Apologia pro Vita-Fabula Sua: Defending Narrativity and How We Make Sense of Our Lives by Chen, Melvin

“…I will demonstrate certain defects in the metaphysical arguments that anti-narrativists like Parfit and Strawson have made against what is essentially a semantic thesis about how we make sense of our lives. …”
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Elucidating the catalytic effect of metal ions in montmorillonite on thermal degradation of organic modifier by Zope, Indraneel Suhas, Dasari, Aravind, Camino, Giovanni

“…This work explores the effect of metal ions (MIs) like Mg2+, Al3+ and Fe3+ that are inherent to clay in altering the kinetics of degradation of organic modifier, hexadecyltrimethylammonium bromide (HDTMA-Br). …”
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Limited-view ultrasonic guided wave tomography using an adaptive regularization method by Rao, Jing, Ratassepp, Madis, Fan, Zheng

“…Recently, tomography techniques have been developed to quantitatively estimate the thickness map of plate-like structures based on the dispersion characteristics of guided waves. …”
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Multimode-pumped Raman amplification of a higher order mode in a large mode area fiber by Zhu, Sheng, Pidishety, Shankar, Feng, Yutong, Hong, Soonki, Demas, Jeff, Sidharthan, Raghuraman, Yoo, Seongwoo, Ramachandran, Siddharth, Srinivasan, Balaji, Nilsson, Johan

“…We report the first demonstration of Raman amplification in a fiber of a single Bessel-like higher order mode using a multimode pump source. …”
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High-Density 3D-Boron Nitride and 3D-Graphene for High-Performance Nano–Thermal Interface Material by Loeblein, Manuela, Tsang, Siu Hon, Pawlik, Matthieu, Phua, Eric Jian Rong, Yong, Han, Zhang, Xiao Wu, Gan, Chee Lip, Teo, Edwin Hang Tong

“…Compression studies on three-dimensional foam-like graphene and h-BN (3D-C and 3D-BN) revealed their high cross-plane thermal conductivity (62–86 W m–1 K–1) and excellent surface conformity, characteristics essential for thermal management needs. …”
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High wavenumber coherent structures in low re apg-boundary-layer transition flow—a numerical study by Lo, Edmond Yat-Man, Chen, Weijia

“…The tip part is associated with the later first ring-like vortex, while the rear part with the remainder of the Λ-vortex. …”
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Investigation on the non-uniform temperature distribution of large-diameter concrete silos under solar radiation by Zhao, Liang, Yang, Zhiyong, Wang, Lijie

“…After that, the FE model was extended and used for a parametrical study, and the influences induced by the factors like meteorological parameters, dimension of silos, and reference temperature on the temperature effects of the silo were investigated. …”
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Mechanisms of ciliary targeting: entering importins and Rabs by Lu, Lei, Madugula, Viswanadh

“…Primary cilium is a rod-like plasma membrane protrusion that plays important roles in sensing the cellular environment and initiating corresponding signaling pathways. …”
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Dengue Virus Non-Structural Protein 5 by El Sahili, Abbas, Lescar, Julien

“…Dengue virus also serves as a prototype for the study of other pathogenic flaviviruses that are emerging, like West Nile virus and Zika virus. Upon viral entry into the host cell and fusion of the viral lipid membrane with the endosomal membrane, the viral RNA is released and expressed as a polyprotein, that is then matured into three structural and seven non-structural (NS) proteins. …”
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Stress amplification effect of lung by Zhou, Hongyuan, Ma, Guowei

“…Under a blast or impact load, rapid movement of the thoracic wall generates stress in lung, a foam-like structure of high compressibility, which is different from general solids. …”
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Oxidation-etching preparation of MnO2 tubular nanostructures for high-performance supercapacitors by Zhu, Jixin, Shi, Wenhui, Xiao, Ni, Rui, Xianhong, Tan, Huiteng, Lu, Xuehong, Hng, Huey Hoon, Ma, Jan, Yan, Qingyu

