UROPOT: study protocol for a randomized, double-blind phase I/II trial for metabolism-based potentiation of antimicrobial prophylaxis in the urological tract by Stritt, Kevin, Roth, Beat, Masnada, Audrey, Hammann, Felix, Jacot, Damien, Domingos-Pereira, Sonia, Crettenand, François, Bohner, Perrine, Sommer, Isabelle, Bréat, Emilien, Sauser, Julien, Derré, Laurent, Haschke, Manuel, Collins, James J., McKinney, John

“…Methods The UROPOT trial is a phase I/II single-center (Lausanne University Hospital (CHUV), Switzerland) randomized double-blinded trial. Over 2 years, patients with asymptomatic Escherichia coli and/or Klebsiella pneumoniae bacteriuria, undergoing endourological procedures, will be randomly allocated to one of three treatment arms (1:1:1 randomization ratio, 30 patients per group) to evaluate the efficacy of mannitol-potentiated low-dose amikacin compared to established standard treatments (ceftriaxone or amikacin standard dose). …”
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Creative AI : a data-driven design approach for creative online ad optimisation using artificial intelligence and big data by Phay, Han

“…The research is structured in 7 chapters: (1) A Historical Perspective on Modern Advertising, looking at the way creative advertising agencies have evolved throughout the earlier years, (2) Present Day Advertising Technology, continuing the narrative post-internet through exploration of the advertising technology industry in present day, (3) Consumer Psychology, specifically on how creative design attributes in ads, such as visuals, text and sound, can subconsciously have an effect on humans and are important to the cause of advertising, (4) Data-driven design, a new way of looking at the digital online ad creation process, integrating big data and artificial intelligence to predict the optimal creative attributes in digital ads, (5) Multivariate Testing for Creative Optimisation, a controlled experiment to determine that generated ads do not underperform current human designed ads, (6) Translating Research into Product, where the ad agency as tech company model is brought forth through the form of a startup, and lastly (7) Future Opportunities, that identifies other areas of emerging tech and the implications on future research.…”
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集体记忆与学校认同的建构： 以圣公会中学的筹款活动为例 = Fundraising activities as collective memory : construction of school identity in Anglican High School... by 曲景毅 Qu, Jingyi

“…This paper discusses how AHS has continuously, since its founding years, organised fund-raising activities, and how through such activities, it has become a prime example of how teaching staff, students, parents and alumni, can be brought together, and thus contributing to the construction of the AHS’s identity. …”
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Doping in perovskite nanocrystals, perovskite solar cells with organic carrier transport layers, and Selenium solar cells by Liu, Wenbo

“…Perovskite solar cells (PSCs) based on perovskite bulk materials have made remarkable progress in recent years. Nevertheless, the scientific significance of PSCs goes far beyond the simple pursuit of efficiency. …”
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Lane-aware image enhancement for lane detection in rain (part B - communications) by Tian, Zichen

“…In recent years, auto-driving is becoming a hot topic. Auto-driving cars utilize in-vehicle cameras to capture the surrounding environment images and use algorithms to extract useful information from images. …”
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Changes in cerebrospinal fluid balance of TNF and TNF receptors in naïve multiple sclerosis patients : early involvement in compartmentalised intrathecal inflammation by Magliozzi, Roberta, Pezzini, Francesco, Pucci, Mairi, Rossi, Stefania, Facchiano, Francesco, Marastoni, Damiano, Montagnana, Martina, Lippi, Giuseppe, Reynolds, Richard, Calabrese, Massimiliano

“…Potential correlations with other CSF cytokines/chemokines and with clinical and imaging parameters at diagnosis (T0) and after 2 years of follow-up (T24) were evaluated. Significantly increased levels of TNF (fold change: 7.739; p < 0.001), sTNF-R1 (fold change: 1.693; p < 0.001) and sTNF-R2 (fold change: 2.189; p < 0.001) were detected in CSF of MS patients compared to the control group at T0. …”
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新加坡离散华文作家研究 1945-1980 = a study on Singapore diasporic Chinese writers 1945-1980 by 孫惠敏 Sun, Huey Min

“…This study focuses on three core themes – their love for China, love for Singapore and their identity as Singapore Chinese diasporas, and discusses the impact of China and Singapore and the places they had resided in on them in the years between 1945 and 1980, including how they had communicated their past, present and hope for the future through their written works. …”
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Grid optimization and demand side mangement for electric vehicles penetration in remote area by Zhang, Yixiao, Ng, Eddie Yin Kwee, Li, Ning

“…Power grid model simulation: use government data to predict that Trincomalee's electricity demand will increase from the current 40MW to 640MW in five years and build a grid simulation model for Sri Lanka's national high-voltage transmission lines. …”
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Muscle ultrasound changes and physical function of critically ill children: a comparison of rectus femoris cross-sectional area and quadriceps thickness measurements by Ong, Chengsi, Lee, Jan Hau, Leow, Melvin Khee-Shing, Puthucheary, Zudin A.

