Steering acidic oxygen reduction selectivity of single-atom catalysts through the second sphere effect by Haiyuan Zou, Siyan Shu, Wenqiang Yang, You-chiuan Chu, Minglun Cheng, Hongliang Dong, Hong Liu, Fan Li, Junhui Hu, Zhenbin Wang, Wei Liu, Hao Ming Chen, Lele Duan

“…This work provides an appealed approach for enzyme-like catalyst design, bridging the gap between enzymatic and heterogeneous catalysis.…”
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Performance analysis of insertion loss incorporated hybrid precoding for massive MIMO by Tadele A. Abose, Thomas O. Olwal, Muna M. Mohammed, Murad R. Hassen

“…With a limited RF chain, hybrid analog digital precoding is an appealing alternative. The hybrid precoding approach divides the beamforming process into an analog beamforming network and a digital beamforming network of a reduced size. …”
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Does the high school external examination grades and the type of high school attended impact the academic performance of freshmen university students? by Olumide Sunday Adesina, Lawarence O. Obokoh, Olajumoke Olayemi Salami

“…This study recommends that the government of Nigeria should make public secondary school more appealing to students who cannot afford private secondary schools by putting measures in place to train and employ qualified teachers, and improve teaching and learning conditions. …”
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Role of Information and Communication Technology on Competitive Advantage of Hotels: A Case Study of Cephas Inn Hotel. by Mubangizi, Elijah

“…In terms of the roles of ICT in fostering competitive advantage, many respondents highlighted that ICT improved efficiency, guest satisfaction, and overall performance; however, fewer respondents pointed out that ICT facilitated the creation of visually appealing and user-friendly websites, which encouraged online bookings. …”
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Green Biodiesel Synthesis Using Waste Shells as Sustainable Catalysts with Camelina sativa Oil by Yelda Hangun-Balkir

“…Camelina sativa oil is an appealing crop option as feedstock for biodiesel production because it has high tolerance of cold weather, drought, and low-quality soils and contains approximately 40% oil content. …”
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Crossing language boundaries. The use of English in advertisements in Polish lifestyle magazines by Marta Dąbrowska

“…Advertisers use a variety of strategies to attract as many customers as possible, employing enticing visuals, clever puns, detailed descriptions, direct appeals, etc. Yet, if the product is to sell, it appears self-evident that the language of the advertisement should not constitute a barrier. …”
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Metric-affine cosmological models and the inverse problem of the calculus of variations. Part II: Variational bootstrapping of the $$\Lambda $$ Λ CDM model by Ludovic Ducobu, Nicoleta Voicu

“…This setup is particularly appealing for the construction of modified theories of gravity, since one can take lessons from GR for an “educated guess” of the metric field equations; the field equations for the other fields are then fixed by the obtained Lagrangian (up to terms that are completely independent from the metric tensor). …”
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Compensating Sparse-view Inline Computed Tomography Artifacts with Neural Representation and Incremental Forward-Backward Network Architecture by Manuel Buchfink, Faizan Ahmad, Guangpu Yang, Ammar Alsaffar, Charles Clark, Ahmed Baraka, Xingyu Liu, Sven Simon

“… Sparse-view computed tomography (CT) is appealing for inline industrial quality control because it can significantly reduce scan acquisition times compared to full-view CT of 1-2 hours to a few minutes. …”
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Social Undertones in William Robinson’s Crusade Against ‘Architects’ Gardens’: a ‘Costly Ugliness to Our Beautiful Home-landscapes’ (Robinson 1892, XIII) by Aurélien Wasilewski

“…This natural aesthetics also theoretically entailed less care and fewer costs, which appealed to aspiring Victorian middle-classes who could acquire and share horticultural knowledge in the columns of Robinson’s popular gardening magazines. …”
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Coupling Metallic Nanostructures to Thermally Responsive Polymers Allows the Development of Intelligent Responsive Membranes by J. Rubén Morones-Ramírez

