Effectiveness and user experience of nose and throat swabbing techniques for SARS-CoV-2 detection: results from the UK COVID-19 National Testing Programme by Futschik, ME, Kulasegaran-Shylini, R, Blandford, E, Harper, S, Chapman, D, Turek, E, Agrawal, S, Phillips, V, Fordham, H, Chan, L, Kidd, M, Dodgson, A, Klapper, PE, Sudhanva, M, Vipond, R, Hopkins, S, Peto, T, Tunkel, S, Fowler, T

“…Background: The UK’s National Health Service Test and Trace (NHSTT) program aimed to provide the most effective and accessible SARS-CoV-2 testing approach possible. Early user feedback indicated that there were accessibility issues associated with throat swabbing. …”

Search for a light CP-odd Higgs boson decaying into a pair of τ -leptons in proton-proton collisions at s = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector by Aad, G, Aakvaag, E, Abbott, B, Abdelhameed, S, Abeling, K, Abicht, NJ, Abidi, SH, Aboelela, M, Aboulhorma, A, Abramowicz, H, Abreu, H, Abulaiti, Y, Acharya, BS, Ackermann, A, Adam Bourdarios, C, Adamczyk, L, Addepalli, SV, Addison, MJ, Adelman, J, Adiguzel, A, Adye, T, Affolder, AA, Afik, Y, Agaras, MN, Barr, AJ, Bortoletto, D, Bruckler, TL, Chen, M, Conroy, EI, Cooper-Sarkar, AM, Dingley, T, Draguet, MA, Eberwein, GH, Frost, JA, Gallas, EJ, Grabarczyk, RP, Gwenlan, C, Haslbeck, F, Hays, CP, Hodkinson, BH, Huffman, TB, Iizawa, T, Karava, K, Koch, SF, Moser, B, Nagai, K, Nedic, L, Nickerson, RB, Pacey, HA, Rossi, E, Ruggiero, A, Schopf, E, Shipsey, IPJ, Sultan, DMS, Viehhauser, GHA, Weidberg, AR, Yildirim, TP

“…This paper reports a search for a light CP-odd scalar resonance with a mass of 20 GeV to 90 GeV in 13 TeV proton-proton collision data with an integrated luminosity of 140 fb−1 collected with the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider. …”

Kajian teori fungsian ketumpatan pada struktur, tapak perangkap muon dan interaksi hiperhalus muon dalam Poli(3-heksiltiofena-2,5-dil) by Wan Nurfadhilah Zaharim, Shukri Sulaiman, Risdiana, Safriani, Lusi, Rizafizah Othaman

“…Polimer semikonduktor seperti Poli(3-heksiltiofene-2,5-dil) (P3HT) telah mendapat perhatian kerana sifatnya dan telah digunakan dalam sel suria. …”
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Assessment of the biological durability of oil palm trunk modified with 1,3-dimethylol-4,5-dihydroxy-ethyleneurea (DMDHEU) following subsequent curing at elevated temperatures by Rosli, Siti Nurul Ashikin, Chin, Kit Ling, Lee, Chuan Li, Maminski, Mariusz, Abdullah, Luqman Chuah, Toczylowska-Maminska, Renata

“…The biological durability of oil palm trunk modified with 1,3-dimethylol-4,5-dihydroxyethyleneurea (DMDHEU) was tested after subsequent curing at elevated temperatures. …”
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Early detection of corrosion damage in reinforced concrete using GPR array imaging method by Cheng Weixia, Sun, Hai-Han, Tan, Kang Hai, Fan, Zheng

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Autonomous Robot Driving Decision Strategy Following Road Sign And Traffic Rules: Simulation Validation by Chong, Zheng-Hao, Yee, Ling, Causo, Albert, Chen, I-Ming

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Effects of interaction between information technology (IT) and a Singapore hotel : a case study by Lee, Elena Yen Ping, Lim, Amos Beng Lee, Heng, Lee Cheng

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Fire resistance for square tubular joints with and without chord reinforcement by Yang, J., Shao, Y. B., Cheng, C., Lie, S. T., Chiew, Sing Ping

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Search for top squark pair production in a final state with at least one hadronically decaying tau lepton in proton-proton collisions at √𝑠 = 13 TeV by Tumasyan, A., Adam, W., Andrejkovic, J. W., Bergauer, T., Chatterjee, S., Damanakis, K., Dragicevic, M., Escalante Del Valle, A., Hussain, P. S., Jeitler, M., Krammer, N., Lechner, L., Liko, D., Mikulec, I., Paulitsch, P., Schieck, J., Schöfbeck, R.

“…The results probe top squark masses up to 1150 GeV for a nearly massless neutralino. This search covers a relatively less explored parameter space in the context of supersymmetry, and the exclusion limit is the most stringent to date for the model considered here.…”
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Symmetric aqueous rechargeable lithium battery using Na1.16V3O8 nanobelts electrodes for safe high volume energy storage applications by Nair, Vivek Sahadevan, Cheah, Yan Ling, Madhavi, Srinivasan

“…The nanobelts are observed to have a large aspect ratio, with a diameter of 75(±5)nm and an average length of ∼5 μm. Electrochemical behavior of Na1.16V3O8 nanobelts were studied via cyclic voltammetry (CV) and galvanostatic studies. …”
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Plasmacytoid dendritic cells are central regulators of the humoral ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 vaccine response in a human tonsil organoid model by Provine, N, Pudjohartono, M, Powell, K, Ferry, H, Barnes, E, Klenerman, P

