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%). …”

Investigating the toxicity of ATA nanoparticles in vitro and cardioprotective effects of ATA on DOX-induced cardiotoxicity in zebrafish by Lee, Eden Hui Ling

“…A novel compound acetyltanshinone (ATA) has been discovered to have a prominent growth inhibition effect on breast cancer cells and may be potentially used as a chemotherapeutic drug. However, its property of low aqueous solubility and bioavailability poses a limitation on its drug efficacy. …”
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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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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. …”

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

“…In sub-Saharan Africa, before the widespread introduction of mass drug administration in 2003 there was a significant association between current infection status and periportal fibrosis (OR 5&middot;38, 95% CI 2&middot;03&ndash;14&middot;25) but this association was no longer present after 2003 (1&middot;19, 0&middot;82&ndash;1&middot;74). …”

Tools for analysis of large-scale networks (I) algorithms, analytics and visualization by Zhang, Xinyi

“…In the previous tool, many basic analytical functions such as data search, topic modelling on the retrieved data and graphic user interface has been implemented successfully. Among all the social media sites, Twitter was chosen and 16.5GB raw tweets was used as the dataset in this project. …”
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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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Passion fruit juice concentration using fabricated cellulose triacetate/cellulose acetate forward osmosis membrane by Mohamad Idris, A.I., Mustapa Kamal, S.M., Sulaiman, A., Omar, R., Mohammad, M.

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Studies of degradable ureteric stents by Huang, Yun.

“…Further studies to optimize stent design, drug delivery and mechanical properties can be done.…”
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Molecular docking and pharmacokinetics analysis of phytochemicals from Piper caninum as dengue NS2B-NS3 protease inhibitors by Mustafa, Nur Farhana Ajua, Cheng, Kian Kai, Razali, Siti Aisyah, Nadri, Muhammad Helmi

“…Analysis of in silico pharmacokinetics properties revealed that these phytochemicals have good pharmacokinetics profiles and excellent drug-abil-ity, which obeyed Lipinski’s Rule of Five. …”
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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. …”

In silico screening of sugar alcohol compounds to inhibit viral matrix protein VP40 of Ebola virus by Nagarajan, Nagasundaram, Yapp, Edward Kien Yee, Le, Nguyen Quoc Khanh, Yeh, Hui-Yuan

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The treatment of malaria in pregnancy by Nosten, F, McGready, R

“…Studies are urgently needed to define the best therapeutic options and to develop new treatments, especially in Africa where drug resistance already compromises all strategies of control.…”

An investigation on correlation between linguistic features and personality traits : a case of Singapore Twitter users. by Yew, Chee Soon.

“…On the other hand, six undergraduate observers assessed the personality traits for these subjects according to the Big Five Personality Model using the BFI-10 inventory. …”
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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. …”

Generalized AutoNLP model for name entity recognition task by Wong, Yung Shen

“…After the remarkable achievement obtained by the introduction of BERT in various NLP related tasks, studies had been more focused on deep-learning based approach to represent the raw input sequence of string words. However, there is an uncertainty of these deep-learning based approaches able to convey all the semantic meanings of words and have generalized ability on AutoNLP on name entity recognition related tasks. …”
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Injectable transplantation system for anticancer in-situ cell therapy by Sheng, Nan.

“…Traditional cancer therapy methods include surgery, radiotherapy, chemotherapy, or combinations of them all. In recent years, immunotherapy, as a novel therapeutic method by which the immune system is used to reject specific cancer. …”
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Surface modified polymers for controlled macroscopic functions by Chng, S

“…A library of polymers with variation in end group, and with expansion of substrate scope, was characterised in detail for chemical and macroscopic properties. In particular, drug delivery properties were investigated using hole-plate bioassays and HPLC-MS methods, and it was found that the antibiotic, Penicillin V, was still active after being loaded onto the polymer scaffolds, with surface modified polymers binding and releasing more drug than the corresponding controls. …”