Turning the virtual into reality: China's role in the metaverse by Gong, Xue

“…In particular, after Chinese think tanks and regulatory agencies raised alarms regarding national security, the state has taken serious suppressive actions against some metaverse sectors like cryptocurrency.5 China banned all domestic cryptocurrency transactions and mining in 2021. …”
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Development of squaraine and croconaine probes for theranostic applications by Ferdinandus

“…SQR22, acting as LD warhead, was paired with LC3-binding warhead 5,7-Dihydroxy-4-phenylcoumarin (DP) to attract the LC3 protein of the autophagosome. …”
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Flood inundation modeling under stochastic uncertainty by Sun, He.

“…In addition, the tendency of predicted water depths in terms of 5%, 50% and 95% CDF percentiles along the channel would decline significantly from upstream to downstream. …”
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Numerical modeling of the impacts of high albedo materials on building energy savings by R.E.W.M.R.K Nisansala Ratnadiwakara

“…The conduction heat gain contribution to the annual energy consumption is reduced in the range of 4 - 4.5 kWh/m2 due to the impact of increasing solar reflectance from 0.4 to 0.8 in a lower floor which has no effect from roof conduction. …”
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Decentralized online social network primitives by Rajesh Sharma

“…Examples of such Decentralized Online Social Networks (DOSNs) include Peerson [4], Vis-a-Vis [5] and Safebook [6]. Typically in a DOSN each autonomous entity has a local view of the network based on social links it has. …”
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Design of slender concrete column using chinese design code GB50010-2010 by Chen, Qiaofen

“…Their eccentricity to depth ratios e/h range from 0 to 0.75, length to depth ratios L/h range from 14.697 to 50, percentages of reinforcements As/(bh) range from 0.8884% to 5.24%, actual concrete strengths fcu range from 16.7MPa to 106.7MPa, and actual yield strengths of steels fy range from 206MPa to 625MPa. …”
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New algorithms and VLSI architectures for efficient RNS computations by Tay, Thian Fatt

“…As a result, the proposed architecture achieves at least 21.6% of area saving, 28.8% of speedup and 32.5% of total power reduction compared to the state-of-art designs. …”
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An integer optimization framework for future air traffic flow management by Diao, Xudong

“…The computational results indicate that the solution time can be controlled within 5 minutes for instances of a size which is comparable to that of the whole Southeast Asia ATM system. …”
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Feasibility study of industrial waste heat recovery in Singapore by Khairul Azahar Abdul Rashid

“…After the simulations are conducted, the results shows that the losses calculated are at the optimal range of 5 to 10% which is the efficiency that a DSC should adopt. …”
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Tensile strength of compacted soil by Lee, Wen Yan

“…Test series 3-1 and 3-2 consists of specimens that were dynamically compacted at 24.2% (W4) and 26% (W5), respectively. The specimens were subsequently dried to other water contents before testing using the Brazilian tensile test. …”
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Enantioselective epoxidation of protected allylic and homoallylic amines via chiral cationic ion-pairing catalysis by Chin, Kek Foo

“…The versatility and practicality of this methodology have been demonstrated by low catalyst loading (2.5mol %), ease of operation (under air), use of green oxidant and gram-scale synthesis.…”
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Large area perovskite solar cells by Chen, Ho Tung

“…XRD, Current and Voltage Characteristic (I-V curve) have shown that they have similar degradation trend. …”
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Energy efficient resource migration based load balance mechanism for high traffic applications IoT by Kumar, Sunil, Cengiz, Korhan, Vimal, Suresh, Suresh, A.

“…This leads to a cause of emerging challenge of load balancing of networks for meeting up with highly demanding requirements (e.g., high performance, lower latency, high throughput, and high availability) of IoT and 5G network applications. For meeting up highly increasing demands, various proposal of load balancing techniques comes forward, in which highly dedicated balancers of loads are being required for ever service in some of them, or for every new service, manual recognition of device is required. …”
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A comparison of sodium-glucose co-transporter 2 inhibitor kidney outcome trial participants with a real-world chronic kidney disease primary care population by Forbes, AK, Hinton, W, Feher, MD, Elson, W, Ordóñez-Mena, JM, Joy, M, Fan, X, Banerjee, D, Cole, NI, Munro, N, Whyte, M, Suckling, RJ, Swift, PA, de Lusignan, S

“…A higher proportion of the CREDENCE (100%), DAPA-CKD (67.6%) and EMPA-KIDNEY (44.5%) trial participants had T2D compared with the real-world CKD population (32.8%). …”

Blind quantum computing with trapped ions and single photons by Drmota, P

“…We perform laser-based quantum gates between a ⁸⁸Sr⁺ and a ⁴³Ca⁺ ion with 0.961(2) fidelity, and between two ⁴³Ca⁺ ions with 0.985(5) fidelity. Ion-photon entanglement generated with a network qubit in ⁸⁸Sr⁺ is transferred to ⁴³Ca⁺ with 0.977(7) fidelity using error detection. …”

The development of electrochemical sensors based on the use of different forms of carbon materials by Chaisiwamongkhol, K

“…An extension of the first project to compare different types of carbon electrode materials including multiwalled carbon nanotubes, carbon black, graphene nanoplatelets, screen-printed carbon electrode and carbon paste electrode for the AdsSV technique is presented in Chapter 5. General principles to offer guidance in the optimal choice of carbon electrodes for AdsSV are established.…”

Deep learning methods for genome-based prediction of drug resistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis by Wang, C

“…<p>Tuberculosis is a highly lethal infectious disease, causing approximately 1.5 million deaths annually. Recent years have seen a concerning rise in drug-resistant tuberculosis cases, calling for the development of new approaches for drug susceptibility testing. …”

Translation, adaptation and validation of an epilepsy screening instrument in two Ghanaian languages by Darkwa, EK, Asiamah, S, Awini, E, Sottie, C, Godi, A, Williams, JE, Akpalu, A, Cross, JH, Sander, JW, Sen, A, Newton, CR, Danso-Appiah, A, Adjei, P

“…The Asante Twi questionnaire reliably specified epilepsy with positive predictive values of 92.5% and 94.1% at stages 1 and 2. It excluded epilepsy with negative predictive values of 97.9% and 95.9% for the two stages Conclusions: Our questionnaire is valid for the two languages and usable for community-based epilepsy surveys in Ghana. …”

Self-reported pain and osteoarthritis of the hip and spine in retired elite rowers by Baynham-Williams, M

“…Hip OA and spine OA were 2.2% and 10.9% prevalent, with total hip replacements reported by 5.4% of retired elite rowers. Poor outcomes at the hip, spine and combined hip-spine were 19.2%, 40.2% and 9.8% prevalent in the cohort. …”

Rethinking village malaria workers in Cambodia: Perspectives from the communities, programme managers, and international stakeholders by Orng, LH, Jongdeepaisal, M, Khonputsa, P, Dysoley, L, Sovannaroth, S, Peto, TJ, Callery, JJ, Pell, C, Maude, RJ, Liverani, M

“…Respondents included managers and implementers involved in the VMW programme at the central and provincial level (n = 9), technical officers at international agencies in Cambodia (n = 7), international stakeholders in non-governmental and research organisations based in Cambodia or other countries in the region (n = 5), as well as VMWs (n = 10), and community members (n = 16) in six endemic communes of Kravanh District, Pursat Province. …”