Luteolin escape mutants of dengue virus map to prM and NS2B and reveal viral plasticity during maturation by Vasudevan, Subhash G., Peng, Minhua, Swarbrick, Crystall Marie Dawn, Chan, Kitti Wing-Ki, Luo, Dahai, Zhang, Wei, Lai, Xiaoping, Li, Geng

“…Interestingly we found that the replication kinetics of prM T19R-NS2B I114M double-mutant (DM) was similar to wild-type virus (WT). On the other hand the prM T79R single mutant (SM1) was attenuated and the NS2B I114M single mutant (SM2) showed enhanced replication. …”
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Fabrication and characterization of Algan/Gan high electron mobility transistors on silicon by Tham, Wai Hoe

“…Semiconductors with wide band gap properties such as the III-V compound, SiC and diamond have been successfully used in high power electronic applications. …”
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Speed-flow models for Singapore downtown ring roads by Leo, Joseph Hee Chiang

“…Overall, having a greater number of lanes and does lead to a better development of steady state flow conditions. On the other hand, lane width does not significantly affect the fitting of the models.…”
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Improvements of FDK-type helical cone-beam CT imaging by Liang, Hong Zhu

“…Once the cone-beam angle becomes relatively large or the helical scanning is relatively fast, the artifacts would unavoidably appear on the images reconstructed by the existing FDK-type algorithms. On the other hand, the FDK-type approximate reconstruction accuracy is to be improved if compared with the 3D exact reconstruction. …”
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Effect of inflammation on apolipoprotein A-1(apoA-1) secretion by intestinal cells. by Yu, Kenneth.

“…This may imply that the blood concentration of HDL may increase favorably should the amount of apoA-l increase as apoA-l is a major constituent of HDL. On the other hand, a bacterial infection in the intestine that leads to inflammation caused by bacterial lipopolysaccharides and endotoxin may have an adverse effect on intestinal secretion of apoA-l, thus there may be lowered blood concentration of HDL.…”
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Computer-assisted physical rehabilitation system for post-stroke finger grasp exercise by Wong, Melvin Yeow Ping

“…This project explores the possibility of using computer vision to help stroke patients with finger and hand motion rehabilitation exercises. Through this project, interesting mobile games were created and users will be playing these games through interacting with tangible objects. …”
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GitOps in Kubernetes clusters by Poh, Kai Kiat

“…The CI pipeline mainly focuses on the usage of GitHub actions to automate the building and testing of the application code. On the hand, the CD pipeline focuses on ArgoCD and evaluates the rollout strategies that can be used. …”
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Industrial attachment report with Institute of Microelectronics (IME) by Liu, Bing.

“…Simulation and experimental testing results show that mode-evolution-based polarization rotators have advantages in tolerance of fabrication error. On the other hand, mode-coupling-based polarization rotators have advantages in shorter rotation length, which is essential for high integration. …”
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To what extent does online Islamist extremism lead to terrorism: a case study of Indonesia. by Nur Azlin Mohamed Yasin

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Life insurance matching products to needs : what an individual should know by Boo, Peck Hiang, Er, Lee Hiah, Ko, Siow Lin

“…Agents tend to package the policies together with a number of riders to ensure that they safeguard their policyholders' interests regardless of whether the policyholders require the rider or not. On the other hand, the policyholders may be ignorant of their actual protection need and frequently, buy policies that do not match their needs. …”
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Artisitck A : a new, convenient way of light painting by Ng, Su Hui

“…Light painting is a photographic technique in which exposures are made by moving a hand- held light source while taking a long exposure photograph. …”
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Mexico downstream: oil reform by Lajous, A

“…Recent government medium-term oil revenue projections to 2020 are based on questionable assumptions and unwarranted optimism, even if Round 1 is successful. On the other hand, mid and downstream investments in oil products, natural gas, and electricity could have greater short- and medium-term impacts on Mexico’s energy markets and manufacturing industry, and are a central feature of energy reform.…”

Image-based rendering using image-based priors by Fitzgibbon, A, Wexler, Y, Zisserman, A

“…This retains the benefits of geometric constraints, but projects out the ambiguities in depth estimation which occur in textureless regions. <br> On the other hand, regularization is still needed in order to generate high-quality images. …”

Global chocolate supply is limited by low pollination and high temperatures by Lander, TA, Atta-Boateng, A, Toledo-Hernández, M, Wood, A, Malhi, Y, Solé, M, Tscharntke, T, Wanger, TC

“…We present a global analysis of pollination, cocoa tree, plantation, and climate factors affecting cocoa yield, with experimental data from three major cocoa-producing countries: Brazil, Ghana and Indonesia. Hand-pollination increased yield by 20%, showing cocoa yield is limited by pollination, but not nutrients. …”

Assessment of Oil Palm Fresh Fruit Bunches Harvesters Working Postures Using Reba by Mohd Nawi, Nur Syazwani, Md Deros, Baba, Nordin, Norani

“…From the analysis, it is revealed that most of the oil palm workers were affected by musculoskeletal disorders especially on left and right hand side. Immediate action such as conduct ergonomics training for the workers must be taken to solve this ergonomic problem…”
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Analysis and design of curved steel beam member in elevation using Eurocode 3 by Yandarmadi, Kelvin

“…In the first part of the study, the obtained result based on the formula produced from the equilibrium equation is compared with the design software analysis and multiple numbers of linear segments hand calculation with similar dimension and load acting on the beam member. …”
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先秦思想中音乐与情感的关系 ：以《孟子》《庄子》“乐”（lè）与 “乐” （yuè）的运用为核心 = The relations between music and emotion in Pre-Qin thought : an analysis of the usage of ‘Lè’ and ‘Yuè’ in the Mencius and the Zh... by 何昱慧 Ho, Adeline Yu Hui

“…Le （乐）are expressed through different ways in the Pre-Qin text and it often signify the changes in emotions and have the abilities in affecting music. On the other hand, although Yue（乐）could be expressed alone, the emotions that comes along with it could be analysed further. …”
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Thermodynamic study of isosteric heat at zero coverage : applications to adsorption cooling and desalination by Fan, Wu

“…The maximum isosteric heat is found in the super micro-pore regions. On the other hand, the Reverse Monte Carlo (RMC) and molecular dynamics methods are applied to understand the silica structure for water adsorption. …”
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Voice conversion with parallel/non-parallel data and synthetic speech detection by Tian, Xiaohai

“…On the other hand, voice conversion also presents a threat to Automatic Speaker Verification (ASV) systems. …”
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Introduction - Oxford Energy Forum – Issue, 98

“…The prospect that prices may settle at much lower levels than were seen in the last decade is generating a wave of measures to improve the investment climate and consequently mitigate the impact of lower revenues: on the one hand, increased exploration and development would lead to higher production and, on the other hand, private investment may substitute the substantial investments needed every year in the producing countries with large NOCs. …”