The combined role of MRI prostate and prostate health index in improving detection of significant prostate cancer in a screening population of Chinese men by Chiu, Peter K. F., Lam, Thomas Y. T., Ng, Chi-Fai, Teoh, Jeremy Y. C., Cho, Carmen C. M., Hung, Hiu-Yee, Hong, Cindy, Roobol, Monique J., Chu, Winnie C. W., Wong, Samuel Y. S., Sung, Joseph Jao Yiu

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Development of advanced Fe-based oxygen carriers for chemical looping applications by Fan, Qianwenhao

“…All the perovskite structured oxygen carriers showed excellent cyclic stability over pressure swing cycles at 500 °C, suggesting their suitability for long-term operation. The enhanced activity can be rationalized by the enhanced activity of the TM-O bonds, which are correlated to descriptors such as Goldschmidt tolerance factor, the O 2p band center, and the degree of TM-O hybridization. 3. …”
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Biomarkers and cognition study, Singapore (BIOCIS): protocol, study design, and preliminary findings by Leow, Yi Jin, Wang, J. D. J., Vipin, Ashwati, Sandhu, Gurveen Kaur, Soo, See Ann, Kumar, Dilip, Mohammed, Adnan Azam, Zailan, Fatin Zahra, Lee, Faith Phemie Hui En, Ghildiyal, Smriti, Liew, Shan Yao, Dang, Chao, Tanoto, Pricilia, Tan, Isabelle Yu Zhen, Chong, Wayne Freeman Weien, Kandiah, Nagaendran

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Characterization of nickel-titanium based thin films crystallized by fast and ultra-fast annealing methods by Motemani Sharabiani, Yahya

“…The first part of the study is concerned with describing and correlating the evolution of structural, surfacial and nano-scale mechanical properties of amorphous Ti-Ni-Cu thin films crystallized by rapid thermal annealing (RTA), where the treatment takes place under a protected atmosphere by electromagnetic irradiation with fast heating rate (< 100 oC/sec). Long range order of amorphous Ti-Ni-Cu thin films was achieved in a few seconds (> 60 sec), with the optimum crystallization temperature of 480oC. …”
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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. …”
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Export competitiveness in the context of Singapore by Chew, Kheng Lee, Phua, Chin Tiong, Yau, Puay Hiang

“…This means that a currency appreciation policy (decline in nominal exchange rate) is appropriate as long as the relative price level is able to steer Singapore's exports to a more favorable position. …”
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3D content recovery and complexity reduction by Tan, Cheen Hau

“…Our mocap recovery methods target two types of missing data: random missing data, where each joint in a sequence are missing at random, and block missing data, where each joint is missing for long intervals of time. For the case of random missing data, we propose to arrange the mocap data matrix into columns of short trajectories, which we call the trajectory-based representation, for matrix completion recovery. …”
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Essays on multi-echelon inventory control by Wan, Guangyu

“…However, this heuristic significantly reduces the complexity of system optimization by considering only echelon order-up-to level at the warehouse and can cope with a relatively large number of retailers, a large demand arrival rate and a long replenishment cycle.…”
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Derivation of extreme non-gaussian stochastic offshore structural responses using finite memory nonlinear system by Mukhlas, Nurul ’Azizah

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Development of single seedling nursery tray for the System of Rice Intensification by Zubairu, Usman Bashar

“…A sliding base plate 635mm long, 332 mm wide and 4mm thick, served as a valve in holding and placing seedling for transplanting into the field. …”
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Novel method of probe design for characterising unclassified microbial taxa in wastewater by Tan, Shi Ming

“…Shimingles; distinct clades were in line with two draft genomes recovered through genomic binning. …”
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Unsupervised bayesian generative methods by Li, Shaohua

“…The topic embeddings modify the word distributions in a way like “latent words”. This model can be viewed as a countinuous counterpart of Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA), with a few advantages.…”
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Self-learning shape recognition in medical images by Ma, Jingting

“…As training data is often corrupted by many factors like inherent noise/artifacts and non-ideal delineations in this thesis, many efforts have been devoted to developing SSMs that are robust to data corruption. …”
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On poisson vector graphics : displacement mapping, vectorization and color transfer by Fu, Qian

“…Our future direction is to explore more significative applications of PVG, associated with state-to-art technologies like deep-learning techniques.…”
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Localized structural and bulk effects in hybrid organic-inoraginc perovskites by Wong, Walter Pei De

“…Additionally, a better understanding of the material’s structure – property relationship would be valuable to the respective material’s application, like photovoltaics or efficient lighting application which are of increasing importance towards sustainability efforts. …”
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Mitofusins Mfn1 and Mfn2 are required to preserve glucose- but not incretin-stimulated β-cell connectivity and insulin secretion by Georgiadou, Eleni, Muralidharan, Charanya, Martinez, Michelle, Chabosseau, Pauline, Akalestou, Elina, Tomas, Alejandra, Yong, Fiona Su Wern, Stylianides, Theodoros, Wretlind, Asger, Legido-Quigley, Cristina, Jones, Ben, Lopez-Noriega, Livia, Xu, Yanwen, Gu, Guoqiang, Alsabeeh, Nour, Cruciani-Guglielmacci, Céline, Magnan, Christophe, Ibberson, Mark, Leclerc, Isabelle, Ali, Yusuf, Soleimanpour, Scott A., Linnemann, Amelia K., Rodriguez, Tristan A., Rutter, Guy A.

“…In contrast, oral glucose tolerance was more modestly affected in βMfn1/2-dKO mice, and glucagon-like peptide 1 or glucose-dependent insulinotropic peptide receptor agonists largely corrected defective glucose-stimulated insulin secretion through enhanced EPAC-dependent signaling. …”
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Scaling up parametric human recovery by Cai, Zhongang

“…HuMMan’s features include: 1) multimodal data and annotations, 2) integration of popular mobile devices in the sensor suite, 3) a comprehensive set of 500 actions, and 4) support for various tasks like action recognition, pose estimation, and especially parametric human recovery. …”
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4D printable thermally stimulated (meth)acrylate shape memory polymers with tailorable shape recovery force for vat photopolymerization by Ng, Chin Siang

“…This enables the SMP to recover back to its original shape by itself, just like most elastomers. The most common additive manufacturing technology to 4D print these SMPs is vat photopolymerization. …”
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Leveraging linguistic knowledge to enhance low-resource NLP applications by Zhu, Zixiao

“…Within this paradigm, fixed-prompt LM tuning wraps input sentences into a template, allowing the PLM to engage in tasks like masked language prediction or inference understanding. …”
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儒家的异端 ： 试析李贽思想与儒家学说的共通点 = An analysis of the similarity between Lizhi’s thoughts and Confucianism by 刘佑勋 Liew, Youxun

“…Having described the common role of Confucianism as an authoritative form of order under the context of a traditional China’s society, I would like to point out the corrupted nature of the Ming dynasty’s imperial court（明代朝廷、明代官学）, which took advantage of the above mentioned Confucian Ethics for its own benefits, whilst compromising the welfare of its commoners.In response to this, Li Zhi（李贽） advocated the discourse on the topic of “genuine human nature”（自然之性）, which not only emphasized the significance of retaining a pure, genuine and untainted form of human nature, but also criticized the “pseudo-moralists”（明代伪道学家） along with the corrupted imperial court for tainting and restricting the genuine nature of humanity, in the name of upholding the Confucian Ethics. …”
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