Socioeconomic inequalities in risk of infection with SARS-CoV-2 delta and omicron variants in the UK, 2020-22: analysis of the longitudinal COVID-19 Infection Survey by Razieh, C, Shabnam, S, Dambha-Miller, H, Morris, EJA, Yates, T, Chudasama, Y, Zaccardi, F, Gillies, C, Banerjee, A, Pareek, M, Lacey, B, White, M, Khunti, K, Islam, N

“…The adjusted incidence rate ratios for a positive test result in the most deprived group compared with the least deprived group in the delta cohort were 1.59 (95% confidence interval 1.25 to 2.02) and 1.50 (1.19 to 1.87) in the healthcare and manufacturing or construction sectors, respectively. …”

Putin and the navalny factor by Cheang, Chris

“…In fact, that is not the case, at least till 2024, when his current term of office ends.…”
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An evaluation of the legal rights, responsibilities and obligations of the traveller and the travel business by De Souza, Conrad Gerard

“…Tourism is one of the highest income earners and a major contributor to the GDP of many countries in the world. Not least among the reasons for this is that as more and more nations become developed and wealthy, their citizens correspondingly become affluent and begin to seek overseas travel as a new and upgraded form of leisure or relaxation.…”
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Overview of the cement in ASEAN by Chia, Kim Ser.

“…The fast growing economies of ASEAN have turned the region into one of the most dynamic in the world. …”
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Damage tolerance (impact behaviour) of woven fabric nano composites by Lim, Andre Sian Lak.

“…Composites are fast gaining widespread popularity due to numerous benefits over steel and aluminium; however, they are still plagued by various weaknesses such as low impact and heat resistance.…”
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Probability-Based Design of Reinforced Rock Slopes Using Coupled FORM and Monte Carlo Methods by Low, Bak K., Boon, Chia W.

“…For cases with a dominant single failure mode, the time-saving importance sampling (IS) and the fast second-order reliability method (SORM) can be used in lieu of MCS. …”
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Enhanced electrochromism with rapid growth layer-by-layer assembly of polyelectrolyte complexes by Darmawan, Peter, Lee, Pooi See, Cui, Mengqi, Ng, Wee Siang, Wang, Xu

“…In this work, a facile method to deposit fast growing electrochromic multilayer films with enhanced electrochemical properties using layer-by-layer (LbL) self-assembly of complex polyelectrolyte is demonstrated. …”
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Field programmable gate array-based acceleration of shortest-path computation by Jagadeesh, George Rosario, Srikanthan, T.., Lim, C. M.

“…This study presents an FPGA-based distributed architecture for solving the single-source shortest-path problem in a fast and efficient manner. The proposed architecture is based on the Bellman-Ford algorithm adapted to facilitate early termination of computation. …”
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Preliminary study on the characteristics of FO/PRO hollow fiber membranes by Chen, Yunfeng.

“…With rapid development of industrialization and fast expansion in global population, there is an increasing need for sustainable energy and clean water resources. …”
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Design and development of a charging station for electric vehicles by Hui, Jia Junn.

“…The challenge comes in when fast charging station comes into the picture as it will put more load on the power grid. …”
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Dynamic in vivo imaging of small animal brain using pulsed laser diode-based photoacoustic tomography system by Upputuri, Paul Kumar, Pramanik, Manojit

“…To examine the ability for dynamic imaging, we monitored the fast uptake and clearance process of indo-cyanine green in the rat brain. …”
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Robust Transceiver Design Based on Interference Alignment for Multi-User Multi-Cell MIMO Networks With Channel Uncertainty by Xie, Xianzhong, Yang, Helin, Vasilakos, Athanasios V.

“…At receivers, we propose a practical interference alignment based on the fast and robust Fast Data Projection method subspace tracking algorithm to achieve the receive beamformer under channel uncertainty. …”
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The development and application of mass-spectrometry-based tools to monitor proteome remodeling in microbes by Telusma, Bertina

“…In chapters 3 and 4, I apply these methods to the methylotrophic yeast, Komagataella phaffii, which grows robustly on a diverse set of carbon sources. …”
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TEOSINTE BRANCHED1/CYCLOIDEA/PROLIFERATING CELL FACTOR4 Interacts with WRINKLED1 to mediate seed oil biosynthesis by Kong, Que, Singh, Sanjay K., Mantyla, Jenny J., Pattanaik, Sitakanta, Guo, Liang, Yuan, Ling, Benning, Christoph, Ma, Wei

“…We screened a TF library using Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana) WRI1 (AtWRI1) as bait in yeast two-hybrid assays and identified three TEOSINTE BRANCHED1/CYCLOIDEA/PROLIFERATING CELL FACTOR (TCP) family TFs, namely TCP4, TCP10, and TCP24, as AtWRI1-interacting partners. …”
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Three distinct 3-methylcytidine (m3C) methyltransferases modify tRNA and mRNA in mice and humans by Xu, Luang, Liu, Xinyu, Sheng, Na, Oo, Kyaw Soe, Liang, Junxin, Chionh, Yok Hian, Xu, Juan, Ye, Fuzhou, Gao, Yong-Gui, Dedon, Peter C., Fu, Xin-Yuan

“…However, the recent discovery of trm141 as the second gene responsible for m3C presence in RNA in fission yeast raises the possibility that multiple enzymes are involved in m3C formation in mammals as well. …”
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Formulation, optimization and characterization of palm kernel oil esters nanoemulsion system containing sodium diclofenac by Rezaee, Malahat

“…Aerobic plate count, and yeast and mould count tests showed that there were no bacteria and fungus growth in the samples. …”
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A tough egg to crack by Ding, Ming

“…Research is required on different body structures to determine a design that yields highest strength with least amount of material. [1st Award]…”
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Blind deconvolution algorithms for medical ultrasound imaging by Yeoh, Wee Soon

“…These are the constrained least squares filter, the discrete nonorthogonal wavelet transform, and the symmetrical mirror wavelet solution.…”
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Food environments and obesity: a geospatial analysis of the South Asia Biobank, income and sex inequalities by Atanasova, Petya, Kusuma, Dian, Pineda, Elisa, Anjana, Ranjit Mohan, De Silva, Laksara, Hanif, Abu A. M., Hasan, Mehedi, Hossain, Md Mokbul, Indrawansa, Susantha, Jayamanne, Deepal, Jha, Sujeet, Kasturiratne, Anuradhani, Katulanda, Prasad, Khawaja, Khadija I., Kumarendran, Balachandran, Mrida, Malay K., Rajakaruna, Vindya, Chambers, John Campbell, Frost, Gary, Sassi, Franco, Miraldo, Marisa

“…Interpretation: The results suggest the availability of fast-food outlets influences obesity, especially among female and lower-income groups. …”
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Pareto Adaptive Robust Optimality via a Fourier–Motzkin Elimination lens by Bertsimas, Dimitris, ten Eikelder, Stefan C. M., den Hertog, Dick, Trichakis, Nikolaos

“…A worst-case optimal solution pair of here-and-now decisions and wait-and-see decisions is PARO if it cannot be Pareto dominated by another solution, i.e., there does not exist another worst-case optimal pair that performs at least as good in all scenarios in the uncertainty set and strictly better in at least one scenario. …”
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