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View article: Navigating Urban Mobility: Evaluating Infrastructure Strategies for Enhanced Energy-Efficient Access for Micromobility
Navigating Urban Mobility: Evaluating Infrastructure Strategies for Enhanced Energy-Efficient Access for Micromobility Open
Cities and communities continue to expand pedestrian and bicycle infrastructure as part of their sustainable mobility and post-pandemic recovery plans. However, the emergence of micro-mobility (e.g., electric bicycles) has created new chal…
View article: Referee report. For: The complete mitochondrial genome Hainan Gymnure Neohylomys hainanensis [version 1; peer review: 1 approved with reservations]
Referee report. For: The complete mitochondrial genome Hainan Gymnure Neohylomys hainanensis [version 1; peer review: 1 approved with reservations] Open
View article: Streets for All: Evaluating Infrastructure Strategies for Enhanced Energy-Efficient Access for Micro-Mobility
Streets for All: Evaluating Infrastructure Strategies for Enhanced Energy-Efficient Access for Micro-Mobility Open
View article: Dynamics and interactions of Quincke roller clusters: From orbits and flips to excited states
Dynamics and interactions of Quincke roller clusters: From orbits and flips to excited states Open
Active matter systems may be characterized by the conversion of energy into active motion, e.g., the self-propulsion of microorganisms. Artificial active colloids form models that exhibit essential properties of more complex biological sys…
View article: 1850 Sport in teenagers with disabilities: a review of the barriers and benefits
1850 Sport in teenagers with disabilities: a review of the barriers and benefits Open
Objectives Adolescents with disabilities face barriers to engagement with physical activity that their able-bodied peers do not. As a result, disabled teenagers may be dissuaded from participating in sport, due to the perceived and actual …
View article: Liquid crystals and their computer simulations
Liquid crystals and their computer simulations Open
View article: Effect of water on brittle creep of Indiana limestone
Effect of water on brittle creep of Indiana limestone Open
<p>The effect of water on time-dependent deformation (creep) behaviour in intact limestone is not yet fully understood. Using a triaxial deformation apparatus, we investigated creep of an allochemical limestone (Indiana) using three …
View article: On Some Hypergeometric Supercongruence Conjectures of Long
On Some Hypergeometric Supercongruence Conjectures of Long Open
In 2003, Rodriguez Villegas conjectured 14 supercongruences between hypergeometric functions arising as periods of certain families of rigid Calabi-Yau threefolds and the Fourier coefficients of weight 4 modular forms. Uniform proofs of th…
View article: Possible mechanisms in Ficus exasperata ethanol root fraction amelioration of lead-induced corpus cavernosal contractile impairments in male Wistar rats.
Possible mechanisms in Ficus exasperata ethanol root fraction amelioration of lead-induced corpus cavernosal contractile impairments in male Wistar rats. Open
Background:Lead exposure is reported to cause impaired male reproductive tract functions often due to elevated oxidative species. F. exasperata leaf extract contains potent phyto-antioxidants with beneficial endothelial functions. Objectiv…
View article: Rapidly Increasing Chance of Record-Shattering Heat Extremes
Rapidly Increasing Chance of Record-Shattering Heat Extremes Open
A new study warns that we need to expect and prepare for unprecedented heat waves in the near future.
View article: Dynamics and Interactions of Quincke Roller Clusters: from Orbits and Flips to Excited States
Dynamics and Interactions of Quincke Roller Clusters: from Orbits and Flips to Excited States Open
Active matter systems may be characterised by the conversion of energy into active motion, e.g. the self-propulsion of microorganisms. Artificial active colloids form models which exhibit essential properties of more complex biological sys…
View article: The stabilizing effect of high pore-fluid pressure along subduction megathrust faults: Evidence from friction experiments on accretionary sediments from the Nankai Trough
The stabilizing effect of high pore-fluid pressure along subduction megathrust faults: Evidence from friction experiments on accretionary sediments from the Nankai Trough Open
Pore-fluid pressure is an important parameter in controlling fault mechanics as it lowers the effective normal stress, allowing fault slip at lower shear stress. It is also thought to influence the nature of fault slip, particularly in sub…
View article: Autocycle: Design, Construction, and Validation of an Autonomous Bicycle
Autocycle: Design, Construction, and Validation of an Autonomous Bicycle Open
Efficient urban transportation has time and time again proved to be a difficult problem to rectify. One modern solution is the bike-sharing system, where many bicycles are available either at hubs or spread across a city for short-term use…
View article: Entropy Production in an Elementary, Light Driven Micro-Machine
Entropy Production in an Elementary, Light Driven Micro-Machine Open
We consider the basic, thermodynamic properties of an elementary micro-machine operating at colloidal length scales. In particular, we track and analyze the driven stochastic motion of a carefully designed micro-propeller rotating unevenly…
View article: Supporting Object-oriented Design Learning Outcome Using an Android Development Project
Supporting Object-oriented Design Learning Outcome Using an Android Development Project Open
