Soft Materials by Design: Unconventional Polymer Networks Give Extreme Properties
Hydrogels are polymer networks infiltrated with water. Many biological hydrogels in animal bodies such as muscles, heart valves, cartilages, and tendons possess extreme mechanical properties including being extremely tough, strong, resilient, adhesive ...
Xuanhe Zhao, Xiaoyu Chen, Hyunwoo Yuk
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Bone marrow-derived monocytes give rise to self-renewing and fully differentiated Kupffer cells
Self-renewing tissue-resident macrophages are thought to be exclusively derived from embryonic progenitors. However, whether circulating monocytes can also give rise to such macrophages has not been formally investigated.
Charlotte L Scott +2 more
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Evaluating Semen Parameters for Predictive Correlations Between Fresh and Delayed Analysis Using an At-Home Semen Collection Kit [PDF]
Male factor infertility contributes to nearly half of all infertility cases, yet timely semen analysis is often hindered by logistical and psychosocial barriers.
Unika Alexander +4 more
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A Critique on the Book Ressentiment [PDF]
The purpose of this article is to review and critique one of the most important books of Max Scheller called Ressentiment. This research has been done by the descriptive-analytical method.
Ali Yaghoobi Choobari +1 more
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Give: Transatlantic Collaboration Through Conversation
Artistic collaborators Kate Ledger (pianist) and Ray Evanoff (composer) discuss their working process in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic. Conversation provides the model and impetus for this process, an ongoing responsive exchange in which their ...
Ray Evanoff, Kate Ledger
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The Manna Motif in The Lord’s Prayer In Matthew 6: 11 And Luke 11: 3 [PDF]
It is generally accepted that the writer of the Gospel of Matthew had the Jewish Christian community as his target readers. This paper draws on this basic fact to advance the hypothesis that the author had in mind the provision of daily sustenance to the
Dziedzorm Reuben Asafo
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Polyfunctionality of ‘Give’ in Hui Varieties of Chinese: A Typological and Areal Perspective
The morpheme ‘give’ is among the most well-studied lexical items in the realm of grammaticalization. This study sets out to provide a typological and areal analysis of the distinct forms and multiple functions of ‘give’ in 27 varieties of Hui Chinese, a ...
Wen Lu, Pui Yiu Szeto
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Implementation science should give higher priority to health equity
Background There is growing urgency to tackle issues of equity and justice in the USA and worldwide. Health equity, a framing that moves away from a deficit mindset of what society is doing poorly (disparities) to one that is positive about what society ...
R. Brownson +3 more
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Semen parameter variability among users of at-home sperm testing kits
Background Despite the generally accepted World Health Organization guidelines on semen analysis, an individual’s results can display significant variation when performed across time or in different laboratories.
Yana Aznavour +6 more
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Don’t Give Me the Details, Just the Summary! Topic-Aware Convolutional Neural Networks for Extreme Summarization [PDF]
We introduce “extreme summarization”, a new single-document summarization task which does not favor extractive strategies and calls for an abstractive modeling approach.
Shashi Narayan +2 more
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