Lignin Extraction by Using Two-Step Fractionation: A Review by Medya Hatun Tanis, Ola Wallberg, Mats Galbe, Basel Al-Rudainy

“…Delignification is a critical step that directly impacts the purity of lignin and facilitates the breakdown of bonds involving lignin and lignin-carbohydrate complexes surrounding cellulose. …”
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Intersection of Redox Chemistry and Ubiquitylation: Post-Translational Modifications Required for Maintaining Cellular Homeostasis and Neuroprotection by Emma I. Kane, Kelly L. Waters, Donald E. Spratt

“…Neurodegeneration has been predominantly recognized as neuronal breakdown induced by the accumulation of aggregated and/or misfolded proteins and remains a preliminary factor in age-dependent disease. …”
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Laser ablation plasma expansion using microwaves by Yuji Ikeda, Joey Kim Soriano, Hironori Ohba, Ikuo Wakaida

“…Our results emphasize the contribution of microwaves in promoting enhanced emission and plasma formation at controlled, low temperature, thereby demonstrating the potential of microwaves to enhance the accuracy and performance of laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy. Importantly, our study suggests that microwaves could also mitigate the generation of toxic fumes and dust during ablation, a critical benefit when handling hazardous materials. …”
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Three-Dimensional-Printed Scaffolds for Meniscus Tissue Engineering: Opportunity for the Future in the Orthopaedic World by Angelo V. Vasiliadis, Nikolaos Koukoulias, Konstantinos Katakalos

“…The meniscus is a critical component of a healthy knee joint. It is a complex and vital fibrocartilaginous tissue that maintains appropriate biomechanics. …”
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Friction Stir Processing on the Tribological, Corrosion, and Erosion Properties of Steel: A Review by Alessandro M. Ralls, Ashish K. Kasar, Pradeep L. Menezes

“…This review aims to accumulate the current knowledge of steel FSP and to breakdown the key factors which enable its metallurgical improvement. …”
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Transport through an AC-driven impurity: Fano interference and bound states in the continuum by Sebastián A Reyes, Daniel Thuberg, Daniel Pérez, Christoph Dauer, Sebastian Eggert

“…At frequencies comparable to the bulk bandwidth we observe a breakdown of the transmission T  = 0 which is related to the phenomenon of Fano resonances associated to AC-driven bound states in the continuum. …”
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Selfhood and alterity: schizophrenic experience between Blankenburg and Tatossian by Alessandro Guardascione

“…For Tatossian, schizophrenia is characterized, ultimately, by a basic self-disorder or alteration that consists in the breakdown of the twofold dimension of transcendental subjectivity, encompassing both constituting consciousness and phenomenologizing onlooker. …”
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Penile Prosthesis in Transgender Men after Phalloplasty by Rajveer S. Purohit, Marissa Kent, Miroslav L. Djordjevic

“…Complications include injury to the urethra, vascular injury, skin breakdown, infection, device migration, device failure, extrusion, and erosion. …”
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Best infection control practices for intradermal, subcutaneous, and intramuscular needle injections by Hutin Yvan, Hauri Anja, Chiarello Linda, Catlin Mary, Stilwell Barbara, Ghebrehiwet Tesfamicael, Garner Julia

“…The development process included a breakdown of the WHO reference definition of a safe injection into a list of potentially critical steps, a review of the literature for each of these steps, the formulation of best practices, and the submission of the draft document to peer review. …”
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An Overview of Linear Dielectric Polymers and Their Nanocomposites for Energy Storage by Lvye Dou, Yuan-Hua Lin, Ce-Wen Nan

“…As one of the most important energy storage devices, dielectric capacitors have attracted increasing attention because of their ultrahigh power density, which allows them to play a critical role in many high-power electrical systems. …”
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An integrated modelling and parameter design method for the RC snubber in novel cascode GaN‐based bridge convertors by Bin Luo, Guangzhao Luo, Sihai Li

