Influence of operating parameters on morphology of laser hardened surfaces by Maharjan, Niroj, Zhou, Wei, Zhou, Yu, Wu, Naien

“…The highly intense laser beam rapidly heats up the irradiated surface above its austenitization temperature which cools down instantaneously (self-quenching) as the laser moves away from the spot producing a hardened surface. The fast heating and cooling generate a non-equilibrium phase transformation of which very little is understood. …”
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Lipid-mediated resolution of inflammation and survival in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis by Yildiz, O, Hunt, GP, Schroth, J, Dhillon, G, Spargo, TP, Al-Chalabi, A, Koks, S, Turner, MR, Shaw, PJ, Henson, SM, Iacoangeli, A, Malaspina, A

“…Compared to non-neurological controls, GPR32 was upregulated in monocytes expressing the active inflammation-suppressing CD11b+ integrin from fast-progressing pwALS, including those with bulbar onset disease (P < 0.0024), whilst GPR32 and GPR18 were downregulated in most B and T cell subtypes. …”

Unravelling the degradation pathways and charging mechanism in the Li-O2 battery: the role of singlet oxygen by Zor, C

“…</p> <p>In the Thesis, firstly, the redox mediated charging process was studied to understand the mechanism to enable fast charging with low overpotentials and side reactions. …”

Dynamics of current-driven magnetic domain walls and skyrmions by Indra Purnama

“…Our results shows it is possible to optimize the speed of the DWs in PMA nanowires by locking the DWs in a configuration that is least hindered when driven by current. Lastly, our work on the skyrmion research provides a framework to solve the issue of skyrmion annihilations. …”
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Malaysian SMEs m-commerce adoption : TAM 3, UTAUT 2 and TOE approach by Salimon, Maruf Gbadebo, Kareem, Olanrewaju, Sany Sanuri, Mohd Mokhtar, Abdullateef, Aliyu Olayemi, Bamgbade, Jibril Adewale, Adeleke, Adekunle Qudus

“…The data collected were analyzed using partial least square-structural equation modeling. Findings: The findings of this study reveal that technological factors (computer self-efficacy [CSE], result demonstrability [RD] and computer anxiety [CA]) positively and significantly influence MCA. …”
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Non-linear Log-Sobolev Inequalities for the Potts Semigroup and Applications to Reconstruction Problems by Gu, Yuzhou, Polyanskiy, Yury

“…We show that to have a non-trivial reconstruction probability the branching number of the tree should be at least $$\begin{aligned} \frac{\log q}{\log q - \log (q-1)} = (1-o(1))q\log q. …”
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Liposomal nanotherapy for treatment of atherosclerosis : passive versus active targeting by Darwitan, Anastasia

“…Release was sustained up to 30 days in vitro and the formulation was stable for at least 3 months. In active strategy, active ligands were decorated on nanoliposomal surface for enhancement of cell internalization. …”
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An observational study of the prevalence of metabolic syndrome in treatment-experienced people living with HIV in Singapore by Ang, Li Wei, Ng, Oon Tek, Boudville, Irving Charles, Leo, Yee Sin, Wong, Chen Seong

“…Of all the 2,231 individuals, 68.8% had at least one component of MetS. The overall prevalence of MetS was 23.6% (95% confidence interval 21.9%–25.4%). …”
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Analysis of influence and its applications in social advertising by Zhu, Yuqing

“…Our method generates only the samples spreading influence beyond the source with at least one 2-hop live path. The samples generated by our 2-hop+ method can yield the random variable to estimate with tighter ranges and better concentration bounds can be applied to obtain an approximation of the random variable with a theoretically tighter threshold requiring less samples. …”
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Rationalisation of antifungal properties of α-helical pore-forming peptide, mastoparan B by Lim, Edward Jianyang, Goh, Eunice Tze Leng, Tram, Nhan Dai Thien, Periayah, Mercy Halleluyah, Ee, Rachel Pui Lai, Barkham, Timothy Mark Sebastian, Poh, Zhi Sheng, Verma, Navin Kumar, Lakshminarayanan, Rajamani

“…Among the four peptides, mastoparan B (MB) displayed potent antifungal activity, whereas cecropin A was the least potent. We show that MB susceptibility of phylogenetically distant non-candida albicans can vary and be described by different intrinsic physicochemical parameters of pore-forming α-helical peptides. …”
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Molecular recognition in protein-DNA assemblies by Davey, Curt Alexander

