Genomic profiling of mycobacterium tuberculosis strains, Myanmar by Aung, Htin Lin, Nyunt, Wint Wint, Fong, Yang, Biggs, Patrick J., Winkworth, Richard C., Lockhart, Peter J., Yeo, Tsin Wen, Hill, Philip C., Cook, Gregory M., Aung, Si Thu

“…Introducing new oral drugs to replace those currently used in treatment regimens for multidrug-resistant TB will also be useful for treating TB in Myanmar.…”
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Neap-spring tidal effects on dissolved oxygen in two Malaysian estuaries by Nelson, Bruce W., Sasekumar, A., Ibrahim, Zelina Z.

“…These oxygen minima are attributed to the high oxygen demand of sediment that rests on the bottom during neap tides and is resuspended during spring tides. …”
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Light-matter interactions in atomically thin transition metal dichalcogenides by Zhao, Jiaxin

“…The system working in the strong coupling regime exhibits a clear anti-crossing behavior with a large Rabi splitting around 37 meV. …”
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Psychosocial predictors of self-reported medical adherence in patients with heart failure over 6 months : an examination of the influences of depression, self-efficacy, social supp... by Shen, Biing-Jiun, Maeda, Uta

“…Background Poor adherence to medical regimens is a serious problem that interferes with heart failure (HF) patients’ disease management and contributes to poor clinical outcomes. …”
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Clostridium difficile bacteriophage finding under normal and iron-limited conditions for the isolation of potential siderophore receptor-specific phages by Lim, Edsel Yong Xun

“…Phage therapy, known for its specificity of action, has emerged as a promising candidate for combating CDI, offering the potential to circumvent gut microbiome dysbiosis associated with conventional antibiotic regimens. However, research on Clostridium difficile (C. difficile) phage hunting has been relatively limited. …”
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Exploring the therapeutic potential of 5-fluorouracil-loaded calcium carbonate nanoparticles combined with natural compound thymoquinone for colon cancer treatment by Deng, Xi, Yang, Zhongming, Chan, Kim Wei, Abu Bakar, Md Zuki

“…These results provide evidence for 5FU-CaCO3np as a novel regimen against colon cancer. Combining 5FU-CaCO3np and TQ may offer a new perspective for colon cancer therapy.…”
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Rifaximin potentiates clarithromycin against Mycobacterium abscessus in vitro and in zebrafish by Goh, Boon Chong, Larsson, Simon, Dam, Linh Chi, Ling, Sharon Yan Han, Chua, Patrina Wei Lin, Abirami, R., Singh, Samsher, Ong, Ernest Jun Long, Teo, Jeanette W. P., Ho, Peiying, Ingham, Philip William, Pethe, Kevin, Dedon, Peter C.

“…Because of its extensive innate resistance to numerous antibiotics, treatment options are limited, often resulting in poor clinical outcomes. Current treatment regimens usually involve a combination of antibiotics, with clarithromycin being the cornerstone of NTM treatments.…”
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Singapore airlines : the business of flying by Tan, Sung Cheng, Tan, Ting Szu, Tie, Hwee Ling

“…Due to the possible extend of scope, the study is focused on the segment of business air travellers.…”
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Pursuing business opportunities in life sciences logistics in Vietnam : a case study of TNT by Chang, Meng Yi, Khoo, Malinda, Indrawati, Marini, Regina

“…This paper attempts to understand how TNT introduces a new service offering, the Clinical Express service, for a niche market segment, the life sciences industry, and how TNT exploits the opportunities available to launch the new service offering in a specific market, Vietnam.…”
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What Singapore investors want in a financial adviser by Chen, Carolyn Meijun, Fang, Mindy Liwei, Lim, Karen Lee Mei

“…This will provide an insight to the criteria financial advisers should focus on as well as the market segment that emerging independent financial advisers should target.…”
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Video anomaly search in crowded scenes via spatio-temporal motion context by Cong, Yang, Yuan, Junsong, Tang, Yandong

