Disciplining the state: virtue, violence, and state-making in modern China by Thornton, P

“…During each period, central authorities introduced—not without resistance—institutional change designed to extend the reach of central control over local political life. The successes and failures of state-building in each case rested largely upon the ability of each regime to construct itself as an autonomous moral agent both separate from and embedded in an imagined political community. …”

Ex vivo expansion and genetic manipulation of mouse hematopoietic stem cells in polyvinyl alcohol-based cultures by Khoo, HM, Meaker, GA, Wilkinson, AC

“…Self-renewing multipotent hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) are an important cell type due to their abilities to support hematopoiesis throughout life and reconstitute the entire blood system following transplantation. …”

A surface transporter family conveys the trypanosome differentiation signal by Dean, S, Marchetti, R, Kirk, K, Matthews, KR

“…The parasites causing African sleeping sickness respond to citrate or cis-aconitate (CCA) to initiate life-cycle development when transmitted to their tsetse fly vector. …”

Rationale and concerns for using JAK inhibitors in axial spondyloarthritis by Ahmed, S, Yesudian, R, Ubaide, H, Coates, LC

“…Axial spondyloarthritis (axSpA) is a lifelong disease that has a significant impact on quality of life. It is initially manifested by inflammatory back pain and can be associated with inflammation in other body parts, such as the eyes, bowel and skin. …”

Reading and translating with scripture - a study of textual growth in the Enochic theophany in the Book of the Watchers 1:1-9 by McCarron, A

“…Rather than dismissing these shifts and developments in the text as ‘corruptive’ or ‘degenerative’ features in the history and life of the Enochic theophany, the methodology employed in this project envisages them as vital and generative features that reveal how the text was read, interpreted, and re-signified as it was translated and transmitted. …”

Addressing Factors that Impact Sexual Well-Being and Intimacy in IBD Patients by Elias, S, Nandi, N, Fourie, S, Grover, L, Newman, KL

“…Recent Findings: Recent clinical surveys of practicing gastroenterologists document that clinicians should routinely address sexual health when addressing patient reported outcomes but very few actually make direct inquiry or suggest management into this important aspect of human life. Example ‘patter’ are suggested to clinicians to demonstrate how to introduce the subject of sexual intimacy and well-being and engender patient trust on this sensitive topic. …”

Can robotic AI systems be virtuous and why does this matter? by Constantinescu, M, Crisp, R

“…The growing use of social robots in times of isolation refocuses ethical concerns for Human–Robot Interaction and its implications for social, emotional, and moral life. In this article we raise a virtue-ethics-based concern regarding deployment of social robots relying on deep learning AI and ask whether they may be endowed with ethical virtue, enabling us to speak of “virtuous robotic AI systems”. …”

Navigating the real world: a grounded theory-based exploration of autistic adolescents identity formation in Marcelo in the real world by Yang, Shuo, Mani, Manimangai, Omar, Noritah

“…By using the grounded theory and drawing on ideas from disability studies and social identity theory, the research demonstrates that parental guidance, encouragement and normal treatment of friends, and exposure to conflicts and contradictions are the most significant factors and can help autistic adolescents understand social life, improve social competence, and obtain power and control in social relations, promoting positive identity formation. …”
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Influence of socioeconomic activities on house form and settlement patterns among the Tiv people of central Nigeria by Aule, Thomas Terna, Abdul Majid, Roshida, Mohd. Jusan, Mahmud

“…More studies are required to reveal the sociocultural values of Nigerian Indigenous housing for sustainable development of their built environments and way of life.…”

A Single Period Deterministic Inventory Routing Model for Solving Problems in the Agriculture Industry by Muhammad Khodri Harahap, Afif Zuhri, Abdul Rahim, Mohd Kamarul Irwan

