Fouling and mitigation mechanisms during direct microfiltration and ultrafiltration of primary wastewater by Hube, Selina, Wang, Jingwei, Sim, Lee Nuang, Ólafsdóttir, Dagmar, Chong, Tzyy Haur, Wu, Bing

“…At 50 °C, the geothermal water performed similar cleaning behaviors as clean water, facilitating lower reversible and irreversible fouling than the geothermal brine. …”
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Model predictive control for integrated control of air-conditioning and mechanical ventilation, lighting and shading systems by Yang, Shiyu, Wan, Man Pun, Ng, Bing Feng, Dubey, Swapnil, Henze, Gregor P., Chen, Wanyu, Baskaran, Krishnamoorthy

“…The MPC system was implemented in a test facility having two identical, side-by-side experimental cells to facilitate comparison with a building management system (BMS) employing conventional reactive feedback control. …”
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A BIM-data mining integrated digital twin framework for advanced project management by Pan, Yue, Zhang, Limao

“…In short, the significance of this paper is to build a data-driven digital twin framework integrating with BIM, IoT, and data mining for advanced project management, which can facilitate data communication and exploration to better understand, predict, and optimize the physical construction operations. …”
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Parent-infant affect synchrony during social and solo play by Kidby, Sayaka, Neale, Dave, Wass, Sam, Leong, Victoria

“…While mother-infant affect synchrony has been proposed to facilitate the early development of social understanding, most investigations into affect synchrony have concentrated more on negative than positive affect. …”
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Waffle-inspired hydrogel-based macrodevice for spatially controlled distribution of encapsulated therapeutic microtissues and pro-angiogenic endothelial cells by Pham, Chi H. L., Zuo, Yicong, Chen, Yang, Tran, Nam M., Nguyen, Dang T., Dang, Tram T.

“…Overall, this macrodevice design lays foundation for a cell delivery platform, which has the potential to facilitate nutrients and oxygen transport to therapeutic grafts and thereby might lead to improved disease management outcome.…”
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Waste to wealth: near-infrared/pH dual-responsive copper-humic acid hydrogel films for bacteria-infected cutaneous wound healing by Zha, Kangkang, Xiong, Yuan, Zhang, Wenqian, Tan, Meijun, Hu, Weixian, Lin, Ze, Cheng, Peng, Lu, Li, Cai, Kaiyong, Mi, Bobin, Feng, Qian, Zhao, Yanli, Liu, Guohui

“…This PVA@Cu-HAs NPs@SEW hydrogel film improves tissue regeneration by promoting M2 macrophage polarization, alleviating oxidative stress, enhancing angiogenesis, and facilitating collagen deposition. These findings highlight the therapeutic potential of PVA@Cu-HAs NPs@SEW hydrogel film for the treatment of bacterially infected cutaneous wound healing.…”
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Temperature drift characteristics analysis of GMM-FBG current sensor based on finite-element multi-physics simulations by Li, Ying, Sun, Weifeng, Zhang, Weichao

“…The temperature drift characteristics of the GMM-FBG are generalized into a formula by fitting the wavelength shifting as a function of thermal strain, which will significantly facilitate designing the scale calibration for various ambient temperatures. …”
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Impact of China's financial development on the sustainable development goals of the Belt and Road Initiative participating countries by Li, Chenggang, Zhao, Gang, Koh, Keumseok Peter, Xu, Zhenci, Yue, Mu, Wang, Weiyan, Tan, Yuanyuan, Wu, Liang

“…This study provides valuable insights for decision-makers in China to facilitate the sustainable development of BRI participating countries and foster a shared community within the BRI framework.…”
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Mannitol enhances antibiotic sensitivity of persister bacteria in Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilms by Rice, Scott A., Barraud, Nicolas, Buson, Alberto, Jarolimek, Wolfgang

“…Overall, these results suggest that in addition to improvements in lung function by facilitating mucus clearance in CF, mannitol also affects antibiotic sensitivity in biofilms and does so through an active, physiological response.…”
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Characterizing the scouring efficiency of Granular Activated Carbon (GAC) particles in membrane fouling mitigation via wavelet decomposition of accelerometer signals by Wang, Jingwei, Wu, Bing, Yang, Shiliang, Liu, Yu, Chew, Jia Wei, Fane, Anthony Gordon