“…Development of porous membranes capable of controlling flow or changing their permeability to specific chemical entities, in response to small changes in environmental stimuli, is an area of appealing research, since these membranes present a wide variety of applications. …”
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A Reduced-Order Model of Lithium–Sulfur Battery Discharge by Noushin Haddad, Hosam K. Fathy

“…The importance of this problem stems from the attractive specific energy levels achievable by Li-S batteries, which can be particularly appealing for applications such as aviation electrification. …”
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The Image of Central European Immigrant in Popular Fiction and Its Adaptations: A Case Study of the Detective Murdoch/Murdoch Mysteries Series by Biljana Oklopcic

“…Westerns, fantasies, romances, mysteries, science fiction, adventures, etc. must have a certain kind of setting, a particular cast of (stereotypical) characters, and follow a limited number of lines of action because of their close connection to a particular society, culture, and time period. Although appealing to a great number of readers, this limited repertory of (stereotypical) characters, plots, and settings is founded on a canonized discourse, resting on a cultural and social personification—a description, a code, a projection, which legitimizes and authorizes the interpretation of culture and nature, masculinity and femininity, superiority and inferiority, power and subordination, therefore reflecting specific cultures’ interests, values, beliefs, and tensions, and implicitly or explicitly providing insights into specific cultures’ anxieties and aspirations. …”
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La collaboration dans le travail en groupe en contexte d’examen collaboratif à l’université by Diane Leduc, Mathilde Cambron-Goulet, André-Sébastien Aubin, Audrey Raynault

“…Landry's model (2010) appealed to us because it synthesizes all the processes at work in any small group. …”
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Combined Performance of Polyethylene Terephthalate Waste Plastic Polymer and Crumb Rubber in Modifying Properties of Hot Mix Asphalt by Getnet Mekuria Alemu, Damtew Tsige Melese, Teyba Wedajo Mahdi, Adamu Beyene Negesa

“…Nowadays, the use of recycled waste materials in road pavement is regarded not only as a positive option in terms of sustainability but also as an appealing option in terms of providing improved service performance. …”
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Product Color Design Concept that Considers Human Emotion Perception: Based on Deep Learning and Cluster Analysis by Anqi Gao, Yantao Zhong

“…Thoughtfully designed emotionally appealing products can evoke strong user responses, making them more attractive. …”
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Black Pepper (Piper nigrum) for Tobacco Withdrawal: A Case Report by Jeremy Weleff, Samyukta Dore, Akhil Anand, Brian S. Barnett

“…Though combusted black pepper is highly unlikely to be an appealing treatment outside of a correctional setting, this case suggests that further investigation of vaporized black pepper essential oil for tobacco cessation may be warranted.…”
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IMAGE OF RUSSIA AND RUSSIANS IN POLISH HISTORICAL FILMS (ON MATERIALS OF EXPERT INTERVIEWS) by S. I. Belov

“…For the formation of appropriate images, manipulative practices based on appealing to the sphere of emotions and using symbols with archetypal implication were used. …”
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Reducing Cross-Sensor Domain Gaps in Tactile Sensing via Few-Sample-Driven Style-to-Content Unsupervised Domain Adaptation by Xingshuo Jing, Kun Qian

“…Transferring knowledge learned from standard GelSight sensors to other visuotactile sensors is appealing for reducing data collection and annotation. …”
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Drone-View Haze Removal via Regional Saturation-Value Translation and Soft Segmentation by Truong-Dong do, Le-Anh Tran, Seokyong Moon, Jio Chung, Ngoc-Phi Nguyen, Sung Kyung Hong

“…Experimental evaluations across various datasets demonstrate that the proposed approach effectively mitigates color distortion and successfully restores visually appealing images. Moreover, a case study involving actual flight test demonstrates the feasibility and effectiveness of the proposed approach in real-world scenarios. …”
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