Essays on oil price fluctuations, financial markets and international trade by Le, Thai Ha

“…The long-run causality running from oil price to overall, oil and non-oil trade balances and their short-run dynamics are investigated by applying the Toda-Yamamoto’s 1995 (TY) causality approach and generalized impulse response functions (IRFs), respectively to the monthly data spanning from January 1999 to November 2011. Three Asian economies that represent three distinct characteristics in terms of oil are chosen and examined: Malaysia as an oil exporter, Singapore as an oil refinery and Japan as an oil importer. …”
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Heat transfer of 3D-printed porous structure used in cold plate by Tew, Hong Boon

“…The experimental investigation was carried out using the setup that was built during the span of the project. The reliability of the setup was validated by comparing the experimental results of the bare tube cold plate against numerical simulation performed using “COMSOL Multiphysics” software. …”
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Triggered slip along the San Andreas fault after the 8 July 1986 North Palm Springs earthquake by Williams, Patrick L., McGill, Sally Fagerson, Sieh, Kerry, Allen, Clarence R., Louie, John N.

“…On Durmid Hill, surface cracks in 1986 were localized along a 200-m-long stretch of the fault spanning the Mecca Beach creepmeter and extending about 150 m to the southeast. …”
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Laplacian embedded regression for scalable manifold regularization by Chen, Lin, Tsang, Ivor Wai-Hung, Xu, Dong

“…Inspired by kernel principal component analysis, we further propose to project the introduced decision variable into a subspace spanned by a few eigenvectors of the graph Laplacian matrix in order to better reflect the data manifold, as well as accelerate the calculation of the graph kernel, allowing our methods to efficiently and effectively cope with large scale SSL problems. …”
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Social bonding among children in joint physically active play by Jefferies, M

“…The thesis contributes to filling in gaps within the literature on play, social bonding, and physical activity, spanning evolutionary anthropology, developmental psychology, and health, and highlights the need for more controlled experimental studies among diverse populations.…”

SARS-CoV-2 evolution during treatment of chronic infection by Kemp, SA, Collier, DA, Datir, RP, Ferreira, IATM, Gayed, S, Jahun, A, Hosmillo, M, Rees-Spear, C, Mlcochova, P, Lumb, IU, Roberts, DJ, Chandra, A, Temperton, N, Sharrocks, K, Blane, E, Modis, Y, Leigh, KE, Briggs, JAG, van Gils, MJ, Smith, KGC, Bradley, JR, Smith, C, Doffinger, R, Ceron-Gutierrez, L, Barcenas-Morales, G, Pollock, DD, Goldstein, RA, Smielewska, A, Skittrall, JP, Gouliouris, T, Goodfellow, IG, Gkrania-Klotsas, E, Illingworth, CJR, McCoy, LE, Gupta, RK

“…Here we show that chronic infection with SARS-CoV-2 leads to viral evolution and reduced sensitivity to neutralizing antibodies in an immunosuppressed individual treated with convalescent plasma, by generating whole-genome ultra-deep sequences for 23 time points that span 101 days and using in vitro techniques to characterize the mutations revealed by sequencing. …”

Developing feasible and acceptable strategies for integrating the use of patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) in gender-affirming care: an implementation study by Kamran, R, Jackman, L, Laws, A, Stepney, M, Harrison, C, Jain, A, Rodrigues, J

“…<p><strong> Results</strong></p> The systematic review and qualitative study identified barriers and enablers to PROM implementation spanning all five CFIR domains, and 30 CFIR constructs. …”

Bioinformatics analysis and spatiotemporal distribution of the f lic gene and its protein isolated from Escherichia coli-infected patients in Eastern Algeria by Harrar, Abdenassar, Awang Hamat, Rukman, Hamidechi, Mohamed Abdelhafid

“…This study examined the presence of fliC mutant strains of E. coli in infected patients from different age groups, sexes and sample types in eastern Algerian provinces over a span of 2 years. Methods: This retrospective, cross-sectional study involved three provinces in eastern Algeria: i) Bordj Bou Arreridj, ii) Setif and iii) Batna. …”
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Anti-ageing properties of edible bird's nest ascertained by in vitro and in vivo studies in animal model by Hou, Zhiping

