Flame-made calcium phosphate nanoparticles with high drug loading for delivery of biologics by Tsikourkitoudi, Vasiliki, Karlsson, Jens, Merkl, Padryk, Loh, Edmund, Henriques-Normark, Birgitta, Sotiriou, Georgios A.

“…We also demonstrate that LL-37 retains its antimicrobial activity against Escherichia coli and Streptococcus pneumoniae when loaded on nanoparticles in vitro. Therefore, we highlight the potential of nanocarriers for optimization of the therapeutic profile of existing and emerging biological drugs.…”
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An ultrastable lithium metal anode enabled by designed metal fluoride spansules by Yuan, Huadong, Nai, Jianwei, Tian, He, Ju, Zhijin, Zhang, Wenkui, Liu, Yujing, Tao, Xinyong, Lou, David Xiong Wen

“…As a result, the spansule-modified anode affords a high Coulombic efficiency of 98% for over 1000 cycles at a current density of 2 mA cm−2, which is the most stable LMA reported so far. When coupling this anode with the Li[Ni0.8Co0.1Mn0.1]O2 cathode, the practical full cell further exhibits highly improved capacity retention after 500 cycles.…”
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Pedestrian heading estimation based on spatial transformer networks and hierarchical LSTM by Wang, Qu, Luo, Haiyong, Ye, Langlang, Men, Aidong, Zhao, Fang, Huang, Yan, Ou, Changhai

“…The experimental results on real-world demonstrated that deepheading outperformed the compared heading estimation algorithms and achieved promising estimation accuracy with a median heading error of 4.52°, mean heading error of 6.07° and heading error of 9.18° at the confidence of 80% when a pedestrian is walking in indoor environments with magnetic field disturbances. …”
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Flow network models for online scheduling real-time tasks on multiprocessors by Cho, Hyeonjoong, Easwaran, Arvind

“…The optimal scheduling is here defined to ensure that all real-time tasks meet their deadlines when the total utilization demand of the given tasks does not exceed the total processing capacity. …”
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Correlating the performance of a fire-retardant coating across different scales of testing by Ng, Yan Hao, Zope, Indraneel Suhas, Dasari, Aravind, Tan, Kang Hai

“…In this regard, the pathway is not established when designing and formulating fire-retardant coatings for structural steel sections or members. …”
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Evaluation of GPM IMERG rainfall estimates in Singapore and assessing spatial sampling errors in ground reference by Mandapaka, Pradeep V., Lo, Edmond Yat-Man

“…For the gauge networks studied here, the contribution of SSE variance to IMERG daily error variance ranges from 4-24% depending on gauge spatial configuration, and is as large as 36% during inter-monsoon months when rainfall is highly convective in nature.…”
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Geographically-aware mobile application for managing events and interest group communications by Lee, Chong Yan

“…The reason is that forum is passive in nature, which means that usually people search for already available information rather than ask a question and wait for a reply as after all it requires refreshing of the page and we do not know when there will be a response. Besides, with the huge pool of information online, it would be hard for the relevant party to find this thread, let alone reply it. …”
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The role of Holocene relative sea-level change in preserving records of subduction zone earthquakes by Dura, Tina, Engelhart, Simon E., Vacchi, Matteo, Horton, Benjamin Peter, Kopp, Robert E., Peltier, William Richard, Bradley, Sarah

“…In far-field regions (e.g., Sumatra, Chile, and Japan), fragmentary stratigraphic evidence of prehistoric earthquakes has been preserved only during periods of gradual RSL rise prior to a mid-Holocene highstand, or during the last 1–3 ka, when RSL was within 2 m of modern sea level, and thus within the tidal frame.…”
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Differential graphical games for H∞ control of linear heterogeneous multiagent systems by Farnaz Adib Yaghmaie, Hengster-Movric, Kristian, Lewis, Frank L., Su, Rong

“…Differential graphical games have been introduced in the literature to solve state synchronization problem for linear homogeneous agents. When the agents are heterogeneous, the previous notion of graphical games cannot be used anymore and a new definition is required. …”
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Smart building with intelligent indoor lighting control system using reinforcement learning simulations by Chan, Keno Jia Nuo

“…Although the presence of wireless controls allows users to manually adjust the lighting intensity based on their preferences, this becomes a problem when there is more than one occupant in the environment due differences in lighting preferences. …”
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Performance enhancement of ultrafiltration membrane via simple deposition of polymer-based modifiers by Tian, Miao, Wang, Rong, Goto, Atsushi, Mao, Weijia, Miyoshi, Yasuyuki, Mizoguchi, Hirotaka

