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Engineering, Mechanical
Vrushank Phadnis, Hamza Arshad, David Wallace, Alison Olechowski
Summary: Comparing pair programming with pair CAD in the design field, we found that different working styles have an impact on speed and quality of design work. The study shows that pair work with a single shared input in CAD leads to higher-quality models, while individuals may be faster but can experience coordination and overhead inefficiencies. Choices regarding work process have a major effect on design outcomes.
JOURNAL OF MECHANICAL DESIGN
(2021)
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Medicine, Legal
Zhihui Li, Lanchi Xie, Huaqing Song
Summary: Forensic facial image comparison based on recognition algorithms has been widely used in forensic science. This paper proposes a dual-systems model and utilizes Bayesian networks as the basic framework. Experimental results show that the likelihood ratio performance of the dual-systems model is better than a single system, and the method of model building and evaluation can also be applied to multiple systems.
FORENSIC SCIENCE INTERNATIONAL
(2023)
Editorial Material
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Gang Dong
Summary: In this study, Zhang et al. investigate the structural features of the C2 and PH domains of CAPS. They find that these domains form a compact module and create a basic patch that enhances the binding of CAPS to membranes containing PI(4,5)P-2.
Editorial Material
Biochemical Research Methods
Rita Strack
Summary: Researchers have expanded the capabilities of confocal microscopy through the combination of multiple techniques, including multiple views, super-resolution, and deep learning.
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Business, Finance
Wenrui Chen, Xinghe Liu, Yun Hong
Summary: Based on data on Chinese listed companies from 2007 to 2020, we find that strategic alliance membership has a positive association with future excess cash holdings. Compared to non-allied firms, alliance membership increases excess cash holdings by an average of RMB 128.86 million (or US$ 19.95 million). In firms with more severe manager-shareholder agency problems, this positive relationship is stronger, but it weakens in firms with better corporate governance and an improved institutional environment. Foreign alliance partners and external equity and debt finance cash are the main factors contributing to increased cash holdings in allied firms. Internal interests also motivate managers to hold excess cash in strategic alliances.
FINANCE RESEARCH LETTERS
(2023)
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Neurosciences
Yafeng Pan, Xiaojun Cheng, Yi Hu
Summary: The research found that there is significant enhancement of within-group neural synchronization in cooperative learning, especially during the consensus-building stage. The enhancement of neural synchronization can predict learning outcome at an early stage after learning initiation. In addition, social factors such as social closeness are related to learning engagement and reflected in neural synchronization.
Article
Management
Cristopher Siegfried Kopplin
Summary: Matchmaking is introduced in coworking literature as a way to connect potential collaboration partners using a smartphone application. Personal innovativeness plays a role in accepting software support for finding matches. Coworkers see matchmaking as an opportunity for help, learning, and building relationships, with perceived usefulness being the main factor influencing acceptance.
REVIEW OF MANAGERIAL SCIENCE
(2021)
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Education & Educational Research
Mimi Li, Quang Nam Pham
Summary: Digital multimodal composing (DMC) has gained increasing attention in language teaching. This study investigates the qualities of collaborative DMC products and individual DMC products and finds no significant difference in overall quality, but some advantages of collaborative composing.
LANGUAGE TEACHING RESEARCH
(2022)
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Psychology, Experimental
Anita Keshmirian, Ophelia Deroy, Bahador Bahrami
Summary: Moral judgments are influenced by social interactions, with collective judgments tending to be more utilitarian than individual judgments. This is likely because group deliberation and consensus reduce the emotional burden of norm violation.
Editorial Material
Ecology
Clare I. Abreu, Manoshi S. Datta
Summary: A cleverly designed experiment with engineered obligate mutualisms in bacteria demonstrates that interdependency allows pairs of bacteria to survive in environments where individual strains cannot survive.
NATURE ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION
(2021)
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Acoustics
Andong Li, Wenzhe Liu, Chengshi Zheng, Cunhang Fan, Xiaodong Li
Summary: This study proposes a novel complex spectral mapping approach with a two-stage pipeline for monaural speech enhancement in challenging acoustic scenarios. By decoupling the problem into multiple sub-problems and utilizing methods such as auxiliary networks and global residual connections at different stages, superior performance is achieved.
IEEE-ACM TRANSACTIONS ON AUDIO SPEECH AND LANGUAGE PROCESSING
(2021)
Editorial Material
Chemistry, Physical
Yanwei Lum, Joel W. Ager
Summary: Through isotopic labelling, it has been discovered that there are at least two different active sites on Cu electrocatalysts, one converting CO2 to CO and another converting CO to useful C2+ products.
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Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Matthew D. Blanchard, Sabina Kleitman, Eugene Aidman
Summary: This study examined the influence of various factors on the performance of distributed two-person driver-navigator teams in a challenging simulated driving task. Results showed that teams had fewer collisions than individuals under normal conditions but drove slower under fog conditions. The quality and quantity of communication also had an impact on team performance.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2023)
Editorial Material
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Steven Barnes
Summary: The article discusses two important aspects of retinal function, namely the feedback from horizontal cells to photoreceptors and the center-surround antagonistic receptive fields, and reveals that new findings are crucial for understanding the circuits necessary for outer retinal visual processing.
Review
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Sonam Grewal, Teenu Sharma, Rajan Swami
Summary: In the 1950s, combinational chemotherapeutics gained attention for the simultaneous usage of different anticancer drugs to reduce cancer mortality. However, concerns about toxicity and multidrug resistance hindered their widespread adoption. Nanotechnology has emerged as a solution to counter these issues and improve efficacy in cancer treatment compared to non-nanotherapy approaches. The present review provides updated information and a holistic overview of nanoparticle-based co-delivered therapeutics, including current progress and challenges.
JOURNAL OF NANOPARTICLE RESEARCH
(2023)
