Insight into actin organization and function in cytokinesis from analysis of fission yeast mutants by Subramanian, Dhivya, Huang, Junqi, Sevugan, Mayalagu, Robinson, Robert C., Balasubramanian, Mohan K., Tang, Xie

“…The actin cytoskeleton of the fission yeast, Schizosaccharomyces pombe, has been extensively characterized and contains structures analogous to those in other cell types. …”
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Maternal separation does not produce a significant behavioral change in mice by Tan, Shawn, Ho, Hin San, Song, Anna Yoonsu, Low, Joey, Je, Shawn Hyunsoo

“…Early life adversities together with genetic predispositions have been associated with elevated risks of neuropsychiatric disorders during later life. …”
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Localised and bifurcating structures in planar shear flows by Wang, Zhe

“…In the present thesis, those flow structures, i.e. quadrupolar flows and streamwise vortices have been treated analytically : By exploiting the geometric scale separation inscribed in all planar shear flows, equations governing the large-scale flow surrounding turbulent spots has been derived from the Navier-Stokes equations and solved analytically. …”
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Mode of action study for a novel class of antimicrobial polymers against methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus by Shi, Zhenyu

“…The development of antibiotics has been hampered by the rapid evolution of antimicrobial resistance and lack of new mechanisms discovered. …”
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Harmonic state-space based small-signal impedance modeling of a modular multilevel converter with consideration of internal harmonic dynamics by Lyu, Jing, Zhang, Xin, Cai, Xu, Molinas, Marta

“…Furthermore, an impedance-based stability analysis of the MMC-high-voltage direct current connected wind farm has been carried out to show how the HSS-based MMC impedance model can be used in practical system analysis. …”
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Design and modeling of novel low-pressure nanofiltration hollow fiber modules for water softening and desalination pretreatment by Labban, Omar, Chong, Tzyy Haur, Lienhard V., John H.

“…Given its high surface area to volume ratio and desirable mass transfer characteristics, the hollow fiber module configuration has been central to the development of RO and UF technologies over the past five decades. …”
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BLIQUE-TMI : blind quality evaluator for tone-mapped images based on local and global feature analyses by Jiang, Qiuping, Shao, Feng, Lin, Weisi, Jiang, Gangyi

“…High dynamic range (HDR) image, which has a powerful capacity to represent the wide dynamic range of real-world scenes, has been receiving attention from both academic and industrial communities. …”
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Graph edit distance reward : learning to edit scene graph by Chen, Lichang, Lin, Guosheng, Wang, Shijie, Wu, Qingyao

“…Scene Graph, as a vital tool to bridge the gap between language domain and image domain, has been widely adopted in the cross-modality task like VQA. …”
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Online estimation of power capacity with noise effect attenuation for lithium-ion battery by Wei, Zhongbao, Zhao, Jiyun, Xiong, Rui, Dong, Guangzhong, Pou, Josep, Tseng, King Jet

“…Power capacity estimators based on online identified equivalent circuit model have been widely investigated due to the high accuracy and affordable computing cost. …”
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Soil liquefaction assessment using soft computing approaches based on capacity energy concept by Chen, Zhixiong, Li, Hongrui, Goh, Anthony Teck Chee, Wu, Chongzhi, Zhang, Wengang

“…Several liquefaction evaluation procedures and approaches have been developed relating the capacity energy to the initial soil parameters, such as the relative density, initial effective confining pressure, fine contents, and soil textural properties. …”
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An environmentally sustainable approach for online chemical cleaning of MBR with activated peroxymonosulfate by Wang, Siyu, Chew, Jia Wei, Liu, Yu

“…Online chemical cleaning of membrane bioreactor (MBR) has been widely applied as a promising alternative to alleviate membrane fouling, while sustaining the permeability of MBR. …”
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SectionKey: 3-D semantic point cloud descriptor for place recognition in large-scale environments by Jin, Shutong

“…More recent attention has been attracted to use 3-D Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) scans, where most of the LiDAR-based methods work by leveraging accurate geometric information that demonstrates more credibility. …”
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Engineering cavity singlet fission in rubrene by Sun, Kewei, Gelin, Maxim F., Zhao, Yang

“…Several interesting mechanisms have been uncovered, such as photon-assisted singlet fission, system localization via a displaced photon state, and collective enhancement of the fission efficiency for the two-molecule system. …”
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Effect of various polymer fibers on spalling mitigation of ultra-high performance concrete at high temperature by Zhang, Dong, Tan, Kang Hai

“…Polymer fibers have been commonly used to prevent spalling of ultra-high performance concrete (UHPC) at high temperature. …”
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Preparation of superhydrophobic nanoplate iron oxide surface on a carbon steel for anti-wetting applications by Cao, Xiaofei, Zhang, Yaozhong, Hu, Wei, Zheng, Huaan, Dan, Yong, Hu, Jun, Chen, Zhong

“…A simple route to fabricate a surface layer comprising Fe3O4 nanoplates on a carbon steel has been successfully demonstrated using etching treatment followed by annealing in oxygen atmosphere. …”
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Performance optimization strategies of halide perovskite-based mechanical energy harvesters by Jiang, Feng, Lee, Pooi See

“…Halide perovskites, possessing unique electronic and photovoltaic properties, have been intensively investigated over the past decade. …”
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Electrochemical microfluidic multiplexed bioanalysis by a highly active bottlebrush-like nanocarbon microelectrode by Xu, Yun, Huang, Wei, Zhang, Yan, Duan, Hongwei, Xiao, Fei

“…The flexible bottlebrush-like nanocarbon microelectrode features a "stem" of freestanding N, B-codoped graphene fiber and high-density "bristles" of Co, N-codoped carbon nanotube arrays, leading to promoted electrocatalytic mechanism that has been substantiated by density functional theory calculations. …”
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Pottery of the colonial world: the study of European porcelain in Istana Kampong Gelam, Singapore (IKG) by Sim, Sxuann Mei Xuan

“…A set of hypotheses has been constructed to determine the connection between these different variables, which are tested in the thesis chapters. …”
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Orientational beamforming via a modified RBF neural network for orientational UWB interference rejection by Han, Jiangyan, Ng, Boon Poh, Er, Meng Hwa

“…Although various techniques have been proposed in the literature to suppress multiuser interference in the time-hopping UWB system, there has been no research on interference suppression in the OBF UWB system. …”
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Examining a conceptual model of maternal and paternal warmth, emotion regulation and social competence among preadolescent children in Malaysia by Gan, Su-Wan, Tan, Jo-Pei, Ang, Chin-Siang, Cheah, Charissa S. L., Yaacob, Siti Nor, Abu Talib, Mansor

“…Although parental warmth has been shown to be related to children's social competence, the mediating role of preadolescent children's emotion regulation in this context has been less explored, particularly in Asian cultures. …”
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