running away, running towards: a collection of sestinas by Zhu, Alan Y.

“…The final, “running towards,” pushes us to keep running towards life in spite of it all, and to choose to become our full, individual selves…”
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A study on the extent of Singaporeans' knowledge of their history by Chan Lai Yin Ivy Hannah, Ong Siok Lay Jessie, Tay Siang Ling Hannah

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Women in transition : exploring the debate of female empowerment in India by Lim, Shervon Yee Hui

“…Specifically, the coming and going of the imperialists has left its mark in India in the minds of people and in the form of changes to the conditions of women’s lives, as well as in feminists and feminist movements. In spite of the unmistakable progression made towards lives of both urban and rural Indian women, the answer to the debate about the extent of such a development remains ambivalent. …”
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Hybrid biometric authentication for automatic teller machine by Arokiasamy, Steven R., Tomal, Md Raihanul Islam, Moorthy, Kohbalan, Mohd Daud, Kauthar

“…Unlike traditional password or PIN-based methods, biometric authentication uses unique physical characteristics, such as fingerprints, to verify identity. …”
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Investigating viral glycosylation pathways for drug and vaccine development by Brun, J

“…Chapter 4 focuses on the site-specific glycosylation occupancy, and N- and O-glycan structures attached to virion derived SARS-CoV-2 spike glycoproteins. This glycan signature was compared to a stabilised prefusion trimeric spike, to a monomeric subunit of spike (S1) and to an antigen of a non-stabilised vaccine candidate, revealing subunit shedding of the S1 glycoprotein for the vaccine candidate. …”

Comparative effects of domain-specific human monoclonal antibodies against LGI1 on neuronal excitability by Sell, J, Rahmati, V, Kempfer, M, Irani, SR, Ritzau-Jost, A, Hallermann, S, Geis, C

“…However, only the LRR-specific mAbs increased the number of action potential firing together with enhanced initial instantaneous frequency and promoted spike-frequency adaptation, which were less pronounced after the EPTP mAb. …”

Design of a dual band planar inverted-F antenna for GMS/DCS mobile handset by Fang, Jun

“…This project involved the study of size miniaturization of microstrip antenna techniques: shorting pin and shorting wall, loading, shorted spiral printed antenna and stacked shorted patch antenna are fully discussed.…”
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Study on the wear characteristics of aluminium metal matrix composite with 15% Al2O3 and 20% Al2O3 by Chua, Swu Chun.

“…The objective of this dissertation was to study the wear characteristics and behaviour of aluminium metal matrix composite materials (MMCs), namely Duralcan 286 and Duralcan 284 as a pin material when mated against three types of dics materials.…”
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OCT Intensity of the Region between Outer Retina Band 2 and Band 3 as a Biomarker for Retinal Degeneration and Therapy by Zeng, Yong, Gao, Shasha, Li, Yichao, Marangoni, Dario, De Silva, Tharindu, Wong, Wai T., Chew, Emily Y., Sun, Xun, Li, Tiansen, Sieving, Paul A., Qian, Haohua

“…Gene replacement therapy in Rs1KO mice reverted the ORB pattern to one resembling WT and increased the Dip ratio. …”
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Microcrystalline Tyrosine (MCT®): a depot adjuvant in licensed allergy immunotherapy offers new opportunities in malaria by Cabral-Miranda, G, Heath, MD, Gomes, AC, Mohsen, MO, Montoya-Diaz, E, Salman, AM, Atcheson, E, Skinner, MA, Kramer, MF, Reyes-Sandoval, A, Bachmann, MF

“…Both MCT and Alum strongly increased immunogenicity of CSP compared to PBS in both C57BL/6 and BALB/c mice. Challenge studies in mice using a chimeric <em>P. bergei</em> expressing CSP of <em>P. vivax</em> demonstrated clinically improved symptoms of malaria with CSP formulated in both MCT and Alum; protection was, however, more pronounced if CSP was formulated in MCT. …”

Range expansion of a declining forest species, the Western Gray Squirrel (Sciurus griseus), into semi-arid woodland by Sultaire, SM, Montgomery, RA, Jackson, PJ, Millspaugh, JJ

