Bioactivities and formation/utilization of soluble microbial products (SMP) in the biological sulfate reduction under different conditions by Qian, Jin, Zhou, Junmei, Pei, Xiangjun, Zhang, Mingkuan, Liu, Yu

“…The biological sulfate reduction (BSR) plays a critical role in the organic compound removal in the sulfur bioconversion-associated sewage treatment process. …”
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Characteristics of unsaturated soil slope covered with capillary barrier system and deep-rooted grass under different rainfall patterns by Li, Yangyang, Satyanaga, Alfrendo, Rahardjo, Harianto

“…The results of the analyses indicated that the capillary barrier system played a more significant role than the Vetiver grass in maintaining slope stability, although both the capillary barrier system and Vetiver grass contributed to the slope stability. …”
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Trimetallic oxide-hydroxide porous nanosheets for efficient water oxidation by Devi, Hemam Rachna, Chikkegowda, Ramachandra, Rangappa, Dinesh, Yadav, Ashok Kumar, Chen, Zhong, Nanda, Karuna Kar

“…The position of flat-band potential plays a significant role in determining the charge transfer kinetics, thereby affecting the water oxidation activity in the semiconductor-electrolyte system. …”
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Enantiomeric separation of racemic mixtures using chiral-selective and organic-solvent-resistant thin-film composite membranes by Ong, Chi Siang, Oor, Jia Zheng, Tan, Jonathan Shiliang, Chew, Jia Wei

“…It was found that HP-β-CD played a critical role in the enantioselective performance, as the membrane without HP-β-CD showed no chiral selectivity. …”
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A blockchain based federated learning for message dissemination in vehicular networks by Ayaz, Ferheen, Sheng, Zhengguo, Tian, Daxin, Guan, Yong Liang

“…Message exchange among vehicles plays an important role in ensuring road safety. …”
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Deciphering the poisoning effect of sulfate on a perovskite-derived IrOxHy catalyst for water oxidation in acid by Seow, Justin Zhu Yeow, Chen,Yubo, Ge, Jingjie, Fisher, Adrian C., Xu, Jason Zhichuan

“…A highly efficient and stable oxygen evolution reaction (OER) plays a key role in the commercialization of proton exchange membrane (PEM) water electrolyzers. …”
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Super-enhancers, phase-separated condensates, and 3D genome organization in cancer by Tang, Seng Chuan, Vijayakumar, Udhaya, Zhang, Ying, Fullwood, Melissa Jane

“…3D chromatin organization plays an important role in transcription regulation and gene expression. …”
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2023 roadmap for materials for quantum technologies by Becher, Christoph, Gao, Weibo, Kar, Swastik, Marciniak, Christian D., Monz, Thomas, Bartholomew, John G., Goldner, Philippe, Loh, Huanqian, Marcellina, Elizabeth, Goh, Johnson Kuan Eng, Koh, Teck Seng, Weber, Bent, Mu, Zhao, Tsai, Jeng-Yuan, Yan, Qimin, Huber-Loyola, Tobias, Höfling, Sven, Gyger, Samuel, Steinhauer, Stephan, Zwiller, Val

“…These include both the inherent quantum bit systems and materials playing supportive or enabling roles, and cover trapped ions, neutral atom arrays, rare earth ion systems, donors in silicon, color centers and defects in wide-band gap materials, two-dimensional materials and superconducting materials for single-photon detectors. …”
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A new perspective on air quality index time series forecasting: a ternary interval decomposition ensemble learning paradigm by Wang, Zicheng, Gao, Ruobin, Wang, Piao, Chen, Huayou

“…Accurate forecasting of the air quality index (AQI) plays a crucial role in taking precautions against upcoming air pollution risks. …”
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Microbial community-based protein from soybean-processing wastewater as a sustainable alternative fish feed ingredient by Santillan, Ezequiel, Yasumaru, Fanny, Vethathirri, Ramanujam Srinivasan, Thi, Sara Swa, Hoon, Hui Yi, Sian, Diana Chan Pek, Wuertz, Stefan

