Nearbyou: a crowdsourced app for finding the best places for peace and quiet by Muhammad Zufiqqar Bin Jamal

“…It helps relieve stress, restores mental wellness, and improves cognition. However, it may be challenging to find a place to relax and meditate especially in urbanized and urbanizing areas. …”
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Yeast-laden Hydrogel Capsules for Scalable Trace Lead Removal from Water by Gokhale, Devashish, Stathatou, Patritsia M., Athanasioud, Christos E., Doyle

“…Here, we scale up a yeast-based treatment process without requiring additional separation steps. Yeast cells are confined within hydrogel capsules that are sufficiently large for easy separation from water by gravitational settling, and sufficiently porous not to limit adsorption capacity and kinetics. …”
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Optical Properties of Colloidal II-VI and III-V Semiconductor Nanocrystals: Single Nanocrystal Photon Correlation Spectroscopy by Berkinsky, David

“…Colloidal NCs are used in many applications including light-emitting diodes (LEDs), photovoltaics (solar cells), lasers, transistors, photocatalysis, and many more. …”
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Location, Location, Substation? How Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS) Can Create Value in Unexpected Places by Schutt, Neal

“…Federal and state incentives and a recent sharp decline in the cost of battery cells have made BESS development economically viable. …”
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A model for cis-regulation of transcriptional condensates and gene expression by proximal lncRNAs by Natarajan, Pradeep, Shrinivas, Krishna, Chakraborty, Arup K

“…Long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) perform several important functions in cells including cis-regulation of transcription. …”
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Quantitative analysis of 10 classes of phospholipids by ultrahigh-performance liquid chromatography tandem triple-quadrupole mass spectrometry by Huang, Qingxia, Lei, Hehua, Dong, Manyuan, Tang, Huiru, Wang, Yulan

“…The method developed was applied to analyze 6 different biological samples (plasma, cells and tissues) for applicability validation, where a total of 308 phospholipid species across 10 phospholipid classes were identified and 295 phospholipid species were quantified. …”
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Complex coacervates loaded with nano enzymes as microreactor by Ng, Si Yi

“…These nanoparticles are able to penetrate tissues and target specific cells due to their small size in nature and reduce potential side effects, improving the overall treatment efficacy. …”
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Preparation of C3N4-based photocatalyst for environmental application by Lim, Ee Huai

“…This could be attributed to the high biocompatibility of CuS nanoparticle which resulted in the low toxicity towards bacteria cells.…”
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Key transcriptional regulators of neutrophil function in inflammation by Ai, Z

“…<p>Neutrophils are important effector cells in innate immunity, possessing a wide range of effector functions, including reactive oxygen species (ROS) production, phagocytosis and chemotaxis. …”

First-in-man study of the PSMA Minibody IR800-IAB2M for molecularly targeted intraoperative fluorescence guidance during radical prostatectomy by Hamdy, FC, Lamb, AD, Tullis, IDC, Verrill, C, Rombach, I, Rao, SR, Colling, R, Barber, PR, Volpi, D, Barbera-Martin, L, Lopez, JF, Omer, A, Hewitt, A, Lovell, S, Niederer, J, Lambert, A, Snoeck, J, Thomson, C, Leslie, T, Bryant, RJ, Mascioni, A, Jia, F, Torgov, M, Wilson, I, Gudas, J, Wu, AM, Olafsen, T, Vojnovic, B

“…We sought to develop and test a humanised PSMA minibody IAB2M conjugated to the fluorophore IRDye 800CW-NHS ester in men undergoing robot-assisted laparoscopic radical prostatectomy (RARP) to image prostate cancer cells during surgery. <p><strong> Methods</strong></p> The minibody was evaluated pre-clinically using PSMA positive/negative xenograft models, following which 23 men undergoing RARP between 2018 and 2020 received between 2.5 mg and 20 mg of IR800-IAB2M intravenously, at intervals between 24 h and 17 days prior to surgery. …”

Influence of dried Bacillus subtilis and lactobacilli cultures on intestinal microflora and performance in broilers by Jin, L.Z., Ho, Y.W., Abdullah, N., Jalaludin, S.

