Developing a web app in conjunction with a honey dehydrator by Sim, Yang Kai

“…Honey is a sweet tasting viscous liquid made by bees, and honey harvesting practices have grown in the last few decades. …”
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Immunogenicity and safety of beta variant COVID-19 vaccine AZD2816 and AZD1222 (ChAdOx1 nCoV-19) as primary-series vaccination for previously unvaccinated adults in Brazil, South A... by Costa Clemens, SA, Jepson, B, Bhorat, QE, Ahmad, A, Akhund, T, Aley, PK, Bansal, H, Bibi, S, Kelly, EJ, Khan, M, Lambe, T, Lombaard, JJ, Matthews, S, Pipolo Milan, E, Olsson, U, Ramasamy, MN, Moura de Oliveira Paiva, MS, Seegobin, S, Shoemaker, K, Szylak, A, Villafana, T, Pollard, AJ, Green, JA

“…<p><b>Background</b></p> AZD2816 is a variant-adapted COVID-19 vaccine that expresses the full-length SARS-CoV-2 beta variant spike protein but is otherwise similar to AZD1222 (ChAdOx1 nCoV-19). …”

Policy design and professional service delivery performance of drinking water services in rural Mali by Wagner, J

“…Additionally, when payment modalities switch from volumetric to monthly flat fees, a handpump registers, on average, more than three times higher monthly revenue, along with a two-fold increase in daily water use. …”

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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Spooky action in the film/novel debate. by Lee, Tracy Marie Shiyin., Luo, Esmonde Jianwen., Wong, Kai Wing., Manoj Prabhoda Chandran., Chee, Kang Xiong.

“…The installation follows a Collector, Photographer, Writer and a Collective (a beer garden group that gathers at the local coffeeshop) in their daily life as they contemplate the curious events, and each other, in an attempt to cope with the boredom they face in the neighbourhood. …”
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Systematic assessment of COVID-19 host genetics using whole genome sequencing data by Schmidt, A, Casadei, N, Brand, F, Demidov, G, Vojgani, E, Abolhassani, A, Aldisi, R, Butler-Laporte, G, DeCOI host genetics group, Alawathurage, TM, Augustin, M, Bals, R, Bellinghausen, C, Berger, MM, Bitzer, M, Bode, C, Boos, J, Brenner, T, Cornely, OA, Eggermann, T, Erber, J, Feldt, T, Fuchsberger, C, Gagneur, J

“…Courses of SARS-CoV-2 infections are highly variable, ranging from asymptomatic to lethal COVID-19. …”

Investigating viral glycosylation pathways for drug and vaccine development by Brun, J

“…Compounds of a global anti-COVID-19 effort called the “Moonshot project” targeting the main protease of SARS-CoV-2 were also screened and promising compounds were progressed further to produce a specific direct-acting SARS-CoV-2 antiviral compound. …”

Pregnant women admitted to hospital with covid-19 in 10 European countries: individual patient data meta-analysis of population based cohorts in International Obstetric Survey Syst... by Engjom, HM, de Bruin, O, Ramakrishnan, R, Aabakke, AJM, Äyräs, O, Deneux-Tharaux, C, Donati, S, Knight, M, Jonasdottir, E, Svanvik, T, Vercoutere, A, Vousden, N, Bleomenkamp, KWM

“…The dominant variant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus was the wild-type variant in all countries during the study period (1 March 2020 to 31 December 2020).…”

Predicting child alimony under Islamic shariah law using hybrid fuzzy inference system by Rosili, Nur Aqilah Khadijah, Hassan, Rohayanti, Zakaria, Noor Hidayah, Farid Zamani, Che Rose, Kasim, Shahreen, Sutikno, Tole

“…Our model aims to expedite decision-making and minimize legal fees by accurately determining the proper amount of alimony for children after divorce. …”
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Reducing the air travel hassle factor through self-service check-in process improvements by Miller, Jared Keith, 1977-

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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.