“…In particular, the particles facilitate back-transport in the polarization layer and also play the role of mechanical scouring agents, the latter of which is dominant for millimeter-sized particles. …”
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Hypoxia-inducible factor-2 alpha up-regulates CD70 under hypoxia and enhances anchorage-independent growth and aggressiveness in cancer cells by Kitajima, Shojiro, Lee, Kian Leong, Fujioka, Masaki, Sun, Wendi, You, Jia, Chia, Grace Sushin, Wanibuchi, Hideki, Tomita, Shuhei, Araki, Marito, Kato, Hiroyuki, Poellinger, Lorenz

“…Hypoxia-inducible factors (HIFs) facilitate cellular adaptation to environmental stress such as low oxygen conditions (hypoxia) and consequently promote tumor growth. …”
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Environmental DNA metabarcoding of freshwater fish in Malaysian tropical rivers using short-read nanopore sequencing as a potential biomonitoring tool by Munian, Kaviarasu, Ramli, Farah Farhana, Othman, Nursyuhada, Mahyudin, Nur Aina Amira, Sariyati, Nur Hartini, Abdullah-Fauzi, Nurfatiha Akmal Fawwazah, Haris, Hidayah, Ilham-Norhakim, Mohd Lokman, Abdul-Latiff, Muhammad Abu Bakar

“…With favourable cost-effectiveness and increased species detection, eDNA metabarcoding could complement existing methods, enhance holistic diversity documentation for targeted habitats and facilitate effective conservation planning.…”
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Intention to engage in inter-contractor cooperation: A belief elicitation study in the construction industry by Moshood, Taofeeq D., Ling, Yee Voon, Chai, Changsaar, Lee, Chia Kuang

“…The project management team and sole proprietors had significant effects on the subjective norms, while facilitating conditions and consensus on appropriation significantly affected PBC. …”
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Progress in prediction of photocatalytic CO2 reduction using machine learning approach: A mini review by Ali, Md Mohshin, Hossen, Md. Arif, Azrina, Abd Aziz

“…The fundamentals of PC-CO2R and the significance of utilizing ML models as a facilitative tool in photocatalysis are critically discussed in this review. …”
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Curiosity Opens Relationships of the World and with Others: Narratives from Doing Teaching and Learning Through Curiosity by Cavicchi, Elizabeth

“…This article demonstrates and researches the educational work of curiosity, through contextual narratives from my teaching as a beginner at accommodating students’ curiosity, and from my recent teaching, where students and I more fully commit to the relational and educational possibilities of encouraging curiosity. In facilitating these experiences, I apply the research pedagogy of Eleanor Duckworth, ‘critical exploration in the classroom’. …”
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Instability Scaffolding: Enacting Strategic Instabilities to Produce Authentic Premium Wine by Zhang, Alan

“…My dissertation explores how strategic instabilities are enacted in productions of fine wine, articulating the practices and arrangements that facilitate working with unstable production conditions in productive ways—a process I refer to as instability scaffolding. …”
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Multifidelity Methods for Design of Transition MetalComplexes by Janet, Jon Paul

“…A framework for data-driven inference of the quantum properties of TM complexes is developed, using artificial neural networks (ANNs) and graph-based molecular representations that facilitate rapid screening while retaining physical meaning such that chemical insights can be extracted. …”
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Molecular engineering of biomolecule-based functional nanodots for biomedical applications by Xu Victor Hesheng

“…This strategy offers a simple and green approach as it utilises mainly biomolecules ranging from macro biostructures such as protein, DNA, to poly saccharides, polypeptide and even the building units such as nucleotides and amino acid, and their intrinsic properties to facilitate the formation of nanomaterials. Moreover, the resulting bioinspired nanomaterials are often endowed with unique characteristics such as rich chemical functionalities, aqueous solubility, unusual optical features, and great biocompatibility. …”
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Fragments of our past: a study of 19th to 20th century Japanese porcelains from Singapore's archaeological assemblages by Yuen, Ashley Lee Min

“…The undertaking of the development of a typology for Japanese porcelains unearthed from Singapore’s sites in this thesis will provide further impetus for effective identification of Japanese porcelains amongst other archaeological sites in Singapore and facilitate comprehensive cross-site analyses in the future. …”
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Post-quantum attacks against symmetric-key cryptography systems by Pham, Thi Minh Phuong

“…Next, building upon the observation that multi-collision attacks can be trans- formed into collision attacks, we adapted our automated tools to facilitate collision attacks. By incorporating the rebound techniques and the degree of freedom from keys and states to our model, we achieved significant advancements in the number of attacked rounds, ranging from one to five, in various target systems such as AES-128, Saturnin hashing mode, Grøstl-512, and SKINNY-hash. …”
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