Dynamic drug combination methods for suppressing bacterial antibiotics resistance adaptation by Bhone, Myint Kyaw

“…This is particularly important because developing new drugs for the prevention of resistance adaptation of multi-drug resistant bacteria like MRSA is extremely time consuming, expensive and comes with a high failure rate.…”
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Carbon nanotube fence-wall for radio frequency isolation by Tan, Dunlin

“…Carbon nanotubes have potential to be utilized in such a way due to its exemplary electrical, mechanical and thermal properties supported by both simulations and experimental data. However, like many emerging materials, there are existential issues that have to be addressed before its potential can be realized. …”
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Investigation of operational characteristics of vanadium redox flow batteries by Rajagopalan Badrinarayanan

“…The optimization was done in real-time to include flexibility of control due to external factors like temperature, humidity, etc., which can be added as a parameter based on the operator requirement. …”
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Green logistics practices in Malaysian food-based manufacturing industry by Hussin, Hilda

“…All the benefits are apparent into three perspectives as well like what have motivated them to practice green. …”
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Design and analysis of passive phase shifters using controllable defected ground structures in 65nm CMOS technology for 77-81 GHz automotive radar by Wu, Jiaqi

“…The antenna array was simulated to have a Field of View (FoV) of 44° and angular resolution of 1.5° with the antenna gain in a range of 20.84 to 22.97 dB in 77 to 81 GHz.…”
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Effects of positive education approach on academic boredom, intrinsic motivation, positive emotions and thought-action repertoire among private college students in Shaanxi Province... by Jie, Zheng

“…The profile plot indicated that there were increases in the mean score for PE from pre-test (M=26.57, SD=5.68) to post-test (M=28.43, SD=6.29) and TAR from pre-test (M=8.13, SD=5.20) to post-test (M=9.27, SD=5.70) that were not statistically significant; the TEA was not effective in reducing students’ LRB, CRB and increasing IM, PE, and TAR (p .01). …”
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Engineered terahertz emission from spintronic heterostructures: amplitude, phase and chirality by Agarwal, Piyush

“…The first part covers three chapters, 4, 5, and 6, with a focus on revealing device applications within the conventional ferromagnet/heavy metal spintronic heterostructure. …”
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Study on muscle remodeling using in vivo microscopy of drosophila metamorphosis and quantitative image analysis by Kuleesha

“…However unlike other cells like hela, muscle cells in Drosophila pupae are surrounded by dead sequestered muscles (debris), which makes it difficult to extract muscle boundary with high accuracy. …”
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RES.14-002 Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab Executive Training: Evaluating Social Programs 2011, Spring 2011 by Glennerster, Rachel, Banerjee, Abhijit, Duflo, Esther

“…This five-day program on evaluating social programs will provide a thorough understanding of randomized evaluations and pragmatic step-by-step training for conducting one's own evaluation. …”
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Effectiveness of cognitive behavior therapy and Reiki therapy on adolescents with depressive disorders inTehran, Iran by Charkhandeh, Mansoureh

“…The CDI takes about 10-20 minutes to complete and contains five subscales: negative mood, interpersonal problems, ineffectiveness, anhedonia and negative selfesteem. …”
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Self-learning shape recognition in medical images by Ma, Jingting

“…As training data is often corrupted by many factors like inherent noise/artifacts and non-ideal delineations in this thesis, many efforts have been devoted to developing SSMs that are robust to data corruption. …”
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Managing oil palm plantations more sustainably : large-scale experiments within the Biodiversity and Ecosystem Function in Tropical Agriculture (BEFTA) Programme by Luke, Sarah H., Advento, Andreas Dwi, Aryawan, Anak Agung Ketut, Adhy, Dwi Nugroho, Ashton-Butt, Adham, Barclay, Holly, Dewi, Jassica Prajna, Drewer, Julia, Dumbrell, Alex J., Edi, Eycott, Amy E., Harianja, Martina F., Hinsch, Julie K., Hood, Amelia S. C., Kurniawan, Candra, Kurz, David J., Mann, Darren J., Matthews Nicholass, Kirsty J., Naim, Mohammad, Pashkevich, Michael D., Prescott, Graham W., Ps, Sudharto, Pujianto, Purnomo, Dedi, Purwoko, Rizky Rajabillah, Putra, Syafrisar, Rambe, T. Dzulfikar S., Soeprapto, Spear, Dakota M., Suhardi, Tan, David J. X., Tao, Hsiao-Hang, Tarigan, Ribka Sionita, Wahyuningsih, Resti, Waters, Helen S., Widodo, Rudi Harto, Whendy, Woodham, Christopher R., Caliman, Jean-Pierre, Slade, Eleanor M., Snaddon, Jake L., Foster, William A., Turner, Edgar C.