“…While wastewater surveillance has been applied at various scales to monitor population-level COVID-19 dynamics, there is a need for quantitative metrics to interpret wastewater data in the context of public health trends. 24-hour composite wastewater samples were collected from March 2020 through May 2021 from a Massachusetts wastewater treatment plant and SARS-CoV-2 RNA concentrations were measured using RT-qPCR. …”
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First nosocomial cluster of COVID-19 due to the Delta variant in a major acute care hospital in Singapore: investigations and outbreak response by Lim, Wei Yen, Tan, Glorijoy Shi En, Htun, Htet Lin, Phua, Hwee Pin, Kyaw, Win Mar, Guo, Huiling, Cui, Lin, Mak, Tze Minn, Poh, Bee Fong, Wong, Judith Chui Ching, Setoh, Yin Xiang, Ang, Brenda Sze Peng, Chow, Angela Li Ping

“…Ward air exhaust filters were tested for SARS-CoV-2. Results: In total, there were 47 cases, comprising 29 patients, nine staff, six visitors and three household contacts. …”
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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

“…Background: While persistence of chronic symptoms following dengue infection has been documented in small prospective cohorts, population-based studies are limited. …”
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Predicting child alimony under Islamic shariah law using hybrid fuzzy inference system by Rosili, Nur Aqilah Khadijah, Hassan, Rohayanti, Zakaria, Noor Hidayah, Che Rose, Farid Zamani, Kasim, Shahreen, Tole Sutikno, Tole Sutikno

“…Our model aims to expedite decision-making and minimize legal fees by accurately determining the proper amount of alimony for children after divorce. …”
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Encapsulation of probiotics for food and beverage applications by Ang, Kai Lin

“…Up to date, no studies have been done to examine the viability of probiotics in popular, well-liked, commercialized carbonated sodas/beers, but it is known that certain components in these matrices (e.g. phosphoric acid in soda, hops and ethanol in beers) can reduce the viability of probiotics. …”
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Application of smartphone-based biophotonic instrumentation for glucose sensing using colorimetric method by Azlan, Nur Ainin Sofhia Nurul

“…The calibration curves consistently confirm that the proposed method aligns with the Beer-Lambert law, in accordance with expectations with previous studies. …”
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The effect of China's weak institutional environment on the quality of Big 4 audits by Ke, Bin, Lennox, Clive S., Xin, Qingquan

“…The Big 4 are less likely to issue modified audit reports, and they charge lower audit fees for clients that are listed only in China. Finally, companies listed only in China have larger signed abnormal accruals than do companies cross-listed in Hong Kong. …”
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Modelling the impact of testing, contact tracing and household quarantine on second waves of COVID-19 by Aleta, Alberto, Martín-Corral, David, Pastore y Piontti, Ana, Ajelli, Marco, Litvinova, Maria, Chinazzi, Matteo, Dean, Natalie E., Halloran, M. Elizabeth, Longini Jr, Ira M., Merler, Stefano, Pentland, Alex, Vespignani, Alessandro, Moro, Esteban, Moreno, Yamir

“…Here we integrate anonymized, geolocalized mobility data with census and demographic data to build a detailed agent-based model of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) transmission in the Boston metropolitan area. …”
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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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A multi-omics strategy to understand PASC through the RECOVER cohorts: a paradigm for a systems biology approach to the study of chronic conditions by Sun, J, Aikawa, M, Ashktorab, H, Beckmann, ND, Enger, ML, Espinosa, JM, Gai, X, Horne, BD, Keim, P, Lasky-Su, J, Letts, R, Maier, CL, Mandal, M, Nichols, L, Roan, NR, Russell, MW, Rutter, J, Saade, GR, Sharma, K, Shiau, S, Thibodeau, SN, Yang, S, Miele, L, NIH Researching COVID to Enhance Recovery (RECOVER) Consortium

“…Many of our recommendations have already been considered by the NIH through the peer-review process, resulting in the creation of a systems biology panel that is currently designing the studies we proposed. …”