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Accelerated Zeolite Defect Healing Suppresses Oxygen-Containing Species Trapping for Tandem Propene Epoxidation

Abstract Selective oxidation of chemical feedstocks with in situ-generated H2O2 offers a sustainable route to high-value oxygenates, yet such tandem catalysis is often fundamentally limited by the trapping of oxygen-containing species, including H2O2-derived intermediates and oxy...

The Racial Reckoning of Elite Education: The Ghostly Entanglement of Race, Class and Privilege Haunting in Private Elite Independent Schools (PEIS)

This dissertation explores the racial reckoning that occurred within New England’s Private Elite Independent Schools (PEIS) following the 2020 murder of George Floyd. These schools serve as exclusive training grounds for the elites and affluents of the nation. Using a qualitative...

Multiscale Computational Insights into Bergenin Encapsulation by Modified γ-Cyclodextrins: Conformational and Energetic Investigations via QM/MM and Molecular Dynamics

Despite bergenin (BER) having significant therapeutic benefits, its medicinal potential is hindered by its low natural abundance and poor aqueous solubility. Through host-guest complexation with cyclodextrins (CDs), this work offers an economical molecular approach to increase th...

Multi-modal meta-analysis of functional genomics data to identify regulatory relationships in the brain

Assigning target genes to a transcription factor (TF) is a persistent challenge in gene regulatory biology. No single assay directly observes a regulatory relationship, and the commonly used individual data types, perturbation-response transcriptomics, chromatin immunoprecipitati...

Educational Materials for Health-Related Discrete Choice Experiments: A Theory-Driven Approach

Background: To make informed choices in health-related discrete choice experiments (DCEs), respondents need to understand the choice scenarios, alternatives, attributes, and attribute levels presented to them. Respondent populations are often highly diverse in knowledge and exper...

Brief video-feedback training enhances childcare professionals’ interaction skills: A cluster randomized controlled trial

High-quality caregiver–child interactions are central to children’s development in early childhood education and care (ECEC) settings. Professional development programs have been shown to improve caregivers’ interactional skills, but evidence from large randomized controlled tria...

High-Throughput Screening of a Lipid Nanoparticle (LNP) Library Identifies Lead Formulations for CRISPR-Cas9 Ribonucleoprotein Delivery and Gene Editing

Abstract Delivery of CRISPR-Cas9 ribonucleoprotein (RNP) using synthetic materials can bypass the host translational machinery and limit the duration of genomic exposure, minimizing the risk of off-target mutations. Despite their advantages, lipid nanoparticle (LNP) platforms for...

It’s not who you know: sociometric position did not shape children’s innovation or imitation propensities

Introduction The capacity for cumulative culture depends on the interplay between social learning and innovation, yet the social-ecological factors that shape individual variation in these processes remain poorly understood. Children’s position within peer networks has been theor...

Unemployment Insurance for All? Social Preferences Evolution in Europe Since the Lifting of the Iron Curtain

ABSTRACT This paper examines the evolution of social preferences over government unemployment insurance in Europe. We find an ‘East‐West divide’ in attitudes towards this role of government policy, with lower support in Eastern Europe for government action to correct adverse labo...

Wavelength-Dependent Photoluminescence Mapping of Depth-Dependent Degradation Under Thermal Stress in Phenethylammonium Tetrafluoroborate Treated Perovskite Solar Cells

Abstract Studying real-time degradation in perovskite semiconductors remains an important challenge. Conventional methods often cannot separate interfacial and bulk processes or rely on destructive analysis. Here, we demonstrate multiwavelength excitation photoluminescence (PL) a...

DNA methylation is associated with transcriptional variability and transposon-driven trans-regulation under drought in wheat landraces

Abstract Background Bread wheat (Triticum aestivum) is essential for food security, but increasingly frequent droughts threaten yields. While wheat’s transcriptional responses to drought are well characterised, DNA methylation’s role remains poorly understood. Wheat landrace pane...

SOX10 Expression in Primary Salivary Gland Tumors: A Meta-Analysis

Abstract Purpose Primary salivary gland tumors form a heterogeneous group with diagnostic challenges. Sex-determining region Y-related homeobox 10 (SOX10) is a transcription factor studied in primary salivary gland tumors for over a decade. To date, no systematic review or meta-a...

Circulating Zonulin in Irritable Bowel Syndrome: A Systematic Review of Conflicting Evidence and the Critical Impact of Assay Specificity

Background: Increased intestinal permeability is a proposed pathophysiological mechanism in irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), and zonulin, a putative regulator of tight junctions, has been investigated as a non-invasive serum biomarker. However, the diagnostic utility of circulatin...

A method to assess wind and wave extreme statistics at offshore wind farms exposed to tropical and extratropical cyclones

Abstract. Offshore wind turbines deployed in tropical-cyclone-exposed regions require reliable estimates of extreme wind and wave conditions for structural design. Existing engineering practices often rely on different methodologies for wind and wave assessments, resulting in des...

Realignment of ferroelectric nematic by photoinduced electric field

Liquid crystal displays (LCDs) use thin pixels of a paraelectric nematic, confined between two glass plates with transparent indium tin oxide (ITO) electrodes. A voltage applied to the electrodes realigns the molecules, changing optical appearance of the pixel. Here, we demonstra...

The advice guidance boundary review and targeted support – the challenges of addressing the “advice gap”

Purpose Under its Advice Guidance Boundary Review (AGBR) initiative, the Financial Conduct Authority has introduced “targeted support”, a new regime that has become the focal point of a proposed “continuum of support” being developed through the AGBR. It is expected targeted supp...

Work Engagement in an Always-On Work Culture: A Systematic Literature Review

Digital connectivity, remote and hybrid work, and expectations of constant availability have made “always-on” work cultures a central feature of contemporary organising, yet work engagement research has only partially incorporated these conditions into its core theoretical framew...

Symbolic Translation: Psychoanalysis, Race, and the Korean/American Subject

This dissertation introduces ‘symbolic translation’ as a new critical framework, developed through Lacanian psychoanalysis, to theorize Korean/American subjectivity as a condition of structural misrecognition, symbolic illegibility, and forced assimilation. I define symbolic tran...

Examining the Impact of a Cross-Cultural Exchange on U.S. Choral Directors

Despite demographic shifts in the U.S. that indicate an increase in ethnic and cultural diversity among youth (Frey, 2020), Western classical music and its respective pedagogical practices continue to dominate music education (Kindall-Smith et al., 2011). In response, new perspec...

Life Cycle Assessment of Virgin and Recycled Polypropylene Kitchenware in the UK: Impacts of Domestic Recycling, International Supply Chains, and Consumer Use

This study evaluates the cradle-to-grave environmental performance of polypropylene (PP) kitchenware in the United Kingdom (UK), addressing critical gaps in understanding how material choices, global supply chains, domestic recycling, and consumer use-phase practices interact. Fo...