In the past decades, object-oriented programming and design concepts have become the most prominent approach used by programmers and developers in today’s time. As a de facto programming language model, Object-oriented programming organize…
View article: An Exploratory Assessment Of Distance And On Ground Delivery Of Business, Math And Engineering Technology Courses
An Exploratory Assessment Of Distance And On Ground Delivery Of Business, Math And Engineering Technology Courses Open
NOTE: The first page of text has been automatically extracted and included below in lieu of an abstract An Exploratory Assessment of Distance and On-Ground Delivery of Business, Math and Engineering Technology Courses Abstract This explora…
View article: Existence of $η$-Quotients For Squarefree Levels
Existence of $η$-Quotients For Squarefree Levels Open
In this paper, we investigate which modular form spaces can contain $η$-quotients, functions of the form $f(τ) = \prod_{δ\mid N} η(δτ)^{r_δ}$. For $k\geq 2$ even and $N$ coprime to 6, we give necessary conditions for the space $M_k(Γ_1(N))…
View article: Emergence of order in self-assembly of the intrinsically disordered biomineralisation peptide n16N
Emergence of order in self-assembly of the intrinsically disordered biomineralisation peptide n16N Open
We present the results of an aggregation study on the intrinsically disordered biomineralisation peptide n16N, which selects the aragonite polymorph of calcium carbonate and is expected to have aggregation-dependent structure and function.…
View article: Molecular simulations of entangled defect structures around nanoparticles in nematic liquid crystals
Molecular simulations of entangled defect structures around nanoparticles in nematic liquid crystals Open
We investigate the defect structures forming around two nanoparticles in a Gay–Berne nematic liquid crystal using molecular simulations. For small separations, disclinations entangle both particles forming the figure of eight, the figure o…
View article: Solid–liquid interfacial free energy of ice Ih, ice Ic, and ice 0 within a mono-atomic model of water via the capillary wave method
Solid–liquid interfacial free energy of ice Ih, ice Ic, and ice 0 within a mono-atomic model of water via the capillary wave method Open
We apply the capillary wave method, based on measurements of fluctuations in a ribbon-like interfacial geometry, to determine the solid–liquid interfacial free energy for both polytypes of ice I and the recently proposed ice 0 within a mon…
View article: Molecular simulations of entangled defect structures around nanoparticles in nematic liquid crystals
Molecular simulations of entangled defect structures around nanoparticles in nematic liquid crystals Open
We investigate the defect structures forming around two nanoparticles in a Gay-Berne nematic liquid crystal using molecular simulations. For small separations, disclinations entangle both particles forming the figure of eight, the figure o…
View article: Molecular simulations of entangled defect structures around nanoparticles in nematic liquid crystals
Molecular simulations of entangled defect structures around nanoparticles in nematic liquid crystals Open
We investigate the defect structures forming around two nanoparticles in a Gay–Berne nematic liquid crystal using molecular simulations. For small separations, disclinations entangle both particles forming the figure of eight, the figure o…
View article: Correction: Folding kinetics of a polymer
Correction: Folding kinetics of a polymer Open
Correction for ‘Folding kinetics of a polymer’ by Štěpán Růžička et al., Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2012, 14, 6044–6053.
View article: Folding kinetics of a polymer [corrigendum]
Folding kinetics of a polymer [corrigendum] Open
In our original article (Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2012, 14, 60446053) a convergence problem resulted in an averaging error in computing the entropy from a set of Wang-Landau Monte-Carlo simulations. Here we report corrected results for the…
View article: Optimising Low Power Dual Prediction Systems
Optimising Low Power Dual Prediction Systems Open
Low power protocols and data compression techniques can bring the average energy requirements for a WSN node within the capability of energy harvesting techniques. However, peak energy use may still exceed this capability. In this paper, b…
View article: Flexible Reconfiguration of Existing Urban Water Infrastructure Systems
Flexible Reconfiguration of Existing Urban Water Infrastructure Systems Open
This paper presents a practical methodology for the flexible reconfiguration of existing water distribution infrastructure, which is adaptive to the water utility constraints and facilitates in operational management for pressure and water…
View article: Monte Carlo simulation of kinetically slowed down phase separation
Monte Carlo simulation of kinetically slowed down phase separation Open
Supercooled colloidal or molecular systems at low densities are known to form liquid, crystalline or glassy drops, which may remain isolated for a long time before they aggregate. This paper analyses the properties of this large time windo…
View article: Acknowledgement of Reviewers
Acknowledgement of Reviewers Open
View article: Testing the transferability of a coarse-grained model to intrinsically disordered proteins
Testing the transferability of a coarse-grained model to intrinsically disordered proteins Open
The coarse-grained PLUM model is shown to capture structural and dimerization behaviour of the intrinsically disordered biomineralisation peptide n16N.