Regulation of lipid droplets in live preadipocytes using optical diffraction tomography and Raman spectroscopy by Hsieh, Chao-Mao, Liu, Patricia Yang, Chin, Lip Ket, Zhang, Jing Bo, Wang, Kuan, Sung, Kung-Bin, Ser, Wee, Bourouina, Tarik, Leprince-Wang, Yamin, Liu, Ai-Qun

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Tribochemical Characterization and Tribocorrosive Behavior of CoCrMo Alloys: A Review by Toh, Wei Quan, Tan, Xipeng, Bhowmik, Ayan, Liu, Erjia, Tor, Shu Beng

“…However, poor design and machinability as well as unsatisfactory surface finish subjected the all-metal joint replacement to being superseded by a polyethylene bearing. Continued improvement in manufacturing techniques together with the reality that polyethylene wear debris can cause hazardous reactions in the human body has brought about the revival of metal-on-metal (MOM) hip joints in recent years. …”
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Optimised “green solvent” extraction of long-chain menaquinones (Vitamin K2) from wet Lactococcus lactis biomass by Lee, Sze Ying, Hu, Xiao, Stuckey, David C.

“…In addition, the use of ethanol as the extraction solvent coupled with microwave heating and bead-beating was investigated. Enhanced extraction was achieved using microwave-assisted extraction at an elevated temperature of 125 °C for 5 min, with a 1.15- and 1.2-fold increase in menaquinone-7 and menaquinone-8 yields, respectively. …”
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Electrospun aligned PCLl/gelatin scaffolds mimicking the skin ECM for effective antimicrobial wound dressings by Ghomi, Erfan Rezvani, Lakshminarayanan, Rajamani, Chellappan, Vijila, Verma, Navin Kumar, Chinnappan, Amutha, Neisiany, Rasoul Esmaeely, Amuthavalli, Kottaiswamy, Poh, Zhi Sheng, Wong, Brandon Han Siang, Dubey, Nileshkumar, Narayan, Roger, Ramakrishna, Seeram

“…The morphological study showed that the electrospun wound dressings were smooth, continuous, and bead-free, with a mean diameter ranging from 267 ± 7 to 331 ± 8 nm for all random and aligned nanofibers. …”
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Development of image-based method for the quantitative assessment of cartilage damage from CT as a biomarker in osteoarthritis by Zheng, J-Q

“…</p> <p>The next phase included segmenting the cartilage from aligned CT volumes, utilizing a deep learning segmentation method, the Gate Attention-U-net, for enhanced precision and versatility in cartilage segmentation, achieving an 88% DSC and 9um ASD in the tibia's weight-bearing area.</p> <p>After extracting cartilage shape, we compared the thickness and remaining volume of tibial cartilage in the weight-bearing area with a prior semi-manual method, observing a Pearson correlation coefficient (R value) exceeding 0.8 with the semi-manual method (p&lt;0.0001) and a correlation with OA scores from histological images (p&lt;0.05). …”

Low-Cost Electronic Microfluidics for Multiplexed Point-of-Care Biomarker Detection by Kikkeri, Kruthika

“…Chapter 2 introduces a sample-to-answer PoC workflow, consolidating blood testing steps through at-site sample collection, on-chip blood-to-plasma separation, and a bead-based electrochemical assay. Leveraging microfluidics and electronics, this system offers a rapid 30-minute assay time. …”
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Fabrication of a rotary MR brake and data collection by Sim, Desmond Huang De.

“…In this report, a finalized design of MR drum rotary brake which consists of 3 main sub-assemblies of external housing comprising of inner housing, rotor, coil holder, bearings and radial shaft seals can therefore ensure to achieve at least 5Nm of torque in the presence of magnetic field. …”
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Magnetic levitation using neodymium magnets for vertical axis wind turbine (VAWT) II by Lai, Chunji

“…Achieving magnetic levitation is the ultimate goal of the project. Bearing this in mind, the author and his partner did their research and study on magnetic levitation especially on the Inductrack system. …”
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Heat assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) head design and simulation by Chaw, Li Huey

“…ANSYS software is used to create a waveguide in the read/write head and thermal simulation is carried out to study the thermal protrusion and temperature distribution at the air bearing surface (ABS).…”
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Impact behaviour of prepreg laminates with dispersed core/shell particles in ply interfaces by Mubarak Ali Mohamed Ali

