AI-ML for quantitative blood pressure and blood glucose estimation from non-occlusive PPG/ECG bio-signals by Vignesh Sujith Menon

“…Even though this disease affects more than 500 million individuals, there is a lack of non-invasive methods for checking glucose levels, making the use of a glucometer with finger pricking the most common and reliable option for daily glucose testing in personal healthcare. Over the last decade, however, there have been notable advances in the development of wearable devices that monitor blood glucose levels continuously. …”
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A hydrophilic polyimidazolium antibiotic targeting the membranes of Gram-negative bacteria by Chen, Yahua, Yong, Melvin, Li, Ming, Si, Zhangyong, Koh, Chong Hui, Lau, Pearlyn, Chang, Yi Wei, Teo, Jeanette, Chan-Park, Mary B., Gan, Yunn-Hwen

“…The rise of MDR Gram-negative bacteria (GNB), especially those resistant to last-resort drugs such as carbapenems and colistin, is a global health risk and calls for increased efforts to discover new antimicrobial compounds. …”
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Intelligence failure in U.S. counterterrorism by King, Brian Allen

“…One case is a state-sponsored terrorist attack (Khobar Towers), another planned by al-Qaeda core leadership (USS Cole), and the last is an insider attack inspired by AQAP (Naval Air Station Pensacola Florida). …”
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Seismic performance of RC structural squat walls with limited transverse reinforcement by Xiang, Weizheng

“…In the last three decades, extensive research works has been conducted to assess the validity of the design provisions of EC8 and ACI 318 for cyclic shear in reinforced concrete (RC) structural walls with low aspect ratios. …”
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Nanostructured transition metal oxide (TMO) for electrochemical devices by Khoo, Eugene

“…In this thesis, the shortening of diffusion distance has been achieved by reducing the oxide dimension while different types of diffusion pathways with shortened diffusion distances were generated through the altering of oxide lattice structure. The last parameter is the ion intercalation sites, which were tailored through controlling the oxide lattice structure. …”
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Novel algorithms for inferring granger causality using biological data by Furqan, Mohammad Shaheryar

“…However, with the advancement of technology, the inference of biological networks from high-throughput data has received immense consideration throughout the last decade, and is a major area of research in systems biology. …”
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Energy management in ports and its impact on port sustainability and regional competitive advantage by Li, Jianni

“…The information collected is further used to study the port of Singapore. At last, a framework on four key aspects of energy management was recommended to promote better energy management and co-regional development in Singapore port, while maintaining its competitive advantage. …”
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Peroxytungstate anions in asymmetric ion pair catalyzed oxidations by Ye, Xinyi

“…The following two chapters presented two projects utilizing the designed strategy. Over the last few years, our group has developed a series of phase-transfer catalysts, which successfully solved problems in the enantioselective addition and substitution reaction under traditional base promoted conditions. …”
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A Review of 3D Printable Construction Materials and Applications by Tan, Ming Jen, Lu, Bing, Qian, Shun Zhi

“…The article also reviews various engineering applications of 3D printing recently emerged in building and construction sector. At last, the article hypothesizes the future developments of 3D printing for building and construction based on the reviews on plausible 3D printable materials and structural applications. …”
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Enhanced stress and changes to regional seismicity due to the 2015 Mw 7.8 Gorkha, Nepal, earthquake on the neighbouring segments of the Main Himalayan Thrust by Chan, Chung-Han, Wang, Yu, Almeida, Rafael, Yadav, R.B.S.

“…The long elapsed time since the last megathrust event and the mainshock coseismic stress increase on the Main Himalayan Thrust suggest high seismic potential in the Lalitpur and Lamjung areas along the fault system. …”
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Flood risk analysis under consideration of river system dynamics and spatial temporal scales by Oliver, Julien

“…Due to rapid urbanization and climate change, the frequency of flood events has notably increased over the last decades, adversely impacting societal development and economic growth. …”
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Slip on the Superstition Hills fault and on nearby faults associated with the 24 November 1987 Elmore Ranch and Superstition Hills earthquakes, southern California by Sieh, Kerry, McGill, Sally F., Allen, Clarence R., Hudnut, Kenneth W., Johnson, David C., Miller, Wayne F.

