A comparison between the predictors of vaccine uptake intentions for influenza and dengue by Panchapakesan, Chitra, Sheldenkar, Anita, Cayabyab, Ysa Marie, Ng, Janelle Shaina, Lu, Jiahui, Lwin, May Oo

“…Infectious diseases have a huge health and economic burden globally. Vaccination has been found to be a crucial health intervention for diseases. …”
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Performance study of mobility support in WiMax networks by Nagarajan Maheswari

“…The IEEE 802.16e standard, which has been published in Feb of 2006, has specified the mobility supports in WiMAX networks, which has the potential to replace current 3G cellular networks due to its much higher data transmission rate. …”
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Injectable hydrogel/micro-composite systems for in situ therapeutic cell delivery by Wang, Chunming

“…However, expanding applications of hydrogels into wider fields of cell therapeutics has been hurdled by a substantial challenge, that is, anchorage-dependent cells (ADCs) show poor settlement when encapsulated into 3D hydrogel frameworks. …”
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Molecular interaction of tumor suppressor protein p53 and anti-apoptotic proteins Bcl-2 and Bcl-XL. by Yoon, Ho Sup.

“…Based on the results generated from our study a structural model for the molecular interaction between Bel-XL and the p53TAD peptide has been proposed.…”
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Ultra-wideband (UWB) microwave imaging for breast cancer detection : UWB experiments on breast phantoms by Lai, Joshua Chong Yue

“…The potential of UWB breast cancer detection has been demonstrated with simple experiments on homogenous breast phantoms which do not represent the tissue dielectric properties of heterogeneous human breast. …”
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Deposition characterisation and process window development for plasma sprayed thermal barrier coatings by Ng, Heong Wah.

“…The main issues in spraying have been in coating thickness control especially in spraying of three dimensionally complex components which have concave or convex curvatures. …”
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Lewis acid-catalyzed reactions of alcohol pro-electrophiles as novel strategies for C-C and C-N bond formation by Rao, Weidong

“…The work of this thesis has been directed toward the establishing of new Lewis acids catalyzed reaction of alcohol pro-electrophiles as novel strategies for C-C and C-N bond formation. …”
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Thermal induced coupling of cell adhesion/deadhesion and migration under HBV replication and EGCG treatment by Li, Xi

“…On the other hand, TRP has never been exploited for their potential applications in quantitative cell screening against various external stimulations. …”
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A fast sensing algorithm for spectrum detection in cognitive radios by Prashob Ramachandran Nair

“…Conventionally, for an energy detector (ED) based CR, the threshold is set based on estimated noise power and this is not changed even though the CR may have more information available about the channel. It has been observed that for a conventional energy detector based CR at low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), when the time to sense the spectrum is short, the ability to detect the presence of the primary user deteriorates significantly. …”
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Proteomics study of the cellular function in response to nanomaterials by Yuan, Jifeng

“…However, few detailed studies have been performed to evaluate the potential cytotoxicity of these nanomaterials on the living systems at the molecular level. …”
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Study of local site effects using microtremor survey method by Zhu, Cheng.

“…Triaxial measurements of microtremors have been carried out at 162 locations in Singapore to investigate the fundamental frequencies of sites underlying different geological conditions. …”
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Variable selection in parametric and semiparametric models by Lin, Bingqing

“…Since the proposal of the least absolute shrinkage and selection operator (LASSO) (Tibshirani, 1996) and the smoothly clipped absolute deviation (SCAD) method (Fan and Li, 2001), there have been extensive developments on model selection based on penalized log-likelihood and the computational issues of solving these problems in linear models. …”
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Ultra wideBand indoor position localizaiton by Xu, Jun

“…In this thesis, a time-difference-of-arrival (TDOA) positioning scheme which is based on maximum likelihood estimation is proposed, and its theoretical and practical performance have been evaluated for both LOS and NLOS propagation channels. …”
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Computer-aided-diagnosis of liver fibrosis using non-linear optics microscopy by Xu, Shuoyu

“…The role of liver biopsy as the gold standard for liver fibrosis assessment has recently been challenged due to inter- and intra-observer variation and sampling error. …”
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Load tests and moments evaluation of aircraft pylon using refurbished test assembly by Subas Chandrabose Satheesh Kumar

“…The pylon, which has been the specimen of this experimental stud y, is equipped with st rain gauge bridges to monitor the loads transferred between the fuel tank and the pylon structure. …”
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Aqueous phase synthesis and functionalization of semiconductor quantum dots for biomedical applications by Wang, Yucheng

“…In this thesis, efforts have been made to investigate and optimize the aqueous synthesis route in order to prepare high quality QDs. …”
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Real-time microscopic study and modeling of the disruption of bacterial swarming motion by Lu, Shengtao

“…Experimental studies on the collective motion of bacteria have so far been limited to understanding the swarming dynamics of healthy cells. …”
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A design framework for product families implemented with additive manufactured variable platforms by Yao, Xiling

“…During the development of the design framework, the following methodologies have been proposed: 1) a representative mathematical model to formulated the VP-based product family configuration; 2) a hybrid machine learning approach to select appropriate AM design features for addtive manufactured VP modules; 3) a fuzzy time-driven activity-based costing method to predict the AM production cost variation as a function of VP design adjustments, 4) a novel evaluation metric for VP-based product family designs, and 5) a multiobjective design optimization technique to identify the modular configuration and engineering design parameters of a product family. …”
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Importance of population support in counterinsurgency : a case of the Taiping rebellion by Ha, Yu Xin

“…The Taiping Rebellion was one of the most devastating insurgencies in China and the world in the nineteenth century, yet it has not been studied extensively in insurgency and counterinsurgency (COIN) research. …”
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Investigation of electrical and colorimetric sensing properties of polymer-nanomaterial composites by Tu, Meng-Che

“…Over the past few decades several biosensor and chemosensor technologies have been investigated for environmental monitoring and diagnostic applications. …”
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