Mapping activity theory to a design thinking model (ATDT) : a framework to propagate a culture of creative trust by WInstanley, Lisa

“…Tridea invites participants to engage in an international, collaborative form of the Surrealist parlour game, the Exquisite Corpse, however, participation will be undertaken via an online platform; leveraging A.I. to assign virtual teams based on geographic and cultural diversity. …”
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Injection-seeded high-repetition-rate short-pulse micro-laser based on upconversion nanoparticles by Jiao, Jiannan, Zhou, Donglei, Li, Shufan, Low, Mun Ji, Gao, Yi, An, Jianing, Su, Pei-Chen, Kim, Seung-Woo, Kim, Seungchul, Kim, Kyujung, Suchand Sandeep, Chandramathi Sukumaran, Kim, Young-Jin

“…Our scheme devised for realizing high-repetition-rate lasing at higher photon energies in a compact micro platform will open up new ways for on-chip optical information processing, high-throughput microfluidic sensing, and localized micro light sources for optical memories.…”
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On configurable SCA countermeasures against single trace attacks for the NTT by Ravi, Prasanna, Poussier, Romain, Bhasin, Shivam, Chattopadhyay, Anupam

“…However, the cost of deploying suitable countermeasures to protect the NTT from these attacks on the same target platform has not yet been studied. In this work, we propose novel shuffling and masking countermeasures to protect the NTT from such single trace attacks. …”
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Proficiency testing of metagenomics-based detection of food-borne pathogens using a complex artificial sequencing dataset by Höper, Dirk, Grützke, Josephine, Brinkmann, Annika, Mossong, Joël, Matamoros, Sébastien, Ellis, Richard J., Deneke, Carlus, Tausch, Simon H., Cuesta, Isabel, Monzón, Sara, Juliá, Miguel, Petersen, Thomas Nordahl, Hendriksen, Rene S., Pamp, Sünje J., Leijon, Mikael, Hakhverdyan, Mikhayil, Walsh, Aaron M., Cotter, Paul D., Chandrasekaran, Lakshmi, Tay, Moon Yue Feng, Schlundt, Joergen, Sala, Claudia, De Cesare, Alessandra, Nitsche, Andreas, Beer, Martin, Wylezich, Claudia

“…Within the European Union funded project COMPARE [COllaborative Management Platform for detection and Analyses of (Re-) emerging and foodborne outbreaks in Europe], we conducted a proficiency test to scrutinize the ability to assess diagnostic metagenomics data. …”
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Surface-electrode ion trap with ground structures for minimizing the dielectric loss in the Si substrate by Tao, Jing, Li, Hong Yu, Lim, Yu Dian, Zhao, Peng, Apriyana, Anak Agung Alit, Guidoni, Luca, Tan, Chuan Seng

“…In this article, surface-electrode ion trap is fabricated using the standard Cu back-end process on a 300-mm Si wafer platform. Several process novelties are demonstrated: 1) the use of electroplated Cu/Au layers using microfabrication techniques to form the surface electrodes; 2) the use of dry etching to form the fine-gap oxide trench between the electrodes for reducing the charge-induced stray electric field; 3) the use of Cu mesh ground structure to enhance the resonance performance of the trap; and 4) process optimization to minimize the undercut in Cu/Au electrodes. …”
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A monolithic artificial iconic memory based on highly stable perovskite-metal multilayers by Guan, Xinwei, Wang , Yutao, Lin, Chun-Ho, Hu, Long, Ge, Shuaipeng, Wan, Tao, Younis, Adnan, Li, Feng, Cui, Yimin, Qi, Dong-Chen, Chu, Dewei, Chen, Xiaodong, Wu, Tom

“…Our work provides a new platform for designing perovskite-based architectures with simultaneous light detection and data storage capabilities.…”
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Direct isolation of circulating extracellular vesicles from blood for vascular risk profiling in type 2 diabetes mellitus by Tay, Hui Min, Leong, Sheng Yuan, Xu, Xiaohan, Kong, Fang, Upadya, Megha, Dalan, Rinkoo, Tay, Chor Yong, Dao, Ming, Suresh, Subra, Hou, Han Wei

“…We report a novel inertial-based microfluidic platform for direct isolation of nanoscale EVs (exosomes, 50 to 200 nm) and medium-sized EVs (microvesicles, 200 nm to 1 μm) from blood with high efficiency (three-fold increase in EV yield compared to ultracentrifugation). …”
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Visual discrimination impairment after experimental stroke is associated with disturbances in the polarization of the astrocytic aquaporin-4 and increased accumulation of neurotoxi... by Sanchez-Bezanilla, Sonia, TeBay, Clifford, Nilsson, Michael, Walker, Frederick R., Ong, Lin Kooi

“…Specifically, a photothrombotic vascular occlusion targeting motor and sensory parts of the cerebral cortex was induced in young adult mice, and changes in cognition were assessed using a touchscreen platform for pairwise visual discrimination. The results showed that the execution of the visual discrimination task was impaired in mice 10 to 14 days post-stroke compared to sham. …”
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Characterizing the membrane-disruptive behavior of dodecylglycerol using supported lipid bilayers by Yoon, Bo Kyeong, Jackman, Joshua A., Park, Soohyun, Mokrzecka, Natalia, Cho, Nam-Joon

