Regardless of race, language and religion : is discrimination non-existent in Singapore ? by Tan, Hui Min

“…This study is designed to examine the types of in-group identification processes that occur within a vibrant polyculture society such as Singapore. Past literature indicates that in-group identification is dynamic and flexible. …”
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Halving premature death and improving quality of life at all ages by Norheim, OF, Chang, A, Bolongaita, S, Barraza-Lloréns, M, Jha, P, Lewington, S, Jamison, DT, Peto, R

“…To assess whether halving premature mortality by 2050 is feasible, we examined the large variation in premature death rates before age 70 years and trends over the past 50 years (1970–2019), covering ten world regions and the 30 most-populous nations. …”

Conditional prosociality in development: deconstructing social and materialistic factors that modulate early prosocial behavior by Lee, Kristy Jia Jin

“…The past decade of developmental research has illuminated a fascinatingly diverse range of prosocial behavior in young children. …”
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GP-OSMOTIC trial protocol : an individually randomised controlled trial to determine the effect of retrospective continuous glucose monitoring (r-CGM) on HbA1c in adults with type... by Furler, John, O’Neal, David Norman, Speight, Jane, Blackberry, Irene, Manski-Nankervis, Jo-Anne, Thuraisingam, Sharmala, de La Rue, Katie, Ginnivan, Louise, Browne, Jessica Lea, Holmes-Truscott, Elizabeth, Khunti, Kamlesh, Dalziel, Kim, Chiang, Jason, Audehm, Ralph, Kennedy, Mark, Clark, Malcolm, Jenkins, Alicia Josephine, Liew, Danny, Clarke, Philip, Best, James

“…Eligibility: Aged 18–80 years, T2D for ≥1 year, a (past month) HbA1c>5.5 mmol/mol (0.5%) above their individualised target while prescribed at least two non-insulin hypoglycaemic therapies and/or insulin (therapy stable for the last four months). …”
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Report to the President for year ended June 30, 2022, MIT Museum by Durant, John

“…This report contains the following sections: Celebrating our Past; Ongoing Activity; Planning for Kendall; Personnel…”
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The development and application of mass-spectrometry-based tools to monitor proteome remodeling in microbes by Telusma, Bertina

“…In chapters 3 and 4, I apply these methods to the methylotrophic yeast, Komagataella phaffii, which grows robustly on a diverse set of carbon sources. …”
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TEOSINTE BRANCHED1/CYCLOIDEA/PROLIFERATING CELL FACTOR4 Interacts with WRINKLED1 to mediate seed oil biosynthesis by Kong, Que, Singh, Sanjay K., Mantyla, Jenny J., Pattanaik, Sitakanta, Guo, Liang, Yuan, Ling, Benning, Christoph, Ma, Wei

“…We screened a TF library using Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana) WRI1 (AtWRI1) as bait in yeast two-hybrid assays and identified three TEOSINTE BRANCHED1/CYCLOIDEA/PROLIFERATING CELL FACTOR (TCP) family TFs, namely TCP4, TCP10, and TCP24, as AtWRI1-interacting partners. …”
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Three distinct 3-methylcytidine (m3C) methyltransferases modify tRNA and mRNA in mice and humans by Xu, Luang, Liu, Xinyu, Sheng, Na, Oo, Kyaw Soe, Liang, Junxin, Chionh, Yok Hian, Xu, Juan, Ye, Fuzhou, Gao, Yong-Gui, Dedon, Peter C., Fu, Xin-Yuan

“…However, the recent discovery of trm141 as the second gene responsible for m3C presence in RNA in fission yeast raises the possibility that multiple enzymes are involved in m3C formation in mammals as well. …”
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Formulation, optimization and characterization of palm kernel oil esters nanoemulsion system containing sodium diclofenac by Rezaee, Malahat

“…Aerobic plate count, and yeast and mould count tests showed that there were no bacteria and fungus growth in the samples. …”
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A tough egg to crack by Ding, Ming

