Fullwave modeling of coplanar-waveguide discontinuities for applications in filter design and metamaterial characterization by Gao, Jing

“…In this way, several commercial MoM simulators have been explored in the recent years for direct simulation and optimization of a large number of CPW circuit blocks with complicated configurations. …”
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Catalysis and regulation of cyclic dinucleotide specific phosphodiesterases by Rao, Feng

“…In recent years, cyclic-di-GMP (c-di-GMP) has been firmly established as a major bacterial second messenger; whereas the structurally similar c-di-AMP has also emerged as another previously hidden messenger in prokaryotes. …”
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Competitive spreading of multiple ideas in multiplex networks by Luo, Jingyuan

“…Opinion dynamics is one of the interesting thesises in recent years. Competition of multiple ideas in multiplex networks also aroused people’s interest. …”
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A Review on the Use of Robots in Education and Young Children by Toh, Lai Poh Emily, Causo, Albert, Tzuo, Pei-Wen, Chen, I-Ming, Yeo, Song Huat

“…The paper synthesizes the findings of research studies carried out in the last ten years and looks at the influence of robots on children and education. …”
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Towards high efficiency thin film solar cells by Han, Guifang, Zhang, Sam, Boix, Pablo P., Wong, Lydia Helena, Sun, Lidong, Lien, Shui-Yang

“…Though the fight to gain efficiency has been severely engaged over the years, the battle is not yet over. In this review, we comb the fields to elucidate the strategies towards high efficiency thin films solar cells and provide pointers for further development. …”
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Possible mechanisms of control of Fusarium wilt of cut chrysanthemum by Phanerochaete chrysosporium in continuous cropping fields : a case study by Li, Ping, Chen, Jingchao, Li, Yi, Zhang, Kun, Wang, Hailei

“…In this study, Phanerochaete chrysosporium was inoculated into the field in which cut chrysanthemum had already been continuously cropped for five years to control wilt disease. After 120 days of cultivation, the addition of P. chrysosporium significantly improved the physiological status of plants and changed the bacterial and fungal community structure in the soil. …”
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ANRIL promoter DNA methylation : a perinatal marker for later adiposity by Lillycrop, Karen, Murray, Robert, Cheong, Clara, Teh, Ai Ling, Clarke-Harris, Rebecca, Barton, Sheila, Costello, Paula, Garratt, Emma, Cook, Eloise, Titcombe, Philip, Shunmuganathan, Bhuvaneshwari, Liew, Samantha J., Chua, Yong-Cai, Lin, Xinyi, Wu, Yonghui, Burdge, Graham C., Cooper, Cyrus, Inskip, Hazel M., Karnani, Neerja, Hopkins, James C., Childs, Caroline E., Chavez, Carolina Paras, Calder, Philip C., Yap, Fabian, Lee, Yung Seng, Chong, Yap Seng, Melton, Philip E., Beilin, Lawrie, Huang, Rae-Chi, Gluckman, Peter D., Harvey, Nick, Hanson, Mark A., Holbrook, Joanna D., Godfrey, Keith M.

“…We identified a novel association between the level of CpG methylation at birth within the promoter of the long non-coding RNA ANRIL (encoded at CDKN2A) and childhood adiposity at age 6-years. An association between ANRIL methylation and adiposity was also observed in three additional populations; in birth tissues from ethnically diverse neonates, in peripheral blood from adolescents, and in adipose tissue from adults. …”
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Signatures of a time-reversal symmetric Weyl semimetal with only four Weyl points by Belopolski, Ilya, Yu, Peng, Sanchez, Daniel S., Ishida, Yukiaki, Chang, Tay-Rong, Zhang, Songtian S., Xu, Su-Yang, Zheng, Hao, Chang, Guoqing, Bian, Guang, Jeng, Horng-Tay, Kondo, Takeshi, Lin, Hsin, Liu, Zheng, Shin, Shik, Hasan, M. Zahid

“…Through intense research on Weyl semimetals during the past few years, we have come to appreciate that typical Weyl semimetals host many Weyl points. …”
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Indonesia's direct local elections : background and institutional framework by Choi, Nankyung

“…Despite the historical meaning of such elections, experiences of holding direct local elections over the last two years suggest that systemic issues related to the elections' institutional framework have tarnished the electoral processes and outcomes in many cases. …”
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Mitigating the impact of node mobility using mobile backbone for heterogeneous MANETs by Xia, Yang, Yeo, Chai Kiat

