Should I cut my bangs? by Annabelle, Caitlin

“…I have struggled with chronic indecisiveness for a long time, as I find myself unable to form my own decisions without consulting someone for their opinion or advice. …”
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Achieving faster handovers in mobile WiMAX networks by Lu, Qi, Ma, Maode

“…In the handover process, scanning is required to find a suitable target BS, and network re-entry is needed to establish the new connection. …”
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The effect of inter-municipal cooperation on social assistance programs: evidence from housing allowances in England by Elston, T, Bel, G, Wang, H

“…Using coarsened exact matching and stacked difference-in-differences estimators, we find no evidence of short-term savings after cooperation, and only weak indications thereafter. …”

Can solar water kiosks generate sustainable revenue streams for rural water services? by Wagner, J, Merner, S, Innocenti, S, Geling, A, Hope, R

“…Average revenues increase four-fold indicating stronger financial performance with solar kiosks. In contrast, we find no significant increase in the volume of water people use when a handpump is upgraded to a solar kiosk. …”

Unveiling the importance of longer paths in quantum networks by Hu, X, Dong, G, Lambiotte, R, Christensen, K, Fan, J, Tian, Z, Havlin, S, Meng, X

“…This increased resilience is also evident in real-world hierarchical, scale-free Internet networks. Our findings highlight a critical principle for QN design: non-shortest paths contribute significantly to QN connectivity compared to classical percolation—as long as they are abundant.…”

Enviro-toons : what do parents think about it? by Goh, Jeannette

“…With children’s methods of learning growing increasingly dependent on media, it comes as no surprise that when academics needed to find out what children know about nature, they would turn to that outlet. …”
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Task allocation and scheduling for distributed job execution by Guan, Yitong

“…We extend conventional max-min fairness for resource allocation in a single machine or machine cluster to distributed job execution over multiple sites and define Aggregate Max-min Fairness (AMF) which requires the aggregate resource allocation across all sites to be max-min fair. …”
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Territorial movements of African lions: can waterholes shape multiple central-place territories in a savanna ecosystem? by Dejeante, R, Loveridge, A, Macdonald, D, Madlamoto, D, Chamaille-James, S, Valeix, M

“…However, we found that both female and male lions repeatedly moved along straight paths between the waterholes located both in the core and in the periphery of their territories, potentially to defend multiple central-place territories driven by the distribution of waterholes in the landscape. These findings illustrate a case where territorial animals specifically mark feeding sites, increasing the renewal of territorial cues at these key places, potentially using long-distance territorial cues (i.e., vocalizations) to mark uncovered areas, and thereby reducing the cost of patrolling large territories. …”

Designed formation of hollow particle-based nitrogen-doped carbon nanofibers for high-performance supercapacitors by Chen, Li-Feng, Lu, Yan, Yu, Le, Lou, Xiong Wen (David)

“…Owing to its unique structural feature and the desirable chemical composition, the derived HPCNFs-N material exhibits much enhanced electrochemical properties as an electrode material for supercapacitors with remarkable specific capacitance at various current densities, high energy/power density and long cycling stability over 10 000 cycles.…”
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Phase-matching and peak nonlinearity enhanced third-harmonic generation in graphene plasmonic coupler by Wu, Tingting, Luo, Yu, Maier, Stefan A., Wei, Lei

“…Doped graphene hosts electrically tunable plasmons with long lifetimes that interact strongly with light. …”
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Complete genome sequence of Acinetobacter indicus type strain SGAir0564 isolated from tropical air collected in Singapore by Vettath, Vineeth Kodengil, Junqueira, Ana Carolina M., Uchida, Akira, Purbojati, Rikky W., Houghton, James N. I., Chénard, Caroline, Drautz-Moses, Daniela I., Wong, Anthony, Kolundžija, Sandra, Clare, Megan E., Kushwaha, Kavita K., Panicker, Deepa, Putra, Alexander, Gaultier, Nicolas E., Heinle, Cassie E., Premkrishnan, Balakrishnan N. V., Schuster, Stephan C.

