Insights on Serology, CRISPR Diagnostics, and Machine Learning Architectures for Biological Sequences by Siddiqui, Sameed Muneeb

“…This dissertation focuses on combining cutting-edge immunological, diagnostic, and computational approaches to confront infectious diseases more effectively, with a particular emphasis on SARS-CoV-2. The first two chapters delve into the immunological aspects of SARS-CoV-2, exploring the dynamics of antibody responses during primary infection and reinfection. …”
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Exploratory Study on Customer Requirement in View of Electric Vehicle Development in Malaysia: Electric Vehicles in Malaysia (S/O: 12726) by Ibrahim, Jafni Azhan, Yusoff, Rushami Zien, Osman, Nor Hasni, Mohammed Udin, Zulkifli, Shariff, Kamal Imran, Ahmad, Azhar

“…The aim of this research is to analyze potential car buyers’ awareness towards electric vehicle (EV) and examine the factors that are most likely to affect their choice for EV in Malaysia. …”
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Tourism in Thailand : factors behind its growth and resilience. by Nino Gruettke., Karthik Naga., Kartika Surja., Tan, Kiam Hong.

“…In the same period, Thailand has been hit by financial crises, political upheavals, the SARS epidemic and a tsunami. Despite the impact of these crises, the tourism industry in Thailand has shown remarkable resilience in its economic recovery, showing only a transient dip before continuing on its upward trend of growth.…”
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Metrics to relate COVID-19 wastewater data to clinical testing dynamics by Xiao, Amy, Wu, Fuqing, Bushman, Mary, Zhang, Jianbo, Imakaev, Maxim, Chai, Peter R., Duvallet, Claire, Endo, Noriko, Erickson, Timothy B., Armas, Federica, Arnold, Brian, Chen, Hongjie, Chandra, Franciscus, Ghaeli, Newsha, Gu, Xiaoqiong, Hanage, William P., Lee, Wei Lin, Matus, Mariana, McElroy, Kyle A., Moniz, Katya, Rhode, Steven F., Thompson, Janelle, Alm, Eric J.

“…The relationship between wastewater copy numbers of SARS-CoV-2 gene fragments and COVID-19 clinical cases and deaths varies over time. …”
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Enhancing antibody responses by multivalent antigen display on thymus-independent DNA origami scaffolds by Wamhoff, Eike-Christian, Ronsard, Larance, Feldman, Jared, Knappe, Grant A., Hauser, Blake M., Romanov, Anna, Case, James Brett, Sanapala, Shilpa, Lam, Evan C., Denis, Kerri J. St., Boucau, Julie, Barczak, Amy K., Balazs, Alejandro B., Diamond, Michael S., Schmidt, Aaron G., Lingwood, Daniel, Bathe, Mark

“…Sequential immunization of mice with DNA-based VLPs (DNA-VLPs) elicits protective neutralizing antibodies to SARS-CoV-2 in a manner that depends on the valency of the antigen displayed and on T cell help. …”
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A 24-month National Cohort Study examining long-term effects of COVID-19 in children and young people by Stephenson, T, Pinto Pereira, SM, Nugawela, MD, Dalrymple, E, Harnden, A, Whittaker, E, Heyman, I, Ford, T, Segal, T, Chalder, T, Ladhani, SN, McOwat, K, Simmons, R, Xu, L, Fox-Smith, L, Shafran, R

“…Background: Some children and young people (CYP) infected with SARS-COV-2 experience impairing symptoms post-infection, known as post-COVID-19 condition (PCC). …”

An emerging network for COVID-19 CT-scan classification using an ensemble deep transfer learning model by Yousefpanah, Kolsoum, Ebadi, M. J., Sabzekar, Sina, Zakaria, Nor Hidayati, Osman, Nurul Aida, Ali Ahmadian, Ali Ahmadian

“…The publicly available SARS-CoV-2 CT dataset is utilized for our implementation, including 2481 CT scans. …”

Object class recognition by unsupervised scale-invariant learning by Fergus, R, Perona, P, Zisserman, A

“…The flexible nature of the model is demonstrated by excellent results over a range of datasets including geometrically constrained classes (e.g. faces, cars) and flexible objects (such as animals).…”

