Thermal-disrupting interface mitigates intercellular cohesion loss for accurate topical antibacterial therapy by Hu, Benhui, Berkey, Christopher, Feliciano, Timothy, Chen, Xiaohong, Li, Zhuyun, Chen, Chao, Amini, Shahrouz, Nai, Mui Hoon, Lei, Qun-Li, Ni, Ran, Wang, Juan, Leow, Wan Ru, Pan, Shaowu, Li, Yong-Qiang, Cai, Pingqiang, Miserez, Ali, Li, Shuzhou, Lim, Chwee Teck, Wu, Yun-Long, Odom, Teri W., Dauskardt, Reinhold H., Chen, Xiaodong

“…Bacterial infections remain a leading threat to global health because of the misuse of antibiotics and the rise in drug-resistant pathogens. Although several strategies such as photothermal therapy and magneto-thermal therapy can suppress bacterial infections, excessive heat often damages host cells and lengthens the healing time. …”
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Modeling, optimization and thermal characterization of micropillar evaporator based high performance silicon vapor chamber by Wei, Mengyao

“…Silicon vapor chamber with micropillar evaporator possess large thin film evaporation area, mature manufacturing technique and can be integrated with electronic devices homogeneously to eliminate excess thermal interface layer as well as avoid thermal expansion mismatch. …”
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Development and evaluation of clustering algorithms for microarray data analyses by Wang, Yiman.

“…An efficient and robust software system called GeneSpy has been eventually developed. It provides many of the methods drawn from standard statistical cluster analysis. …”
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Settling velocity of a porous object by Muhammad Khalil Khaidir

“…In actual situations, particles found in wastewater which are commonly called flocs are porous which means that there are cavities within the particles that allow advection flow through it. …”
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Real politics and metaethical baggage by Nye, S

“…So-called 'realists' have argued that political philosophers should engage with real politics, but that mainstream 'non-realist' political philosophers fail to do so. …”

CFD analysis of flow across adjacent buildings with concave roof structure using large-eddy simulation (LES) by Foo, Tze Jie

“…The software to be used is an open source CFD program called OpenFoam, which exposes the user to Linux kind of programming environment. …”
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Development and Application of a Data-Driven Signal Detection Method for Surveillance of Adverse Event Variability Across Manufacturing Lots of Biologics by Wilde, Joshua T., Springs, Stacy, Wolfrum, Jacqueline M., Levi, Retsef

“…We propose a data-driven signal detection method called HMMScan to monitor for manufacturing lot-dependent changes in adverse event (AE) rates, and herein apply it to a biologic drug. …”
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Targeting NAPE-PLD: assessing its potential in the fight against malaria by Goh, Xiu Ling

“…Malaria remains a major global challenge with increasing artemisinin-resistant Plasmodium falciparum. This calls for an increased need for discovering novel ring-stage drug targets. …”
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Physicochemical and in-vitro release studies of liponanocapsules by Tan, Dulcia Wei Ni.

“…The objective of this project is to optimize and study the formulation of stable polyelectrolyte coated liposomes called liponanocapsules. They are formed using the layer-by-layer (lbl) technique. …”
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G-cleave LC3B biosensor: monitoring autophagy and assessing resveratrol's synergistic impact on doxorubicin-induced apoptosis in breast cancer cells by Liao, C, Long, Y, Tsai, M, Lin, C, Hsu, K, Lee, C

“…Autophagy, a crucial process in cancer, is closely intertwined with both tumor progression and drug resistance development. However, existing methods used to assess autophagy activity often pose invasiveness and time-related constraints, limiting their applicability in preclinical drug investigations. …”

Structural and mechanistic insights into the Rel protein of Mycobacterium tuberculosis by Singal, Bharti

“…The MtRel is the only regulator of (p)ppGpp and can serve as a potential target for therapeutic interventions against drug tolerant tuberculosis and latent tuberculosis infection. …”
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Pseudo-randomness in cryptography by Bansal Arushi

“…In addition, the paper defines the criteria for a cryptographically secure pseudo-random number generator (CSPRNG) and outlines the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) randomness test suite, which offers a framework for evaluating the randomness quality of RNG outputs. The conclusions drawn from this research underscore the indispensable requirement of high-quality randomness in protecting cryptographic infrastructures from advanced threats, calling for continuous advancements and evaluations in PRNG technologies.…”
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Performance evaluation of SAFIS for benchmark problems by Sinara Vijayan.

“…This dissertation presents a performance evaluation of SAFIS algorithm with benchmark problems drawn from the areas of regression and classification. …”
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Virtual piano by Tan, Alan Lai Chian

“…Smartphones are small but powerful devices, providing humans with countless uses, from making phone calls and taking photos, to accessing the Internet from almost anywhere. …”
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Bacterial phylogenetic reconstruction from whole genomes is robust to recombination but demographic inference is not by Hedge, J, Wilson, DJ

“…However, bacteria frequently exchange regions of their genomes by a process called homologous recombination, which violates a fundamental assumption of phylogenetic methods. …”

Assessing surface seals of soils on slopes by Liu, Chenying

“…This phenomenon is attributed to the formation of a thin dense layer called surface seal on the surface soil. The surface seal is created by interaction forces between water and soil particles such as compaction, attachment, dispersion and so on. …”
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Layer-by-Layer Nanoparticles for Cytokine Delivery by Pires, Ivan S.

“…We also find that the LbL film conformation is key to maintaining therapeutic efficacy as thicker films hinder IL-12 delivery. …”
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Development of photocatalytic self-cleaning surfaces on 316 stainless steel by Ong, Jun Hui

“…Generally, a better self-cleaning effect could be observed for TiO2 films that were obtained by thermally oxidising Ti films at lower temperatures. …”
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Alcohol-Mediated Resistance-Switching Behavior in Metal–Organic Framework-Based Electronic Devices by Liu, Yaqing, Wang, Hong, Shi, Wenxiong, Zhang, Weina, Yu, Jiancan, Chandran, Bevita K., Cui, Chenlong, Zhu, Bowen, Liu, Zhiyuan, Li, Bin, Xu, Cai, Xu, Zhiling, Li, Shuzhou, Huang, Wei, Huo, Fengwei, Chen, Xiaodong

“…Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) have drawn increasing attentions as promising candidates for functional devices. …”
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Development of red/near-infrared fluorescent molecules and macromolecules for biomedical applications by Yang, Cangjie

“…The hydrophobic layer of side chain was used to physically entrap drugs for chemotherapy. To address the potential problem of drug leakage, we utilized amphiphilic random copolymers containing drug-modified units as side chain of conjugated polymers instead in Chapter 7. …”
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