“…However, owing to high switching speed (high dv/dt or di/dt) and inevitable parasitic inductance in device packages and external circuits, cascode GaN devices are more prone to oscillate, resulting in voltage overshoot, electromagnetic interference (EMI), and even device breakdown, which reduces the reliability of the drive system. …”
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Dimension reduction of noisy interacting systems by Niccolò Zagli, Grigorios A. Pavliotis, Valerio Lucarini, Alexander Alecio

“…On the other hand, the breakdown of linear response properties is a key signature of the occurence of a phase transition. …”
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Perspectives on Mitochondria–ER and Mitochondria–Lipid Droplet Contact in Hepatocytes and Hepatic Lipid Metabolism by Xiaowen Ma, Hui Qian, Allen Chen, Hong-Min Ni, Wen-Xing Ding

“…The accumulation of LDs in hepatocytes is an early indicator of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) and alcohol-related liver disease (ALD), which may indicate a breakdown in proper inter-organelle communication. …”
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Overtourism in Indonesia after the COVID-19 Pandemic: Social Psychology Perspective by Muhammad Yamin, Isran Kamal, Ankarlina Pandu Primadata, Slamet Rosyadi, Angus Ganjar Runtiko

“…After the transmission effect of COVID-19 is decreasing, people who experience psychological breakdown, vent their tourism interests simultaneously, which in turn causing overtourism. …”
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The blood-brain barrier in health, neurological diseases, and COVID-19 by Jianan Chen, Rongbang Tan, Yuqian Mo, Jingjing Zhang

“…How this barrier can be modulated for efficient drug delivery into the brain, and how BBB breakdown participates in neurological diseases are discussed. …”
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Functional Analysis of Lipid Metabolism in Magnaporthe grisea Reveals a Requirement for Peroxisomal Fatty Acid β-Oxidation During Appressorium-Mediated Plant Infection by Zheng-Yi Wang, Darren M. Soanes, Michael J. Kershaw, Nicholas J. Talbot

“…In contrast, we demonstrate that a peroxisomally located multifunctional, fatty acid β-oxidation enzyme is critical to appressorium physiology, and blocking peroxisomal biogenesis prevents plant infection. …”
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Glutaminolysis of CD4+ T Cells: A Potential Therapeutic Target in Viral Diseases by Xu Y, Li M, Lin M, Cui D, Xie J

“…More recently, attempts have been made to treat tumours, autoimmune diseases, and viral diseases by altering the breakdown of glutamine in T cells. In this review, we will discuss the current knowledge of glutaminolysis in the CD4+ T cell subsets from viral diseases, not only increasing our understanding of immunometabolism but also providing a new perspective for therapeutic target in viral diseases.Keywords: CD4+ T cells, viral diseases, glutamine, glutaminolysis, immune response…”
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Combining Reliability-Centered Maintenance with Planning Methodology and Applications in Hard Chrome Plating Plants by B. Suthep, Tadpon Kullawong

“…Also, this research aims to reduce machine downtime maintenance that stems from machine breakdown and to select preventive maintenance activities based on the engineering reliability for the machine parts. …”
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The Microplastics Cycle: An In-Depth Look at a Complex Topic by Kishore Kumar Gopalakrishnan, Rohith Sivakumar, Donna Kashian

“…Microplastics, or plastic particles smaller than 5 mm in size, have become ubiquitous in the environment, found in places ranging from remote deep ocean trenches to minute dust particulates. From the breakdown of larger plastic products and the release of synthetic clothing fibers, these particles enter the ecosystem and cycle through the various components including aquatic, terrestrial, and human systems. …”
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"A house divided against itself cannot stand": true woman and the civil war by Hand, Charlotte Jesamin

“…Divided Houses, a study on gender in the civil war, has shown that wartime necessity destabilised traditional structures, resulting in the breakdown of rigid gender categories and sexual barriers. …”
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