The stomatopod dactyl club : a formidable damage-tolerant biological hammer by Weaver, James C., Milliron, Garrett W., Mershon, William J., DiMasi, Elaine, Kisailus, David, Miserez, Ali, Evans-Lutterodt, Kenneth, Herrera, Steven, Gallana, Isaias, Swanson, Brook, Zavattieri, Pablo

“…The dactyl clubs from one species, Odontodactylus scyllarus, exhibit an impressive set of characteristics adapted for surviving high-velocity impacts on the heavily mineralized prey on which they feed. Consisting of a multiphase composite of oriented crystalline hydroxyapatite and amorphous calcium phosphate and carbonate, in conjunction with a highly expanded helicoidal organization of the fibrillar chitinous organic matrix, these structures display several effective lines of defense against catastrophic failure during repetitive high-energy loading events.…”
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Splatter image: ultra-fast single-view 3D reconstruction by Szymanowicz, S, Rupprecht, C, Vedaldi, A

“…We apply Gaussian Splatting to monocular reconstruction by learning a neural network that, at test time, performs reconstruction in a feed-forward manner, at 38 FPS. Our main innovation is the surprisingly straightforward design of this network, which, using 2D operators, maps the input image to one 3D Gaussian per pixel. …”

Interval elimination method for stochastic spanning tree problem by Mohd, Ismail

“…The optimum spanning tree problem has been well considered and until now several powerful algorithms have been proposed. …”
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Highlights from Faraday Discussion 172: Carbon in electrochemistry, Sheffield, UK, July 2014 by Dyatkin, B, Ash, PA, Sharma, S

“…Traditionally, Faraday Discussions have been very true to their name, focussing genuinely on healthy, in-depth, and fruitful discussions rather than just serving as a platform for one to one researcher interaction and collaboration. …”

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

“…Two different types of fabrication methods have been adopted, first is conventional molding and second is additive manufacturing also known as 3D printing. …”
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Effects of condensed tannin fractions from Leucaena leucocephala (LAM.) De wit hybrid on methane mitigation, rumen fermentation and diversity of methanogens, protozoa and bacteria... by Mookiah, Saminathan

“…The strong binding affinity of higher MWs CTs to proteins may be beneficial in reducing degradation of feed protein by rumen microbes, thus enhancing bypass protein in ruminants. …”
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A role for polyamine regulators in ESC self-renewal by Zhao, Tianyun, Goh, Kim Jee, Ng, Huck Hui, Vardy, Leah A.

“…We discuss how it could feed into regulation of ESC self-renewal and directed differentiation. …”
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Experimental investigation on ultrasonic vibrational drilling of carbon fiber reinforced polymer laminates by Chui, Yan Li.

“…Three customized drill bits namely Dagger, Reamer and Router are used to perform the hole drilling experiments with two different feed rates and two rotational drill speeds. The particular objective of the present work was to conduct drilling experiments of CFRP laminates to investigate the effects of ultrasonic vibrational drilling. …”
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New hope group : the growth of a Chinese giant. by Leow, Kar Gea., Lim, Nigel Cyril Wing Yeung., Yeo, Shao Wei.

“…From its humble beginnings as a lone farm producing chicken feed and breeding quails, New Hope Group built its agricultural empire through its well developed corporate strategy, business foresight, and financial prudence. …”
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Negative auto-regulation of myostatin expression is mediated by SMAD3 and microRNA-27 by Ge, XiaoJia, McFarlane, Craig, Vajjala, Anuradha, Arigela, Harikumar, Lokireddy, Sudarsanareddy, Bonala, Sabeera, Manickam, Ravikumar, Kambadur, Ravi, Sharma, Mridula

“…In fact, loss of Mstn has been shown to result in increased post-natal muscle growth through enhanced satellite cell functionality; while elevated levels of Mstn result in dramatic skeletal muscle wasting through a mechanism involving reduced protein synthesis and increased ubiquitin-mediated protein degradation. …”
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Sensorimotor control of Drosophila copulation by Herbert, MR

