See-Star: a versatile hydrogel-based protocol for clearing large, opaque and calcified marine invertebrates by Clarke, D. N., Formery, L., Lowe, C. J.

“…To address this problem, we developed See-Star, a hydrogel-based tissue clearing protocol to render the bodies of opaque and calcified invertebrates optically transparent while preserving their anatomy in an unperturbed state, facilitating molecular labeling and observation of intact organ systems. …”
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Antibody Fab‐Fc properties outperform titer in predictive models of SIV vaccine‐induced protection by Pittala, Srivamshi, Bagley, Kenneth, Schwartz, Jennifer A., Brown, Eric P., Weiner, Joshua A., Prado, Ilia J., Zhang, Wenlei, Xu, Rong, Ota‐Setlik, Ayuko, Pal, Ranajit, Shen, Xiaoying, Beck, Charles, Ferrari, Guido

“…Systems analyses modeling protection and adjuvant differences using Fab‐Fc Array measurements revealed a set of correlates yielding strong and robust predictive performance, while models based on measurements of response magnitude alone exhibited significantly inferior performance. At the same time, rendering Fab‐Fc measurements mathematically independent of titer had relatively little impact on predictive performance. …”
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MAS.963 Special Topics: Computational Camera and Photography, Fall 2008 by Raskar, Ramesh

“…Furthermore, if computational process can be made aware of these novel imaging models, them the scene can be analyzed in higher dimensions and novel aesthetic renderings of the visual information can be synthesized. …”
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Phase-preserved macroscopic visible-light carpet cloaking beyond two dimensions by Chu, Chia-Wei, Zhai, Xiaomin, Lee, Chih Jie, Wang, Po-Hao, Duan, Yubo, Tsai, Din Ping, Zhang, Baile, Luo, Yuan

“…Transformation optics, a recent geometrical design strategy of light manipulation with both ray trajectories and optical phase controlled simultaneously, promises an invisibility cloaking device that can render a macroscopic object invisible even to a scientific instrument measuring optical phase. …”
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Hydrated eutectic electrolyte with ligand-oriented solvation shell to boost the stability of zinc battery by Han, Mingming, Huang, Jiwu, Xie, Xuesong, Li, Tian Chen, Huang, Jiangtao, Liang, Shuquan, Zhou, Jiang, Fan, Hong Jin

“…Theoretical calculations verify that the self-healing electrostatic shield effect and the solvation-sheath structure regulation rendered by the Mg2+ additive account for the observed uniform Zn deposition and dendrite suppression. …”
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Tradeoffs Between Aboveground and Soil Carbon Accumulation Following Forestation by Schug, Jennifer Lin

“…However, there is emerging evidence that under some conditions, soil carbon decreases following forestation, offsetting the carbon accumulated aboveground and rendering carbon sequestration efforts ineffective. …”
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Tour-into-picture with Kinect by Meng, Taing

“…3D graphic is one of the most popular researches in computer graphic, modeling, rendering, and animation. There are various methods in modeling an object or a scene in 3D, but each method has its pros and cons in term of cost, quality and performance. …”
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Developing of innovative and cool mobile applications on the Google’s Android powered devices 3 by Peng, Jun

“…The whole project took 7 months, and the important technology and concepts used in this project include: Android activity lifecycle, list view and expandable list view, Android and server data exchange, Facebook and Twitter API for android, Open Street Map rendering, Android multi-threading. …”
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Settling velocity of a porous object by Muhammad Khalil Khaidir

“…The presence of porosity would therefore render Stokes’ law inadequate for calculating the terminal settling velocity for the laminar flow case. …”
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Determining the impact of unexpected disruptions to a complex supply chain by Aw, Waldron Jun Jie

“…The analysis showed that trading volume and BOM are important factors that render nodes critical. The results also show that the disruption experienced by the end consumer does not change much when there are additional disruptions downstream of critical nodes. …”
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Building 'Tilesy' : a lean tile map editor in unity by Chen, Chin Jieh

