Contribution of the Hydration Force to Vesicle Adhesion on Titanium Oxide by Jackman, Joshua A., Zan, Goh Haw, Zhao, Zhilei, Cho, Nam-Joon

“…Herein, we investigated the influence of vesicle surface charge on vesicle adsorption onto titanium oxide and observed that electrostatic attraction is insufficient for vesicle rupture. Following this line of evidence, a continuum model based on the DLVO forces and a non-DLVO hydration force was applied to investigate the role of different interfacial forces in modulating the lipid–substrate interaction. …”
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Frequency-selective propagation of localized spoof surface plasmons in a graded plasmonic resonator chain by Gao, Zhen, Gao, Fei, Shastri, Kunal Krishnaraj, Zhang, Baile

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Romantic crushes promote variety-seeking behavior by Huang, Irene Xun, Dong, Ping

“…Five studies provide support for this hypothesis. In line with our control restoration account, the effect disappears when consumers’ sense of control is boosted via other means. …”
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Different modes of regulation govern miRNA expression levels in Drosophila melanogaster by Lim, Mandy Yu Theng

“…Here, Loqs function was investigated in the complete absence of maternal and zygotic contribution by using a cell line established from loqs-null fly embryos. Genome-wide analysis of pre-miRNA structures showed that Loqs enhances processing of sub-optimal substrates with unstable base-pairing at the dicing site. …”
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Characterization of the junction leakage of Ti-capped Ni-silicided junctions by Lee, Pooi See, Pey, Kin Leong, Toledo, N. G.

“…Ti-capped Ni-silicided devices rapid thermal annealed (RTA) at 400 °C exhibit high sheet resistances and suffer from narrow line effect, which leads to the suspicion that the total phase transformation of NiSi has not yet been achieved. …”
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Experimental investigation of nonlinear forces on a monopile offshore wind turbine foundation under directionally spread waves by Ding, H, Zhao, G, Tang, T, Taylor, PH, Adcock, TAA, Dai, S, Ning, D, Chen, L, Li, J, Wang, R, Zang, J

“…The clean separation of individual harmonics enables the estimation of contributions from each harmonic. Our findings are in line with previous research, showing that nonlinear loading can constitute up to 40% of the total under certain wave conditions. …”

Question-Led Innovation: public priorities for enhanced weathering research in Malaysia by Cox, E, Lim, R, Spence, E, Payne, M, Beerling, D, Pidgeon, N

“…We find that much of the current research on ERW is actually in-line with what our participants most wanted to know about, particularly regarding the rock resource and its sources. …”

Hyperbolic volume estimates via train tracks by De Capua, A

“…However, we can apply their line of proof only after some manipulation of the splitting sequence: a rearrangement, changing the order the elementary moves are performed in, so that the ones producing Dehn twists are brought together; and then an untwisting, which suppresses the majority of these latter moves to give a new sequence, which does not end with the same track as before, but does not include any portion that is almost stationary in the pants graph. …”

Disrupted working memory event-related network dynamics in multiple sclerosis by Rossi, C, Vidaurre, D, Costers, L, D’hooghe, MB, Akbarian, F, D’haeseleer, M, Woolrich, M, Nagels, G, Van Schependom, J

“…The activation of this network is amplified in patients treated with benzodiazepine, in line with the well-known benzodiazepine-induced beta enhancement. …”

Role of Interferon-stimulated gene 15 (ISG15) in replication fork progression and PARP inhibitor resistance in cancer by Seung, Y

“…A follow up investigation could explore the connection between PARP inhibitor resistance and R-loop regulation – for this purpose, a HeLa cell line with DOX-inducible FLAG-tagged RNAseH1 plasmid has been established.…”

Glorious autarky? Foreign resources and the British fiscal-military state, 1688-1815 by Graham, A

“…Easy access to these resources enabled ministers to retain a bare-bones military and naval establishments in peacetime and then, in wartime, to ‘surge’ the state by using off- the-shelf foreign military labour to hold the line while British forces were recruited. Relying upon cheap foreign money enabled the British state to hold down taxation and expensive borrowing. …”

Sustainable performance measurement through digital transformation within the sustainable development framework: the mediating effect of supply chain concentration by Sun, Le, Ong, Tze San, Teh, Boon Heng, Di Vaio, Assunta

“…By examining a sample of 3947 listed Chinese firms, this study's results highlight a noteworthy link between digital transformation and enhanced sustainable performance, assessed through the triple bottom line framework, thus helping to achieve sustainable development goals (SDGs), such as the eighth and ninth SDGs. …”

Trichostrongylus colubriformis extract upregulates TNF-α receptor expression and enhances TNF-α sensitivity of L929 cells by Riffkin, M.C., Seow, H.-F., Wood, P.R., Brown, L.E.

