探 = In search of harmony by Ng, Woon Lam

“…Artists back then were not able to purchase tubes of paint directly from art stores ( a luxury only available much later, thanks to the Industrial Revolution ) to go en plein air painting like we do today. In addition to that, pigments used before the 1850s were generally earth materials or plant extracts, which had to be further blended with oil to form the painting paste used in studios. …”
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Infectious diseases acquired by international travellers visiting the USA by Stoney, Rhett J, Esposito, Douglas H., Kozarsky, Phyllis, Hamer, Davidson H., Grobusch, Martin P., Gkrania-Klotsas, Effrossyni, Libman, Michael, Gautret, Philippe, Lim, Poh Lian, Leder, Karin, Schwartz, Eli, Sotir, Mark J., Licitra, Carmelo

“…Low-frequency illnesses (<2% of cases) made up over half of diagnoses during travel and 41% of diagnoses after travel, including 13 cases of coccidioidomycosis and mosquito-borne infections like West Nile, dengue and Zika virus diseases. Conclusions: International travellers to the USA acquired a diverse array of mostly cosmopolitan infectious diseases, including nonspecific respiratory, gastrointestinal, dermatologic and systemic infections comparable to what has been reported among travellers to low- and middle-income countries. …”
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Improved photovoltaic performance of triple-cation mixed-halide perovskite solar cells with binary trivalent metals incorporated into the titanium dioxide electron transport layer by Thambidurai, Mariyappan, Foo, Shini, K. M. Muhammed Salim, Harikesh, Padinhare Cholakkal, Bruno, Annalisa, Nur Fadilah Jamaludin, Lie, Stener, Mathews, Nripan, Dang, Cuong

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Investigating the role of self-sacrificing prosociality in intragroup and intergroup contexts by Katna, Dashalini P.

“…Studies 4 (N = 299) and 5 (N = 376) revealed indirect effects of U.S. identity salience on restrictive policies toward outgroups like radical Islamic groups and malicious foreign organisations, that emerged through increased self-sacrificial readiness and anticipated outgroup hostility. …”
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What does acne genetics teach us about disease pathogenesis? by Common, J. E. A., Barker, J. N., van Steensel, Maurice A. M.

“…In parallel, investigations into rare disorders and syndromes that incorporate features of acne or acne‐like lesions have recently accelerated our understanding of disease pathogenesis. …”
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Studying the effect of Eu3+ ion doping in perovskite solar cells by Muhammad Amir Mohamad Kamal

“…Their application in building integrated photovoltaics (BIPV) is advancing with time and highly relevant for countries like Singapore where the land area available for solar farms is limited. …”
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Anion texturing towards dendrite-free Zn anode for aqueous rechargeable battery by Yuan, Du, Zhao, Jin, Ren, Hao, Chen, Yingqian, Chua, Rodney, Tang, Ernest Jun Jie, Cai, Yi, Edison, Eldho, Manalastas, William, Jr., Wong, Ming Wah, Srinivasan, Madhavi

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A feedforward neural network based indoor-climate control framework for thermal comfort and energy saving in buildings by Chaudhuri, Tanaya, Soh, Yeng Chai, Li, Hua, Xie, Lihua

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MOF-based hierarchical structures for solar-thermal clean water production by Ma, Qinglang, Yin, Pengfei, Zhao, Meiting, Luo, Zhiyong, Huang, Ying, He, Qiyuan, Yu, Yifu, Liu, Zhengqing, Hu, Zhaoning, Chen, Bo, Zhang, Hua

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"不似华人" ：19世纪至20世纪初海峡土生华人的困境 = "Not Really Chinese" : dilemma of the Straits Chinese from 19th to 20th century by 黄欣仪 Ng, Sing Yee

“…In the 19th century, Straits-born Chinese that similarly possesses attributes like " a Chinese" are not a minority. Many of them are contrary to the image of “Not Really Chinese”, which indicates that the perception of Straits-born Chinese as “Not Really Chinese” generalizes them. …”
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Effect of geometric scaling on the microstructural development of selective laser melted metal parts by Ng, Angelin Shia Yin

“…Density and tensile tests were carried out to analyse the mechanical properties like ultimate tensile strength (UTS), yield strength (YS) and elongation of 316L stainless steel. …”
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Efficient nitrate synthesis via ambient nitrogen oxidation with Ru-doped TiO₂/RuO₂ electrocatalysts by Kuang, Min, Wang, Yu, Fang, Wei, Tan, Huiteng, Chen, Mengxin, Yao, Jiandong, Liu, Chuntai, Xu, Jianwei, Zhou, Kun, Yan, Qingyu

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Age-related bone loss is associated with FGF21 but not IGFBP1 in healthy adults by Lee, Shuen Yee, Fam, Kai Deng, Chia, Kar Ling, Yap, Margaret M. C., Goh, Jorming, Yeo, Kwee Poo, Yap, Eric Peng Huat, Chotirmall, Sanjay Haresh, Lim, Chin Leong

“…The fibroblast growth factor 21 (FGF21)–insulin-like growth factor binding protein 1 (IGFBP1) axis regulates bone loss in animals. …”
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A finer-grain analysis of the leakage (non) resilience of OCB by Berti, Francesco, Bhasin, Shivam, Breier, Jakub, Hou, Xiaolu, Poussier, Romain, Standaert, François-Xavier, Udvarhelyi, Balasz

“…These attacks imply that at least these parts must be strongly protected thanks to countermeasures like masking. We next show that if these block cipher calls of the mode are protected, practical attacks on the remaining block cipher calls remain possible. …”
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Phylogenomic analysis of the plastid genome of the Peruvian purple maize zea mays subsp. mays cv. 'INIA 601' by Montenegro, Juan D., Julca, Irene, Chumbe-Nolasco, Lenin D., Rodríguez-Pérez, Lila M., Panizo, Ricardo Sevilla, Medina-Hoyos, Alicia, Gutiérrez-Reynoso, Dina L., Guerrero-Abad, Juan Carlos, Guerra, Carlos A. Amasifuen, García-Serquén, Aura L.

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Label-free microfluidic cell sorting and detection for rapid blood analysis by Lu, Nan, Tay, Hui Min, Petchakup, Chayakorn, He, Linwei, Gong, Lingyan, Maw, Kay Khine, Leong, Sheng Yuan, Lok, Wan Wei, Ong, Hong Boon, Guo, Ruya, Li, Holden King Ho, Hou, Han Wei

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Multimodal fusion for navigation of autonomous mobile robots using a deep learning method by Lee, Anthony Wen Hao

“…The mathematical equations are adopted from another research that allows differential-drive robots to move like a holonomic one. A virtual differential-drive robot’s states are inputted into the policy for holonomic robots. …”
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Synthesis of uniform Fe2O3@Y2O3 yolk−shell nanoreactors as chemical looping oxygen carriers by Fan, Qianwenhao, Tan, Mingwu, Yao, Bingqing, Saqline, Syed, Tao, Longgang, He, Qian, Liu, Wen

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A generalised study of 3D confined jet at a wall by Lim, Raine Jia Ying

“…Jet deflection due to the wall interaction created a distinct scour profile with unevenness observed beyond the jet outlet. This unevenness likely originated from the recirculating flow patterns influenced by the formation of ridges. …”
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Learning a closed-loop policy for scooping task by Lau, Wei Quan

“…Developing a closed-loop policy for scooping task which involves dealing with deformable objects like food is not trivial as there is a lack of physics models, which makes classical planning approaches difficult. …”
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