“…—one of the most widespread and important tropical crops—offers substantial potential for developing wildlife-friendly management strategies because of its long rotation cycles and tree-like structure. Although there is awareness of the need to increase sustainability, practical options for how best to manage oil palm plantations, for benefits to both the environment and crop productivity, have received little research attention. …”
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On poisson vector graphics : displacement mapping, vectorization and color transfer by Fu, Qian

“…Our future direction is to explore more significative applications of PVG, associated with state-to-art technologies like deep-learning techniques.…”
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Enhancement of photoacoustic imaging systems for biomedical applications by Sharma, Arunima

“…Due to its advantages like good resolution, high contrast, label-free imaging, deep imaging depth, and the ability to perform multiscale structural and functional imaging, PAI has grown exponentially in the last two decades. …”
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Evaluating the socio-environmental impacts of monoculture cashew expansion in the Northern Western Ghats, India by Anushka Rege

“…There is an urgent need to pay research attention to crops like cashew that are grown by smallholders and contribute to apparently small-scale yet consistent forest loss.…”
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Mitofusins Mfn1 and Mfn2 are required to preserve glucose- but not incretin-stimulated β-cell connectivity and insulin secretion by Georgiadou, Eleni, Muralidharan, Charanya, Martinez, Michelle, Chabosseau, Pauline, Akalestou, Elina, Tomas, Alejandra, Yong, Fiona Su Wern, Stylianides, Theodoros, Wretlind, Asger, Legido-Quigley, Cristina, Jones, Ben, Lopez-Noriega, Livia, Xu, Yanwen, Gu, Guoqiang, Alsabeeh, Nour, Cruciani-Guglielmacci, Céline, Magnan, Christophe, Ibberson, Mark, Leclerc, Isabelle, Ali, Yusuf, Soleimanpour, Scott A., Linnemann, Amelia K., Rodriguez, Tristan A., Rutter, Guy A.

“…In contrast, oral glucose tolerance was more modestly affected in βMfn1/2-dKO mice, and glucagon-like peptide 1 or glucose-dependent insulinotropic peptide receptor agonists largely corrected defective glucose-stimulated insulin secretion through enhanced EPAC-dependent signaling. …”
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4D printable thermally stimulated (meth)acrylate shape memory polymers with tailorable shape recovery force for vat photopolymerization by Ng, Chin Siang

“…This enables the SMP to recover back to its original shape by itself, just like most elastomers. The most common additive manufacturing technology to 4D print these SMPs is vat photopolymerization. …”
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Leveraging linguistic knowledge to enhance low-resource NLP applications by Zhu, Zixiao

“…Within this paradigm, fixed-prompt LM tuning wraps input sentences into a template, allowing the PLM to engage in tasks like masked language prediction or inference understanding. …”
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儒家的异端 ： 试析李贽思想与儒家学说的共通点 = An analysis of the similarity between Lizhi’s thoughts and Confucianism by 刘佑勋 Liew, Youxun

“…Having described the common role of Confucianism as an authoritative form of order under the context of a traditional China’s society, I would like to point out the corrupted nature of the Ming dynasty’s imperial court（明代朝廷、明代官学）, which took advantage of the above mentioned Confucian Ethics for its own benefits, whilst compromising the welfare of its commoners.In response to this, Li Zhi（李贽） advocated the discourse on the topic of “genuine human nature”（自然之性）, which not only emphasized the significance of retaining a pure, genuine and untainted form of human nature, but also criticized the “pseudo-moralists”（明代伪道学家） along with the corrupted imperial court for tainting and restricting the genuine nature of humanity, in the name of upholding the Confucian Ethics. …”
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Signal processing for cooperative cognitive radio networks by Rabiee, Ramtin

“…Although the analyzed period might be very short, it is most likely that the status of the primary user alters during the duration. …”
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