Understanding the consequences of education inequality on cardiovascular disease: mendelian randomisation study by Carter, AR, Gill, D, Davies, NM, Taylor, AE, Tillmann, T, Vaucher, J, Wootton, RE, Munafò, MR, Hemani, G, Malik, R, Seshadri, S, Woo, D, Burgess, S, Davey Smith, G, Holmes, MV, Tzoulaki, I, Howe, LD, Dehghan, A

“…Conclusions: BMI, systolic blood pressure, and smoking behaviour mediate a substantial proportion of the protective effect of education on the risk of cardiovascular outcomes and intervening on these would lead to reductions in cases of cardiovascular disease attributable to lower levels of education. However, more than half of the protective effect of education remains unexplained and requires further investigation.…”

Study on effect of barium titanate concentration in epoxy-based composite towards dielectric material properties by Nurfarhana, Mustafa, Azahani Natasha, Azman, Ahmad Syahiman, Mohd Shah, Nurulfadzilah, Hassan, Mohamad Shaiful, Abdul Karim

“…A low volume of filler results in a lower permittivity value due to the quantity of filler being less than the volume of the matrix base. …”
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Optimising investigative pathways in military medicine: operational impact of a military cardiopulmonary exercise testing clinic by Holland, JL, Cowie, P, Gardner, L, Mulae, J, Richards, S, Holdsworth, D

“…Median peak VO2 (as a percentage of the predicted peak) was lower in the higher-risk symptom group than in the lower-risk symptom group (97.8% vs 121%; p<0.001). …”

Distinct Circle of Willis anatomical configurations in healthy preterm born adults: a 3D time-of-flight magnetic resonance angiography study by Greggio, J, Malamateniou, C, Baruteau, KP, Reyes-Aldasoro, CC, Huckstep, OJ, Francis, JM, Williamson, W, Leeson, P, Lewandowski, AJ, Lapidaire, W

“…Background: Preterm birth (< 37 weeks’ gestation) alters cerebrovascular development due to the premature transition from a foetal to postnatal circulatory system, with potential implications for future cerebrovascular health. …”

ASIC implementation of a high speed and low power scalar product computation unit by Low, Jeremy Yung Shern.

“…The proposed inner product architecture can reduce the resultant height of partial product tree up to 4 times smaller than that of inner product using conventional merged arithmetic approach. …”
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Wolbachia-mosquito interactions and engineered female-specific lethality for Aedes-arbovirus control by Molloy, JC

“…No effective lines were produced but I suggest future design alterations.</p> <p>Overall, this thesis contributes to understanding the molecular mechanisms underlying two distinct genetic control strategies in <em>Aedes</em> mosquitoes. …”

The effect of bonding structure of diamond like carbon (DLC) film with surface nickel coating upon laser annealing by Xu, Naiyun, Tsang, Siu Hon, Tan, Chong Wei, Teo, Hang Tong, Wang, Xincai, Tay, Beng Kang

“…The Raman spectra shows more pronounced change for a-C films with Ni coating than those without Ni coating upon laser annealing, and the Raman features also suggest that the Ni surface coating can enhance formation of the six-ring graphitic-like sp2 ordering. …”
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Three-photon absorption in seeded CdSe/CdS nanorod heterostructures by Xing, Guichuan, Chakrabortty, Sabyasachi, Ngiam, Song Wee, Chan, Yinthai, Sum, Tze Chien

“…The PL from these rods show clear cubic power dependence and the 3PA cross-section (σ3) was found to be as high as 1.5×10^(-75) cm^6s^2photon^(-2) for 39 nm long rods, which is two to four orders of magnitude larger than those previously reported for spherical semiconductor nanocrystals (NCs) under ~100 fs laser pulse excitation. …”
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Utilization of Silica Fume and Sodium Hydroxide in Treated Crumb Rubber for Cement Mortar by Supar, Khairi, Mohammad, Hairuddin, Kaamin, Masiri, Mohammad Azmi, Mohamad Azim, Musa, Mohd Kamaruzaman, Abdul Rahman, Mohammad Ashraf, Ahmad, Hilton, Sugiman, Sugiman

