Spatial, temporal, and demographic patterns in prevalence of smoking tobacco use and attributable disease burden in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis... by Reitsma, M. B., Kendrick, P. J., Ababneh, E., Abbafati, C., Abbasi-Kangevari, M., Abdoli, A., Abedi, A., Abhilash, E. S., Abila, D. B., Aboyans, V., Abu-Rmeileh, N. M., Adebayo, O. M., Advani, S. M., Aghaali, M., Ahinkorah, B. O., Ahmad, S., Ahmadi, K., Ahmed, H., Aji, B., Akunna, C. J., Al-Aly, Z., Alanzi, T. M., Alhabib, K. F., Ali, L., Alif, S. M., Alipour, V., Aljunid, S. M., Alla, F., Allebeck, P., Alvis-Guzman, N., Amin T. T., Amini, S., Amu, H., Amul, G. G. H., Ancuceanu, R., Anderson, J. A., Ansari-Moghaddam, A., Antonio, C. A. T., Antony, B., Anvari, D., Arabloo, J., Arian, N. D., Arora, M., Asaad, M., Ausloos, M., Awan, A. T., Ayano, G., Aynalem, G. L., Azari, S., B, D.B., Badiye, A. D., Baig, A. A., Bakhshaei, M. H., Banach, M., Banik, P.C., Barker-Collo, S. L., Bärnighausen, T. W., Barqawi, H. J., Basu, S., Bayati, M., Bazargan-Hejazi, S., Behzadifar, M., Bekuma, T. T., Bennett, D. A., Bensenor, I. M., Berfield, K. S. S., Bhagavathula, A. S., Bhardwaj, N., Bhardwaj, P., Bhattacharyya, K., Bibi, S., Bijani, A., Bintoro, B. S., Biondi, A., Birara, S., Braithwaite, D., Brenner, H., Brunoni, A. R., Burkart, K., Butt, Z. A., Caetano dos Santos, F. L., Car, Josip, Cárdenas, R., Carreras, G., Carrero, J. J., Castaldelli-Maia, J. M., Cattaruzza, M. S. S., Chang, J. C., Chen, S., Chu, D. T., Chung, S. C., Cirillo, M., Costa, V. M., Couto, R. A. S., Dadras, O., Dai, X., Damasceno, A. A. M., Damiani, G., Dandona, L.

“…We used a direct estimation approach to estimate attributable burden, providing more comprehensive estimates of the health effects of smoking than previously available. Findings: Globally in 2019, 1·14 billion (95% uncertainty interval 1·13–1·16) individuals were current smokers, who consumed 7·41 trillion (7·11–7·74) cigarette-equivalents of tobacco in 2019. …”
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Evaluating conversational agents for mental health: scoping review of outcomes and outcome measurement instruments by Jabir, Ahmad Ishqi, Martinengo, Laura, Lin, Xiaowen, Torous, John, Subramaniam, Mythily, Car, Lorainne Tudor

“…Descriptive and thematic analyses of the findings were performed. Results: We included 32 studies that targeted the promotion of mental well-being (17/32, 53%) and the treatment and monitoring of mental health symptoms (21/32, 66%). …”
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Doctor, Will You Pray for Me? : Medicine, Chaplains, and Healing the Whole Person / by Klitzman, Robert, author 655971

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Exciton Dynamics and Anisotropy in 2D Metal Organochalcogenolate Semiconductors by Lee, Woo Seok

“…This divergence in excitonic properties is attributed to the semi 1D Ag chains in AgSePh-F₂(2,3), in contrast to hexagonal 2D Ag network in AgSePh. This finding can be generalized to other blue-emitting 2D AgSePh-R compounds which exhibit either AgSePh-like or AgSePh-F₂(2,3)-like absorption spectra. …”
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Modelling familiarity : towards age-friendly exergame design by Zhang, Hao

“…Based on all the research findings, familiarity can contribute to age-friendly exergame design and older adults' game experience can be enhanced with the help of this research.…”
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Conditional prosociality in development: deconstructing social and materialistic factors that modulate early prosocial behavior by Lee, Kristy Jia Jin

“…Taken together, our findings shed light on altruistic and self-interested motivations in early prosocial behavior.…”
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Wireless channel modeling and spectrum monitoring for interference mitigation and link reliability insurance for existing and future CBTC systems by Kalyankar Shravan Kumar

“…The statistics of the clustered data are analyzed to understand the characteristics of radio signals from different access points, and the findings of this technique are presented. The study shows that the proposed approach can be used in real-time monitoring of access points (APs) and help the MRT operators identify the faulty APs without any in-field tests. …”
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Examining twitter discourse on electronic cigarette and tobacco consumption during national cancer prevention month in 2018: topic modeling and geospatial analysis by Lu, Jiahui, Lee, Edmund Wei Jian