“…To address this outstanding question, herein, we employed supported lipid bilayer (SLB) platforms to experimentally characterize the interactions of DDG with phospholipid membranes. …”
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Impact of molecular linker size on physicochemical properties of assembled gold nanoparticle mono-/multi-layers and their applicability for functional binding of biomolecules by Krikstolaityte, Vida, Hamit-Eminovski, Jildiz, Abariute, Laura, Niaura, Gediminas, Meskys, Rolandas, Arnebrant, Thomas, Lisak, Grzegorz, Ruzgas, Tautgirdas

“…Thus, PLL-interlinked AuNP mono-/multilayer structures were further investigated as a platform for laccase enzyme functional adsorption via qualitative assessment of bioelectrochemical characteristics of the enzyme.…”
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Identifying barriers to early presentation in patients with locally advanced breast cancer (LABC) in Northern Singapore : qualitative study by Ng, Ding Yi, Tudor Car, Lorainne, Ng, Marcus Jia Ming, Lu, Junde, Leung, Joelle, Goo, Tiong Thye, Chia, Clement Luck Khng

“…Other knowledge barriers include the lack of knowledge and misinformation from the internet or other social media platforms. Some perceived barriers include fear of diagnosis, fear of treatment and fear of imposing financial burden on family members. …”
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Mining likely analogical APIs across third-party libraries via large-scale unsupervised API semantics embedding by Chen, Chunyang, Xing, Zhenchang, Liu, Yang, Xiong, Kent Long Xiong

“…Unfortunately, existing techniques either adopt supervised learning mechanism that requires already-ported or functionality similar applications across major programming languages or platforms, which are difficult to come by for an arbitrary pair of third-party libraries, or cannot deal with lexical gap in the API descriptions of different libraries. …”
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fNIRS-QC : crowd-sourced creation of a dataset and machine learning model for fNIRS quality control by Gabrieli, Giulio, Bizzego, Andrea, Neoh, Michelle Jin Yee, Esposito, Gianluca

“…In this work, we introduce fNIRS-QC, a platform designed for the crowd-sourced creation of a quality control fNIRS dataset. …”
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Photon-assisted Landau-Zener transitions in a periodically driven Rabi dimer coupled to a dissipative mode by Zheng, Fulu, Shen, Yuejun, Sun, Kewei, Zhao, Yang

“…Applying a sinusoidal driving field to one of the qubits, this device is an ideal platform to study the photon-assisted LZ transitions by comparing the dynamics of the two qubits. …”
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Reduced graphene oxide with controllably intimate bifunctionality for the catalytic transformation of fructose into 2,5-diformylfuran in biphasic solvent systems by Chen, Z., Liao, S., Ge, Liya, Amaniampong, P. N., Min, Y., Wang, C., Li, K., Lee, Jong-Min

“…For responding to the rapidly increasing trend of research on biorefinery, a diverse range of furans derived from biomass emerge as versatile platform chemicals for a spectrum of pharmaceutical applications. …”
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Near real-time analysis of para-cresol in wastewater with a laccase-carbon nanotube-based biosensor by Zhao, Ke, Veksha, Andrei, Ge, Liya, Lisak, Grzegorz

“…Finally, the biosensor with a portable potentiostat was approved as an easy-to-use, sensitive and inexpensive platform that could provide near real-time monitoring of p-cresol concentration in wastewater during Fenton oxidation treatment process.…”
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Recyclable and biocompatible microgel-based supporting system for positive 3D freeform printing of silicone rubber by Tan, Wen See, Shi, Qian, Chen, Shengyang, Muhammad Aidil Bin Juhari, Song, Juha

“…Silicone elastomers, which is a major group of materials in many biomedical implants, have low viscosities and can be printed with a special AM platform, known as freeform 3D printing systems. The freeform 3D printing systems are composed of a supporting bath and a printing material. …”
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Microfluidic size exclusion chromatography (μSEC) for extracellular vesicles and plasma protein separation by Leong, Sheng Yuan, Ong, Hong Boon, Tay, Hui Min, Kong, Fang, Upadya, Megha, Gong, Lingyan, Dao, Ming, Dalan, Rinkoo, Hou, Han Wei

“…Herein, a unique microfluidic platform is reported for EV-protein fractionation based on the principle of size exclusion chromatography (SEC). …”
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Modular design of a hybrid hydrogel for protease-triggered enhancement of drug delivery to regulate TNF-α production by pro-inflammatory macrophages by Nguyen, Dang Tri, Soeranaya, Bob Hartadhi Tji, Truong, Thi Hong Anh, Dang, Tram Thuy

“…Together, our findings suggested that this hybrid hydrogel might be a versatile platform for on-demand drug delivery via either injectable or topical application to modulate inflammation in chronic diseases.…”
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Mycobacterium tuberculosis PanD structure-function analysis and identification of a potent pyrazinoic acid-derived enzyme inhibitor by Ragunathan, Priya, Cole, Malcolm, Latka, Chitra, Aragaw, Wassihun Wedajo, Hegde, Pooja, Shin, Joon, Manimekalai, Malathy Sony Subramanian, Rishikesan, Sankaranarayanan, Aldrich, Courtney C., Dick, Thomas, Grüber, Gerhard

“…This information provided the platform for the design of novel POA analogs with modifications at position 3 of the pyrazine ring. …”
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