“…Cement mortar offers an excellent replacement for materials such as fine aggregate with tire rubber waste in the form of crumbs. …”
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Balancing fairness and efficiency in traffic routing via interpolated traffic assignment by Jalota, Devansh, Solovey, Kiril, Tsao, Matthew, Zoepf, Stephen, Pavone, Marco

“…However, SO routing may discriminate against users who incur much larger travel times than others to achieve high system efficiency, i.e., low total travel times. …”
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A Deep-Learning Surrogate Model Approach for Optimization of Morphing Airfoils by Karbasian, Hamidreza, van Rees, Wim M.

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Accurate and Fast Approximate Graph Mining at Scale by Arpaci-Dusseau, Anna

“…Overall, ScaleGPM achieves an geomean average of 565× (up to 610,169×) speedup over the state-of-the-art A-GPM system, Arya. ScaleGPM is also four orders of magnitude faster than state-of-the-art exact GPM system, GraphZero. …”
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Sequence-Dependent & -Independent Effects of Intron-Mediated Enhancement (IME) by Kowal, Emma J. K.

“…These stimulatory effects range across orders of magnitude depending on the context, and also on the identity of the intron, as has been shown in Arabidopsis thaliana. …”
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Sensor2Text: Enabling Natural Language Interactions for Daily Activity Tracking Using Wearable Sensors by Chen, Wenqiang, Cheng, Jiaxuan, Wang, Leyao, Zhao, Wei, Matusik, Wojciech

“…Notably, it can aid in tracking and inquiring about daily activities, crucial in healthcare monitoring, especially for elderly patients or those with memory disabilities. …”
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Oikeion, Agathon, and Archaia Phusis in Plato’s Symposium by Crüwell, HS

“…The idea that the soul’s self-perfection constitutes a return to a temporally prior condition of excellence, which in two places other than the Symposium (Republic X, Timaeus) is called the ‘archaia phusis’, is pervasive and centrally important to Plato’s psychology. …”

Efficiency analysis for active rectifier in more electric aircraft (MEA) generator by Lim, Sin Guang

“…On the other hand, the Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor-Field-Effect Transistors (MOSFETs) are characterised by lower switching losses. …”
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Efficacy and safety of rapid-acting insulin analogs in special populations with Type 1 Diabetes or Gestational Diabetes: systematic review and meta-analysis by Nørgaard, Kirsten, Sukumar, Nithya, Rafnsson, Snorri Bjorn, Saravanan, Ponnusamy

“…Results: In people on CSII, rapid-acting insulin analogs lowered postprandial plasma glucose post-breakfast to a greater extent than did regular human insulin (RHI) (mean difference: − 1.63 mmol/L [95% confidence interval − 1.71; − 1.54]), with a comparable risk of hypoglycemia and a trend for lower glycated hemoglobin. …”
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Influence of dried Bacillus subtilis and lactobacilli cultures on intestinal microflora and performance in broilers by Jin, L.Z., Ho, Y.W., Abdullah, N., Jalaludin, S.

“…The weight gain in chickens given feeds incorporated with B. subtilis and lactobacilli was significantly (p < 0.05) higher than those of the control. With regard to feed efficiency, there was a definite tendency towards a higher feed : gain ratio in the control group and those fed lactobacilli in drinking water, but those fed lactobacilli in feed had a significantly lower (p < 0.05) feed : gain ratio. …”
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The effect of customised plantar pressure accommodated 3D printed insoles on footwear cushioning during walking by Seet, Nicholas Wenhan

“…In addition, the pressure accommodated insole for one participant resulted in lower mean peak plantar pressures than that of a commercially available orthotic insole.…”
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A D-band SPST switch using parallel-stripline swap with defected ground structure by Luo, Jiang, He, Jin, Apriyana, Alit, Feng, Guangyin, Huang, Qijun

“…The fabricated switch with core area of 0.0036 mm2 shows measured insertion loss of 1.6–3 dB from 110–134 GHz, return loss of higher than 10 dB and isolation level around 16 dB.…”
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