Increased consumption of unsaturated fatty acids improves body composition in a hypercholesterolemic Chinese population by Haldar, Sumanto, Ponnalagu, Shalini, Osman, Farhana, Tay, Shia Lyn, Wong, Long Hui, Jiang, Yuan Rong, Leow, Melvin Khee-Shing, Henry, Christiani Jeyakumar

“…While total body weight increased slightly (0.36 ± 0.12 kg, p = 0.005) in women during intervention, this was mainly due to gain in lean mass (0.38 ± 0.081 kg, p < 0.0001). …”
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How to learn Chinese characters? Exploring the effectiveness of different learning methods in young Singaporean children by Toh, Wendy Hwee Bin

“…Past research on early Chinese word reading and instruction has mainly focused on children in Mandarin-speaking societies or adult foreign/second language learners. …”
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Changes in cerebrospinal fluid balance of TNF and TNF receptors in naïve multiple sclerosis patients : early involvement in compartmentalised intrathecal inflammation by Magliozzi, Roberta, Pezzini, Francesco, Pucci, Mairi, Rossi, Stefania, Facchiano, Francesco, Marastoni, Damiano, Montagnana, Martina, Lippi, Giuseppe, Reynolds, Richard, Calabrese, Massimiliano

“…The CSF sTNF-R1-associated pattern (encompassing high levels of CXCL13, TWEAK, LIGHT, IL-35, osteopontin, pentraxin-3, sCD163 and chitinase-3-L1) was mainly related to altered T cell and B cell signalling. …”
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Sentiment analysis and summarization of movie reviews across genres. by Tun, Thura Thet.

“…The proposed approach is capable of providing better performance and more refined sentiment analysis, and summarization results compared to previous studies which focus mainly on sentiment orientation of textual units (i.e. terms, phrases, sentences, snippets or documents) or extraction of feature-opinion pairs for sentiment summarization. …”
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Synthesis and optical characterization of cadmium sulfide (CdS) single crystals for laser cooling effect by Zhang, Chiyuan

“…In this thesis, the author will describe what he have done in the past two years of his studentship. He will mainly focus on the topic of laser cooling of cadmium sulfur (CdS) single crystals. …”
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Occurrence, human exposure and dynamics of phthalates in ACMV indoor environments : method development and field studies by Chen, Ailu

“…In the development of sampling and extraction method, works mainly focus on testing homemade two-bed sorbent tubes with silanized glass wool and Tenax TA as sorbents for airborne phthalate sampling. …”
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Thermodynamic study of isosteric heat at zero coverage : applications to adsorption cooling and desalination by Fan, Wu

“…Vapor compression cooling and desalination systems are mainly driven by electricity, produced by burning fossil fuels, which contributes to the global warming (GW) because of the encountered direct CO2-emissions. …”
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新加坡高校人才战略的理念建构和实践运作 - 以南洋理工大学为例 = Formulation and implementation of talent strategy in higher education : a case study of Nanyang Technological University in Singapore... by 刘宏 Liu Hong, 贾丽华 Jia Lihua, 范昕 Fan Xin

“…Despite being a small country without any natural resources, Singapore has emerged as one of the richest nations in the world, thanks in no small part to the significant role of talent strategy and human resource management policy. This article is mainly concerned with the formulation and implementation of talent strategy and its role in higher education by a detailed case of Nanyang Technological University (NTU) and with the implications for China as it embarks on the process of building world-class universities. …”
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Voice conversion with parallel/non-parallel data and synthetic speech detection by Tian, Xiaohai

“…As low-dimensional features are typically used in synthetic techniques, detailed information has been abandoned in synthetic speech. This work mainly focused on the detailed information of high-dimensional features, especially their high-frequency parts, for synthetic speech detection. …”
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Community noise measure via crowd sourcing by Lim, Yun Jie

“…The study shows that the noise on campus is mainly due to human and mechanical noise. By mashing the noise data with Wi-Fi log data, the results show a good positive correlation between noise level and human density in an area. …”
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Reliability analysis and data driven modelling of railway component failure by Wang, Jinlong

“…The novelty of this research mainly including: designing customized raw data processing, developing robust modelling framework, and providing implementable knowledge feedback for maintenance application. …”
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Water treatment using one-dimensional manganese oxide based materials by Zhang, Tong

“…To overcome the engineering issue, various separation techniques such as free settling, centrifugation, magnetic separation and membrane filtration, have been proposed over the years. This research topic mainly focused on the synthesis and environmental application of 1D nanostructured manganese oxide based materials in the easily separable forms including MnO2 nanowires, magnetic manganese oxide nanocomposites, micro-/nano-structured MnO2 spheres, and manganese oxide nanofibrous membrane. …”
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Dynamics of current-driven magnetic domain walls and skyrmions by Indra Purnama

“…At present, the investigation of domain wall dynamics is mainly focused on finding additional driving mechanisms to improve its mobility. …”
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Development of (TAML) iron complexes for photocatalytic, oxidative water treatment by Lim, Jia Hui

“…The current energy demand is met mainly by the combustion fossil fuels. This unsustainable energy source brings about negative environmental effects. …”
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Early adulthood BMI and cardiovascular disease: a prospective cohort study from the China Kadoorie Biobank by Chen, Y, Yu, W, Lv, J, Sun, D, Pei, P, Du, H, Yang, L, Chen, Y, Zhang, H, Chen, J, Chen, Z, Li, L, Yu, C

“…The primary outcome was the incidence of cardiovascular diseases as a group, ischaemic heart disease, haemorrhagic stroke, and ischaemic stroke, which were obtained mainly through linkage to disease registries and the national database for health insurance claims. …”

Targeting TFEB and TFE3 in iPSC-derived dopaminergic neurons to correct autophagic/lysosomal deficits in Parkinson's disease by McGuinness, W

“…</p> <p>Surprisingly, TFEB overexpression mainly upregulated genes associated with mitochondrial function and bioenergetics in iPSC-DaNs, demonstrating a novel, DaN- specific therapeutic function for TFEB activation in PD.…”

Antimicrobial susceptibility and molecular profiles of acinetobacter baumannii in Makkah hospitals, and the potential use of bacteriophage as a treatment option by Raees, Fahad

“…The aminoglycosides resistance was encoded mainly by aminoglycoside phosphor-transferase gene, aph(3′′)-Ib at 83.8% and aminoglycoside O-phosphotransferase aph(6)-Id at 70.3%. …”
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不一样的移民社会 ：黄乃裳组织福州人迁移诗巫的历史个案研究 = A different immigrant society : a study on Wong Nai Siong planned migration of Foochownese to Sibu... by 陈雯 Chen, Wen

“…The history of Chinese immigrants and immigration has been studied by many, and the impression for this history is mainly deemed in a negative light. It is generally believed that the Chinese immigrants will have to been through a bumpy journey while immigrating, and will have to face a lot of hardships, struggling to survive in Nanyang. …”
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Selective laser melting of ceramic particles strengthened stainless steel by Zhai, Wengang

“…The strength enhancement is mainly achieved through grain refinement and Orowan strengthening. …”
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Perovskite superstructures and heterostructures for enhanced optical performance by Chan, Wen Kiat

“…Studies involving perovskite SSs mainly focus on all-inorganic CsPbBr3 synthesized using either the hot injection or ultrasonication methods. …”
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