Understanding sudden larch death – from epidemiology to host resistance by Dun, H

“…Comparisons between the larch stands in our study area showed that infection and spread, and the response to that infection, varies within and between sites. …”

A modified viscous flow law for natural glacier ice: Scaling from laboratories to ice sheets by Ranganathan, Meghana, Minchew, Brent

“…Our results yield a map of the dominant deformation mechanisms in the Antarctic Ice Sheet, showing that, contrary to long-standing assumptions, dislocation creep, characterized by a value of the stress exponent, likely dominates in all fast-flowing areas. …”
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Analyticity and the Unruh effect: a study of local modular flow by Sorce, Jonathan

“…Here I initiate a general study of the settings in which geometric modular flow can arise, showing (i) that any geometric modular flow must be a conformal symmetry of the background spacetime, and (ii) that in a well behaved class of “weakly analytic” states, geometric modular flow must be future-directed. …”
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On the Complexity of Neural Computation in Superposition by Adler, Micah, Shavit, Nir

“…We present the first lower bounds showing that for a broad class of problems, including permutations and pairwise logical operations, a neural net- work computing in superposition requires at least Ω(m′ log m′) parameters and Ω(√(m′ log m′)) neurons, where m′ is the number of output features being computed. …”
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Health-related quality of life dynamics: modeling insights from immunotherapy by Hasgul, Zeynep, Spanjaart, Anne, Javed, Sumreen, Akhavan, Ali, Kersten, Marie J., Jalali, Mohammad S.

“…These strategies were assessed across three different patient scenarios: those not initially eligible for treatment, patients experiencing a relapse, and patients showing a complete response. By using simulation modeling, we demonstrated how this approach can help explore the dynamics and interactions of various health factors and the impact of specific strategies.…”
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Applications of a New Separator Theorem for String Graphs by Fox, Jacob, Pach, Janos

“…Matousek almost completely settled a conjecture of the authors by showing that every string graph with m edges admits a vertex separator of size O(√m log m). …”
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Bayesian quantum noise spectroscopy by Koh, Zhi Yang

“…We can also obtain the frequentist results by taking the maximum a posteriori probability (MAP) estimates of the Bayesian results. We end by showing how Bayesian inference can be used to compare two models used to describe the same physical phenomenon.…”
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Missing targets: reforming disaster policy in Southeast Asia by Cook, Alistair David Blair, Lassa, Jonatan, Caballero-Anthony, Mely

“…It is not showing incremental progress or standing still, it is moving away from them. …”
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Investigation into the mechanisms of gas sensing using carbon nanotube electronic devices by Fam, Derrick Wen Hui

“…It was discovered that the sensing mechanisms of semiconducting tubes were much different from that of metallic tubes with the former showing more sensitivity. However, even though through the two studies, it was established that junction effects contributed to most of the sensitivity of pristine CNTs, it was discovered in the third study that decorations along the length of the CNT increases its sensitivity and imbues selectivity as well.…”
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Characterization of the translational regulation of BIM 3’ UTR by Ho, Jessie Jia Xin

“…To identify the miRNA targets, deletions of the predicted miRNA targets in the 3’ UTR of BIM E5 were performed using polymerase chain reaction (PCR) mutagenesis and studied using the luciferase reporter assay. The miRNAs showing a significant increase in relative Firefly luciferase activities were further selected for the overexpression assay. …”
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Effects of hemodynamic shear stress on circulating breast cancer cells by Khairunisa Liyana Abdul Malek

“…Additionally, post circulation growth rates were also studied. This study will show that the metastatic ability of the cancer cell is related to the resistance against shear stress while showing that the shear stress intensity and the time cells remain in circulation are two key factors that affects cell viability and cell apoptosis rates.…”
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Modification of soft soils with ground granulated blast furnace slags with activated magnesium oxide by Kwek, Kathryn Kai Yun

“…Reactive magnesia (MgO) has been found to be effective in activating GGBS and when incorporated into soils, showing superior qualities when compared to soil stabilised with PC, lime and lime activated GGBS. …”
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Study on electrical discharge machining (EDM) in motor bearings by Lam, Jin Seng

“…More will be shown on the relationship between bearing discharge and external applied shaft voltage together with the dynamic impedance of the motor showing the different methods of measurement to be used. …”
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Modeling MELAS-associated cardiac defects using patient-specific iPSC-derived cardiomyocytes and cardiac organoids by Phua, Qian Hua

“…In this study, our iPSC-based in vitro model presented novel evidences showing that mitochondrial perturbations found in MELAS affects cardiomyocytes (CMs) differentiation and maturation. …”
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Optimization of type I collagen for 3D bioprinting by Ong, Wei Li

“…Lastly, we successfully induced localized gelation of the formulated collagen using laser, showing the feasibility of 3D bioprinting of collagen with CLIP approach.…”
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Influence of fibre aspect ratio on rheological performance for 3D printable materials by Angellee, Raymond Rafael

“…On the other hand, longer fibre unit contributes to decreasing trend of both yield stress while showing an upward trend for plastic viscosity. Both of these cases appear to show low thixotropy as the mass and length increase. …”
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Integration of array antennas in chip package for 60-GHz radios by Liu, Duixian., Zhang, Y. P.

“…First, we evaluate fixed-beam array antennas, showing that most of them suffer from feed network complexity and require sophisticated process techniques to achieve enhanced performance. …”
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Bacterial phylogenetic reconstruction from whole genomes is robust to recombination but demographic inference is not by Hedge, J, Wilson, DJ

“…Here we resolve this paradox by showing that phylogenetic tree topologies based on whole genomes robustly reconstruct the clonal frame topology but that branch lengths are badly skewed. …”

Disrupted working memory event-related network dynamics in multiple sclerosis by Rossi, C, Vidaurre, D, Costers, L, D’hooghe, MB, Akbarian, F, D’haeseleer, M, Woolrich, M, Nagels, G, Van Schependom, J

“…Altogether, the TDE-HMM technique extracts task-relevant functional networks showing disease-specific and treatment-related alterations, revealing potential new markers to assess and track WM impairment in MS.…”

Carbon nanotubes in DC and microwave superconducting circuits by Nersisyan, A

“…<p>This thesis presents an effort towards integration of superconductor-contacted carbon nanotubes into microwave circuits, as a new tool for building quantum circuits. Carbon nanotubes show a wealth of quantum phenomena demonstrated in transport experiments by different groups in the last two decades. …”