Micro-dosing psychedelics as a plausible adjunct to psychosexual and couple’s therapy: a qualitative insight by Jacobs, Lucy, Banbury, Samantha, Lusher, Joanne

“…Conclusion: These findings point to micro-dosing psychedelics as offering a potentially beneficial adjunct to psychosexual and couple’s therapy; potentiating relationship and sexual satisfaction. …”

Differentiating people with schizophrenia from healthy controls in a developing country: an evaluation of portable functional near infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) as an adjunct diagnostic tool by Tran, Bach Xuan, Nguyen, Tham Thi, Boyer, Laurent, Fond, Guillaume, Auquier, Pascal, Nguyen, Hao Si Anh, Tran, Ha Thi Nhi, Nguyen, Hung Manh, Choi, Jongkwan, Le, Huong Thi, Latkin, Carl A., Nathan, Kalpana Isabel, Husain, Syeda F., McIntyre, Roger S., Ho, Cyrus S. H., Zhang, Melvyn, Ho, Roger C. M.

“…Introduction: This study aimed to evaluate portable functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) device as an adjunct diagnostic tool in Vietnam to assess hemodynamics when people with schizophrenia and healthy controls performed cognitive tasks. …”
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Cloud-assisted rendering support for mobile online gaming by Teo, Lin Yan

“…The objective of this project is to provide adjustable display resolution and mouse pointer input for the client-side application of the cross platform cloud gaming system. …”
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Hydrodynamic pattern of high-speed droplet train impingement by Junaidy Lukman

“…A function generator was used to adjust he frequency of the droplet train. Droplet diameter was adjusted by changing the pinhole. …”
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Optimization of aerosol jet printed strain sensor design via computational simulation by Wong, Chee Khong

“…Additionally, by the used of the simulation software to adjust or modify the parameters and materials, it greatly helps the user to save both the time and cost spent on conducting real-life experiments. …”
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Design of a >500MHz current starving VCO/DLL with low phase noise for digital PWM control by Chua, Dillon Yu Ze

“…When the resistance or conductance is adjusted, it will change the amount of delay in each delay cell. …”
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Getting tired of your friends: the dynamics of venture capital relationships by Du, Q, Hellmann, T

“…We empirically examine how venture capitalists adjust coinvestor relationships over time. We identify a fundamental trade-off where the benefits of familiarity are weighed against the opportunity costs of coinvesting with other syndication partners. …”

Technology enabled interactive learning by Ong, Yu Bing

“…It should be able to sense students’ progress when going through a material and able to adjust content accordingly. This project gives insight to the implementation on how TEL can adjust content according to users’ output through branching sequence to achieve personalized learning. …”
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An energy-efficient self-adaptive duty cycle MAC protocol for traffic-dynamic wireless sensor networks by Zhao, Yi Zhi, Ma, Maode, Miao, Chun Yan

“…When network experience with very low or very high traffic load, the protocol further adjusts duty cycle dynamically based on the traffic load, thus reducing inefficient duty cycle or reduce end-to-end delay. …”
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Hormone replacement therapy and cancer mortality in women with 17 site-specific cancers: a cohort study using linked medical records by Cardwell, CR, Ranger, TA, Labeit, AM, Coupland, CAC, Hicks, B, Hughes, C, McMenamin, Ú, Mei, XW, Murchie, P, Hippisley-Cox, J

“…In particular, no increase was observed in common cancers including lung (adjusted HR = 0.98 95% CI 0.90, 1.07), colorectal (adjusted HR = 0.79 95% CI 0.70, 0.90), and melanoma (adjusted HR = 0.77 95% CI 0.58, 1.02).…”

Linear motor control of headset position for disabled people by Leong, Melissa Sze En

“…As the intended user of the product is a disabled user, they require additional help to physically adjust the position of the VR headset on their faces should it be uncomfortable for them. …”
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Universal Adaptive Control of Nonlinear Systems by Lopez, Brett T., Slotine, Jean-Jacques E.

“…This letter develops a new direct adaptive control framework that extends the certainty equivalence principle to general nonlinear systems with unmatched model uncertainties. The approach adjusts the rate of adaptation online to eliminate the effects of parameter estimation transients on stability. …”
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Traffic managements with autonomous vehicles considering bounded rational day-to-day traffic dynamics by Guo, Zhihong

“…Day-to-day dynamics and corresponding traffic management measures are considered to have great significance in solving congestion problem, since they can predict every day’s traffic flow evolution in the network and adjust the control schemes accordingly. Meanwhile, autonomous vehicle (AV) technology is receiving more and more attentions from researchers recently. …”
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Essays in dynamic pricing, channel control and channel competition by Song, Boqian

“…First, we study the service unbundling issue of a seller who separates the sales of a fixed-priced add-on and dynamically adjusts the price of the capacitated basic service along the horizon. …”
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Severe malarial thrombocytopenia : a risk factor for mortality in Papua, Indonesia by Lampah, Daniel A., Yeo, Tsin W., Malloy, Michael, Kenangalem, Enny, Douglas, Nicholas M., Ronaldo, Donny, Sugiarto, Paulus, Simpson, Julie A., Poespoprodjo, Jeanne Rini, Anstey, Nicholas M., Price, Ric N.

“…Patients with severe malarial anemia alone (hemoglobin level, <5 g/dL) had an adjusted OR for death of 4.93 (95% CI, 3.79–6.42), those with severe malarial thrombocytopenia alone had an adjusted OR of 2.77 (95% CI, 2.20–3.48), and those with both risk factors had an adjusted OR of 13.76 (95% CI, 10.22–18.54; P < .001). …”
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Phenotypic vs. genetic mismatch of BMI and type 2 diabetes: evidence from two perspective cohort studies by Li, A, Gong, S, Yu, C, Pei, P, Yang, L, Millwood, IY, Walters, RG, Chen, Y, Du, H, Yang, X, Hou, W, Chen, J, Chen, Z, Lv, J, Li, L, Sun, D, China Kadoorie Biobank Collaborative Group

“…We therefore used data from the China Kadoorie Biobank and UK Biobank and calculated BMI-PGM for each participant as the difference between the percentile for adjusted BMI at baseline and the percentile for adjusted polygenic risk score for BMI. …”

Development of sensorised tool for robotic manipulation of objects by Seetharaman, Yuvanesh

“…This report would present the design, development, and integration of a self-adjusting sensorised tool for robotic arms to enhance its gripping capabilities on objects through wrist like movement. …”
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Optimal portfolio management. by Lim, Xue Jing., Ng, Jie Wen., Peh, Ying Jie.

“…This paper investigates the dual effect of stock selection and asset allocation method on optimizing equity portfolio performance, defined by risk-adjusted return. Portfolios are formed based on the four indicators, highest dividend yield, lowest price-earnings ratio, lowest price-to-book ratio and top loser stocks, and assets are then assigned weights using three different allocation approaches, equal-weight, value-weight and Markowitz optimization model that maximizes Sharpe ratio. …”
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Automated mean arterial pressure control for postoperative patients in intensive care conditions by Ma, Jie

“…The main objectives of this study is to develop and improve the automatic control system to effectively and accurately adjust the patient's arterial blood pressure.…”
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Grid-connected current source inverter with instantaneous power control by Nor Amsyar Bin Zainuddin

“…The novel power inverter aims to achieve grid-enhanced power quality and reliability through an inverter that can adjust instantly to new load demands in the grid with instantaneous increases or decreases in power. …”
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