Negotiating shared spaces in informal peri-urban settlements in North India: collaborative architectural making as a catalyst for civic empowerment and social change by Tang, Bo

“…The research hypothesises that the social structure and order of shared spaces is continually transforming, adjusting and being re-made to accommodate the changing urban conditions within low-income settlements.The informal negotiation of these common spaces creates a shared collective identity. …”
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Global, regional, and national burden of stroke and its risk factors, 1990–2021: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021 by Feigin, VL, Abate, MD, Abate, YH, Bandyopadhyay, S, Bennett, DA, Lacey, B, Newton, CRJ

“…<p><b>Methods</b></p> We estimated incidence, prevalence, death, and disability-adjusted life-year (DALY) counts and age-standardised rates per 100 000 people per year for overall stroke, ischaemic stroke, intracerebral haemorrhage, and subarachnoid haemorrhage, for 204 countries and territories from 1990 to 2021. …”

Early adulthood BMI and cardiovascular disease: a prospective cohort study from the China Kadoorie Biobank by Chen, Y, Yu, W, Lv, J, Sun, D, Pei, P, Du, H, Yang, L, Chen, Y, Zhang, H, Chen, J, Chen, Z, Li, L, Yu, C

“…During a median follow-up of 12·0 years (IQR 11·3–13·1), we documented 57 203 (15·9%) of incident cardiovascular diseases in 360 855 participants. After adjustment for potential confounders, monotonic dose–response associations were observed between higher early adulthood BMI and increased risks of incident cardiovascular diseases. …”

Retention and storage stability of vitamins A and C in extruded native and pregelatinized starches by Abdul Manan, Siti Farhiah

“…Two percent vitamin A or C was mixed with starch and moisture content of the mixture was adjusted to 20% before extrusion. The extrusion conditions were temperatures of 80 °C for zone 1 and 100 °C for zones 2, 3 and 4 of the barrel, 30 rpm of feeder speed, and 60 rpm of screw speed. …”
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Leveraging technology to enhance global citizenship education: An online task based speaking skills module for technical and vocational education and training (TVET) learners by Mohd Khirulnizam, Musa, Azwin Arif, Abdul Rahim

“…The module incorporates global themes to stimulate learners' interest in interconnected global issues, 3) Implementation: piloting the module with a group of TVET learners to gather feedback and make necessary adjustments and 4) Evaluation: assessing the effectiveness of the module through pre- and post-tests, learner feedback, and observations of learner engagement and performance. …”
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Adaptive modulation and subcarrier allocation for multiuser OFDM/CDMA systems by Zhang, Hua

“…Then the bit allocation adjustment scheme in the second step is presented to make the best use of the subchannels and reduce the interference further. …”
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Optimization and scheduling for a large-scale urban transportation system involving human factors by Zhang, Yi

“…Considering the high-incidence rate of pedestrian violations during Flashing GREEN (FG), an additional Dynamic All RED (DAR) phase is introduced at the end of each FG period, whose duration is adaptively adjusted according to the number of non-compliant pedestrians. …”
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Associations between health literacy and health care utilization and mortality in patients with coexisting diabetes and end-stage renal disease : a prospective cohort study by Griva, Konstantina, Loong, Russel K. L., Nandakumar, Mooppil, Rajeswari, Moothathamby, Khoo, Eric Y. H., Lee, Vanessa Y. W., Kang, Augustine W. C., Osborne, Richard H., Brini, Stefano, Newman, Stanton P.

“…Differences in health literacy were found as a function of age, ethnicity, relationship status, and education. After adjusting for demographic and clinical factors, the HLQ domain Actively Managing My Health remained independently associated with lower rates of hospitalization (incidence rate ratio (IRR) = 0.674, 95% CI [0.490, 0.925], p = .02) and mortality (hazard ratio = 0.382, 95% CI [0.160, 0.848], p = .02). …”
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Coacervates derived from mussel foot proteins by Guo, Qi

“…Repeated three times within the Mfp-5 sequence, enzymatically modified GK-16* could undergo LLPS triggered by certain ionic strength at pH 3, in which the mechanical properties of coacervate droplets would be adjusted by salt concentration and urea concentration. …”
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Design of low-power analog filters in WBAN receiver front-ends for hyper/hypothyroidism patients by Wang, Xiaoying

“…However, it produces fixed transconductance so the cutoff frequency can only be discretely adjusted with external programmable capacitor array. …”
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Sustaining antimicrobial stewardship in a high-antibiotic resistance setting by Ng, Tat Ming, Heng, Shi Thong, Chua, Boon Hou, Ang, Li Wei, Tan, Sock Hoon, Tay, Hui Lin, Yap, Min Yi, Quek, Jason, Teng, Christine B., Young, Barnaby Edward, Lin, Ray, Ang, Brenda, Lee, Tau Hong, Lye, David C.

