Combatting virulent gut bacteria by inhibiting the biosynthesis of a two-component lanthipeptide toxin by Ryan Moreira, Bidisha Chakraborty, Yi Yang, Chandrashekhar Padhi, Michael S. Gilmore, Satish K. Nair, Wilfred A. van der Donk

“…A series of α-aminopeptide boronic acids are designed and synthesized that block cytolysin maturation at low micromolar to nanomolar concentrations in vitro. A crystal structure of CylA provides insights into substrate recognition, autocatalytic activation of the enzyme, and toxin maturation. …”
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Compensation of the Thermal Effect in a Mounted Microbubble Resonator by Zheng-Yu Wang, Hong-Liang Ren, Hong-Yi Qiao, Rui Niu, Guang-Can Guo, Chun-Hua Dong

“…This temperature-insensitive feature of the resonance establishes a new avenue towards athermal microresonator through this special structure.…”
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Buck-Boost/Forward Hybrid Converter for PV Energy Conversion Applications by Sheng-Yu Tseng, Chien-Chih Chen, Hung-Yuan Wang

“…To simplify the circuit structure of the proposed hybrid converter, switches of two converters are integrated with the switch integration technique. …”
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Ultrasensitive Terahertz Imaging Sensors Based on the Strong Coupling of Surface Phonon Polariton and Graphene Surface Plasmon Polariton by Jiaqi Zhu, Banxian Ruan, Qi You, Leiming Wu, Houzhi Cai, Xiaoyu Dai, Yuanjiang Xiang

“…We propose a hybrid structure based on SPhPs mode with CsI and SPPs mode with graphene in THz spectral ranges. …”
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A Stacked Microstrip Antenna Array with Fractal Patches by Xueyao Ren, Xing Chen, Yufeng Liu, Wei Jin, Kama Huang

“…A novel microstrip antenna array, which utilizes Giuseppe Peano fractal shaped patches as its radiation elements and adopts a two-layer stacked structure for achieving both wideband and high-gain properties, is proposed. …”
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PSYCHOLOGICAL FEATURES IN PATIENTS WITH CORONARY HEART DISEASE (MEN AND WOMEN) PRIOR TO CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFTING DEPENDING ON THEIR INVOLVEMENT IN THE INDIVIDUAL PSYCHO-COR... by D. A. Starunskaya, A. A. Velikanov, Ju. L. Levashkevich, E. I. Lubinskaya, E. A. Demchenko

“…Furthermore, on average, the «self-awareness» and «extraversion» were more manifested features in the structure of the personality traits of the surveyed patients. …”
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A qualitative analysis of the psychedelic mushroom come-up and come-down by Ari Brouwer, Joshua K. Brown, Earth Erowid, Fire Erowid, Sylvia Thyssen, Charles L. Raison, Robin L. Carhart-Harris

“…However, there may be an underrecognized temporal structure to this process that helps explain why psychedelic and related altered states of consciousness can have an initially distressing but ultimately distress-resolving effect. …”
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Neural Network Identification of a Racing Car Tire Model by Jianfeng Wang, Yiqun Liu, Liang Ding, Jun Li, Haibo Gao, Yuhan Liang, Tianyao Sun

“…In order to meet the demands of small race car dynamics simulation, a new method of parameter identification in the Magic Formula tire model is presented in this work, based on an analysis of the Magic Formula tire model structure. A high-precision tire model used for vehicle dynamics simulation is established via this method. …”
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Community Forest Management and REDD+: Pathways to Effective Implementation, Livelihood Improvement, and Climate Change Adaptation in Cambodia by Chaly Y, Karen F. Hytten, Diane Pearson

“…This review highlights the need for stronger community engagement, a robust conflict management structure, clear land tenure policies, equitable benefit-sharing mechanisms, and more climate change adaptation activities to ensure the success of CFM and REDD+ projects in Cambodia and the Global South.…”
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Study on the Electro-Optical Properties of Polymer-Dispersed Liquid Crystals Doped with Cellulose Nanocrystals by Jiayan Wang, Yan Qiao, Ziyi Yang, Yue Han, Hui Zhang, Zhiguang Li, Guili Zheng, Yanjun Zhang, Lizhi Zhu

“…Meanwhile, the interaction between the film’s fiber structure and the liquid crystal droplets brings about an augmentation in the arrangement efficiency. …”
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Laboratory Tests on Effectiveness of Environment-Friendly Organic Polymer on Physical Properties of Sand by Jin Liu, Zezhuo Song, Yuxia Bai, Zhihao Chen, Jihong Wei, Ying Wang, Wei Qian

