Reliable environmental trace heavy metal analysis with potentiometric ion sensor - reality or a distant dreams by Lisak, Grzegorz

“…In short, it is now clear that solely lowering the detection limit of the ion-selective electrodes does not guarantee development of successful sensors that would meet the requirement of environmental matrices over long term usage. More pressing challenges of the properties and the performance of the potentiometric sensors must be addressed first before considering extending their sensitivity to low analyte concentrations. …”
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Exploring the limitations of osmotically assisted reverse osmosis: membrane fouling and the limiting flux by Peters, Christian D., Li, Dan, Mo, Zijing, Hankins, Nicholas P., She, Qianhong

“…Flux behavior in short-term operation was correlated to both the evolution of fouling and the change of internal concentration polarization. In long-term operation, membrane fouling constrained the OARO water flux to a singular, common upper limit, in terms of limiting flux, which was demonstrated to be independent of operating pressures and membrane properties. …”
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Comment on Balsamo et al.: Birt-Hogg-Dubé syndrome with simultaneous hyperplastic polyposis of the gastrointestinal tract: case report and review of the literature by van de Beek, Irma, van Steensel, Maurice A. M., Houweling, Arjan C.

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A cationic thorium-organic framework with triple single-crystal-to-single-crystal transformation peculiarities for ultrasensitive anion recognition by Li, Zi-Jian, Lei, Min, Bao, Hongliang, Ju, Yu, Lu, Huangjie, Li, Yongxin, Zhang, Zhi-Hui, Guo, Xiaofeng, Qian, Yuan, He, Ming-Yang, Wang, Jian-Qiang, Liu, Wei, Lin, Jian

“…Moreover, the single-crystal-to-single-crystal transition in NaIO3 solution can efficiently and selectively turn the ligand-based emission off, leading to the lowest limit of detection (0.107 μg kg-1) of iodate, one of the primary species of long-lived fission product 129I in aqueous medium, among all luminescent sensors.…”
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Bayesian neural network language modeling for speech recognition by Xue, Boyang, Hu, Shoukang, Xu, Junhao, Geng, Mengzhe, Liu, Xunying, Meng, Helen

“…State-of-the-art neural network language models (NNLMs) represented by long short term memory recurrent neural networks (LSTM-RNNs) and Transformers are becoming highly complex. …”
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Quantitative multi-image analysis in metals research by Demkowicz, M. J., Liu, M., McCue, I. D., Seita, Matteo, Stuckner, J., Xie, K.

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Beat the beam: an applied research study on sunscreen usage habits amongst young adults in Singapore by Yeo, Cassandra Jia Xi, Ow Yong, Gladys Xin Yi, Ho, Wen San, Galistan, Tessa Yu-Ting

“…We recruited a total of 200 participants for our pilot campaign, which was a two week-long Instagram health campaign using a 2 (organisation versus influencer) x 2 (absence versus presence of photoaging AR filter) between-subject factorial design. …”
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On-chain analysis and cryptocurrency price forecasting using on-chain metrics by Sharma, Akshat

“…However, due to the extremely volatile nature of cryptocurrencies with prices fluctuating rapidly and often unpredictably, any long-term forecasts resulted in inaccurate predictions. …”
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Impact of interannual and multidecadal trends on methane-climate feedbacks and sensitivity by Cheng, Chin-Hsien, Redfern, Simon Anthony Turner

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Piezoelectric fibers for flexible and wearable electronics by Qian, Shengtai, Wang, Xingbei, Yan, Wei

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HVS-inspired adversarial image generation with high perceptual quality by Xue, Yuan, Jin, Jian, Sun, Wen, Lin, Weisi

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Inferring origin-destination distribution of agent transfer in a complex network using deep gated recurrent units by Saw, Vee-Liem, Vismara, Luca, Suryadi, Yang, Bo, Johansson, Mikael, Chew, Lock Yue

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Acupuncture for post-stroke depression: a systematic review and network meta-analysis by Ching, Wai Lam, Li, Hui Juan, Guo, Jianwen, Yao, Liang, Chau, Janita, Lo, Suzanne, Yuen, Chun Sum, Ng, Bacon Fung Leung, Yu, Edwin Chau-Leung, Bian, Zhaoxiang, Lau, Alexander Y., Zhong, Linda Ld

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Dicke superradiance requires interactions beyond nearest neighbors by Mok, Wai-Keong, Asenjo-Garcia, Ana, Sum, Tze Chien, Kwek, Leong Chuan

“…The superradiant burst is most commonly observed in systems with long-range interactions between the emitters, although the minimal interaction range remains unknown. …”
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Longitudinal assessment of the choroidal vascularity index in eyes with branch retinal vein occlusion-associated cystoid macular edema by Pant, Praruj, Kundu, Anita, Rathinavelu, Jay K., Wei, Xin, Agrawal, Rupesh, Stinnett, Sandra S., Kim, Jane S., Thomas, Akshay S., Fekrat, Sharon

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Exploring the development of a firewall using Windows filtering platform by Pang, Willy Boon Tee.

“…With the ongoing competition, the real need of the consumer has long been forgotten. It is no longer what the home user needs, it has become what they can provide, raising the standards of firewall. …”
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Bolstering functionality in multilayer and bilayer WS₂ via focused laser micro-engraving by Chan, Si Min, Poh, Eng Tuan, Leong, Jin Feng, Goh, Johnson Kuan Eng, Sow, Chorng Haur

“…Laser thinning of multilayer transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) crystals has long been explored for its potential to produce localized domains of optically functional monolayers. …”
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Dynamical and statistical properties of anyons in fractional quantum hall effect by Ha, Quang Trung

“…For example, while the Laughlin state is the model state at filling factor n + 1/3 (where n is some integer), when the effective electron-electron interaction is more long-ranged, the quasiholes of a Gaffnian state may be excited and become the better degree of freedom to describe physics in the same filling factor. …”
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A mechanism-based theory of cellular and tissue plasticity by Sun, Fuqiang, Fang, Chao, Shao, Xueying, Gao, Huajian, Lin, Yuan

“…Our theory predicts that endocytic vesicles with a size around 1 to 2 µm will most likely be formed and a higher irreversible shortening of cell junctions could be achieved if a long stimulation is split into multiple short ones, all in quantitative agreement with experiments. …”
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Cation-conduction dominated hydrogels for durable zinc–iodine batteries by Yang, Jin-Lin, Xiao, Tuo, Xiao, Tao, Li, Jia, Yu, Zehua, Liu, Kang, Yang, Peihua, Fan, Hong Jin

“…This all-round electrolyte design renders zinc-iodine batteries with high reversibility, low self-discharge, and long lifespan.…”
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