Divergent acute versus prolonged pharmacological GLP-1R responses in adult β cell-specific β-arrestin 2 knockout mice by Bitsi, Stavroula, El Eid, Liliane, Manchanda, Yusman, Oqua, Affiong I., Mohamed, Nimco, Hansen, Ben, Suba, Kinga, Rutter, Guy A., Salem, Victoria, Jones, Ben, Tomas, Alejandra

“…Acute cyclic adenosine 5'-monophosphate increases were impaired, but desensitization reduced in KO islets. …”
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Mechano-responsive hydrogel for direct stem cell manufacturing to therapy by Shou, Yufeng, Liu, Ling, Liu, Qimin, Le, Zhicheng, Lee, Khang Leng, Li, Hua, Li, Xianlei, Koh, Dion Zhanyun, Wang, Yuwen, Liu, Tong Ming, Yang, Zheng, Lim, Chwee Teck, Cheung, Christine, Tay, Andy

“…Conventional cell expansion methods using 2D tissue culture plates and 2.5D microcarriers in bioreactors can generate large cell numbers, but they compromise stem cell potency and lack mechanical preconditioning to prepare MSC for physiological loading expected in vivo. …”
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A novel CCHP system based on a closed PEMEC-PEMFC loop with water self-supply by Zhao, Junjie, Luo, Xiaobing, Tu, Zhengkai, Chan, Siew Hwa

“…After one day of operation in summer and winter, there are 19.1 kWh and 45.5 kWh electricity surplus, 7.27 × 106 kJ and 1.97 × 106 kJ heat surplus, 1200 mol and 300 mol hydrogen surplus, respectively. …”
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Optimizing fundamental design of soft magnetic layer to improve the energy conversion efficiency of airport pavement induction heating by Chen, Feng, Li, Yue, Gu, Gonghui, Han, Chengjia, Ma, Tao

“…It was found that provided the embedment depth of soft magnetic layer is no more than 8 cm, the critical pavement tensile stress can be controlled within 4.5 MPa that ensures the structural safety.…”
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Machine learning-based approach to wind turbine wake prediction under yawed conditions by Gajendran, Mohan Kumar, Ijaz Fazil Syed Ahmed Kabir, Vadivelu, Sudhakar, Ng, Eddie Yin Kwee

“…Utilizing WindSE’s actuator line method (ALM) and Large Eddy Simulation (LES), we model an NREL 5-MW wind turbine under yaw conditions ranging from no yaw to 40 degrees. …”
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An analytic end-to-end collaborative learning algorithm by Li, Sitan, Cheah, Chien Chern

“…Then an online kinematics control task of a UR5e robot arm was performed to illustrate the regression approximation and online updating ability of our algorithm.…”
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Recent seismicity and slab gap beneath Toba caldera (Sumatra) revealed using hypocenter relocation methodology by Simanjuntak, Andrean, Muksin, Umar, Asnawi, Yusran, Rizal, Syamsul, Wei, Shengji

“…The results show a significant change in hypocenter quality which is around 90% of total hypocenters with RMS < 1.0s, while 60% of total hypocenters have RMS < 0.5s following an oblique angle of ~65° beneath Toba. …”
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Analysis of wettability effects on thermal performance of vapor chamber with a hybrid lattice Boltzmann method by Ji, Ruiyang, Qin, Siyu, Liu, Yijia, Jin, Liwen, Yang, Chun, Meng, Xiangzhao

“…For low heat fluxes, the VC with a hydrophobic boiling surface (CA=115.5°) results in the highest BHTC by 260.34% compared with the neutral one. …”
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Pet loss in Singapore: understanding anticipatory grief and the role of advance care planning by Harindran, Ravin

“…Additional findings suggest that (iii) Fostering Awareness, (iv) Pre-euthanasia talks, (v) Online Flexibility, and (vi) Adaptability through revisions are essential for an ACP to aid paw-rents’ AG. …”
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Contrastive graph pooling for explainable classification of brain networks by Xu, Jiaxing, Bian, Qingtian, Li, Xinhang, Zhang, Aihu, Ke, Yiping, Qiao, Miao, Zhang, Wei, Sim, Jeremy Wei Khang, Gulyás, Balázs