“…The complete genome is 3.1 Mb and was assembled using a combination of short and long reads. The genome contains 2,808 protein-coding genes, 80 tRNAs, and 21 rRNA subunits.…”
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B-spline tight frame based force matching method by Yang, Jianbin, Zhu, Guanhua, Tong, Dudu, Lu, Lanyuan, Shen, Zuowei

“…In molecular dynamics simulations, compared with popular all-atom force field approaches, coarse-grained (CG) methods are frequently used for the rapid investigations of long time- and length-scale processes in many important biological and soft matter studies. …”
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Particle free optical imaging of flow field by liquid crystal polarization by Huang, Yi, Shinoj, Vengalathunadakal K., Wong, TeckNeng, Matham, Murukeshan Vadakke

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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

“…One is an isotropic distribution of equal-mass primordial black holes. Using this model, we find that the fraction of dark matter in primordial black holes is $f_\mathrm{PBH} \equiv \Omega_\mathrm{PBH} / \Omega_\mathrm{DM} \lesssim 6\%$. …”
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Enhancing circular dichroism by super chiral hot spots from a chiral metasurface with apexes by Wang, Zeng, Teh, Bing Hong, Wang, Yue, Adamo, Giorgio, Teng, Jinghua, Sun, Handong

“…Manipulating light spin (or circular polarization) is an important research field and may find broad applications from sensors, display technology, to quantum computing and communication. …”
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Invisibility Dips of Near-Field Energy Transport in a Spoof Plasmonic Metadimer by Gao, Fei, Gao, Zhen, Luo, Yu, Zhang, Baile

“…These near-field “invisibility dips” may find use in near-field sensing, on-chip switching, filters, and logical operation elements.…”
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Coherently tunable triangular trefoil phaseonium metamaterial by Soci, Cesare, Nguyen, Duc Minh, Ooi, Raymond C. H.

“…For specific values of the probing frequencies and control fields, the phaseonium can display either metallic or dielectric optical response. We find that, in the metallic regime, the phaseonium metamaterial structure supports extremely large transmission, with optical amplification at large enough intensity of the microwave thanks to strong surface plasmon coupling; while, in the dielectric regime without microwave excitation, the transmission bandwidth can be tuned by varying the control beam intensity. …”
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Enantiomeric glycosylated cationic block co-beta-peptides eradicate Staphylococcus aureus biofilms and antibiotic-tolerant persisters by Zhang, Kaixi, Du, Yu, Si, Zhangyong, Liu, Yang, Turvey, Michelle E., Raju, Cheerlavancha, Keogh, Damien, Ruan, Lin, Jothy, Subramanion Lachumy, Reghu, Sheethal, Marimuthu, Kalisvar, De, Partha Pratim, Ng, Oon Tek, Mediavilla, José R., Kreiswirth, Barry N., Chi, Robin Yonggui, Ren, Jinghua, Tam, Kam C., Liu, Xue-Wei, Duan, Hongwei, Zhu, Yabin, Mu, Yuguang, Hammond, Paula T., Bazan, Guillermo C., Pethe, Kevin, Chan-Park, Mary Bee Eng

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Rapid-response water-shrink films with high output work density based on polyethylene oxide and α-cyclodextrin for autonomous wound closure by Yi, Junqi, Ren, Xueyang, Li, Yanzhen, Yuan, Yuehui, Tang, Wenjie, Wang, Xiaoshi, Yu, Jing, Yu, Shujin, Li, Wenlong, Wang, Jianwu, Loh, Xian Jun, Hu, Benhui, Chen, Xiaodong

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Target Design and Optimizations for Spent Fuel Transmutation by Tukharyan, Grigor

“…There are six long-lived fission products (LLFPs) identified in nuclear spent fuel, which account for at least 99% of the long-term radiotoxicity once actinide recycling is completed. …”
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