Self-Assembly of Semiconducting Polymer Amphiphiles for In Vivo Photoacoustic Imaging by Xie, Chen, Zhen, Xu, Lei, Qunli, Ni, Ran, Pu, Kanyi

“…Despite the advantages of semiconducting polymer nanoparticles (SPNs) over other inorganic nanoparticles for photoacoustic (PA) imaging, their synthetic method is generally limited to nanoprecipitation, which is likely to cause the issue of nanoparticle dissociation. …”
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Three-dimensional hydraulic modeling of particle deposition on the patterned isopore membrane in crossflow microfiltration by Choi, Dong-Chan, Jung, Seon-Yeop, Won, Young-June, Jang, Jun Hee, Lee, Jaewoo, Chae, Hee-Ro, Ahn, Kyung Hyun, Lee, Sangho, Park, Pyung-Kyu, Lee, Chung-Hak

“…CFD modeling studies were carried out to elucidate the anti-fouling effect of patterned membranes However, patterned membranes prepared usually by a phase inversion method are more likely to have broad pore size distributions and most modeling studies are based on two-dimensional space despite the three-dimensional pattern geometry. …”
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Governing failure mode of unsaturated soil slopes under rainwater infiltration by Huang, Wengui, Leong, Eng-Choon, Rahardjo, Harianto

“…The governing failure mode is likely to be affected by soil properties, slope geometry, depth of wetting front and contribution of matric suction to shear strength, which were investigated in this study. …”
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Computational cell fate modelling for discovery of rewiring in apoptotic network for enhanced cancer drug sensitivity by Chua, Huey Eng, Zhang, Fan, Zheng, Jie, Mishra, Shital Kumar, Bhowmick, Sourav Saha

“…Our method employs Genetic Algorithm to search for the most likely network topologies by iteratively generating simulated protein phosphorylation data using ODEs and the rewired network and then fitting the simulated data with real data of cancer signalling and cell fate. …”
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Fine-scale genetic structure and natural selection signatures of southwestern Hans inferred from patterns of genome-wide allele, haplotype, and haplogroup lineages by Wang, Mengge, Yuan, Didi, Zou, Xing, Wang, Zheng, Yeh, Hui-Yuan, Liu, Jing, Wei, Lan-Hai, Wang, Chuan-Chao, Zhu, Bofeng, Liu, Chao, He, Guanglin

“…Generally, we provided a case and ideal strategy to reconstruct the detailed demographic evolutionary history of Guizhou Hans, which provided new insights into the fine-scale genomic formation of one ethnolinguistically specific targeted population from the comprehensive perspectives of the shared unlinked alleles, linked haplotypes, and paternal and maternal lineages.…”
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Changes in cerebrospinal fluid balance of TNF and TNF receptors in naïve multiple sclerosis patients : early involvement in compartmentalised intrathecal inflammation by Magliozzi, Roberta, Pezzini, Francesco, Pucci, Mairi, Rossi, Stefania, Facchiano, Francesco, Marastoni, Damiano, Montagnana, Martina, Lippi, Giuseppe, Reynolds, Richard, Calabrese, Massimiliano

“…Finally, the CSF TNFR2-associated pattern (encompassing high CSF levels of IFN-β, IFN-λ2, sIL-6Rα) was linked to Th cell differentiation and regulatory cytokine signalling. …”
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Spatial, temporal, and demographic patterns in prevalence of smoking tobacco use and attributable disease burden in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis... by Reitsma, M. B., Kendrick, P. J., Ababneh, E., Abbafati, C., Abbasi-Kangevari, M., Abdoli, A., Abedi, A., Abhilash, E. S., Abila, D. B., Aboyans, V., Abu-Rmeileh, N. M., Adebayo, O. M., Advani, S. M., Aghaali, M., Ahinkorah, B. O., Ahmad, S., Ahmadi, K., Ahmed, H., Aji, B., Akunna, C. J., Al-Aly, Z., Alanzi, T. M., Alhabib, K. F., Ali, L., Alif, S. M., Alipour, V., Aljunid, S. M., Alla, F., Allebeck, P., Alvis-Guzman, N., Amin T. T., Amini, S., Amu, H., Amul, G. G. H., Ancuceanu, R., Anderson, J. A., Ansari-Moghaddam, A., Antonio, C. A. T., Antony, B., Anvari, D., Arabloo, J., Arian, N. D., Arora, M., Asaad, M., Ausloos, M., Awan, A. T., Ayano, G., Aynalem, G. L., Azari, S., B, D.B., Badiye, A. D., Baig, A. A., Bakhshaei, M. H., Banach, M., Banik, P.C., Barker-Collo, S. L., Bärnighausen, T. W., Barqawi, H. J., Basu, S., Bayati, M., Bazargan-Hejazi, S., Behzadifar, M., Bekuma, T. T., Bennett, D. A., Bensenor, I. M., Berfield, K. S. S., Bhagavathula, A. S., Bhardwaj, N., Bhardwaj, P., Bhattacharyya, K., Bibi, S., Bijani, A., Bintoro, B. S., Biondi, A., Birara, S., Braithwaite, D., Brenner, H., Brunoni, A. R., Burkart, K., Butt, Z. A., Caetano dos Santos, F. L., Car, Josip, Cárdenas, R., Carreras, G., Carrero, J. J., Castaldelli-Maia, J. M., Cattaruzza, M. S. S., Chang, J. C., Chen, S., Chu, D. T., Chung, S. C., Cirillo, M., Costa, V. M., Couto, R. A. S., Dadras, O., Dai, X., Damasceno, A. A. M., Damiani, G., Dandona, L.

