Programmed Allee effect in bacteria causes a tradeoff between population spread and survival by Smith, Robert, Tan, Cheemeng, Srimani, Jaydeep K., Pai, Anand, Riccione, Katherine A., Song, Hao, You, Lingchong

“…Dispersal is necessary for spread into new habitats, but it has also been shown to inhibit spread. Theoretical studies have suggested that the presence of a strong Allee effect may account for these counterintuitive observations. …”
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Synthesis of biomimetic co-polypeptides with tunable degrees of phosphorylation by Lipik, Vitali, Zhang, Lihong, Miserez, Ali

“…However to date, large-scale synthesis of phosphorylated polypeptides with controlled degrees of phosphorylation has not been achieved, restricting research in phosphorylated proteins to their central roles in biomineralization pathways. …”
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Viroporin activity of the foot-and-mouth disease virus non-structural 2B protein by Ao, Da, Guo, Hui-Chen, Sun, Shi-Qi, Sun, De-Hui, Fung, To Sing, Wei, Yan-Quan, Han, Shi-Chong, Yao, Xue-Ping, Cao, Sui-Zhong, Liu, Ding Xiang, Liu, Xiang-Tao

“…Among the Picornaviridae family of viruses, the 2B protein encoded by enteroviruses is well understood, whereas the viroporin activity of the 2B protein encoded by the foot-and-mouth disease virus (FMDV) has not yet been described. An analysis of the FMDV 2B protein domains by computer-aided programs conducted in this study revealed that this protein may contain two transmembrane regions. …”
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Distributed optimal tie-line power flow control for multiple interconnected AC microgrids by Liu, Yun, Li, Yuanzheng, Xin, Huanhai, Gooi, Hoay Beng, Pan, Jianfei

“…Distributed energy trading/scheduling schemes via interactions of these MG operators have been extensively investigated. How to coordinate these MGs to implement the acquired optimal schedule in the real time under constant load fluctuation while guaranteeing operational stability is seldom reported. …”
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Cathode material investigation towards high-performance aluminum batteries by Gong, Xuefei

“…Aluminum (Al) batteries, with merits of cost effectiveness, safe handle, high capacity and dendrite-free formation of Al anode and utilization of non-flammable ionic liquid electrolyte, has been considered as promising alternative to lithium ion batteries. …”
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A new therapeutic avenue for bronchiectasis : dry powder inhaler of ciprofloxacin nanoplex exhibits superior ex vivo mucus permeability and antibacterial efficacy to its native cip... by Tran, The-Thien, Vidaillac, Celine, Yu, Hong, Yong, Valerie Fei Lee, Roizman, Dan, Chandrasekaran, Ravishankar, Lim, Albert Yick Hou, Low, Teck Boon, Tan, Gan Liang, Abisheganaden, John A., Koh, Mariko Siyue, Teo, Jeanette, Chotirmall, Sanjay Haresh, Hadinoto, Kunn

“…Non-cystic fibrosis bronchiectasis (NCFB) characterized by permanent bronchial dilatation and recurrent infections has been clinically managed by long-term intermittent inhaled antibiotic therapy among other treatments. …”
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Dynamic response of magnetic skyrmions in multilayer heterostructures by Satywali, Bhartendu

“…Topological effects in condensed matter physics have been explored for fundamental and technological reasons in a wide variety of materials. …”
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Human comfort in indoor environment : a review on assessment criteria, data collection and data analysis methods by Song, Ying, Mao, Fubing, Liu, Qing

“…Through the survey, we find that sensor technology has been widely used in the data collection for various types of comfort, while so far the machine learning approaches are mainly applied in the area of thermal comfort study. …”
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Modelling self-awareness in social robot by Zhang, Jiaheng

“…Lastly, these sentiments and emotions were tagged to major events present in the book and a Self- Awareness data model was created to represent the relationships between the extracted data. These methods have been demonstrated to successfully extract sentiments and emotions from the text. …”
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Printable superelastic conductors with extreme stretchability and robust cycling endurance enabled by liquid-metal particles by Wang, Jiangxin, Cai, Guofa, Li, Shaohui, Gao, Dace, Xiong, Jiaqing, Lee, Pooi See

