Seroepidemiology of COVID-19 in pregnant women and their infants in Uganda and Malawi across multiple waves 2020-2022 by Hookham, L, Cantrell, L, Cose, S, Freyne, B, Gadama, L, Imede, E, Kawaza, K, Lissauer, S, Musoke, P, Nankabirwa, V, Sekikubo, M, Sommerfelt, H, Voysey, M, PeriCOVID Consortium, Le Doare, K

“…Data on SARS-CoV-2 infection in pregnancy and infancy has accumulated throughout the course of the pandemic. …”

Structural and biochemical characterisation of bacterial metallo-β-lactamases by Makena, A

“…</p> <p>The Verona imipenemase metallo-β-lactamases (VIM) enzymes are among the most widely distributed MBLs with &amp;GT;40 variants reported (Chapter 5). Comparative studies on the biochemical and biophysical properties were carried out for five VIM variants: VIM-1, VIM- 2, VIM-4, VIM-5 and VIM-38. …”

Accuracy and safety of an autonomous artificial intelligence clinical assistant conducting telemedicine follow-up assessment for cataract surgery by Meinert, E, Milne-Ives, M, Lim, E, Higham, A, Boege, S, de Pennington, N, Bajre, M, Mole, G, Normando, E, Xue, K

“…The primary analysis compared decisions made independently by Dora R1 and the supervising ophthalmologist about the clinical significance of five symptoms and whether the patient required further review. …”

Evaluating the home-based intervention strategy (HIS-UK) to reduce new chlamydia infection among young men aged 16–25 years by promoting correct and consistent condom use: findings... by Stone, N, Graham, C, Bremner, S, McGrath, N, Bedford, R, Brown, KE, Newby, K, Clarke, A, Jackson, L, Morrison, L, Nadarzynski, T, To, Y

“…Results: Seven hundred twenty-five participants (proHIS:241, eHIS:243, control:241) randomised. 575 participants completed all baseline activities, 189 (32.9%) reached six-months post-randomisation. …”

Structural and metamorphic architecture of the Zanskar Himalaya, Suru Valley region, NW India: Implications for the evolution of the Himalayan metamorphic core by Cawood, IP, St-Onge, MR, Weller, OM, Searle, MP, Waters, DJ, Ahmad, T

“…Tectonic thinning adjacent to D3 normal faults is documented by reduced structural spacing of isograds and alignment of isograd surfaces parallel to the faults. D4 and D5 structures modify the trace of all regional metamorphic isograds. …”

Whole genome sequence and annotation dataset of rare actinobacteria, Barrientosiimonas humi gen. nov., sp. nov. 39 T from Antarctica by Chong, Sin Yee, Azmi, Aida Azrina, Cheah, Yoke Kqueen

“…It consists of 3,318 coding sequences, one tmRNA gene, 57 tRNA genes, and five repeated regions. B. humi was evident, sharing a close sequence similarity with the species Demetria terragena and the family Dermacoccaceae. …”
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Effects of multilingualism on brain structure, cognition and language processing by Yee, Jia’en

“…Volumetric analyses of five subcortical structures that underlie language control and processing were performed. …”
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Antibiotic sensitivity of selected bacteria and microbiological quality of Lactobacillus-fed broiler meat in comparison with commercial broiler meat by Tan, Stephanie Yin Yi

“…Twenty Lactobacillus-fed broiler meat and twenty-five commercial broiler meat were purchased from seven retail outlets within Selangor and Kuala Lumpur. …”
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A longitudinal qualitative study on lived experience of oral cancer patients during covid-19 pandemic in khyber pakhtunkhwa Pakistan by Khattak, Maria Ishaq

“…At T2, five major broad-level themes were derived: (1) physical impairment and limitations, (2) psychological vulnerability, (3) reliance on God for protection, (4) availability of social support systems, and (5) financial decline. …”
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Breakup of ultra-thin liquid films on vertical fiber enhanced by Marangoni effect by Ding, Zijing, Liu, Zhou, Liu, Rong, Yang, Chun