“…Routing in Mobile Ad hoc Network (MANET) has been an active research area in the past few years. It is observed that as the mobility of nodes increases, the performance of existing cluster based routing protocols tends to deteriorate rapidly. …”
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Performance comparisons between lightpath and light-tree schemes in dynamic multicast traffic grooming process by Yu, Xiaojun, Xiao, Gaoxi, Cheng, Tee Hiang

“…To support multicast applications while improving wavelength capacity utilization in wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) networks, dynamic multicast traffic grooming problem has been extensively studied in recent years, and various algorithms using either lightpath or light-tree schemes have been proposed. …”
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The Japanese economy in crises : a time series segmentation study by Cheong, Siew Ann, Fornia, Robert Paulo, Lee, Gladys Hui Ting, Kok, Jun Liang, Yim, Woei Shyr, Xu, Danny Yuan, Zhang, Yiting

“…Of these, the second and main stage affecting 21 industries lasted only 27 days, in contrast to the two-and-a-half-years across-the-board recovery from the 1997–2003 financial crisis. …”
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Chemical analyses and therapeutic properties of plant extracts by Opara, Elizabeth, White, Kenneth, Uvere, Peter Orji

“…It has been almost 20 years since the World Health Organization (WHO) established the International Regulatory Co-operation for Herbal Medicines (IRCH), as part of a WHO Traditional Medicine Strategy. …”
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Artificial Intelligence as an enabler of quick and effective production repurposing manufacturing: an exploratory review and future research propositions by Naz, Farheen, Kumar, Anil, Agrawal, Rohit, Garza-Reyes, Jose Arturo, Majumdar, Abhijit, Chokshi, Hemakshi

“…The findings of the study showed that there is a vast scope for research in this area as the yearly global production of articles in this field is limited. …”
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TeachText: CrossModal text-video retrieval through generalized distillation by Croitoru, I, Bogolin, S-V, Leordeanu, M, Jin, H, Zisserman, A, Liu, Y, Albanie, S

“…In recent years, considerable progress on the task of text-video retrieval has been achieved by leveraging large-scale pretraining on visual and audio datasets to construct powerful video encoders. …”

Treating the symptoms or the disease? Analysing the UK Online Safety Act's approach to digital regulation by Nash, V, Felton, L

“…In recent years, the pace of Internet regulation around the world has quickened, with states increasingly confident that they can and should hold major platform companies to account. …”

Death and the doctor: the museum as a tool for understanding the needs of the dying by Harris, J, Moyse, A, Hadley, G, Frampton, S, Dempsey, A, Hordern, J, Saunders, K, Lane, R, De Luca, G

“…Over the past several years, the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford has been part of a multi- disciplinary team examining the question of how we train medical students to deal with those parts of their profession which are concerned primarily with the humanity of their patients. …”

The 'Clisurean' finds from Climente II cave, Iron Gates, Romania by Bonsall, C, Boroneanţ, A, Evatt, A, Soficaru, A, Nica, C, Bartosiewicz, L, Cook, G, Higham, TFG, Pickard, C

“…Osteological analysis of the human remains confirms at least three individuals: a robust, young adult male aged between 18 and 28 years, a second (older) adult, and a neonate. Single-entity 14C dating of human bone and humanly modified animal bones suggests the Clisurean occupation occurred during the Bølling–Allerød warm period. …”

Predicting graft and patient outcomes following kidney transplantation using interpretable machine learning models by Salaun, A, Knight, S, Wingfield, L, Zhu, T

“…This project uses interpretable methods to predict both graft failure and patient death using data from previously accepted kidney transplant offers. Using more than 25 years of transplant outcome data, we train and compare several survival analysis models in single risk settings. …”

The Svanbergfjellet Formation: Eukaryotic life in a Tonian sea by Mughal, S, Millikin, AEG, Zhang, T, Gibson, TM, Rooney, AD, Tosca, NJ, Bergmann, KD, Strauss, JV, Anderson, RP

“…<p>Exceptionally preserved organic-walled microfossils of the Svanbergfjellet Formation, Svalbard document the diversity of eukaryotes in a Tonian (1,000–720 million years ago) shallow sea. We review this fossil Lagerstätte and re-sample it at the highest stratigraphic resolution to date. …”