“…The many features natively supported by Unity naturally presents an opportunity to ignore lower-level concerns normally present in application development, such as event systems, input handling, rendering, user interface and so on. As an external application that exports data readable by ‘Game Editor’ – which in itself is built on Unity – Tilesy provides a grid-based interface and supports the saving and loading of tile maps, customizable tilesets, custom parameter support, and automatic tile selection for ease of boundary tile placement between two perceivable environments with a simplified implementation of the Tile Bitmasking methodology. …”
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Pragmatic competence and pragmatic tolerance in foreign language acquisition—revisiting the case of scalar implicatures by Schulz, J, Wonnacott, E

“…Some studies indicate adult L2 learners are less likely than L1 users to accept such statements while others found the opposite, concluding that implicature derivation is “costly” for L2 learners, rendering them less pragmatically competent than L1 users. …”

Legislating instability: Adam Smith, free banking, and the financial crisis of 1722 by Goodspeed, T

“…In support of previous research on Scottish “free banking,” I find that this absence of legal restrictions on Scottish banking contributed to a proliferation of what Adam Smith derisively referred to as “beggarly bankers” which rendered the Scottish financial system both intensely competitive and remarkably resilient to a series of severe adverse shocks to the small developing economy. …”

Migration and phenotype control of human dermal fibroblasts by electrospun fibrous substrates by Chen, Huizhi, Lui, Yuan Siang, Tan, Zhen Wei, Lee, Justin Yin Hao, Tan, Nguan Soon, Tan, Lay Poh

“…During wound healing, the presence of myofibroblasts advances wound repair by rendering contractile force and ECM deposition within the early and middle courses, but its continuous persistence in the later event may not be desired due to the contribution in pathological scarring. …”
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Multi-atom cluster catalysts for efficient electrocatalysis by Sun, Libo, Reddu, Vikas, Wang, Xin

“…Meanwhile, the multiple active sites in the catalytic center may render them versatile binding modes toward adsorbates and provide an opportunity for catalyzing complex reactions with diverse products. …”
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Oligopeptide self-assembly: mechanisms, stimuli-responsiveness, and biomedical applications by Ge, Lei, Xu, Hanyan, Jiang, Xin, Yu, Jing

“…Their innate biocompatibility and proficiency in replicating the extracellular matrix render them ideally suited for applications such as tissue engineering, wound remediation, and regenerative medicine. …”
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“It's purely mutual respect”: cross-cultural taboos and the everyday reproduction of Singaporean nationalism by Kathiravelu, Laavanya, Pandian, Sharad

“…While differences often threaten ethnonationalist projects, the Singaporean state has rendered a particular configuration of racial-religious diversity constitutive of nationalism in the city-state. …”
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Conversion of sewage sludge to clean solid fuel using hydrothermal carbonization: Hydrochar fuel characteristics and combustion behavior by He, Chao, Giannis, Apostolos, Wang, Jing-Yuan

“…Besides, longer carbonization time seemed to decrease oxygen containing functional groups while carbon aromaticity structure increased, thereby rendering hydrochars highly hydrophobic. The thermogravimetric analysis showed that the combustion decomposition was altered from a single stage for raw sludge to two stages for hydrochars. …”
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Pulmonary delivery for the treatment of tuberculosis by Poh, Wilson Kwok Choon

“…Inhalation therapy represents an alternative to the oral route, but low deposition efficiencies of delivery devices such as nebulizers and dry powder inhalers render it challenging as a favourable therapy. It is hypothesized that by encapsulating two potent TB-agents, i.e. …”
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Investigating the role of local angiotensin system in the browning of white adipocytes by Tan, Shi Wei

“…The renin-angiotensin system (RAS) serves a critical role in regulating energy balance, rendering it a potential target for treating obesity and its comorbidities. …”
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