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Evaluating Corruption-Prone Public Procurement Stages for Blockchain Integration Using AHP Approach

Systems
Corruption in public procurement remains a challenge to good governance, especially in developing nations. Blockchain technology has been espoused as a new paradigm for achieving sustainable public procurement practices for effective service delivery and,
Gideon Adjorlolo, Zhiwei Tang, Gladys Wauk, Philip Adu Sarfo, Alhassan Baako Braimah, Richard Blankson Safo, Benedict N-yanyi   +6 more
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TiO6 as a Compensatory Structural Unit in Co‐Free, High‐Ni Layered Oxide for Durable Lithium‐Ion Batteries

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Ti substitution stabilizes Co‐free high‐Ni layered oxides through both structural and electronic effects. TiO6 octahedra act as compensatory structural units that help interrupt cooperative Jahn–Teller distortion and suppress detrimental phase transitions, while the electron‐withdrawing inductive effect of Ti stabilizes the oxygen lattice. As a result,
Bixian Ying, Zhenjie Teng, Jun Wang, Honghong Tian, Charlotte von Petersdorff‐Campen, Rommel T. Tolla, Iuliia Mikulska, Linus Voigt, Sascha Nowak, Verena Naber, Alexander Schökel, Yuanming Liu, Michael Merz, Peter Nagel, Stefan Schuppler, Katja Frenzel, Adrian Jonas, Lena Mathies, Martin Winter, Karin Kleiner   +19 more
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Ensuring Sustainability: Leadership Approach Model for Tackling Procurement Challenges in Bulgarian Higher Education Institutions

Administrative Sciences
At present, higher education institutions (HEIs) are increasingly expected to incorporate sustainability into all aspects by integrating it not only into education and research but also into operational processes, including procurement.
Mina Daskalova-Karakasheva, Denitza Zgureva-Filipova, Kalin Filipov, George Venkov   +3 more
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Programmed Interfacial Phase Separation for Spatiotemporal Fungicide Delivery via Tunable Micro/Nano Architectures

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Translating dynamic liquid‐liquid phase separation into robust solid‐state architectures remains a challenge in materials engineering. Here, we report a composition‐driven interfacial assembly strategy that couples supramolecular coacervation with metal‐phenolic coordination to engineer tunable fungicide carriers.
Rui Zhang, Tongfang Jing, Leiming He, Kaidi Cui, Yuying Song, Xuewei Mao, Lidong Cao, Lin Zhou   +7 more
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Analog Synaptic Plasticity in 2D Layered Material Iontronic Memtransistors for Brain‐Inspired Computing

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
In this work, we demonstrated a robust 2D MoS2 based iontronic memtransistor of planar architecture operated under the influence of an electrical double layer with versatile performance and applications, including pinched hysteresis nature of transfer curve, analogue channel conductance tuning, low‐voltage operation, logic‐gate operation, classical ...
Puranjay Saha, Saptarshi Bej, Bikas C. Das   +2 more
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Self‐Powered All‐in‐One Wearable Bioelectronics Driven by Pneumatic Energy Buffering of Daily Footsteps

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
A pneumatic energy‐buffering strategy transforms transient and intermittent footsteps into quasi‐continuous electrical energy for a self‐powered wearable biosensing platform. The footwear‐integrated air‐pumping harvester, combined with the rationally designed power‐management system, powers a wearable ankle PPG device with reduced motion artifacts ...
Ji‐Seok Kim, Tae Woog Kang, Hyunjoon Yoo, Jawon Ha, Yunuo Huang, Hee Han, Chi Won Ahn, Woon‐Hong Yeo, Il‐Kwon Oh   +8 more
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A Decoy‐Receptor‐Armed Biomimetic Nanotherapeutic With Inherent Tropism for Conserved Pathogenic Macrophages for Treating Osteoarthritis and Intervertebral Disc Degeneration

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
A biomimetic doppelgänger nanosystem neutralizes extracellular inflammatory cytokines and silences intracellular pyroptosis, reprogramming pathogenic macrophages to attenuate both joint and spine degeneration. ABSTRACT Osteoarthritis (OA) and intervertebral disc degeneration (IVDD) are debilitating musculoskeletal disorders driven by shared ...
Fudong Li, Bin Zhang, Zhiqiu Zhang, Bing Zheng, Linhui Han, Chen Yan, Jialin Li, Kaiqiang Sun, Tianyi Zhao, Jiangang Shi   +9 more
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Uncoupling Type I Interferon Benefits From Inflammatory Toxicity: Transformer‐Prioritized Precision Agonists for Potent and Safer Cancer Immunotherapy

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
A Transformer‐based AI framework, DLINP, screens millions of compounds to identify Co68, a cobalt‐pincer organometallic complex that biases TLR4‐MD2 signaling toward antitumor interferon activation while suppressing inflammatory toxicity through an early TLR4‐SYK‐STAT1 axis.
Xuefei Guo, Yang Zhao, Xianle Rong, Xingyu Chen, Xiao Wang, Tianyi Liu, Yunfei Xie, Yushu Zou, Pingsen Zhao, Qiang Liu, Fuping You   +10 more
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Matrix Stiffness Orchestrates Mesenchymal Stem Cell Lineage Commitment Toward Osteogenesis and Adipogenesis Through the PIEZO1/SP1/STC2 Axis

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Matrix stiffness directs mesenchymal stem cell lineage commitment through PIEZO1‐dependent activation of the SP1/STC2 pathway. Stiff matrices favor osteogenesis and suppress adipogenesis, whereas the loss of PIEZO1 function impairs early bone formation. STC2 retains lineage‐regulatory activity even when PIEZO1 is inactive.
Shuo Zhang, Siteng Li, Wenzhong Chen, Qingcheng Song, Haiyue Zhao, Peng Wang, Yiran Zhang, Wenquan Liang, Shaowei Zheng, Juan Wang, Wei Chen, Yanbin Zhu, Yingze Zhang   +12 more
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MOF‐Derived Cu‐TiO2/Alginate Micromotors for Buoyancy‐Regulated 3D Motion

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
In this work, cyanobacteria‐inspired sodium alginate (SA)/Cu‐TiO2/Fe3O4 hydrogel micromotors generate and encapsulate O2 microvesicles upon light irradiation, enabling buoyancy‐mediated Z‐axis upward migration and surface enrichment at the light‐exposed water‐air surface.
Wei Zou, Qing Wu, Jiawei Lin, Kunchen Li, Yulong Ying, Josep Puigmartí‐Luis, Salvador Pané, Sheng Wang   +7 more
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