“…As with most sequences of motor action, mechanosensory inputs have long been thought to be important for the male to achieve and maintain this position,although until now we have understood very little about the function or properties ofthe sensory neurons involved.…”

Distributed execution of workflow by Khademi Hedayat, Maryam

“…The main reasons which led us to this selection are: (i) there is few existing work on partitioning workflow, specially as a means of accelerating workflow execution; (ii) several systems have been developed using three main enactment models (i.e., centralized, hierarchical, and distributed models), but most of them focus on centralized execution control while the existing hierarchical and distributed models still have problems such as high overhead in communication amongst the distributed parties; and (iii) data movement mechanisms are divided into: centralized, mediated, and peer-to-peer models. …”
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Selective sulfidation of metal compounds by Stinn, Caspar, Allanore, Antoine

“…Several simple process levers (gas partial pressure, gas flowrate, carbon addition) were demonstrated to selectively sulfidize a target metal from a mixed metal oxide feed. The physical and chemical differences between the sulfide and oxide compounds (e.g. density, magnetic susceptibility, surface chemistry) can then be exploited for vastly improved separation over liquid-liquid methods9. …”
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A high-dimensional, stochastic model for twin-screw granulation – part 1: model description by McGuire, Andrew D., Mosbach, Sebastian, Lee, Kok Foong, Reynolds, Gavin, Kraft, Markus

“…The predictive power of the model is assessed across a range of liquid-solid feed ratios through comparison with experimental particle size distributions. …”
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Post-treatment of anaerobic membrane bioreactor (AnMBR) effluent using activated carbon by Mai, Do Thi, Kunacheva, Chinagarn, Stuckey, David C.

“…Anaerobic membrane bioreactors (AnMBR) are very effective for wastewater treatment, however, with the antibiotic ciprofloxacin (CIP) (0-4.7 mg CIP/L) in the feed their performance decreases, the characteristics of the effluent changes, and further treatment is needed to recycle or discharge the treated effluent. …”
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Biovalorisation of brewer's spent grain (BSG) and sensory evaluation of BSG bread by Goh, Luo Lin

“…While the majority of BSG gets repurposed as animal feed, its usage unfortunately remains very limited. …”
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Autonomous navigation system by Au, Yi Xian

“…The objective that will be done in this research is that we will have to feed the multi-robot simulation to ORB-SLAM3 standalone. …”
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“Materials Science” Challenges in the Additive Manufacturing of Industrial Parts by Hascoet, Jean-Yves, Marya, Surendar, Marya, Manuel, Singh, Virendra

“…Additive Manufacturing (AM), somewhat like fusion welding, brings into play: (1) complex and interacting physical phenomena such as heat and mass transfer, phase changes (including melting, solidification, allotropic transformations and diffusion phenomena such as epitaxial growth, grain growth), (2) a number of process variables associated to the moving heat source (e.g., its power, power distribution, relative speed, size, all affecting energy density), its paths (e.g., linear, circular, oscillatory), and added metal feed rate via powder, wire, or ribbon, all controlling deposit dimensions, aspect-ratios, and properties, including defects. …”
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Rejection of pharmaceuticals by forward osmosis membranes by Jin, Xue, Shan, Junhong, Wang, Can, Wei, Jing, Tang, Chuyang Y.

“…The rejection behavior was related to membrane interfacial properties, physicochemical characteristics of the pharmaceutical molecules and feed solution pH. TFC polyamide membranes exhibited excellent overall performance, with high water flux, excellent pH stability and great rejection of all pharmaceuticals investigated (>94%). …”
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Upconversion nanoparticles-modified aptasensors for highly sensitive mycotoxin detection for food quality and safety by Bahari, H-R, Mousavi Khaneghah, A, Eş, I

“…Mycotoxins, highly toxic and carcinogenic secondary metabolites produced by certain fungi, pose significant health risks as they contaminate food and feed products globally. Current mycotoxin detection methods have limitations in real-time detection capabilities. …”