The 2005 PASCAL visual object classes challenge by Everingham, M, Zisserman, A, Williams, CKI, Van Gool, L, Allan, M, Bishop, CM, Chapelle, O, Dalal, N, Deselaers, T, Dorkó, G, Duffner, S, Eichhorn, J, Farquhar, JDR, Fritz, M, Garcia, C, Griffiths, T, Jurie, F, Keysers, D, Koskela, M, Laaksonen, J, Larlus, D, Leibe, B, Meng, H, Ney, H, Schiele, B, Schmid, C, Seemann, E, Shawe-Taylor, J, Storkey, A, Szedmak, S, Triggs, B, Ulusoy, I, Viitaniemi, V, Zhang, J

“…Four object classes were selected: motorbikes, bicycles, cars and people. Twelve teams entered the challenge. …”

Dengue versus COVID-19: comparing the incidence of cardiovascular, neuropsychiatric and autoimmune complications by Wee, Liang En, Lim, Jue Tao, Tan, Janice Yu Jin, Muhammed Ismail Bin Abdul Malek, Chiew, Calvin, Ng, Lee Ching, Chia, Po Ying, Leo, Yee Sin, Lye, David Chien Boon, Tan, Kelvin Bryan

“…The post-acute risk of new-incident multi-systemic complications following dengue infection was contrasted against that following severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection in a multi-ethnic adult Asian population. …”
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Lessons from the past : responding to infectious disease outbreaks by Bill Durodié

“…The lessons learnt from earlier outbreaks, such as SARS in 2003, are more limited than had been assumed.…”
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EN-79AB surface disinfection by UV & effect of repetitive organisms exposure on self disinfecting chemicals by Enkisra, Irfan

“…Therefore, due to safety constraints, the SARS-CoV2 virus strain was not permitted to be used in this experiment. …”
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Prediction of neutralising antibodies for novel coronavirus with machine learning by Kho, Jordon Junyang

“…Coronaviruses were responsible for three major viral outbreaks since the beginning of the 21st century, with the most recent outbreak being the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). Coronavirus infections are known to cause severe respiratory disease and even death. …”
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Synthesis and development of novel small molecule inhibitors of nucleophilic hydrolases by Gayatri

“…The work focused on the synthesis and structure activity relationship (SAR) exploration of two small molecule templates, i.e. …”

Analysis of mobile sources of air pollution by Chan, Jeffrey Si Yao

“…Mobile sources are buses, cars, trucks, motorcycles, ships and aeroplanes. …”
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Robust wireless baseband coding for advanced built-in tire monitoring system by Wang, Jiaming

“…A tire monitoring system is an essential part of cars and other traffic vehicles to help people know the working condition of tires. …”
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A visual category filter for Google Images by Fergus, R, Perona, P, Zisserman, A

“…</p> <p>We demonstrate the method on image sets returned by Google’s image search for a number of object categories including bottles, camels, cars, horses, tigers and zebras.</p>…”

Weakly supervised scale-invariant learning of models for visual recognition by Fergus, R, Perona, P, Zisserman, A

“…The flexible nature of the model is demonstrated by results over six diverse object categories including geometrically constrained categories (e.g. faces, cars) and flexible objects (such as animals). …”

Relative deficiency in interferon-γ-secreting CD4+ T cells is strongly associated with poorer COVID-19 vaccination responses in older adults by Ho, Vanda W. T., Boon, Low Heng, Cui, Jianzhou, Juequn, Zhou, Shunmuganathan, Bhuvaneshwari, Gupta, Rashi, Tan, Nikki Y. J., Qian, Xinlei, Purushotorman, Kiren, Fong, Siew-Wai, Renia, Laurent, Ng, Lisa F. P., Angeli, Veronique, Chen, Jinmiao, Kennedy, Brian K., Ong, Catherine W. M., Macary, Paul A.

“…Although the two-dose mRNA vaccination regime provides protection against SARS-CoV-2, older adults have been shown to exhibit poorer vaccination responses. …”
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Optimising the surveillance and control of communicable diseases: the effects of population heterogeneity on early outbreak transmission dynamics by Lovell-Read, F

“…Then, we extend our model to account for age-dependent factors that affect SARS-CoV-2 transmission, including patterns of social contacts, variation in susceptibility to infection, and the likelihood of developing clinical symptoms. …”