“…As the global demand for food increases, aquaculture plays a key role as the fastest growing animal protein sector. …”
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NHC/B(OH)3-mediated C3-selective acylation of unprotected monosaccharides: mechanistic insights and toward simpler/greener solutions by Jin, Jiamiao, Guo, Jiangtao, Xu, Feng, Lv, Ya, Wang, Guanjie, Song, Jia, Lv, Wen-Xin, Li, Tingting, Chi, Robin Yonggui

“…Mechanistically, the boric acid plays multiple roles in benefiting reaction yields and regioselectivities, including solubilizing the saccharide substrates by forming borate esters with the saccharides, shielding the C6-OH unit of the saccharides from acylation, and enhancing the selectivity between C3-OH and C2-OH reactions. …”
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Deep graph contrastive learning model for drug-drug interaction prediction by Jiang, Zhenyu, Gong, Zhi, Dai, Xiaopeng, Zhang, Hongyan, Ding, Pingjian, Shen, Cong

“…Thus, drug interaction analysis plays an important role in improving treatment effectiveness and patient safety. …”
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Efficient in situ saccharification of microcrystalline cellulose over immobilized cellulase on magnetic biochar in ionic liquid media by Lei, Junxi, Deng, Limin, Chen, Zongda, Li, Xiang, Li, Kaixin, Lee, Jong-Min

“…Saccharification serves as the entry point for the biomass into biorefinery schemes and plays a vital role in lignocellulose transformation towards bio-fuels and platform molecules. …”
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Probing the toxicity mechanism of multiwalled carbon nanotubes on bacteria by Hartono, Maria Regina, Kushmaro, Ariel, Chen, Xiaodong, Marks, Robert S.

“…Using both a bioluminescence bioreporter panel and live/dead staining, we observed that membrane damage played a role in the toxicity of MWCNTs. A subsequent viability study using three strains of bacteria—two gram-negative (Escherichia coli, Pseudomonas aeruginosa) and one gram-positive (Bacillus subtilis)—showed significant MWCNT toxicity in hypotonic water and phosphate-buffered saline solution, compared with the MWCNT toxicity towards the same bacteria incubated in isotonic-rich media. …”
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Slr0151 in Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 is required for efficient repair of photosystem II under high-light condition by Yang, Haomeng, Liao, Libing, Bo, Tingting, Zhao, Lei, Sun, Xuwu, Lu, Xuefeng, Norling, Birgitta, Huang, Fang

“…Taken together, these results indicate that Slr0151 plays an important role in regulating PSII repair in the organism under high-light stress condition.…”
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High expression of MnSOD promotes survival of circulating breast cancer cells and increases their resistance to doxorubicin by Fu, Afu, Ma, Shijun, Wei, Na, Tan, Blanche Xiao Xuan, Tan, Ern Yu, Luo, Kathy Qian

“…Our findings therefore suggest that MnSOD plays an important integrative role in supporting cancer cell survival in circulation, metastasis, and doxorubicin resistance. …”
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Statistical analysis of fine particle resuspension from rough surfaces by turbulent flows by You, Siming, Wan, Man Pun

“…Particle resuspension plays a part in indoor aerosol dynamics and has received increasing attention due to its ability to prolong human exposure to airborne particles. …”
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Investigation of wettability properties of laser surface modified rare earth Mg alloy by Khadka, Indira, Castagne, Sylvie, Wang, Zhongke, Zheng, Hongyu

“…For example, surface wettability of a biomaterial plays a vital role in cell adhesion and proliferation. …”
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Cultured and popular literary circuits on Facebook: a case study of Singaporean print culture in social media by Sagun, Karryl Kim, Luyt, Brendan

“…We embarked on this study as contributors to current literature and also as documenters of how print culture is not just in existence in the social media realm of the digital landscape, but also how this playing field allows for both cultural and commercial agenda to be achieved with a far greater audience and efficiency compared to what other genres are able to offer.…”
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Enhanced indirect ferromagnetic p-d exchange coupling of Mn in oxygen rich ZnO:Mn nanoparticles synthesized by wet chemical method by Ilyas, Usman, Rawat, Rajdeep Singh, Tan, T. L., Lee, P., Chen, R., Sun, Handong, Fengji, Li., Zhang, Sam

“…This paper investigates the ferromagnetism in ZnO:Mn powders and presents our findings about the role played by the doping concentration and the structural defects towards the ferromagnetic signal. …”
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