Metformin alters human host responses to Mycobacterium tuberculosis in healthy subjects by Lachmandas, Ekta, Eckold, Clare, Böhme, Julia, Koeken, Valerie A. C. M., Mardiana Marzuki, Blok, Bastiaan, Arts, Rob J. W., Chen, Jinmiao, Teng, Karen W. W., Ratter, Jacqueline, Smolders, Elise J., Van den Heuvel, Corina, Stienstra, Rinke, Dockrell, Hazel M., Newell, Evan, Netea, Mihai G., Singhal, Amit, Cliff, Jacqueline M., Van Crevel, Reinout

“…Background" Metformin, the most widely administered diabetes drug, has been proposed as a candidate adjunctive host-directed therapy for tuberculosis, but little is known about its effects on human host responses to Mycobacterium tuberculosis. …”
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Production of ammonia feedstock by novel solid oxide electrolysis cell by Haziq Mahmud

“…Some interesting results have been obtained from the experimental investigations. …”
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MOF-based hierarchical structures for solar-thermal clean water production by Ma, Qinglang, Yin, Pengfei, Zhao, Meiting, Luo, Zhiyong, Huang, Ying, He, Qiyuan, Yu, Yifu, Liu, Zhengqing, Hu, Zhaoning, Chen, Bo, Zhang, Hua

“…However, solar water evaporators that exhibit both high water vapor generation ability and anti-oil-fouling ability have not been reported. Here, a unique metal-organic-framework-based hierarchical structure, referred to as MOF-based hierarchical structure (MHS), is rationally designed and prepared, which simultaneously displays a high solar absorption and a superhydrophilic and underwater superoleophobic surface property. …”
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Utilization of biomass pectin polymer to build high efficiency electrode architectures with sturdy construction and fast charge transfer structure to boost sodium storage performan... by Zhao, Jing, Yang, Xu, Zhang, Yu, Loh, Xian Jun, Hu, Xiaodong, Chen, Gang, Du, Fei, Yan, Qingyu

“…To improve the cycle stability and rate performance of Na₃V₂(PO₄)₃, most attention has been directed to improving the electronic conductivity by carbon compositing. …”
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P2P energy trading among isolated microgrids in the remote area by Huang, Rui

“…Secondly, to eliminate the load imbalance caused by the difference of each MG's power generation, a network framework for each MG in the MMG system to conduct P2P energy trading activity has been established. Combining with the emission standard of carbon allowance, the incentive mechanism of each MG is set to improve the robustness of the model and the rationality of each MG while trading. …”
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Toward intelligent multizone thermal control with multiagent deep reinforcement learning by Li, Jie, Zhang, Wei, Gao, Guanyu, Wen, Yonggang, Jin, Guangyu, Christopoulos, Georgios

“…Many research works have been proposed to save energy while maintaining a comfortable thermal condition. …”
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The January 11, 2018, Mw 6.0 Bago-Yoma, Myanmar earthquake : a shallow thrust event within the deforming Bago-Yoma range by Fadil, Wardah, Lindsey, Eric Ostrom, Wang, Yu, Maung, Phyo Maung, Luo, Heng, Swe, Tint Lwin, Tun, Pa Pa, Wei, Shengji

“…The seismic hazard posed by these active faults has been increasing with the development of infrastructure such as dams within the BYR. …”
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Precious metal price prediction using deep neural networks by Peng, Zhiling

“…Therefore, how to predict the trend of the gold price effectively has been long concerned by researchers from many areas, and such prediction can be really helpful to control the risk of personal investment as well as adjust the national economic strategies in time. …”
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Speeding up deep neural network training with decoupled and analytic learning by Zhuang, Huiping

“…The BP requires a sequential passing of activations and gradients, which has been recognized as lockings (i.e., the forward, backward, and update lockings). …”
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High-efficiency and durable inverted perovskite solar cells with thermally-induced phase-change electron extraction layer by Li, Xin, Meng, Yun, Liu, Ruizhe, Yang, Zhiyao, Zeng, Yan, Yi, Yuanping, Sha, Wei E. I., Long, Yi, Yang, Junyou

