E-portal for life long learning by Chew, Adam Beng Aik

“…Life Long Learning is an online portal meant to bridge the informational gap between the everyday individuals seeking to pick up a new skill or hobby, and the course providers ranging from well-established corporations and government agencies to the small businesses hidden in our heartlands. …”
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Ghost Stories / by Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849, author 324196, James, M. R., 1862-1936, (Montague Rhodes), 242996

“…Twenty-two exciting stories from the twilight world of haunted houses and hair-raising spectres are contained in this spine-chilling anthology. Each tale is illustrated with specially commissioned drawings.…”

Developing a taxonomy of consumer preferences for enhancing B2C e-commerce last-mile delivery: delivered food by Teo, Ee Lin

“…By exploring the key factors which influence customers to use self pick-up over door-to-door delivery on OFD platforms in Singapore, suggestions can be made to improve the self pick-up customer experience and encourage its adoption. …”
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Cell charactetization in differnet regions of the native annulus fibrous in a porcine intervetebral disc model through cell sorting and molecular analysis by Teo, Tong

“…The factors that lead to low back pain are complex, there has been more evidence that shows that intervertebral disc degeneration serves as a major contributor leading to the destabilization of the spinal motion segment hence resulting in pain and disability. …”
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Sporopollenin-inspired design and synthesis of robust polymeric materials by Glinkerman, Christopher M, Lin, Shaoting, Ni, Jiahua, Li, Fu-Shuang, Zhao, Xuanhe, Weng, Jing-Ke

“…Recent investigation of the molecular structure of pine sporopollenin revealed unique monomeric units and inter-unit linkages distinct from other previously known biopolymers, which could be harnessed for new material design. …”
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Island area and remoteness shape plant and soil bacterial diversity through land use and biological invasion by Xu, Mingshan, Yang, Anna, Yang, Xiaodong, Cao, Wenting, Zhang, Zengke, Li, Zengyan, Zhang, Yu, Zhang, Huaguo, You, Wenhui, Yan, En-Rong, Wardle, David A.

“…However, land use intensity increased with island area which also promoted plant diversity, and loss of pine forest by the pinewood nematode invasion increased with island remoteness which reduced plant diversity. …”
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Population of Merging Compact Binaries Inferred Using Gravitational Waves through GWTC-3 by Sudhir, Vivishek

“…While the majority of spins are preferentially aligned with the orbital angular momentum, we infer evidence of antialigned spins among the binary population. …”
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A Self-Polymerizing Mesh of Nano-Tethers for the Mechanical Constraint of Degraded Intervertebral Discs—A Review of 25 Years of Pre-Clinical and Early Clinical Research by Hedman, Thomas, Rogers, Adam, Beall, Douglas

“…It is intended that this review of a novel nano-scale material-based solution for mechanical deficiencies in biologically limited tissues may provide a helpful example for other innovations in spinal diseases and similarly challenging musculoskeletal disorders.…”
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Age-related bone loss is associated with FGF21 but not IGFBP1 in healthy adults by Lee, Shuen Yee, Fam, Kai Deng, Chia, Kar Ling, Yap, Margaret M. C., Goh, Jorming, Yeo, Kwee Poo, Yap, Eric Peng Huat, Chotirmall, Sanjay Haresh, Lim, Chin Leong

“…The IGFBP1 concentration was not correlated with BMD at the hip or spine (all P > 0.05). In humans, FGF21 might be involved in the age-associated decline in BMD, especially at the spine, through increased bone turnover. …”
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A proxy-tactile reactive control for robots moving in clutter by Caroleo, G, Giovinazzo, F, Albini, A, Grella, F, Cannata, G, Maiolino, P

“…In this paper, we propose a reactive control law that simultaneously utilizes proximity and tactile feedback to perform a pick-and-place task in an unknown and cluttered environment. …”

Learning stock market dynamics using the kinetic ising model by Nguyen, Ai Linh

“…In this approach, the states in the time series data are represented by configurations of N spins, and the time evolution of these states in the time series data by an update rule that depends on the spin configuration {σ_i (t)}_(i=1,…,N), and the connection weights {W_ij }_(i,j=1,…N) between the spins. …”
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Improved lower bounds on book crossing numbers of complete graphs by Salazar, G., Pasechnik, Dmitrii V., De Klerk, Etienne.

