An essential role for maternal control of Nodal signaling by Tran, Long Duc, Kumari, Pooja, Gilligan, Patrick C., Lim, Shimin, Winkler, Sylke, Philp, Robin, Sampath, Karuna

“…Maternal-effect mutations in zebrafish ybx1 lead to deregulated Nodal signaling, gastrulation failure, and embryonic lethality. Implanted Nodal-coated beads phenocopy ybx1 mutant defects. Thus, Ybx1 prevents ectopic Nodal activity, revealing a new paradigm in the regulation of Nodal signaling, which is likely to be conserved.…”
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Biomolecular engineering of a human beta defensin model for increased salt resistance by Li, Xiang, Saravanan, Rathi, Kwak, Sang Kyu, Leong, Susanna Su Jan

“…However, hBDs, like many AMPs, are easily inactivated by salt, which limits their extracellular applications as antimicrobial coating agents. In this study, a salt-resistant hBD28 peptide was designed by increasing C-terminus cationicity of the wild type peptide via rational amino acid substitution. …”
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Improving electrochemical hybridization assays with restriction enzymes by Zhou, Xingcheng, Zamani, Marjon, Austin, Katherine, De Bock, Marieke, Ullola, Joshua Chaj, Rikia, Smah, Furst, Ariel L.

“…Nucleic acids in blood are early indicators of disease that could be detected by point-of-care biosensors if sufficiently sensitive and facile sensors existed. …”
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Violence risk assessment using the Oxford Mental Illness and Violence Tool by Fazel, S, Scola, G

“…</li> <li>Integrating these tools into practice enhances patient care, safety, and well-being through personalized, data-driven decisions.…”

Image-based environment matting by Wexler, Y, Fitzgibbon, AW, Zisserman, A

“…Zongker et al [1999] and Chuang et al [2000] show how environment mattes can be computed for real objects under carefully controlled laboratory conditions. However, for many objects of interest, such calibration is difficult to arrange. …”

Determination of an optimal level of spending on television advertising by the credit card industry in Singapore by Lo, Hedrick Wing Keung, Tang, Yew Quan, Ng, Dennis Wee Han

“…In the past, advertising has been viewed as a cost. Like other type of expenses, management has subjected this function to the rigours of cost containment exercises. …”
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Project management model for vehicle manufacturing by Goh, Bak Nguan.

“…One of the most important aspect of this thesis is that it provides a detail description of the systematic approach in the build-up of the cost elements during the tendering phase. This is important because the material, labour and system support must be costed accurately and completely with respect to the scope of work.…”
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An experimental and feasibility study into the response of titanium alloys subjected to compression and MDF tests by Huang, Cindy Xiaohui.

“…Titanium and its alloys have proven themselves to be technically superior and cost effective materials when compared to aluminum and steel for a wide range of applications. …”
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Life Cycle of Biomass Blending in Electricity Generation: An Environmental and Economic Assessment by Mohd Shafie, Shafini, Othman, Zakirah, Hami, Norsiah

“…The results obtained the range for greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, varying from 0.02 kg CO2EQ/kWh to 6400.04 kg CO2EQ/kWh, whereas the cost varied from RM0.01/kWh to RM16.10/kWh. The transportation process is the most critical process requiring extra extension, due to the high GHG emissions and consumption cost for that process. …”
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Effect of consumers' awareness about country of origin on purchasing decision in Klang Valley, Malaysia by Taheri, Nasim

“…Globalization has become vital in today’s competitive market place with firms often outsourcing various parts of their production and operation to different countries in search of the lowest possible cost and expertise. The development of the concept of the country of origin (COO) of a product dates back to World War I. …”
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Implementing RFID in the factory logistics operations of an MNC by Tan, Yen Lin.

