Perceived inequality in society may not motivate increased food intake in the absence of personal socioeconomic disadvantage by Cheon, Bobby K., Low, Xenia, Wijaya, Darren Jeffian, Lee, Albert

“…Conclusions: Taken together with prior research on the effects of subjective socioeconomic disadvantage on increased energy intake, these findings suggest that perceptions of inequality in one’s society may be insufficient to stimulate heightened energy intake in the absence of personal socioeconomic disadvantage or inadequacy.…”
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Endothelial damage arising from high salt hypertension is elucidated by vascular bed systematic profiling by Vinaiphat, Arada, Pazhanchamy, Kalailingam, JebaMercy, Gnanasekaran, Ngan, SoFong Cam, Leow, Melvin Khee-Shing, Ho, Hee Hwa, Gao, Yong-Gui, Lim, Kah-Leong, Richards, A. Mark, de Kleijn, Dominique P. V., Chen, Christopher P., Kalaria, Raj N., Liu, Jian, O'Leary, Deborah D., McCarthy, Neil E., Sze, Siu Kwan

“…Consequently, HS-induced hypertensive mice also displayed reduced vascular integrity of multiple organs including lungs, kidneys, and heart. Conclusions: These findings provide novel molecular insight into HS-induced structural changes in eGC and EC composition that may increase cardiovascular risk and potentially guide the development of new diagnostics and therapeutic interventions.…”
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The identification of significant features towards travel mode choice and its prediction via optimised random forest classifier : An evaluation for active commuting behavior by Nur Fahriza, Mohd Ali, Ahmad Farhan, Mohd Sadullah, P.P. Abdul Majeed, Anwar, Mohd Azraai, Mohd Razman, Musa, Rabiu Muazu

“…Conclusions: The study has illustrated the efficacy of the optimised RF in predicting travel mode choice as well as identified the significant factors for the selection. The findings of the present study provide significant insight for policymakers to improve the performance of the public transportation system so that the users will benefit in terms of health and well-being from active commuting.…”
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Increased consumption of unsaturated fatty acids improves body composition in a hypercholesterolemic Chinese population by Haldar, Sumanto, Ponnalagu, Shalini, Osman, Farhana, Tay, Shia Lyn, Wong, Long Hui, Jiang, Yuan Rong, Leow, Melvin Khee-Shing, Henry, Christiani Jeyakumar

“…Long-term studies are needed to confirm findings. This study had been registered on clinicaltrials.gov (Identifier No.: NCT03964857, https://www.clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT03964857).…”
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A promising deep learning-assistive algorithm for histopathological screening of colorectal cancer by Ho, Cowan, Zhao, Zitong, Chen, Xiu Fen, Sauer, Jan, Saraf, Sahil Ajit, Jialdasani, Rajasa, Taghipour, Kaveh, Sathe, Aneesh, Khor, Li-Yan, Lim, Kiat-Hon, Leow, Wei-Qiang

“…We further trained the composite AI-model's performance on a larger cohort of 105 resections WSIs and then validated our findings on a cohort of 150 biopsies WSIs against the classifications of two independently blinded pathologists. …”
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Functional analysis of germline RAD51C missense variants highlight the role of RAD51C in replication fork protection by Kolinjivadi, Arun Mouli, Chong, Siao Ting, Choudhary, Ramveer, Sankar, Haresh, Chew, Ee Ling, Yeo, Claresta, Chan, Sock Hoai, Ngeow, Joanne

“…Investigations using patient-derived lymphoblastoid cell line carrying heterozygous RAD51C L134S variant showed an impairment in RAD51 chromatin association and replication fork protection, suggestive of deleteriousness of this VUS variant. Overall, our findings provide more insights into molecular roles of RAD51C in replication fork integrity maintenance and in DSB repair.…”
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Space weather radiation effects on geostationary satellite solid-state power amplifiers by Lohmeyer, W. Q., Cahoy, K. L.

“…By contrast, a Monte Carlo simulation finds that on average, only 2.8 out of 21 (13%) of randomly assigned anomalies occur between 7 and 14days after an electron flux greater than 1.5 standard deviations above the mean. …”
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Use of functional magnetic resonance imaging to identify cortical loci for lower limb movements and their efficacy for individuals after stroke by Choi, Minseok, Kim, Hyun-Chul, Youn, Inchan, Lee, Song Joo, Lee, Jong-Hwan

“…Conclusions The cortical loci associated with lower limb movements in the PCL identified in healthy participants were validated using independent groups of healthy participants and individuals after stroke. Our findings suggest that these cortical loci may be beneficial for the neurorehabilitation of lower limb movement in individuals after stroke, such as in developing effective rehabilitation interventions guided by the LI scores obtained for neuronal activations calculated from the identified cortical loci across the paretic and non-paretic sides of the brain.…”
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Patient and Health Care Worker Perceptions of Communication and Ability to Identify Emotion When Wearing Standard and Transparent Masks by Chu, Jacqueline N., Collins, Joy E., Chen, Tina T., Chai, Peter R., Dadabhoy, Farah, Byrne, James D., Wentworth, Adam, DeAndrea-Lazarus, Ian A., Moreland, Christopher J., Wilson, Jaime A. B., Booth, Alicia, Ghenand, Omkar, Hur, Chin, Traverso, Giovanni

