Interventions for smoking cessation in hospitalised patients by Streck, JM, Rigotti, NA, Livingstone-Banks, J, Tindle, HA, Clair, C, Munafò, MR, Sterling-Maisel, C, Hartmann-Boyce, J

“…We excluded studies in psychiatric, substance and rehabilitation centres, as well as studies that did not measure abstinence at six months or longer. …”

High sensitivity transparent glass ceramic systems development based on MgSO4:Dy2O3–B2O3 and MgSO4:Dy2O3–B2O3:ZnO:An investigation of FT-IR and thermal properties for thermolumines... by Naeem, Hayder Salah, Iskandar Shahrim, Mustafa, N. N., Yusof, Thabit, Hammam Abdurabu, Mhareb, M. H. A., Alajerami, Y. S. M., Raypah, Muna E., Mohd Noor, ., Shareef, Ammar Nadal, Khazaalah, Thair Hussein, Ezra, Nabasu Seth, Munirah, Jamil, Efenji, G. I., Muhammad Fadhirul Izwan, Abdul Malik

“…This enhanced sensitivity is attributed to MgSO4:Dy2O3 and ZnO, which facilitate charge carrier movement and effective trapping and release of charges in borate glass ceramics. …”
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The design and development of a multimedia reading application for pre-schoolers as a foundation in the area of TVET by Suhaizal, Hashim, Nur Zahira, Mohamed Zahir, Nuraini Hanisah, Maleki, Mohd Hasril, Amiruddin, Mohd Erfy, Ismail, Eh Phon, Danakorn Nincarean

“…Data were acquired and assessed using frequency and percentage values based on a checklist form that was given. To facilitate data analysis, each item is categorised, and frequency information is quantified as a percentage. …”
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Efficient and Homogenous Precipitation of Sulfur Within a 3D Electrospun Heterocatalytic Rutile/Anatase TiO2-x Framework in Lithium–Sulfur Batteries by Feng, Ping, Dong, Kang, Xu, Yaolin, Zhang, Xia, Jia, Haojun, Prell, Henrik, Tovar, Michael, Manke, Ingo, Liu, Fuyao, Xiang, Hengxue, Zhu, Meifang, Lu, Yan

“…Additionally, the free-standing TiO2-x/CNFs facilitate uniform deposition of reaction products during cycling, as confirmed by synchrotron X-ray imaging. …”
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Robust microhoneycomb-like nanofibrous aerogels derived from cellulose and lignin as highly efficient, low-resistant and anti-clogging air filters by Ma, Daphne Xiu Yun, Zeng, Zhihui, Wang, Zhe, Xu, Lulu, Zhang, Youfang, Ang, Jia Ming, Wan, Man Pun, Ng, Bing Feng, Lu, Xuehong

“…The outstanding QF achieved could be attributed to the preferably aligned pores and porous cell walls that help to ease the airflow and create longer and tortuous travelling paths for diffusive particles while within the pores the loose, tangled nanofibers with surface functional groups could facilitate particle deposition. Moreover, heavy loading filtration tests show good long-term filtration efficiency and anti-clogging features of the NFAs. …”
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Strong edge stress in molecularly thin organic-inorganic hybrid ruddlesden-popper perovskites and modulations of their edge electronic properties by Kripalani, Devesh Raju, Cai, Yongqing, Lou, Jun, Zhou, Kun

“…A clear downward shift of the bands at the narrower ribbons, as indicative of the edge effect, facilitates the separation of photoexcited carriers (electrons move toward the edge and holes move toward the interior part of the nanosheet). …”
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Robust delivery of RIG-I agonists using extracellular vesicles for anti-cancer immunotherapy by Peng, Boya, Nguyen, Trinh Mai, Jayasinghe, Migara Kavishka, Gao, Chang, Pham, Thach Tuan, Vu, Luyen Tien, Yeo, Eric Yew Meng, Yap, Gracemary, Wang, Lingzhi, Goh, Boon Cher, Tam, Wai Leong, Luo, Dahai, Le, Minh TN

“…Targeted delivery of immRNA using RBCEVs with EGFR-binding nanobody administrated via intrapulmonary delivery facilitates the accumulation of RBCEVs in metastatic cancer cells, leading to potent tumour-specific CD8+ T cells immune response. …”
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LipidA-IDER to explore the global lipid A repertoire of drug-resistant gram-negative bacteria by Guan, Xue Li, Loh, Johnathan Yi-Xiong, Lizwan, Marco, Chan, Sharon Cui Mun, Kwan, Jeric Mun Chung, Lim, Tze Peng, Koh, Tse Hsien, Hsu, Li Yang, Lee, Bernett Teck Kwong