Virus-like particles of nodavirus displaying the receptor binding domain of SARS-CoV-2 spike protein: a potential VLP-based COVID-19 vaccine by Kumar, Kiven, Tan, Wen Siang, Arshad, Siti Suri, Ho, Kok Lian

“…The efficacy of the initial vaccines based on the ancestral strain of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus type 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has become a point of contention due to the emergence of new variants of concern (VOCs). …”
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Expanding the CRISPR Toolbox for Engineering Lycopene Biosynthesis in Corynebacterium glutamicum by Zhan, Zhimin, Chen, Xiong, Ye, Zhifang, Zhao, Ming, Li, Cheng, Gao, Shipeng, Sinskey, Anthony J., Yao, Lan, Dai, Jun, Jiang, Yiming, Zheng, Xueyun

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Influence of particle velocity when propelled using N2 or N2-He mixed gas on the properties of cold-sprayed Ti6Al4V coatings by Tan, Adrian Wei-Yee, Lek, Jun Yan, Boothroyd, Chris Brian, Sun, Wen, Bhowmik, Ayan, Marinescu, Iulian, Song, Xu, Zhai, Wei, Li, Feng, Dong, Zhili, Liu, Erjia

“…This technology has the potential to enhance or restore damaged parts made of light metal alloys, such as Ti6Al4V (Ti64). Particle deposition velocity is one of the most crucial parameters for achieving high-quality coatings because it is the main driving force for particle bonding and coating formation. …”
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Predictions of PM2.5 using air pollutants and meteorological factors with COVID-19 cases in Malaysia and Indonesia: a comparative study using feature selection and robust regression by Salsabila, Norin Binta, Jalaludin, Juliana, Suhaimi, Nur Faseeha, Wan Mansor, Wan Nurdiyana, Sumantri, Arif

“…Predictive models for PM2.5 levels using robust regression techniques showed strong performance in Kuala Lumpur (R² > 0.9) but exhibited overfitting tendencies in Jakarta, suggesting the need for a longer study period for more accurate results.…”

Amidinato Isopropylmethylamidosilylene-catalyzed hydroboration of carbonyl compounds by Lee, Jiawen, Fan, Jun, Koh, An-Ping, Cheang, Joslyn Wan-Jun, Yang, Ming-Chung, Su, Ming-Der, So, Cheuk-Wai

“…This study describes the use of an amidinato isopropylmethylamidosilylene [LSiN(Me)iPr] (1, L = PhC(NtBu)2) to catalyze hydroboration of carbonyl compounds. Compound 1 (loading: 5 – 10 mol%) was shown to be an efficient catalyst for the chemoselective hydroboration of aldehydes (average yield = 97 %, average TOF = 8.8 h-1) and ketones (average yield = 97 %, average TOF = 1.7 h-1) with pinacolborane (HBpin) in C6D6 at 90 oC to form borate esters. …”
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Classification of non-tumorous skin pigmentation disorders using voting based probabilistic linear discriminant analysis by Liang, Yunfeng, Sun, Lei, Ser, Wee, Lin, Feng, Thng, Steven Tien Guan, Chen, Qiping, Lin, Zhiping

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Search for a new resonance decaying into two spin-0 bosons in a fnal state with two photons and two bottom quarks in proton-proton collisions at √s = 13 TeV by Tumasyan, A., Adam, W., Andrejkovic, J. W., Bergauer, T., Chatterjee, S., Damanakis, K., Dragicevic, M., Escalante Del Valle, A., Hussain, P. S., Jeitler, M., Krammer, N., Lechner, L., Liko, D., Mikulec, I., Paulitsch, P., Pitters, F. M.

“…The explored mass ranges of X are 260–1000 GeV and 300–1000 GeV, for decays to HH and to HY, respectively, with the Y mass range being 90–800 GeV. …”
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Multidose transient transfection of human embryonic kidney 293 cells modulates recombinant adeno‐associated virus2/5 Rep protein expression and influences the enrichment fraction of filled capsids by Srinivasan, Prasanna, Canova, Christopher T, Sha, Sha, Nguyen, Tam NT, Joseph, John, Sangerman, Jose, Maloney, Andrew J, Katsikis, Georgios, Ou, Rui Wen, Hong, Moo Sun, Ng, Jaclyn, Yuan, Arella, Antov, Daniel, Song, Sally, Chen, Wenyu, Neufeld, Caleb, Wolfrum, Jacqueline M, Barone, Paul W, Sinskey, Anthony J, Springs, Stacy L, Braatz, Richard D

“…Here, we extend the model by quantifying the expression dynamics of total Rep proteins and their influence on the key steps of rAAV2/5 production using a multiple dosing transfection of human embryonic kidney 293 (HEK293) cells. …”
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Mechanistic insights into PTS2-mediated peroxisomal protein import : the co-receptor PEX5L drastically increases the interaction strength between the cargo protein and the receptor PEX7 by Kunze, Markus, Wiesinger, Christoph, Schmid, Johannes A., Berger, Johannes, Malkani, Naila, Maurer-Stroh, Sebastian

“…In addition, cargo binding is a prerequisite for the interaction between PEX7 and PEX5L and ectopic overexpression of PTS2-carrying cargo protein drastically increases the formation of PEX7-PEX5L complexes in this assay. …”
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