Ecosystem productivity has a stronger influence than soil age on surface soil carbon storage across global biomes by Plaza, César, García-Palacios, Pablo, Berhe, Asmeret Asefaw, Barquero, Jesús, Bastida, Felipe, Png, Kenny Guochen, Rey, Ana, Bardgett, Richard D., Delgado-Baquerizo, Manuel

“…Yet, variations in the proportions of free light (unprotected) and mineral-associated (protected) carbon as soil develops in contrasting ecosystems are poorly constrained. Here, we studied 16 long-term chronosequences from six continents and found that the ecosystem type is more important than soil age (centuries to millennia) in explaining the proportion of unprotected and mineral-associated carbon fractions in surface soils across global biomes. …”
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An evidence-based serious game app for public education on antibiotic use and resistance: randomized controlled trial by Huang, Zhilian, Ow, Jing Teng, Tang, Wern Ee, Chow, Angela

“…Future research should assess the effectiveness of interventions in facilitating long-term knowledge retention and long-lasting behavioral change.…”
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Thermal energy storage enhancement of latent heat thermal energy storage systems by Low, Zheng Hua

“…Results indicate that the longest fin with a downward angle of -15º yielded the best improvement in melt time. The study shows that long, downward tilted fins enhance PCM transient melting in a rectangular LHTES and the considerations that go along with these parameters. …”
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Studies of insulin transport across intestinal epithelium using nano-encapsulation for oral delivery by Zhang, Yiming

“…Conventional subcutaneous insulin injection has been the dominant treatment option for the diabetic patients due to its immediate glucose lowering effect. However, its long term application has generated a plethora of problems, relating to the complications and compliance issues. …”
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Distribution and risk factors of canine heart diseases and survey for owners treatment intention by Noordin, Norhidayah

“…Most dog owners (92.3%) were willing to seek treatment if their pet dogs were diagnosed, but the cost (39.5%) was a primary concern for long-term treatment. Attitude, subjective norms, and PBC were significant predictors of the intention to treat. …”
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Dna markers and mapping of quantitative trait loci for yield and bunch quality in Deli dura X Yangambi pisifera oil palm (Elaeis guineensis) population by Seng, Tzer Ying

“…However, further oil yield improvement by conventional breeding is increasingly limited by lengthy time and costs due to long reproductive cycles, large plant size and an evaluation period of 10-15 years. …”
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NMR structure and localization of the host defense antimicrobial peptide thanatin in zwitterionic dodecylphosphocholine micelle : implications in antimicrobial activity by Sinha, Sheetal, Ng, Wun Jern, Bhattacharjya, Surajit

“…Thanatin, an insect derived pathogen inducible 21-residue long antimicrobial peptide, demonstrates antimicrobial activity toward broad range of pathogens. …”
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Energy storage management for renewable energy systems by Feng, Xue

“…Ultracapacitors, with a high power capability, an ultra-fast response speed and a long cycle life are adopted and combined with the battery. …”
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Energy management control strategies for energy storage systems of hybrid electric vehicle: A review by Veerendra Babu, Arigela Sri Satya, Mohd Rusllim, Mohamed, Garcia Marquez, Fausto Pedro

“…Continuous efforts to preserve the environment and to reduce gaseous emissions due to the massive growth of urban economic development and heightened concerns over crude oil depletion have accelerated researchers to find long-term solutions, particularly in the transportation sector with the focus on powertrain electrification. …”
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Happiness and voting : evidence from four decades of elections in Europe by Ward, George(Scientist in business management)Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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A generalized solution to verify authorship and detect style change in multi-authored documents by Leekha, Rohan, Vandam, Courtland

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Activated Metals to Generate Heat for Biomedical Applications by Remlova, Eva, Feig, Vivian Rachel, Kang, Ziliang, Patel, Ashka, Ballinger, Ian, Ginzburg, Anna, Kuosmanen, Johannes, Fabian, Niora, Ishida, Keiko, Jenkins, Joshua, Hayward, Alison, Traverso, Giovanni

“…Delivering heat in vivo could enhance a wide range of biomedical therapeutic and diagnostic technologies, including long-term drug delivery devices and cancer treatments. …”
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A modified viscous flow law for natural glacier ice: Scaling from laboratories to ice sheets by Ranganathan, Meghana, Minchew, Brent

“…Our results yield a map of the dominant deformation mechanisms in the Antarctic Ice Sheet, showing that, contrary to long-standing assumptions, dislocation creep, characterized by a value of the stress exponent, likely dominates in all fast-flowing areas. …”
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To What Extent Do Alternative Energy Sources Displace Coal and Oil in Electricity Generation? A Mean-Group Panel Analysis by Liddle, Brantley

“…As such, our approach avoids/addresses several statistical issues common in long-macro panel analyses—heterogeneity, nonstationarity, and cross-sectional dependence—that have largely been ignored/unaddressed in previous displacement studies. …”
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Poroelastic microlattices for underwater wave focusing by Kim, Gunho, Portela, Carlos M., Celli, Paolo, Palermo, Antonio, Daraio, Chiara

“…When coupled with pressure waves in surrounding fluid, the dynamic behavior of microlattices in the long wavelength limit can be explained in the context of Biot’s theory of poroelasticity. …”
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Application of Koopman Operator Theory to Legged Locomotion by Terrones, Jasmine G.

“…Nonlinearities from complicated robot systems and harsh contact dynamics have long impeded the effectiveness of optimal control strategies for legged robots. …”
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Development of a Computational Tool for Simplifying Engineering Tradeoff Analysis for the Design of Cost-Optimized, Time-Variant, Electrodialysis Reversal Desalination Systems by Costello, Jeffrey

“…In place of explicit computation, this paper proposes a simplifying assumptions to simulate desalination power and production rate of a TEDR process without explicit computation, enabling rapid year-long simulation and system optimization. The output of the model is compared to experimental data from a pilot TEDR system and found to have good agreement between desalination power and production rate. …”
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Practical Exocompilation for Performance Engineers in User-Schedulable Languages by Qian, Kevin

“…We show that providing more control does not necessitate sacrificing automation, as long as the language is designed so that users can build their own automation. …”
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The Contract, the Contractor, and the Capitalization of American Building by Spencer, Chelsea Anne

“…This dissertation tells the story of how building became contracting in the United States during the long nineteenth century. Known to legal historians as the age of contract, the nineteenth century gave rise to a constellation of juridical and economic ideas that revolved around a vision of social relations modeled on market exchange and possessive individualism. …”
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Active Learning for Inference and Regeneration of Applications that Access Databases by Shen, Jiasi, Rinard, Martin

“…Because the technique works with only externally observable inputs, outputs, and database contents, it can infer the behavior of applications written in arbitrary languages using arbitrary coding styles (as long as the behavior of the application is expressible in the domain-specific language). …”
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