MicroRNAs in tissue engineering & regenerative medicine by Chew, Sing Yian

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Echoes From the Stone Reframing Preservation in Syria Through Haurani Folklore by Alrifai, Hajar

“…This interdisciplinary chronicle draws from architecture, agriculture, literature, anthropology, and film, to reconstruct a social history of the village and speculate on alternate ways of dwelling, building, and preserving— reclaiming the archive, reinserting narrative, and reframing heritage through the folklore of Hauran.…”
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Between City and Self: Reading Beirut in Mohamed Soueid’s Tango of Yearning by Anouti, Ghida

“…Soueid sees Tango of Yearning – the first in a trilogy titled Civil War – as an ‘obituary’ of his life prior to making this film. Hence, for him, the film is rooted in the past, yet I argue that it is a significant augury of Beirut itself as a palimpsest of urban memories sublimated by Soueid. …”
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Financial planning application using MATLAB App Designer by Renganathan, Preethi

“…FinanceMLab simplifies usage by using dynamic calculators that draw on reputable government sources [1], [2]. This ensures precise and consolidated financial planning. …”
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Painting and animating with graphics strokes by Cheong, Ying Ying.

“…The application is break down into two modes – Drawing Mode and Animation Mode. In the Drawing Mode, the user can draw brushstrokes using mouse motion, edits brushstroke’s form by manipulating the Catmull-Rom spline’s control points, all through an interactive 2D graphical user interface. …”
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Synthesis of chiral sulfinate esters by asymmetric condensation by Zhang, Xin, Ang, Esther Cai Xia, Yang, Ziqi, Kee, Choon Wee, Tan, Choon-Hong

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Detection of low frequency artemisinin resistance mutations, C469Y, P553L and A675V, and fixed antifolate resistance mutations in asymptomatic primary school children in Kenya by Osoti, V, Wamae, K, Ndwiga, L, Gichuki, PM, Okoyo, C, Kepha, S, Keitany, K, Kandie, R, Aricha, S, Kiplagat, R, Mwandawiro, C, Bejon, P, Snow, RW, Ochola-Oyier, LI

“…Background: To understand the emergence and spread of drug-resistant parasites in malaria-endemic areas, accurate assessment and monitoring of antimalarial drug resistance markers is critical. …”

Hybrid, nanoscale phospholipid/block copolymer vesicles by Lim, Seng Koon, Hoog, Hans-Peter de, Nallani, Madhavan, Bo, Liedberg, Parikh, Atul N.

“…In brief, these hybrids may provide alternative tools for drug delivery purposes and molecular imaging/sensing applications and clearly open up new avenues for further investigation.…”
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Mechanism of damnacanthal induced apoptosis in CEM-SS cell line by Gopalsamy, Banulata, Saiful Yazan, Latifah, Abdul Hamid, Hisyam

“…Due to the harsh effects of currently used cancer drugs, damnacanthal, an anthraquinone obtained from the roots of Morinda elliptica is tested as a potential anticancer agent. …”
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Mortality rates among patients successfully treated for hepatitis C in the era of interferon-free antivirals: population based cohort study by Hamill, V, Wong, S, Benselin, J, Krajden, M, Hayes, PC, Mutimer, D, Yu, A, Dillon, JF, Gelson, W, Velásquez García, HA, Yeung, A, Johnson, P, Barclay, ST, Alvarez, M, Toyoda, H, Agarwal, K, Fraser, A, Bartlett, S, Aldersley, M, Bathgate, A, Binka, M, Richardson, P, Morling, JR, Ryder, SD, Barnes, E

“…The leading causes of death were drug related mortality (n=383, 24%), liver failure (n=286, 18%), and liver cancer (n=250, 16%). …”

Synthesis and characterization of silver nanoprism-based nanostructures by Mohammad Mehdi Shahjamali

“…Noble metal nanostructures, ranging from a few atom clusters to micrometer-long nanocrystal, have attracted tremendous attention for more than half a century. They have shown the unique physical and chemical properties, which make them promising candidates in a wide range of applications, such as catalysis, electronics, optics, sensing, bioimaging and gene regulation. …”
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Non-traditional security issues : securitisation of transnational crime in Asia by Laki, James

“…Transnational crime involving all forms of domestic crime that tranverse the international boundary with another one or more states have become a concern amongst all peoples of the Asia Pacific region. …”
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Association of current Schistosoma mansoni, Schistosoma japonicum, and Schistosoma mekongi infection status and intensity with periportal fibrosis: a systematic review and meta-ana... by Ewuzie, A, Wilburn, L, Thakrar, DB, Cheng, H, Reitzug, F, Roberts, N, Malouf, R, Chami, GF

“…Two reviewers independently screened abstracts and full-text reports for eligibility. A third reviewer was consulted in cases of disagreement. …”

Beyond national identity : Kuo Pao Kun’s contemporary theatre and an open culture by Wee, C. J. Wan-Ling

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Imagining post-fossil tourism mobilities with Norwegian tourists by Hopkins, D, Landa-Mata, I, Kr Steen Jacobsen, J, Farstad, E, Higham, J

“…Sustainable mobility has become a catch-all term to describe forms, modes, policies and practices of mobility that are thought to have a lower environmental footprint and/or fewer social exclusions than the contemporary mobility system which is reliant on fossil fuels and private ownership. …”

Thermal-disrupting interface mitigates intercellular cohesion loss for accurate topical antibacterial therapy by Hu, Benhui, Berkey, Christopher, Feliciano, Timothy, Chen, Xiaohong, Li, Zhuyun, Chen, Chao, Amini, Shahrouz, Nai, Mui Hoon, Lei, Qun-Li, Ni, Ran, Wang, Juan, Leow, Wan Ru, Pan, Shaowu, Li, Yong-Qiang, Cai, Pingqiang, Miserez, Ali, Li, Shuzhou, Lim, Chwee Teck, Wu, Yun-Long, Odom, Teri W., Dauskardt, Reinhold H., Chen, Xiaodong

“…Bacterial infections remain a leading threat to global health because of the misuse of antibiotics and the rise in drug-resistant pathogens. Although several strategies such as photothermal therapy and magneto-thermal therapy can suppress bacterial infections, excessive heat often damages host cells and lengthens the healing time. …”
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Fictions of youth: childness in selected West African novels, 1991-2009 by Moellenberg, T

“…A "child" here is defined as a human person under age 18 and is referred to using the term <em>childness</em>, drawing from the work of children's literature scholar Peter Hollindale. …”

Striking a gut-liver balance for the antidiabetic effects of metformin by Barroso, Emma, Montori-Grau, Marta, Wahli, Walter, Palomer, Xavier, Vázquez-Carrera, Manuel

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A P450BM3 toolkit For C-H activation synthesis by Ren, X

“…Successful applications include drug metabolism, drug fragment diversification, synthesis of flavour and fragrance compounds, steroid oxidation, late-stage functionalisation in total synthesis, and C–H amination. …”

Formal contracts mitigate social dilemmas in multi-agent reinforcement learning by Haupt, Andreas, Christoffersen, Phillip, Damani, Mehul, Hadfield-Menell, Dylan

“…First, we show that this augmentation makes all subgame-perfect equilibria of all Fully Observable Markov Games exhibit socially optimal behavior, given a sufficiently rich space of contracts. …”
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