“…Reducing carrier recombination and facilitating charge extraction at the interface is of great significance to improve the device performance of perovskite solar cells (PSCs) towards commercial use. However, there has been little work done concerning transportation and recombination mechanism at the interface of the metal electrode and the electron transport layer in inverted PSCs. …”
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Mechanistic investigation of electrostatic field-enhanced water evaporation by Fei, Jipeng, Ding, Bin, Koh, See Wee, Ge, Junyu, Wang, Xingli, Lee, Liquan, Sun, Zixu, Yao, Mengqi, Chen, Yonghao, Gao, Huajian, Li, Hong

“…Investigations on external electrostatic field (EEF)-enhanced liquid water evaporation have been reported decades ago, which suggest that molecular alignment and polarization tuned by EEF accelerating the phase change process could be responsible for EEF-enhanced water evaporation. …”
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Ideal type-II Weyl points in topological circuits by Li, Rujiang, Lv, Bo, Tao, Huibin, Shi, Jinhui, Chong, Yidong, Zhang, Baile, Chen, Hongsheng

“…Although type-II WPs have unique spectral characteristics compared with type-I counterparts, ideal type-II WPs have not yet been reported because of a lack of an experimental platform with enough flexibility to produce strongly tilted dispersion bands. …”
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Cobalt nitride as a novel cocatalyst to boost photocatalytic CO₂ reduction by Di, Jun, Chen, Chao, Zhu, Chao, Song, Pin, Duan, Meilin, Xiong, Jun, Long, Ran, Xu, Manzhang, Kang, Lixing, Guo, Shasha, Chen, Shuangming, Chen, Hailong, Chi, Zhen, Weng, Yu-Xiang, Li, Huaming, Song, Li, Wu, Minghong, Yan, Qingyu, Li, Shuzhou, Liu, Zheng

“…Photocatalytic CO₂ reduction has been regarded as an appealing pathway for CO₂ conversion to hydrocarbon fuels. …”
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Learning hierarchical review graph representations for recommendation by Liu, Yong, Yang, Susen, Zhang, Yinan, Miao, Chunyan, Nie, Zaiqing, Zhang, Juyong

“…The user review data have been demonstrated to be effective in solving different recommendation problems. …”
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High performance thin nonwovens for thermal insulation by Lou, Bi Ying

“…Hence, in this work, an effort had been made to create thin and light weight nonwovens with high thermal insulation performance. …”
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Video summarization of person of interest (POI) by Lit, Laura Pei Lin

“…Multiple state-of-the-art face detection, mask classification and face recognition models have been explored and integrated into the new pipeline to achieve this goal. …”
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Structural performance and design of stainless steel gusset plate connections by Khine Myint Myat Thein

“…A numerical study on stainless steel open sections connected to gusset plate has been conducted and presented in this report. An experimental study using 16 test specimens for angle-to-gusset plate connection and 16 specimens for channel-to-gusset plate were observed as a benchmark for this research. …”
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Barium aluminate improved iron ore for the chemical looping combustion of syngas by Wang, Haiming, Dou, Xiaomin, Veksha, Andrei, Liu, Wen, Giannis, Apostolos, Ge, Liya, Lim, Teik-Thye, Lisak, Grzegorz

“…However, CLC of municipal solid waste (MSW) has been seldom reported. In this study, we investigated the CLC of simulated MSW-derived syngas using iron ore (IO)-based oxygen carriers (OCs). …”
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Chromosome-level genome assembly of the diploid blueberry Vaccinium darrowii provides insights into its subtropical adaptation and cuticle synthesis by Cui, Fuqiang, Ye, Xiaoxue, Li, Xiaoxiao, Yang, Yifan, Hu, Zhubing, Overmyer, Kirk, Brosché, Mikael, Yu, Hong, Salojärvi, Jarkko

“…Vaccinium darrowii is a subtropical wild blueberry species that has been used to breed economically important southern highbush cultivars. …”
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Label-free quantitative measurement of cardiovascular dynamics in a zebrafish embryo using frequency-comb-referenced-quantitative phase imaging by Boonruangkan, Jeeranan, Farrokhi, Hamid, Rohith, Thazhe Madam, Kwok, Samuel, Carney, Tom J., Su, Pei-Chen, Kim, Young-Jin

“…Approach: Quantitative phase imaging (QPI) has emerged as a powerful technique in the field of biomedicine but has not been actively applied to the monitoring of circulatory/cardiovascular parameters, due to dynamic speckles and low frame rates. …”
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