MHD flow of dusty jeffrey fluid flow containing Carbon Nano Tubes (CNTs) under Influences of Viscous Dissipation and Newtonian heating by Nor Aini Naili Noor, Habib, Nur Syamilah, Arifin, Syazwani, Mohd Zokri, Abdul Rahman, Mohd Kasim

“…Then, the numerical results are produced by using the Runge-Kutta-Fehlberg (RKF45) approach with the aid of the MAPLE software. The findings include the visual illustrations of the impacts on the velocity and temperature profiles for several pertinent parameters. …”
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Sustainable copper extraction from printed circuit boards through urban mining: Evaluating environmental impact assessment by Nur Layli, Wirman, Kousalya, Subramaniam, Punitha Malar, Ravi, Fatin Zafirah, Mansur, Noor Intan Shafinas, Muhammad

“…Furthermore, the comprehensive environmental assessment demonstrated that green electrolysis used in the extraction process imposes significantly less impact compared to conventional mining practices across various environmental aspects, including Global Warming Potential (GWP), acidification, eutrophication, ozone depletion air, ecotoxicity, human health particulate air, human toxicity (cancer and non-cancer), and the consumption of fossil fuels and smog air. These findings highlight the importance of adopting environmentally friendly approaches, such as green electrolysis, to retrieve valuable resources like copper.…”
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Fiber from coconut as smart materials in road construction by Wan Noor Hin, Mior Sani, Asnif Hakimi, Azman, Jusma, Jaafar, Indra Mawardi, ., Norhidayah, Abdul Hassan, Mohd Hazree, Hashim

“…Abrasion loss analysis indicated that lower fiber percentages (0.50%) enhanced wear resistance, while higher contents (1%) improved structural integrity but increased susceptibility to wear. The findings highlight that 1% coconut fiber content provides the best balance between mechanical strength and durability, offering a promising approach for enhancing bitumen performance in sustainable road construction. …”
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Microscopic dynamics underlying the stress relaxation of arrested soft materials by Song, Jake, Zhang, Qingteng, de Quesada, Felipe, Rizvi, Mehedi H., Tracy, Joseph B., Ilavsky, Jan, Narayanan, Suresh, Del Gado, Emanuela, Leheny, Robert L., Holten-Andersen, Niels, McKinley, Gareth H.

“…We also show that perturbing the system via small mechanical deformations can result in large intermittent fluctuations in the form of avalanches, which give rise to a broad non-Gaussian spectrum of relaxation modes at short times that is observed in stress relaxation measurements. These findings suggest that the linear viscoelastic stress relaxation in arrested soft materials may be governed by nonlinear phenomena involving an interplay of internal stress relaxations and perturbation-induced intermittent avalanches.…”
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The compound risk of heat and COVID-19 in New York City: riskscapes, physical and social factors, and interventions by Knox-Hayes, Janelle, Osorio, Juan Camilo, Stamler, Natasha, Dombrov, Maria, Winer, Rose, Smith, Mary Hannah, Blake, Reginald A, Rosenzweig, Cynthia

“…We use these data to create a compound risk index combining heat, COVID-19, density and social vulnerability. Our findings demonstrate that the compound risk of COVID-19 and heat are public health and equity challenges. …”
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The Semantic Reader Project: Augmenting Scholarly Documents through AI-Powered Interactive Reading Interfaces by Lo, Kyle, Chang, Joseph, Head, Andrew, Bragg, Jonathan, Zhang, Amy, Trier, Cassidy, Anastasiades, Chloe, August, Tal, Authur, Russell, Bragg, Danielle, Bransom, Erin, Cachola, Isabel, Candra, Stefan, Chandrasekhar, Yoganand, Chen, Yen-Sung, Cheng, Evie, Chou, Yvonne, Downey, Doug, Evans, Rob, Fok, Raymond

“…In contrast to the process of finding papers, which has been transformed by Internet technology, the experience of reading research papers has changed little in decades. …”
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Engineering synthetic and recombinant human lysosomal β-glucocerebrosidase for enzyme replacement therapy for Gaucher disease by Figueiredo, Lílian L. S., Junior, Wilson L., da Silva Goncalves, Victor W., Ramos, Ester S., D’Almeida, Vania, de Souza, Lucas E. B., Orellana, Maristela D., Abraham, Kuruvilla J., Lichtenstein, Flávio, Bleicher, Lucas

