Insilico targeting of virus entry facilitator NRP1 to block SARS-CoV2 entry. by Nousheen Bibi, Maleeha Shah, Shahzad Khan, Muhammad Shahzad Chohan, Mohammad Amjad Kamal

“…SARS-CoV-2, the virus responsible for COVID-19, utilizes the spike (S) protein to attach to and enter host cells. Recent studies have identified neuropilin-1 (NRP1) as a crucial facilitator for the entry of SARS-CoV-2. …”
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Enhancing performance of recycled aggregate concrete with supplementary cementitious materials by Abba Fatiha, Ezziane Karim, Adjoudj Mhamed, Abed Farid

“…Unfortunately, RCA is of poor quality due to the presence of old mortar attached to its surface. It is characterized by its low density, high absorption, low rigidity and a poor quality interfacial transition zone (ITZ) which results in a lower quality concrete. …”
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Performance of Polymer Composite Constituted Cabinet Dryer Integrated within a Solar Flat Plate Collector by S. Raj Sachin, Anton M. Kuzmin, Subramanian Krishnakumar, Anandhan Jayaganthan, Yesgat Admassu

“…This work also studies the efficiency of the polymer composite cabinet integrated with a flat plate solar collector system that is coated with copper and black chrome attached to corrugated fins in between the absorber plate and storage medium. …”
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EVALUATING LOYALTY IN SOUTH AFRICA’S HOTEL INDUSTRY: THE EFFECT OF SERVICE QUALITY AND BRAND EQUITY by Sharmila Ragunanan, Michael C. Cant, Johannes A. Wiid

“…This study aimed to evaluate the effect of service quality and brand equity on customer loyalty in South Africa’s hotel industry and explored the mediating effects of tangibles, responsiveness, reliability, empathy, and assurance on customer loyalty through service quality, as well as the mediating effects of brand attachment and brand attitude on customer loyalty through brand equity. …”
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‘This settlement is just a launch pad to move to better city spaces’: radical sense of place and migration aspirations among youth migrants in the diaspora by Johannes Bhanye, Abraham Matamanda, Ruvimbo Shayamunda

“…Unlike traditional conceptions of diaspora that emphasize long-term settlement and place attachment, this study introduces the concept of a ‘radical sense of place,’ where the settlement is viewed not as a permanent home but as a temporary staging ground for future aspirations. …”
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Effects of rural industrial integration development on the performance of entrepreneurial enterprises of returning college students by Yan Lu, Yun Yu, Guoqing Wu

“…At the same time, the government should actively guide agricultural enterprises to develop in the direction of internal integration of planting and breeding, three-dimensional agriculture, and other industries, extend the length of the industrial chain, broaden the width of the industrial chain, and deepen the depth of industrial integration, so as to optimize the external environment for college students to return home and start businesses. (2) In the process of returning to their hometowns to start businesses, college students should attach importance to improving internal technological innovation capability and cooperation development capability, cultivate “internal strengths”, and comprehensively improve enterprise performance.…”
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Who’s In and Who’s Out? War News from Mexico and the Framing of Evil by Alan Hirsch

“…Woodville’s awareness of his power (and impotence, as he could hardly stop slavery) helps explain the painting’s most idiosyncratic feature: a peacock feather attached to the black man’s hat. In the myth of Argus, the hundred-eyed giant wins the favor of Juno by using his hyper-optic capacity for her benefit. …”
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Guiding Maxillary Left Central Incisor to Occlusion and Late Formation of a Supernumerary Tooth in the Upper Left Premolar Region by I. A. Alnaqbi, A. O. Mageet

“…O.A. is an 11-year, eight-month-old male, African patient presented to the orthodontic clinic with a chief complaint “My upper front tooth did not erupt although the dentist attached a wire to pull it with the help of a neighbouring tooth.” …”
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Wild animals connect us with nature: about awe, eco-pedagogy, and nature-connectedness by Theresa S. S. Schilhab, Gertrud L. Esbensen

“…This recognisability may intuitively pique children’s interest and thus initiate a budding emotional attachment to and understanding of nature. This article offers a theoretical framework for how children’s experiences of local wildlife may influence their opportunities to develop nature connectedness. …”
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Structural basis for c-di-GMP-mediated inside-out signaling controlling periplasmic proteolysis. by Marcos V A S Navarro, Peter D Newell, Petya V Krasteva, Debashree Chatterjee, Dean R Madden, George A O'Toole, Holger Sondermann

“…Increased cellular c-di-GMP levels lead to stable cell attachment, which in Pseudomonas fluorescens requires the transmembrane receptor LapD. …”
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Pochodzenie rodu Branickich herbu Gryf. Pogląd historyka ustroju i prawa by Tomasz Kruszewski

