Inclusions in calcite phantom crystals suggest role of clay minerals in dolomite formation by Farsang, Stefan, Pekker, Péter, Lampronti, Giulio I., Molnár, Zsombor, Milovský, Rastislav, Pósfai, Mihály, Ozdín, Daniel, Raub, Timothy D., Redfern, Simon Anthony Turner

“…Micro- and nano-inclusions embedded in calcite phantom crystals from Gemerská Ves, Slovak Republic, have been characterized by a combination of Raman spectroscopy, scanning and transmission electron microscopy, X-ray powder difraction, and C and O isotope analysis. …”
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Food environments and obesity: a geospatial analysis of the South Asia Biobank, income and sex inequalities by Atanasova, Petya, Kusuma, Dian, Pineda, Elisa, Anjana, Ranjit Mohan, De Silva, Laksara, Hanif, Abu A. M., Hasan, Mehedi, Hossain, Md Mokbul, Indrawansa, Susantha, Jayamanne, Deepal, Jha, Sujeet, Kasturiratne, Anuradhani, Katulanda, Prasad, Khawaja, Khadija I., Kumarendran, Balachandran, Mrida, Malay K., Rajakaruna, Vindya, Chambers, John Campbell, Frost, Gary, Sassi, Franco, Miraldo, Marisa

“…Introduction: In low-middle income countries (LMICs) the role of food environments on obesity has been understudied. We address this gap by 1) examining the effect of food environments on adults’ body size (BMI, waist circumference) and obesity; 2) measuring the heterogeneity of such effects by income and sex. …”
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Exploring dependence structures among European electricity markets: static and dynamic copula-GARCH and dynamic state-space approaches by Ly, Sel, Sriboonchitta, Songsak, Tang, Jiechen, Wong, Wing-Keung

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MCI-frcnn: a deep learning method for topological micro-domain boundary detection by Tian, Simon Zhongyuan, Yin, Pengfei, Jing, Kai, Yang, Yang, Xu, Yewen, Huang, Guangyu, Ning, Duo, Fullwood, Melissa Jane, Zheng, Meizhen

“…RAID and TAD alterations have been found to be associated with diseases. They can be further dissected as micro-domains (micro-TADs and micro-RAIDs) by clustering single-molecule chromatin-interactive complexes from next-generation three-dimensional (3D) genome techniques, such as ChIA-Drop. …”
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Robust incentive mechanisms for efficient and secure coded edge intelligence by Ng, Jer Shyuan

“…To mitigate the challenges of distributed computing, coded distributed computing (CDC), i.e., a combination of coding theoretic techniques and distributed computing, has been proposed. In particular, CDC systems reduce communication load and alleviate the straggler effects. …”
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Three-dimensional photonic topological insulator without spin-orbit coupling by Kim, Minkyung, Wang, Zihao, Yang, Yihao, Teo, Hau Tian, Rho, Junsuk, Zhang, Baile

“…Spin-orbit coupling, a fundamental mechanism underlying topological insulators, has been introduced to construct the latter's photonic analogs, or photonic topological insulators (PTIs). …”
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iMAT: energy-efficient in-memory acceleration for ternary neural networks with sparse dot product by Zhu, Shien, Huai, Shuo, Xiong, Guochu, Liu, Weichen

“…Therefore, many IMC-based TNN accelerators have been proposed. They build dedicated ternary multiplication cells or utilize efficient bitwise operations on IMC architectures. …”
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Defect chemistry in 2D atomic layers for energy photocatalysis by Di, Jun, Hao, Gazi, Jiang, Wei, Liu, Zheng

“…Numerous efforts have been dedicated to the reasonable design of photocatalytic materials to improve the photocatalytic efficiency. …”
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Thermally induced phase separation PVDF membrane fabricated by using NaCl coagulation bath: relation of membrane surface morphology and permeation performance by Chen, Ningyuan, Zhao, Jie, Shi, Lei, Goto, Atsushi, Wang, Rong

