - distal lobe (represented by FA2). …”
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Identification of potent new brain cancer EGFR inhibitor from usimine A and usimine B: computer-aided drug design perspective by Roney, Miah, Issahaku, Abdul Rashid, Wilhelm, Anke, Mohd Fadhlizil Fasihi, Mohd Aluwi

“…This compound exhibited five hydrogen bonds with the residues of Leu792, Met793, Asn842, Thr854, and Val843 in the active site of EGFR protein. …”
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Autonomy Work: Personhood, Expertise, and Activism of Disabled AI Data Workers in China by Wu, Di

“…This is supplemented by five years of my professional experience in disability nonprofits. …”
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Excess Mortality and its Determinants During the COVID-19 Pandemic in 21 Countries: An Ecological Study from the C-MOR Project, 2020 and 2021 by Rahmanian Haghighi, Mohammad Reza, Pallari, Chryso T., Achilleos, Souzana, Quattrocchi, Annalisa, Gabel, John, Artemiou, Andreas, Athanasiadou, Maria, Papatheodorou, Stefania, Liu, Tianyu, Cernuda Martínez, José Antonio, Denissov, Gleb, Łyszczarz, Błażej, Huang, Qian, Athanasakis, Kostas, Bennett, Catherine M.

“…Thirty exposure variables were considered in five categories as factors potentially associated with excess mortality: population factors, health care resources, socioeconomic factors, air pollution, and COVID-19 policy. …”
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Correction of errors in tandem mass spectrum extraction enhances phosphopeptide identification by Hao, Piliang, Ren, Yan, Sze, Siu Kwan, Tam, James P.

“…Surprisingly, ProteoWizzard (v. 3.0.3476) extracted wrong precursor mass for most MS3 spectra. …”
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Desymmetrisation of 1,3-diols and their diacetates under enzymatic heterogeneous catalysis and synthesis of 1,3-diols under continuous flow conditions by Pamarthy, Varsha Siri

“…One of the key steps in the synthesis of one such piperidone, N-benzyl-5- methoxypiperidone, is the desymmetrisation of 1,3-diol, N-Benzyl-5-hydroxy-4- (hydroxymethyl)pentanamide or 1,3-diacetate, N-Benzyl-5-acetoxy-4- (acetoxymethyl)pentanamide, which provide access to the (R)- and (S)- enantiomers of the piperidone, respectively. …”
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A ranking of critical competencies for maritime logistics executives in the era of digitalisation by Ng, Charlene Xin Ying

“…The sub-competency Leadership and Managerial Abilities was ranked top five globally in importance, showing that this sub-competency is important regardless of position in the organisation. …”
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Dynamic obstacle avoidance in mobile robots using adversarial deep learning by Tan, Chun Ye

“…The proposed solution is to develop an adversarial deep learning-trained neural network model that can navigate to goals as far as five meters while avoiding any potential obstacles, static and dynamic, that may come in the way. …”
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Genotype-specific expression and NLR repertoire contribute to phenotypic resistance diversity in Plantago lanceolata by Safdari, Pezhman, Höckerstedt, Layla, Brosche, Mikael, Salojärvi, Jarkko, Laine, Anna-Liisa

“…Here, we sequenced the transcriptomes of five different Plantago lanceolata genotypes when inoculated by the same strain of obligate fungal pathogen Podosphaera plantaginis. …”
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Hierarchical skeleton Meta-Prototype Contrastive learning with hard skeleton mining for unsupervised person re-identification by Rao, Haocong, Leung, Cyril, Miao, Chunyan

“…Extensive evaluations on five datasets demonstrate that our approach outperforms a wide variety of state-of-the-art skeleton-based methods. …”
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Influence of Fe₂O₃ and bacterial biofilms on Cu(II) distribution in a simulated aqueous solution: a feasibility study to sediments in the Pearl River Estuary (PR China) by Kurniawan, Tonni Agustiono, Lo, Waihung, Othman, Mohd Hafiz Dzarfan, Liang, Xue, Goh, Hui Hwang, Chew, Kit Wayne

“…It was found that biofilms with 170-285 mequiv chemical oxygen demand (COD) concentration/m2 of total oxidizable materials accelerated the Cu(II) adsorption to the surface of the reactor significantly by a factor of five. A significant inhibition to the bacterial growth took place (p ≤ 0.05; t-test) when Cu(II) concentration was higher than 0.5 mg/L. …”
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The behaviour of steel and composite structures under a middle-column-removal scenario by Yang, Bo

“…The experimental tests consisted of two types of tests, namely, middle joints under sagging moment and side joints under hogging moment. A total of five composite beam-column joints with re-entrant steel profile decking were tested. …”
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