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Learning-enabled decision-making for autonomous driving: framework and methodology by Huang, Zhiyu

“…We propose a maximum entropy IRL algorithm that infers the reward function based on a structural assumption about discrete latent intentions guiding continuous low-level control actions. The personalized cost learning method outperforms general cost modeling methods, leading to a more human-like driving experience. …”
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Dengue Virus Non-Structural Protein 5 by El Sahili, Abbas, Lescar, Julien

“…The World Health Organization estimates that the yearly number of dengue cases averages 390 million. …”
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Project Management in the Construction Industry : From Concept to Completion / by Mubarak, Saleh A., author 451381, John Wiley & Sons (Online service) 647106

“…Written by a longtime professional and author with diversified and international experience in academia and industry, Project Management in the Construction Industry covers sample topics such as: Project life cycle and organization, covering why and how projects are initiated and pure project versus functional management; Scope management, covering the decision making process, scope creep versus progressive elaboration, and cost of change versus time; The planning phase, covering delivery methods and contract types, priorities, feasibility studies, and the “go” decision; Project budgeting, financing, and cost management, covering direct versus indirect cost, classes and purposes of estimates, bonds and insurance, and the CSI MasterFormat. …”
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FPS-Net: a convolutional fusion network for large-scale LiDAR point cloud segmentation by Xiao, Aoran, Yang, Xiaofei, Lu, Shijian, Guan, Dayan, Huang, Jiaxing

“…Scene understanding based on LiDAR point cloud is an essential task for autonomous cars to drive safely, which often employs spherical projection to map 3D point cloud into multi-channel 2D images for semantic segmentation. …”
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Two-stage stochastic programming for coordinated operation of distributed energy resources in unbalanced active distribution networks with diverse correlated uncertainties by Leng, Ruoxuan, Li, Zhengmao, Xu, Yan

“…Second, the battery degradation is considered to model the aging cost for each charging or discharging event, leading to a more realistic cost estimation. …”
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Design, User Experience, and Usability : UX Research and Design : 10th International Conference, DUXU 2021, Held as Part of the 23rd HCI International Conference, HCII 2021, Virtua... by DUXU (Conference) (10th : 2021 : Online), organiser 643242, Soares, Marcelo Marcio, editor 514932, Rosenzweig, Elizabeth, editor 643243, Marcus, Aaron, 1943-, editor 643244, International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (23rd : 2021 : Online) issuing body 642922

“…The total of 1276 papers and 241 poster papers included in the 39 HCII 2021 proceedings volumes was carefully reviewed and selected from 5222 submissions. …”

Diagrammatic Representation and Inference : 12th International Conference, Diagrams 2021, Virtual, September 28-30, 2021, Proceedings / by Diagrams (Conference) (12th : 2021 : Online) 643173, Basu, Amrita, 1953-, editor 643175, Stapleton, Gem, editor 643176, Linker, Sven, editor 643177, Legg, Catherine, editor 643178, Manalo, Emmanuel, editor 643179, Viana, Petrucio, editor 643180

“…The 16 full papers and 25 short papers presented together with 16 posters were carefully reviewed and selected from 94 submissions. …”

Critical test of the beneficial consequences of lifting the ban on direct-to-consumer advertising for prescription drugs in Italy: experimental exposure and questionnaire study by Schulz, Peter Johannes, Crosignani, Francesca, Petrocchi, Serena

“…This argument has been part of the health care community's wider discussion of whether DTCA of prescription drugs benefits the population's general interest or is only an attempt to increase the sales of the pharmaceutical branch. …”
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Neutralizing autoantibodies against interleukin-10 in inflammatory bowel disease by Griffin, H, Ceron-Gutierrez, L, Gharahdaghi, N, Ebrahimi, S, Davies, S, Loo, PS, Szabo, A, Williams, E, Mukhopadhyay, A, McLoughlin, L, Irwin, S, Travis, S, Klenerman, P, Bunn, S, Cant, AJ, Hambleton, S, Uhlig, HH, Doffinger, R

“…(Funded by the National Institute for Health and Care Research and others.)…”