Choice of props for courtship dancing in estrildid finches by Masayo Soma, Misaki Nakatani, Nao Ota

“…Captive adult red-cheeked cordon-bleus (Uraeginthus bengalus) and star finches (Neochmia ruficauda) were presented with different string lengths in choice tests, and results were compared with those obtained from field observations of courtship displays among U. bengalus and blue-capped cordon-bleus (Uraeginthus cyanocephalus). Both captive and wild estrildid finches preferred longer strings for displays, which is compatible with the idea that non-bodily ornaments (strings) convey information on the maximum performance potential. …”
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Pisonia Alba Assisted Synthesis of Nanosilver for Wound Healing Activity by Suba Kannaiyan, D. Easwaramoorthi, Karthik Kannan, Andal Gopal, R. Lakshmipathy, Khadijah Mohammedsaleh Katubi, Nayef S. Almuaikel, Ivan Leandro Rodriguez Rico

“…Using DLS and Zeta potential analysis, the size and stability of the Pisonia Alba capped silver nanoparticle were investigated. The results showed that Pisonia Alba extract stabilized silver nanoparticles are 63.88 nm in size and have a spherical shape. …”
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Tantalum airbridges for scalable superconducting quantum processors by Kunliang Bu, Sainan Huai, Zhenxing Zhang, Dengfeng Li, Yuan Li, Jingjing Hu, Xiaopei Yang, Maochun Dai, Tianqi Cai, Yi-Cong Zheng, Shengyu Zhang

“…Here, we propose a novel lift-off method for fabricating tantalum airbridges with separate or fully-capped structures. This method introduces an aluminum film as a barrier layer to separate two layers of photoresist, which is then etched away before depositing tantalum film. …”
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Practice Patterns for N-acetylcysteine Dosing for Acetaminophen Toxicity in the United States by Michael Thomas, Christopher Edwards, Amanda Dunlap

“…The weight for dosing was commonly capped at 100 kg, but some institutions did not use a maximum. …”
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A Simple and Improved HPLC-PDA Method for Simultaneous Estimation of Fexofenadine and Pseudoephedrine in Extended Release Tablets by Response Surface Methodology by Ruhul Kayesh, A. S. M. Moniruzzaman Sarker, Md. Zakir Sultan, Md. Sarowar Jahan

“…Separation was achieved on double end-capped C18 column (250 mm × 4 mm, 5 μm). In this experiment, two components of mobile phase, namely, acetonitrile (% v/v) and methanol (% v/v), were the factors whereas retention and resolution of the chromatographic peaks were the responses. …”
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The limits of restrictions on free competition in the state of emergency—the Hungarian fuel and food retail price maximisation in the light of the Hungarian constitutional court’s,... by Csaba Erdős, Viktória Verebélyi, László Knapp

“…Economic regulation was no exception: in 2021, the Government capped the retail price of fuel, and from February 2022 onwards, the retail price of several basic foodstuffs (including flour, sugar, milk, chicken breast and other meats, and later eggs and potatoes). …”
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Could the Inflation Reduction Act Maximum Fair Price Hurt Patients? by Anne M. Sydor, Esteban Rivera, Robert Popovian

“…**Background:** The Inflation Reduction Act’s Medicare Drug Price Negotiation Program allows the federal government to negotiate caps for select medications. These price caps may reduce revenue for the pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) that negotiate the actual price paid for medicines in the U.S. …”
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Longyearbyen CO2 lab project—from a vision of a CO2-neutral Svalbard to a geoscience data eldorado by Kim Senger, Peter Betlem, Alvar Braathen, Snorre Olaussen, Gunnar Sand

“…The geological ingredients for successful CO2 storage are in place, comprising a ca. 300 m thick, sandstone-dominated reservoir rock capped by an impermeable mudstone-dominated succession. …”
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Loss of correlated proteasomal subunit expression selectively promotes the 20SHigh state which underlies luminal breast tumorigenicity by Rangapriya Sundararajan, Shubhada R. Hegde, Ashish Kumar Panda, Joel Christie, Nikhil Gadewal, Prasanna Venkatraman

“…As seen in luminal BrCa cell lines, this imbalance limits the number of double-capped 19S-20S-19S holocomplexes (30S) formed and promotes free 20S catalytic core accumulation that is widely-believed to confer survival advantage to tumors. …”
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Hydrocarbon potential in the Northern Egyptian Red Sea: insights from geophysical datasets and analysis of onshore marginal outcrop analogues and subsurface sequences by Ahmed M. Noureldin, Mustafa Hassan, Mohamed Farouk, Walid M. Mabrouk, Ahmed E. Radwan, Ahmed Metwally

