A genetic screen to uncover mechanisms underlying lipid transfer protein function at membrane contact sites.

Lipid transfer proteins mediate the transfer of lipids between organelle membranes, and the loss of function of these proteins has been linked to neurodegeneration. However, the mechanism by which loss of lipid transfer activity leads to neurodegeneration is not understood. In photoreceptors, depletion of retinal degeneration B (RDGB), a phosphatidylinositol transfer protein, leads to defective phototransduction and retinal degeneration, but the mechanism by which loss of this activity leads to retinal degeneration is not understood.

Probing the Structural Degradation of CsPbBr Perovskite Nanocrystals in the Presence of HO and HS: How Weak Interactions and HSAB Matter.

Structural degradation of all inorganic CsPbBr in the presence of moisture is considered as one of its major limitations to use as an active component in various light-harvesting and light-emitting devices. Herein, we used two similar molecules, HO and HS, with similar structures, to follow the decomposition mechanism of CsPbBr perovskite nanocrystals. Interestingly, HO acts as a catalyst for the decomposition of CsPbBr, which is in contrast to HS.

A study of neural artistic style transfer models and architectures for Indian art styles.

Neural Style Transfer (NST) has been a widely researched topic as of late enabling new forms of image manipulation. Here we perform an extensive study on NST algorithms and extend the existing methods with custom modifications for application to Indian art styles. In this paper, we aim to provide a comprehensive analysis of various methods ranging from the seminal work of Gatys et al which demonstrated the power of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) in creating artistic imagery by separating and recombining image content and style, to the state of the art image-to-image translation models which use Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) to learn the mapping between two domain of images.

Forecasting of energy consumption by G20 countries using an adjacent accumulation grey model.

This paper studies an adjacent accumulation discrete grey model to improve the prediction of the grey model and enhance the utilization of new data. The impact of COVID-19 on the global economy is also discussed. Two cases are discussed to prove the stability of the adjacent accumulation discrete grey model, which helped the studied model attain higher forecasting accuracy.

Giant spin pumping at the ferromagnet (permalloy) - organic semiconductor (perylene diimide) interface.

Pure spin current based devices have attracted great interest in recent days. Spin current injection into non-magnetic materials is essential for the design and development of such pure spin current based devices. In this context, organic semiconductors (OSCs) can be potential non-magnetic materials over widely explored heavy metals.