Associations between health literacy and health care utilization and mortality in patients with coexisting diabetes and end-stage renal disease : a prospective cohort study by Griva, Konstantina, Loong, Russel K. L., Nandakumar, Mooppil, Rajeswari, Moothathamby, Khoo, Eric Y. H., Lee, Vanessa Y. W., Kang, Augustine W. C., Osborne, Richard H., Brini, Stefano, Newman, Stanton P.

“…Differences in health literacy were found as a function of age, ethnicity, relationship status, and education. After adjusting for demographic and clinical factors, the HLQ domain Actively Managing My Health remained independently associated with lower rates of hospitalization (incidence rate ratio (IRR) = 0.674, 95% CI [0.490, 0.925], p = .02) and mortality (hazard ratio = 0.382, 95% CI [0.160, 0.848], p = .02). …”
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Toward a generic federated learning platform optimized for computer vision applications by Zhuang, Weiming

“…Based on the insights from these analysis, we propose three optimization methods to elevate performance: client clustering, knowledge distillation, and weight adjustment. Extensive experiments demonstrate that these approaches achieve satisfying convergence with much better performance on all datasets. …”
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An evidence-based serious game app for public education on antibiotic use and resistance: randomized controlled trial by Huang, Zhilian, Ow, Jing Teng, Tang, Wern Ee, Chow, Angela

“…Intervention participants also showed a statistically significant improvement in mean attitude-perception scores (effect size: 0.98 (95% CI 0.44-1.52)) after adjusting for marital status and race. A majority of participants agreed that the “SteWARdS Antibiotic Defence” app improved their awareness on antibiotic use (135/142, 95.1%) and AMR (136/142, 95.8%). …”
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Synthesis and characterization of silver nanoprism-based nanostructures by Mohammad Mehdi Shahjamali

“…By Engineering the total concentrations of HAuCl4 using a seeding procedure and adjusting the process time, different gold coated silver nanoprisms with various morphologies have been obtained, including three unique structures, i.e. edge gold coated nanoprism (Ag@Auframed nanoprism), core-shell structure (Ag@Au) and the triangular nanobox. …”
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Asymmetric synthesis of N-benzyl-5-methylhydroxy-piperidone and modular synthesis of C1-substituent tetrahydroisoquinolines (THIQ) and C2-symmetric bisisoquinolines (C2-BIQ) and th... by Khong, Duc Thinh

“…The major diastereomeric aldol adduct was subjected to hydrolysis, amidation, chiral auxiliary removal and intramolecular cyclization to give the required enantiopure (R)-N-benzyl-5-methylhydroxy-piperidone.. …”
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Design of intrusion detection systems for vehicular networks by Liang, Junwei

“…For the LL-IDS, the Growing Hierarchical Self-Organizing Map with probabilistic relabeling (GHSOM-pr) is employed as the classifier, which can adjust itself to adapt the changeable bc-DB. Security analysis shows that the proposed framework is secure, while simulation experiments prove that the LL-IDS can achieve superior performance with the self-improved and co-maintained bc-DB.…”
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Rotor angle stability-constrained dispatch and control of large-scale wind penetrated power system by Yuan, Heling

“…Firstly, A risk coordination parameter is defined to adjust the total coordination cost on the upper level and the lower level is for generation rescheduling and load shedding. …”
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Non-newtonian fluids and droplets in microchannels by Huang, Yi

“…Micro level (urn) of droplet size adjustment was obtained in the presence of AC electric field in a microfluidic environment.…”
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Low-profile and end-fire antennas for airborne applications by Chen, Zhuozhu

“…The required magnitude and phase of the excited electric field for achieving supergain are obtained by adjusting the inter-element spacing and the position of each slot. …”
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AI techniques in CFD: leveraging physical priors with deep learning to improve on numerical solvers by Loh, Jessica Sher En

“…It also introduces the use of Finite Volume Features (FVF) in graph convolutions as node and edge attributes, enabling its message-passing operations to adjust to different nodes. Additionally, it extends the use of residual training to improve flow field prediction for a GNN scenario with immersed object, when low resolution data is available. …”
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Thermal effects on particle deposition in microchannels by Yan, Zhibin

“…The device consists of a PDMS microchannel for easy observation, an Indium tin oxide (ITO) coated glass for heating and a thermoelectric (TEC) unit for cooling to form a stable and adjustable temperature gradient across the channel. …”
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Improved 3-D frequency-selective structures and their applications by Ahmed Abdelmottaleb Abdelfattah Attia Omar

“…First, a general and systematic methodology is proposed to design multiband high-order bandstop 3-D frequency-selective structures. By adjusting the coupling between identical resonators, the high-order response is achieved. …”
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Cell-free hemoglobin mediated oxidative stress is associated with acute kidney injury and renal replacement therapy in severe falciparum malaria: an observational study by Plewes, Katherine, Kingston, Hugh W.F., Ghose, Aniruddha, Maude, Richard J., Herdman, M. Trent, Leopold, Stije J., Ishioka, Haruhiko, Hasan, Md. Mahtab Uddin, Haider, Md. Shafiul, Alam, Shamsul, Piera, Kim A., Charunwatthana, Prakaykaew, Silamut, Kamolrat, Yeo, Tsin Wen, Faiz, Md. Abul, Lee, Sue J., Mukaka, Mavuto, Turner, Gareth D. H., Anstey, Nicholas M., Jackson Roberts II, L., White, Nicholas J., Day, Nicholas P. J., Hossain, Md. Amir, Dondorp, Arjen M.

“…Conclusions: Cell-free hemoglobin and lipid peroxidation are associated with acute kidney injury and disease severity in falciparum malaria, suggesting a pathophysiological role in renal tubular injury. Evaluation of adjunctive therapies targeting cell-free hemoglobin-mediated oxidative stress is warranted.…”
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Hybrid sensor fusion for unmanned ground vehicle by Guan, Mingyang

“…Meanwhile, we propose two different weight solvers to adaptively adjust the importance of each feature. Extensive experiments have been designed on several large datasets to validate that: 1) the proposed tracking framework is superior to enhance the robustness of tracking model, 2) the proposed two weight solvers can effectively find the optimal weight for each feature. …”
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何谓现实？怎样革命？——重探战后马华左翼文学思潮 (1945-1965) = Reality and revolution: a study of post-war Malayan Chinese left-wing literary trends (1945-1965)... by 李玥潼 Li, Yuetong

“…These three literary trends were rooted in significant historical junctures: the turn of local identity in the Malayan Chinese society in the early post-war period, the British colonial government's policy adjustments towards Chinese schools in the 1950s, and the independence of Malaysia and Singapore. …”
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Interface engineering for organic−inorganic hybrid perovskite solar cells by Foo, Shini

“…It is hypothesized that the HBP molecules passivate the under−coordinated lead (Pb2+) defects accumulated at the interface by promoting favourable Lewis acid-base adduct formation. Through this work, it is verified that the use of an optimized Lewis base passivation layer enhances the overall device performance and stability attributed to the efficient hole transport across the OIHP/HTL interface and reduced recombination tendencies in the HBP passivated solar device. …”
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Fabrication and characterization of Algan/Gan high electron mobility transistors on silicon by Tham, Wai Hoe

“…Similarly in Si technology, where dopants are used for threshold voltage adjustment, Ge is believed to be able to compensate the positive sheet charges on the AlGaN surface which reduces the polarization effect and hence depletes the 2DEG carrier concentration. …”
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