Preferences of Persons With or at Risk for Hepatitis C for Long-Acting Treatments by Weld, Ethel D, Astemborski, Jacqueline, Kirk, Gregory D, Sulkowski, Mark S, Katz, Stephanie, Rothman, Richard, Solomon, Sunil S, Matthews, Gail V, Hsieh, Yu Hsiang, Verma, Malvika, Traverso, Giovanni, Swindells, Susan, Owen, Andrew, Feld, Jordan, Flexner, Charles, Mehta, Shruti H, Thomas, David L

“…Background Whereas safe, curative treatments for hepatitis C virus (HCV) have been available since 2015, there are still 58 million infected persons worldwide, and global elimination may require new paradigms. …”
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Which surrogate insulin resistance indices best predict coronary artery disease? A machine learning approach by Mirjalili, Seyed Reza, Soltani, Sepideh, Meybodi, Zahra Heidari, Marques-Vidal, Pedro, Firouzabadi, Danial Dehghani, Eshraghi, Reza, Restrepo, David, Ghoshouni, Hamed, Sarebanhassanabadi, Mohammadtaghi

“…Background Various surrogate markers of insulin resistance have been developed, capable of predicting coronary artery disease (CAD) without the need to detect serum insulin. …”
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Discovering non-equilibrium mechanisms that regulatestructure and function of biomolecular condensates usingphase-field modeling by Natarajan, Pradeep

“…Phase-field modeling is used for these investigations, as this approach has been historically successful in answering similar questions in other fields such as material science. …”
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Automatic Generation of Chemical Kinetic Models including Macromolecules in Multiphase Systems by Pang, Hao-Wei

“…To address this challenge, automatic mechanism generation software has been developed. Previous studies have demonstrated the promising quantitative agreements of automatically generated mechanisms with experimental data. …”
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Imaging the wakes of jets with energy-energy-energy correlators by Bossi, Hannah, Kudinoor, Arjun S., Moult, Ian, Pablos, Daniel, Rai, Ananya, Rajagopal, Krishna

“…Our work provides a key step towards the systematic use of energy correlators to image and unravel the dynamical response of a droplet of QGP that has been probed by a passing jet, and motivates numerous experimental and theoretical studies.…”
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Merge : the hybridization of architecture, infrastructure, and landscape by Fausto, Ariel

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21W.742J / SP.575J / WGS.575J Writing About Race, Spring 2003 by Faery, Rebecca Blevins

“…We will consider the complex question of racial identity, test the givens of history by uncovering histories that have been more elusive or more thoroughly suppressed, and explore how writing and reading can both reflect and challenge racial categories, hierarchies, and perceptions. …”
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Statistical modeling reveals the effect of absolute humidity on dengue in Singapore by Xu, Hai-Yan, Fu, Xiuju, Lee, Lionel Kim Hock, Ma, Stefan, Goh, Kee Tai, Wong, Jiancheng, Habibullah, Mohamed Salahuddin, Lee, Gary Kee Khoon, Lim, Tian Kuay, Tambyah, Paul Anantharajah, Lim, Chin Leong, Ng, Lee Ching

“…However, these studies have been limited due to the complex epidemiology of dengue, which involves dynamic interplay of multiple factors such as herd immunity within a population, distinct serotypes of the virus, environmental factors and intervention programs. …”
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Distribution and abundance of human-specific bacteroides and relation to traditional indicators in an urban tropical catchment by Nshimyimana, J. P., Ekklesia, Eveline, Shanahan, P., Chua, L. H. C., Thompson, J. R.

“…Significance and Impact: A major challenge for assessment of water quality in tropical environments is the natural occurrence and nonconservative behaviour of FIB. The HF183 marker has been employed in temperate environments as an alternative indicator for human sewage contamination. …”
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Direct seeding of mass-cultured coral larvae is not an effective option for reef rehabilitation by Edwards, Alasdair J., Guest, James R., Heyward, Andrew J., Villanueva, Ronald D., Baria, Ma. Vanessa, Bollozos, Iris S. F., Golbuu, Yimnang