“…DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS: Secondary analysis of a prospective cohort study of children 0-18 years old admitted to a tertiary mixed PICU between January 2015 and October 2018 with PICU stay greater than 48 hours and greater than or equal to one organ dysfunction. …”
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Predicting cognitive scores from wearable-based digital physiological features using machine learning: data from a clinical trial in mild cognitive impairment by Rykov, Yuri G., Patterson, Michael D., Gangwar, Bikram A., Jabar, Syaheed B., Leonardo, Jacklyn, Ng, Kok Pin, Kandiah, Nagaendran

“…Methods: We used the dataset collected from a 10-week single-arm clinical trial in older adults (50–70 years old) diagnosed with amnestic MCI (N = 30) who received a digitally delivered multidomain therapeutic intervention. …”
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Referring expression segmentation: from conventional to generalized by Liu, Chang

“…In recent years, many remarkable achievements have been made in the field of deep machine learning in various data modalities, such as image processing and natural language comprehension. …”
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Exchange bias and magnetoresistance effects in Ni50Mn50-yXy (X = In, Sn) alloys by Wang, Baomin

“…These properties have attracted much interest in recent years. However, to date, the magnetic properties in the martensitic state of these alloys are not clear and the sensor capabilities of MSMAs are needed to be further explored. …”
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Partially collaborative storage codes for distributed storage systems by Liu, Shiqiu

“…This process is often called maintenance, or repair. Over the past years, there has been a vibrant research activity around the problem of designing good storage erasure codes, amenable to repair. …”
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The role of POPX2 in the regulation of hippo pathway by Muhammad Bakhait Rahmat

“…Not surprisingly, in the past few years, intense focus has been shown on YAP and TAZ as potential therapeutic targets in the study of cancer and regenerative medicine. …”
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Writing Hong Kong Sinophonicity : history, gender and ethnicity in Hong Kong fiction by Long, Chao

“…Collectively, the conceptualization of Sinophonicity in the three chapters attests to the medium of literary fiction as an effective site for producing decolonizing impetus, in order to better position Hong Kong in post-handover years.…”
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Interface energetics and dynamics in organic-inorganic hybrid perovskites by Goh, Teck Wee

“…Organic-inorganic lead halide perovskites have gained a lot of attention over the past six years as a desirable class of materials for various devices which has been shown to possess desirable properties such as long diffusion lengths, large carrier mobility, low trap states. …”
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The future of nuclear power in India: a question of liability law by Sengupta, A

“…Following this, in 2011 India announced ambitious plans to expand its installed nuclear power generation capacity to 63 Gigawatts (GW) (out of over 800 GW) by 2032 through civil nuclear trade. However, several years on, much of this envisaged trade and investment has yet to come to fruition. …”

Tissue and spatially resolved immune drivers of fibrotic pulmonary sarcoidosis by Weeratunga, P

“…Fibrosis matters because it is irreversible, and the majority of progressive fibrotic sarcoidosis patients are young (40-60years of age). My project moves the focus away from traditional blood studies to the organ, using bronchoalveolar lavage samples of patients with fibrotic vs non-fibrotic sarcoidosis and lung tissue sections to ask what are the immune cells and functional pathways associated with fibrosis in pulmonary sarcoidosis. …”

Viral and immune dynamics of genital human papillomavirus infections in young women with high temporal resolution by Tessandier, N, Elie, B, Boué, V, Selinger, C, Rahmoun, M, Bernat, C, Grasset, S, Groc, S, Bedin, A, Beneteau, T, Bonneau, M, Graf, C, Jacobs, N, Kamiya, T, Kerioui, M, Lajoie, J, Melki, I, Prétet, J, Reyné, B, Schlecht-Louf, G, Sofonea, MT, Supplisson, O, Wymant, C, Foulongne, V

“…Most anogenital HPV infections are cleared in less than two years, but the underlying mechanisms that favour persistence in around 10% of women remain largely unknown. …”

A comparison of sodium-glucose co-transporter 2 inhibitor kidney outcome trial participants with a real-world chronic kidney disease primary care population by Forbes, AK, Hinton, W, Feher, MD, Elson, W, Ordóñez-Mena, JM, Joy, M, Fan, X, Banerjee, D, Cole, NI, Munro, N, Whyte, M, Suckling, RJ, Swift, PA, de Lusignan, S

“…Trial participants were 9–14 years younger than the real-world CKD population, and had more advanced CKD, including higher levels of albuminuria. …”