Generation of self-replicating airway organoids from the cave nectar bat Eonycteris spelaea as a model system for studying host-pathogen interactions in the bat airway epithelium by Chan, Louisa L. Y., Gamage, Akshamal M., Tan, Chee Wah, Tan, Kai Sen, Liu, Jing, Tay, Douglas Jie Wen, Foo, Randy Jee Hiang, Rénia, Laurent, Wang, De Yun, Wang, Lin-Fa

“…However, these ALI-AECs did not support SARS-CoV-2 infection, despite E. spelaea ACE2 receptor being capable of mediating SARS-CoV-2 spike pseudovirus entry. …”
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Evaluating conversational agents for mental health: scoping review of outcomes and outcome measurement instruments by Jabir, Ahmad Ishqi, Martinengo, Laura, Lin, Xiaowen, Torous, John, Subramaniam, Mythily, Car, Lorainne Tudor

“…Results: We included 32 studies that targeted the promotion of mental well-being (17/32, 53%) and the treatment and monitoring of mental health symptoms (21/32, 66%). …”
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Efficient and privacy-preserving feature importance-based vertical federated learning by Li, Anran, Huang, Jiahui, Jia, Ju, Peng, Hongyi, Zhang, Lan, Tuan, Luu Anh, Yu, Han, Li, Xiang-Yang

“…It consists of a Gaussian stochastic dual-gate to efficiently approximate the probability of a feature being selected. FedSDG-FS further designs a local embedding perturbation approach to achieve differential privacy for local training data. …”
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Wage premium in Singapore. by Tan, Ruo Hui., Tan, Yan Yu., Lee, Wai Meng.

“…The following variables that were found to have significant impact: a) Respondents who were themselves, or have family members and close friends being severely injured, sick or killed due to job-related accidents reported higher values, b) respondents who were covered by life and accident insurance reported higher values, c) respondents with higher monthly income before taxes tended to report higher values and d) respondents who received higher education levels reported lower values. …”
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Carbon-semiconductor hybrid nanostructures and their photoresponse behaviors by Zhan, Zhaoyao

“…A photogenerated electron may experience a million trapping events before being collected by electrode." The longer transporting time in nanoparticles will increase the possibility of recombination. …”
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Energy-efficient video streaming over wireless networks by Chuah, Seong Ping

“…As video standards evolve, more bits are being squeezed out while visual quality improves spectacularly. …”
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Experimental investigation of pile-supported/floating breakwaters integrated with oscillating-water-column converters by He, Fang

“…The structural simplicity, operating principle and their adaptability make oscillating-water-column types of converters very suitable for being integrated into breakwaters. The civil construction dominates the cost of most coastal structures, and integration of an oscillating-water-column converter into breakwater make it possible to share the construction costs between power generation and harbor protection. …”
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Carbon nanotube fence-wall for radio frequency isolation by Tan, Dunlin

“…Carbon nanotubes are ideal for this due to it being light weight, electrically conductive and having high aspect ratios. …”
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Embedded computing techniques for remote mobile video surveillance systems by Nirmala Ramakrishnan

“…Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) equipped with cameras are increasingly being deployed for performing vision-based wide area surveillance with minimal human intervention. …”
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Investigation of operational characteristics of vanadium redox flow batteries by Rajagopalan Badrinarayanan

“…The model was used to simulate capacity decay for a range of different ion exchange membranes that are being used in the VRB. The model was made more comprehensive by including the effect of bulk electrolyte transfer. …”
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Energy management of microgrids by Ju, Chengquan

“…Such the profit can be fairly shared by each participating microgrid in the community, without user privacy being compromised. All the proposed methodologies and algorithms throughout the research have been verified in MATLAB, with regards to different system topologies involving multiple data of RESs, ESSs and loads.…”
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语言接触与新加坡华语被动式的欧化现象 ：基于语料库的考察研究 = Europeanisation of passive constructions in Singapore Mandarin Chinese : a corpus-based study... by 孙梦漪 Sun, Mengyi

“…However, it should be noted that MMC, while being the benchmark, has also undergone Europeanisation with the influence of English-Chinese translations after the May Fourth Movement. …”
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新加坡华人对中国的贡献 ：新加坡城市规划之父刘太格个案研究 = Contributions of Singaporean Chinese to China : a case study on Singapore’s father of city planning Liu Thai Ker... by 冯时辉 Phang, Shi Hwee

“…文中通过对刘太格博士在西咸新区及珠海项目的研究，总结出新加坡的城市规划模式不仅成功解决西咸新区自身的城市病问题，同时也成功疏解珠三角城市群人口过度聚集的区域城市病问题，以此证明刘博士在中国城市规划的贡献。Despite being the last country in Southeast Asia to establish diplomatic relations with China, Singapore played an integral role in their modern development. …”
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Landless in God’s own country: development and perpetual struggles in Kerala by Ramapurath Chemmencheri, S

“…Scholarship on relative surplus populations shows their variegated forms, ranging from labourers in constant migration in search of wage work under capitalist relations to people argued as being totally disconnected from the uneven expansion of capitalism. …”

In2Se3-based two-dimensional photocatalysts for water-splitting by Wong, CCY

“…Recent research has revealed that indium selenide (In₂Se₃) carries great potential in being a promising photocatalytic water splitting catalyst due to its unique intrinsic ferroelectricity, suitability of band structure and ability to be exfoliated into two-dimensional (2D) sheets. …”

Using density dependent approach for simulation and control of seawater intrusion into coastal aquifers by Saad Nusari, Mohammed Saleh

“…This model contributes to improve understanding of the dynamic process of seawater intrusion in the area being studied. This would aid in choosing the most suitable control method in order to prevent the advancement of seawater into the main aquifer. …”
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Advancements in Management Science: Applications to Online Retail, Healthcare, and Non-Profit Fundraising by Zhai, Chen Wen (Sabrina)

“…Furthermore, a new distance measure is developed to quantify how close the historical pricing decisions are to being optimal. Using this distance measure, the chapter shows a surprising inverse relationship between this measure and the achievable online performance. …”
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Advanced attack and defense techniques in machine learning systems by Zhao, Mengchen

“…We also found that the tasks being attacked are always strongly correlated, which provides a clue for defending against such attacks. …”
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Enhancement of photoacoustic imaging systems for biomedical applications by Sharma, Arunima

“…Among different system configurations, being economical and easily available, single element transducer (SET) based PAT systems are commonly used for biomedical imaging. …”
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Adversarial robustness of deep reinforcement learning by Qu, Xinghua

“…To this end, we define three key settings: (1) black-box policy access: where the attacker only has access to the input (state) and output (action probability) of an RL policy; (2) fractional-state adversary: where only several pixels are perturbed, with the extreme case being a single-pixel adversary; and (3) tactically-chanced attack: where only significant frames are tactically chosen to be attacked. …”
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