“…This research proposed an optimisation model to present the actual problem that happened in a real-life situation. The simulation of the transportation problem was developed using an algebraic modelling language which is called a mathematical programming language (AMPL) to determine an optimal solution. …”
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Anhydrous weight loss kinetics model development for torrefied green waste by Nur Ashikin, Jamin, Noor Asma Fazli, Abdul Samad, Suriyati, Saleh

“…GW were torrefied under inert condition at 240-300°C, 10°C/min heating rate and 30 minutes holding time using thermogravimetric analysis (TGA). …”
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Gender Differences in Real-Home Sleep of Young and Older Couples by Butt, Maryam, Quan, Stuart F., Pentland, Alex, Khayal, Inas

“…Measurements and results: In the young couples, total sleep time (395+66 vs. 367+54 min., p<0.05), sleep efficiency (97.0+3.0 vs. 91.1+7.9, p<0.001), and % REM (31.1+4.8 vs. 23.6+5.5, p<0.001) in males was higher than in females. …”
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Search for Subsolar-Mass Binaries in the First Half of Advanced LIGO’s and Advanced Virgo’s Third Observing Run by Sudhir, Vivishek

“…The upper limit on the fraction of dark matter black holes depends on the minimum mass of the black holes that can be formed: the most constraining result is obtained at $M_\mathrm{min}=1 M_\odot$, where $f_\mathrm{DBH} \equiv \Omega_\mathrm{PBH} / \Omega_\mathrm{DM} \lesssim 0.003\%$. …”
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0-1 Knapsack in Nearly Quadratic Time by Jin, Ce

“…Recent research interest has focused on its finegrained complexity with respect to the number of items 𝑛 and the maximum item weight 𝑤max. Under (min, +)-convolution hypothesis, 0-1 Knapsack does not have𝑂( (𝑛+𝑤max) 2−𝛿 ) time algorithms (Cygan-Mucha-Węgrzycki-Włodarczyk 2017 and Künnemann-PaturiSchneider 2017). …”
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Accelerated synthesis of Li(Ni0.8Co0.1Mn0.1)O2 cathode materials using flame-assisted spray pyrolysis and additives by Zhang, Jianan, Muldoon, Valerie L, Deng, Sili

“…As a result, with only 20 min of calcination at 875 °C and without any preheating and ramping steps, the NCM811 sample showed an ordered layered structure and comparable electrochemical performance to those with long-time calcination. …”
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Low divergence single-mode surface-emitting concentric-circular-grating terahertz quantum cascade lasers by Liang, Guozhen, Liang, Houkun, Zhang, Ying, Li, Lianhe, Davies, A. Giles, Linfield, Edmund, Yu, Siu Fung, Liu, Hui Chun, Wang, Qi Jie

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Identification of potential critical virulent sites based on hemagglutinin of influenza A virus in past pandemic strains by Yin, Rui, Fransiskus, Xaverius Ivan, Zheng, Jie, Zhou, Xinrui, Chow, Vincent T. K., Kwoh, Chee Keong

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Quadratic to linear magnetoresistance tuning in TmB 4 by Mitra, Sreemanta, Kang, Jeremy Goh Swee, Shin, John, Ng, Jin Quan, Sunku, Sai Swaroop, Kong, Tai, Canfield, Paul C., Shastry, B. Sriram, Sengupta, Pinaki, Panagopoulos, Christos

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Combining sonicated cold development and pulsed electrodeposition for high aspect ratio sub-10 nm gap gold dimers for sensing applications in the visible spectrum by Zhang, Dao Hua, Tobing, Landobasa Yosef Mario, Mueller, Aaron David

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Study of a 1 eV GaNAsSb photovoltaic cell grown on a silicon substrate by Tan, K. H., Loke, W. K., Wicaksono, S., Li, D., Leong, Y. R., Yoon, S. F., Sharma, P., Milakovich, T., Bulsara, M. T., Fitzgerald, E. A.

“…Both devices were in situ annealed at 700 °C for 5 min, and a significant performance improvement over our previous result was observed. …”
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