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

“…Amongst dengue-infected individuals, there was 21% [aHR = 1.21 (1.06-1.38)] increased risk of any sequelae, with 55% [aHR = 1.55 (1.27-1.89)] increased risk of cardiovascular sequelae. Specifically, increased risk of dysrhythmias [aHR = 1.79(1.35-2.37)], ischemic heart disease [aHR = 1.45(1.12-1.89)], other cardiac disorders [aHR = 2.21(1.54-3.16)] and thrombotic disorders [aHR = 2.55(1.50-4.35)] was noted. …”
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System design and development of human-robot interaction control scheme for assistive robotic Arm extender by Yang, Sibo

“…Subsequently, we evaluated the effects of the assistive force on healthy subjects, confirming that our framework significantly reduces muscular effort. Specifically, the muscular activity of the Biceps Brachii decreased by an average of 66.97% during a hand-to-mouth task, thereby validating the effectiveness of our proposed control scheme. …”
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Wage premium in Singapore. by Tan, Ruo Hui., Tan, Yan Yu., Lee, Wai Meng.

“…Because this method allows us to tailor our study to specific scenarios, the workers’ preference for safety can be measured directly. …”
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Characterization of nickel-titanium based thin films crystallized by fast and ultra-fast annealing methods by Motemani Sharabiani, Yahya

“…Although RTA is energy efficient due to the shorter annealing time, the film roughness is less ideal than CTA, which may prove limiting in specific applications. Using X-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS), it was found that the RTA (180 sec) and CTA (1 hr) films possessed the longest range order. …”
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Advances in 3D optical profilometry by Huang, Lei

“…If a small unwrapping error is tolerated, stack-chain guiding strategy can works even faster. Next, some specific aspects related to methods for different surface properties (reflectance) are studied. …”
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Carbon-semiconductor hybrid nanostructures and their photoresponse behaviors by Zhan, Zhaoyao

“…Carbon nanomaterials are unique in terms of structure, carbon nanotube (CNT) bears a hollow one-dimensional structure; and graphene is an one-atom-thick sheet and has extremely high specific surface area; both of them are presenting excellent charge transport capability. …”
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Study of lithium-ion battery anodes based on silicon nanostructures by Fan, Yu

“…Silicon is well known as a very promising anode material because it has an extremely high theoretical specific capacity of ~4200 mA h g-1 and some other advantages such as low discharge potential, non-toxicity and abundance, etc. …”
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Human factors in agile software development by Lin, Jun

“…The second research direction is to design new collaboration tools for agile team members to deal with difficult situations such as detecting users' real goals from specific stories, allocating tasks to novice members or distributed team members based on current contexts, and dealing with possible task delay or team member's emotional crisis. …”
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Interaction-mediating sequences within class I viral fusion glycoproteins : their roles in viral infection and in applications by Zhang, Simin

“…Class I viral fusion glycoproteins facilitate fusion of the viral envelope with cell membranes and entry of the virus into the cell, through extensive short sequence-specific interactions. Regions mediating these interactions include the N-terminal hydrophobic fusion peptide, a pair of extended 4,3-hydrophobic heptad repeats (HRs), a membrane-active membrane proximal external region (MPER), a hydrophobic transmembrane domain and the cytoplasmic tail region. …”
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Developing metallic cathode for low-temperature solid oxide fuel cell applications by Yu, Chen-Chiang

“…To achieve high performance at a low operating temperature of 300 to 500 ˚C for SOFC, this dissertation is dedicated to developing metal-based cathodes that can meet the criteria of long-term stability, low area-specific resistance, easy to fabricate, and cost effective. …”
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Investigation of operational characteristics of vanadium redox flow batteries by Rajagopalan Badrinarayanan

“…One of the major reasons for this is not having enough ageing studies for this comparatively recent technology and lack of battery specific unique optimization techniques. This thesis focuses on the two important issues in batteries, namely capacity decay and charging methodology. …”
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Optimized GPU algorithms for sparse data problems by Pham, Nguyen Quang Anh

“…While some of the techniques are problem specific, others can be generalized to deal with issues common to many GPU based sparse data computations. …”
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Analysis and exploitation of dispersive waves for source localization on solids by Arun, Kattukandy Rajan

“…Depending on material properties and geometry of the body, several modes of wave propagation in solids are possible and are characterized by their specific particle oscillatory patterns. Based on research derived from this thesis, amplitudes of these mode responses are shown to vary with source location. …”
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Control and operation of modular multilevel converters by Yang, Shunfeng

“…The proposed repetitive controller has excellent harmonic elimination, with benefits of less memory occupation, less delay period, doubled low frequency gain, faster convergence rate and dynamic response and wider bandwidth at specific frequencies. The full design details of the even-harmonic repetitive control for an MMC system has been presented. …”
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Assessing the impact of anthropogenic pollution on isoprene-derived secondary organic aerosol formation in PM2.5 collected from the Birmingham, Alabama, ground site during the 2013... by Guo, Hongyu, Rattanavaraha, Weruka, Stone, Elizabeth A., Offenberg, John H., Zhang, Zhenfa, Gold, Avram, Surratt, Jason D., Chu, Kevin, Riva, Matthieu, Lin, Ying-Hsuan, Baumann, Karsten, Shaw, Stephanie L., Budisulistiorini, Sri Hapsari, Edgerton, Eric S., King, Laura, Weber, Rodney J., Neff, Miranda E.

“…Laboratory studies have revealed that anthropogenic pollutants, such as sulfur dioxide (SO2), oxides of nitrogen (NOx), and aerosol acidity, can enhance SOA formation from the hydroxyl radical (OH)-initiated oxidation of isoprene; however, the mechanisms by which specific pollutants enhance isoprene SOA in ambient PM2.5 remain unclear. …”
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Space charge induced beam loss on a high intensity proton synchrotron by Pine, B

“…</p> <p>Finally this work was put into context by examing specific transverse space charge effects for a proposed ISIS upgrade and including ideas developed throughout the thesis. …”

Investigating the role of astrocytes in Parkinson's disease pathogenesis in GBA- N370S iPSC-derived neural cultures by Ibarra Aizpurua, N

“…</p> <p>To generate a representative in vitro model of midbrain cells, induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSC) obtained from healthy donors and PD patients carrying the <em>GBA-N370S</em> mutation were derived into dopaminergic neurons (iDAn) and midbrain-specific astrocytes (iASTROs). An in- depth characterization of iASTROs demonstrated their regional and astrocytic identity and their functional maturity. …”

Using machine learning to discover candidate localised transcripts from microscopy and genome-wide bioinformatics data by Kiourlappou, M

“…I further investigate the specific RBPs that contribute the most to the model and find a large percentage of them have established roles in mRNA localisation and RNA methylation.…”

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

“…</p> <p><strong>Questions/purposes: </strong>We summarized observational data from multiple arthroplasty registries for patients receiving either a dual-mobility or conventional THA to ask: (1) Is dual-mobility use associated with a difference in risk of all-cause revision surgery compared with conventional THA? (2) Are there specific patient characteristics associated with dual-mobility use in the hip fracture population? …”

Interventions for smoking cessation in hospitalised patients by Rigotti, NA, Clair, C, Munafo, MR, Stead, LF

“…Intensive counselling interventions that began during the hospital stay and continued with supportive contacts for at least one month after discharge increased smoking cessation rates after discharge (risk ratio (RR) 1.37, 95% confidence interval (CI) 1.27 to 1.48; 25 trials). A specific benefit for post‐discharge contact compared with usual care was found in a subset of trials in which all participants received a counselling intervention in the hospital and were randomly assigned to post‐discharge contact or usual care. …”