“…CONCLUSIONS AND RELEVANCE: The findings of this study suggest that transparent masks could help improve communication during the COVID-19 pandemic, particularly for individuals who are deaf and hard of hearing.…”
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Targeted hematopoietic stem cell depletion through SCF-blockade by Chan, Yan Y., Ho, Pui Y., Dib, Carla, Swartzrock, Leah, Rayburn, Maire, Willner, Hana, Ko, Ethan, Ho, Katie, Down, Julian D., Wilkinson, Adam C., Nakauchi, Hiro, Denis, Morgane, Cool, Taylor, Czechowicz, Agnieszka

“…This combination was the only non-genotoxic conditioning approach that enabled robust donor engraftment post HSCT in WT mice. Conclusion These findings shed new insights into the mechanism of αCD117 mAb-mediated HSC depletion. …”
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Exploring and Exploiting Ribonuclease 1: from Protein Biochemistry to Protein Engineering by Wralstad, Evans Christian

“…Sulfur–arene interactions appear to tune the reactivity of methionine residues in a manner consistent with rates of oxidation. These findings highlight an underappreciated role for methionine—to protect catalytic histidine residues—and indicate a means by which ptRNases remain functional in oxidatively challenging physiological environments. …”
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Boon or bane? : The role of filial piety, relationship quality, caregiver gender on work-family interface among working caregivers of the elderly by Leong, Anthony Xueheng

“…This is the first study to examine the relationship between the multi-dimensional filial piety and the work-family interface among working caregivers of the elderly, with considerations of relationship quality and gender. Findings point to potential directions for future research and offer suggestions on how to aid working caregivers to optimize interactions between work and family domains. …”
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Metal-organic architectures driven by a multifunctional 6-aminouracil spacer : structures, noncovalent interactions, and conductivity by Purkayastha, Atanu, Dhar, Sourab, Mondal, Suvra Prakash, Franconetti, Antonio, Frontera, Antonio, Ganguly, Rakesh, Kirillov, Alexander M., Misra, Tarun Kumar

“…The computational study for molecular electrostatic potential (MEP) surface energies revealed an important finding, namely a decrease of the π-acidity of the uracil ring upon coordination and a consequent increase of the π-basicity of the phenyl-sulfonate ring, resulting in effective anti-parallel π–π stacking interactions in 1 and 2. …”
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Preliminary environmental risk consideration for small UAV ground risk mapping by Chung, Han Jie, Mohd Hasrizam Che Man, Sivakumar, Anush Kumar, Low, Kin Huat

“…The regions with high rainfall, increased bird population per site and strong signal interference can be extracted.These high-risk locations can be expected to be more hazardous for sUAVs to fly in. Findings for environmental risk-tiering and risk-mapping are preliminary and based on the available environmental data as identified in this study. …”
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Lactate cross-feeding between Bifidobacterium species and Megasphaera indica contributes to butyrate formation in the human colonic environment by Zhao, Sainan, Lau, Raymond, Zhong, Yang, Chen, Ming-Hsu

“…We concluded that lactate generated by Bifidobacterium through catabolizing xylose fueled the growth of M. indica and triggered the synthesis of butyrate. Our findings demonstrated a novel cross-feeding mechanism to generate butyrate in the human colon. …”
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Sentiment analysis and summarization of movie reviews across genres. by Tun, Thura Thet.

“…Graphical representation methods such as sentiment bar, sentiment meter, thumbs up/down, sentiment term cloud, sentiment treemap, sentiment time series, aspect-based sentiment summarization and sentiment link analysis graph (named SentiGraph) were implemented and evaluated. The evaluation findings indicate that the participants were generally satisfied with the results of sentiment summarization, and found the proposed approach novel and useful. …”
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Growth and physical properties of organic semiconducting single crystals by Tan, Ke Jie

“…Therefore, experimental studies aids in finding parameters responsible for the physical properties of materials. …”
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New multi-target based therapeutics against an opportunistic superbug by Premkumar, Jayaraman.

“…Additionally, expansion of the phytochemical-antibiotic interaction profiles were also carried out with various classes of antibiotics and phytochemicals to understand the interaction patterns by establishing a novel interaction network that provides a baseline to identify the mechanism of action of the phytochemicals and molecular mechanism of synergy. The above findings have potential implications in delaying the development of resistance as the antibacterial effect is achieved with lower concentrations of both drugs (antibiotics and phytochemicals). …”
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Improved life cycle assessment for desalination : handling the choices and uncertainties by Zhou, Jin

“…The system boundary and characterization approach was selected based on our previous findings. This work provided the environment profile of Singapore’s desalinations with improved reliability. …”
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Occurrence, human exposure and dynamics of phthalates in ACMV indoor environments : method development and field studies by Chen, Ailu

“…The increases are because of either resuspension of phthalates bound to settled dust or partitioning of gas-phase phthalates to the airborne particles. The findings also demonstrate that the gas fractions of the low-volatile phthalates decrease when the airborne particle concentrations increase.…”
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