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Multidisciplinary Sciences
Zoltan Kekecs, Bence Palfi, Barnabas Szaszi, Peter Szecsi, Mark Zrubka, Marton Kovacs, Bence E. Bakos, Denis Cousineau, Patrizio Tressoldi, Kathleen Schmidt, Massimo Grassi, Thomas Rhys Evans, Yuki Yamada, Jeremy K. Miller, Huanxu Liu, Fumiya Yonemitsu, Dmitrii Dubrov, Jan Philipp Roeer, Marvin Becker, Roxane Schnepper, Atsunori Ariga, Patricia Arriaga, Raquel Oliveira, Nele Poldver, Kairi Kreegipuu, Braeden Hall, Sera Wiechert, Bruno Verschuere, Kyra Giran, Balazs Aczel
Summary: The low reproducibility rate in social sciences has led to skepticism towards published findings. This paper presents methodologies for crafting highly credible research and allowing peer verification, demonstrated through a replication study of Bem's Experiment 1 on extrasensory perception. The results did not replicate Bem's findings.
ROYAL SOCIETY OPEN SCIENCE
(2023)
Article
Engineering, Electrical & Electronic
Gangbin Hu, Jiangting Wang, Xiang Liu, Haonan Liu, Hua Wang, Jiwen Xu, Ling Yang, Changrong Zhou, Wei Qiu
Summary: This study investigated the effects of Sr(Yb0.5Ta0.5)O-3 doping on high transparent lead-free ferroelectric ceramics, revealing excellent optical and energy storage properties at a certain doping ratio. With the introduction of Sr(Yb0.5Ta0.5)O-3, the crystal structure and grain size of the ceramics changed significantly.
JOURNAL OF MATERIALS SCIENCE-MATERIALS IN ELECTRONICS
(2021)
Article
Materials Science, Biomaterials
Elizabeth M. van Zyl, Mitchell A. Kennedy, Wendy Nason, Sawyer J. Fenlon, Eric M. Young, Luis J. Smith, Surita R. Bhatia, Jeannine M. Coburn
Summary: A novel method using arabitol as an alternative carbon source to synthesize transparent bacterial cellulose (BC) materials was developed. Transparent BC was produced using mixtures of glucose and arabitol, with the light transmittance increasing from 25% to 75% with increasing arabitol concentration. This research outlines methods for producing BC with tunable optical transparency and provides new insights into the insoluble components of exopolymers produced by Komagataeibacter hansenii.
BIOMATERIALS ADVANCES
(2023)
Review
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Cristina Ramirez
Summary: Over the past decade, a new family of ceramic matrix composites has been developed, incorporating graphene-based fillers into the matrices. These composites exhibit increased fracture toughness, as well as additional electrical and thermal functionalities, making them attractive for various applications. This article describes the main methods for testing the fracture toughness of these composites, reviews the principal observations on reinforcing mechanisms, and discusses the relationship with graphene platelet type, morphology, and alignment.
PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY A-MATHEMATICAL PHYSICAL AND ENGINEERING SCIENCES
(2022)
Article
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Yinfeng Tang, Donghai Jiang, Tongxu Wang, Hengjie Luan, Jiangwei Liu, Sunhao Zhang
Summary: In this study, FLAC (3D) software was used to simulate granite, sandstone, and coal specimens with anchorage angles of 90 degrees to analyze the damage of the anchoring agent and the changes in the local axial and shear forces of the anchor bolts with the misalignment of the structural surface. The results showed that the anchor bolt near the structural surface had significant local characteristics, with the length of the local deformation area of the bolt approximately equal to the length of the damaged area of the anchoring agent, and the stress on the anchor bolt was in a coupled tensile-shear stress state when the bolt reached the yield state. The improvement in the shear strength of the anchoring structural surface was caused by the misalignment of the structural surface.
APPLIED SCIENCES-BASEL
(2023)
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Tommy Tanu Wijaya, Yiming Cao, Martin Bernard, Imam Fitri Rahmadi, Zsolt Lavicza, Herman Dwi Surjono
Summary: This study focuses on the use of microgames in mathematics class, finding that subjective norm has a significant impact on behavioral intention, and that behavioral intention is the most important factor.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Materials Science, Multidisciplinary
Changxiang Liu, Dongsheng Li, Philippe Boutinaud, Shanshan Tan, Jie Xu, Yongping Du, Yidong Hou, Cunlin Zhang, Qingli Zhou, Fengwen Kang
Summary: This article reports on the design of terahertz metasurface with symmetric T-shaped resonators and the corresponding bright and dark modes. It is demonstrated that the dark mode is insensitive to the X-polarized electric field and an electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) effect is observed when introducing a relatively low structural asymmetry where the dark and bright modes are modified to the same frequency. The coupling between the bright and dark modes enhanced by the structural-symmetry breaking is responsible for the observed EIT effect.
