Does testing order affect performance and outcome during physical fitness tests? by Low, Seow Ting

“…In Singapore, students must complete a bi-annual National Physical Fitness Award Scheme (NAPFA) test, consisting of 6 health-related components of fitness in which 5 are often completed back-to-back on the same day. …”
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In vitro protein (BSA) delivery studies in mesostructured bioceramics by Aw, Siew Sim

“…3D mesoporous bioactive glasses (MBGs), SiO2-CaO-P2O5, with four different chemical compositions and three different synthesis temperatures during synthesis had been successfully prepared by F127 surfactant as templates using evaporation-induced self-assembly (EISA) process. …”
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Late-life depressive symptomatology, motoric cognitive risk syndrome, and incident dementia: the "Nuage" study results by Beauchet, Olivier, Sekhon, Harmehr, Launay, Cyrille P., Gaudreau, Pierrette, Morais, José A., Allali, Gilles

“…At baseline, MCR was defined by the association of subjective cognitive complaint with slow walking speed, and late-life depressive symptomatology with a 30-item Geriatric Depression Scale (GDS) score >5/30. Incident dementia, defined as a Modified Mini-Mental State score ≤79/100 test and Instrumental Activity Daily Living score <4/4, was assessed at each annual visit. …”
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Machine translation of English relative clauses to Chinese in commercial contracts -- a contrastive evaluation of the outputs by SYSTRAN translate, Baidu translate and Google trans... by Li, Yidi

“…Then, 10 professional translators were invited to rate the translation quality of the target text (TT) sentences (both generated by human and machine) with a score ranging from 1 to 5. Meanwhile, the automatic evaluation metric BLEU (Bilingual Evaluation Understudy) was applied for scoring the MT outputs. …”
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Great enhancement effect of 20-40 nm Ag NPs on solar-blind UV response of the mixed-phase MgZnO detector by Han, Shun, Xia, Hao, Lu, Youming, Hu, Sirong, Zhang, Dao Hua, Xu, Wangying, Fang, Ming, Liu, Wenjun, Cao, Peijiang, Zhu, Deliang

“…When high density 20-40 nm Ag NPs is induced, the deep UV (235 nm) response of the mixed-phase MgZnO detector is increased by 226 times, the I uv/I dark ratio of the modified device is increased by 17.5 times. The slight enhancement in UV light intensity from 20 to 40 nm Ag NPs induces multiple tunnel breakdown phenomena within the mixed-phase MgZnO thin film, which is the main reason for the abnormal great enhancement effect on deep UV response of the device, so the recovery speed of the modified device is not influenced. …”
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Chemical characteristics and trends of Indian summer monsoon rainfall: a review by Majumdar, Aditi, Samanta, Dhrubajyoti, Das, Reshmi

“…Average rainwater pH ranged from 5.31 to 6.70 in these six regions. The incidence of acidic rain events at three separate locations in the Peninsular region suggests a significant impact of anthropogenic emissions. …”
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The effects of gradient running on lower limb skeletal muscle function parameters measured using TMG100 tensiomyography system by Sek, Qin Rui

“…Mean RF Td values decreased by 2.05ms from Baseline (27.39 ±4.68) to UHR (25.34 ±3.10), and decreased by 3.00ms and 4.35ms from LR (29.69±7.27) to DHR (26.69±5.54) and UHR (25.34±3.10) respectively. Conover’s post hoc pairwise comparisons found significant differences between RF Td between LR, DHR and UHR. …”
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Directing the architecture of surface-clean Cu₂O for CO electroreduction by Liu, Jiawei, You, Futian, He, Bowen, Wu, Yinglong, Wang, Dongdong, Zhou, Weiqiang, Qian, Cheng, Yang, Guangbao, Liu, Guofeng, Wang, Hou, Guo, Yi, Gu, Long, Feng, Lili, Li, Shuzhou, Zhao, Yanli

“…More significantly, the BCF-Cu2O-derived catalyst (BCF) presents the highest n-propanol current density (−0.85 mA cm–2) at −0.45 V versus the reversible hydrogen electrode (VRHE), which is fivefold higher than that of the surfactant-coated Cu2O nanocube-derived catalyst (SFC, −0.17 mA cm–2). …”
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An in-depth study of software library upgrade dependency issues by Teo, Dave Hwa Tao

“…We will be analyzing 6 different libraries, with 5 projects under each library. In this study, it has further acknowledged the findings in the previous study that there is a high level of third-party library dependency. …”
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Cooperative collision avoidance in multirobot systems using fuzzy rules and velocity obstacles by Tang, Wenbing, Zhou, Yuan, Zhang, Tianwei, Liu, Yang, Liu, Jing, Ding, Zuohua

“…The results show that: Compared with the conventional fuzzy rule method, the average success rate of the proposed method can be increased by 306.5%; compared with the VO-based method, the average one-step decision time is reduced by 740.9%.…”
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A new reconfigurable true random number generator and physical unclonable function unified chip with on-chip auto-calibration by Cao, Yuan, Liu, Wanyi, Zheng, Yue, Chen, Shuai, Ye, Jing, Qian, Lei, Chang, Chip Hong

