The effect of the amyloid-beta peptide on the fluidity of cell membranes : a study by fluorescence correlation spectroscopy by Ng, Justin Wei Qing

“…To this end, we used imaging TIRF-fluorescence correlation spectroscopy (ITIR-FCS) to make measurements of fluidity of one bulk membrane probe, DiI, and two ordered/raft-type membrane probes, a transiently expressed GPI-linked GFP and cholera toxin subunit B, on the membranes of living cells that were exposed to Aβ. Three cell lines – SH-SY5Y human neuroblastoma, U87 human glioma and Neuro-2a mouse neuroblastoma – were selected for our study based on their origin in brain tissue and previous use in Aβ-related studies. …”
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Climate change: crop performance and potential by Ramlan, Mohd Fauzi

“…In addition, a biological control using other species of bamboo to reduce the domination of buluh semantan under high voltage transmission lines is also included. In the studies regarding growth of forest species meant for domestication purposes, the suitability of Syzygium campanulatum and Hopea odorata for beautification and landscaping plants has shown some potential. …”
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Engineering Mechanical Counter Pressure Spacesuits and Compression Garments: Active Pressurization and Design for Mobility by Kothakonda, Akshay

“…The process of estimating the optimum fabric pattern will be iterative and the resulting pattern may comprise of a composite of different fabric types with varying parameters. Mapping skin Lines of Non-Extension (LoNE’s) informs contours for inextensible cables in such a way that they do not impede movements. …”
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Content-based image retrieval with statistical machine learning. by Zhang, Lining.

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Investigating the neural substrates of Chinese character processing by Wu, Chiao-Yi

“…The research framework consisted of two levels: direct and converging evidence, through three lines of investigations. Study 1 and Study 2 provided direct evidence of the neural mechanisms for Chinese character processing. …”
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Instrumentation optimisation for unicompartmental knee replacement by Arthur, LW

“…Cementless OUKRs (1/15) had fewer tibial radiolucent lines compared to cemented (6/14) at 10 years.</p> <p>Bearing fractures, because of excessive polyethylene wear, have been reported with the Phase III OUKR. …”

ESBL and AmpC β-lactamase encoding genes in E. coli from pig and pig farm workers in Vietnam and their association with mobile genetic elements by Hounmanou, Yaovi Mahuton Gildas, Bortolaia, Valeria, Dang, Son Thi Thanh, Truong, Duong, Olsen, John E., Dalsgaard, Anders

“…The isolates carrying the plasmids, even those with plasmids of similar types, showed wide genetic variation with high number of SNPs, suggesting horizontal spread of plasmids into different clonal lines. Their virulence profiles did not confirm to known pathotypes, suggesting that unrelated commensals are a main reservoir for ESBL and AmpC β-lactamases in both humans and pigs. …”
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Carbon nanotube fence-wall for radio frequency isolation by Tan, Dunlin

“…Passive structures made of microstrip lines and via-fences were first designed using Ansys full wave solver HFSS. …”
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Space charge induced beam loss on a high intensity proton synchrotron by Pine, B

“…Beam will be lost on injection to a synchrotron and may be lost on extraction or in transfer lines. Non-linearities in the accelerator lattice can introduce driving terms for resonant beam behaviour. …”

Rotor angle stability-constrained dispatch and control of large-scale wind penetrated power system by Yuan, Heling

“…In general, four main effects on power system transient stability are: 1) wind generation has no contribution to system inertia and system with synchronous generators replaced by wind turbines will lead to reduction of inertia, 2) power electronics converter-based interfacing is added when wind turbines are implemented, which will change the dynamic behavior of the system, 3) power dispatch of synchronous machines will change fast to compensate wind power variation, 4) the magnitude and direction of power flows will fluctuate quickly and randomly in the transmission lines. Hence, it is an essential and significant problem to maintain system’s stability with high level wind power penetration. …”
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Evaluating the socio-environmental impacts of monoculture cashew expansion in the Northern Western Ghats, India by Anushka Rege

“…Research along such socio-environmental lines can possibly contribute to the development of sustainability and certification initiatives for cashew. …”
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Extreme learning machines for feature learning by Liyanaarachchi Lekamalage, Chamara Kasun

“…Hierarchal features consist of multiple levels and the low level features represent edges of an image such as lines and curves while high level features represent parts of the image such as nose, eyes of a face. …”
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Dynamics and stability of evaporating and condensing liquid layers by Wei, Tao

“…Finally, conclusions are drawn, and perspectives of future study based on these works have been proposed, including to model the dynamics of thin evaporating droplets with moving contact lines resulting from the successive touchdown of an evaporating layer and to investigate the relation between short-wave convection and long-wave deformation instabilities in the presence of phase change.…”
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Unsupervised bayesian generative methods by Li, Shaohua

“…This finding bridges the two very different lines of model selection methods. The third task is about Word Embedding, a technique that maps words in a natural language to continuous vectors which encode the semantic/syntactic regularities among the words. …”
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Semantic scene understanding on 3D point clouds by Dong, Shichao

“…Robotic techniques have automated many processes in production lines. However, in flexible production scenarios, certain tasks cannot yet be fully handled by robots and still require human involvement. …”
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Next generation design of floating systems for coastal solar farms by Bi, Cheng

“…Experiments on a novel adaptive barrier-mooring system (ABMS) including perimeter pontoons, submerged barriers, clump weights, mooring lines and anchors were conducted to examine the adaptivity of ABMS to a large tidal range as well as its performance on platform stabilization under wave action. …”
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Antidiabetic activity of Curculigo latifolia extracts in vitro and in vivo studies by Ishak, Nur Akmal

“…In the present study, antidiabetic properties of C. latifolia in cell lines (in vitro) and in diabetic-induced rats were determined. …”
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Computational analysis for infectious diseases surveillance and host-pathogen interactions (in the context of Influenza A viruses) by Beyene, Biruhalem Taye

“…We used host gene expression signatures of cell lines from three species (A549 (human), CEF (chicken), and MDCK (canine) in response to six IAVs (H1N1/WSN, H5N2/F59, H5N2/F118, H5N2/F189, H5N3 and H9N2 viruses). …”
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Tsewang Norbu NGB by Cantwell, C, Mayer, R

“…We give these where they occur: in due course, we intend to expand the entries for the opening formula to give the opening lines, even when a version of the classic formula does not occur. …”