E-cigarette (EC) and heated tobacco product (HTP) use in the United Arab Emirates, an emerging EC and HTP market: a cross-sectional analysis of the International Tobacco Control (I... by Leinberger-Jabari, A, Ahmad, A, Lindson, N, Oke, J, Hartmann-Boyce, J, Fong, G, El-Shahawy, O, Raghib, A, Sherman, S

“…</p> <br> <p><strong>Results:</strong> Of the 2,041 individuals who answered questions on EC use, 32% reported ever using them. Of 521 people providing data on HTP, 30% reported ever using them. …”

Aluminium(I) anion-supported zero-valent palladium complexes by Yan, Chenting, Koshino, Kota, Zhu, Lizhao, Kinjo, Rei

“…Although transition-metal complexes bearing group 13 ligands are accessible via salt metathesis with these anions, zero-valent transition-metal complexes have never been reported. …”
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Multifidelity Methods for Design of Transition MetalComplexes by Janet, Jon Paul

“…The utility of this surrogate-assisted approach is evident and orders-of-magnitude accelerations are obtained over screening purely with DFT. Such strategies open the door for in silico design of some of the most challenging molecular systems at a far greater scale than ever before.…”
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Exploring Singlish as a pedagogical resource in the ELT classroom: implementing bidialectal pedagogy in Singapore by Lu, Luke

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Exploiting Temporal Vulnerabilities for Unauthorized Access in Intent-based Networking by Weintraub, Ben, Kim, Jiwon, Tao, Ran, Nita-Rotaru, Cristina, Okhravi, Hamed, Tian, Dave (Jing), Ujcich, Benjamin

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3D printing of mycelium engineered living materials using a waste-based ink and non-sterile conditions. by Soh, Eugene, Teoh, Jia Heng, Leong, Brendon, Xing, Tingrong, Le Ferrand, Hortense

“…An agar gel was chosen as the printing medium and supplemented with coffee grounds, malt and peptone to double the growth rate and density of the mycelium by Pleurotus ostreatus. …”
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Determinants of underdiagnosis of COPD in national and international surveys by Lamprecht, B, Soriano, JB, Studnicka, M, Kaiser, B, Vanfleteren, LE, Gnatiuc, L, Burney, P, Miravitlles, M, García-Rio, F, Akbari, K, Ancochea, J, Menezes, AM, Perez-Padilla, R, Montes de Oca, M, Torres-Duque, CA, Caballero, A, González-García, M, Buist, S

“…In multivariate analysis, a greater probability of underdiagnosis of COPD was associated with male sex, younger age, never and current smoking, lower education, no previous spirometry, and less severe airflow limitation. …”

Women in management positions in the hotel industry in Singapore by Lee, Mei Hwa., Teo, Ai Tee., Yip, June Yoke Ping.

“…The number of women in management has been increasing over the decades, especially in the hotel industry. …”
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Toward sustainable waste management in small islands developing states: integrated waste-to-energy solutions in Maldives context by Wang, Yao, Ruiz-Acevedo, Alejandro, Rameez, Eemaan, Raghavan, Vijaya, Hussain, Abid, Fei, Xunchang

“…Given Male’s dense population and high calorific waste, incineration could generate up to ∼30 GW/a energy and even increase Maldives’ renewable energy supply by 200%. …”
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Recent developments in electrode materials for sodium-ion batteries by Wang, Luyuan Paul, Yu, Linghui, Wang, Xin, Srinivasan, Madhavi, Xu, Zhichuan Jason

“…The rapid consumption of non-renewable resources has resulted in an ever-increasing problem of CO2 emissions that has motivated people for investigating the harvesting of energy from renewable alternatives (e.g. solar and wind). …”
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Adaptive routing for layer-2 load balancing in data center networks by Kanagavelu, Renuga, Lee, Francis Bu-Sung, Ragavendran, Vasanth, Aung, Khin Mi Mi

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Approximation of the stability number of a graph via copositive programming by Klerk, Etienne de., Pasechnik, Dmitrii V.

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Study of bioactivity of complexed DNA in biodegradable polymer films by Debasish Mondal

“…The polymeric system consists of a biodegradable semi crystalline polymer such as PCL blended with a hydrophilic polymer such as gelatin, hyaluronic acid (HA), PEG, PVP, or the sodium salt of poly acrylic acid (PAA). Release studies of pDNA and complexed DNA from different polymeric films were performed by quantifying the amount of DNA released at specific time points over a period of month, utilizing the fluorescence of ethidium bromide complexed to DNA. …”
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Analysis and design of audio class D amplifiers by Guo, Linfei

“…Design and Analysis of Audio Class D Amplifiers Abstract Class-D Amplifiers (CDAs) are at this juncture widely accepted over their linear counterparts due to their higher power-efficiency and their ensuing smaller form factor, and the design art thereto is relatively mature. …”
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"Coming out" as a lesbian-woman in Singapore. by Tan, Caryn Shan Ting.

“…Going against these forces, is a revolutionary act of bravery symbolic of the enlightened spirit and ethos of modernity albeit with real sacrifices to be made.…”
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Ethnoichthyology of the First Record of Spine Bahaba (Bahaba polykladiskos) from Muar, Johor, Malaysia by Ilham-Norhakim, Mohd Lokman, Mohd Faudzir, Najmuddin, Hidayah, Haris, Othman, Nursyuhada, Ramli, Ramli, Sariyati Nur Hartini, Sariyati Nur Hartini, Rasul Abdullah, Halim Muhammad, Abdullah-Fauzi, Abdullah-Fauzi, Akmal, Fawwazah, Abdul-Latiff, Muhammad Abu Bakar

“…This research aims to document the first-ever record of B. polykladiskos in Muar River, Johor, and provide ethnoichthyological insights regarding this species. …”
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Development of highly-efficient ZIF-8@PDMS/PVDF nanofibrous composite membrane for phenol removal in aqueous-aqueous membrane extractive process by Jin, Meng-Yi, Lin, Yuqing, Liao, Yuan, Tan, Choon-Hong, Wang, Rong

“…The high performance was maintained for over 360 h without loss of salt rejection. These results could be attributed to the organophilic-assisted “bi-mode” transporting mechanism of ZIF-8 nanofillers in PDMS matrix, namely: (1) the solution-diffusion transport mode; (2) the pore-flow transport mode, where the synergistic effects are expected to significantly improve the phenol transfer efficiency through the membranes. …”
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Study on supply chain challenges in container shipping : the port operator's perspectice by Muhammad Zulkarnain Mess.

“…Some recommendations made for these problems are best practices adopted by ports world wide, while others such as ‘sharing concept’ are derived personally. …”
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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

“…Ebola virus is a virulent pathogen that causes highly lethal hemorrhagic fever in human and non-human species. The rapid growth of this virus infection has made the scenario increasingly complicated to control the disease. …”
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Transfusion-transmitted severe Plasmodium knowlesi malaria in a splenectomized patient with beta-thalassaemia major in Sabah, Malaysia: a case report by Bird, Elspeth M., Parameswaran, Uma, William, Timothy, Khoo, Tien Meng, Grigg, Matthew J., Aziz, Ammar, Marfurt, Jutta, Yeo, Tsin Wen, Auburn, Sarah, Anstey, Nicholas M., Barber, Bridget E.

“…CASE PRESENTATION: A 23-year old splenectomized patient with beta thalassaemia major presented with fever 11 days after receiving a blood transfusion from a pre-symptomatic donor who presented with knowlesi malaria 12 days following blood donation. …”
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