“…As we can see, the scholar attached importance only to the facts resulting from existing, remaining sources. …”
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Carrier-independent screen-shooting resistant watermarking based on information overlay superimposition by Xiaomeng LI, Daidou GUO, Xunfang ZHUO, Heng YAO, Chuan QIN

“…Financial security, an important part of national security, is critical for the stable and healthy development of the economy.Digital image watermarking technology plays a crucial role in the field of financial information security, and the anti-screen watermarking algorithm has become a new research focus of digital image watermarking technology.The common way to achieve an invisible watermark in existing watermarking schemes is to modify the carrier image, which is not suitable for all types of images.To solve this problem, an end-to-end robust watermarking scheme based on deep learning was proposed.The algorithm achieved both visual quality and robustness of the watermark image.A random binary string served as the input of the encoder network in the proposed end-to-end network architecture.The encoder can generate the watermark information overlay, which can be attached to any carrier image after training.The ability to resist screen shooting noise was learned by the model through mathematical methods incorporated in the network to simulate the distortion generated during screen shooting.The visual quality of the watermark image was further improved by adding the image JND loss based on just perceptible difference.Moreover, an embedding hyperparameter was introduced in the training phase to balance the visual quality and robustness of the watermarked image adaptively.A watermark model suitable for different scenarios can be obtained by changing the size of the embedding hyperparameter.The visual quality and robustness performance of the proposed scheme and the current state-of-the-art algorithms were evaluated to verify the effectiveness of the proposed scheme.The results show that the watermark image generated by the proposed scheme has better visual quality and can accurately restore the embedded watermark information in robustness experiments under different distances, angles, lighting conditions, display devices, and shooting devices.…”
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Biomedical application of gelatin-PVA-silk fibre composite reinforced with copper and manganese substituted hydroxyapatite by Sabareeswari Kalidas, Shanmugam Sumathi

“…The cell-viability study showed that MG-63 cells had successfully attached and grown on the scaffold surface. From the ALP activity it was found that osteoblast mineralization on the scaffolds increased as increasing the time interval. …”
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Correlation of Serum and Gingival Crevicular Fluid Levels of Caspase-3 and Milk Fat Globule–Epidermal Growth Factor 8 on Gingival Health by Manonmani Pavithra Ravindran, A Geetha, Sathish Rajendran, Jaideep Mahendra, M Jyothi, Ambalavanan Namasivayam

“…After recording the periodontal parameters (plaque index (PI), modified gingival index (MGI), probing depth (PD) and clinical attachment level (CAL)), the serum and GCF samples were collected and the levels of caspase-3 and MFG-E8 were estimated using enzyme-linked immunoassay (ELISA). …”
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Drinking Water Treatment Residuals to Control Phosphorus in Soils by Jonathan D. Judy, Maria L. Silveira, Sampson Agyin-Birikorang, George O'Connor, Thomas A. Obreza

“…Excess P in soil does not damage soil fertility but can be transported from agricultural and urban areas either dissolved in water that drains away or as particulate matter (attached to soil particles) that travels with eroding soil.  …”
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INFLUENCE OF FIRM CHARACTERISTICS ON LOAN APPROVAL FOR SMEs IN NORTH CENTRAL NIGERIA: BANKERS’ PERCEPTION by Lukman Adebayo Oke, Yusuf Olamilekan Quadri, Daud Omotosho Saheed

“…The study concluded that while banks attach greater importance to firm size, firm age and location in their loan decision for SMEs, they also give consideration though lesser, to other factors. …”
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PRIORITISATION OF ON-CAMPUS UNIVERSITY STUDENT HOUSING FACILITY SPACES by Fredrick Simpeh, Winston Shakantu

“…This paper, therefore, determined the levels of importance and priorities students attach to the various spaces required in a Student Housing Facility (SHF). …”
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Autobodies: Detectives, Disorders, and Getting out of the Neighborhood by James Peacock

“…Each character is unusually attached to his home neighborhood: Essrog to Court Street in Brooklyn and Genevich to South Boston. …”
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An Optimized Anti-adherence and Anti-biofilm Assay: Case Study of Zinc Oxide Nanoparticles versus MRSA Biofilm by Hefa Mangzira Kemung, Loh Teng-Hern Tan, Kooi Yeong Khaw, Yong Sze Ong, Chim Kei Chan, Darren Yi Sern Low, Siah Ying Tang, Bey-Hing Goh

“…The ZnO-NPs effectively prevented attachment of bacterial cells onto walls of wells with 51.69 ± 2.55% at the highest concentration tested (65.4 µg/mL). …”
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Numerical Study of the Aerodynamics of a Hovering Hummingbird’s Wing with Dynamic Morphing by Yuanbo Dong, Bifeng Song, Dong Xue, Yuanbo Li, Wenqing Yang

“…This study showed that the leading edge vortex (LEV) attached to the wing was stable during the downstroke but extremely unstable and shed continuously during the upstroke. …”
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