“…Occupancy modeling revealed that western gray squirrels were equally likely to occur in piñon–juniper woodland compared to mature pine forest that they occupy elsewhere in their range. …”

Develop a mobile-first educational tool for university students by Koh, Swee Sen

“…Students today spent a lot of their time on their smartphones for a wide variety of purposes including entertainment and work. In spite of the popularity of smartphones, many educational tools in the market for tertiary education focus on providing good user experience on the desktop browser and are not optimized for mobile learning. …”
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Automated detection and segmentation of vertebral bodies in volumetric abdominal magnetic resonance images by Lin, Dehui.

“…Accuracy rates of 98.6% in detection and 93.7% in segmentation are achieved. In spite of different resolutions, equally good performance of the algorithm is observed. …”
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Automatic retrieval of visual continuity errors in movies by Pickup, L, Zisserman, A

“…<p>Continuity errors occur in many movies and television series, in spite of careful checking by those employed to minimise them. …”

Smooth object retrieval using a bag of boundaries by Arandjelović, R, Zisserman, A

“…It is demonstrated that recognition can proceed successfully de- spite changes in viewpoint, illumination and partial occlusion, and also that instances of the same shape can be retrieved even though they may be made of different materials.…”

Meningeal lymphatic function promotes oligodendrocyte survival and brain myelination by das Neves, SP, Delivanoglou, N, Ren, Y, Cucuzza, CS, Makuch, M, Almeida, F, Sanchez, G, Barber, MJ, Rego, S, Schrader, R, Faroqi, AH, Thomas, J-L, McLean, PJ, Oliveira, TG, Irani, SR, Piehl, F, Da Mesquita, S

“…Here, we showed that inducing meningeal lymphatic vessel ablation in adult mice led to gene expression changes in glial cells, followed by reductions in mature oligodendrocyte numbers and specific lipid species in the brain. …”

Multiscale topological indices for the quantitative prediction of SARS CoV-2 binding affinity change upon mutations by Bi, Jialin, Wee, JunJie, Liu, Xiang, Qu, Cunquan, Wang, Guanghui, Xia, Kelin

“…Biologically, protein-protein interactions between SARS-CoV-2 surface spike (S) protein and human ACE2 protein are the key mechanism behind the COVID-19 disease. …”
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Chromatin laser imaging reveals abnormal nuclear changes for early cancer detection by Chen, Yu-Cheng, Chen, Qiushu, Tan, Xiaotain, Chen, Grace, Bergin, Ingrid, Muhammad Nadeem Aslam, Fan, Xudong

“…By imaging the lasing emissions from chromatins, we discovered that, despite the absence of observable lesions, polyps, or tumors under stereoscope, high-fat mice exhibited significantly lower lasing thresholds than low-fat mice. …”
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The critical role of IL-23 receptor positive T cells in the pathogenesis of anterior uveitis associated with spondyloarthropathy by Hedley, R

“…</p> <p>Recently, systemic overexpression of IL-23 in mice has shown the accumulation of a small number of γδ T cells proximal to the anterior uvea. …”

Imprinting of IgA responses in previously infected individuals receiving bivalent mRNA vaccines (WT and BA.4/BA.5 or WT and BA.1) by Goh, Yun Shan, Fong, Siew-Wai, Hor, Pei Xiang, Loh, Chiew Yee, Tay, Matthew Zirui, Wang, Bei, Salleh, Siti Nazihah Mohd, Ngoh, Eve Zi Xian, Lee, Raphael Tze Chuen, Poh, Xuan Ying, Lee, I. Russel, Rao, Suma, Chia, Po Ying, Maurer-Stroh, Sebastian, Wang, Cheng-I, Leo, Yee Sin, Lye, David C., Young, Barnaby Edward, Ng, Lisa F. P., Renia, Laurent

“…Results: We found significantly lower fold change in serum binding IgA responses against BA.1, BA.5 and EG.5.1 spike in the bivalent booster group, compared with the monovalent (WT) booster group, following vaccination. …”
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