Structural and molecular characterization of ligands activating the orphan nuclear receptor Nurr1 (NR4A2) by Ng, Xin Yi

“…By employing Surface Plasmon Resonance (SPR) and Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR), C3 was identified to bind to the co-regulator binding pocket and is a strong candidate to be chemically-linked to L1, in hopes of increasing its potency as well as its binding affinity and specificity to Nurr1. …”
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Development of a capacitive deionization (CDI) device for water desalination by Chia, Desmond Zhi Yong

“…This will hopefully alleviate the problem of access to fresh water in impoverished countries and also countries which are geographically disadvantaged. …”
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An annotated introductory reading list for neurodiversity by Zaneva, M, Coll-Martín, T, Héjja-Brichard, Y, Kalandadze, T, Kis, A, Koperska, A, Manalili, MAR, Mathy, A, Graham, CJ, Hollis, A, Ross, RM, Yeung, SK, Allen, V, Azevedo, F, Friedel, E, Fuller, S, Giannouli, V, Gjoneska, B, Hartmann, H, Korbmacher, M, Elsherif, MM, Zisk, AH

“…Since its inception, the concept of neurodiversity has been defined in a number of different ways, which can cause confusion among those hoping to educate themselves about the topic. Learning about neurodiversity can also be challenging because there is a lack of well-curated, appropriately contextualized information on the topic. …”

The Nightingale / by Hannah, Kristin, author 369246, Macmillan Books (Online service) 655983

“…Without food or money or hope, as danger escalates all around them, she is forced to make one impossible choice after another to keep her family alive. …”
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21W.730-4 Writing and the Environment, Fall 2002 by Taft, Cynthia B.

“…John Muir, founder of the Sierra Club, evoked the wonders of California's Hetch Hetchy Valley in the hope that he could stop a dam with words. Another early environmentalist, Aldo Leopold, summoned up a world made barren by the loss of predators in the hope that he could stop the slaughter of wolves. …”
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A synthetic biology platform for malaria parasites based on orthogonal transcriptional control by Cárdenas Ramírez, Pablo

“…We develop automated DNA design software to apply this technology to study essential parasite genes for functional genomics and confirm compound-protein interactions for drug discovery. We hope these tools advance efforts to engineer and control malaria parasites in the future.…”
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新谣 ：我们的心声 = Xinyao : our voice by Low, Charlotte Qian Hui

“…By experiencing Xinyao vicariously from my personal sharing, I hope that one will find a connection with the music through nostalgia, know about it a little more and gain interest in it which in turn would allow for a continued preservation of the music.…”
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A study on the motivating factors and marketing strategies that affect donations to Singapore-based charities. by Lee, Jenevie Yu Ling., Ong, Yi Ning., Su, Han-Inn.

“…Our motivation in this research is to attract new donors and retain existing ones. We hope fundraisers can use this knowledge to target the appropriate segment of the population. …”
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Situating, anatomizing and enunciating Singapore literature prize - Understanding Singapore's new cultural field. by Wong, Winifred Li Min.

“…By enunciating SLP’s role in Singapore’s new cultural field, using the case study of its four English fiction winners, we can understand what stance a ‘genuine’ cultural mechanism/ practitioner can take in this new field. It is the hope of this research project to illuminate Singapore’s new cultural field so that cultural practitioners and audience (which effectively include everyone) can understand their cultural production and consumption.…”
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Automated ensemble multimodal machine learning for healthcare by Imrie, F, Denner, S, Brunschwig, LS, Maier-Hein, K, van der Schaar, M

“…We have open-sourced our framework as a tool for the community and hope it will accelerate the uptake of multimodal machine learning in healthcare and spur further innovation.…”

Engineering culture: logics of optimization in music, games, and apps by Morris, JW, Prey, R, Nieborg, DB

“…We draw on these instances to better understand the similarities and differences in the optimization of cultural content and metadata for economic or cultural gains. We hope our comparative approach reveals different conceptions of the term optimization, and that this term—in all its digital, financial, and cybernetic connotations—might prompt new ways of thinking about the interactions between content, (meta)data, platforms, and culture that have long shaped the circulation of cultural goods.…”

Rule Britannia: Brexit and the end of empire by Dorling, D, Tomlinson, S

“…<br> And yet, there is hope. In this wide-ranging and thoughtful analysis, now fully updated to cover the fallout from Brexit and the impact of coronavirus, Dorling and Tomlinson argue that if Britain can reconcile itself to its new place on the world stage, a new identity can be born from the ashes. …”

The religious life of viking armies by Abrams, L

“…By offering a speculative sketch of ‘pagan’ religious protocols, I hope to draw attention to the interest of the religious dynamics of Scandinavian armies at this transitional stage between mobility and permanence.…”

Injustice: why social inequality still persists (revised edition) by Dorling, D

“…By showing these beliefs are unfounded, Dorling offers hope of a more equal society. <br> We are living in the most remarkable and dangerous times. …”

How should we do racially just research? learning from a qualitative study on COVID-19 pandemic experiences in the UK by Rai, T, Dowrick, A, Qureshi, K, Munro, H, Wild, C, Douglas, J, Ziebland, S

“…By illustrating these ideological, practical and interactional components of research, including some uncomfortable reflections, we hope to encourage more open conversations among researchers and research funders. …”

Improving Practicum Assessment Instruments for IT Programme by Using Action Research Approach (S/O 14142) by Muhd Darus, Norida, Che Pa, Noraziah

“…The improved design is hope to be capable in measuring Practicum performance accurately and can be used to further assess many other aspects that reflect Practicum performance in preparing IT experts to face the industry as stated in IR4.0.…”
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Mining microbial resources from plastic-eating worms by Muhammad Asyraf Bin Zuraini

“…Reports of worms that are able to consume plastic as a food source gave hopes of methods that could biodegrade plastics. …”
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15.389 Global Entrepreneurship Lab, Fall 2002 by Locke, Richard M., 1959-, Murray, Fiona E., Johnson, Simon, Pentland, Alex Paul

“…We also hope your experience will help you decide whether, when and how you would like to work as a global entrepreneur. …”
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Peace. by Ong, Chee Wee.

“…Slowly and deeply its roots grow, into the hearts that it vowed to shade and protect, hoping that one day they will learn the act of sacrifice. …”
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Nominalization In the Kiranti And Central Himalayish languages of Nepal by Watters, David E.

“…Such nominalizations have been defined in various ways by different authors. I hope to demonstrate, however, that we are dealing primarily with equivalent structures and that their various functions can be distinguished, not only by their pragmatic contexts, but also by the syntactic structures in which they occur. …”
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