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1. GRAM: global research activity map

   https://doi.org/10.1145/3206505.3206531  

   Burd, Randy; Espy, Kimberly Andrews; Hossain, Md Iqbal; Kobourov, Stephen; Merchant, Nirav; Purchase, Helen (January 2018, International Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces)

   The Global Research Activity Map (GRAM) is an interactive web-based system for visualizing and analyzing worldwide scholarship activity as represented by research topics. The underlying data for GRAM is obtained from Google Scholar academic research profiles and is used to create a weighted topic graph. Nodes correspond to self-reported research topics and edges indicate co-occurring topics in the profiles. The GRAM system supports map-based interactive features, including semantic zooming, panning, and searching. Map overlays can be used to compare human resource investment, displayed as the relative number of active researchers in particular topic areas, as well scholarly output in terms of citations and normalized citation counts. Evaluation of the GRAM system, with the help of university research management stakeholders, reveals interesting patterns in research investment and output for universities across the world (USA, Europe, Asia) and for different types of universities. While some of these patterns are expected, others are surprising. Overall, GRAM can be a useful tool to visualize human resource investment and research productivity in comparison to peers at a local, regional and global scale. Such information is needed by university administrators to identify institutional strengths and weaknesses and to make strategic data-driven decisions. 

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2. Carbon–TiO2 Hybrid Quantum Dots for Photocatalytic Inactivation of Gram-Positive and Gram-Negative Bacteria

   https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms25042196  

   Dong, Xiuli; Liu, Yamin; Adcock, Audrey F; Sheriff, Kirkland; Liang, Weixiong; Yang, Liju; Sun, Ya-Ping (February 2024, International Journal of Molecular Sciences)

   Carbon–semiconductor hybrid quantum dots are classical carbon dots with core carbon nanoparticles doped with a selected nanoscale semiconductor. Specifically, on those with the nanoscale TiO2 doping, denoted as CTiO2-Dots, their synthesis and thorough characterization were reported previously. In this work, the CTiO2-Dots were evaluated for their visible light-activated antibacterial function, with the results showing the effective killing of not only Gram-positive but also the generally more resistant Gram-negative bacteria. The hybrid dots are clearly more potent antibacterial agents than their neat carbon dot counterparts. Mechanistically, the higher antibacterial performance of the CTiO2-Dots is attributed to their superior photoexcited state properties, which are reflected by the observed much brighter fluorescence emissions. Also considered and discussed is the possibility of additional contributions to the antibacterial activities due to the photosensitization of the nanoscale TiO2 by its doped core carbon nanoparticles. 

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3. Combined Locally Enhanced Electric Field Treatment and Copper for Effective Inactivation of Gram-Positive and Gram-Negative Bacteria in Water

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4. GRAM: graph processing in a ReRAM-based computational memory

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   Zhou, Minxuan; Imani, Mohsen; Gupta, Saransh; Kim, Yeseong; Rosing, Tajana (January 2019, IEEE Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference)
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   Li, Xiaosi; Smith, Adam W. (November 2019, The Journal of Physical Chemistry B)