“…The proposed TRNG-PUF design is prototyped with a standard 40 nm 1.1 V CMOS process. It occupies a small footprint of 24,316 µm2 . …”
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Prevalence of health-risk behaviors and mental well-being of ASEAN university students in COVID-19 pandemic by Rahman, Hanif Abdul, Amornsriwatanakul, Areekul, Abdul-Mumin, Khadizah H., Agustiningsih, Denny, Chaiyasong, Surasak, Chia, Michael, Chupradit, Supat, Huy, Le Quang, Ivanovitch, Katiya, Nurmala, Ira, Majid, Hazreen B. Abdul, Nazan, Ahmad Iqmer Nashriq Mohd, Rodjarkpai, Yuvadee, de la Cruz, Ma Henrietta Teresa O., Mahmudiono, Trias, Sriboonma, Krissachai, Sudnongbua, Supaporn, Vidiawati, Dhanasari, Wattanapisit, Apichai, Charoenwattana, Sukanya, Cahyani, Nani, Car, Josip, Ho, Ringo Moon-Ho, Rosenberg, Michael

“…Physical inactivity was estimated at 39.7% (95%CI: 38.9, 40.5). A minority (16.7%; 95%CI: 16.1, 17.3) had low mental well-being, smoked (8.9%; 95%CI: 8.4, 9.3), and drank alcohol (13.4%; 95%CI: 12.8, 13.9). …”
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Real-world effectiveness of sotrovimab and remdesivir for early treatment of high-risk hospitalized COVID-19 patients: a propensity score adjusted retrospective cohort study by Koh, Lin Pin, Chua, Siang Li, Vasoo, Shawn, Toh, Matthias Paul Han Sim, Cutter, Jeremy Nicholas, Nah, Puay Hoon, Leo, Yee Sin, Tay, Jun Xin, Young, Barnaby Edward, Lye, David C., Ong, Sean W. X.

“…We included PCR-confirmed COVID-19 patients admitted to the National Centre for Infectious Diseases who presented within the first 5 days of illness, and who were not requiring oxygen or ICU care at presentation. …”
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Speed, power and area optimized monotonic asynchronous array multipliers by Balasubramanian, Padmanabhan, Mastorakis, Nikos E.

“…Compared to the best of the existing QDI asynchronous array multipliers, the proposed monotonic asynchronous array multiplier achieves the following reductions in design metrics: (i) a 40.1% (44.3%) reduction in cycle time (which is the asynchronous equivalent of synchronous clock timing), a 37.7% (37.7%) reduction in area, and a 4% (4.5%) reduction in power for 4 × 4 multiplication corresponding to RZH (ROH), and (ii) a 58.1% (60.2%) reduction in cycle time, a 45.2% (45.2%) reduction in area, and a 10.3% (11%) reduction in power for 8 × 8 multiplication corresponding to RZH (ROH). …”
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Low-temperature specific heat capacity of water-ammonia mixtures down to the eutectic by Chua, Bing Hong, Gloesener, Elodie, Choukroun, Mathieu, Vu, Tuan H., Melwani Daswani, Mohit, Journaux, Baptiste, Styczinski, Marshall J., Vance, Steven D.

“…In support of developing new equations of state, we conducted 1 bar specific heat capacity measurements (Cp) using a differential scanning calorimeter (DSC) at low temperatures (184-314 K) and low mass fractions of ammonia (5.2-26.9 wt %) to provide novel data in the parameter space most relevant for planetary studies. …”
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CT sigma delta ADC for audio applications by Hnin, Hnin Soe.

“…The test results show that the first integrator draws less than 20µA from the 1.2 V supply voltage.…”
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Bridging the gap: fostering interactive stimming between non-speaking autistic children and their parents by Chen, Rachel S. Y.

“…Through a robust mixed-methods approach integrating video-based fieldwork and design-based research, this paper engages three non-speaking autistic children and their mothers in a 5-day empirical intervention. Results reveal significant transformations in parent-child interactions as both parents and children are acquainted with touch in a new environment. …”
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Performance of pulsed plasma thrusters by Loh, Kelvin Kwong Lam.

“…The results show that the slug model relates the best amongst the three models to the experimental data within 20% of the impulse bit at pressure levels greater than 5 mbar. This suggests that the auto-initiation PPT operates using a slug mode of operation. …”
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The role of post-pyrolysis carbon dioxide capture in hydrogen recovery from waste-derived pyrolysis gas by Wang, Yuxin, Veksha, Andrei, Ong, Joel, Ueki, Yasuaki, Yoshiie, Ryo, Naruse, Ichiro, Lisak, Grzegorz

“…The results show that CaO utilization does not change significantly H2 yield and higher heating value of gas on a feedstock mass basis but increases H2 purity from 49.6–83.3 to 63.7–94.4 vol% and H2/CO ratio from 1.1–5.7 to 1.9–19.8 of the product gas across all feedstocks. …”
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Joint client-and-sample selection for federated learning via bi-level optimization by Li, Anran, Wang, Guangjing, Hu, Ming, Sun, Jianfei, Zhang, Lan, Tuan, Luu Anh, Yu, Han

“…Extensive experiments comparison against eight state-of-the-art baselines on six real-world datasets in the presence of data noise and heterogeneity shows that FedMW-CSS achieves up to 28.5% higher test accuracy, while saving communication and computation costs by at least 49.3% and 1.2%, respectively.…”
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