“…Unintended outcomes examined included in-hospital mortality and age-adjusted length of stay (LOS). Results: The number of inpatients increased from 56263 in 2007 to 63572 in 2018. …”
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Toward a generic federated learning platform optimized for computer vision applications by Zhuang, Weiming

“…Based on the insights from these analysis, we propose three optimization methods to elevate performance: client clustering, knowledge distillation, and weight adjustment. Extensive experiments demonstrate that these approaches achieve satisfying convergence with much better performance on all datasets. …”
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Multi-scale and multiphase modeling of abrasive flow machining process with experimental validation by Mohamed Adel Abdelhakem Amen

“…Also, no need to pre-impose MR model since the simulation adjusts the force-MR relation smartly. • To study experimentally the particle-surface interaction: From open literature, no study is dictated to track the MR amount of individual particles in AFM process. …”
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Dengue versus COVID-19: comparing the incidence of cardiovascular, neuropsychiatric and autoimmune complications by Wee, Liang En, Lim, Jue Tao, Tan, Janice Yu Jin, Muhammed Ismail Bin Abdul Malek, Chiew, Calvin, Ng, Lee Ching, Chia, Po Ying, Leo, Yee Sin, Lye, David Chien Boon, Tan, Kelvin Bryan

“…Risks were reported in terms of adjusted hazard ratio (aHR) and excess burden per 1000 persons. …”
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An evidence-based serious game app for public education on antibiotic use and resistance: randomized controlled trial by Huang, Zhilian, Ow, Jing Teng, Tang, Wern Ee, Chow, Angela

“…Intervention participants also showed a statistically significant improvement in mean attitude-perception scores (effect size: 0.98 (95% CI 0.44-1.52)) after adjusting for marital status and race. A majority of participants agreed that the “SteWARdS Antibiotic Defence” app improved their awareness on antibiotic use (135/142, 95.1%) and AMR (136/142, 95.8%). …”
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Synthesis and characterization of silver nanoprism-based nanostructures by Mohammad Mehdi Shahjamali

“…By Engineering the total concentrations of HAuCl4 using a seeding procedure and adjusting the process time, different gold coated silver nanoprisms with various morphologies have been obtained, including three unique structures, i.e. edge gold coated nanoprism (Ag@Auframed nanoprism), core-shell structure (Ag@Au) and the triangular nanobox. …”
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Ion doping behavior of stöber silica-nanosynthesis and application by Song, Xiaohui

“…We found that the metal nanoparticles encapsulation can be adjusted by tuning solvent ratio (Chapter 4), which means that ion doping difference can affect the silica nucleation and deposition on the nanoparticle surface. …”
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Do dual-mobility cups reduce revision risk in femoral neck fractures compared with conventional tha designs? An international meta-analysis of arthroplasty registries by Farey, JE, Masters, J, Cuthbert, AR, Iversen, P, van Steenbergen, LN, Prentice, HA, Adie, S, Sayers, A, Whitehouse, MR, Paxton, EW, Costa, ML, Overgaard, S, Rogmark, C, Rolfson, O, Harris, IA

“…We did not demonstrate a lower risk of all-cause revision for patients receiving dual-mobility over conventional THA designs for hip fracture in the meta-analysis once between-registry differences were adjusted for (HR 0.96 [95% CI 0.86 to 1.06]). A lower proportion of dual-mobility procedures were revised for dislocation than conventional THAs (0.9% versus 1.4%) but a higher proportion were revised for infection (1.2% versus 0.8%). …”

Towards optimal scheduling of deep learning training jobs in GPU clusters by Gao, Wei

“…Fourth, we design AutoSched, a system that automatically, efficiently, and dynamically adjusts the configuration parameters of DLT scheduling policies. …”
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Colloidal quantum dot light-emitting diode architectures for high performance by Leck, Kheng Swee

“…In addition, the emission spectra of QD-LEDs can be conveniently adjusted (e.g., tuned from blue to red) by simply changing the size of their QDs. …”
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