An evaluation framework for second-life EV/PHEV battery application in power systems by Chai, Songjian, Xu, Ning Zhou, Niu, Ming, Chan, Ka Wing, Chung, Chi Yung, Jiang, Hui, Sun, Yuxin

“…They show that battery usage and retirement criterion in its first life directly affect the performance in its second life application. …”
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Inhibiting liquid permeation into silicone rubber by superhydrophobic coating for prolonged service life by Liu, Shuming, Zhou, Ying, Zuo, Zhou, Liu, Shuqi, Wang, Qian, Chen, Zhong, Liang, Xidong

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The end of the “time of the streets”: temporality in the life course of a Russian ex-gangster by Stephenson, Svetlana, Safin, Rustem

“…We address the different times in Tsigan’s life – his childhood, youth and adulthood, his time on the streets, his decision to leave the gang and his reflexions and memories of his past as reconstructed through the narratives presented at two different points of his biography. …”
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Random walk models in the life sciences: including births, deaths and local interactions by Plank, M, Simpson, M, Baker, R

Life is uncertain: inherent variability exhibited by organisms, and at higher levels of biological organization by Bull, JW

“…Important practical implications arise if organisms can indeed be defined by an association with specific classes of inherent uncertainty: not least that isolating those signatures then provides a potential means for detecting life, for considering the forms that life could theoretically take, and for exploring the wider limits to how life might become distributed. …”

Proterozoic microfossils continue to provide new insights into the rise of complex eukaryotic life by Anderson, RP, Mughal, S, Wedlake, GO

Visualising human life in volumetric cities: city digital twins and other disasters by Rose, G

“…This paper examines how CDTs visibly coconstitute a number of digitally-mediated forms of human life, including its user and its human inhabitants. …”

Effects of "Thursdays at the Museum" at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts on the mental and physical health of older community dwellers : the art-health randomized clinical trial protocol by Beauchet, Olivier, Cooper-Brown, Liam, Hayashi, Yoko, Galery, Kevin, Vilcocq, Christine, Bastien, Thomas

“…Background: Recently, we demonstrated that the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts’ (MMFA) participatory art-based activity, known as “Thursdays at the Museum,” improved the well-being, quality of life, and physical health (i.e., frailty) of older community dwellers by using a pre-post intervention, single arm, prospective and longitudinal experimental design. …”
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Academic support as a ‘third space’: a team’s reflection on post-pandemic practice by Baldwin, Jon, Charles, Bonita, Davenport, Emma, Keefe, John, Mina, Debora

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Mixed-Deciduous Beam (Wood Awards 2023) by Fereday, George

Subjects: “…700 The arts; fine & decorative arts…”
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Staffordshire dogs and Modernism by Kelly, Jessica

Subjects: “…700 The arts; fine & decorative arts…”
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Enriching the methanol generation via CO2 photoconversion over the cockscomb-like fibrous silica copper by Mahadi, Bahari, Che Rozid, Mamat, Aishah, Abdul Jalil, Shing, Lo Sook, Nurul Sahida, Hassan, F. F.A., Aziz, Alhassan, Mansur, Mohd Ghazali, Mohd Nawawi, Kamarizan, Kidam, Herma Dina, Setiabudi

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Toward a crystal-clear view of the viral RNA sensing and response by RIG-I-like receptors by Luo, Dahai

“…The RIG-I-like receptors (RLRs)—RIG-I, MDA5, and LGP2—detect intracellular pathogenic RNA and elicit an antiviral immune response during viral infection. …”
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Persistent elevation of intrathecal pro-inflammatory cytokines leads to multiple sclerosis-like cortical demyelination and neurodegeneration by James, Rachel E., Schalks, Renee, Browne, Eleanor, Eleftheriadou, Ioanna, Munoz, Carmen Picon, Mazarakis, Nicholas D., Reynolds, Richard

“…Here we tested the hypothesis that persistent production of these cytokines in the meningeal compartment and diffusion into underlying GM can drive chronic MS-like GM pathology. Lentiviral transfer vectors were injected into the sagittal sulcus of DA rats to deliver continuous expression of TNF + IFNγ transgenes in the meninges and the resulting neuropathology analysed after 1 and 2 months. …”
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Chrysanthemum-like Au@Polydopamine synthesized using one-pot method and its advantage in immunochromatographic assay by Zhang, Gang-gang, Lai, Xiao-cui, Ding, Neng-shui, Xiong, Qirong, Hou, Shuai, Duan, Hongwei, Lai, Wei-hua

“…Flower-like gold nanoparticle (AuNF) is widely used as a probe. …”
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Functional characterization of plasmodium falciparum reticulocyte binding like protein homologue 1 (PfRH1) by Yap, Sally Shu Lin

“…One of the protein families involved in invasion, reticulocyte binding like protein homologues (PfRHs) has been suggested to be involved in host cell selection. …”
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Genes for carnivory : a comparative study on the local duplication of papain-like cysteine proteases in carnivorous plants by Tan, Qiao Wen

“…Thus, the presence of protein degrading enzymes such as papain-like cysteine proteases (PLCPs) in trap fluids is not surprising. …”
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Bio-inspired Flow Sensing and Prediction for Fish-like Undulating Locomotion: A CFD-aided Approach by Zhou, Han, Hu, Tianjiang, Low, Kin Huat, Shen, Lincheng, Ma, Zhaowei, Wang, Guangming, Xu, Haijun

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Functional comparison of human Adenomatous Polyposis Coli (APC) and APC-like in targeting beta-catenin for degradation by Schneikert, Jean, Chandra, Shree Harsha Vijaya, Ruppert, Jan Gustav, Ray, Suparna, Wenzel, Eva Maria, Behrens, Jürgen

“…Using RNA interference and domain swapping experiments, we show that APCL benefits from the 15R of truncated APC to target β-catenin for degradation, in a process likely involving heterodimerization of the two partners. …”
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Local rainfall is more likely than distant thunderstorms to affect movement behaviour in Northern Kenyan elephants by Mulder, T, Mortimer, B, Ferwerda, J, Vollrath, F

“…We conclude that climate change makes a strong case for studying elephant behaviours in response to environmental cues during the day and night, especially in dry-land study sites like Northern Kenya.…”