A membrane-targeted photoswitch restores physiological ON/OFF responses to light in the degenerate retina by Gaia Ziraldo, Sara Cupini, Valentina Sesti, Emanuela Delfino, Guglielmo Lanzani, Chiara Bertarelli, Fabio Benfenati, Stefano Di Marco

“…Here, we show that Ziapin2, a membrane photoswitch that modulates neuronal capacitance and excitability in a light-dependent manner, is capable of reinstating, in mouse and rat genetic models of photoreceptor degeneration, brisk and sluggish ON, OFF, and ON-OFF responses in retinal ganglion cells evoked by full-field stimuli, with reactivation of their excitatory and inhibitory conductances. …”
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Strategic Uncertainty in Markets for Nonrenewable Resources: A Level-k Approach by Ingmar Vierhaus, Roel van Veldhuizen, Armin Fügenschuh

“…This study instead uses a level-k approach to examine cases where the focal agent is uncertain about the strategy of his opponent or predicts that the opponent will act in a nonsophisticated manner. Level-0 players are randomized uniformly across all possible actions, and level-k players best respond to the action of player k-1. …”
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Preparation, Physicochemical Characterization, and Microrobotics Applications of Polyvinyl Chloride- (PVC-) Based PANI/PEDOT: PSS/ZrP Composite Cation-Exchange Membrane by Mohd Imran Ahamed, Inamuddin, Abdullah M. Asiri, Mohammad Luqman, Lutfullah

“…The outcomes demonstrated that the manufactured ionomeric membrane could produce generative strengths (tip powers), and consequently create good displacement. In this manner, the proposed ionomeric membrane was found proper for bending movement actuator that will give a successful and promising stage for smaller-scale mechanical applications.…”
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Intelligent Controllers for Multirobot Competitive and Dynamic Tracking by Mei Liu, Shuai Li, Xiaodi Li, Long Jin, Chenfu Yi, Zhiguan Huang

“…Finally, illustrative examples are provided and analyzed to substantiate the efficacy of the proposed models for tracking moving target in a competition manner with all-to-all communications and limited communications.…”
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The neoliberal roots of modern vaccine hesitancy by Chris Sanders, Kristin Burnett

“…Understanding the socio-political meanings that lay people assign to vaccines and the manner in which they communicate these concerns via media is essential for public health practitioners to consider when formulating immunization policy and education praxis. …”
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Un-quaring San Francisco in Milk and Test by Clayton Dillard

“…While it is perhaps unsurprising that Milk, a prestige Hollywood film, engages homonormative depictions of queerness, the fact that Test, an American indie, presents San Francisco in a similar manner demonstrates how pernicious this discourse is and that it persists no matter the industrial formation.…”
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Rougissement littéraire by Ina Schenker

“…It points out that in neighbouring France in particular, there has been an intensive discussion of social origins for some time now, partly on the basis of literary and essayistic voices that deal with people’s origins and those of their parents’ generation in an autobiographical manner. Contemporary German-language literature takes up this thread, but increasingly ties it in with the present and opens up perspectives on the lives of class shame that are detached from auto-sociobiography. …”
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What’s going on at the bus stop? The impact of Auckland’s real time passenger information system on patrons timespace perceptions by Phillipa Mitchell

“…This paper proposes that such technologies are causing more than just the compression of space by time. By embedding the mundane activity of catching the bus in the coded spaces of the RTPISP System new conditions of possibility are emerging allowing these bus patrons to constitute alternative timespaces while waiting for the bus, timespaces which they previously were unable or unwilling to access.…”
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Numerical Simulation for a Three-Dimensional Air Pollution Measurement Model in a Heavy Traffic Area under the Bangkok Sky Train Platform by Kewalee Suebyat, Nopparat Pochai

“…The simulation is also considered in averaged and moving pollutant sources due to manner vehicle emission. The proposed approximated air pollutant concentration indicators can be replaced by user required gaseous pollutants indices such as NOx, SO2, CO, and PM2.5.…”
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Population Dynamics from Peripheral Regions: A North Atlantic Perspective by Godfrey Baldacchino