“…A significant improvement in the energy absorption capability, the impact load bearing capacity, the deflection characteristics of the C/SH modified laminates was observed. …”
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Experimental study on effects of multi-column removal affecting behaviour of RC frames to mitigate progressive collapse by Ye, Da Wei

“…Various studies were conducted in the last decade with majority focusing on instances whereby only a single load bearing member, such as a column, was removed. However, in most real life accidental situations (terrorist attack/ vehicular impact) involving progressive collapse, they will often result in heavy initial impact that will lead to multi-column loss in a RC structure. …”
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Regression analysis ofr characterization of materials for photovoltaic cells by Vundavalli, Bala Satya Manikanta

“…The traditional Design-of-Experiments (DoEs) adapted so far, are slow and the information obtained sometimes bears little relevance to optimizing the key performance parameters of merit. …”
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Development of axially chiral urazole scaffolds for antiplant virus applications against potato virus Y by Jin, Jiamiao, Mou, Chengli, Zou, Juan, Xie, Xin, Wang, Chen, Shen, Tingwei, Deng, Youlin, Li, Benpeng, Jin, Zhichao, Li, Xiangyang, Chi, Robin Yonggui

“…To discover new antiviral drugs, a class of multifunctional urazole derivatives bearing a stereogenic C-N axis were synthesized with excellent optical purities for antiviral evaluations against PVY. …”
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Molecular modulation of fluorene-dibenzothiophene-S,S-dioxide-based conjugated polymers for enhanced photoelectrochemical water oxidation under visible light by Dai, Chunhui, Gong, Xuezhong, Zhu, Xianglin, Xue, Can, Liu, Bin

“…Three conjugated polymers (CPs) bearing a common fluorene-dibenzothiophene-S,S-dioxide backbone were designed and synthesized for photoelectrochemical (PEC) water oxidation upon visible-light irradiation (>420 nm). …”
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Photodynamic bubble-generating microneedles for enhanced transdermal cancer therapy by Ning, Xiaoyu, Chen, Si, Yang, Yating, Hwang, Jangsun, Wiraja, Christian, Zhang, Chi, Liu, Wei, Liu, Linbo, Xu, Chenjie

“…The drug delivery efficiency of this platform is first evaluated ex vivo using fresh mouse skins and human keloid tissues. Later, in the tumor-bearing mouse model, the platform enhances the skin penetration of photosensitizers (i.e., methylene blue) and correspondingly improves the efficacy of photodynamic therapy.…”
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Soil solution compositions and mineralogy of some active acid sulfate soils in Malaysia as affected by laboratory incubation with lime by Shamshuddin, J., Auxtero, E.A.

“…Acid sulfate soils in Malaysia are developed when pyrite bearing deposits in the coastal plains are drained for agricultural production. …”

Unravelling the bioactivities of Acmella paniculata extract-mediated green deep eutectic solvent of citric acid monohydrate and glycerol by Rajina Shahmir Sivaraj, Roziana Mohamed Hanaphi, Rizana Yusof

“…The antibacterial activity assessed by disc diffusion assay exhibited higher susceptible bacterial response of E. coli, Salmonella enterica ser. Typhimurium and S. aureus against the flower extract compared to the leaf extract. …”
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Exoplanet Albedo Spectra and Colors as a Function of Planet Phase, Separation, and Metallicity by Cahoy, Kerri, Marley, Mark, Fortney, Jonathan

“…In addition to alkalis and methane, our Jupiter models show H2O absorption features near 0.94 μm. While solar system giant planets are well separated by their broadband colors, we find that arbitrary giant exoplanets can have a large range of possible colors and that color alone cannot be relied upon to characterize planet types. …”
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Shaving Logs via Large Sieve Inequality: Faster Algorithms for Sparse Convolution and More by Jin, Ce, Xu, Yinzhan

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Understanding Chromatin Organization and Dynamics with Coarse-Grained Modeling by Liu, Shuming

“…The genome organization is hierarchical with different principles dominating at different scales. At the near-atomistic level, nucleosomes are organized as ordered chromatin fibers or disordered chromatin arrays. …”
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