Structural and mechanistic insights into the Rel protein of Mycobacterium tuberculosis by Singal, Bharti

“…The MtRel NTD in the presence of TGS domain showed almost similar synthetic activity as of MtRel NTD and approximately 3 fold higher than that of MtRel showing auto-inhibition by rest of the C-terminus MtRel segment. …”
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新加坡华语电视剧华人形象研究 = A study of ethnic Chinese images in Singapore Chinese television drama by Xiang, Zhili

“…MediaCorp Channel 8 of Singapore has produced more than 600 TV series between 1982 and 2006. Based on collecting, viewing and categorizing the representative TV series of MediaCorp Channel 8, this thesis analyzes the six dimensions in the construction of images of ethnic Chinese: Chinese nationals (Overseas Chinese), Singapore citizens, English education, language dialects, new immigrants from China, and other races in Singapore like Malays and Indian. …”
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Magic v.3 : an integrated software package for systematic structure-based coarse-graining by Mirzoev, Alexander, Nordenskiöld, Lars, Lyubartsev, Alexander

“…Molecular simulations of many phenomena related to biomolecular systems, soft matter and nanomaterials require consideration of length scales above 10 nm and time scales longer than 1μs, which necessitates the use of coarse-grained (low resolution) models, where each site of the model represents a group of atoms, and where the solvent is often omitted. …”
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Essays on merchant-generated contents and merchant-to-merchant spillovers in e-commerce platform by Zhang, Xueli

“…Retailers have incentives to exaggerate their product quality to attract more consumers, but with the option of returns, retailers should reconsider it, since consumers might return the product if they find the real product quality is lower than the retailer-displayed quality. In the model, an online retailer offers a product with both vertical and horizontal attributes, sets a price, and displays quality to consumers. …”
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Modelling and characterization of membrane fouling in osmotically-driven membrane processes (ODMPs) by Lai, Li

“…In a dead-end forward osmosis setup, the ultrasonic signal is revealed to be much more sensitive to fouling than traditional fouling indicator water flux, especially when active layer was faced to feed side. …”
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Extracellular nucleic acids in monochloraminated drinking water distribution systems by Bairoliya, Sakcham

“…Sequencing analysis revealed that eDNA could be used to assemble the whole genome of the model organisms, but some parts of the genome were more persistent than others. Analysis of eRNA revealed its potential as a signaling molecule in environmental systems and as a glimpse into the past metabolic state of the bacterial cells. …”
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Correlation between GNSS-TEC and eruption magnitude supports the use of ionospheric sensing to complement volcanic hazard assessment by Manta, Fabio, Occhipinti, Giovanni, Hill, Emma M., Perttu, Anna, Assink, Jelle, Taisne, Benoit

“…Our results show that the IVPI successfully correlates with the Volcanic Explosivity Index (VEI) for events larger than VEI 2. Moreover, the IVPI shows strong correlation with both the acoustic source power and the ash plume height, from which depends the style of volcanic activity. …”
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Designer broad-spectrum polyimidazolium antibiotics by Zhong, Wenbin, Shi, Zhenyu, Mahadevegowda, Surendra H., Liu, Bo, Zhang, Kaixi, Koh, Chong Hui, Ruan, Lin, Chen, Yahua, Zeden, Merve S., Pee, Carmen J. E., Marimuthu, Kalisvar, De, Partha Pratim, Ng, Oon Tek, Zhu, Yabin, Chi, Robin Yonggui, Hammond, Paula T., Yang, Liang, Gan, Yunn-Hwen, Pethe, Kevin, Greenberg, E. Peter, Gründling, Angelika, Chan-Park, Mary B.

“…We synthesized a PIM1 derivative, PIM1D, which is less hydrophobic than PIM1. PIM1D did not show evidence of toxicity but retained antibacterial activity and showed efficacy in murine sepsis infections. …”
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Experimental & simulation study of 16kWp photovoltaic (PV) system performance & the investigation of PV heat island effect by Devihosur, Shiddalingeshwar Channabasappa

“…The R2 values resulting from the validation of the two equations were found to be more than 0.90. The two equations were tested and validated with test data. …”
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Multi-sensor calibration and multi-modal perception for intelligent systems by Zhang, Jun

“…The rotation and translation error is less than 0.01m and 0.01 degree. Sixthly, following LB-L2L-Calib, a novel online extrinsic calibration method is proposed, namely Object4Calib. …”
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Sustaining antimicrobial stewardship in a high-antibiotic resistance setting by Ng, Tat Ming, Heng, Shi Thong, Chua, Boon Hou, Ang, Li Wei, Tan, Sock Hoon, Tay, Hui Lin, Yap, Min Yi, Quek, Jason, Teng, Christine B., Young, Barnaby Edward, Lin, Ray, Ang, Brenda, Lee, Tau Hong, Lye, David C.

