Investigating viral glycosylation pathways for drug and vaccine development by Brun, J

“…Chapter 4 focuses on the site-specific glycosylation occupancy, and N- and O-glycan structures attached to virion derived SARS-CoV-2 spike glycoproteins. This glycan signature was compared to a stabilised prefusion trimeric spike, to a monomeric subunit of spike (S1) and to an antigen of a non-stabilised vaccine candidate, revealing subunit shedding of the S1 glycoprotein for the vaccine candidate. …”

Seroepidemiology of COVID-19 in pregnant women and their infants in Uganda and Malawi across multiple waves 2020-2022 by Hookham, L, Cantrell, L, Cose, S, Freyne, B, Gadama, L, Imede, E, Kawaza, K, Lissauer, S, Musoke, P, Nankabirwa, V, Sekikubo, M, Sommerfelt, H, Voysey, M, PeriCOVID Consortium, Le Doare, K

“…The placental transfer GMR was 1.7, indicating active placental transfer of anti-spike IgG. There was no association between SARS-CoV-2 antibody positivity and adverse pregnancy or infancy outcomes. …”

Security enhancement for domain name system in the internet by Narayanan Arjun

“…Domain Name System (DNS) can be referred as the spine of today’s Internet world. This system is completely responsible for providing an architecture that helps in resolving millions of domain names existing throughout the world to a unique IP address, enabling the users to access the domains from anywhere on the planet. …”
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Comparative effects of domain-specific human monoclonal antibodies against LGI1 on neuronal excitability by Sell, J, Rahmati, V, Kempfer, M, Irani, SR, Ritzau-Jost, A, Hallermann, S, Geis, C

“…However, only the LRR-specific mAbs increased the number of action potential firing together with enhanced initial instantaneous frequency and promoted spike-frequency adaptation, which were less pronounced after the EPTP mAb. …”

Wearable bio-adhesive metal detector array (BioMDA) for spinal implants

“…Accordingly, herein, we report on the development and engineering of a bio-adhesive metal detector array (BioMDA), a potential wearable solution for real-time, non-invasive positional analyses of osseous implants within the spine. The electromagnetic coupling mechanism and intimate interfacial adhesion enable the precise sensing of the metallic implants position without the use of radiation. …”
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Deep learning approach to cervical segmentation from routine CT images by Duan, Yiming

“…To address the sequential and location-dependent nature of bone segmen tation information, the dissertation proposes a pre-training model for location information, and combines 2.5D image input and labeled multi-channel coding to semantically segment 3D cervical spine CT images. …”
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Design of an exoskeleton for lifting by Lim, Ernest Zhen Xuan

“…Lower back injuries, caused by muscle strain around the lumber spine, are common in work involving manual labour. …”
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Towards a computer that functions like the human brain by Lee, Seow Wei

“…Spike-Timing-Dependent Plasticity and unsupervised learning in the network is researched in this report. …”
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Perceptual distortion analysis for images by Dong, Li

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Nanyang Technological University indoor map by Tsui, Chung Lok

“…In terms of routing, the participants also gave a rating of above 3 out of 5 for various criteria. Overall, the indoor map achieved a rating of 4.23 out of 5, meaning that participants were satisfied with the map. …”
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Dengue death rate higher among women than men in Bangladesh by Roney, Miah, Mohd Fadhlizil Fasihi, Mohd Aluwi

“…Given the atypical seasonality of the epidemic and the sudden spike in cases early on, it is noteworthy that mosquito and potential hotspot densities were at an all-time high throughout the previous years.…”
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Nanyang Technological University events management web application by Ang, Kok Jian

“…All essential software development documents have been included to allow easy comprehension by the reader. This report contains five main chapters: Introduction, User Research and Interviews, Design and Implementation, Testing and Evaluation, Conclusion and Future Works. …”
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Synaptic CMOS transistor by Chai, Zhen Hong

“…In this work, electrical measurements were conducted on commercial level TiN/HfO2 gated n-channel MOSFET transistor (with an equivalent oxide thickness of 1.7nm) to demonstrate that it can exhibit some critical synaptic characteristics of a biological synapse such as excitatory and inhibitory postsynaptic current (EPSC and IPSC), short-term plasticity (STP) and long-term potentiation (LTP), metaplasticity, and spike timing dependent plasticity (STDP). The mechanism behind the output characteristic of MOSFET to exhibit synaptic-like response is the charge trapping and de-trapping at defects in the oxide and oxide/semiconductor interface. …”
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A scalable variational inference approach for increased mixed-model association power by Loya, H, Kalantzis, G, Cooper, F, Palamara, PF

“…We developed Quickdraws, a method that increases association power in quantitative and binary traits without sacrificing computational efficiency, leveraging a spike-and-slab prior on variant effects, stochastic variational inference and graphics processing unit acceleration. …”

Indoor localization using Wi-Fi by Siswanto, Hadi

“…All models are evaluated using data collected from several reference points on block N4, North Spine, Nanyang Technological University. A simple Android application is developed to assist data collection. …”
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Prevalence of lumbosacral transition vertebrae in symptomatic adults and the levels of degeneration in the suprajacent disc by Song, Joshua, Betzler, Brjan Kaiji, Kaliya-Perumal, Arun-Kumar, Oh, Jacob Yoong-Leong

“…Retrospectively, 545 patients (Age = 57.6 ± 18.3 years; Male = 277; Female = 268) who underwent radiographic evaluation of the lumbar spine for lower back pain or radicular symptoms were shortlisted. …”
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Design and development of extreme learning machine symposium web portal by Chiang, Yu Hui.

“…In recent years, it has been observed that there is a spike in interest in the development of web based conference management systems. …”
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Mean-field approximation for networks with synchrony-driven adaptive coupling by Fennelly, N, Neff, A, Lambiotte, R, Keane, A, Byrne, A

“…In place of the less tractable spike-timing-dependent plasticity, we employ recently validated phase-difference-dependent plasticity rules, which adjust coupling strengths based on the relative phases of θ-neuron oscillators. …”

Intelligent network design driven by big data analytics, IoT, AI and cloud computing by Kumar, Sunil, Mapp, Glenford, Cengiz, Korhan

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Knowledge and attitude of lower back pain among nursing students in Universiti Sains Malaysia, Kelantan by Osman, Nur Asmida

“…It is the pain in your lower back which may come from the spine, muscle, nerves or other nearby structure. …”
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