“…We completed systematic reviews and did Bayesian meta-regressions for 36 causally linked health outcomes to estimate non-linear dose-response risk curves for current and former smokers. …”
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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

“…Previously, the literature has explicated the butyrate-forming links between Bifidobacterium and Faecalibacterium prausnitzii and between Bifidobacterium and Eubacterium rectale. …”
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Low magnetic field exposure alters prostate cancer cell properties by Lange, Sigrun, Inal, Jameel, Kraev, Igor, Dart, Dafydd Alwyn, Uysal-Onganer, Pinar

“…Furthermore, we analysed alterations in matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) and miRNAs linked to metastasis, as this is crucial in cancer aggressiveness. …”
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Reconciling the Accuracy-Diversity Trade-off in Recommendations by Peng, Kenny, Raghavan, Manish, Pierson, Emma, Kleinberg, Jon, Garg, Nikhil

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A Resource-Efficient Plantar Pressure Evaluation System for Diabetic Foot Risk Assessment by Reddie, Madison, Frey, Daniel

“…It demonstrated a sensitivity of 25.6%, although sensitivity reached 60% for heavier subjects. Sensitivity could likely be significantly improved by lowering the device’s profile and increasing the sensing area. …”
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Synthesis of Isotopically Labeled Fe and S-alkylated Iron-Sulfur Clusters by Linn, Brittany

“…A cluster species containing a unique alkylated Fe site with a coordination number greater than four is likely generated in these processes, although a stable cluster of this type has yet to isolated and crystallographically characterized. …”
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Nipah: The history, and future, of one of the world’s most lethal viruses by Viveros, Alex Gabriel

“…Scientists believe the Nipah strains that currently circulate in humans are likely not transmissible enough to ignite a pandemic in people. …”
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Evaluating Adaptive Layer Freezing through Hyperparameter Optimization for Enhanced Fine-Tuning Performance of Language Models by Figueroa, Reinaldo

“…Conversely, overfitting is highly likely to occur when training on small datasets. This thesis proposes and evaluates a new method for fine-tuning language models by adaptively choosing specific learning rates for each transformer layer that provide higher performance on in-domain low-volume datasets. …”
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Non-traditional security concept, issues, and implications on security governance by Caballero-Anthony, Mely

“…These threats are proving to be more severe and more likely to inflict more harm to a greater number of people than conventional threats of interstate wars and conflicts. …”
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Navigating identity threat: the role of identity salience and centrality in predicting attitude advocacy online by Pow, Jonathan Weng Keong

“…Specifically, participants were expected to be more likely to advocate for their attitude when the threatened identity was more central to their self-concept. …”
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Overparenting and psychological well-being among Asian American young adults: the role of gender & parent-child conflict by Koh, Cheryl Jie Xin

“…Gender differences were also found where females who experienced overparenting were more likely to experience higher levels of parent-child conflict and this was associated with higher levels of depression. …”
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A study of the existence of systematic discrimination against Chinese firms listed on SGX. by Yeo, Josephine Rui Ting., Lim, Zuan Ling., Ong, Cherilyn Li Jing.

“…Unless such a stereotype is rectified, the problem of low stock returns are likely to persist among Chinese firms listed on SGX, hence decreasing SGX’s attractiveness as the preferred foreign exchange for Chinese firms. …”
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Study on morphology of copper-through silicon vias based on electron backscatter diffraction by Zhuo, Guoping.

“…Specimens that were manual polished were unable to generate high quality EBSP for orientation mapping to be done. This could be likely due to the copper vias having undergone oxidation as there was a period of waiting time before EBSD analysis was carried out. …”
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A study on online travel coupon deals by Lim, Zhi Hao, Ann, Gee, Wong, Sok Peng

“…However, it would not increase the likelihood of them visiting countries nearer to Singapore; instead, they are more likely to travel to further countries after the availability of online travel coupon deals. …”
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