Design and in vitro release study of siRNA loaded Layer by Layer nanoparticles with sustained gene silencing effect by Tan, Yang Fei, Lee, Ying Shi, Seet, Li-Fong, Ng, Kee Woei, Wong, Tina T., Venkatraman, Subbu

“…Results: In vitro studies using murine conjunctiva fibroblasts show sustained release over 2 weeks, and that such released siRNA sustained SPARC knockdown without affecting cell growth, and maintained siRNA presence in the cells for at least two weeks with a single-dose treatment. Release studies of siRNA from particles in vitro gave insight on how the particles delivered prolonged gene-silencing effects. …”
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Electrophoretic deposition of reduced graphene oxide thin films for reduction of cross-sectional heat diffusion in glass windows by Yeo, Loo Pin, Nguyen, Tam Duy, Ling, Han, Lee, Ying, Mandler, Daniel, Magdassi, Shlomo, Tok, Alfred Iing Yoong

“…The 20-cycles rGO thin films showed 30% more NIR blocked at 1000 nm as compared to clean FTO, as well as the least temperature increment of 0.57 °C following 30 min of solar irradiation. …”
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Microfiltration of oil emulsions stabilized by different surfactants by Trinh, Thien An, Han, Qi, Ma, Yunqiao, Chew, Jia Wei

“…Secondly, the extent of membrane fouling was tied to the repulsive energy magnitudes rather than attractive ones, specifically in that the least repulsive energy values of the Tween 20 – stabilized oil emulsion was linked to the most extensive fouling.…”
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Insight into the lateral ride discomfort thresholds of young-adult bus passengers at multiple postures : case of Singapore by Nguyen, Teron, NguyenDinh, Nen, Lechner, Bernhard, Wong, Yiik Diew

“…Ride comfort was worst-off for standing passengers and least uncomfortable for sitting passengers. A strong statistical correlation was found between participants’ subjective ratings with lateral acceleration and duration of turning movement. …”
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Escalated deep-subwavelength acoustic imaging with field enhancement inside a metalens by Chen, Jian, Sun, Zeqing, Rao, Jing, Lisevych, Danylo, Fan, Zheng

“…Specifically, a breakthrough resolution below lambda/100 is achieved while resolving contrast is improved by at least 6.5 times and working bandwidth is broadened to approximately 25% of the operating frequency. …”
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Infection risk of SARS-CoV-2 in a dining setting : deposited droplets and aerosols by Ding, Shirun, Lee, Jia Shing, Mohamed Arif Mohamed, Ng, Bing Feng

“…In a four-person dining setting around a rectangular table, a diner seated diagonally across an infected person posed the least infection risk due to the deposited droplets on dining plates. …”
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Clustering of designers based on building information modeling event logs by Pan, Yue, Zhang, Limao, Skibniewski, Miroslaw J.

“…Our new algorithm node2vec-GMM is proven to better improve clustering quality than other state-of-the-art methods by at least 6.0% Adjusted Rand Index and 13.4% Adjusted Mutual Information. …”
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A blockchain based federated learning for message dissemination in vehicular networks by Ayaz, Ferheen, Sheng, Zhengguo, Tian, Daxin, Guan, Yong Liang

“…It also outperforms other blockchain approaches in reducing 65.2% of time delay in consensus, improving at least 8.2% message delivery rate and preserving privacy of neighbor vehicle more efficiently. …”
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Strong piezoelectricity in 3R-MoS₂ flakes by Hallil, Hamida, Cai, Weifan, Zhang, Kang, Yu, Peng, Liu, Sheng, Xu, Ran, Zhu, Chao, Xiong, Qihua, Liu, Zheng, Zhang, Qing

“…Through applying mechanical stress to a 48 nm 3R-MoS2 flake, a high output power density of 65 mW m-2 is obtained and is at least one order larger than those from the corresponding monolayer MoS2 flake. …”
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Self-guided cognitive behavioral therapy apps for depression: systematic assessment of features, functionality, and congruence with evidence by Martinengo, Laura, Stona, Anne-Claire, Griva, Konstadina, Dazzan, Paola, Pariante, Carmine Maria, von Wangenheim, Florian, Car, Josip