“…A book with k pages consists of a straight line (the spine) and k half-planes (the pages), such that the boundary of each page is the spine. …”
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Effect of adding global postural re-education to Kendall exercises for treating asymptomatic forward head posture: a single-blinded randomized controlled trial by Abu-Taleb, Walaa, Yamany, Abeer Abdelrahman, Aneis, Yasser M., Abu El Kasem, Shimaa T.

“…Conclusions: The added effect GPR technique to Kendall exercises significantly improved CVA, CROM, NDI, chest expansion, and spinal mobility in subjects with FHP.…”
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Evaluating Fairness of Artificial Intelligence Models for Radiology Image Classification by Sandadi, Varsha

“…Our findings indicate that cervical spine fracture detection models exhibit overall fairness, while abdominal trauma detection models demonstrate some unfairness in specific injury regions, possibly due to limited sample size. …”
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Motion control (brushless DC motor) of a lower limb robotic orthosis for rehabilitation of stroke and incomplete SCI patients by Lim, Zhenhui

“…Strokes and spinal cord injuries (SCI) can cause motor malfunction to the patients resulting in the loss of the ability to walk. …”
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Immunotherapy-responsive neuropathic pain and allodynia in a patient with glycine receptor autoantibodies: a case report by Soleimani, B, Board, C, Yu, T, Tracey, I, Irani, SR, Foley, P

“…Glycine receptors are known to play a key role in inhibitory neurotransmission in the spinal dorsal horn and have therefore been considered as targets for analgesic development. …”

Domain wall dynamics in engineered multilayer magnetic nanostructures by Lin, Eddy Junxiang

“…This is attributed to the spins of the domain wall in Co60Fe20B20 aligning along the magnetic moment of the permalloy strip above it. …”
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Distinct movement disorders in contactin-associated-protein-like-2 antibody-associated autoimmune encephalitis by Gövert, F, Abrante, L, Becktepe, J, Balint, B, Ganos, C, Hofstadt-van Oy, U, Krogias, C, Varley, J, Irani, SR, Paneva, S, Titulaer, MJ, de Vries, JM, Boon, AJW, Schreurs, MWJ, Joubert, B, Honnorat, J, Vogrig, A, Ariño, H, Sabater, L, Dalmau, J, Scotton, S, Jacob, S, Melzer, N, Bien, CG, Geis, C, Lewerenz, J, Prüss, H, Wandinger, K-P, Deuschl, G, Leypoldt, F

“…Further distinct movement disorders include isolated and combined segmental spinal myoclonus and autoimmune episodic ataxia.</p>…”

The theory of complex network sensing. by Wang, Yidan.

“…The objective of this project is to explore this interaction between internal dynamics and extrinsic information by simulating Ising spins on a scale-free network. As a first step to understand how complex networks sense and react to environmental signals, we studied how to achieve a global change of the system through the control of local nodes.…”
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Persuasive evidence for electron-nuclear coupling in diluted magnetic colloidal nanoplatelets using optically detected magnetic resonance spectroscopy by Strassberg, Rotem, Delikanli, Savas, Barak, Yahel, Dehnel, Joanna, Kostadinov, Alyssa, Maikov, Georgy, Hernandez-Martinez, Pedro Ludwig, Sharma, Manoj, Demir, Hilmi Volkan, Lifshitz, Efrat

“…The incorporation of magnetic impurities into semiconductor nanocrystals with size confinement promotes enhanced spin exchange interaction between photogenerated carriers and the guest spins. …”
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