“…Further studies are needed to assess its functionality in a GD animal model. Altogether, our findings provide in vitro evidence of the potential of this engineered enzyme for improved therapeutic effects for GD.…”
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Model-independent search for pair production of new bosons decaying into muons in proton-proton collisions a √s = 13 TeV by Hayrapetyan, A., Tumasyan, A., Adam, W., Andrejkovic, J. W., Bergauer, T., Chatterjee, S., Damanakis, K., Dragicevic, M., Hussain, P. S., Jeitler, M., Krammer, N., Li, A., Liko, D., Mikulec, I., Schieck, J., Schöfbeck, R., Schwarz, D., Sonawane, M., The CMS collaboration

“…Results are presented in terms of a model-independent upper limit on the product of cross section, branching fraction, and acceptance. The findings are interpreted across various benchmark models, such as an axion-like particle model, a vector portal model, the next-to-minimal supersymmetric standard model, and a dark supersymmetric scenario, including those predicting a non-negligible proper decay length of the new boson. …”
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Chemical dispersant enhances microbial exopolymer (EPS) production and formation of marine oil/dispersant snow in surface waters of the subarctic northeast Atlantic by Suja, Laura Duran, Chen, Xindi, Summers, Stephen, Paterson, David M., Gutierrez, Tony

“…Using barcoded-amplicon Illumina MiSeq sequencing, we analyzed, for the first time, the bacterial communities associated with MDS and report that their diversity is not significantly dissimilar to those associated with MOS aggregates. Our findings emphasize the need to conduct further work on the effects of dispersants when applied to oil spills at sea, particularly at different sites, and to determine how the product of this (i.e. …”
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Chromatin laser imaging reveals abnormal nuclear changes for early cancer detection by Chen, Yu-Cheng, Chen, Qiushu, Tan, Xiaotain, Chen, Grace, Bergin, Ingrid, Muhammad Nadeem Aslam, Fan, Xudong

“…The low lasing threshold is, in fact, very similar to that of adenomas and is caused by abnormal cell proliferation and chromatin deregulation that can potentially lead to cancer. Our findings suggest that conventional detection methods, such as colonoscopy followed by histopathology, by itself, may be insufficient to reveal hidden or early tumors under development. …”
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The hollow fiber bioreactor as a stroma-supported, serum-free ex vivo expansion platform for human umbilical cord blood cells by Xue, Cao, Kwek, Kenneth Y. C., Chan, Jerry Kok Yen, Chen, Qingfeng, Lim, Mayasari

“…Scanning electron microscopy revealed that stroma cell growth inside the HFBR created a three-dimensional cell matrix architecture. These findings demonstrate the feasibility of utilizing the HFBR for creating a complex cell matrix architecture, which may provide good in vitro mimicry of the bone marrow, supporting large-scale expansion of HSCs.…”
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Helicobacter pylori infection can affect energy modulating hormones and body weight in germ free mice by Loke, Mun Fai, Vadivelu, Jamuna, Tan, Tuan Lin, Wong, Whye Yen, Khosravi, Yalda, Seow, Shih Wee, Amoyo, Arlaine Anne, Chiow, Kher Hsin, Poh, Qian Hui, Sentosa, Ignatius Mario Doli, Bunte, Ralph M., Pettersson, Sven

“…However, in contrast to SPFH mice, GFH showed reduced weight gain and malnutrition. These preliminary findings show that exposure to H. pylori alters host metabolism early in life; but the commensal microbiota in SPF mice can attenuate the growth retarding effect from H. pylori observed in GF mice. …”
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Singles' reasons for being single : empirical evidence from an evolutionary perspective by Apostolou, Menelaos, O, Jiaqing, Esposito, Gianluca

“…Younger people were more likely to indicate that they were single because they had poor flirting skills, because they did not see themselves as desirable mates, and because they did not like commitment; whereas older people were more likely to indicate that they were single in order to be free to do what they have wanted. Findings were examined and discussed using evolutionary theories relating to mate selection and evolutionary mismatch.…”
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Design rationale for stimuli-responsive, semi-interpenetrating polymer network hydrogels–a quantitative approach by Gupta, Nupur, Liang, Yen Nan, Lim, Jacob Song Kiat, Hu, Xiao

