Discovery of stabilized functional mutants of human aquaporin 1 by Soh, Miao Yi

“…Aquaporins (AQPs) are essential water channel proteins found in the cell membranes of all forms of life. In this project, a random mutagenesis library for human aquaporin 1 (hAQP1) is generated and screened for functional mutants. …”
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Mobile visual product search services by Winata, Kaisarudin

“…Due to the rapid development of technology, mobiles phone are considered to be an important gadget in everyone’s daily life and lifestyle. Nowadays, people using mobile phone to communicate with each other, playing games, search information in the internet, capture images and engage in social media network. …”
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Interactive mobile profiler by Wang, Lipeng

“…Nowadays, the mobile social network became very popular in people’s daily life. It becomes a social tool for people to interact with their friends, share interests and find new friends. …”
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Development of an intelligent building energy management system by Than, Kyaw Aung

“…The developed model of BEMS can simulate a real-life BEMS system control with the various information gathered from the sensors and command accordingly. …”
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Are privately owned shipping companies more succesful than public listed ones? by Zhang, Allen Tongren

“…Their names are well known by all walks of life and their shares are freely traded on the stock market. …”
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Optimization of aerosol jet printed strain sensor design via computational simulation by Wong, Chee Khong

“…Additionally, by the used of the simulation software to adjust or modify the parameters and materials, it greatly helps the user to save both the time and cost spent on conducting real-life experiments. The different experiment groups such as dimension of the strain gauge, foil grid design and material, and substrate material will be conducted to find out the factor that will affects the strain sensitivity of the strain gauge. …”
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Mobile-based mathematical question search system by Wu, Qinxin

“…The prevalence of mobile devices has equipped technology with greater penetrating power to benefit people’s life in terms of convenience and people have highly depended on various search engines to search for answers, solutions and information. …”
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Novel receiver design for suppression of frequency-hopped multiple-access (FHMA) systems by Muhammad Faizal Razali

“…Although the system gives the best performance under AWGN, we choose to only deal with Rician and Rayleigh fading to simulate the real-life environment where there are multiple scattered paths. …”
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Ultra-low power SRAM and SRAM based PUF design by Lu, Lu

“…With the recent development of portable devices and wearable technology, the requirements of long battery life-time, ultra-low power consumption and low cost in system-on-a-chip (SoC) are becoming increasingly significant. …”
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Breast cancer prediction and detection: comparison of the latest machine learning techniques by Nya Yanga, Ornella Kelly, Homayounvala, Elaheh

“…Extensive research has enhanced our understanding of the disease and led to better patient survival rates and quality of life. However, breast cancer remains a significant global health challenge, requiring ongoing research and innovation. …”
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The temporality of building: European and Chinese perspectives on architecture and heritage by Gao, Yun, Temple, Nicholas, Xiao, Jing

“…This book examines the role that time plays in the life of buildings, adopting a comparative study of this influence between European and Chinese traditions. …”
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Infrastructure decision preferences and the influence of social justice education by Van-Hein Sackey, C, Cao, C, Nock, D, Armanios, D, Davis, A

“…As an example, access to electricity will be crucial to the development of sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) by powering essential sectors and services that would yield economic growth and an improved quality of life. Since infrastructure investments are often allocated to urban areas, it is important for stakeholders to equally prioritize rural electrification in their efforts to achieve universal electrification. …”

Disrupted working memory event-related network dynamics in multiple sclerosis by Rossi, C, Vidaurre, D, Costers, L, D’hooghe, MB, Akbarian, F, D’haeseleer, M, Woolrich, M, Nagels, G, Van Schependom, J

“…In multiple sclerosis (MS), working memory (WM) impairment can occur soon after disease onset and significantly affects the patient’s quality of life. Functional imaging research in MS aims to investigate the neurophysiological underpinnings of WM impairment. …”

Introduction to the Special Issue: ‘The public good of higher education: A comparative study’ by Brewis, E, Marginson, S

“…This non-pecuniary domain is underplayed or hidden in those economic policies in the Anglosphere that imagine social life in exclusively transactional terms and model students as consumers, universities as businesses and higher education systems as competitive markets, suggesting the need to move beyond the Anglosphere. …”

Marino's spiritual poems in music: a study of early modern sources by Kobayashi, T

“…The rest of the main chapters explore devotional songs based on Marino’s lyrics on themes of Seven Sorrows of Mary, Crown of Thorns, lives of saints and finally, joyful events in Jesus’s life. Music is considered in broader contexts of the early-seventeenth literature and devotional practices by bringing together scholarship from literature, musicology, theology, and cultural studies. …”

Astley's Amphitheatre and the early circus in England, 1768-1830 by Kwint, M

“…Subsequent investigations are made into a social and economic life which is belied by the circus’ later image of separatism; and Astley's early struggles with the law and, to a lesser extent, respectability. …”

Cytoophidium complexes resonate with cell fates by Li, Y, Liu, J

“…Metabolism is a fundamental characteristic of life. In 2010, we discovered that the metabolic enzyme CTP synthase (CTPS) can assemble a snake like structure inside cells, which we call the cytoophidium. …”

Can social adversity and mental, physical and oral multimorbidity form a syndemic? A concept and protocol paper by Joury, E, Nakhleh, E, Beveridge, E, Tracy, D, Heidari, E, Shiers, D, Vereeken, S, Peckham, E, Gilbody, S, Das-Munshi, J, Fortune, F, Aggarwal, VR, Mishu, M, Firth, J, Bhui, K

“…Background: Clustering mental, physical and oral conditions reduce drastically the life expectancy. These conditions are precipitated and perpetuated by adverse social, economic, environmental, political and healthcare contextual factors, and sustained through bidirectional interactions forming potentially a ‘syndemic’. …”

Where is place in the history of work? Worksites, workspaces, and the home-work nexus by Schneider, B, Whittle, J

“…We survey contemporary research on changing worksites, the impacts of new travel-to-work patterns on quality of life, and the effects of workspace arrangements. …”

Toward a predict and prevent approach in obstructive airway diseases by Couillard, S, Petousi, N, Smigiel, KS, Molfino, NA

“…Under this framework, undiagnosed and unchecked airway inflammation is associated with recurrent acute attacks, airway remodeling, airflow limitation, adverse effects of corticosteroids, and impaired quality of life, ultimately leading to the collection of side effects termed “people remodeling.” …”