“…The findings highlight that pre- and syn-rift organic-rich source units in the NERS could generate oil and gas, similar to the capped reservoirs of the Southern Gulf of Suez. The study also reveals that both regions (NERS and SGOS) were influenced by the Levant-Aqaba transform fault influenced both regions (NERS and SGOS), resulting in southwest-dipping strata, replicating the Northern Gulf of Suez structural style. …”
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Green Synthesis of Iron Oxide Nanoparticles and Their Antibacterial Efficacy against Carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae in Bloodstream Infections by Rahul Harikumar Lathakumari, Leela Kakithakara Vajravelu, Jayaprakash Thulukanam, Vishnupriya Panneerselvam, Poornima Baskar Vimala, Dakshina Manoj Nair, Sujith Sri Surya Ravi

“…The minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) for both bare and capped nanoparticles was determined to assess their effectiveness against CRKP. …”
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Depositional Environments and Soft Sediment Deformation in the Early Jurassic Ammonitico Rosso Formation of Western Greece by Vasilis Golfinopoulos, David J. W. Piper, Avraam Zelilidis, Georgia Pe-Piper, Penelope Papadopoulou, Nicolina Bourli, George Iliopoulos

“…The entire Ammonitico Rosso Formation is allochthonous, deposited as repetitive slices of little-disturbed stratified sediments capped by debrites near the toe of a complex submarine landslide. …”
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Antibacterial Activity and Mechanisms of Action of Inorganic Nanoparticles against Foodborne Bacterial Pathogens: A Systematic Review by Abayeneh Girma, Birhanu Abera, Bawoke Mekuye, Gedefaw Mebratie

“…In the present study, small-sized, spherical-shaped, engineered, capped, low-dissolution with water, high-concentration NPs, and in Gram-negative bacterial types had high antibacterial activity as compared to their counterparts. …”
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Inhibitory effects of cadmium and hydrophilic cadmium telluride quantum dots on the white rot fungus Phanerochaete velutina by Florian Part, Christian Zafiu, Eva-Kathrin Ehmoser, Mika A. Kähkönen

“…The white rot fungus P. velutina was investigated for its ability to decolorize the reactive textile dye Reactive Black 5 (RB5) that was co-exposed to CdCl2 and quantum dots (QDs) consisting of a CdTe core capped with two different hydrophilic organic ligands (NAC and MPA). …”
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Slow Relaxation of the Magnetisation in a Two-Dimensional Metal–Organic Framework with a Layered Square Lattice by Samia Benmansour, Christian Cerezo-Navarrete, Carlos J. Gómez-García

“…There is an additional coordinated water molecule that occupies the caped position of the capped square antiprismatic coordination geometry around the Ln^III centres. …”
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Insights into semi-continuous synthesis of iron oxide nanoparticles (IONPs) via thermal decomposition of iron oleate by Egon Götz Höfgen, Sulalit Bandyopadhyay

“…An oxidative phase transfer was used to mitigate the key challenge of hydrophobicity of oleate-capped IONPs, enabling their potential use in biomedical applications. …”
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Discrete coordination nanochains based on photoluminescent dyes reveal intrachain exciton migration dynamics by Ryojun Toyoda, Naoya Fukui, Haru Taniguchi, Hiroki Uratani, Joe Komeda, Yuta Chiba, Hikaru Takaya, Hiroshi Nishihara, Ryota Sakamoto

“…Here we present the creation of unique end-capped coordination nanochains and quantitative description of intrachain exciton migration therein. …”
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Experimental Study on the Uplift Bearing Capacity of Pre-Drilled Planted Piles in Isolated Stone Strata Based on Transparent Soil Technology by Wenli Liao, Qipeng Cai, Xiangyu Guo, Hao Lin, Jiajin Zhou, Shizhuo Su

“…A visualization testing system for pile-soil deformation is developed using Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV) technology and transparent soil, conducting non-intrusive model tests on pile-planting and boulder-capped piles under different uplift load conditions, and comparing the results with a discrete-continuous coupled three-dimensional numerical model analysis. …”
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Wound healing potential of green synthesized silver nanoparticles of Glycyrrhiza glabra linn root extract: A preclinical study by Laxman S. Vijapur, Mallappa Shalavadi, Anita R. Desai, Jayadev N. Hiremath, Avinash S. Gudigennavar, Somlingesh L. Shidramshettar, Shreyanka R. Hiremath, Malleswara Rao Peram, Bharatesh S. Kittur

“…The presence of tannins, saponins, flavonoids, and phenols in plant extract caused the capping and bio-reduction of silver, as demonstrated by FTIR. …”
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Braiding archaeology, geomorphology and indigenous knowledge to improve the understanding of local-scale coastal change by Benjamin D. Jones, Mark E. Dickson, Murray Ford, Daniel Hikuroa, Emma Ryan, Ari Carrington, Juliane Chetham

“…Vertical stratigraphy reveals the presence of midden and palaeosol deposits capped by dune sand deposits in the foredune, indicating that vertical accretion of the foredune continued over the last ~200 years, despite the barrier now being in an eroding state. …”
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