Engineering bunched Pt-Ni alloy nanocages for efficient oxygen reduction in practical fuel cells by Tian, Xinlong, Zhao, Xiao, Su, Ya-Qiong, Wang, Lijuan, Wang, Hongming, Dang, Dai, Chi, Bin, Liu, Hongfang, Hensen, Emiel J. M., Lou, David Xiong Wen, Xia, Bao Yu

“…We report one-dimensional bunched platinum-nickel (Pt-Ni) alloy nanocages with a Pt-skin structure for the oxygen reduction reaction that display high mass activity (3.52 amperes per milligram platinum) and specific activity (5.16 milliamperes per square centimeter platinum), or nearly 17 and 14 times higher as compared with a commercial platinum on carbon (Pt/C) catalyst. …”
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Does everyone have the potential to achieve their ideal body weight? Lay theories about body weight and support for price discrimination policies by Li, Kevin Shaobo, Kokkoris, Michail D., Savani, Krishna

“…Six studies identified a novel lay theory—whether people believe that nearly everyone (the universal belief) or only some people (the nonuniversal belief) can achieve their ideal body weight. …”
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Bio-catalyzed oxidation self-charging zinc-polymer batteries by Pan, Jun, Liu, Yanhong, Yang, Jian, Wu, Jiawen, Fan, Hong Jin

“…The battery can discharge for 12 min (0.5 C) after 50 self-charging/discharge cycles, while there is nearly no discharge capacity in the absence of Hb. …”
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Breaking barriers with memes: how memes bridge political cynicism to online political participation by Ahmed, Saifuddin, Masood, Muhammad

“…While numerous studies have explored the participatory benefits of social media use for political participation, the empirical literature on the mobilizing role of political memes is nearly absent. In addition, most of the attention has been on Western democratic contexts. …”
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Theoretical Modelling and Facile Synthesis of a Highly Active Boron-Doped Palladium Catalyst for the Oxygen Reduction Reaction by Vo Doan, Tat Thang, Wang, Jingbo, Poon, Kee Chun, Tan, Desmond Chun Long, Khezri, Bahareh, Webster, Richard David, Su, Haibin, Sato, Hirotaka

“…Our theoretical modelling reveals that B-doped Pd (Pd-B) weakens the absorption of ORR intermediates with nearly optimal binding energy by lowering the barrier associated with O2 dissociation, suggesting Pd-B should be highly active for ORR. …”
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Mechanistic Studies of Interfacial Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer to Molecularly Defined Surface Sites by Lewis, Noah B.

“…Nearly all electrocatalytic reactions and all aqueous electrochemical systems involve either the reductive formation or oxidative scission of a surface-hydrogen bond in an interfacial proton-coupled electron transfer (I PCET) reaction. …”
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Development of runoff simulation model using excel by Loo, Wai Leong.

“…For the artificial catchments, the comparison of simulated and observed hydrographs shows that they are nearly perfect fit, and for the Upper Bukit Timah catchment, the comparison shows that they are very good fit. …”
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Evaluation of parallel MRI techniques by Sakinah Saaban.

“…However, it is clear that MRI methods have the potential to impact nearly every area of clinical MRI.…”
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Image analysis of plasmonic sensor for high-throughput biomarker detection by Li, Xiaochao.

“…The system sensitivity is found to be 1.84 x 10-5 RIU. This value is nearly 3 times better than the resolution provided by existing spectral based SPR imaging sensor. …”
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Skindiary : mobile application for skin health by Wang, Zirui

“…Outstanding examples are MeiFuJia and mySkin, which are both taking considerable market shares. However, nearly all of these applications emphasize the skin-care advice and product recommendation. …”
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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

“…Bifunctional ZnO acts as a microwave absorber and substrate catalyst, and in-situ formed Zn clusters promote C-C bond cleavage and nearly 100% upcycle landfilled plastic mixtures into lubricant base oil precursors and monomers. …”

The do's and don'ts of quantum memory in cryptanalysis by Jaques, S

“…This second algorithm has a higher cost but parallelises nearly perfectly.</p>…”

ConfSolv: Prediction of solute conformer free energies across a range of solvents by Pattanaik, Lagnajit, Menon, Angiras, Settels, Volker, Spiekermann, Kevin A., Tan, Zipei, Vermeire, Florence, Sandfort, Frederik, Eiden, Philipp, Green Jr, William H

“…To help address this challenge, we generate a large dataset of solution free energies for nearly 44000 solutes with almost 9 million conformers calculated in 41 different solvents using density functional theory and COSMO-RS and quantify the impact of solute conformers on the solution free energy. …”
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All-sky search for gravitational wave emission from scalar boson clouds around spinning black holes in LIGO O3 data by Sudhir, Vivishek

“…Outliers from this search are followed up using two different methods, one more suitable for nearly monochromatic signals, and the other more robust towards frequency fluctuations. …”
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Query lower bounds for log-concave sampling by Chewi, Sinho, de Dios Pont, Jaume, Li, Jerry, Lu, Chen, Narayanan, Shyam

“…In this work, we establish the following query lower bounds: (1) sampling from strongly log-concave and log-smooth distributions in dimension ≥ 2 requires Ω(log) queries, which is sharp in any constant dimension, and (2) sampling from Gaussians in dimension (hence also from general log-concave and log-smooth distributions in dimension) requires Ωe(min( √ log,)) queries, which is nearly sharp for the class of Gaussians. Here denotes the condition number of the target distribution. …”
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NiNC Catalysts in CO2-to-CO Electrolysis by Zhang, Hao, Qi, Menghui, Wang, Yong

“…Recent study by Strasser et al. in Nature Chemical Engineering presents a high-performance CO2-to-CO electrolyzer utilizing a NiNC catalyst with nearly 100% faradaic efficiency, employing innovative diagnostic tools like the carbon crossover coefficient (CCC) to address transport-related failures and optimize overall efficiency. …”
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Forecasting item-level demands : an analytical evaluation of top-down versus bottom-up forecasting in a production-planning framework by Viswanathan, S., Widiarta, Handik, Piplani, Rajesh

“…We show that the performance of the two forecasting strategies is nearly identical, regardless of the coefficient of correlation between the item demands, the items' proportion in the family and the coefficient of the serial correlation term of the demand process. …”
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Ocular delivery of predatory bacteria with cryomicroneedles against eye infection by Cui, Mingyue, Zheng, Mengjia, Wiraja, Christian, Chew, Sharon Wan Ting, Mishra, Arti, Mayandi, Venkatesh, Lakshminarayanan, Rajamani, Xu, Chenjie

“…The infection is significantly relieved by nearly six times through 2.5 days of treatment without substantial effects on the cornea thickness and morphology. …”
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Counting and mapping of subwavelength nanoparticles from a single shot scattering pattern by Chan, Eng Aik, Rendón-Barraza, Carolina, Wang, Benquan, Pu, Tanchao, Ou, Jun-Yu, Wei, Hongxin, Adamo, Giorgio, An, Bo, Zheludev, Nikolay I.

“…We also demonstrate that the particle locations can be mapped on a 4 × 4 grid with a nearly perfect accuracy (16-pixel binary imaging of the particle ensemble). …”
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Missing targets: reforming disaster policy in Southeast Asia by Cook, Alistair David Blair, Lassa, Jonatan, Caballero-Anthony, Mely

“…A recent United Nations report shows that across nearly all indicators the region is regressing in terms of its 2030 Sustainable Development Goals. …”
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