Mapping the Unseen: In Vivo CEST-MRI of Creatine Reveals Improved Cardiac Energetics in Subjects with Obesity Following Bariatric Surgery by Yurista, Salva R., Chen, Shi, Eder, Robert A., Garrett, Thomas, Butsch, W. S., Aminian, Ali, Tang, W. H. W., Farrar, Christian T., Gee, Denise, Abel, E. D., Das, Saumya, Nguyen, Christopher T.

“…The median age was 46.5 years, 67% were female, and 16.67% had diabetes. Bariatric surgery led to significant weight loss, with achieved mean BMI of 31.0 ± 2.0. …”
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Removal of nitrogen using different carbon source by Chen, Yimin.

“…From the batch reactor containing methanol, we had observed the presences of gas bubbles, indicating denitrification had took placed. …”
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Chrysanthemum-like Au@Polydopamine synthesized using one-pot method and its advantage in immunochromatographic assay by Zhang, Gang-gang, Lai, Xiao-cui, Ding, Neng-shui, Xiong, Qirong, Hou, Shuai, Duan, Hongwei, Lai, Wei-hua

“…These results indicated that AuNC@PDA had superior morphological and optical performance. …”
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末世狂欢 ：论晚清科学小说中的乌托邦想象 = Fin-de-siècle carnivalization : the Utopian imagination of late Qing scientific romance, 1840-1911 by 林雨峰 Lim, Yu Feng

“…However, the literary circle at that time had showed vitality. Under the leadership of Liang Ch’i-ch’ao in 1902, a wave of novel-writing had emerged in late Qing Dynasty. …”
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Future reservoir performance projection using integrated models in the framework of climate change by Hamidon, Nuramidah

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Effects of waste engine oil on warm reclaimed asphalt mixture by Mohd. Kamaruddin, Nurul Hidayah

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Preterm birth and cardiometabolic health trajectories from birth to adulthood: the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children by Clayton, GL, Howe, LD, O’Keeffe, LM, Lewandowski, A, Lawlor, DA, Fraser, A

“…Our aim was to compare trajectories of multiple cardiometabolic risk factors from childhood to early adulthood between those who had and had not been born preterm.</p> <br> <p><strong>Methods and Results:</strong> Multilevel models were used to compare trajectories from early childhood (&lt;9 years) to age 25 of BMI, fat and lean mass, systolic and diastolic blood pressure (BP), lipids, glucose and insulin, between individuals born preterm (N=311-676, range 25-36 gestation) and term (N=4973-10534) in a UK birth cohort study. …”

Trends in end digit preference for blood pressure and associations with cardiovascular outcomes in Canadian and UK primary care: a retrospective observational study by Greiver, M, Kalia, S, Voruganti, T, Aliarzadeh, B, Moineddin, R, Hinton, W, Dawes, M, Sullivan, F, Syed, S, Williams, J, De Lusignan, S

“…Sites with higher rates of EDP had lower mean BPs and a higher frequency of adverse cardiovascular outcomes. …”

The assessment of interleukin-6, protein induced by vitamin k antagonist ii, and alpha-fetoprotein among hepatocellular carcinoma patients in Hospital Universiti Sains Malaysia by Wei, Lai Thing

“…elevated in HCC patients. However, there had been insufficient research on them in our population. …”
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Outcome assessment for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest patients in Singapore and Japan with initial shockable rhythm by Okada, Yohei, Shahidah, Nur, Ng, Yih Yng, Chia, Michael Y. C., Gan, Han Nee, Leong, Benjamin S. H., Mao, Desmond R., Ng, Wei Ming, Irisawa, Taro, Yamada, Tomoki, Nishimura, Tetsuro, Kiguchi, Takeyuki, Kishimoto, Masafumi, Matsuyama, Tasuku, Nishioka, Norihiro, Kiyohara, Kosuke, Kitamura, Tetsuhisa, Iwami, Taku, Ong, Marcus Eng Hock