“…No precursory slip had occurred on the Superstition Hills fault up to 27 October 1987, when the last measurement before the earthquakes was made. …”
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Hematologically important mutations : leukocyte adhesion deficiency (first update) by Holland, Steven M., Belohradsky, Bernd H., Kuijpers, Taco W., Van de Vijver, Edith, Maddalena, Anne, Sanal, Özden, Uzel, Gulbu, Madkaikar, Manisha, de Boer, Martin, Van Leeuwen, Karin, Köker, M. Yavuz, Parvaneh, Nima, Fischer, Alain, Law, S. K. Alex, Klein, Nigel, Tezcan, F. Ilhan, Unal, Ekrem, Patiroglu, Turkan, Schwartz, Klaus, Somech, Raz, Roos, Dirk

“…Finally, in LAD-III (also called LAD-I/variant) the conformational activation of the hematopoietically expressed β integrins is disturbed, leading to leukocyte and platelet dysfunction. This last syndrome is caused by mutations in FERMT3, encoding the kindlin-3 protein in all blood cells that is involved in the regulation of β integrin conformation.…”
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Immune checkpoint blockade sensitivity and progression-free survival associates with baseline CD8+ T cell clone size and cytotoxicity by Watson, RA, Tong, O, Cooper, R, Taylor, CA, Sharma, PK, de Los Aires, AV, Mahé, EA, Ruffieux, H, Nassiri, I, Middleton, MR, Fairfax, BP

“…Cytotoxic CD8⁺ effector clones were more likely to persist following ICB and were more likely to correspond with public tumor-infiltrating lymphocyte clonotypes. Last, we demonstrated that individuals whose CD8⁺ T cell pretreatment showed low cytotoxicity and had fewer expanded clones typically had worse outcomes after ICB treatment. …”

Efficacy of intranasal administration of formalin-killed Pasteurella haemolytica A2 against intratracheal challenge in goats by Effendy, A.W.M., Zamri-Saad, M., Puspa, R., Rosiah, S.

“…All goats were challenged intratracheally with 4 ml of an inoculum containing live P haemolytica A2 at a concentration of 1.3 x 107 colony forming units/ml two weeks after the last vaccination and were killed 14 days after the challenge. …”

Concept of Computational Fluid Dynamics Design and Analysis Tool for Food Industry: A Bibliometric by M. Muktiarni, M. Muktiarni, Nur Indri Rahayu, Nur Indri Rahayu, Ai Nurhayati, Ai Nurhayati, Andika Dutha Bachari, Andika Dutha Bachari, Affero Ismail, Affero Ismail

“…The development of this publication has been fluctuating, and there has been an increase in publications in the last five years (2019 - 2023). Research publications regarding CFD in the food industry are grouped into 20 subject areas. …”
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On strong semismoothness and superlinear convergence of complementarity problems over homogeneous cones by Nguyen, Hai Ha

“…In Chapter 1, we first review several literature and relevant results that lead to the ideas of the main problems discussed within the thesis. The subsequent parts provide the basic notations and de nitions for basic concepts regarding to the main classes of cones we consider in the thesis, including positive semi-de nite (PSD) cones, symmetric cones and second-order cones (SOCs). …”
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Design and development of a tabletop indoor herb or vegetable planter box by Bahjah Binte Mohamed Yamin

“…Agriculture is an essential part of human civilisation. Humans have long used agricultural practices to produce the food they need to survive. …”
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Digital Anatomy : Applications of Virtual, Mixed and Augmented Reality / by Uhl, Jean-François, editor 643187, Jorge, J. A. (Joaquim Armando), editor 643188, Lopes, Daniel Simões, editor 643190, Campos, Pedro F., editor 643191

Thomas Kling: influences, contemporaries, successors. A study in poetic tradition / Thomas Kling: Einflüsse, Zeitgenossen, Nachfolger. Studie über poetische Tradition by Rakar, I

“…Artmann can be seen as points of orientation for Kling’s development of the montage technique, his work as a poet-performer and his drawing on older poetic traditions. The second part looks at Kling in relation to the poets of the generation which establishes itself in the 1990s. …”