“…All the reinforced sands with polymer ≥0.3% remained a stable structure at immersing time of 24 hours. The penetrability of the reinforced sand decreased with the increase of the polymer. …”
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Fault Line Selection of Single Phase Grounding Based on Wavelet Packet Full Frequency Analysis and OS-ELM by JI Wen-lu, ZHAO Xiao-long, ZHANG Ming, YANG Hong-lei, WENG Jia-ming

“…Combining batch and successive iterative，and constantly updating the training data and network structure，to achieve quickly fault line selection of single-phase grounding. …”
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Social Crises: Signatures of Complexity in a Fast-Growing Economy by Juan Pablo Cárdenas, Gerardo Vidal, Carolina Urbina, Gastón Olivares, Pablo Rodrigo, Miguel Fuentes

“…These demands manifest signatures of complexity such as a heterogeneous and rich social structure, which emerges during moments when the society acts strongly.…”
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Investigation of Surface Oxidation of Cast Austenitic 304 Stainless Steel at High Temperatures by Tatiana Ivanova, Michal Kořenek, Miroslav Mashlan, Martin Fryšák

“…The method of positron annihilation was used to study defects and the effect of annealing on the formation and removal of a defect structure.…”
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Rheology of waxy oils: A critical review by Diogo E.V. Andrade, Cezar O.R. Negrão

“…Waxy oil is a rheologically complex material presenting shear-rate-dependent viscosity, static and dynamic yield stresses, gel elasto-viscoplasticity, time/deformation-dependent gel structure, and irreversibility. All these properties depend not only on oil composition and temperature, as with many materials, but also on other parameters, such as shear and thermal histories. …”
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Mapping the coupling between tract reachability and cortical geometry of the human brain by Deying Li, Andrew Zalesky, Yufan Wang, Haiyan Wang, Liang Ma, Luqi Cheng, Tobias Banaschewski, Gareth J. Barker, Arun L. W. Bokde, Rüdiger Brühl, Sylvane Desrivières, Herta Flor, Hugh Garavan, Penny Gowland, Antoine Grigis, Andreas Heinz, Hervé Lemaître, Jean-Luc Martinot, Marie-Laure Paillère Martinot, Eric Artiges, Frauke Nees, Dimitri Papadopoulos Orfanos, Luise Poustka, Michael N. Smolka, Nilakshi Vaidya, Henrik Walter, Robert Whelan, Gunter Schumann, Tianye Jia, Congying Chu, Lingzhong Fan, IMAGEN Consortium

“…However, these two aspects of brain structure are usually examined separately, leaving the essential connections between the brain’s folding patterns and white matter connectivity unexplored. …”
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Electro-acoustic control of radiation impedance for brass instrument timbre shaping: design of a vocalizing mute by Martos Vincent, Boutin Henri, Hélie Thomas, d’Andréa-Novel Brigitte

“…Numerical experiments are presented on the controller, for a simplified trombone model that admits a Kelly-Lochbaum structure (mouthpiece, bore, bell and radiation are cascaded using the transfer matrix method). …”
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The possibility of using high-quality fused magnesia in the manufacture of crucibles for vacuum-induction melting by B. L. Krasnii, K. I. Ikonnikov, V. S. Anikanov, A. L. Galganova, M. A. Mikhailov

“…It has been established that the production of a material based on MgO using concrete technology is limited to the hydration and loosening of the structure due to the formation and subsequent decomposition of brucite (native magnesia). …”
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A Long-Chain Alkylation of Dialdehyde Starch to Improve Its Thermal Stability and Hydrophobicity by Jiang Zhu, Zhaodong Wang, Haitao Ni, Xiang Liu, Jian Ma, Jianxin Du

“…Moreover, the optimized test parameters were obtained by conducting orthogonal experiment. The molecular structure and the morphology of HDAS were characterized via Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) and scanning electron microscope (SEM). …”
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Siamese change detection based on information interaction and fusion network by Yanni Zhang, Lei Yang, Caigen Zhou, Jiachen Wen, Licai Zhu

“…In this paper, we propose: (1) a Feature Information Interaction Module (FIIM) based on spatial attention to enhance semantic information; (2) a Feature Pair Fusion Module (FPFM) with dual-branch structure to model bi-temporal relationships; and (3) a Multi-Scale Supervision Method (MSSM) using contrastive learning to better constrain intermediate features. …”
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