“…It cautions against the simplified and false dichotomy between gentrification and depopulation, calling rather for a more fluid appreciation of the manner in which people exploit opportunities for mobility as they connect with, and from, peripheral places. …”
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Radical reflexivity, experimental ontology and RRI by Robert Braun

“…To do so the paper offers an analysis of in what manner current RRI discourse builds on old subject-object ontologies and relies on an outdated worldview. …”
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Imitation and the development of infant learning, memory, and categorisation by Emily JH Jones, Jane S Herbert

“…Across early development there are dramatic changes in the duration over which information can be retained and the ability of infants to retrieve and express their memories in a flexible manner, which enables them to solve new problems. …”
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Metformin Suppressed CXCL8 Expression and Cell Migration in HEK293/TLR4 Cell Line by Zhihui Xiao, Wenjun Wu, Vladimir Poltoratsky

“…Our data indicated that metformin suppressed LPS-induced CXCL8 expression in a dose-dependent manner through inhibiting NF-κB, but not AP-1 and C/EBP, activities under the conditions we used. …”
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Accidental Oral Injuries by Electric Toothbrush: A Report of Three Cases by Miki Yamada, Shunsuke Hino, Satoshi Nakamura, Yosuke Iijima, Takahiro Kaneko, Norio Horie

“…Electric toothbrushes can cause oral penetrating injuries and infections in the same manner as manual toothbrushes. Prevention of oral trauma requires familiarity with the form and function of electric toothbrushes. …”
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LPA Promotes T Cell Recruitment through Synthesis of CXCL13 by Weili Hui, Chenqi Zhao, Sylvain G. Bourgoin

“…Here we report in a murine air pouch model of inflammation that LPA induced CXCL13 secretion in a time-dependent manner and with exacerbation of the response when LPA was administered after a pretreatment with TNF-α, a key inflammatory cytokine. …”
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Historic Preservation, Complexity, and the Shadow of Monumentality: The Case of Lutyens’ Delhi by Cem Kayatekin

“…One of the more layered arguments given for such a manner of preservation is that presented by Buch (2003) which pulls from a wide breadth of perspectives, ranging from basic arguments of architectural legacy to those which extrapolate connections between the Vastu Purusha and the masterplan inherent to Lutyens’ Delhi. …”
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GOLF: A Singing Voice Synthesiser with Glottal Flow Wavetables and LPC Filters by Chin-Yun Yu, György Fazekas

“…Additionally, we demonstrate that GOLF implicitly learns to model the phase components and formants of the human voice, having the potential to control and analyse singing voices in a differentiable manner. Our results highlight the effectiveness of incorporating the physical properties of the voice production mechanism into SVS and underscore the advantages of signal-processing-based approaches, which offer greater interpretability and efficiency in synthesis.…”
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“The Enchanted Hunters and the Hunted Enchanters: the dizzying effects of embedded structures and meta-artistic devices in Lolita, novel and film” by Marie Bouchet

“…This paper explores some of the various mises en abyme and metatextual devices in Nabokov’s and Kubrick’s Lolita, so as to explore how such devices create a poetics of reflections, and themselves reflect the manner in which the relationship to the reader/spectator is engaged by the literary and filmic narratives. …”
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Partial Storage Optimization and Load Control Strategy of Cloud Data Centers by Klaithem Al Nuaimi, Nader Mohamed, Mariam Al Nuaimi, Jameela Al-Jaroodi

“…Moreover, performance is also increased since multiple cloud servers will collaborate to provide the data to the cloud clients in a faster manner.…”
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Population Dynamics from Peripheral Regions: A North Atlantic Perspective by Godfrey Baldacchino

“…It cautions against the simplified and false dichotomy between gentrification and depopulation, calling rather for a more fluid appreciation of the manner in which people exploit opportunities for mobility as they connect with, and from, peripheral places. …”
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