Negotiating shared spaces in informal peri-urban settlements in North India: collaborative architectural making as a catalyst for civic empowerment and social change by Tang, Bo

“…(b) the second part (chapter 3) uses these methods as a basis (research tool) to understand the nature of civic order in informal peri-urban settlements in North India, and the way the institutional/civic order of these settlements is made. …”
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Cardiac-sympathetic dysfunction in hypertension by Bardsley, E

“…Specifically, sympathetic neuronal culturing and Förster Resonance Energy Transfer (FRET) were used to measure intracellular cyclic nucleotide generation and protein kinase activity. …”

Boronic acid and nitrofuranyl derivatives as potential therapeutics by Dey, AL

“…It then goes on to briefly outline the practice of modern Drug Design under the heading ‘Medicinal Chemistry & Drug Discovery’, before discussing molecular targets in bacteria and further reiterating that there are several ‘conserved’ molecular targets in bacteria for which there are no antibacterial agents in clinical use as yet, under the heading ‘Current Antibacterial Targets.’ …”

A Lagrangian perspective on the lifecycle and radiative effect of deep convective clouds by Jones, WK

“…</p> <p>To capture the complex behaviour of DCCs, cloud tracking methods are used to measure the properties of clouds across their lifetime and perform Lagrangian analyses. …”

Immunoprofiling of drug-resistant epilepsy with a focus on glutamic acid decarboxylase 65 antibodies by McGinty, R

“…To try and enhance the CBA, molecular cloning techniques for antigen tagging and cell surface expression for use in a live and non-permeabilised CBA were applied. …”

Retention and storage stability of vitamins A and C in extruded native and pregelatinized starches by Abdul Manan, Siti Farhiah

“…The extrusion conditions were temperatures of 80 °C for zone 1 and 100 °C for zones 2, 3 and 4 of the barrel, 30 rpm of feeder speed, and 60 rpm of screw speed. Native starches used were waxy corn (99.1% amylopectin), regular corn (26.2% amylose), high amylose corn (70.0% amylose), waxy potato (99.1% amylopectin), regular potato (30.1% amylose), waxy or glutinous rice (92.6% amylopectin), regular rice (19.4% amylose), tapioca (25.9% amylose), sweet potato (29.9% amylose) and sago (30.4% amylose) starches. …”
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Factors associated with body weight status and internet addiction among malaysian university students in Penang: mixed method study before and during covid-19 pandemic by Isaac, Nesamalar

“…The chi-square test was used to analyse the relationship between the students’ levels of internet addiction and lifestyle patterns and dietary behaviour. …”
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Machine Learning Approaches for the Prediction of Postoperative Major Complications in Patients Undergoing Surgery for Bowel Obstruction by Mazzotta, Alessandro D., Burti, Elisa, Causio, Francesco Andrea, Orlandi, Alex, Martinelli, Silvia, Longaroni, Mattia, Pinciroli, Tiziana, Debs, Tarek, Costa, Gianluca, Miccini, Michelangelo, Aurello, Paolo, Petrucciani, Niccolò

“…We divided the patients into two groups: (1) benign-related obstruction (n = 68) and (2) cancer-related obstruction (n = 31). We used logistic regression, KNN, and XGBOOST. We calculated the receiver operating characteristic curve and accuracy of the model. …”
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Optimization and scheduling for a large-scale urban transportation system involving human factors by Zhang, Yi

“…By connecting with the commercial simulator, Vissim, experiment studies are carried out to illustrate the usefulness of our proposed solution. The second part of the thesis investigates the potential impact of the pedestrian movement to the vehicle traffic networks when pedestrian safety is considered in the system. …”
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Mechanism design for internet of things services market by Jiao, Yutao

“…Our proposed data market model and pricing mechanism can effectively solve the profit maximization problem and provide useful strategies for the data analytics service provider. …”
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新加坡华语电视剧华人形象研究 = A study of ethnic Chinese images in Singapore Chinese television drama by Xiang, Zhili

“…However, the theme expressed is on the harmonious coexistence of a multi-ethnic and multiracial society. The use of dialects and the struggles of new immigrants in adapting to local society were also presented in these TV dramas from the perspective of promoting social harmony and enhancing social cohesion, which is part of the vision and mission of the Singapore media.…”
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High-voltage IR-UWB pulse generator MMIC design and beamforming for indoor-ranging and radar applications by Hussain Ansari Md Arif

“…The impulse generator generates a 7V sub-nanosecond voltage pulse, which is being used as an input to the pulse former stage. The pulse former performs the signal scaling, time-shifting, amplitude-reversal, and signal-addition to produce the desired Gaussian-enveloped multi-cycle IR-UWB pulse. …”
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Two-dimensional (2D) covalent organic framework as efficient cathode for binder-free lithium-ion battery by Yao, Chang-Jiang, Wu, Zhenzhen, Xie, Jian, Yu, Fei, Guo, Wei, Xu, Zhichuan Jason, Li, Dong-Sheng, Zhang, Shanqing, Zhang, Qichun

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Modelling familiarity : towards age-friendly exergame design by Zhang, Hao

“…Meanwhile, game designers can use this instrument to assess whether their designed exergames are familiar to their target users. …”
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Controlling the magnetic properties of LaMnO3/SrTiO3 heterostructures by stoichiometry and electronic reconstruction : atomic-scale evidence by Li, Mengsha, Tang, Chunhua, Paudel, Tula R., Song, Dongsheng, Lü, Weiming, Han, Kun, Huang, Zhen, Zeng, Shengwei, Wang, Renshaw Xiao, Yang, Ping, Ariando, Chen, Jingsheng, Venkatesan, Thirumalai, Tsymbal, Evgeny Y., Li, Changjian, Pennycook, Stephen John

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Conditional prosociality in development: deconstructing social and materialistic factors that modulate early prosocial behavior by Lee, Kristy Jia Jin

“…Cost was operationalized as the time and effort expended on providing help to the victim of a moral transgression, that could otherwise have been used to earn a reward from a productive task. Familiarity varied as a function of whether there was prior contact between the child and victim. …”
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Toward a generic federated learning platform optimized for computer vision applications by Zhuang, Weiming

“…Based on the framework, we conduct empirical studies to uncover in-depth insights into essential and useful fundamental building blocks in FedSSL . Inspired by these insights, we introduce a new approach to tackle the divergence issue caused by statistical heterogeneity. …”
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Generation of self-replicating airway organoids from the cave nectar bat Eonycteris spelaea as a model system for studying host-pathogen interactions in the bat airway epithelium by Chan, Louisa L. Y., Gamage, Akshamal M., Tan, Chee Wah, Tan, Kai Sen, Liu, Jing, Tay, Douglas Jie Wen, Foo, Randy Jee Hiang, Rénia, Laurent, Wang, De Yun, Wang, Lin-Fa

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Development of novel electrospun nanofibrous scaffold with nanomaterials for target adsorption in different applications by Lim, Huai Xun

“…Therefore, with the successful use cases of novel nanofibrous membrane scaffold with nanomaterials, this work contributes to the development of nanofibrous membrane fabrication technology by showcasing the versatility in the electrospinning process. …”
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Roseburia intestinalis generated butyrate boosts anti-PD-1 efficacy in colorectal cancer by activating cytotoxic CD8⁺ T cells by Kang, Xing, Liu, Changan, Ding, Yanqiang, Ni, Yunbi, Ji, Fenfen, Lau, Harry Cheuk Hay, Jiang, Lanping, Sung, Joseph Jao Yiu, Wong, Sunny Hei, Yu, Jun

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