Investigating ERO1α, IDO1 and MHC Class I : potential proteins that can be manipulated to change the tumour microenvironment from ‘cold’ to ‘hot’ by Peck, Jia Yi

“…Previous study done by our lab that showed ERO1α association with hypoxic tumour progression, also had preliminary data indicating that under hypoxia, there is an increase in amino acid tryptophan catabolism by IDO1. …”
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Physiological functions of fungus-derived prostaglandin E₂ in Candida albicans by Leong, Royston Weng Onn

“…However, under specific conditions, the fungus can turn pathogenic and provoke diseases. C. albicans has been observed to produce the lipid molecule, prostaglandin E2 (PGE2), both in vitro and in vivo upon colonization of the host. …”
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Building common ground: how facilitators bridge between diverging groups in multi-stakeholder dialogue by Grimm, J, Ruehle, RC, Reinecke, J

“…Facilitating such dialogue in turn entails building common ground in form of joint knowledge, beliefs, and suppositions. …”

Scenes of misrecognition (Koltès, Duras) by Killeen, M-C

“…Whether these disclosures are extracted under the glare of courtroom or police interrogations, or elicited in the more intimate settings of the bedroom or the analyst’s couch, modern theater’s interest in confessions appears to reside less in their probative value than in the questions they raise about the dramatic form and our investment in it. This article’s author proposes to pursue this inquiry through a discussion of two plays: Marguerite Duras’s oft-staged récit from 1982, La Maladie de la mort, and Bernard-Marie Koltès’s 1986 play Dans la solitude des champs de coton. …”

A longitudinal study of the tax capacity and tax effort of the Malaysian state government by Abdul Jalil, Ahmad Zafarullah, Harun, Mukaramah, Che Mat, Siti Hadijah

“…The main objective of this paper is to measure the effort and capacity of the state governments in Peninsular Malaysia for their land tax for the period of 2000-2008 using the Representative Revenue System (RRS).Our findings show that state governments differ significantly in term of their capacity and their effort.The findings of this study also show that there is little movement in the ranking of the state governments with respect to the level of their tax effort.This implies that state governments especially the ones found to be exerting below average tax effort have shown little initiative to change their effort.This in turn may be due to the way the whole tax system is managed…”
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Artificial photosynthesis by light absorption, charge separation, and multielectron catalysis by Đokić, Miloš, Soo, Han Sen

“…This abundant resource is utilized constantly by photosynthetic organisms, which has in turn motivated decades of research in our quest to create artificial counterparts of comparable scales. …”
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Effects of interaction between information technology (IT) and a Singapore hotel : a case study by Lee, Elena Yen Ping, Lim, Amos Beng Lee, Heng, Lee Cheng

“…Information Technology (IT) adopted in an organisation is influenced by various organisational and social factors. In turn, the organisation design is affected by the implementation of IT. …”
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Essays on development economics by Wang, Wen

“…It seeks to uncover some potential deep-rooted factors that continue to influence contemporary economic and institutional outcomes, and to further our understanding of the differentials in economic development across countries. …”
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Meeting of minds: narratives as a tool to reduce prejudice toward stigmatized group members by Kim, Nuri, Lim, Cui Min

“…The implications of our findings are discussed.…”
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Borocarbonitride, (BN)x(C)1-x, nanosheet-reinforced polymer nanocomposites for high mechanical performance by Sreedhara, M.B., Barua, Manaswee, Chaturvedi, Abhishek, Rao, C.N.R., Ramamurty, Upadrasta

“…The enhancement in mechanical and thermal properties of polymer matrices upon reinforcing with nanoparticles strongly depends on the extent of molecular-level interactions and interfacial adhesion between the nanofiller and the matrix material, which are, in turn, governed by the surface functionalities on the nanofiller. …”
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Towards precision dosing of nanoparticles in mammalian cells by Singh, Hemang Raj

“…Using carboxylic-functionalized polystyrene nanoparticles (COOH-PS NP) as model nanoparticulate system, our study found that while the hydroporator is able to achieve high-efficiency delivery (>94% of cells) of Polystyrene nanospheres into cells, it does put stresses onto the cells, inducing ROS generation and temporary cell-cycle stalling. …”
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Functional roles of transforming growth factor activated Kinase-1 (TAK1) in skin wound healing by Tan, Siew Hwey

“…We show here that during wound healing, TAK1 activates von Hippel-Lindau tumor suppressor (pVHL) expression in keratinocytes which, in turn, represses the expression of PDGF-B and, integrins beta1 and beta5 via inhibition of the Sp1-mediated transcription. …”
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Effect of food texture on impression formation and prosocial behaviors by Tan, Kah Min

“…It is widely documented that metaphors influence our thoughts and social behaviors through bodily experiences (embodied cognition). …”
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The design of liquid desiccant dehumidification control system by Wang, Gaige

“…A dehumidifier plays a significant role in our lives. To make a dehumidifier run in a more stable, controlled and energy-saving way has been a meaningful research direction and goal. …”
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Large range sizes link fast life histories with high species richness across wet tropical tree floras by Baker, TR, Adu-Bredu, S, Affum-Baffoe, K, Aiba, S, Akite, P, Alexiades, M, Almeida, E, de Oliveira, EA, Davila, EA, Amani, C, Andrade, A, Aragao, L, Araujo-Murakami, A, Arets, E, Arroyo, L, Ashton, P, Ifo, SAA, Aymard, GAC, Baisie, M, Balee, W, Balinga, M, Banin, LF, Banki, O, Baraloto, C, Malhi, Y, Moore, S

“…Our results show that fast life-history strategies influence species richness in all biogeographic settings because lineages with these ecological strategies have greater range sizes. …”

Solidarity as a transformative practice by Cipollitti, PE

“…By studying existing theories and reflecting on real-world cases, I present a normative account of solidarity suited to confront the globalized, overlapping injustices we face in our world today. I argue in Chapter 1 that we should conceptualize solidarity as a political bond, realized through action, that unites members of social groups on the basis of a shared understanding of reality and a shared commitment to justice; and as a socially, interpersonally, and personally transformative practice. …”

Rapid crystallization of all-inorganic CsPbBr3 perovskite for high-brightness light-emitting diodes by Ng, Yan Fong, Nur Fadilah Jamaludin, Yantara, Natalia, Li, Mingjie, Irukuvarjula, Venkata Kameshwar Rao, Demir, Hilmi Volkan, Sum, Tze Chien, Mhaisalkar, Subodh, Mathews, Nripan

“…Consequently, the performance of our PeLEDs shows great improvement, with luminance as high as 8218 cd m–2 and turn-on voltage as low as 2.4 V. …”
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Understanding Indexing Efficiency for Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search in High-dimensional Vector Databases by Qin, Yuting

“…Deep learning has transformed almost all types of data (e.g., images, videos, documents) into high-dimension vectors, which in turn forms Vector Databases as the data engines of various applications. …”
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Neural abstractive summarization: improvements at the sequence-level by Ravaut, Mathieu

“…Lastly, we turn our focus to summarization with Large Language Models (LLMs). …”
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How user empowerment influences social interaction and purchase intention. by Chow, Mei Yin., Lau, Yew Han., Tay, Paul Tiong.

“…Together with social platform features, social interaction enhances the understanding of customers‟ needs which in turn influences the willingness to purchase. This begets us to the question of “What are customers looking for?” …”
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