Relative deficiency in interferon-γ-secreting CD4+ T cells is strongly associated with poorer COVID-19 vaccination responses in older adults by Ho, Vanda W. T., Boon, Low Heng, Cui, Jianzhou, Juequn, Zhou, Shunmuganathan, Bhuvaneshwari, Gupta, Rashi, Tan, Nikki Y. J., Qian, Xinlei, Purushotorman, Kiren, Fong, Siew-Wai, Renia, Laurent, Ng, Lisa F. P., Angeli, Veronique, Chen, Jinmiao, Kennedy, Brian K., Ong, Catherine W. M., Macary, Paul A.

“…Although the two-dose mRNA vaccination regime provides protection against SARS-CoV-2, older adults have been shown to exhibit poorer vaccination responses. …”
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Continuous health-based optimal operation and control for mission-critical power systems by Kumar, Logesh

“…In recent years’ lot of research has been conducted to detect the faults in the system, but very few and little work is reported on the mitigation and post fault scenario. …”
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Digital twin and AI enabled predictive maintenance in building industry by Hu, Wei

“…The effectiveness of PdM has also been hindered by the dependence on labelled datasets, which are expensive and time-consuming to generate. …”
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Yeast9: a consensus genome-scale metabolic model for S. cerevisiae curated by the community by Zhang, Chengyu, Sánchez, Benjamín J., Li, Feiran, Cheng, Eiden Wei Quan, Scott, William T., Liebal, Ulf W., Blank, Lars M., Mengers, Hendrik G., Anton, Mihail, Rangel, Albert Tafur, Mendoza, Sebastián N., Zhang, Lixin, Nielsen, Jens, Lu, Hongzhong, Kerkhoven, Eduard J.

“…Since Yeast8, the yeast-GEM of Saccharomyces cerevisiae, published in 2019, has been continuously updated by the community. This has increased the quality and scope of the model, culminating now in Yeast9. …”
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Leveraging linguistic knowledge to enhance low-resource NLP applications by Zhu, Zixiao

“…As a result, several training paradigms have been developed to enhance the downstream performance of PLMs, as outlined below. …”
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Solution based synthesis of Cu2ZnSnS4 nanoparticles and thin films for solar cell application by Li, Zhenggang

“…An encouraging power conversion efficiency of 8.4% has been achieved using vacuum deposition method. However, the vacuum deposition techniques are often associated with high energy input and thus impose a significant cost on the devices. …”
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Modeling and optimization of photovoltaic systems under partially shaded and rapidly changing conditions by Jiang, Lian Lian

“…This is the first time that ACO has been directly used for MPPT in a PV system. As other related evolutionary algorithms can also be applied to the MPPT in a similar way, a uniform implementation scheme for other evolutionary algorithms under several different PV array topologies is proposed. …”
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Non-newtonian fluids and droplets in microchannels by Huang, Yi

“…Flow conditions of experiments, microchannel geometries, and AC electric field parameters have been implemented systematically. The influences of these variables were analyzed. …”
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会话分析研究 ：“就” 作为回应开头单位的互动会话功能 = Conversation Analysis : “jiu” as a turn-initial object of a response in Mandarin conversation by 林美琦 Lim, Maggie Meiqi

“…In Conversation Analysis, we argue that the turn-initial object of a response can often have its own communicative function – it has been proven through extensive research that respondents do make use of these small objects to express their stance or attitude towards the prior turn. …”
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Online estimation of key battery states for management of vanadium redox flow battery by Wei, Zhongbao

“…Two main contributions have been drawn. Firstly, the estimations of model parameters and OCV are fully decoupled to rule out the possibility of cross interference between them. …”
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Synthesis and optical study of lead halide perovskites for opto-electronic applications by Ha, Son Tung

“…Finally, I will present the experimental demonstration of laser cooling in perovskite. The material has been known to have strong electron/exciton-phonon interaction in the literature. …”
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“文章四友”新论：以李峤、崔融之应用文书写为探讨中心 = New perspectives on “Wenzhang siyou” : focus on Li Qiao and Cui Rong’s practical prose by 曲景毅 Qu, Jingyi

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Investigation of polyoxometalates and nanostructured carbon materials as electrode materials for energy storage applications by Chen, Han-Yi

“…Electrochemical energy storage devices such as lithium ion batteries (LIBs), sodium-ion batteries (NIBs) and supercapacitors (SCs) have been developed for various potential applications including portable electronics, electro-mobility, and large-scale stationary energy storage. …”
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Using dynamic assessment of writing to promote technology-enhanced learning in higher education (Abstract) [Conference paper] by Meletiadou, Eleni

“…Responding to students’ request for the use of digitally-enhanced formative assessment practices, this project used a dynamic assessment approach that has been developed within the Vygotskian sociocultural theory of learning. …”
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Investigating molecular vulnerabilities in TP53-mutant transformed myeloproliferative neoplasms by Paterson, A

“…This system has not previously been shown to support the proliferation and survival of primary AML, highlighting the importance of this work.…”

Investigating viral glycosylation pathways for drug and vaccine development by Brun, J

“…</p> <p>The second part of this thesis focuses on ER alpha-glucosidase I as a key antiviral target to develop a broad-spectrum antiviral. Previously, it had been observed that a single high-dose treatment with the iminosugar MON-DNJ led to long-lasting antiviral effects in lethal dengue mouse models via alpha-glucosidase I inhibition. …”

Edible Bird's Nest treatment effects on subchondral bone and articular cartilage changes and synovial fluid proteome profiles in an osteoarthritis rabbit model by Syed Sulaiman, Sharifah Zakiah

“…Numerous natural products including Edible Bird’s Nest (EBN) have been studied extensively in order to create potential therapies for inflammatory disorders such as arthritis. …”
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Physiological stress responses and meat quality of rabbits subjected to different road transportation and slaughter methods by Khadijah, Nakyinsige

“…However, lack of correlation between stress parameters and meat quality characteristics indicates that the amount of stress might have been below the threshold to negatively affect rabbit meat quality. …”
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Precipitation trend analysis for The Langat River Basin, Selangor, Malaysia by Palizdan, Narges

“…In addition, it was proved that the significance of trends has been affected by the existence of serial and spatial correlations. …”
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Tropical peat subsidence, nutrient losses and oil palm seedling growth due to different water table depths by Abubakar, Safiyanu Hashim

“…Agricultural development on tropical peat land, which is characterized by highly acidic in nature, low nutrients status and high water table depths has been strongly criticized by the international community. …”
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