“…Mental health disorders affect 1 in 10 people globally, of whom approximately 300 million are affected by depression. At least half of the people affected by depression remain untreated. …”
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Determinants of health-related quality of life after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA): a systematic review by Pek, Pin Pin, Fan, Kai Cheng, Ong, Marcus Eng Hock, Luo, Nan, Østbye, Truls, Lim, Shir Lynn, Ho, Andrew Fuwah

“…Methods: We systematically searched MEDLINE, Embase, and Scopus from inception to 15 August 2022 to identify studies investigating the association of at least one determinant and HRQoL in adult OHCA survivors. …”
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Exploring the development of a firewall using Windows filtering platform by Pang, Willy Boon Tee.

“…A firewall is also required to have learning mode, allowing the user the ability to block or allow an application to connect upon its initial execution. Last but not least, a firewall has to be able to save its data so it can be retrieved easily. …”
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Our model achieves excellent performance on movielens: what does it mean? by Fan, Yu-Chen, Ji, Yitong, Zhang, Jie, Sun, Aixin

“…However, models that achieve excellent recommendation accuracy on the MovieLens dataset may not demonstrate superior performance in practice, for at least two kinds of differences: (1) the differences in the contexts of user-item interaction generation, and (2) the differences in user knowledge about the item collections. …”
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Design and development of a biopolymer microfiber fabrication device by Yap, Yi-Liang.

“…In order to do so, the device must be able to sustain a continuous production of fiber for at least 1 minute and have a production rate higher than 1 mg/min. …”
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Catastrophic risk analysis and management for Public-Private Partnership (PPP) infrastructure systems by Qian, Qiyu

“…Such strategy is developed based on an in-depth understanding of the project’s risk exposure derived from catastrophe model, layered risk financing portfolio setup decided by concession agreement, cost and benefit analysis between different risk financing instruments and mitigation efforts, and last but not least, a good understanding of dynamic financial demand.…”
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Motor adaptation with passive machines: A first study on the effect of real and virtual stiffness by Tommasino, Paolo, Melendez-Calderon, A., Burdet, E., Campolo, Domenico

“…However, passive devices and virtual environments have received much less attention at least with regard to motor adaptation. This paper investigates the effects of both the real and virtual stiffness on motor adaptation. …”
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Theoretical study of spermatozoa sorting by dielectrophoresis or magnetophoresis with supervised learning by Koh, James Boon Yong

“…The difference in velocity distribution between normal and abnormal sperm cells can be widened using an external field to double the proportion of normal ones, with at least half the number of normal spermatozoa in the original sample retained. …”
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Predicting clinical outcome of neuroblastoma patients using an integrative network-based approach by Rajapakse, Jagath Chandana, Azuaje, Francisco, Tranchevent, Léon-Charles, Nazarov, Petr V., Kaoma, Tony, Schmartz, Georges P., Muller, Arnaud, Kim, Sang-Yoon

“…In particular, we observe that models built on our network-based approach perform at least as well as state of the art models. We furthermore explore the effectiveness of various topological features and observe, for instance, that redundant centrality metrics can be combined to build more powerful models. …”
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Sparse low-rank matrix approximation for data compression by Hou, Junhui, Chau, Lap-Pui, Magnenat-Thalmann, Nadia, He, Ying

“…Technically, we formulate SLRMA as a constrained optimization problem, i.e., minimizing the approximation error in the least-squares sense regularized by the 0-norm and orthogonality, and solve it using the inexact augmented Lagrangian multiplier method. …”
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Laplacian embedded regression for scalable manifold regularization by Chen, Lin, Tsang, Ivor Wai-Hung, Xu, Dong

“…In particular, the manifold regularization framework has laid solid theoretical foundations for a large family of SSL algorithms, such as Laplacian support vector machine (LapSVM) and Laplacian regularized least squares (LapRLS). However, most of these algorithms are limited to small scale problems due to the high computational cost of the matrix inversion operation involved in the optimization problem. …”
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