Development of a Highly Selective and Sensitive Fluorescent Probe for Imaging RNA Dynamics in Live Cells by Lan Fang, Wen Shao, Shu-Tang Zeng, Gui-Xue Tang, Jia-Tong Yan, Shuo-Bin Chen, Zhi-Shu Huang, Jia-Heng Tan, Xiu-Cai Chen

“…In this study, a new set of styryl probes were designed and synthesized, with the aim of upgrading the detection limit and maintaining the selectivity of a lead probe <b>QUID−1</b> for RNA. …”
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Design of a syringe extension device (Chloe SED®) for low-resource settings in sub-Saharan Africa: a circular economy approach by Karlheinz Tondo Samenjo, Karlheinz Tondo Samenjo, Aparna Ramanathan, Aparna Ramanathan, Stephen Otieno Gwer, Stephen Otieno Gwer, Robert C. Bailey, Robert C. Bailey, Fredrick Odhiambo Otieno, Erin Koksal, Benjamin Sprecher, Rebecca Anne Price, Conny Bakker, Jan Carel Diehl

“…The device is designed for durability, repairability, maintainability, upgradeability, and recyclability to address environmental sustainability issues in the healthcare domain. …”
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Toward Energy Savings in Campus Buildings under a Life Cycle Thinking Approach by Ricardo Abejón, Jara Laso, Marta Rodrigo, Israel Ruiz-Salmón, Mario Mañana, María Margallo, Rubén Aldaco

“…In addition, energy performance certification of buildings is an obligation under current European legislation, which promotes efficient energy use, so it is necessary to ensure that the energy performance of the building is upgraded to meet minimum requirements. For this purpose, this work proposes the consideration of the energy impacts and material resources used in the operation phase of a building to calculate the contribution of these energy impacts as new variables for the energy performance certification. …”
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Status of Government-Funded Radiotherapy Services in Nigeria by Simeon C. Aruah, Runcie C.W. Chidebe, Tochukwu C. Orjiakor, Fatima Uba, Uchechukwu N. Shagaya, Charles Ugwanyi, Aisha A. Umar, Taofeeq Ige, Obinna C. Asogwa, Oiza T. Ahmadu, Musa Ali-Gombe, Alabi Adewumi, Vitalis C. Okwor, Jimoh A. Mutiu, Basheer Bello, Lucy O. Eriba, Yusuf A. Ahmed, Awwal Bisalla, Ukamaka Itanyi, Ramatallah A. Balogun, Suleiman Alabi, David Pistenmaa, C. Norman Coleman, Dosanjh Manjit

“…All of the centers lack residency training programs for medical physicists and radiation therapy technologists resulting in very few well-trained staff.CONCLUSIONAs the Nigerian Government plans for the new National Cancer Control Plan, there is an urgent need to scale up access to RT by upgrading the RT equipment, workforce, and infrastructure to meet the current needs of Nigerian patients with cancer. …”
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Online, cross-disciplinary team science training for health and medical professionals: Evaluation of COALESCE (teamscience.net) by Bonnie Spring, Ekaterina A. Klyachko, Phillip W. Rak, H. Gene McFadden, Donald Hedeker, Juned Siddique, Leland R. Bardsley, Angela Fidler Pfammatter

“…Biomedical and other health professionals improved comparably.Conclusion:Evaluation of the TS training tool at teamscience.net indicates broad dissemination and positive TS-related outcomes. Site upgrades implemented between 2018 and 2020, including adding five new modules, are expected to increase the robustness and accessibility of the COALESCE training resource.…”
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Characterization of binary black holes by heterogeneous gravitational-wave networks by Vitale, Salvatore, Whittle, Christopher Mark

“…Once at design sensitivity, existing instruments will be able to detect heavy binary black holes at redshifts of ∼1. Significant upgrades in the current facilities could increase the sensitivity by another factor of few, further extending reach and signal-to-noise ratio. …”
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Studies of turbulence and transport in Alcator C-Mod H-mode plasmas with phase contrast imaging and comparisons with GYRO by Lin, Liang, Porkolab, Miklos, Edlund, Eric Matthias, Rost, Jon C., Fiore, Catherine L., Greenwald, Martin J., Mikkelsen, David, Tsujii, Naoto, Wukitch, Stephen James

“…The PCI system is capable of measuring density fluctuations with high temporal (2 kHz–5 MHz) and wavenumber (0.5–55 cm[superscript −1]) resolution. Recent upgrades have enabled PCI to localize the short wavelength turbulence in the electron temperature gradient range and resolve the direction of propagation (i.e., electron versus ion diamagnetic direction) of the longer wavelength turbulence in the ion temperature gradient (ITG) and trapped electron mode range. …”
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Water and urban services in Asia and the Pacific : pre-prints of papers / by WEDC Conference (14th : 1988 : Kuala Lumpur)

“…Hussein -- Squatter area upgrading in Malaysia/ Dr. R.M. Bradley; C.D. Ponniah -- Water sanitation and health of tribals/ Prof. …”

