Measuring social desirability bias in a multi-ethnic cohort sample: its relationship with self-reported physical activity, dietary habits, and factor structure by Teh, Wen Lin, Abdin, Edimansyah, P. V., Asharani, Siva Kumar, Fiona Devi, Roystonn, Kumarasan, Wang, Peizhi, Shafie, Saleha, Chang, Sherilyn, Jeyagurunathan, Anitha, Vaingankar, Janhavi Ajit, Sum, Chee Fang, Lee, Eng Sing, van Dam, Rob M., Subramaniam, Mythily

“…Multiple regression analyses revealed older age groups, the Indian ethnic group, those with past or present marriages, and having no income, had a significantly greater tendency to act on the bias. …”
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Conservation of red blood cell signalling in Plasmodium merozoite invasion by Yong, James Jia Ming

“…This is consistent with past evidence that the interference with RH5-Basigin binding is highly effective in impeding merozoite invasion. …”
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Pulsed fiber laser at 1 μm wavelength region by Liu, Meng

“…Thanks to its plentiful merits, such as high efficiency, vibration proof and maintenance free, high power Ytterbium-doped pulsed fiber lasers (YDPFLs) at 1 µm wavelength region have seen rapid development driven by the broad industrial applications over the past decades. However, there is still a lot of room for innovation and the performance enhancement for the YDPFLs is valuable. …”
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《麦兜，菠萝油王子》与《陈福财的艺术生涯》：动漫世界里的城市反思 = Mcdull Prince de la Bun and The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye : the animated worlds reflecting and rethinking contemporary cities... by 吴唯玮 Wu, Weiwei

“…On the other hand, The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye works on new aspects of Singapore history and challenges the orthodoxy by actively imaging alternative histories, and use them to question the past and present of Singapore.…”
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A type of novel energy harvesting device by Deng, J

“…<p>Pervasive networks of wireless sensors and communication nodes have been developed during past decades and most of them are powered by fixed-energy sources, e.g., wiring power and batteries. …”

Boronic acid and nitrofuranyl derivatives as potential therapeutics by Dey, AL

“…Whereas in the recent past drug development has often focussed on molecular structures with limited pharmacokinetic parameters e.g. …”

A study of atmospheric gradient for the analysis of weather events and prediction of rainfall in the tropical region by Naha Biswas, Anik

“…Both the gradient parameters show an increasing trend prior to a significant weather event over a larger region in the tropical climatic zone. The north and east components of atmospheric gradient have also been investigated in relation to rainfall occurring over a larger region. …”
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Optimization and scheduling for a large-scale urban transportation system involving human factors by Zhang, Yi

“…Traffic signal control, as one of the most essential strategies to tackle this challenge, has been applied and studied over the past several decades. However, existing traffic signals generally focus on optimality of vehicle flows, but the pedestrian delay is seldom considered. …”
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Mechanism design for internet of things services market by Jiao, Yutao

“…Over the past decade, the Internet of Things (IoT) adoption and applications have significantly increased. …”
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Extracellular nucleic acids in monochloraminated drinking water distribution systems by Bairoliya, Sakcham

“…Analysis of eRNA revealed its potential as a signaling molecule in environmental systems and as a glimpse into the past metabolic state of the bacterial cells. To validate observations made in the lab-scale setup, the methods for eDNA and eRNA extraction from DWDS were optimized. …”
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Conditional prosociality in development: deconstructing social and materialistic factors that modulate early prosocial behavior by Lee, Kristy Jia Jin

“…The past decade of developmental research has illuminated a fascinatingly diverse range of prosocial behavior in young children. …”
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论新加坡对红头巾和印度建筑工的态度 = A case study of Singapore government and Singaporeans' attitude towards Samsui women and Indian construction workers by 颜莉娜 Gan, Linda