“…The polycrystalline MnO2 nanotubes can be further converted to porous nanobelts and sponge-like nanowires by annealing in air. Among all the types of MnO2 nanostructures prepared, tubular MnO2 nanostructures composed of assembled nanosheets show optimized charge storage performance when tested as supercapacitor electrodes, for example, delivering an power density of 13.33 kW·kg–1 and a energy density of 21.1 Wh·kg–1 with a long cycling life over 3000 cycles, which is mainly related to their features of large specific surface area and optimized charge transfer pathway.…”
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What causes the low viscosity of ether-functionalized ionic liquids? Its dependence on the increase of free volume by Chen, Zhengjian, Xue, Tong, Lee, Jong-Min

“…To maximize this effect, the alkoxy groups were supposed to contain a rod-like alkyl tail and a short –CH2– spacer between the ether O atom and the cationic N atom, and be in an environment without hydrogen bond donors. …”
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Hole spin helix : anomalous spin diffusion in anisotropic strained hole quantum wells by Sacksteder, Vincent E., Bernevig, B. Andrei

“…In addition to the well-known cubic hole spin-orbit interaction, anisotropy causes a Dresselhaus-like term, and strain causes a Rashba term. We discover that strain can cause a shifting symmetry of the Fermi surfaces for spin up and down holes. …”
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Security challenges in automotive hardware/software architecture design by Sagstetter, Florian, Lukasiewycz, Martin, Steinhorst, Sebastian, Wolf, Marko, Bouard, Alexandre, Peyrin, Thomas, Poschmann, Axel, Chakraborty, Samarjit, Harris, William R., Jha, Somesh.

“…In particular, we discuss the challenges arising in electric vehicles, like the vulnerability to attacks involving tampering with the battery safety. …”
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Molecular characterization of Bacillus, lactic acid bacteria and yeast as potential probiotic isolated from fermented food by Cissé, Hama, Kagambèga, Boureima, Sawadogo, Adama, Tankoano, Abel, Sangaré, Gaston, Traoré, Yves, Ouoba, Irene, Savadogo, Aly

“…Our previous studies deal with the production of Bacteriocin-Like Inhibitory Substances by Bacillus from fermented food and quality of fermented milk consumed in Burkina Faso. …”
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Analysing the challenges in building resilient net zero carbon supply chains using influential network relationship mapping by K.E.K., Vimal, Kumar, Anil, Sunil, Siddharth Meledathu, Suresh, Gokul, Sanjeev, Navaneeth, Kandasamy, Jayakrishna

“…The challenges were investigated and ranked based on interrelations using procedures like Influential Network Relationship Mapping i.e., Decision Making Trial and Evaluation Laboratory (DEMATEL) and Level Partitioning by Total Interpretive Structural Modelling (TISM) is utilised to understand the cause-effect relationship among the challenges and to further identify the key influential challenges. …”
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AutoCoach: an automated playing eleven selection framework in cricket by Sharma, Pulkit, Hassan, Bilal, Wasiq, Muhammad Farooq

“…In our work, we tried to automate this process using machine learning models like Support Vector Regressor, Linear Regression Random Forest regressor etc. …”
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CricPredict: resource-aware prediction of T20 cricket match by Kumar, Ashish, Hassan, Bilal, Wasiq, Muhammad Farooq

“…Usually, the Duckworth–Lewis (D/L) method is used to decide the outcome of the match in Test and ODI cricket, resulting in favour of one team like completed matches. In contrast to the traditional D/L method, we tried to incorporate players' performance indicators into our proposed architecture despite the traditional D/L method which only includes the current state of the match and determines the outcome. …”
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PlayerRank: leveraging learning-to-rank AI for player positioning in cricket by Hassan, Bilal, Clough, Clare, Siddiqi, Yusra, Ali, Rao Faizan, Arshed, Muhammad Asad

“…Each position-specific model is trained to rank players based on their suitability for that position in the batting order, considering factors like performance metrics and specialization. The models are designed to increase impartiality and focus on player performance. …”
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Curvature sensing amphipathic helix in the C-terminus of RTNLB13 is conserved in all endoplasmic reticulum shaping reticulons in Arabidopsis thaliana by Brooks, Rhiannon L., Mistry, Chandni S., Dixon, Ann M.

“…We recently demonstrated that Reticulon-like protein B13 (RTNLB13) from Arabidopsis thaliana contains a curvature-responsive amphipathic helix (APH) important for the proteins’ ability to induce curvature in the ER membrane, but incapable of generating curvature by itself. …”
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