Generation of self-replicating airway organoids from the cave nectar bat Eonycteris spelaea as a model system for studying host-pathogen interactions in the bat airway epithelium by Chan, Louisa L. Y., Gamage, Akshamal M., Tan, Chee Wah, Tan, Kai Sen, Liu, Jing, Tay, Douglas Jie Wen, Foo, Randy Jee Hiang, Rénia, Laurent, Wang, De Yun, Wang, Lin-Fa

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Efficient and privacy-preserving feature importance-based vertical federated learning by Li, Anran, Huang, Jiahui, Jia, Ju, Peng, Hongyi, Zhang, Lan, Tuan, Luu Anh, Yu, Han, Li, Xiang-Yang

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Wage premium in Singapore. by Tan, Ruo Hui., Tan, Yan Yu., Lee, Wai Meng.

“…One approach was the use of mail surveys sent to pre-specified target groups. However, this method presented a response bias as higher educated individuals had higher tendencies to return the surveys. …”
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Energy-efficient video streaming over wireless networks by Chuah, Seong Ping

“…We seek the optimal transmission strategy that minimizes the transmission energy under the reliability and deadline constraints of a group of transport packets. We investigate this problem for transmissions in the slow fading channel and the Rayleigh fading channel. …”
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Bit allocation techniques for video coding and broadcasting applications by Yao, Wei

“…When conventional rate control algorithms perform bit allocation at group of pictures (GOP) level, a fixed GOP size is usually adopted without considering the correlation between frames. …”
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Human factors in agile software development by Lin, Jun

“…ASD is a relatively new software development paradigm that has gained popularity over the last decade. It is a group of methodologies based on iterative and incremental software development, where requirements and functions evolve through collaboration between self-organizing and cross-functional teams. …”
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Essays on multi-echelon inventory control by Wan, Guangyu

“…The second essay of this thesis considers a two-level distribution system, in which one central warehouse orders from an external supplier in an interval of a fixed length to supply a group of non-identical retailers. The retailers face independent Poisson processes and order from the warehouse in fixed intervals that are integer-ratio multiples of the warehouse replenishment interval. …”
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Mechanism of an arched basilar membrane in mammalian cochlea by Chan, Wei Xuan

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On the design of energy storage systems for the smoothing and dispatch planning of large-scale wind power generation by Li, Mengting

“…In this manner, the wind power can then be grouped into high-, mid- and low-frequency bands.…”
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Real-time animation of vegetation : novel 2D approach and interactive authoring interface by Chen, Kan

“…Based on observations, vegetation elements may stick together and move in groups, exhibiting harmonic motion effects such as deforming and oscillating. …”
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新移民的跨国实践和离散论述 ：孙侠(铃铛)个案研究 = Transnational practice and diasporic discourses of new immigrant : a case study on Sun Xia (Ling Dang) by Sun, Guizi

“…Through her works, she represents a unique diasporic group with multiple identities who identifies with two cultures under the transnational experience. …”
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A high-performance main-memory query engine on emerging many-core processors by Cheng, Xuntao

“…The population of the elderly people is growing faster than all young age groups. One major impact of this global ageing issue is the elderly people's increasing demand for medical, social and economical cares. …”
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Improving outcomes in panic disorder and carer support in psychosis: a triad of studies on theory, practice and innovations by Aslam, SY

“…<em>Results:</em> We found a significant group-timepoint interaction. Those in focused CBT had significantly greater reductions in the primary measure of panic severity relative to those in treatment as usual (TAU). …”

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

“…<p><b>Search methods</b></p> We searched the Cochrane Tobacco Addiction Group register which includes papers identified from CENTRAL, MEDLINE, EMBASE and PsycINFO in December 2011 for studies of interventions for smoking cessation in hospitalised patients, using terms including (hospital and patient*) or hospitali* or inpatient* or admission* or admitted. …”

Prevalence of West Nile virus in domesticated mammals (cattle, goat, horse and pig) in selected areas of Peninsular Malaysia by Mohammed, Mohammed Nma

“…From the phylogenetic analysis of the partial sequence of the isolates, they grouped closely with lineage 2 WNV isolates, with close similarity (greater that 98%) with South African strain, and with recently reported Malaysian isolates of WNV. …”
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Detection, characterisation and risk factor of Leptospira spp. among dogs and dog handlers by Goh, Soon Heng

“…Icterohaemorrhagiae titres was the highest with the longest duration followed by Canicola, Grippotyphosa and Pomona, with no cross-reaction detected throughout the sampling period for both groups. Among the urban stray dogs, 32.0% (n=32/100) was seropositive predominantly for serovars Javanica, Bataviae, Icterohaemorrhagiae, Autumnalis, Canicola, Pyrogenes, Copenhageni, and Australis (titres ranged: 1:100-1:800). …”
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Toxicity, permeability and drug-metabolizing enzyme activities of curcumin analogues by Yakubu, Ndatsu

“…Hence, two curcumin analogues, which are 2,6-bis(2,5-dimethoxybenzy-lidene)cyclohexanone (BDMC33) and 2,6-bis(2-fluorobenzylidene)cyclohexanone (MS65) with potent anti-inflammatory activities than curcumin were synthesized by our research group. To ascertain the toxicity,permeability and drug-metabolizing enzyme activities of BDMC33 and MS65, their in vitro toxicity test at (0-400 μM) on Caco-2 cells using MTT assay, the in vivo toxicity test on zebrafish embryos and larvae at (0-50 μM), and acute toxicity effects (0-30 μM) on adult male zebrafish were investigated for 5 hr, 5 days, and 48 hr of exposure, respectively. …”
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Color and flavor development of roasted jackfruit (Artocarpus hetrophyllus L.) seeds by Azeez, Shakirah Omotoke

“…The IR spectra was in the 4000-1000 cm-1 region and it was described by five main modes; O-H, C-H stretching, C=C, C-H bending and C-O. The major functional group with the highest intensity in both raw and roasted JFS was the C-O bond stretch of esters. …”
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A Digital Phenotypic Assessment in Neuro-Oncology (DANO): A Pilot Study on Sociability Changes in Patients Undergoing Treatment for Brain Malignancies by Siddi, Francesca, Emedom-Nnamdi, Patrick, Catalino, Michael P., Rana, Aakanksha, Boaro, Alessandro, Dawood, Hassan Y., Sala, Francesco, Onnela, Jukka-Pekka, Smith, Timothy R.

“…We compared variability in these sociability features against those obtained from a control group, matched for age and sex, selected among patients with a herniated disc. …”
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Comparison of a simplified skin pointer device compared with a skeletal marker for knee rotation laxity : a cadaveric study using a rotation-meter by Puah, Ken Lee, Yew, Andy Khye Soon, Chou, Siaw Meng, Lie, Denny Tijauw Tjoen

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