“…Since the 1990s, Samsui women have become a figure of the past. Indian construction workers started coming to Singapore to make a livelihood. …”
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Deep transcriptome profiling reveals limited conservation of A-to-I RNA editing in Xenopus by Nguyen, Tram Anh, Heng, Joel Jia Wei, Ng, Yan Ting, Sun, Rui, Fisher, Shira, Oguz, Gokce, Kaewsapsak, Pornchai, Xue, Shifeng, Reversade, Bruno, Ramasamy, Adaikalavan, Eisenberg, Eli, Tan, Meng How

“…Background: Xenopus has served as a valuable model system for biomedical research over the past decades. Notably, ADAR was first detected in frog oocytes and embryos as an activity that unwinds RNA duplexes. …”
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Carbon-semiconductor hybrid nanostructures and their photoresponse behaviors by Zhan, Zhaoyao

“…Carbon nanomaterials (including carbon nanotube and graphene) and semiconductor nanoparticles have attracted considerable research effort in past two decades in terms of both fundamental and application research. …”
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Thermoplastic polymer nanocomposites based on polydopamine-coated clay : preparation, structures and properties by Phua, Si Lei

“…Polymer/clay nanocomposites have been widely investigated over past three decades due to the dramatic boost in properties at low filler content. …”
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Budget efficient online active learning and its applications by Hao, Shuji

“…To correct this weak assumption, this study proposes two robust online active learning algorithms, which not only consider the predictions of experts on current instance, but also consider the cumulative performance of experts on past instances. To validate the proposed algorithms, a series of experiments are conducted, in which the results show that the proposed algorithms greatly outperform the state-of-the-art existing algorithms and can achieve robust performance both in the normal and noisy scenarios. …”
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Developing metallic cathode for low-temperature solid oxide fuel cell applications by Yu, Chen-Chiang

“…With the effort input by numerous researchers in the past decade, the operating temperature of SOFCs had been successfully decreased to below 500 ˚C with more than 1 W·cm-2 of output power density. …”
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GP-OSMOTIC trial protocol : an individually randomised controlled trial to determine the effect of retrospective continuous glucose monitoring (r-CGM) on HbA1c in adults with type... by Furler, John, O’Neal, David Norman, Speight, Jane, Blackberry, Irene, Manski-Nankervis, Jo-Anne, Thuraisingam, Sharmala, de La Rue, Katie, Ginnivan, Louise, Browne, Jessica Lea, Holmes-Truscott, Elizabeth, Khunti, Kamlesh, Dalziel, Kim, Chiang, Jason, Audehm, Ralph, Kennedy, Mark, Clark, Malcolm, Jenkins, Alicia Josephine, Liew, Danny, Clarke, Philip, Best, James

“…Eligibility: Aged 18–80 years, T2D for ≥1 year, a (past month) HbA1c>5.5 mmol/mol (0.5%) above their individualised target while prescribed at least two non-insulin hypoglycaemic therapies and/or insulin (therapy stable for the last four months). …”
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Genetic analysis of normal human phenotypes within the people of the British Isles by Meena, D

“…For normal hair pigmentation, nearly all of the well documented pigmentation genes were replicated, including <em>MC1R, SLC45A2, TYR, IRF4, HERC2, KITLG</em> and <em>SLC24A4</em> and results generally agreed with studies performed in the past. Replication of previous associations validates the PoBI dataset.…”

Association of current Schistosoma mansoni, Schistosoma japonicum, and Schistosoma mekongi infection status and intensity with periportal fibrosis: a systematic review and meta-ana... by Ewuzie, A, Wilburn, L, Thakrar, DB, Cheng, H, Reitzug, F, Roberts, N, Malouf, R, Chami, GF

“…<p><strong>Background:&nbsp;</strong>Periportal fibrosis is a severe morbidity caused by both current and past exposure to intestinal schistosomes. We aimed to assess the association between current infection status and intensity of&nbsp;<em>Schistosoma mansoni, Schistosoma japonicum</em>, or&nbsp;<em>Schistosoma mekongi</em>&nbsp;with periportal fibrosis.…”