“…Efforts have been made in thermally induced phase separation (TIPS) process to modify the morphology of polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) membranes in order to improve their permeation performance and mechanical properties. …”
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Incomplete phase metasurface for wavefront reconstruction by Liu, Qiyao, Liu, Zhengtong, Ma, Xuezhi, Deng, Jie, Zhang, Chen, Chen, Zhenmin, Nemati, Arash, Ng, Sui Kit, Gorelik, Sergey, Teo, Siew Lang, Ji, Rong, Zhao, Meng, Gonzaga, Leonard Verano, Liu, Hong, Yue, Fuyong, Yu, Shaohua, Luo, Yu, Wang,Qian

“…Four metagratings, as representatives, with different phase ranges in the supercell, i.e., π, 2π, 3π, and 4π, have been designed and fabricated to demonstrate the diffraction intensity redistribution capability of metagratings. …”
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Contrastive graph pooling for explainable classification of brain networks by Xu, Jiaxing, Bian, Qingtian, Li, Xinhang, Zhang, Aihu, Ke, Yiping, Qiao, Miao, Zhang, Wei, Sim, Jeremy Wei Khang, Gulyás, Balázs

“…Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) is a commonly used technique to measure neural activation. Its application has been particularly important in identifying underlying neurodegenerative conditions such as Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, and Autism. …”
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The novel quinoline derivative SKA-346 as a KCa3.1 channel selective activator by Wong, Brandon Han Siang, Shim, Heesung, Goay, Stephanie Shee Min, Ong, Seow Theng, Nur Ayuni Binte Muhammad Taib, Chai, Kelila Xin Ye, Lim, Kerry, Huang, Dachuan, Ong, Choon Kiat, Vaiyapuri, Thamil Selvan, Cheah, Yeong Cheng, Wang, Yulan, Wulff, Heike, Webster, Richard David, Shelat, Vishalkumar G., Verma, Navin Kumar

“…Genetic manipulation of T-cells to upregulate the expression of K+ channels has been shown to boost T-cell cytotoxicity in cancer. …”
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The stalks of the motor A1A0 ATP synthase come into the focus : structural insight into subunits E, F and H by Gayen, Shovanlal

“…In order to get a detailed picture, structural characterization has been done for the central stalk subunit F and the peripheral stalk subunits H and E. …”
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Layer-by-layer assembled micro and nano carriers for drug delivery applications by Mutukumaraswamy Shaillender

“…In particular, the characterization and applications of biodegradable, biocompatible carriers, coated with polyelectrolyte multilayers, have not been extensively studied to date The objective is to fabricate, characterize and evaluate specific applications of polyelectrolyte multilayered carriers for drug delivery applications. …”
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Photo-driven smart polymers and their molecular self-assembly by Hu, Jinhua

“…This photo-driven vesicle is a typical example of pulsating self-assemblies reported for the first time. Other examples have been reported are pH-responsive1 and thermo-responsive2 pulsating vesicles, respectively. …”
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Content-based image retrieval with statistical machine learning. by Zhang, Lining.

“…The effectiveness of CPSL in exploiting the RF log data to improve the performance of CBIR has been demonstrated by a large number of empirical studies.…”
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Essays on the dynamics of the U.S. real exchange rate by Li, Yingzhu

“…While developed within a closed economy framework, such model has not yet been extended to the research in international macroeconomics. …”
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Investigation of low coherence interferometry techniques for biomedical applications by Chow, Tzu Hao

“…Interferometric techniques have been used as imaging techniques in many applications. …”
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Synthesis and optical characterization of cadmium sulfide (CdS) single crystals for laser cooling effect by Zhang, Chiyuan

“…The first part of the work is to characterize the laser cooling effect of CdS commercial single crystals. CdS has been proved very promising in laser cooling effect where nanobelts of CdS can be cooled down 40 K from room temperature and 20 K from 100K if excited by certain lasers1. …”
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重新建构女性的自我认同 ： 以苏童“红粉”系列小说为例 = Re-constructing woman’s self identity : a case study of Su Tong’s “Hong Fen” series by 陈品秀 Tan, Ping Siew

“…In this thesis, three novels from “Hong Fen” series, Qi Qie Cheng Qun (Wives and Concubines), Hong Fen and Ling Yi Zhong Fu Nv Sheng Huo, have been chosen to be the focus point for text interpretation, as well as analysis how country’s social systems and power “repress” women’s identities, and how they manage to re-construct their identities, in order for survival, with achieving self-worth and self-liberation.…”
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