“…Research is required on different body structures to determine a design that yields highest strength with least amount of material. [1st Award]…”
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Blind deconvolution algorithms for medical ultrasound imaging by Yeoh, Wee Soon

“…These are the constrained least squares filter, the discrete nonorthogonal wavelet transform, and the symmetrical mirror wavelet solution.…”
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New algorithms for hardware-efficient implementation of sign detection and magnitude comparison in residue number systems by Sachin Kumar

“…Last but not least, a scaling-assisted sign integer comparator for the balanced five-moduli set {2n−1, 2n, 2n+1, 2n+1−1, 2n−1−1} has been proposed. …”
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Contextual Predictability and Phonetic Reduction by Martin, Kinan R.

“…We train instances of GPT-2 on different context directions (past, future, and bidirectional) and context sizes (bigram vs. sentence) to provide measures of conditional word predictability, then use linear regression to quantify their correlation with a measure of phonetic reduction (word duration). …”
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The redirected gesture in Brian Friel’s Dancing at Lughnasa by Lee, Cheryl Julia

“…In particular, I propose that, contrary to most critics’ straightforward reading of the Mundys’ dance in Act 1 as one of Michael’s memories, it is in fact an aesthetic gesture located at the intersection of the past and present, of reality and the imagination, of the self and the other. …”
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The role of mainstreamness and interdisciplinarity for the relevance of scientific papers by Thurner, Stefan, Liu, Wenyuan, Klimek, Peter, Cheong, Siew Ann

“…Here we use the bibliographic coupling network, derived from all physics papers that were published in the Physical Review journals in the past century, to try to identify them as mainstream, out-of-the-box, or interdisciplinary. …”
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Influenza messaging is better than no messaging at all : an experimental assessment of the effects of goal framing and affected-person framing on influenza vaccination attitudes an... by Kong, Wei Yi

“…The persuasiveness of goal framing on preventive behaviors has been established in past research but its effect on vaccination is inconsistent, and highlighting recipients of health benefits or consequences was suggested to moderate framing effects. …”
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Establishing the association between traditional tobacco, e-cigarette and dual use and mental health problems among high school students: results from a 2022 behavioral surveillanc... by Thepthien, BO, Tinn, CS, Sharma, R

“…This study examined the association among past-year use of conventional cigarette (CC), e-cigarette (EC), dual use (using both CC and EC), with presence of substance use (i.e., alcohol use and marijuana use), having friends and family members who use cigarettes, and mental health problems (e.g., depression, anxiety, psychological distress (PD), problem gambling (PG) and adverse childhood experiences (ACEs)). …”

Report on professional attachment with American International Assurance. by Cheung, Wai Man.

“…This will be followed by the description of the tangible benefits of the PA program - the various projects and tasks author has been doing and learning for the past 8 weeeks.…”
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Pareto Adaptive Robust Optimality via a Fourier–Motzkin Elimination lens by Bertsimas, Dimitris, ten Eikelder, Stefan C. M., den Hertog, Dick, Trichakis, Nikolaos

“…A worst-case optimal solution pair of here-and-now decisions and wait-and-see decisions is PARO if it cannot be Pareto dominated by another solution, i.e., there does not exist another worst-case optimal pair that performs at least as good in all scenarios in the uncertainty set and strictly better in at least one scenario. …”
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Design of IIR filters by optimization techniques by Wang, Zhe.

“…In this report, mainly two Minimax design techniques of Digital IIR Filters namely Sequential Constrained Least-Squares Method combined with Steiglitz-McBride (SCLS SM) and Sequential Minimization Procedure for Minimax Design of IIR Filter Based on Second-Order Factor Updates (SMSOF) are presented to solve the two optimization design issues on IIR filters, which refers to converting the non-convex optimization problem into the convex problem and the stability issue of IIR filters. …”
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