“…With the global emergence of drug-resistant bacteria causing difficult-to-treat infections, there is an urgent need for a tool to facilitate studies on key virulence and antimicrobial resistant factors. …”
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Data-driven approach to spatiotemporal dynamic risk assessment of urban flooding based on shared socio-economic pathways by Wang, Mo, Chen, Furong, Zhang, Dongqing, Chen, Zijing, Su, Jin, Zhou, Shiqi, Li, Jianjun, Chen, Jintang, Li, Jiaying, Tan, Soon Keat

“…The finding of this study will shed a comprehensive insight into the identification of spatial and temporal distribution of urban flooding vulnerability to facilitate the exploration of flood mitigation measures associated with dynamic changes in urban land use.…”
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Chronic oxidative stress promotes GADD34-mediated phosphorylation of the TAR DNA-binding protein TDP-43, a modification linked to neurodegeneration by Goh, Catherine Wenhui, Lee, Irene Chengjie, Sundaram, Jeyapriya Rajameenakshi, George, Simi Elizabeth, Yusoff, Permeen, Brush, Matthew Hayden, Sze, Newman Siu Kwan, Shenolikar, Shirish

“…Our findings highlight that the phosphatase regulator, GADD34, also functions as a kinase scaffold in response to chronic oxidative stress and recruits CK1ϵ and oxidized TDP-43 to facilitate its phosphorylation, as seen in TDP-43 proteinopathies.…”
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Transport properties of CO2 and CH4 in hollow fiber membrane contactor for the recovery of biogas from anaerobic membrane bioreactor effluent by Rongwong, Wichitpan, Wongchitphimon, Sunee, Goh, Kunli, Wang, Rong, Bae, Tae-Hyun

“…The desorbed CO2 helped to increase the mass transfer driving force by reducing the partial pressure of CH4 in the gas side, and enhancing the gas phase mass transfer coefficient to facilitate CH4 desorption. The increase of liquid velocity increased mole fraction of CH4 in the gas outlet but decreased the rate of CH4 recovery. …”
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Optimizing OOD Detection in Molecular Graphs: A Novel Approach with Diffusion Models by Shen, Xu, Wang, Yili, Zhou, Kaixiong, Pan, Shirui, Wang, Xin

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Uncertainty & robustness for single-cell studies by Shiffman, Miriam

“…This thesis makes two main advances in facilitating coherent, actionable quantification of uncertainty and robustness for single-cell studies. …”
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Automatic Generation of Chemical Kinetic Models for Biofuel Oxidation and Pyrolysis by Dong, Xiaorui

“…While manually creating such mechanisms is labor-intensive and requires extensive knowledge, reaction mechanism generation software, such as the Reaction Mechanism Generator (RMG), greatly facilitates model development by automating the selection of relevant species and reactions, as well as estimating their thermochemical, kinetic, and transport parameters. …”
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Automatic Generation of Chemical Kinetic Models including Macromolecules in Multiphase Systems by Pang, Hao-Wei

“…New tools are developed to facilitate thermochemical data augmentation, multiphase 3 simulation for automatic mechanism generation, and the automatic implementation of quasisteady state assumptions during the simulation of detailed kinetic models. …”
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Paper-based solution sampling coupled with potentiometric ion sensors by Ding, Ruiyu

“…In this work, commercial crystalline membrane solid-state and solid-contact ISEs were used to investigate the possibility to facilitate paper-based microfluidic solution sampling coupled with potentiometric sensors for the ion determination in various environmentally (containing Cd2+, Pb2+ and pH) and clinically relevant (containing K+, Na+, Cl–) samples. …”
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Studies on the performance bounds and design of current-steering DACs by Chacón, Oscar Morales

“…The Nyquist-rate DAC is chosen due to its simple conversion approach to facilitate the generation of channel bandwidths in the GHz-range. …”
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Investigating mental rehearsal's applicability in guiding independent E-learning (IMAGINE) of eye examination skills during the pandemic by Ding, Jianbin, Yap, Andrew Shi-Jie, Thng, Zheng Xian, Gan, Nicola Yi'an, Tan, Johnson Choon-Hwai, Yip, Chee Chew

“…Guided Mental Rehearsal (GMR) may overcome this obstacle by facilitating independent, repetitive practice. Underpinned by the ‘Motor Simulation Theory,’ GMR reinforces similar neuro-circuit activations during physical practice and was proven effective in surgical training. …”
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Reinforcement learning for robot assembly by Vuong Quoc Nghia

“…This work proposes a novel contact reduction method to improve simulation accuracy, facilitating sim-to-real transfer for complex assembly tasks.…”
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Referring expression segmentation: from conventional to generalized by Liu, Chang

“…Lastly, to accommodate multi-object and no-object expressions, we introduce a novel task called Generalized Referring Expression Segmentation (GRES). To facilitate research in this field, we also construct a large-scale dataset for GRES and design a baseline method, namely ReLA. …”
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