How Taoism addresses unbalanced lives of urban female : see things differently by Lam, Nu Lien Minh

“…Born, educated and grown in developing countries that are still faithful to tradition and cultural heritage, young Asian women encounter inevitable tensions between tradition and modern lifestyles that makes her loose harmony and balance in her daily life. …”
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The association of sleep duration with the risk of chronic kidney disease: a systematic review and meta-analysis by Koh, Jin Hean, Yeo, Brian Sheng Yep, Tan, Timothy Wei En, See, Mark Yong Siang, Ng, Adele Chin Wei, Loh, Shaun Ray Han, Gooley, Joshua, Tan, Chieh Suai, Toh, Song Tar

“…Compared with a reference range of 7 to 8 hours of sleep, short sleep durations of ≤4 hours (RR 1.41, 95% CI: 1.16 to 1.71, P < 0.01), ≤5 hours (RR 1.46, 95% CI: 1.22 to 1.76, P < 0.01), ≤6 hours (RR 1.18, 95% CI: 1.09 to 1.29, P < 0.01), and ≤7 hours (RR 1.19, 95% CI: 1.12 to 1.28, P < 0.01) were significantly associated with an increased risk of incident chronic kidney disease. …”
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Venue : the garden celebrating Singapore’s greenery planning by Zhao, Wenwen

“…Adopting a new way of seeing inspired by the aesthetic ideals of wabi-sabi into our lifestyle, the way of seeing that emphasizes the appreciation of the vernacular and everyday life; the way of seeing that brings contentment on what we have instead of complaining about what we do not have, to re-examine our environment, seeing our city in a new light and feel the joy of being in this Garden City.…”
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Mechanism behind the controlled generation of liquid metal nanoparticles by mechanical agitation by Nor-Azman, Nur-Adania, Ghasemian, Mohammad B., Fuchs, Richard, Liu, Li, Widjajana, Moonika S., Yu, Ruohan, Chiu, Shih-Hao, A. Idrus-Saidi, Shuhada, Nieves Flores, Nieves Flores, Chi, Yuan, Tang, Jianbo, Kalantar-Zadeh, Kourosh

“…The impact of the secondary metal inclusion is investigated on liquid metals’ surface tension, solution turbidity, and size distribution of the generated particles. Our work evidences that there is an inverse relationship between the surface tension and the ability of liquid metals to be broken down by sonication. …”

A dual-modal molecular probe for near-infrared fluorescence and photoacoustic imaging of peroxynitrite by Zhang, Jianjian, Zhen, Xu, Zeng, Jianfeng, Pu, Kanyi

“…Thus, CySO3CF3 not only specifically detects ONOO- in solution and cells with the limit of detection down to 53 nM but also allows for NIRF and photoacoustic dual-modal imaging of ONOO- in the tumors of living mice.…”
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Wireless propagation for ship by Liu, Weide.

“…This in turn affects the quality of signal being received. …”
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Striatal and Behavioral Responses to Reward Vary by Socioeconomic Status in Adolescents by Decker, Alexandra L, Meisler, Steven L., Hubbard, Nicholas A., Bauer, Clemens C.C., Leonard, Julia, Grotzinger, Hannah, Giebler, Melissa A., Torres, Yesi Camacho, Imhof, Andrea, Romeo, Rachel, Gabrieli, John D. E.

“…These disparities are believed to influence reward sensitivity, which in turn, are hypothesized to shape how individuals respond to and pursue rewarding experiences. …”
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Effects of hemodynamic shear stress on circulating breast cancer cells by Khairunisa Liyana Abdul Malek

“…In this project, three lines of metastatic breast cancer cells, 231-C3, 231-M1 and 231-M1A were circulated in a microfluidic model mimicking the blood circulatory system over four different time periods: 2 hours, 4 hours, 9 hours and 18 hours while being exposed to three different hemodynamic shear stress at values of 15 dyn/cm2, 30 dyn/cm2 and 45 dyn/cm2. …”
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Burnout in Cybersecurity Incident Responders: Exploring the Factors that Light the Fire by Nepal, Subigya, Hernandez, Javier, Lewis, Robert, Chaudhry, Ahad, Houck, Brian, Knudsen, Eric, Rojas, Raul, Tankus, Ben, Prafullchandra, Hemma, Czerwinski, Mary

“…As concerns about employee burnout and skilled staff shortages in cybersecurity grow, our study aims to better understand the contributing factors to burnout in this field. …”
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Anatomy of gloom. by Lim, Gwen Yuan Wen.

“…The Puppet wakes up in a gloomy world. Like a new born baby, she is amused her existence. A spider crawls out of her heart and hynotises the puppet, shows her an perplexing illusion of a woman trapped inside a massive flower. …”
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A case study research on Carrefour's foreign investments in South Korea and Japan by Wang, Yue, Jiang, Lin, Wang, Jie

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Processing and early age properties of 3D printed sustainable concrete by Ho, Garrick Sze Jian

“…3D Concrete Printing (3DCP) has been around for several years now and it one technique that can minimize waste, man hours and costs with productivity, safety and sustainability being improved at the same time. …”
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Deformation of peat soil reinforcement settlement using single-layer bamboo dendrocalamus asper by Md Yusof, Z, Khairul Anuar, N A, Abu Talib, M K, Md Dan, M F, Mohammad Noh, N

“…It is shown that the properties of peat react with the soil and began to settle down slowly until the reading remained constant…”
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Wooferland by Tan, Jedidah Chu Yi

“…More than just a critique intended to address the issues of animal rights, Wooferland strives to explore a possible utopian futuristic city where all urban dogs would have the freedom to bask in pleasure and entertainment, even during the seemingly mundane hours of their daily lives that is a result of their owners’ hectic schedules. …”
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Hand in Hand – buddy up mobile application design to enable the visually disabled by Tan, Tiffanie Hsiang Yuin

“…Our urban environment poses various challenges for the visually impaired. …”
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Out-of-band antenna characterization by Lim, Darrell Peng Fei.

“…This in turn affects the performance of the receiver and the other systems. …”
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Numerical model and experimental investigation on the optical trapping of microsphere sample by Muhammad Haer Jam Hari.

“…With the increasing emphasis put on research and development in the industry, more sophisticated technology were born. The biomedical engineering field is no stranger to tremendous research and development efforts in the recent years. …”
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Feel to hear by Ummi Kaltsum Mohamed Bakri

“…Feel to Hear is a project inspired by hearing loss and the curiousity of the ways children born with profound deafness learn about sounds without the use of hearing aids. …”
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Islam in Late Antiquity: state-making, the Bedouin, and the end of empires by Wakeley, JM

“…Comparative approaches are also employed, not least to situate Arabia in a broader late antique context and also to improve our understanding of the development of the early Islamic state.…”

Protein profile in cells exposed to non-thermal radiofrequency-field. by Ng, Shi Qi.

“…Combined with the results obtained by another student conducting a similar experiment at different exposure duration58, it is found that only Histone H2A and Histone H4 responded to the radiation after 10 minutes, 40 minutes, 2 hours and 5 hours exposure. The regulation of histone observed may be due to RF-induced chromosomal instability, RF-induced double strand DNA breakage and experimental limitations. …”
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