Retention of the structure and function of heparan sulfate biomaterials after gamma irradiation by Smith, Raymond A. A., Chua, R. J. E., Carnachan, Susan M., Tan, Clarissa L. L., Sims, Ian M., Hinkley, Simon F. R., Nurcombe, Victor, Cool, Simon M.

“…Our previous work has demonstrated that a particular affinity-selected HS (referred to henceforth as “HS3”) is capable of enhancing the osteogenic effects of bone morphogenetic protein 2 (BMP2). Here, we gamma-irradiated HS with 26 kGy of ionizing radiation to determine how this affected the structure, composition, and function. …”
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Reassessing the association: evaluation of a polyalanine deletion variant of RUNX2 in non-syndromic sagittal and metopic craniosynostosis by Walton, IS, McCann, E, Weber, A, Morton, JEV, Noons, P, Wilson, LC, Ching, RC, Cilliers, D, Johnson, D, Phipps, JM, Shears, DJ, Thomas, GPL, Wall, SA, Twigg, SRF, Wilkie, AOM

“…(Ala84_Ala89)del, occurs in humans (termed 11A allele), and a previous association study (Cuellar et al. Bone 137:115395;2020) reported that the 11A variant was significantly more frequent in non-syndromic sagittal craniosynostosis (nsSag; allele frequency [AF] = 0.156; 95% confidence interval [CI] 0.126–0.189) compared to non-syndromic metopic craniosynostosis (nsMet; AF = 0.068; 95% CI 0.045–0.098). …”

Soft tissue tumor imaging in adults: whole-body staging in sarcoma, non-malignant entities requiring special algorithms, pitfalls and special imaging aspects. Guidelines 2024 from... by Noebauer-Huhmann, I, Vanhoenacker, FM, Vilanova, JC, Tagliafico, AS, Weber, M, Lalam, RK, Grieser, T, Nikodinovska, VV, de Rooy, JWJ, Papakonstantinou, O, Mccarthy, C, Sconfienza, LM, Verstraete, K, Martel-Villagrán, J, Szomolanyi, P, Lecouvet, FE, Afonso, D, Albtoush, OM, Aringhieri, G, Arkun, R, Aström, G, Bazzocchi, A, Botchu, R, Breitenseher, M, Chaudhary, S, Mansour, RM

“…Whole-body MRI is preferred for staging bone metastasis, with [18F]FDG-PET/CT as an alternative modality in PET-avid tumors. …”

Management and outcomes of thoracic sarcomas - a collaboration between Orthopaedic Oncology and cardiothoracic surgery: seven-year clinical data from a tertiary referral centre by Shamsi, ZA, Paraoan, V, Kim, C, Saifuddin, SR, Cosker, TDA, Whitwell, D, Gibbons, CLMH, Stavroulias, D, DiChiara, F

“…This approach necessitates a multidisciplinary team, ideally in specialised cancer centres. The Oxford Bone and Soft Tissue Tumour Service is one such centre, and routinely treats such cancers through collaboration between orthopaedic oncology and cardiothoracic surgeons, as well as members of the wider MDT. …”

Association between feel-like temperatures and injury risk during international outdoor athletic championships: a prospective cohort study on 29 579 athlete starts during 10 champi... by Edouard, P, Dandrieux, P-E, Klöwer, MK, Junge, A, Racinais, S, Branco, P, Hollander, K, Navarro, L

“…We performed Poisson regressions with incidence rates (number of injuries per 1000 athlete starts) as outcomes and UTCI as a predictive variable adjusted for sex, for all and time-loss injuries, for different injured tissue types (ie, muscle, tendon, ligament, articular, bone and skin) and specific discipline (ie, sprints, hurdles, jumps, throws, middle distance, long distance, marathon and race walking).…”

Electromyography signal processing based on time and time-frequency representations for prosthesis application by Mahdavi, Farzaneh Akhavan

“…Skeletal muscles are attached to the bone responsible for the movements of the human body. …”
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Project Management in the Construction Industry : From Concept to Completion / by Mubarak, Saleh A., author 451381, John Wiley & Sons (Online service) 647106

“…Written by a longtime professional and author with diversified and international experience in academia and industry, Project Management in the Construction Industry covers sample topics such as: Project life cycle and organization, covering why and how projects are initiated and pure project versus functional management; Scope management, covering the decision making process, scope creep versus progressive elaboration, and cost of change versus time; The planning phase, covering delivery methods and contract types, priorities, feasibility studies, and the “go” decision; Project budgeting, financing, and cost management, covering direct versus indirect cost, classes and purposes of estimates, bonds and insurance, and the CSI MasterFormat. Using a project management approach customized to fit the construction industry specifically, Project Management in the Construction Industry is an essential learning resource on the subject for all students in project management courses and related programs of study.…”
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Mechanistic Studies of Interfacial Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer to Molecularly Defined Surface Sites by Lewis, Noah B.

