Clinical course, immunogenicity, and efficacy of BNT162b2 mRNA vaccination against SARS-CoV-2 infection in liver transplant recipients by Tan, Eunice X., Lim, Wen Hui, Thong, Elizabeth, Chavatte, Jean-Marc, Zhang, Jinyan, Lim, Jonathan, Jin, Jocelyn Y., Lim, Daniel R. X., Kang, Jaclyn Y. T., Tang, Ansel Shao Pin, Chan, Kai En, Tan, Caitlyn, Tan, Shi Ni, Nah, Benjamin, Huang, Daniel Q., Wang, Lin-Fa, Tambyah, Paul A., Somani, Jyoti, Young, Barnaby Edward, Muthiah, Mark D.

“…Among LT recipients, older age and higher tacrolimus trough levels were associated with poorer immune response to 2-dose SARS-CoV-2 vaccination. Further studies are needed to assess variables associated with breakthrough infections and, hence, who should be prioritized for booster vaccination.…”
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Efficacy of Wolbachia-mediated sterility to reduce the incidence of dengue: a synthetic control study in Singapore by Lim, Jue Tao, Bansal, Somya, Chong, Chee Seng, Dickens, Borame, Ng, Youming, Deng, Lu, Lee, Caleb, Tan, Li Yun, Chain, Grace, Ma, Pei, Sim, Shuzhen, Tan, Cheong Huat, Cook, Alex R., Ng, Lee Ching

“…Background: Due to the absence of available therapeutics and good vaccines, vector control solutions are needed to mitigate the spread of dengue. Matings between male Aedes aegypti mosquitoes infected with the wAlbB strain of Wolbachia and wildtype females yield non-viable eggs. …”
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论明泰昌、天启初年内臣与朝臣的关系 ：以宦官王安为例 = The relationship between eunuchs and imperial officials from Ming Tai Chang period to early Tian Qi period : a case study of eunuch Wang An... by 马爱连 Ma, Ah Lain

“…In the Ming Dynasty, in order for imperial edicts to be promulgated, approval from the Directorate of Ceremonial (司礼监), an eunuch institution, was often needed. Therefore, court officials had to communicate and cooperate with those eunuchs from the Directorate of Ceremonial. …”
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Localization and motion planning of mobile robots by Dai, Yunxiang

“…The unmanned road sweeper has been one of the first industrialized unmanned vehicle products in recent years, which usually needs to travel along the urban road curb for environmental cleaning. …”
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Micro electro mechanical systems (MEMS) enabled digital pen by Tan, Joel Qi Zhi

“…In addition, using a MEMS enabled digital pen, users can take down their notes anywhere, without needing a surface to write on. The MEMS used in this project is STEVAL-MKI119V1 evaluation board from ST Microelectronics, which comprises of an accelerometer, LSM303DLHC, and a gyroscope, L3GD20. …”
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Photonic engineering of terahertz quantum cascade lasers by Liang, Guozhen

“…Furthermore, for practical applications, modulation of THz light is usually needed to encode information in THz waves or to perform lock-in amplification of the signal, etc. …”
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Structural and mechanistic studies of herpes virus proteins by Patel, Vidhi Kanaiyalal

“…Further probing will be needed to analyse if all the homologues are structurally similar in spite of divergence in sequence similarity. …”
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Black hole binary formation and mergers in supermassive black hole discs by Rowan, C

“…Further more detailed work is needed to assess the sensitivity of these observational predictions to these assumptions.…”

Intelligent agent design for persuading the elderly to adopt a healthy lifestyle by Yu, Xinjia

“…On the other hand, a follower type persuadee needs more praise as emotional support, plan and goal management and supervision as social support, and guidance in solving problems. …”
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The combined role of MRI prostate and prostate health index in improving detection of significant prostate cancer in a screening population of Chinese men by Chiu, Peter K. F., Lam, Thomas Y. T., Ng, Chi-Fai, Teoh, Jeremy Y. C., Cho, Carmen C. M., Hung, Hiu-Yee, Hong, Cindy, Roobol, Monique J., Chu, Winnie C. W., Wong, Samuel Y. S., Sung, Joseph Jao Yiu

“…The benefit of additional MRI was only observed in PSA 4.0-10.0 ng ml -1 , and the number of MRI needed to diagnose one additional ISUP GG ≥2 PCa was 20 in PHI ≥35 and 94 in PHI <35. …”
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Posture control and balance for quality of walking in rehabilitation by Li, Lei

“…However, most current lower-limb assistive devices do not provide adequate assistance that is needed to maintain postural balance. Additional stabilizing forces are required to assist postural balance. …”
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Analysis and exploitation of dispersive waves for source localization on solids by Arun, Kattukandy Rajan

“…The velocity for each frequency mode needs to be estimated for phase transit based algorithm. …”
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Arsenic (III) removal from water using natural sedimentary rocks by Yusof, Nur Zulaikha

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Derivation of extreme non-gaussian stochastic offshore structural responses using finite memory nonlinear system by Mukhlas, Nurul ’Azizah

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Association of current Schistosoma mansoni, Schistosoma japonicum, and Schistosoma mekongi infection status and intensity with periportal fibrosis: a systematic review and meta-ana... by Ewuzie, A, Wilburn, L, Thakrar, DB, Cheng, H, Reitzug, F, Roberts, N, Malouf, R, Chami, GF

“…Our findings support that current infection status is only tenuously associated with periportal fibrosis. Guidelines are needed to better monitor schistosomiasis-related morbidities.…”

In2Se3-based two-dimensional photocatalysts for water-splitting by Wong, CCY

“…Fe doping and MoS2/In₂Se₃ formation were shown to be effective strategies to further boost its photocatalytic performance. Additional work is needed to further optimise this system and explore other strategies to enhance the water splitting performance of In₂Se₃-based photocatalysts.…”

Color and flavor development of roasted jackfruit (Artocarpus hetrophyllus L.) seeds by Azeez, Shakirah Omotoke

“…Roasted jackfruit seeds can be used as an alternative healthy snack product due to its good source of dietary nutrients. Also, the most needed literature on the optimum roasting conditions for color and flavor development can be exploited by researchers and food industries at large.…”
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Visualization of engine design, simulation and optimization by Wang, Yan Chao

“…PolarViz cannot be directly used in Star Coordinate, as the Star Coordinate does not have a boundary and PolarViz needs the plot boundary to calculate the relative distance. …”
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Extreme learning machine for classification and clustering on multiview data by Chen, Jichao

“…The information of multiple views needs to be fused into a single one at some moment to derive a consistent clustering result across different views. …”
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Rotor angle stability-constrained dispatch and control of large-scale wind penetrated power system by Yuan, Heling

“…If the system is found to be unstable, transient stability control action needs to be conducted to retain the stability of the system. …”
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