“…Extensive adduct formation observed at the centre of the NCP suggests that this region of the nucleosome, known to be least accessible to protein factors, may provide a favorable target for the design of improved platinum anticancer drugs.In addition to platinum drug site selectivity studies, we engaged in biophysical and biochemical studies revealing functional aspects of chromatin-drug interactions that are shedding light on new possibilities for anticancer agent development. …”
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Evaluation of the safety and immunogenicity of different COVID-19 vaccine combinations in healthy individuals: study protocol for a randomized, subject-blinded, controlled phase 3... by Poh, Xuan Ying, Lee, I. Russel, Lim, Clarissa, Teo, Jefanie, Rao, Suma, Chia, Po Ying, Ong, Sean W. X., Lee, Tau Hong, Lin, Ray J. H., Ng, Lisa F. P., Ren, Ee Chee, Lin, Raymond T. P., Wang, Lin-Fa, Renia, Laurent, Lye, David C., Young, Barnaby Edward

“…More than 90% of the Singapore population has received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine as of December 2021. …”
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Joint client-and-sample selection for federated learning via bi-level optimization by Li, Anran, Wang, Guangjing, Hu, Ming, Sun, Jianfei, Zhang, Lan, Tuan, Luu Anh, Yu, Han

“…Extensive experiments comparison against eight state-of-the-art baselines on six real-world datasets in the presence of data noise and heterogeneity shows that FedMW-CSS achieves up to 28.5% higher test accuracy, while saving communication and computation costs by at least 49.3% and 1.2%, respectively.…”
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High-efficiency magnetophoretic labelling of adoptively-transferred T cells for longitudinal in vivo magnetic particle imaging by Tay, Rong En, Lokamitra, P., Pang, Shun Toll, Low, Kay En, Tay, Hui Chien, Ho, Charmaine Min, Malleret, Benoit, Rötzschke, Olaf, Olivo, Malini, Tay, Zhi Wei

“…Results: Labelling efficiency was improved more than 10-fold over prior studies enabling longer-term tracking for at least two weeks in vivo of the labelled immune cells and their biodistribution relative to the tumour. …”
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Synthesis and characterization of reduced graphene oxide-based composites by Wu, Shixin

“…In addition, the Fe3O4-Pt/rGO composite can catalyze the reduction of methylene blue and be recycled within 1 min by applying an external magnetic field for at least 16 times.…”
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Electric-field control of magnetism in multiferroic composites by Ding, Hui

“…Multiferroic materials have at least two of the ferroic properties, namely ferroelectricity, ferro (anitferro) magnetism and ferroelasticity.The term usually refers to materials that possess both ferroelectric and magnetic orders. …”
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Selective lighting up of epiberberine alkaloid fluorescence by fluorophore-switching aptamer and stoichiometric targeting of human telomeric DNA G-quadruplex multimer by Zhang, Lihua, Liu, Hua, Shao, Yong, Lin, Clement, Jia, Huan, Chen, Gang, Yang, Danzhou, Wang, Ying

“…The binding affinity of EPI to TA[Q] (Kd = 37 nM) is at least 20 times tighter than those of the other alkaloids. …”
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Upper mantle rheology from GRACE and GPS postseismic deformation after the 2004 Sumatra-Andaman earthquake by Banerjee, Paramesh, Panet, I., Mikhailov, V., Diament, M., Grijalva, K., Pollitz, Fred F.

“…Mantle rheology is one of the essential, yet least understood, material properties of our planet, controlling the dynamic processes inside the Earth's mantle and the Earth's response to various forces. …”
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Role of the collagen receptor DDR1 in epithelial morphogenesis and polarisation by Søgaard, P

“…</p> <p>Overall, this study suggests that DDR1 signalling contributes to epithelial polarisation and morphogenesis in a manner involving regulation of cytoskeletal organisation, at least partly through regulation of ROCK activity.…”

Consensus on current management of endometriosis by Johnson, NP, Hummelshoj, L, World Endometriosis Society Montpellier Consortium

“…Several guidelines have been developed by a number of national and international bodies, yet areas of controversy and uncertainty remain, not least due to a paucity of firm evidence. </p> <p><strong>Study design, size, duration:</strong> A consensus meeting, in conjunction with a pre- and post-meeting process, was undertaken. …”