“…We apply our method to 5 resting-state fMRI brain network datasets of 3 diseases and demonstrate its superiority over state-of-the-art baselines. …”
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High-efficiency magnetophoretic labelling of adoptively-transferred T cells for longitudinal in vivo magnetic particle imaging by Tay, Rong En, Lokamitra, P., Pang, Shun Toll, Low, Kay En, Tay, Hui Chien, Ho, Charmaine Min, Malleret, Benoit, Rötzschke, Olaf, Olivo, Malini, Tay, Zhi Wei

“…Results: Labelling efficiency was improved more than 10-fold over prior studies enabling longer-term tracking for at least two weeks in vivo of the labelled immune cells and their biodistribution relative to the tumour. The new imager showed 5-fold improved throughput enabling much larger density of data (up to 20 mice per experiment). …”
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Targeted therapy to gastric cancer by Hou, Qian.

“…These drugs’ targets: HSP90, proteasome, protein phosphatase and V-ATPase provide insights for drug design trend for gastric cancer therapy. …”
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Attitude determination and control of LEO microsatellites by Wee, Melisa Toon Cheng.

“…The simulation results show good convergence in attitude to about 5° pointing accuracy when using magnetometer measurements and 0.2° for Sun and Earth Horizon measurements. …”
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Electrical characterization of Si Nanowire based devices – transistors and SONOS memory by Xiong, Tian Zhong.

“…A vertical gate-all-around (GAA) non-volatile memory (NVM) SONOS and PMOS vertical gate-all-around (GAA) Silicon Nanowire with the height of 150nm and diameter of ~20nm for the memory and height of 600~700nm and diameter of ~5nm is being study. In this work, the main aim is to find out the electrical characteristic of both devices. …”
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A comparison between cannulated and non-cannulated cancellous screws used in the fixation of simulated femoral neck fracture by Tan, Daren Teng Yeow.

“…The repeatability was confirmed by a coefficient of variations data which range from 5% to 13%. Experiments were conducted to test for differences in the maximum load to failure, maximum displacement at failure and stiffness for both types of screw fixation. …”
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Are sovereign wealth fund investments destabilizing? by Pang, Andy Shang Yuan, Lin, Rachelle Wei Xuan, Mok, Shayna Chien Ru

“…Jen [2007] estimated that should these investors decide to invest a significant part of their current holding of US$5.6 trillion worth of assets, it could raise the global P/E ratio by up to 10%. …”
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Mode-locked fiber laser and its application in microwave photonics by Li, Nanxi.

“…By implementing a user controlled spectral filter, generation of Gaussian-shaped waveforms at 2.3 GHz, 4.6 GHz and 8 GHz, with sinusoidal amplitude modulation with periods 2.5 nm, 1.25 nm and 0.75 nm, respectively, is shown. …”
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Anisotropic conductive adhesive for micro joining in semiconductor interconnects application (solder alternative for fine pitch & environment friendly IC packaging) by Goh, Chin Foo

“…As a result, nanosized conductive particles are preferably to use in the finer pitch ACA application (5?m bump pitch) to enhance reliability and performance. …”
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Analysis of near cortex versus both cortex screw fixation in bone fracture surgery by Ong, Chin Kuan.

“…In the initial validation process, the models of 8-hole and 9-hole LCPs have stiffness values within 5 % deviation of the actual bone-plates. The validated LCP models are then assembled as plate-bone constructs with LHS and synthetic bone models for further validation.…”
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Pushing the limits of relaxation and modulated-bath AC calorimetry. by Song, Zhibo.

“…In this project, a new relaxation colorimeter is designed to operate at a temperature between 1.5K and 300K with magnetic field up to 16T. Then a modulated-bath AC calorimetry is incorporated with the relaxation calorimeter is a single setup for the purpose of measuring specific heat at a wider temperature spectrum and on smaller (micro-scale) sample scale. …”
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