ADVANCED PHOTONICS RESEARCH
(2023)
Article
Engineering, Civil
Xinwei Wang, Xun'an Zhang, Muhammad Moman Shahzad, Xiangyu Shi
Summary: The study on the vulnerability assessment of MSCSS structure compared to traditional MFS structure shows significant advantages in seismic resistance. By introducing the seismic damage index and combining it with the beta distribution function, a more intuitive seismic risk assessment method for high-rise buildings is proposed.
Article
Engineering, Electrical & Electronic
Xiufeng Huang, Rongwu Xu, Wenjing Yu, Tao Peng
Summary: This paper proposes a method based on neural network to solve problems related to much calculation in traditional structural sound source localization for complex scenes. The method stimulates the structural sound source at other positions by successively striking 36 grid centers on the surface of the plate. The time delay between different accelerometer signals is considered as the input, and the predicted sound source location is considered as the output. The influence of test set quantity and epoch training times on sound source localization accuracy is discussed. The results show that increasing the epoch training times and decreasing the test set quantity leads to improved sound source localization accuracy of backpropagation neural network. However, overfitting may occur, causing errors. The best localization accuracy is achieved when the epoch is trained to 50,000 times and the test set quantity is 4, with an error magnitude of 10(-3) and a localization error scope of 0.01 to 0.1 m for the plate.
EURASIP JOURNAL ON ADVANCES IN SIGNAL PROCESSING
(2023)
Editorial Material
Psychology, Developmental
Olivia J. Kirtley
Summary: This article discusses the opportunities and challenges of using open science practices in longitudinal developmental research, as well as how to enhance credibility. The author provides practical examples based on their own experiences in longitudinal research on adolescent mental health, and specifically discusses the issue of evidencing prior knowledge of data in Registered Reports and potential solutions.
INFANT AND CHILD DEVELOPMENT
(2022)
Article
Education & Educational Research
Nave Wald, Vijay Kumar, Lara J. Sanderson
Summary: This study focuses on the importance of team or co-supervision of doctoral students and emphasizes the need for transparent conversations to maintain effective working relationships. The study identifies the main problems in co-supervision through surveys and interviews, and introduces a research informed conversational tool to enhance the quality of co-supervision.
HIGHER EDUCATION RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT
(2023)
Editorial Material
Engineering, Civil
David Elms
Summary: Research on urban infrastructure needs to focus on network theoretic ideas, clearly defined system boundaries, further developments of resilience theory, and recovery from major natural disasters.
CIVIL ENGINEERING AND ENVIRONMENTAL SYSTEMS
(2021)
Article
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Edwin N. Ogbonna, Ananya Paul, J. Ross Terrell, Ziyuan Fang, Cen Chen, Gregory M. K. Poon, David W. Boykin, W. David Wilson
Summary: Recently, there has been significant progress in understanding the interaction between sequence-specific DNA minor grooves, leading to an active research area in the development of compounds that target the minor groove. In this study, diverse diamidine derivatives were examined for their DNA interactions with a specific binding site. The benzimidazole-thiophene module was found to be an excellent component for recognizing the minor groove. By comparing different structures, interesting and important differences were observed in electrostatic potential maps, DNA minor groove binding structure, and inhibition of transcription factor complex. Both compounds showed strong binding affinity to DNA bases and formed bifurcated H-bonds. This comparative analysis provided a better understanding of how thiophene compounds recognize the minor groove and their potential as transcription factor inhibitors.
BIOORGANIC & MEDICINAL CHEMISTRY
(2022)
Article
Mechanics
Nathaporn Areerachakul, Luedech Girdwichai, Natapat Areerakulkan
Summary: The paper discusses the concept of approximating the Colebrook-White equation using Taylor series expansion and points out that the proposed 3rd order expansion offers high accuracy but poor computational performance. Lower-order approximations based on the same concept are shown to provide sufficient accuracy and greatly enhanced computational speed for engineering and scientific applications.
MECHANICS RESEARCH COMMUNICATIONS
(2021)
Editorial Material
Engineering, Civil
Ana Mijic, Jennifer Whyte, Rupert Myers, Pangiotis Angeloudis, Michel-Alexandre Cardin, Marc Stettler, Washington Ochieng
Summary: The paper is aimed at setting the future direction for the Centre for Systems Engineering and Innovation (CSEI) at Imperial College London, with the hope to inspire others working in the same or similar research areas. Prof Elms enjoyed reading the paper.
CIVIL ENGINEERING AND ENVIRONMENTAL SYSTEMS
(2021)