“…The results show that the random copolymer modified membrane exhibited average 26 % rises in water permeability compared with the virgin PES UF membrane when 0.5 wt% BSA solution was used as feed. The stable permeability and flux recovery rate during the cyclic study with chemical cleaning suggest good affinity of the newly synthesized random copolymer with the PES membrane and water. …”
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Impact of molecular linker size on physicochemical properties of assembled gold nanoparticle mono-/multi-layers and their applicability for functional binding of biomolecules by Krikstolaityte, Vida, Hamit-Eminovski, Jildiz, Abariute, Laura, Niaura, Gediminas, Meskys, Rolandas, Arnebrant, Thomas, Lisak, Grzegorz, Ruzgas, Tautgirdas

“…The validity of the commercial Voigt model, specifically developed for quantitative QCM-D data analysis of homogeneous viscoelastic films, was evaluated by a model independent analysis when comparing the assembled AuNP films with a homogeneous layer of a mucin from bovine submaxillary glands. …”
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A secret of high-rate mass transfer in anammox granular sludge : "lung-like breathing" by Xu, Dongdong, Kang, Da, Yu, Tao, Ding, Aqiang, Lin, Qiujian, Zhang, Meng, Hu, Qianyi, Zheng, Ping

“…The AnGS cultivated in a bioreactor with higher nitrogen removal rate (NRR) was found to have the higher ExCA and ExCF when determinated at the same BLR, and the “lung-like breathing” behavior of one type of AnGS was revealed to bear a significantly (p < 0.05) positive correlation with the specific anammox activity (SAA). …”
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Titania catalysts : crystal chemical insights and tailored functionalities by Lim, Suo Hon

“…Moreover, refined neutron diffraction data reveals that anatase can be grossly nonstoichiometric and contain up to 10% titanium (Ti) vacancies when calcined at < 600ºC. In addition, sol-gel synthesized titania is shown to contain a persistent amorphous phase (aperiodic titania) that coexists with rutile to relatively high temperature (1000˚C). …”
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Credit card cue effect : how mere exposure to credit card cues promotes consumers’ perceived financial well-being and spending by Wong, King Yin, Lynn, Michael

“…Originality/value: To the authors’ knowledge, this is the first study to investigate the direct link between an exposure to credit-card cues and perceived financial well-being, and one of the few to show evidence of the moderating effect of consumers’ sensitivity to the pain of payment on spending when credit-card cues are present. This study suggests that marketers may use credit-card cues to promote consumer spending, whereas consumers, especially spendthrifts, should be aware of how credit-card cues may inflate their perceived financial well-being and stimulate them to spend more.…”
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Impact of free nitrous acid shock and dissolved oxygen limitation on nitritation maintenance and nitrous oxide emission in a membrane bioreactor by Jiang, Yishuai, Poh, Leong Soon, Lim, Choon-Ping, Ng, Wun Jern

“…This method can potentially allow for maintaining nitritation at relatively low capital and operating expenditure when treating high concentration ammonium wastewater.…”
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Assessment of redistribution policies in Singapore by Ang, Xin Rui, Cham, Zhi An, Peh, Earl Hao Kien

“…Finally, GSTV payouts based on income only is a better determinant for redistribution, but when combined with housing types can selectively allocate redistributive resources to the needy more accurately to achieve equality outcomes. …”
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Linking short-term to long-term convergent tectonics using geodetic observations, geological constraints and numerical simulations by Mallick, Rishav

“…Over the past few decades, we have made significant progress in inferring the geometry and kinematics of fault systems at convergent margins, but continue to be severely limited when it comes to elucidating their dynamics. If we are to make progress in building predictive models, we need to know the underlying mechanics of these systems, and that is the goal for the future.…”
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Insight into Fe(II)/UV/chlorine pretreatment for reducing ultrafiltration (UF) membrane fouling : effects of different natural organic fractions and comparison with coagulation by Xing, Jiajian, Liang, Heng, Chuah, Chong Joon, Bao, Yueping, Luo, Xinsheng, Wang, Tianyu, Wang, Jinlong, Li, Guibai, Snyder, Shane Allen

“…The results and insight analysis were supposed to evaluate and predict the effectiveness of fouling control when the feed solutions were pretreated by Fe(II)/UV/chlorine process according to various compositions and characteristics of the organic fractions.…”
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Initialization matters : regularizing manifold-informed initialization for neural recommendation systems by Zhang, Yinan, Li, Boyang, Liu, Yong, Wang, Hao, Miao, Chunyan

“…To maximize the effects of the initialization, we propose the Dual-Loss Residual Recommendation (DLR2) network, which, when initialized with LEPORID, substantially outperforms both traditional and state-of-the-art neural recommender systems.…”
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