“…The viable bacterial counts for each treatment were approximately 109 cells/kg feed. The weight gain in chickens given feeds incorporated with B. subtilis and lactobacilli was significantly (p < 0.05) higher than those of the control. …”
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Comparison of transport methodologies on near-field pollutant dispersion in urban environments using CFD by Tee, Clarence Wei Tat

“…In practice, the need for pollution dispersion studies is two-fold: First, for urban planning and risk analysis to pre-empt future possible disasters or industrial accidents and secondly, for analyzing the immediate impact of such events and recommendation of subsequent actions to be taken in order to minimize loss and damages. …”
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Implementation of occupational safety and health management system in reducing ergonomic risk among certified and uncertified automotive industry workers by Ikpegbu, Mavis Amarachi

“…Occupational Safety and Health Management System (OSHMS) is a planned, documented and verifiable method of managing hazards and associated risks in work place. …”
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Behind the Two-Wheeled Vehicle: Understanding Riders' Behaviour in School Zones (S/O: 13058) by Abdul Hanan, Suhaila, Zainuddin, Nizamuddin, King, Mark, Lewis, Ioni

“…The current research attempted to address this gap, employing the Theory Planned Behaviour (TPB) to examine the contribution of individual beliefs and situational factors to compliance with the SZSL in Malaysia. …”
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Binary nano-enhanced phase change materials (BNePCMs) integrated serpentine flow based photovoltaic thermal system: A new approach towards performance enhancement by Ali Laghari, Imtiaz, Pandey, A. K., Mahendran, Samykano, Rajamony, Reji Kumar, Bhutto, Yasir Ali, Soomro, Abdul Hameed, K., Kadirgama, Tyagi, V. V.

“…Nevertheless, the performance of photovoltaic (PV) systems is significantly affected by elevated temperatures of solar cells. Phase change materials (PCMs) are a class of substances that possess the ability to store and release latent heat. …”
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Alkali additives enable efficient large area (>55 cm²) slot-die coated perovskite solar modules by Rana, Prem Jyoti Singh, Febriansyah, Benny, Koh, Teck Min, Bening Tirta Muhammad, Salim, Teddy, Hooper, Thomas J. N., Kanwat, Anil, Ghosh, Biplab, Kajal, Priyanka, Lew, Jia Haur, Aw, Yeow Chong, Yantara, Natalia, Bruno, Annalisa, Pullarkat, Sumod A., Ager, Joel W., Leong, Wei Lin, Mhaisalkar, Subodh Gautam, Mathews, Nripan

“…Typical fabrication methods for laboratory-scale (<1 cm2) perovskite solar cells (PSCs) are undeniably not scalable and the control of crystallization of large-area perovskite layer for commercial sized modules is also particularly challenging. …”
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Unlocking superior hydrogen oxidation and CO poisoning resistance on Pt enabled by tungsten nitride-mediated electronic modulation by Cai, Bin, Shen, Di, Xie, Ying, Yan, Haijing, Wang, Yucheng, Chen, Xiaodong, Wang, Lei, Fu, Honggang

“…Enhancing the activity and CO poisoning resistance of Pt-based catalysts for the anodic hydrogen oxidation reaction (HOR) poses a significant challenge in the development of proton exchange membrane fuel cells. Herein, we leverage theoretical calculations to demonstrate that tungsten nitride (WN) can intricately modulate the electronic structure of Pt. …”
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Deciphering the Role of a Coleopteran Steering Muscle via Free Flight Stimulation by Sato, Hirotaka, Vo Doan, Tat Thang, Kolev, Svetoslav, Huynh, Ngoc Anh, Zhang, Chao, Massey, Travis L., van Kleef, Joshua, Ikeda, Kazuo, Abbeel, Pieter, Maharbiz, Michel M.

“…Testing hypotheses of neuromuscular function during locomotion ideally requires the ability to record cellular responses and to stimulate the cells being investigated to observe downstream behaviors [ 1 ]. …”
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On the origin of the redshift in the emission wavelength of InGaN/GaN blue light emitting diodes grown with a higher temperature interlayer by Kyaw, Z., Ji, Y., Dikme, Y., Ju, Zhengang, Tan, Swee Tiam, Zhang, Zi-Hui, Sun, Xiaowei, Demir, Hilmi Volkan

“…The results suggest that the redshift of the peak emission wavelength is originated from the enhanced indium incorporation, which results from the reduced strain during the growth of quantum wells.…”
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Quantifying thermophysical properties, characterization, and thermal cycle testing of nano-enhanced organic eutectic phase change materials for thermal energy storage applications by Jacob, Jeeja, Kumar Pandey, Adarsh Kumar, Nasrudin, Abd Rahim, Selvaraj, Jeyraj, Paul Nadakkal, John, Samykano, Mahendran, Saidur, Rahman Md

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