NMDA receptor activation enhances inhibitory GABAergic transmission onto hippocampal pyramidal neurons via presynaptic and postsynaptic mechanisms by Xue, Jiu Gang, Masuoka, Takayoshi, Gong, Xian Di, Chen, Ken-Shiung, Yanagawa, Yuchio, Law, Alex Sai Kit, Konishi, Shiro

“…Our results from pharmacological tests suggest that the nitric oxide signaling pathway is mobilized by NMDAR activation in CA1 pyramidal neurons, which in turn retrogradely facilitates GABA release from the presynaptic terminals. …”
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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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Contribution of zeolitic imidazolate framework-8 in improving the performance of polymer electrolyte membrane for direct methanol fuel cell by Junoh, Hazlina, Awang, Nuha, Ahmad, Siti Nur Afifi, Azhar, Masaud, Jaafar, Juhana, Md. Nordin, Nik Abdul Hadi, Ismail, Ahmad Fauzi, Qtaishat, Mohammed Rasool, Matsuura, Takeshi, Othman, Mohd. Hafiz Dzarfan, Abdul Rahman, Mukhlis, Mohd. Zainoodin, Azran

“…The structural flexibility of ZIF-8 within PES-cSMM facilitates efficient proton conduction, while the ZIF-8 cage acts as a robust methanol barrier. …”

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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SoK: Understanding Design Choices and Pitfalls of Trusted Execution Environments by Li, Mengyuan, Yang, Yuheng, Chen, Guoxing, Yan, Mengjia, Zhang, Yinqian

“…We introduce the TEE Runtime Architectural Framework (TRAF), a detailed framework that facilitates a thorough and methodical dissection of TEE designs by analyzing the high-level considerations made by TEE designs. …”
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Trends and Variability in Earth’s Energy Imbalance and Ocean Heat Uptake Since 2005 by Hakuba, Maria Z., Fourest, Sébastien, Boyer, Tim, Meyssignac, Benoit, Carton, James A., Forget, Gaël, Cheng, Lijing, Giglio, Donata, Johnson, Gregory C., Kato, Seiji, Killick, Rachel E., Kolodziejczyk, Nicolas, Kuusela, Mikael, Landerer, Felix

“…To date, the most precise measurements of EEI change are obtained through radiometric observations at the top of the atmosphere (TOA), while the quantification of EEI absolute magnitude is facilitated through heat inventory analysis, where ~ 90% of heat uptake manifests as an increase in ocean heat content (OHC). …”
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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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Experimental Evaluation of Underwater Semantic SLAM by Song, Thomas Jeongho

“…Higher-level missions such as search, surveillance, maintenance and manipulation require greater situational awareness, decision-making and navigation abilities, facilitated by processing semantic visual information and applying it to map generation and localization. …”
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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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Smart City Products and Their Materials Assessment Using the Pentagon Framework by Ponce, Pedro, Rojas, Mario, Mendez, Juana Isabel, Anthony, Brian, Bradley, Russel, Fayek, Aminah Robinson

“…The <i>Smart City Pentagon Framework Analyzer</i> is also presented, a dedicated web application that facilitates interaction with the framework. It allows product data input, provides feedback on alignment with the Penta-S features, and suggests personality traits based on the OCEAN model. …”
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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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Immediate test or delayed test : evidence of primary Mathematics learning by Arunachalam Thannimalai

“…Overall, usage of worked examples facilitated novice primary 2 students’ learning and this benefit became much less significant when learner expertise level grew as seen in the case of primary 4 student participants. …”
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A constrained instantaneous learning approach for aerial package delivery robots : onboard implementation and experimental results by Mehndiratta, Mohit, Kayacan, Erdal

“…Additionally, the fast C++ execution of NMPC and NMHE codes facilitates a complete onboard implementation of the proposed framework on a low-cost embedded processor.…”
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Nanotwins-containing microstructure and superior mechanical strength of a Cu‒9Al‒5Fe‒5Ni alloy additively manufactured by laser metal deposition by Li, Boyuan, Zheng, Han, Han, Changjun, Zhou, Kun

“…These findings validated the applicability of LMD for printing the Cu‒9Al‒5Fe‒5Ni alloy and facilitated the potential applications in marine and offshore industries.…”
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Freezing of impact water droplets on cold moving substrates by Mohamad Taufiq Md Tarmidi

“…Furthermore, the high speed camera facilitates the analysis of the droplet impingement as it is capable of capturing images of up to a million frames per second. …”
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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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Eccentric compression performance of jointed precast concrete-encased concrete-filled steel tube columns with dry connections by Zhu, Gaoming, Tan, Kang Hai

“…Thus, in developed countries with severe manpower shortages such as Singapore, advanced precast dry connections were proposed for the CECFST columns to facilitate construction and tackle manpower crunch. …”
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Anodic TiO2 nanotube arrays with high surface area for dye-sensitized solar cells by Wang, Xiaoyan

“…Furthermore, the second layer nanotubes are tailored to seed from upper tube bottoms by interim treatment to facilitate ion diffusion. Subsequently, the two-step anodization is optimized and long enough nanotubes of small diameter are achieved, that is, with tube length of 31 μm and diameter of ~35 nm. …”
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Whole genome sequencing and comparative analysis of novel pathogen elizbethkingia anophelis against oxidative stress by Li, Yingying

“…Furthermore, we also showed that hemoglobin but not ferric iron greatly facilitates the growth, hydrogen peroxide tolerance and biofilm formation of E. anophelis NUHP1. …”
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