“…Nearly all electrocatalytic reactions and all aqueous electrochemical systems involve either the reductive formation or oxidative scission of a surface-hydrogen bond in an interfacial proton-coupled electron transfer (I PCET) reaction. …”
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Cytogenetic and molecular aberrations of multiple myeloma patients : a single-center study in Singapore by Ng, Yit Jun, Tan, Yu Min, See, Karen Hsu Shien, Choo, Natasha Swee Lian, Lim, Sherry Xin Er, Lim, Alvin Soon Tiong, Lim, Tse Hui, Yee, Yenny, Lau, Lai Ching, Tien, Sim Leng, Sathish, Kumar, Tan, Daryl Chen Lung

“…FISH employing standard panel probes and 1p36/1q21 and 6q21/15q22 probes was performed on diagnostic bone marrow samples. Results-Thirty-four cases (75.6%) had karyotypic abnormalities. …”
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Molecular basis of converting proteases to ligases by Chang, Hong Yi

“…AEPs hydrolyse the Asx (Asn/Asp)-Xaa bond while PALs ligate them. PALs are the processing enzymes that mediate the backbone cyclization of plant cyclic peptides, such as cyclotides. …”
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Progressive collapse assessment of prestressed concrete beams by Lin, Haoran, Luo, Da, Li, Bing

“…To delve into the collapse mechanisms of unbonded and bonded prestressed concrete beam-column assemblies, this paper presents a parametric analysis based on a calibrated finite element method. …”
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Common risk factors in the returns on stocks : empirical evidence from Singapore. by Kurniawan, Morina., Ng, Chin Thin.

“…Five common risk factors are identified, three are stock-market factors (an overall market factor and factor related to firm size and book to market equity) and two are bond-market factors (term and default risk). This paper uses time series regression approach of Black, Jensen and Scholes (1972) to study the average returns on 453 randomly selected stocks listed in Singapore stock exchange (SGX) from the period July 2007 until June 2009. …”
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A reexamination of MRD-based word sense disambiguation by Baldwin, Timothy, Kim, Su Nam, Bond, Francis, Fujita, Sanae, Martinez, David, Tanaka, Takaaki

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Highly selective upcycling of plastic mixture waste by microwave-assisted catalysis over Zn/b-ZnO by Zhao, J, Liu, B, Xiong, L, Liu, W, Wang, D, Ma, W, Jiang, L, Yang, J, Wang, P, Xiao, T, Zhao, S, Edwards, PP, Tang, J

“…Bifunctional ZnO acts as a microwave absorber and substrate catalyst, and in-situ formed Zn clusters promote C-C bond cleavage and nearly 100% upcycle landfilled plastic mixtures into lubricant base oil precursors and monomers. …”

Extractive separations of lithium isotopes with benzo-15-crown-5 and ionic liquids: a comparative study between stirred vessels and small channel contactors by Duan, C, Sun, S, Wang, H, Tarique, M, Tipper, E, Whitfield, T, Gilbert, MR, Angeli, P

“…Density Functional Theory (DFT) calculations suggested that the fractionation of the Li isotopes is attributed to different vibrational frequencies of the Li-O bonds with the extractant in the organic solution and with water. …”

MolScribe: Robust Molecular Structure Recognition with Image-to-Graph Generation by Qian, Yujie, Guo, Jiang, Tu, Zhengkai, Li, Zhening, Coley, Connor W, Barzilay, Regina

“…In this paper, we propose MolScribe, a novel image-to-graph generation model that explicitly predicts atoms and bonds, along with their geometric layouts, to construct the molecular structure. …”
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Metal additive manufacturing repair study on rail steel with Stellite 6 powder by Nellian, Alagu Subramaniam, Pang, John Hock Lye

“…Shear testing was conducted to measure the clad/substrate shear strength as an indication of the metallurgical bond strength. The experimental study results demonstrate the potential use of metal additive repair method for rail steel applications. …”
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Cation-conduction dominated hydrogels for durable zinc–iodine batteries by Yang, Jin-Lin, Xiao, Tuo, Xiao, Tao, Li, Jia, Yu, Zehua, Liu, Kang, Yang, Peihua, Fan, Hong Jin

“…Furthermore, the optimized Zn2+ solvation structure and the reconstructed hydrogen bond networks on hydrogel chains contribute to the reduced desolvation barrier and suppressed corrosion side reactions. …”
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Enhanced performance of self-powered Ge Schottky photodetectors enabled by 2D hBN monolayer passivation by Park, Hyunjung, Kim, Munho

“…Ensuring high-quality surface passivation is the key to realizing high-performance self-powered optoelectronic devices, as it significantly impacts carrier transport. 2D hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) exhibits exceptional material characteristics, including a wide bandgap, high dielectric constant, minimized dangling bonds, and high chemical stability, making it one of the most promising candidates for high-quality passivation. …”
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Solvent effect on the folding dynamics and structure of E6-associated protein characterized from Ab initio protein folding simulations by Xu, Zhijun, Lazim, Raudah, Sun, Tiedong, Mei, Ye, Zhang, Dawei

“…Solvent effect on protein conformation and folding mechanism of E6-associated protein (E6ap) peptide are investigated using a recently developed charge update scheme termed as adaptive hydrogen bond-specific charge (AHBC). On the basis of the close agreement between the calculated helix contents from AHBC simulations and experimental results, we observed based on the presented simulations that the two ends of the peptide may simultaneously take part in the formation of the helical structure at the early stage of folding and finally merge to form a helix with lowest backbone RMSD of about 0.9 Å in 40% 2,2,2-trifluoroethanol solution. …”
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