Water and urban services in Asia and the Pacific : the proceedings of the 14th WEDC Conference, Kuala Lumpur, 11-15 April 1988/ by WEDC Conference (14th : 1988 : Kuala Lumpur)

“…Noor/ Azlan Abdul Aziz -- Sqatter area upgrading in Malaysia/ Dr. R.M. Bradley; C.D. Ponniah -- Urban project development trends - Phillippines/ Alistair Wray -- Services for urban low income housing/ Andrew Cotton; Richard Francey -- Water pollution and control measures/ Professor Che Xianxin; Bai Yongjiu -- Discussion group report analysis of water and wastes/ Er. …”

Design, Modeling and Reliability in Rotating Machinery / by Perez, Robert X., editor 651130

Oil-in-water emulsion enhancement for viscous crude oil flow in pipeline by Liyana Nadirah, Mat Suli

“…The study began with characterisation studies of both types of crude oil and emulsion to provide understanding of fundamental issues such as conventional transportation methods, partial upgrading, pipeline heating, and dilution with lighter crude oils. …”
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Physicochemical Property Changes and Volatile Analysis for Torrefaction of Oil Palm Frond by Suriyati, Saleh, Fakhrur Razil Alawi, Abdul Wahid, Nur Hazirah Huda, Mohd Harun, Siti Raishan, Mohd Rashid, Noor Asma Fazli, Abdul Samad

“…Torrefaction is an upgrading technique for biomass properties which involves the heating of biomass to moderate temperatures typically between 200 and 300 °C in an inert condition. …”
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Force and impedance control for hydraulically driven hexapod robot walking on uneven terrain by Addie Irawan, Hashim

“…Moreover,the proposed dynamic trajectory generation is then upgraded with capability of omni-directional walking with a proposed center of body rotational-based method. …”
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Oxidative ethanol dry reforming for production of syngas over Co-based catalyst : Effect of reaction temperature by Fahim, Fayaz, He, Chao, Goel, Avishek, Rintala, Jukka, Konttinen, Jukka

“…More importantly, the syngas can be upgraded to produce liquid biofuels and chemicals. …”
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Development of gas sensor and camera vision in unmanned ground vehicle for automotive application by Mohamad Syazwan, Mohd Roni

“…The FPV system can be further upgraded, with a larger radius, higher resolution, and object recognition and recognition capabilities. …”
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Do cancer detection rates differ between transperineal and transrectal micro-ultrasound mpMRI-fusion-targeted prostate biopsies? A propensity score-matched study by Arnas Rakauskas, Max Peters, Paul Martel, Peter S. N. van Rossum, Stefano La Rosa, Jean-Yves Meuwly, Beat Roth, Massimo Valerio

“…Overall, micro-US targeted biopsies upgraded 2% of patients to clinically significant disease that would have been missed otherwise. …”
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User Interaction Mode of Agricultural Knowledge Service System by LI Yikai, YE Sa, KOU Yuantao

“…The system can better stimulate user needs and understand user needs for the agricultural knowledge system, innovate functions, and provide high-quality personalized services, maintain the attractiveness and participation stickiness of users, benefit more user groups, and play a guiding role in the realization of system upgrades. Due to the lack of relevant knowledge of algorithm technology and lack of technical design for the optimization of agricultural professional knowledge service system, we need to explore the technical layer in the follow-up research; after the system optimization plan is proposed and implemented, experts and scholars need to further test its improvement effect, and propose construction to better realize the all-round optimization of the user interaction of the agricultural knowledge system.…”
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Teacher performance in carrying out duties as curriculum developers in schools by L. Lukman, N. Nurhayati

“…Efforts are being made to improve teacher performance, namely empowering teacher development platforms, such as MGMP, providing opportunities for teachers to take part in higher education at state universities and private universities, as well as through various training activities, upgrading, workshops, seminars, improving teacher welfare, the role of supervisors, completing the facilities and infrastructure needed by teachers in carrying out teaching and learning process activities. …”
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Physico-chemical assessment of torrefied Eurasian pinecones by Alok Dhaundiyal, Divine Atsu, Laszlo Toth

“…Conclusion By the physico-chemical assessment, it was determined that pinecones required the highest torrefaction temperature and time to provide the upgraded pinecones. It was concluded that the duration of the torrefaction should be at least 15 min for a temperature of 250 °C so that the chemical exergy of the system, energy yield and the energy density of the processed material are qualitatively improved. …”
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Fabrication, characterization, and optimization of a novel copper-incorporated chitosan/gelatin-based scaffold for bone tissue engineering applications by Azam Bozorgi, Masoud Mozafari, Mozafar Khazaei, Mansooreh Soleimani, Zahra Jamalpoor

“…Taken together, our results indicate the upgraded properties of nHA.Cu5%/Cs/Gel scaffolds for future applications in bone tissue engineering.…”
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