“…The development for stretchable conductors has been highly motivated with different approaches established to address the dilemma in the conductivity and stretchability trade-offs to some extent. …”
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Highly stretchable, compliant, polymeric microelectrode arrays for in vivo electrophysiological interfacing by Qi, Dianpeng, Liu, Zhiyuan, Liu, Yan, Jiang, Ying, Leow, Wan Ru, Pal, Mayank, Pan, Shaowu, Yang, Hui, Wang, Yu, Zhang, Xiaoqian, Yu, Jiancan, Li, Bin, Yu, Zhe, Wang, Wei, Chen, Xiaodong

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Giant two‐photon absorption and its saturation in 2D organic-inorganic perovskite by Liu, Weiwei, Xing, Jun, Zhao, Jiaxin, Wen, Xinglin, Wang, Kai, Lu, Peixiang, Xiong, Qihua

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Design and in vitro release study of siRNA loaded Layer by Layer nanoparticles with sustained gene silencing effect by Tan, Yang Fei, Lee, Ying Shi, Seet, Li-Fong, Ng, Kee Woei, Wong, Tina T., Venkatraman, Subbu

“…Objectives: Clinical translation of siRNA therapeutics has been severely limited due to the lack of stable and sustained siRNA delivery systems. …”
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Efficient public key encryption with equality test in the standard model by Zhang, Kai, Chen, Jie, Lee, Hyung Tae, Qian, Haifeng, Wang, Huaxiong

“…From these reasons, since Yang et al. [1] first proposed the concept of PKEET, there have been proposed many PKEET schemes to improve efficiency or to enhance functionalities. …”
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Understanding the effect of chlorobenzene and isopropanol anti-solvent treatments on the recombination and interfacial charge accumulation in efficient planar perovskite solar cell... by Prochowicz, Daniel, Mohammad Mahdi Tavakoli, Solanki, Ankur, Goh, Teck Wee, Pandey, Kavita, Sum, Tze Chien, Saliba, Michael, Yadav, Pankaj

“…While this has yielded very impressive high-performance results, few efforts have been dedicated to the fundamental understanding of the anti-solvent method. …”
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Rapid crystallization of all-inorganic CsPbBr3 perovskite for high-brightness light-emitting diodes by Ng, Yan Fong, Nur Fadilah Jamaludin, Yantara, Natalia, Li, Mingjie, Irukuvarjula, Venkata Kameshwar Rao, Demir, Hilmi Volkan, Sum, Tze Chien, Mhaisalkar, Subodh, Mathews, Nripan

“…Research into perovskite-based light-emitting diodes (PeLEDs) has been rapidly gaining momentum since the initial reports of green-emitting methylammonium lead bromide (CH3NH3PbBr3)-based devices were published. …”
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Spatter transport by inert gas flow in selective laser melting : a simulation study by Ahmad Bin Anwar, Ibrahim, Imran Halimi, Pham, Quang-Cuong

“…The distinctively large and dark solidified molten particles have always been observed on the powder bed, leading to the potential deterioration of the final printed parts. …”
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Cubic NaSbS2 as an ionic-electronic coupled semiconductor for switchable photovoltaic and neuromorphic device applications by Harikesh, Padinhare Cholakkal, Surendran, Abhijith, Ghosh, Biplab, John, Rohit Abraham, Moorthy, Arjun, Yantara, Natalia, Salim, Teddy, Thirumal, Krishnamoorthy, Leong, Wei Lin, Mhaisalkar, Subodh, Mathews, Nripan

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Are there advantages to believing in fate? the belief in negotiating with fate when faced with constraints by Au, Evelyn W. M., Savani, Krishna

“…This belief contrasts fatalism, which has been traditionally interpreted as believing that fate dictates people's life outcomes and renders their actions largely irrelevant. …”
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Induction sintering of silver nanoparticle inks on polyimide substrates by Tan, Hong Wei, Saengchairat, Nitipon, Goh, Guo Liang, An, Jia, Chua, Chee Kai, Tran, Tuan

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