Protein delivery options: how well have we succeeded? by Ng, Xu Wen, Subbu, Venkatraman

“…Another antibody, Avastin®, indicated for bowel cancer, accounted for $6.7 billion among these top-selling drugs, while Herceptin®, used to treat breast cancer, had sales of $6.6 billion. These numbers bear eloquent testimony to the increasing demand for protein therapeutics. …”
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Secure sharing and storage of genome data using blockchain technology by Mahtolia Ronan

“…The medical field has seen the increase of research on using blockchain technology to solve the problems of securing patient’s medical records, administration of drug purchases, supply chain management and much more. There have been many papers released on the type of blockchain that should be used and how it should be implemented. …”
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Quantifying conformational changes in the TCR:pMHC-I binding interface by McMaster, B, Thorpe, CJ, Rossjohn, J, Deane, CM, Koohy, H

“…We also map the contacts between TCRs and pMHC-Is, generating a novel fingerprint of TCRs on MHC molecules and show that the CDR3α tends to bind the N-terminus of the peptide and the CDR3β tends to bind the C-terminus of the peptide. …”

Environmental audit in Singapore by Chua, Boon Hua

“…In addition, neither the public nor firms are willing to bear the costs of environmental audit.…”
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Self-employment for autonomous robots using smart contracts by Castelló Ferrer, Eduardo, Berman, Ivan, Kapitonov, Aleksandr, Manaenko, Vadim, Chernyaev, Makar, Tarasov, Pavel, Wilson, Bryan, Greenwood, Dazza, Walters, Ed

“…In these transactions, the robot interacts with humans as a peer, not as a tool. In other words, the robot makes peer financial transactions with humans in the same way that another human would, first as an investment vehicle, then as a seller at an auction, and then as a shop customer and a client. …”
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Fragmentation of white phosphorus by a cyclic (alkyl)(amino)alumanyl anion by Koshino, Kota, Kinjo, Rei

“…Structural and electronic features of the latter were fully characterized by standard spectroscopic means, X-ray diffraction analysis, and computational studies, which revealed that 2 bears highly polarized Al (δ+) and P (δ-) and relatively short Al-P bonds, indicative of the σ-donating and π-accepting nature of CAAAl groups.…”
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Shattered nation: inequality and the geography of a failing state by Dorling, D

“…Once affluent suburbs are now unproductive places where opportunity has been replaced by food banks. Before COVID, life expectancy had dropped as a result of poverty for the first time since the 1930s. …”

Applicability of behavioural finance by Chong, Chee Wah, Low, Ji Teng, Paik, Jek Yin

“…In order to identify the most statistically significant gauges of investors’ behaviors, a few prominent methodologies and its resulting economic indices have been analysed. Specifically, they were the (i) Volatility Index (VIX), (ii) Consumer Sentiment Index (CSI), (iii) Bull-Bear Spread Index (BBS) and the (iv) Investor Sentiment Index (ISI). …”
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Death and the doctor: the museum as a tool for understanding the needs of the dying by Harris, J, Moyse, A, Hadley, G, Frampton, S, Dempsey, A, Hordern, J, Saunders, K, Lane, R, De Luca, G

“…Over the past several years, the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford has been part of a multi- disciplinary team examining the question of how we train medical students to deal with those parts of their profession which are concerned primarily with the humanity of their patients. …”

Response to Comment on “Unique in the shopping mall: On the reidentifiability of credit card metadata” by de Montjoye, Yves-Alexandre, Pentland, Alex

“…The synthetic data set that they “successfully anonymize” bears no resemblance to modern high-dimensional data sets on which their methods fail. …”
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Sequence-Dependent & -Independent Effects of Intron-Mediated Enhancement (IME) by Kowal, Emma J. K.

“…Genomic deletion of an intron from a gene tends to reduce its expression, and addition of an intron tends to increase it. …”
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A Descriptive Analysis of Housing Affordability in Malaysia by Musaddad, Hafirda Akma, Maamor, Selamah, Zainol, Zairy

“…There has recently been widespread public debate and media attention around housing affordability in Malaysia as it is one of the key measures for the stability of a country's socio-economy. …”
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Ozone reaction with interior building materials: Influence of diurnal ozone variation, temperature and humidity by Rim, Donghyun, Maddalena, Randy L., Nazaroff, William W., Gall, Elliott Tyler

“…Reactive uptake of ozone has been characterized for many building materials; however, scant information is available on how diurnal variation of ambient ozone influences ozone reaction with indoor surfaces. …”
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Object individuation and physical reasoning in infancy : an integrative account by Baillargeon, Renée, Stavans, Maayan, Wu, Di, Gertner, Yael, Setoh, Peipei, Kittredge, Audrey K., Bernard, Amélie

“…In this article, we argue that this confusing picture can be better understood by bringing to bear insights from a related subfield of infancy research, physical reasoning. …”
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Largest testicular tumour in South-East Asia: a case report by Aizat, S. I., Yusof, M. R., Lee, F. Y., Fahmy, O., Lee, C. K.S., Khairul Asri, M. G., Muhammad Nasrulazam, N., Vikinesan, V. K., Liyana Zayani, Y., Yusuf, M., Rashide, Y., Othman, A.

“…The patient seeks treatment at that point because he can't bear the embarrassment and fear of the treatment.…”
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Growth strategies for liner companies in the time of economic recession by Toon, Nicholas Zhenjie.

“…Due to the lack of available studies and literature as this topic has not been extensively discussed; our project tends to lean heavier towards primary sources of information, namely company interviews and mass industry survey. …”
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Policy design and professional service delivery performance of drinking water services in rural Mali by Wagner, J

“…Additionally, when payment modalities switch from volumetric to monthly flat fees, a handpump registers, on average, more than three times higher monthly revenue, along with a two-fold increase in daily water use. …”

Investor behavioral intention in investment-based crowdfunding: a systematic literature review by Astiwi Indriani, Aisyah Abdul Rahman, Shifa Mohd Nor, Nur Sa’adah Muhamad

“…By establishing an insightful foundation for future research and providing actionable insights for practitioners seeking to foster trust, manage risk, and harness both intrinsic and extrinsic motivations, our findings bear the potential to shape the evolution of investment-based crowdfunding in the coming years.…”
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A comparative study on parameter recovery of three approaches to structural equation modeling by Malhotra, Naresh K., Tomiuk, Marc A., Hwang, Heungsun, Kim, Youngchan, Hong, Sungjin

“…Traditionally, two approaches have been employed for structural equation modeling: covariance structure analysis and partial least squares. …”
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An autonomous ultrasonic fastener holes inspection system of an aircraft lower wing skin by Lim, Chee Wei.

“…Fasteners like rivets and bolts bear a large part of the stress and thus require frequent inspection for cracks around the fastener's holes. …”
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