“…Results in the present paper demonstrate that soluble T. colubriformis factors promote proliferation of the TNF-susceptible mouse fibrosarcoma cell line L929, while inhibiting proliferation of all other cell types tested. …”
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Short-Term Shoreline Evolution Mapping by using UAV by Siddig, Mohammad lkhmal, Kaamin, Masiri, Daucla, Mohd Effendi, Mokhtar, Mardiha, Sabri, Muhamad Syamil, Ariffinm, Effi Helmy

“…The "Pix4D Capture" application has been programmed with the flight planning route, and the drone takes pictures along the entire grid line provided. The data on shoreline evolutions were processed using the Pix4d Mapper and Global Mapper tools. …”
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Determination of had kifayah zakat among pre-graduate students at Universiti Sains Islam Malaysia (USIM) by Ismail, Abdul Manan, Hasbullah, Mushaddad, Zakaria, Mohamad Zaharuddin, Salleh, Ahmad Zaki, Abdul Majid, Mohd. Nasir, Abdullah Thaidi, Hussein'Azeemi, Ab. Jalil, Mohd. Afiq, Rosman, Arieff Salleh, Khan, Aqeel

“…Through a survey that covers aspects of student spending and income, the average of spending method has been used as per agreed with all team members to determine the Had Kifayah, in line with the method used by the state Islamic religious council as a reference. …”

Oil palm smallholder's income and sustainable development goals (SDGs) achievement in Peninsular Malaysia by Applanaidu, Shri Devi, Abidin, Norhaslinda Zainal, Mustapha, Mukhtar, Abdullahi Baba, Mohammed, Joseph, Viandrito

“…The analysis showed that all the oil palm smallholders in Peninsular Malaysia have a daily average income far above the poverty line. Johor has the highest daily average income in Peninsular Malaysia, therefore, it is easy for the oil palm smallholders in Johor to achieve SDG 1, SDG 2, SDG 3, SDG 5 and SDG 8 faster than the rest of the oil palm smallholders in Pahang, Selangor and Kelantan with lower average daily incomes…”
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Engineering quantum control with optical transitions induced by twisted light fields by Zanon-Willette, Thomas, Impens, François, Arimondo, Ennio, Wilkowski, David, Taichenachev, Aleksei V., Yudin, Valeriy I.

“…These field gradients are manipulated by the mutual action of orbital and spin angular momentum of the light beam and are used in presence of tunable vector and tensor polarizabilities. …”
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Human Centered Computing : 66th International Conference, HCC 2020, Virtual Event, December 14-15, 2020 : Revised Selected Papers / by HCC (Conference : Human Centered Computing) (6th : 2020 : Online), organiser 642973, Zu, Qiaohong, editor 642970, Tang, Yong, editor 642971, Mladenović, Vladimir, editor 642972

Smart material based on magnetorheological elastomer and its 3D printing by Bastola, Anil K.

“…Two different patterned were considered in this study, namely, line-patterned and dot-patterned 3D printed MR elastomers (3DP-MREs), line-patterned samples were formed by continuous printing while dot-patterned samples were formed by discontinuous printing. …”
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Longitudinal assessment of antibiotic resistance gene profiles in gut microbiomes of infants at risk of eczema by Loo, Evelyn Xiu Ling, Zain, Amanda, Yap, Gaik Chin, Purbojati, Rikky Wenang, Drautz-Moses, Daniela Isabel, Koh, Yanqing Michelle, Chong, Yap Seng, Tan, Kok Hian, Gluckman, Peter D., Yap, Fabian, Eriksson, Johan Gunnar, Tham, Elizabeth, Shek, Lynette Pei-Chi, Kjelleberg, Staffan, Schuster, Stephan Christoph, Banerjee, Ritu, Lee, Bee Wah

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