“…During the same period, the mean monthly patient days increased from 33929 in 2007 to 45603 in 2018, and the proportion of patients older than 65 years increased from 45.5% in 2007 to 56.6% in 2018. …”
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Land reclamation - from conventional vertical drain methods to a combined vacuum preloading and electro-osmosis with horizontal drainage enhanced geotextile sheets by Wong, Lung Anthony

“…Based on the validated design methods, all clay slurry can be consolidated to a water content that is lower than the liquid limit in both schemes. As a result, there is a significant reduction in the consumption of rockfill in the trial embankment, as compared with the traditional method adopted in the field. …”
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Selective laser melting of ceramic particles strengthened stainless steel by Zhai, Wengang

“…TiB2 is more effective than TiC on strengthening for 316L. The strength enhancement is mainly achieved through grain refinement and Orowan strengthening. …”
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A 1.3-micrometre-thick elastic conductor for seamless on-skin and implantable sensors by Jiang, Zhi, Chen, Nuan, Yi, Zhigao, Zhong, Junwen, Zhang, Feilong, Ji, Shaobo, Liao, Rui, Wang, Yan, Li, Haicheng, Liu, Zhihua, Wang, Yang, Yokota, Tomoyuki, Liu, Xiaogang, Fukuda, Kenjiro, Chen, Xiaodong, Someya, Takao

“…We also use the conductors to create on-skin sensors with less than 3 µm thickness that can detect small mechanical forces and create implantable nerve electrodes that can provide signal recording and stimulation.…”
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Development of axially chiral urazole scaffolds for antiplant virus applications against potato virus Y by Jin, Jiamiao, Mou, Chengli, Zou, Juan, Xie, Xin, Wang, Chen, Shen, Tingwei, Deng, Youlin, Li, Benpeng, Jin, Zhichao, Li, Xiangyang, Chi, Robin Yonggui

“…In particular, compound (R)-9f exhibited remarkable curative activities against PVY with a 50% maximal effective concentration (EC50) of 224.9 μg mL−1, which was better than that of ningnanmycin (NNM), which had an EC50 of 234.0 μg mL−1. …”
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Differentiating people with schizophrenia from healthy controls in a developing country: an evaluation of portable functional near infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) as an adjunct diagn... by Tran, Bach Xuan, Nguyen, Tham Thi, Boyer, Laurent, Fond, Guillaume, Auquier, Pascal, Nguyen, Hao Si Anh, Tran, Ha Thi Nhi, Nguyen, Hung Manh, Choi, Jongkwan, Le, Huong Thi, Latkin, Carl A., Nathan, Kalpana Isabel, Husain, Syeda F., McIntyre, Roger S., Ho, Cyrus S. H., Zhang, Melvyn, Ho, Roger C. M.

“…During the VFT, the area under the ROC curve of the bilateral dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, bilateral orbitofrontal cortex, bilateral frontopolar prefrontal cortex, and bilateral ventrolateral prefrontal cortex were greater than 0.7 (p < 0.001). The area under the ROC curve (AUC) for the right orbitofrontal cortex was maximal during the VFT (AUC = 0.802, 95%CI = 0.731–0.872). …”
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韓國古代赤壁船遊的跨學科研究 = An interdisciplinary study of ancient Korean boating by the Red Cliff by 蔡佳敏 Cai, Jamie Jiamin

“…Boating by the Red Cliff during "July Jiwang" (the day following the full moon in July) is a cultural phenomenon that has close ties to Su Shi's 1082 boating by the Red Cliff in Huangzhou and his three notable literary works on the subject. Rather than focusing on the historical event that occurred during the thirteenth year (208) of the Jian'an era in the Eastern Han Dynasty, Su Shi used the Red Cliff as a backdrop to express his philosophical reflections through this historical event. …”
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Effective image synthesis for effective deep neural network training by Cui, Kaiwen

“…It evolves dynamically with learnable parameters which is more scalable and can better mitigate the discriminator overfitting than hand-crafted and non-learnable augmentation strategies in most existing studies. …”
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Wage premium in Singapore. by Tan, Ruo Hui., Tan, Yan Yu., Lee, Wai Meng.

“…(ii) The value of statistical life of a Singaporeans and Singapore Permanent Residents was estimated to be in the range of S$18 million to S$23.4 million, which was greater than what was found in some western countries due to environmental and cultural differences. …”
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Tantalum based amorphous thin films as copper diffusion barrier by Yan, Hua

“…These binary alloy barriers show comparable thermal stability as Ta-N and better electrical conductivity than Ta-N and Ta-Si-N, making them potential candidates for Cu diffusion barrier. …”
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