“…Conclusions: Though people recognized the importance of traditional tobacco control policies in reducing lung cancer incidences, their views on e-cigarette risks were divided, and discussions on the importance of e-cigarette policy control were missing from public discourse. Findings suggest the need for health organizations to continuously engage the public in discussions on the potential health risks of e-cigarettes and raise awareness of the insidious lobbying efforts from the tobacco industry.…”
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Vision language representation learning by Yang, Xiaofeng

“…Vision and language tasks have garnered increasing research attention in recent years, finding extensive applications in commercial software such as Microsoft Office, Amazon cloud services, and the iOS photo app. …”
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Multi-scale and multiphase modeling of abrasive flow machining process with experimental validation by Mohamed Adel Abdelhakem Amen

“…AFM studies commonly lump this abrasion action either by empirical model or simplified shapes with simplified force-indentation equation therefore, the abrasion action details are missing. Here, the study finds out the particle forces, surface deformation, and MR mechanisms. …”
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Self-healing cementitious composites by encapsulation techniques by Feng, Jianhang

“…In terms of the in-situ gelation and subsequent volume growth of hydrogels, a model for simulations of crack sealing evolutions by generated hydrogels was developed and simulation outcomes were in agreement with experimental findings. Based on the research in this thesis, it can be concluded that autonomous healing of cementitious composites can be enhanced with these novel encapsulation or immobilization techniques and the new self-healing strategy, whilst future research in robust autonomous healing, cost reductions and life cycle analysis can be conducted to further upgrade autonomous healing cementitious composites.…”
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Development of advanced Fe-based oxygen carriers for chemical looping applications by Fan, Qianwenhao

“…The main results and findings are summarized as follows. 1. We successfully synthesized oxygen carriers with nominal compositions of MgO•MgFe2O4 (1M1F) and 5MgO•MgFe2O4 (3M1F) using a simple ball-milling assisted solid-state reaction. …”
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System design and development of human-robot interaction control scheme for assistive robotic Arm extender by Yang, Sibo

“…Feedback from questionnaires completed by participants yielded both positive and constructive responses. The findings of this thesis demonstrate the substantial potential of the ARAE as an assistive device for chronic stroke patients with upper limb disabilities, supporting them in performing Activities of Daily Living (ADLs) within clinical settings.…”
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Wage premium in Singapore. by Tan, Ruo Hui., Tan, Yan Yu., Lee, Wai Meng.

“…The following variables that were found to have significant impact: a) Respondents who were themselves, or have family members and close friends being severely injured, sick or killed due to job-related accidents reported higher values, b) respondents who were covered by life and accident insurance reported higher values, c) respondents with higher monthly income before taxes tended to report higher values and d) respondents who received higher education levels reported lower values. The findings of our study give interesting insights to the attitudes towards occupational risk within the Singapore context. …”
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话语标记 “可是” 在马来西亚华语会话中的语用功能 = Pragmatic functions of discourse marker “Keshi” in conversational Malaysian Mandarin by 胡文绮 Woo, Wen Qi

“…Previous research have investigated extensively the truth value semantics of “keshi” based on written Mandarin, however, this paper finds that the various uses of “keshi” in natural conversations can hardly be explained with such semantics. …”
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Essays on multi-echelon inventory control by Wan, Guangyu

“…Optimal inventory control policies for two-level distribution systems are notoriously complicated because of the stock allocation problem when shortage occurs at the warehouse. However, finding warehouse stock allocation policies that are optimal or near-optimal and easy to implement is of practical importance. …”
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Mechanism of an arched basilar membrane in mammalian cochlea by Chan, Wei Xuan

“…The present research analyses the mechanism of an arched basilar membrane in contributing to the sharp frequency tuning in a gerbil cochlea. The findings provide understanding of an arched membrane in mammalian cochlea and enables development for application of the cochlear mechanics in areas such as microfluidics and artificial cochlear development where limitations on the channel width are critical. …”
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Experimental and numerical evaluation of aeroacoustic damping performance of in-duct double-layer orifice plates by Li, Jing

“…The experimental and numerical findings help to design effective acoustic liners.…”
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Control and operation of modular multilevel converters by Yang, Shunfeng

“…All the theoretical findings are verified in PLECS simulations. The effectiveness and practicalities of the control algorithms are confirmed on a scale down single-phase MMC prototype.…”
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Investigating the role of astrocytes in Parkinson's disease pathogenesis in GBA- N370S iPSC-derived neural cultures by Ibarra Aizpurua, N

“…</p> <p>Furthermore, bulk RNAseq data of control iASTROs treated with inflammatory cytokines and PFFs for 24h revealed very extensive transcriptomic changes in response to inflammatory cytokines but not PFFs, a finding that was verified with subsequent immunocytochemistry and RT-qPCR experiments conducted after 24h and 7 days of treatment. …”