The relationship between leisure time physical activity patterns, Alzheimer’s disease markers and cognition by James, S, Sudre, CH, Barnes, J, Cash, DM, Chiou, Y, Coath, W, Keshavan, A, Lu, K, Malone, I, Murray-Smith, H, Nicholas, JM, Orini, M, Parker, T, Almeida-Meza, P, Fox, NC, Richards, M, Schott, JM

“…There was little evidence that leisure time physical activity had direct effects on other brain health measures (all P > 0.05). However, leisure time physical activity patterns modified and attenuated the association between poorer cognitive functioning at age 70 and a range of Alzheimer’s disease-related neurodegenerative markers (Aβ status; hippocampal and whole-brain volume; cortical thickness in Alzheimer’s disease regions) (all P < 0.05). …”

Financial forecasting using meta-cognitive fuzzy neural networks by Singh Akhand Pratap

“…Some potential ways to address the above issues could be usage of synthetic data through time-series models to train the model till the test date; usage of manual inferences drawn from the indicators to make judgements about the present day; usage of multiple machine learning models and combining the results from all; usage of dynamic feature selection mechanism to make improvements to the prediction; and usage of dynamic thresholds that are dependent on the market conditions. …”
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Development of multimedia educational software by Saw, Thant Lwin Tun.

“…While this educational software was developed by using Visual Basic programming, graphical presentations and 3D images were drawn by using Autodesk Revit and were exported to Visual Basic as image files for creation of animations.…”
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Practitioner, patient and public views on the acceptability of mobile stroke units in England and Wales: A mixed methods study by Moseley, L, McMeekin, P, Price, C, Shaw, L, Laws, A, Allen, M, Ford, GA, James, M, McCarthy, S, McClelland, G, Park, LJ, Pearn, K, Phillips, D, White, P, Wilson, D, Scott, J

“…Results: The study results, drawn from 25 respondents to the survey and 21 participants in qualitative workshops, found that almost all participants had positive affective attitudes to the concept of MSUs. …”

Maritime clusters and their development interplay with ports by Zhang Wei

“…Two case examples, namely London and Hong Kong, are drawn from these clusters, showing a port’s contribution to maritime cluster development. …”
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Patent information aggregation and analysis by Chen, YanHua

“…There have been a numerous collection of patents filed over the last few decades. Through these patents, the project aims to analyze the information to identify emergence of trends and technologies. …”
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On the most energy-efficient input functions and the lowest input energy of passive linear circuits by Smunyahirun, Radit

“…Finally, generalization of the most energy-efficient functions and the lowest input energy for any order circuits is drawn. A dummy function is introduced which is essential for generalization. …”
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RE teachers’ ways of balancing children’s existential concerns and the curriculum: mirrored through established RE approaches by Osbeck, C, Lilja, A, Fancourt, N

“…However, revisiting these approaches in combination with concrete examples of teachers’ experiences has brought our understanding further, and has also drawn attention to the need for awareness concerning the varying character of this relationship, as a tension, one between whose poles the teaching constantly moves or as one that falls apart in two different poles that do not necessarily need to be seen in the light of each other.…”

Design of low-power analog filters in WBAN receiver front-ends for hyper/hypothyroidism patients by Wang, Xiaoying

“…Last but not least, the conclusion is drawn in the end of this thesis with future work which may include the flipped-source-follower cell to deal with the trade-off between the noise performance and the in-band linearity.…”
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Establishment of optimise strategies in production of recombinant Hepatitis B surface antigen for chip-based antibody detection approach by Tam, Yew Joon

“…From the results, an optimised cell disruption strategy with up-scale adaptability consisted of a number of passes set at 20 times, biomass concentration of 7.70 g/L of dry cell weight (DCW) and pulse pressure at 1,029 bar was demonstrated and was shown to increase cell disruption efficiency by 2- fold and 4-fold for specific protein release of HBsAg when compared to glass bead method yielding 75.68% cell disruption rate (CDR) and HBsAg concentration of 29.20 mg/L, respectively. …”
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Tailoring the phase transition temperature to achieve high-performance cubic GeTe-based thermoelectrics by Ady Suwardi, Cao, Jing, Hu, Lei, Wei, Fengxia, Wu, Jing, Zhao, Yunshan, Lim, Su Hui, Yang, Lan, Tan, Xian Yi, Chien, Sheau Wei, Yin, Yan, Zhou, Wu-Xing, Wong, Nancy Lai Mun, Wang, Xizu, Lim, Suo Hon, Ni, Xiping, Li, Dengfeng, Yan, Qingyu, Zheng, Yun, Zhang, Gang, Xu, Jianwei

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Assessing surface seals of soils on slopes by Liu, Chenying

“…Permeability differences were used to determine the presence of a surface seal. The conclusion is drawn that surface seal appears to exist only at the crest of the slope. …”
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Mitigation of oxidative stress damage caused by abiotic stress to improve biomass yield of microalgae: a review by Zhu, Jiangyu, Cai, Yifei, Wakisaka, Minato, Yang, Zhengfei, Yin, Yongqi, Fang, Weiming, Xu, Yan, Omura, Taku, Yu, Ruihui, Zheng, Alvin Lim Teik

“…Microalgae have been recognized as emerging cell factories due to the high value-added bio-products. …”
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Lane-aware image enhancement for lane detection in rain (part B - communications) by Tian, Zichen

“…Besides, it is worthy to refine the selection of the initialization function. 2) A loss function measuring the offset of Vanishing Point and ground truth can be constructed; 3) Re-scale the network from low-definition to high resolution for pixel-to-pixel classification. All the diagrams are drawn in vector graph format, so readers can zoom in to check the details.…”
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Tantalum based amorphous thin films as copper diffusion barrier by Yan, Hua

“…Guidelines of developing reliable Cu diffusion barrier are drawn base on this study.…”
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Evaluation of urban public transport sustainability in China based on the Driving Force-Pressure-State-Impact-Response (DPSIR) framework——a case study of 36 major cities by Hou, Xiaoran, Lv, Tao, Xu, Jie, Deng, Xu, Liu, Feng, Lam, Jasmine Siu Lee, Zhang, Zhenzhen, Han, Xuesen

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Performance analysis of impulse-radio ultra-wideband techniques for low-rate communications by Cui, Shan

“…Impulse-radio (IR) ultra-wideband (UWB) has drawn much attention as a promising technology for low-data-rate applications such as ranging, identification and low-rate communication in sensor networks. …”
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Actuator disk methods for tidal turbine arrays by Hunter, W

“…</p> <p>The tool is then used to design rotors, first for unblocked operation, with favourable comparison drawn to lifting line derived optimal Betz rotor solutions. …”

Design and analysis of high torque density machines for aerospace applications by Shen, Fawen

“…Owing to the growing demands for low carbon emissions and the soaring concerns over the energy crisis, the more electric aircraft (MEA), which is regarded as the most desirable substitute for conventional aircraft, has drawn increasing interest. As the key components of the propulsion system, the electric motors directly affect the performance of MEA, thus requiring more attention. …”
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One-class knowledge distillation for face presentation attack detection by Li, Zhi, Cai, Rizhao, Li, Haoliang, Lam, Kwok-Yan, Hu, Yongjian, Kot, Alex Chichung

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