“…A self-similarity analysis shows that the film thins as h ~ (tr - t)^1/5 ( is the breakup time), which is supported by the numerical simulations of the thin film model. …”
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Development of mechanically robust self-cleaning coatings for large structure protection by Kumar, Divya

“…The hydrophobic functionality was introduced by addition of low energy molecules like fluoroalkylsilanes and particulate silica fillers. …”
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COVID-19 pandemic impact on hypertension management in North East London: an observational cohort study using electronic health records by Rison, SCG, Redfern, O, Mathur, R, Dostal, I, Carvalho, C, Raisi-Estabragh, Z, Robson, JP

“…The COVID-19 pandemic had a major impact on primary care management of long-term conditions such as hypertension. This study investigated the possible disproportionate impact of the pandemic across patient groups.…”

Development of Attention-based Prediction Models for All-cause Mortality, Home Care Need, and Nursing Home Admission in Ageing Adults in Spain Using Longitudinal Electronic Health... by Carrasco-Ribelles, LA, Cabrera-Bean, M, Khalid, S, Roso-Llorach, A, Violán, C

“…Cohen’s kappa obtained using longitudinal data was 3.4-fold (1-year all-cause mortality), 10.3-fold (5-year all-cause mortality), 1.1-fold (5-year nursing home admission), and 1.2-fold (5-year home care need) higher than that obtained by the one-year history baseline models. …”

Evaluating & enhancing deep learning systems via out-of-distribution detection by Christopher, Berend David

“…Then, we propose an OOD testing criteria to enhance error discovery and propose distribution aware robustness enhancement by showing that filtering errors far from the trained distribution increases robustness by 21.5\%. We then enhance the field of OOD by introducing a fine-grained OOD technique assessing the ground truth of data augmentation and increasing accuracy by 31.9\% by guiding data augmentation selection with distribution awareness. …”
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Surface plasmon resonance (SPR) enhanced biosensors by Zhang, Jinling

“…The limit of detection (LOD) in buffer can be improved by 2 orders of magnitude upon changing from no bias, 0 V, to -0.2 V bias applied on the sensor surface. …”
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Ultrahigh plateau-capacity sodium storage by plugging open pores by Peng, Jiao, Wang, Huanwen, Shi, Xiaojun, Fan, Hong Jin

“…In this design, N-doped pseudographite layer is stacked at the entrance of open pores, forming a long-range graphitic layer without excessive graphitization. …”
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Preschoolers fast map and retain artifact functions as efficiently as artifact names, but artifact actions are the most easily learned by Holland, Amanda, Hyde, Grace, Riggs, Kevin J., Simpson, Andrew

“…We investigated preschoolers’ ability to fast map an action, function and name associated with a novel artifact, and retain the new mapping long term following brief incidental exposure to the artifact being used. …”
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Tilted biorthogonal ensembles, Grothendieck random partitions, and determinantal tests by Gavrilova, Svetlana, Petrov, Leonid

“…We also propose a procedure for getting Nanson-like determinantal tests for matrices of any size 𝑛≥, which appear new for 𝑛≥5. …”
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CAD-Based Geometry Representations for Monte Carlo Fusion Neutronics Methods and CSG vs. DAGMC Performance Tradeoffs in OpenMC by Du, Katelin

“…Fusion reactors utilizing deuterium and tritium fuel produce high-energy 14.1 MeV neutrons, necessitating a thorough understanding of their behavior for effective reactor design. …”
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Microstructure and mechanical properties of 3D-printed EH36 high strength low carbon steel by Peh, Zhi Hao

“…M&O industries often use High Strength Low Carbon steels such as API 5L X65 and ASTM A131 EH36 for their shipping construction and piping applications due to the great material properties of such materials. …”
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