“…For OHCA patients who achieved return of spontaneous circulation (ROSC) on hospital arrival, the observed favorable neurological outcome was at the same level as expected (OE ratio: 0.905 [95%CI: 0.784–1.036]). On the other hand, for those who had continued cardiac arrest on hospital arrival, the outcomes were lower than expected (shockable rhythm on hospital arrival, OE ratio: 0.369 [95%CI: 0.258–0.499], and nonshockable rhythm, OE ratio: 0.137 [95%CI: 0.065–0.235]). …”
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Association of PHACTR1 with Coronary Artery Calcium Differs by Sex and Cigarette Smoking by Voorhies, Kirsten, Young, Kendra, Hsu, Fang-Chi, Palmer, Nicholette D., McDonald, Merry-Lynn N., Lee, Sanghun, Hahn, Georg, Hecker, Julian, Prokopenko, Dmitry, Wu, Ann Chen, Regan, Elizabeth A., DeMeo, Dawn, Kinney, Greg L., Crapo, James D., Cho, Michael H., Silverman, Edwin K., Lange, Christoph, Budoff, Matthew J., Hokanson, John E., Lutz, Sharon M.

“…CDKN2B-AS1 had a strong association with CAC among both former (p = 7.7 × 10−8) and current smokers (p = 1.7 × 10−7) and the SNP by smoking status interaction was not significant (p = 0.40). …”
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Immunoprofiling of drug-resistant epilepsy with a focus on glutamic acid decarboxylase 65 antibodies by McGinty, R

“…All were female and demonstrated continuous GAD65 autoantibody production throughout long-term follow-up. Five of seven had temporal lobe epilepsy, three had T1DM and two had had bilateral hippocampal sclerosis. …”

Self-healing algorithm for real-time multicast tree by Giam, Pin Leong.

“…Real-time multicast routing had been studied in depth and a number of multicast tree building algorithms had been proposed that take into consideration network cost and performance guarantee services like end-to-end delay constraint. …”
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“What kind of Indian are you?” Frictions and fractures between Singaporean Indians and foreign-born NRIs by Kathiravelu, Laavanya

“…The post continued that Singaporeans clawed back control by showing up in force at the next Annual General Meeting of the condominium, which had even been dubbed “Mumbai Gardens” as a result of the overrepresentation of expatriate Indians in the estate.…”
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Mechanical characterization of an endoprosthesis. by Tan, Xue Yu.

“…The recent success of Tideman Lee’s modular endoprosthesis had been populated as a successful method of mandibular reconstruction. …”
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Neural network based intelligent image analyzer and retrieval by Khoo, Jia Jun.

“…In this proposed system, the use of the Haar wavelet transform with combined RGB and RgYb colour channels in neural networks had proven to be effective in retrieving images from the COREL 1k dataset. …”
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Using print narrative to address mental illness stigma. by Liao, Jun Qi., Low, Yue Ting., Sim, Roslina Hui Ting., Too, Vanessa Su Wen.

“…In contrast, higher source trustworthiness was more effective in changing attitudes when participants had high issue involvement and positive pre-attitudes towards mental illness.…”
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The role of PTEN in human bone marrow-derived mesenchymal stem cells mediated tumor cells suppression. by Toh, Xin Yi.

“…In summary, our results had demonstrated the importance of functional PTEN expression in relation to the MSC-mediated tumor cells suppression.…”
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Partial auto-stereoscopic display with camera-based user tracking by Tan, Jian Hong

“…The derived coordinates had jitter, but after undergoing data smoothing by calculating moving average, had improved stability and usability. …”
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Modeling renography data and formulating indices for quantitative means in differentiating kidney obstruction by Suriyanto

“…Then, the model was compared to clinical data from renography and it had been verified in this project that the mathematical model was accurate in predicting the relative severity of obstructed kidney. …”
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