Epidemiology and transmission of carbapenemase-producing enterobacteriaceae in a health care network of an acute-care hospital and its affiliated intermediate- and long-term-care f... by Aung, Aung-Hein, Kanagasabai, Kala, Koh, Jocelyn, Hon, Pei-Yun, Ang, Brenda, Lye, David C., Chen, Swaine L., Chow, Angela

“…We aimed to identify intra- and interfacility transmission events and facility type-specific risk factors of CPE in an acute-care hospital (ACH) and its intermediate-term and long-term-care facilities (ILTCFs). …”
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HCI for Cybersecurity, Privacy and Trust : Third International Conference, HCI-CPT 2021, Held as Part of the 23rd HCI International Conference, HCII 2021, Virtual Event, July 24-29... by HCI for Cybersecurity, Privacy and Trust (Conference) (3rd : 2021 : Online) 643239, Moallem, Abbas, editor 630807

Isotopes as a Tool for Exploring Exoplanet Atmospheres by Glidden, Ana

“…We will be able to evaluate specific atmospheric compositions such as a low mean molecular weight, primordial H₂-dominated atmosphere, and the presence of strong absorbers, such as CO₂ and CH₄. …”
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Investigation of Synthetic Proteins Produced via Automated Fast-Flow Peptide Synthesis by Cowfer, Amanda Elizabeth

“…Luciferases are proteins that produce bioluminescence when exposed to specific chemical substrates, and for the organisms that produce these enzymes, they play a vital role in mating, defense, and camouflage. …”
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Conductive materials stimulated direct interspecies electron transfer and application in anaerobic digestion by Yan, Wangwang

“…This phenomenon was evidenced by a strong negative correlation between specific methane production rate and carbon nanotube (CNT) concentration (Rs = -0.972, p < 0.01). …”
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Chromatin structuring factor HMGA2 controls subtelomere stability and cancer chemosensitivity by Syed Moiz Ahmed

“…Further analysis also revealed that specific subtelomeric regions (30-100 kb) are extremely sensitive to the topological stress induced by DNA synthesis or TOP1 inhibitors. …”
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Sociospatial reframing of walking through inclusive streets and urban heritage by Wang, Yongcheng

“…The analysis revealed broad themes such as a vision of a “car-lite” city and the broadening scope of urban heritage, and specific themes such as heritage trails for learning while walking and the blurred line between locals and tourists. …”
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Genome-based analysis of extended-spectrum β-lactamase-producing Escherichia coli in the aquatic environment and Nile perch (Lates niloticus) of Lake Victoria, Tanzania by Baniga, Zebedayo, Hounmanou, Yaovi M. Gildas, Kudirkiene, Egle, Kusiluka, Lughano J. M., Mdegela, Robinson H., Dalsgaard, Anders

“…Although epidemiologically unrelated, the strains formed three separate sequence type–phylogroup–serotype-specific clusters: C1, C2, and C3. Cluster C1 included five strains (3 to 13 SNPs) belonging to ST167, phylogroup A, and serotype O9:H21; the two C2 strains (11 SNPs) belong to ST156, phylogroup B1, and serotype ONT:H28; and C3 was made up of four strains (SNPs ranged from 4 to 17) of ST636, phylogroup B2, and serotype O45:H7. …”
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Coupled acoustic resonator systems with novel acoustic properties by Yang, Yahui

“…Our system consists of the acoustic resonators specifically arranged according to a triaxial strain field, which can effectively generate a uniform magnetic field in the acoustic system. …”
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Filamentous oligomer structure reconstruction and a new filament picking method for Cryo-EM micrographs by Xu, Chenrui

“…These results reveal signaling filament activation mechanisms conducted by specific CARD-CARD interactions.…”
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Localization and motion planning of mobile robots by Dai, Yunxiang

“…Key components including localization and motion planning are usually customized according to the specific application. Therefore, how to design the application-oriented robot navigation system and integrate all the sub-modules properly is a worthy research topic. …”
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Cross-layer host-network co-design for QoS in streamed video data networking by Nan, Ya

“…Moreover, a hardware offloading solution based on hash compression is applied to efficiently accelerate packet processing and reduce computation overhead introduced by the system, which is compatible to both the QUIC standard and existing hardware specifics. PredWAN is evaluated with thorough trace-driven case studies. …”
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Nonlinear regression approach for GPS multipath mitigation : from code to carrier-phase measurements by Phan, Quoc Huy

“…ciently mitigate multipath effects at observable levels to improve the accuracy and precision of GPS solutions.Based on an analysis of the geometry of a multipath signal's reflections, and the principle of GPS receiver's tracking loop, geometrical models of multipath errors are developed at observable levels (both code and carrier-phase multipath). More specifically, multipath errors corresponding to a satellite are mathematically proven to be functions of the satellite's geometry with respect to a receiver which is parameterized by azimuth and elevation angles. …”
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A microfluidic platform to study pathogen-host interactions at single cell level by Zhang, Rui

“…On-chip quantitative PCR was carried out with species-specific primer and probe sets to quantify the adhered bacteria. …”
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The role of filamentous phage in the development of Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilms by Manisha Mukherjee

“…Such, community level resistance offered to P. aeruginosa from phage infection might be due to the protection offered by other community members which are not targeted by the host specific phage.…”
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Micro electro mechanical systems (MEMS) enabled digital pen by Tan, Joel Qi Zhi

“…An adaptor was used to hold the pen at a specific location along the pen to ensure that it was rotated at the same pivot point throughout the experiments. …”
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Carbon nanomaterial/thermoplastic polyurethane composites for sports application : preparation, characterization and simulation by Jing, Qifei

“…The numerical study demonstrated that the plastic area, final specific plastic dissipation energy and residual height for PU specimens were significantly larger than those for the GO/PU composite. …”
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Biomolecular hydration in protein-protein interaction, protein stability and aggregation and lead optimization : computational studies by Mohan Rajan Pradhan

“…This is a novel finding and I believe will facilitate the design of specific inhibitors of eIF4E which is a therapeutic target in oncology. …”
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Injectable and biomimetic poly (ethylene glycol) hydrogel systems for in situ therapeutic cell delivery by Cao, Ye

“…To the best of our knowledge, this is the first injectable and multiple ECM-proteins incorporated ECM-mimicking PEG hydrogel with tunable mechanical properties that can effectively help to rebuild new ECM for the specific application of soft tissue replacement.…”
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New algorithms for hardware-efficient implementation of sign detection and magnitude comparison in residue number systems by Sachin Kumar

“…This thesis aims to develop new algorithms for hardware-efficient implementation of these difficult operations in RNS. Specifically, the following new findings and results are reported in this thesis. …”
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