A wireless, battery-free device enables oxygen generation and immune protection of therapeutic xenotransplants in vivo by Krishnan, Siddharth R, Liu, Claudia, Bochenek, Matthew A, Bose, Suman, Khatib, Nima, Walters, Ben, O’Keeffe, Laura, Facklam, Amanda, Langer, Robert, Anderson, Daniel G

“…Through systematic in vitro studies with primary cell lines and cell lines engineered to secrete protein, we demonstrate device performance in preventing hypoxia in ambient oxygen concentrations as low as 0.5%. Importantly, this device has shown the potential to enable subcutaneous (SC) survival of encapsulated islet cells, in vivo in awake, freely moving, immune-competent animals. …”
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On Lie Theory in the Verlinde Category by Kannan, Arun S.

“…We also show that in characteristic 5 a new algebraic structure we call a "weak Jordan algebra" arises. …”
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Site-specific chemical and topological modifications to augment mRNA therapeutic potential by Aditham, Abhishek J.

“…Despite clinical demonstrations of mRNA for SARS-CoV-2 vaccines, mRNAs remain limited in application by their susceptibility to nucleases and overall short expression lifetime in vivo. …”
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Influence of active subsystems on electric vehicle behavior and energy characteristics by Shyrokau, Barys, Savitski, Dzmitry, Wang, Danwei

“…The vehicle configuration includes (i) friction brake system, (ii) individual-wheel drive electric motors, (iii) wheel steer actuators, (iv) camber angle actuators, (v) dynamic tire pressure system and (vi) actuators generating additional normal forces through external spring, damping and stabilizer forces. …”
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Visual hull based 3D reconstruction of shocks in under-expanded supersonic bevelled jets by Lim, Desmond Haoxiang, New, Tze How, Mariani, Raffaello, Cui, Y. D.

“…This is key to achieving accurate and high-resolution reconstructed shock waves for both axisymmetric and asymmetric test cases with an average of 2.5% error when validated against raw schlieren images. …”
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Play beyond the screen : nurturing a healthier child with lesser screen time by Woo, Annabelle Xue Qi, Pam, Cheryl Bei Yee, Chew, Wen Yie, Lim, Amelia Xiu Min

“…This paper presents ​Play Beyond The Screen, a pioneering health communications campaign aimed to encourage parents with children aged 1-5 to actively mediate their children’s screen time usage and employ alternative measures to educate and entertain them. …”
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AI based stock market trending analysis by Goon, Redmond Aldric Yonghao

“…BERT was implemented and evaluated using accuracy, precision, recall, and f1 score against 5 other baseline models for multi-class sentiment analysis (i.e. positive, negative, neutral). …”
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Technical aspects of marine plastic litter treatment by pyrolysis, for material and energy recovery by Wu, Xinyi

“…The presence of large fractions of ethylene, propylene, C4 and C5 hydrocarbons suggested the ability of non-condensable pyrolysis gas to be converted into CNTs via CCVD. …”
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A high-throughput VLSI architecture for real-time full-HD gradient guided image filter by Wu, Lei, Jong, Ching Chuen

“…Based on the STM 65-nm CMOS technology, the implementation results show that the proposed architecture is able to support full-HD image filtering at a throughput above 75 frame/s, with a design area of 586314 μm2 and a power consumption of 18.5 mW.…”
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Congestion estimation and turning ratio prediction based on machine learning with applications in urban traffic light control by Chen, Qixing

“…The first pre-work is urban traffic network congestion region identification and prediction with two case studies at NTU campus and Jurong area, which utilizes the vehicle data (average speed, GPS-based location, heading direction) via V2X to analyse the traffic condition of each link. …”
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Osmotic oedometer using sodium chloride solution and reverse osmosis membrane by Bulolo, Sam, Leong, Eng Choon

“…The updated osmotic oedometer is attractive, as it eliminates the drawbacks of the previous osmotic oedometer, and it can theoretically apply matric suction as high as 5,000 kPa.…”
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Performance enhancement of ultrafiltration membrane via simple deposition of polymer-based modifiers by Tian, Miao, Wang, Rong, Goto, Atsushi, Mao, Weijia, Miyoshi, Yasuyuki, Mizoguchi, Hirotaka

“…The results show that the random copolymer modified membrane exhibited average 26 % rises in water permeability compared with the virgin PES UF membrane when 0.5 wt% BSA solution was used as feed. The stable permeability and flux recovery rate during the cyclic study with chemical cleaning suggest good affinity of the newly synthesized random copolymer with the PES membrane and water. …”
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Powder reuse in laser metal deposition phase III - part 2 : feasibility and sustainability by Han, Wen Siew

“…Therefore, the primary objectives of this project were to study the reusability of Ti-6Al-4V Grade 23 powder in an LMD process and the environmental sustainability of powder reuse. …”
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Multi-objective optimization design and performance evaluation of a novel multi-stream intermediate fluid vaporizer with cold energy recovery by Wang, Zhe, Cai, Wenjian, Hong, Wei, Shen, Suping, Yang, Huizhu, Han, Fenghui

“…The results indicate that this new type of IFV can reach the highest cold energy recovery efficiency up to 95% within the 8% error range when the heat transfer capacity is 11.5 kW and the heat medium flow rate is near 330 L/h.…”
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Insight into the lateral ride discomfort thresholds of young-adult bus passengers at multiple postures : case of Singapore by Nguyen, Teron, NguyenDinh, Nen, Lechner, Bernhard, Wong, Yiik Diew

“…The three levels of ride discomfort are Uncomfortable, Very Uncomfortable and Extremely Uncomfortable with average lateral accelerations of ay = 1.5, 1.75 and 2.0 m/s2, respectively. The lateral ride discomfort thresholds would be useful for several value-add applications which include better vehicle design including its interiors, and better vehicle handling about the road layout. …”
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Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on behaviors in physical activity, sleep quality and usage of sport facilities in university students by Lim, Qing Feng

“…Sedentary (sitting) behaviour was seen to increase by an average of 90.5 min/day (p < .001). There were also a decreased in the booking frequency in sports facilities (2.1 to 1.6, p < .001) and time spent in a sports facility (127 to 51.6 min/week, p < .001). …”
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Effect of carbides on the corrosion resistance of industrial corrosion resistant alloys by Muhammad Redzuan.

“…AISI 316L weld overlay specimens were heat treated, at various temperatures, for a period of 5 hours followed by water quenching. The amount of chromium carbides precipitated was evaluated using microscopic examination and point count method. …”
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The contemporary age of square stepping exercise on cognitive and cohesion among older adults by Low, Kimmy Yi Ting

“…Methods: Seven older adults (2 males, 5 females) were recruited for the study. There were six sessions of online SSE conducted twice a week. …”
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Metallic nanowire synthesis by anodized aluminium oxide by Yong, Ching Seng.

“…The AAO template undergoes pore-widening process by using H3PO4 (5 wt%) to remove the barrier oxide layer. The AAO templates are separated into two groups: one is deposited with 200nm of titanium/gold with sputtering/E-beam technique, and attached to ITO glass slides with silver paste; another group is attached directly to ITO glass slides with silver paste. …”
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An energy-saving oriented air balancing method for demand controlled ventilation systems with branch and black-box model by Cui, Can, Zhang, Xin, Cai, Wenjian

“…In the lab, the proposed air balancing method was validated on a real DCV system of 5 zones under various design flow conditions. The experimental results verified the effectiveness of the proposed method on both the air balancing control accuracy and the energy saving ability.…”
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