“…Large-scale rearing of coral larvae during mass spawning events and subsequent direct introduction of competent larvae onto denuded reefs (‘larval seeding’) has been proposed as a low-tech and affordable way of enhancing coral settlement and hence recovery of degraded reefs. …”
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Integrative and comparative analysis of coiled-coil based marine snail egg cases : a model for biomimetic elastomers by Guerette, Paul A., Z. Tay, Gavin, Hoon, Shawn, Loke, Jun Jie, Hermawan, Arif F., Schmitt, Clemens N. Z., Harrington, Matthew J., Masic, Admir, Karunaratne, Angelo, Gupta, Himadri S., Tan, Koh Siang, Schwaighofer, Andreas, Nowak, Christoph, Miserez, Ali

“…While mechanical similarities had previously been observed for two other marine melongenid snails, Busycotypus canaliculatus and Busycon carica, B. canaliculatus was the only species for which detailed molecular and nanostructural data were available. …”
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Infectious diseases acquired by international travellers visiting the USA by Stoney, Rhett J, Esposito, Douglas H., Kozarsky, Phyllis, Hamer, Davidson H., Grobusch, Martin P., Gkrania-Klotsas, Effrossyni, Libman, Michael, Gautret, Philippe, Lim, Poh Lian, Leder, Karin, Schwartz, Eli, Sotir, Mark J., Licitra, Carmelo

“…Conclusions: International travellers to the USA acquired a diverse array of mostly cosmopolitan infectious diseases, including nonspecific respiratory, gastrointestinal, dermatologic and systemic infections comparable to what has been reported among travellers to low- and middle-income countries. …”
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Investigation of solar cell carrier lifetime using photoconductance lifetime measurements by Sng, Joseph Ding Wen

“…Both Si nanowires and Si nanoholes sample have been prepared using the solution-based metal assisted chemical etching technique and investigated in this work. …”
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Modulating macrophage phenotype by sustained microRNA delivery improves host‐implant integration by Lin, Junquan, Ibrahim Mohamed, Lin, Po Hen, Shirahama, Hitomi, Milbreta, Ulla, Sieow, Je Lin, Peng, Yanfen, Bugiani, Marianna, Wong, Siew Cheng, Levinson, Howard, Chew, Sing Yian

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Impedance shaping method to improve grid-connected inverter under weak grid condition by Zhao, Bohui

“…Due to the popularity of renewable energy, e.g., wind power and solar energy, renewable energy generation systems(REGs) have been preferred as eco-friendly power generation systems. …”
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Optical coherence tomography angiography imaging to monitor anti-VEGF treatment of corneal vascularization in a rabbit model by Devarajan, Kavya, Ong, Hon Shing, Lwin, Nyein C., Chua, Jacqueline, Schmetterer, Leopold, Mehta, Jodhbir Singh, Ang, Marcus

“…Optical coherence tomography angiography (OCTA) is a well-established non-invasive retinal vascular imaging technique. It has been recently adapted to image the anterior segment and has shown good potential to image corneal vascularisation. …”
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What does acne genetics teach us about disease pathogenesis? by Common, J. E. A., Barker, J. N., van Steensel, Maurice A. M.

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Metformin alters human host responses to Mycobacterium tuberculosis in healthy subjects by Lachmandas, Ekta, Eckold, Clare, Böhme, Julia, Koeken, Valerie A. C. M., Mardiana Marzuki, Blok, Bastiaan, Arts, Rob J. W., Chen, Jinmiao, Teng, Karen W. W., Ratter, Jacqueline, Smolders, Elise J., Van den Heuvel, Corina, Stienstra, Rinke, Dockrell, Hazel M., Newell, Evan, Netea, Mihai G., Singhal, Amit, Cliff, Jacqueline M., Van Crevel, Reinout

“…Background" Metformin, the most widely administered diabetes drug, has been proposed as a candidate adjunctive host-directed therapy for tuberculosis, but little is known about its effects on human host responses to Mycobacterium tuberculosis. …”
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Lane-aware image enhancement for lane detection in rain (part B - communications) by Tian, Zichen

“…The overall structure has been constructed and debugging on test metric and backpropagation is in progress. …”
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Production of ammonia feedstock by novel solid oxide electrolysis cell by Haziq Mahmud

“…Some interesting results have been obtained from the experimental investigations. …”
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