Formal long-term care : informal caregivers’ subjective well-being and service utilization by Chong, Wayne Freeman Weien

“…After controlling for covariates, I found that caregivers who felt more burdened (found caregiving to be time consuming and difficult) at 3-month post-stroke, and those who were more depressed at 12-month post-stroke tend to have cared for users of stroke rehabilitation at 12-month post-stroke. …”
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A novel polymer drug conjugate for the sustained release of ganciclovir by Dickescheid, Andreas

“…The release rates were noticed to have decreased slightly over time, from 8.2% per month in the 1st month, to 2.2% per month in the 12th month on average. …”
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Janus particles with large wetting contrast for self-assembly applications by Tan, Jasmine Si Jia

“…The resulting emulsions were stable for at least a month with no visible phase separation. On inducing emulsion destabilization over a month, the emulsions provided a gradual, controlled release of cargo. …”
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Computational modelling of the biological and social factors of type 2 diabetes by Dutta, Pritha

“…The time steps in the SDMs were assumed as months to identify an approximate timescale of the system's behaviour. …”
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Microbiome studies on anaerobic digestion using genome–resolved multi–omics by Neshat, Soheil Asgari

“…Twelve laboratory-scale mesophilic anaerobic digesters are operated for 90 days after an 8-month acclimation period. These digesters are arranged in four experimental groups, each receiving a constant number of disturbances at varied frequencies to test the intermediate stochasticity hypothesis (ISH) in the AD ecosystem. …”
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Investigating the effect of tetracycline on gut microbiome metabolism and microbe-host interactions by Keerthisinghe, Rajapaksha Pathiranage Tharushi Prabha

“…The study exposed zebrafish at the juvenile stage to two different low levels of TET for a one-month period until their adulthood. Subsequently, the study analyzed the growth (i.e., body weight and length) and liver characteristics (i.e., histology, gene expression, lipidome, and metabolome) of zebrafish. …”
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Enhancement of guided wave tomography for pipelines via improved transduction and signal deconvolution by Mohamed Mahadhir Mohamed Hamzah Caffoor

“…Full Waveform Inversion (FWI) based GWT is used to provide a reconstruction of measured signals and defects on the gas pipeline were monitored for a period of 5 months. A simple statistical model is then incorporated to monitor the growth of selected defects beyond the 5-month period to predict the possible failure or when intervention techniques such as lowering of pipeline pressure is needed to extend the life of the pipeline.…”
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Development of viral surveillance for endemic disease, emerging viral characterization and zoonic spill-over spill-back models by Tan, Zi Hian

“…By analysing the codon usage patterns with historical clinical data, the dengue virus sequence collected during the month with high reported cases showed fitness adaptation to human and mosquito hosts. …”
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Investigation of passive radiative cooling in tropical climates by Han, Di

“…The highly reflective coating has solar reflectance of 98.4% and infrared emittance of 95% within the 8 to 13 μm spectrum, which achieved a sustained daytime sub-ambient temperature of 2 °C under direct exposure to the solar intensity of 1000 W/m2 and downwelling atmospheric radiation of 450 W/m2 and simulated cooling power limit of around 35 W/m2, with the potential to provide over 30 MJ/m2 of cooling energy per month. Then, the ability to achieve dual-mode thermal regulation for switchable heating and cooling on a single platform has thus far been challenged by the availability of suitable materials. …”
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Short-term and long-term effects of psychosocial factors on changes in medical adherence among patients with coronary heart disease by Fan, Yunge

“…The increase in loneliness predicted a decline in medical adherence at 12 months but not at 3 months. Additionally, the increase in perceived stress at 3 months and 12 months predicted a decrease in adherence at the respective time points. …”
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Collaborative model of care between orthopaedics and allied healthcare professional trial (CONNACT) by Tan, Bryan Yijia

“…Among the secondary outcomes, the CONNACT group demonstrated superior between-group outcomes for positive dietary change over 12 months, improved physical performance measures at 3 and 6 months, symptom satisfaction at 3 months and global perceived effect at 6 months. …”
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Petrological and monitoring insights into the mechanisms driving eruptions of Kelud volcano, Indonesia by Utami, Sri Budhi

“…I show that explosive eruptions are likely driven by fluid accumulation and degassing that began months before eruption. I performed experiments to find that magma storage conditions for explosive and effusive eruptions were similar, and I demonstrate that ascent rates and viscosity vary with eruption style. …”
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Study the role of degenerative protein modifications in aging by Guo, Xue

“…Catalase (Cat) as a ypical antioxidant defense enzyme against high ROS burden is found to be heavily trioxidized at Cys425 in late age stages including 18 and 24 months in skin sample. These irreversible modification of Cat may lead to additional terminal trioxidation (Cys-SO3H) of other important proteins. …”
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Common mode filter design for mitigation of bearing degradation in inverter-fed Motor drive systems by Fan, Fei

“…Consequently, new drive installations can fail within months, which results in unplanned and costly system downtime. …”
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Understanding the viral protein structures of clinically relevant arboviruses and fragment-based screening for antivirals by Farhana Abu Bakar

“…Chikungunya virus (CHIKV) is an arthritogenic alphavirus that causes a debilitating musculoskeletal inflammatory disease that could persist for months to years after the virus is cleared. To date, there are no specific therapeutics available to prevent or mitigate the disease. …”
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Smart urban air quality diagnosis using low-cost particulate matter sensors and machine learning by Won, Wan-Sik

“…To validate the model, field measurements by a low-cost sensor were conducted over months, revealing that the error after applying the model in the region was significantly reduced. …”
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Autonomy vs. artificial intelligence : studies on healthcare work and analytics by Wang, Le

“…In the second essay, I tracked the actions of 1,152 different physicians when they encountered automated clinical alerts in a hospital over a period of 22 months. I collected a total of 66,320 instances of automated clinical alerts and examined the physicians’ behaviour towards these alerts. …”
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Silk fibroin-based stretchable electronics by Cui, Yajing

“…It also shows stretchability >200%, long-term electronic performance stability in PBS (4 months) as well as good cyclic stability. The bioelectrode was applied to photothrombosis model, where acute infarction is induced underneath electrode and spatially gradient ischemia are recorded to provide information for stroke prediction. …”
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Coral-based climate reconstructions of Western Pacific warm pool for the past - 280 years by Ahmad Taufiq Mohamed Mohtar

“…The slabbed coral cores were analyzed for δ18Oc and Sr/Ca proxies for sea surface temperature (SST) and salinity (SSS), respectively. Monthly resolved reconstructed SST and SSS spanning 165 and 277 years were generated from KOS and WOL, respectively. …”
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Membrane aerated biofilm reactor integrated with mainstream anammox processes by Chen, Rongfen

“…Comparably high nitrite accumulation ratio (> 84%) and higher ammonium removal rate (> 100 mg-N/L/d) were maintained for months as compared to PN setups treated continuously with NOB inhibitory factors. …”
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