Leucine-rich α-2-glycoprotein 1 suppresses endothelial cell activation through ADAM10-mediated shedding of TNF-α receptor by Pang, Kuin Tian, Ghim, Mean, Liu, Chenghao, Tay, Hui Min, Fhu, Chee Wai, Chia, Rui Ning, Qiu, Beiying, Sarathchandra, Padmini, Chester, Adrian H., Yacoub, Magdi H., Wilkinson, Fiona L., Weston, Ria, Warboys, Christina M., Hou, Han Wei, Weinberg, Peter D., Wang, Xiaomeng

“…Mechanistically, LRG1 exerted its function by causing the shedding of TNFR1 via the ALK5-SMAD2 pathway and the subsequent activation of ADAM10. …”
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Sessile droplet evaporation on patterned surfaces by Ng, Aaron Chin Liang

“…The sizes of particles in the suspension fluids increases by a factor of ten sizes from 0.05μm, 0.5μm and 6μm. The substrates used are Al2O3, TiO2 flat and a patterned micro pyramid substrate. …”
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Experimental and numerical studies on the cooling of mobile device by Setoh, Guojing.

“…Three different power levels of 3W, 4W and 5W were experimentally tested in this study. The discharging effect of the phase change material was tested in the experiments. …”
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Enhancing care quality and accessibility through digital technology-supported decentralisation of hypertension and diabetes management: a proof-of-concept study in rural Bangladesh by Xie, Wubin, Paul, Rina Rani, Goon, Ian Y., Anan, Aysha, Rahim, Aminur, Hossain, Md Mokbul, Hersch, Fred, Oldenburg, Brian, Chambers, John Campbell, Mridha, Malay Kanti

“…Participants: A total of 624 participants were enrolled in the study (mean (SD) age, 59.5 (12.0); 65.1% female). Outcomes: Changes in blood pressure and blood glucose control, patient retention and patient-visit volume at the NCD clinic and community clinics. …”
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Deposition and characterisation of a diamond/Ti/diamond multilayer structure by Mallik, Awadesh Kumar, Lloret, Fernando, Gutierrez, Marina, Rouzbahani, Rozita, Pobedinskas, Paulius, Shih, Wen-Ching, Haenen, Ken

“…The cross-sectional thickness of the titanium layer can be found to vary by as much as 0.5 µm across the length of the surface, which was caused by a subsequent hydrogen plasma etching process step of the composite film conducted after Ti sputtering. …”
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Determination of soil-water characteristics curves of sands using the evaporation method by On, Roger Zhi Wei

“…The performance of low-cost capacitive and resistive sensors was compared with the more expensive ECH2O EC 5 and the TEROS 10 moisture sensors to evaluate their performance and capabilities to obtain the SWCCs. …”
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A cost-aware utility-maximizing bidding strategy for auction-based federated learning by Tang, Xiaoli, Yu, Han

“…Through extensive experiments on six commonly adopted benchmark datasets, we show that outperforms eight state-of-the-art methods, beating the best baseline by 4.39%, 4.56%, 1.33%, and 5.43% on average in terms of the total amount of data obtained, number of data samples per unit cost, total utility, and FL model accuracy, respectively.…”
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Energy saving control of robot by Chan, Chee Siang.

“…In this research, Region reaching/tracking controller[3-5] and Slotine & Li controller[6] are implements into SONY SCARA[7] separately. …”
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Synthesis of zeolite nanoreactors by Rajendran, Arvind

“…The separation of CO2/CO gas mixture was investigated by gas chromatograph (GC) and the permselectivity of CO2/CO was 3.5±0.1 with CO2 permeance of 3.6±0.3×10−8 molm−2 s−1 Pa−1 at room temperature. …”
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Offshore renminbi market. by Peh, Derrick Chin Kiat., Heng, Zoey Peishan., Sei, Sin Yee.

“…Chapter 4 explains offshore clearing of the renminbi, and examines the reasons accounting for a different renminbi foreign exchange rate onshore (CNY) and offshore (CNH). Lastly, Chapter 5 explores the future of the offshore renminbi market and presents various risk factors together with their implications.…”
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The Greek unions and the economy : a perspective. by Goh, Qianlei., Teo, Yi Qi., Loh, Candy Shu Ying.

“…A fresh round of austerity measures includes the cut down on pensions, 150,000 public sector jobs, and government spending amounting to 1.5% of its Gross Domestic Product (GDP). What exactly led to such a large public sector and huge accumulated public debt in Greece? …”
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A meta-analysis of functional neuroimaging studies of dyslexia in alphabetic words and chinese characters. by Kwok, Fu Yu.

“…It is estimated that about 5-17% of the population has dyslexia (Shaywitz & Shaywitz, 2001). …”
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Longitudinal shear behaviour in composite slab with profiled steel decking by Ang, Yi Wen

“…In concurrence with past research, the design shear resistance V1,Rd of m-k method is of a lower value that the experimental shear force value Vtest,ave, while Vut,ave of Partial Interaction method is of a higher value than Vtest,ave. …”
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A compressor based 16-bit binary-to-residue converter for low power applications by Vasuma, Narayana

“…At the first stage, the project studies the compressor architectures for the 3:2 compressors, 4:2 compressors and 5:2 compressors. These compressor blocks are realized in the different logic styles using the optimized circuits of XOR and MUX sub-modules. …”
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Investigations of SWCNT/Polyoxometalates hybrid materials as electrode for supercapacitors by Lee, Ching Yi

“…To explore the potential of this new hybrid material, SWCNTs/H5PV2Mo10O40 hybrid material is also used for comparison in terms of their specific capacitance, energy and power densities as well as their cycling stability for reliability of the devices. …”
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Study of solar powered cooling technologies for Singapore : photovoltaic vs. solar thermal using TRNSYS by Teo, Benjamin How Wei

“…Photovoltaic Vapour Compression system provides a solar fraction of 58.7% while Solar Thermal Absorption system has about 31.8%. About 37.5% of solar energy is loss in the Photovoltaic Vapour Compression system as compared to Solar Thermal Absorption system with a loss of 15%. …”
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Enhanced microscale heat transfer in macro geometries : effect of flow field by Siew, Dennis Weng Kin

“…The results concluded that the design with circular grooves attained the highest heat transfer coefficient of about 71.7 kW/m2·K in the flow channel, which is about 43.5% higher than the smooth flow channel. Besides, numerical studies on other designs also revealed that the designs with forward and backward sloping grooves are able to achieve comparably good heat transfer augmentation in the range of 10.6 to 33.1% higher. …”
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Selective laser melting of copper alloys by Muhammad Muzzammil Shaul Hamid

“…Samples age hardened for 5 hours were found to have the highest microhardness value, 65.6HV0.3. …”
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The investigation of impact induced particle resuspension by Kwa, Wilson Wei Sheng

“…In addition, the effects of the following parameters, particle size (PM2.5, PM10 and 15-30µm) and flooring material were studied as well. …”
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Preliminary study on the preparation and characterization of novel organophilic membranes used for organic extraction by Xia, Yuan

“…When the feed wastewater was of pH higher than 8, it was suggested to adjust the pH of feed stream to below 5 to ensure the majority of phenol is present in the form of phenol molecule. …”
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