Associations of treatment with hypnotics with suicide and attempted suicide: A nationwide cohort study by Høier, NK, Madsen, T, Spira, AP, Hawton, K, Jennum, P, Nordentoft, M, Erlangsen, A

“…A total of 1774 males and 1212 females died by suicide while in treatment with n-BZD and the adjusted IRRs were 3.4 (95% CI: 3.1–3.7) and 3.6 (95% CI: 3.4–3.9), respectively.…”

The student exchange experience and its impact on students' self-concept and cultural identity. by Chua, Chloe Sin Ne.

“…Through interviews and surveys with Singaporean students who have went for student exchange, the data is used to study how individuals adjust and change during the course of their sojourn. …”
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Enhanced thermoelectric properties of AgSbTe2 by doping for room-middle temperature applications by Toh, Clara Lin Long

“…The incorporation of dopants inhibits the formation of secondary phases, reduces lattice thermal conductivity, and adjusts carrier concentrations. The characterisation of the samples was carried out using X-ray Diffraction (XRD), and the thermoelectric properties of the samples were measured using ULVAC ZEM-3 and Laser Flash Analysis (LFA). …”
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Point cloud denoising by robust PCA dimension reduction by Guo, Yu

“…This is combined with an adaptive clustering mechanism that dynamically adjusts parameters based on local data features, which has been shown to significantly improve the preservation of basic data features while removing redundant and noisy data. …”
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Advanced spectrum sensing for cognitive radio by Wang, Qian.

“…To this end, cognitive radio (CR) is considered to be a novel and promising technology with its capability to adjust its system operating parameters in response to the surrounding wireless environment. …”
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A comparative study of lead-acid battery against other battery types for distributed energy storage application in power systems by Norzita Sulaiman.

“…However, the power supplied by renewable energy sources is not as secure and easy to adjust to changes in demand as the power supplied by traditional power systems. …”
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A low cost solar energy converter for isolated load and/or battery charging by Tan, Diana Soon Cheng

“…Given difference inputs can be operators by adjust parameters of the power of the electronic to achieve wanted outputs. …”
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Smart LED lighting by Tan, Wee Beng

“…Sensors include light dependent sensor to adjust the brightness and passive infrared sensor to turn on or off the LED lighting when it detects movement. …”
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Integrated in-memory sensor and computing of artificial vision system based on reversible bonding transition-induced nitrogen-doped carbon quantum dots (N-CQDs) by Yu, Tianqi, Li, Jie, Lei, Wei, Shafe, Suhaidi, Mohtar, Mohd Nazim, Jindapetch, Nattha, van Dommelen, Paphavee, Zhao, Zhiwei

“…The physical mechanism can be attributed to the reversible transition between C–N and C=N with lower binding energy induced by the electric field and the generation of photogenerated carriers by ultraviolet light irradiation, which adjusts the conductivity of the initial N-CQDs to implement resistance switching. …”

Accounting for Rehabilitation Activity Uncertainty in a Pavement Life Cycle Assessment using Probability and Decision Tree Analysis by Mack, James W., Xu, Xin, Gregory, Jeremy, Kirchain, Randolph

“…For this case, this results in the probability-adjusted LCA results being different than the single standard rehabilitation scenario results.…”
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Associations of maternal night shift work during pregnancy with DNA methylation in offspring: a meta-analysis in the PACE consortium by Marques, IF, Domènech-Panicello, C, Geurtsen, ML, Hoang, TT, Richmond, R, Polinski, K, Sirignano, L, Page, CM, Binter, A, Everson, T, Burt, A, Deuschle, M, Gilles, M, Streit, F, Mumford, SL, Magnus, P, Reiss, IKM, Vermeulen, MJ, Witt, SH, Chaves, I, Yeung, E, London, SJ, Guxens, M, Felix, JF

“…Robust linear regression models adjusted for relevant confounders were run in the individual cohorts, and results were meta-analyzed. …”

Controlling of the spindle for ejector based multi-evaporator refrigeration system by Chen, Fang.

“…The primary flow rate can be adjusted using the spindle. This is the reason of introducing the motor driving moving spindle.…”
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Crosslinkable vegetable oil based natural materials for packaging applications by Ker, Adonica Yan Ting

“…Castor oil and citric acid been selected as raw materials due to its high versatility and potential in undergoing esterification reaction, leading to the formation of hydrolysable ester bonds, followed by the addition of resorcinol, 1,10 decandiol and 1,12 dodecandiol as a linker to adjust the polymer film mechanical and degradation properties.…”
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Design, simulation and experimentation for the geometric of optofluidic prism by Leong, Amanda Si Min.

“…The tunable optofluidic prism can precisely adjust the optical path in an integrated on-chip system and has potential applications for optical detection and biochemical analysis. …”
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Application for motorised video sliding kit by Gao, Cheng

“…This project aims to develop a web application to provide remote control capabilities for user to adjust the camera’s angle as well as zoom in and zoom out while capturing time-lapse. …”
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Predictors and outcomes of healthcare-associated infections caused by carbapenem-nonsusceptible enterobacterales: a parallel matched case-control study by Hoo, Grace S. R., Cai, Yiying, Quek, Yan Ching, Teo, Jocelyn Q., Choudhury, Saugata, Koh, Tse Hsien, Lim, Tze Peng, Marimuthu, Kalisvar, Ng, Oon Tek, Kwa, Andrea L.

“…Time to discharge remained significantly longer in patients with CnSE-HAI (adjusted hazard ratio, 0.71; 95% CI, 0.51 – 0.98) after adjusting for disease severity, receipt of antibiotics with reported susceptibility and receipt of appropriate source control. …”
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Clustering of designers based on building information modeling event logs by Pan, Yue, Zhang, Limao, Skibniewski, Miroslaw J.

“…Our new algorithm node2vec-GMM is proven to better improve clustering quality than other state-of-the-art methods by at least 6.0% Adjusted Rand Index and 13.4% Adjusted Mutual Information. …”
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Quality and outcomes of diabetes care in patients diagnosed with cancer by Griffiths, R

“…Cancer patients were less likely to meet 5/14 quality measures examined, including total cholesterol ≤5 mmol/L (adjusted odds ratio [OR], 0.82; 95% CI, 0.75-0.90) and HbA1c ≤59 mmol/mol (adjusted OR=0.77; 95% CI, 0.70-0.85). …”

The effects of ultra-selective beta1-antagonism on the metabolic and cytokine profile in septic shock patients receiving noradrenaline: a sub-investigation from the STRESS-L Random... by Thomas, JL, McGee, KC, Hossain, A, Perkins, GD, Gordon, AC, Young, D, McAuley, D, Singer, M, Lall, R, Kramaric, T, Lord, JM, Whitehouse, T, Mur, LAJ

“…The individual-level models were adjusted for confounders, such as age, sex, noradrenaline dosage and patient (random effect). …”

Design of EWMA control chart for minimizing the proportion of defective units by Shamsuzzaman, Mohammad, Wu, Zhang

“…Design/methodology/approach – The design algorithm adjusts the sample size n, sampling interval h, lower and upper control limits LCL and UCL, and the EWMA weight factor ? …”
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