“…Most women spend approximately one-third of their life span in the postmenopausal phase. Hormonal imbalance during menopausal stage has been linked to increased risks of the fatal diseases including Alzheimer’s disease, dementia, stroke, diabetes mellitus, and breast cancer. …”
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Amphiphilic Janus magnetoplasmonic nanoparticles: pH-triggered self-assembly and fluorescence modulation by Lu, Derong, Hou, Shuai, Liu, Sheng, Xiong, Qirong, Chen, Yonghao, Duan, Hongwei

“…Furthermore, the coating of well-defined BCP grafts on the gold nanoparticle (AuNP) of the JNPs offers the possibilities to finely tune the interparticle distance and precisely position dye molecules at the gap between neighboring JNPs in the ensembles, and the pH-sensitivity of the BCP allows to control the interparticle distance as a function of pH. …”
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Polarity-driven laminar pattern formation by lateral-inhibition in 2D and 3D bilayer geometries by Moore, JW, Dale, TC, Woolley, TE

“…Fine-grain patterns produced by juxtacrine signalling have previously been studied using static monolayers as cellular domains. …”

An evaluation framework for second-life EV/PHEV battery application in power systems by Chai, Songjian, Xu, Ning Zhou, Niu, Ming, Chan, Ka Wing, Chung, Chi Yung, Jiang, Hui, Sun, Yuxin

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Carnobacterium maltaromaticum boosts intestinal vitamin D production to suppress colorectal cancer in female mice by Li, Qing, Chan, Hung, Liu, Wei-Xin, Liu, Chang-An, Zhou, Yunfei, Huang, Dan, Wang, Xueliang, Li, Xiaoxing, Xie, Chuan, Liu, Wing Ying-Zhi, Wang, Xian-Song, Ng, Siu Kin, Gou, Hongyan, Zhao, Liu-Yang, Fong, Winnie, Jiang, Lanping, Lin, Yufeng, Zhao, Guijun, Bai, Feihu, Liu, Xiaodong, Chen, Huarong, Zhang, Lin, Wong, Sunny Hei, Chan, Matthew Tak Vai, Wu, William Ka Kei, Yu, Jun

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Luteolin escape mutants of dengue virus map to prM and NS2B and reveal viral plasticity during maturation by Vasudevan, Subhash G., Peng, Minhua, Swarbrick, Crystall Marie Dawn, Chan, Kitti Wing-Ki, Luo, Dahai, Zhang, Wei, Lai, Xiaoping, Li, Geng

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21A.355J / STS.060J The Anthropology of Biology, Spring 2009 by Helmreich, Stefan

“…Looking at such cultural artifacts as cell lines, biodiversity databases, and artificial life models, and using primary sources in biology, social studies of the life sciences, and literary and cinematic materials, we rephrase Erwin Schr&ouml;dinger's famous 1944 question, "What Is Life?" …”
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Synthesis design of a wideband bandpass filter with inductively coupled short-circuited multi-mode resonator by Zhang, Runqi, Zhu, Lei

“…The MMRs are formed by n sections of cascaded transmission lines, which are all set to be one quarter wavelength long with respect to the center frequency of the passband. …”
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Collective synthesis of 4-Hydroxy-2-pyridone alkaloids and their antiproliferation activities by Ding, Feiqing, Leow, Min Li, Ma, Jimei, William, Ronny, Liao, Hongze, Liu, Xue-Wei

“…Interestingly, among the six tumor cell lines investigated, torrubiellone C was found to induce potent and apoptotic inhibitory activities on Jurkat T cells with IC50 values of 7.05 μm. …”
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Substation reliability and its impacts on composite system adequacy by Ren, Shuhua

“…Failure events in substations and switching stations often result in multiple outages of generators, lines, and/or loads in power system. Station-originated outages are normally of short duration but their effect on the security and stability of power systems may be quite severe. …”
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A model green city? : the history of conservation discourse in Singapore 1965 to the present by Tan, Yee Ting

“…Promoting herself as the “City in a Garden”, it’s difficult to ascertain the boundaries between humans and nature. Along these lines of thought, is the problem of conservation. …”
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Limited degradability of dissolved organic carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus during contrasting seasons in a tropical coastal environment by Chu, Jiangyong, Lønborg, Christian, Martin, Patrick

“…We conducted experiments during the inter-monsoon, the mid-southwest monsoon, and the late southwest monsoon seasons, which span the greatest range of biogeochemical conditions found in the area. …”
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