“…Surprisingly, there is no obvious influence of crosslinking density of PNIPAM network toward PSA retention, while faster swelling and deswelling at higher crosslinking density are observed in terms of swelling rate constant and deswelling activation energy. These findings offer new insights on the factors affecting structural and physicochemical properties of such semi‐IPN hydrogels, which should in turn serve as a general guideline for materials design.…”
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Parental speech to typical and atypical populations: a study on linguistic partial repetition by Onnis, Luca, Esposito, Gianluca, Venuti, Paola, Edelman, Shimon

“…Because partial repetitions decrease with chronological age of the child in typical groups, and the atypical children were older than the TD group, our findings suggest compensating modes of communication in parental speech to atypical populations, especially the ASD group. …”
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Controllable broadband multicolour single-mode polarized laser in a dye-assembled homoepitaxial MOF microcrystal by He, Huajun, Cui, Yuanjing, Li, Hongjun, Shao, Kai, Chen, Banglin, Qian, Guodong

“…Furthermore, the resulting three-colour single-mode lasing possesses the largest wavelength coverage of ~186 nm (ranging from ~534 to ~720 nm) ever reported. These findings may open a new route to the exploitation of multicolour single-mode micro/nanolasers constructed by MOF engineering for photonic and biochemical applications.…”
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Altmetrics : factor analysis for assessing the popularity of research articles on Twitter by Pandian, Nandhini Devi Soundara, Veeramachaneni, Bhargavi, Na, Jin-Cheon, Boothaladinni, Rashmi Vishwanath

“…Then we build a negative binomial regression model with the number of Twitter mentions of an article as a dependant variable, and nine Twitter related factors (the number of followers, number of friends, number of status, number of lists, number of favourites, number of retweets, number of likes, ratio of academic users, and ratio of expert users) and seven article related factors (the number of authors, title length, abstract length, abstract readability, number of institutions, citation count, and availability of research funding) as independent variables. From our findings, if a research article is mentioned by Twitter users with a greater number of friends, status, favourites, and lists, by tweets with a large number of retweets and likes, and largely by Twitter users with academic and expertise knowledge on the field of psychology, the article gains more Twitter mentions. …”
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Adhesive properties of adsorbed layers of two recombinant mussel foot proteins with different levels of DOPA and tyrosine by Bilotto, Pierluigi, Labate, Cristina, De Santo, Maria P., Deepankumar, Kanagavel, Miserez, Ali, Zappone, Bruno

“…While DOPA produced a stronger adhesion than tyrosine in contact with the nanoscopic Si3N4 probe of the atomic force microscope, the two variants produced comparable adhesion on the curved macroscopic mica surfaces of the surface forces apparatus. These findings show that the presence of DOPA is not a sufficient condition to generate strong underwater adhesion. …”
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Room-temperature continuous-wave vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers based on 2D layered organic–inorganic hybrid perovskites by Zhang, Hongbo, Hu, Yuzhong, Wen, Wen, Du, Bowen, Wu, Lishu, Chen, Yu, Feng, Shun, Zou, Chenji, Shang, Jingzhi, Fan, Hong Jin, Yu, Ting

“…We used the exfoliated (PEA)2PbI4 thin flake as the gain medium to construct a vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser (VCSEL), showing robust single-mode CW lasing operation with an ultra-low threshold of 5.7 W cm−2 at room temperature, attributed to strong optical confinement in the high-Q cavity. Our findings provide a strategy to design and fabricate solution-based 2D perovskite VCSELs and mark a significant step toward the next-generation of coherent light sources.…”
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Mxene titanium carbide-based biosensor : strong dependence of exfoliation method on performance by Chia, Hui Ling, Mayorga-Martinez, Carmen C., Antonatos, Nikolas, Sofer, Zdeněk, Gonzalez-Julian, Jesus J., Webster, Richard David, Pumera, Martin

“…Chronoamperometric studies demonstrate that the proposed biosensing system exhibits high selectivity and excellent electrocatalytic activity toward the detection of glucose, spanning over wide linear ranges of 50-27 750 μM and possess a low limit of detection of 23.0 μM. The findings reported in this study conceptually proves the probable applications of pristine MXenes toward the field of biosensors and pave ways for the future developments of highly selective and sensitive electrochemical biosensors for biomedical and food sampling applications.…”
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