“…To characterize the video, we first perform the spatiotemporal video segmentation and then propose a new regionbased descriptor called “Motion Context”, to describe both motion and appearance information of the spatio-temporal segment. …”
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An image processing approach to feature-preserving B-spline surface fairing by Kawasaki, Taro, Jayaraman, Pradeep Kumar, Shida, Kentaro, Zheng, Jianmin, Maekawa, Takashi

“…In particular, our approach adaptively partitions the B-spline surface into a set of segments such that each segment has approximately uniform parameterization, generates an image from each segment in the parameter space whose pixel values are the normal vectors of the surface, and then applies a bilateral filter in the parameter domain to fair the normal field. …”
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Synthesis of vinyl iodide chain-end polymers via organocatalyzed chain-end transformation by Chang, Jun Jie, Pan, Matthew Houwen, Goto, Atsushi

“…Interestingly, under selected conditions, this organocatalysis also offered block-like copolymers containing a conjugated oligo-alkyne segment and a non-conjugated polyacrylate segment. …”
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Novel approaches for imaging-based diagnosis of ocular surface disease by Schmidl, Doreen, Schlatter, Andreas, Chua, Jacqueline, Tan, Bingyao, Garhöfer, Gerhard, Schmetterer, Leopold

“…In recent years, imaging techniques for the anterior segment are also gaining importance and are nowadays routinely used in clinical practice. …”
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Marketing products and services in the dynamic environment. by Chan, Cindy Li Xia., Chye, Nyit Fhen., Poh, Hui Ting.

“…Recognizing that the B2B segment still reigns as Ark Industries‟ substantial revenue driver, we have invested concerted effort into developing its comparative edge, especially since Quirky is maneuvering in a market where the product offerings are fairly homogeneous. …”
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ECG signal generation and heart rate variability signal extraction : signal processing, features detection, and their correlation with cardiac diseases by Swapna, Goutham, Martis, Roshan Joy, Sree, Subbhuraam Vinitha, Ghista, Dhanjoo N., Ang, Alvin P. C.

“…In order to extract the important features of the ECG signal, the detection of the P wave, QRS complex, and ST segment is essential. Therefore, abnormalities of these ECG parameters are associated with cardiac disorders. …”
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Takaful Business Model and Business Performance: A Comparative Evidence from the Global Takaful Industry by Muhammad Zuki, Mohd Faizuddin, Ishak, Muhammad Arif Fadilah, Halim Roja, Muhammad Izzuddin

“…This paper bids its originality by narrowing down the segment of the takaful industry and focusing only on the family takaful segment…”
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Origin of residual strain in heteroepitaxial films by Postelnicu, Eveline, Wen, Rui-Tao, Ma, Danhao, Wang, Baoming, Wada, Kazumi, Michel, Jurgen, Kimerling, Lionel C

“…The model is expressed in terms of three regimes: (1) misfit control for the low temperature growth regime at 400 °C; (2) point defect control via annealing in the point defect recovery regime at 500–650 °C; and (3) thermal expansion control for growth or anneal at T > 650 °C in the dislocation recovery regime. …”
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Dynamics of the sub-Ohmic spin-boson model : a comparison of three numerical approaches by Yao, Yao, Duan, Liwei, Lü, Zhiguo, Wu, Chang-Qin, Zhao, Yang

“…The Davydov D1 ansatz and the time-dependent density matrix renormalization group can both be reliably employed in the weak-coupling regime, while the former is also valid in the strong-coupling regime as judged by how faithfully the trial state follows the Schrodinger ¨ equation. …”
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Designing novel multilayered nanocomposites for high-performance coating materials with online strain monitoring capability by Anwar Ali, Hashina Parveen, Radchenko, Ihor, Zhou, Jiahui, Qing, Liu, Budiman, Arief

“…These materials can withstand very high strains in the elastic regime without any inelastic relaxation due to plasticity or fracture compared to its bulk counterparts. …”
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