Cohort differences in physical health and disability in the United States and Europe by Gimeno, L, Goisis, A, Dowd, JB, Ploubidis, GB

“…<p><strong>Objectives</strong></p> Declines in mortality have historically been associated with improvements in physical health across generations. …”

Geochemical heterogeneity in the Hawaiian plume : constraints from Hawaiian volcanoes and Emperor seamounts by Huang, Shichun

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Striking a gut-liver balance for the antidiabetic effects of metformin by Barroso, Emma, Montori-Grau, Marta, Wahli, Walter, Palomer, Xavier, Vázquez-Carrera, Manuel

“…Metformin is the most prescribed drug for the treatment of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM), but its mechanism of action has not yet been completely elucidated. Classically, the liver has been considered the major site of action of metformin. …”
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Effects of surface texture on wetting by Kee, Yong How

“…Wetting is a phenomena which occurs when a droplet tends to spread out on a surface. The extreme behaviour of wetting, also known as superhydrophilicity, is found to be useful in many real life applications and has been receiving considerable attention. …”
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A novel approach to designing a guitar distortion effects pedal by Zheng, Luka

“…Guitar distortion has been an integral part of modern music since the 1960s. …”
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Class participation in the Nanyang Business School by Gan, Eddie Eng Hui, Tan, Hong Chwee, Wong, Suat Li

“…Class participation has been increasingly used as a grading tool for various subjects taken in Nanyang Business School (NBS). …”
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Encapsulation of probiotics for food and beverage applications by Ang, Kai Lin

“…Up to date, no studies have been done to examine the viability of probiotics in popular, well-liked, commercialized carbonated sodas/beers, but it is known that certain components in these matrices (e.g. phosphoric acid in soda, hops and ethanol in beers) can reduce the viability of probiotics. …”
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A Descriptive Analysis of Housing Affordability in Malaysia by Musaddad, Hafirda Akma, Maamor, Selamah, Zainol, Zairy

“…There has recently been widespread public debate and media attention around housing affordability in Malaysia as it is one of the key measures for the stability of a country's socio-economy. …”
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My child needs tuition! : a study of parental views on primary school education by Neo, Geraldine Poh Yan

“…Even though the Ministry of Education has made conscious efforts to modify the education system, the trend remains largely the same. The emergence of such a trend tends to create a worrying issue: how did parents come to view shadow education as a safety net if our education system is supposedly good? …”
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Secularization versus religious revival in Eastern Europe: Church institutional resilience, state repression and divergent paths by Northmore-Ball, K, Evans, G

“…Using national sample surveys from the early 1990s to 2007 to examine the change in demographic predictors of religiosity, we show that Catholic and Orthodox countries are experiencing different trends, the first group displaying evidence of secularization and the second of revival, and that these two different trends are likely to derive from the legacies of state repression and the differing abilities of the churches to resist such repression. …”

Markov-Chain Monte Carlo Sampling of Visibility Boundaries for Differentiable Rendering by Xu, Peiyu, Bangaru, Sai, Li, Tzu-Mao, Zhao, Shuang

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Optimal design of filters and filter banks using a symbolic approach by Luo, Ziwang

“…The theories and applications of the discrete wavelet transform (DWT) have developed greatly over the last twenty years and the discrete wavelet transform (DWT) itself has also been recognized as a useful signal analyzing tool in areas like mul-tiresolution signal and image processing. …”
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Phosphate-based solid glass ceramic electrolytes for rechargeable lithium-ion/air batteries by Toh, Kang Hui.

“…A novel vitreous phase has been prepared by introducing boron oxide (B2O3), a renowned glass former in the parent LAGP system, which tends to increase the stabilization of the amorphous glass structure. …”
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Report on industrial attachment with Siemens Medical Instruments Pte Ltd by Loo, Shin Yi.

“…The project also allows me to experiment with the ferrite beads to suppress Electromagnetic Interference (EMI) and expose to the reliability tests conducted in all manufacturing companies. …”
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Simulation and fabrication of an integrated microfluidics chip for magnetic particle separation. by Hendrik Santoso Sugiarto.

“…In this report, several magnetic structures (i.e. magnetic bead, magnetic barcode, microstriplines) were modeled and their magnetic properties were analyzed. …”
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Centrioles generate two scaffolds with distinct biophysical properties to build mitotic centrosomes by Wong, S-S, Monteiro, JM, Chang, C-C, Peng, M, Mohamad, N, Steinacker, TL, Xiao, B, Saurya, S, Wainman, A, Raff, JW

“…Recruiting Spd-2 to synthetic beads injected into early embryos reconstitutes key aspects of mitotic centrosome assembly on the bead surface, and this depends on Spd-2’s ability to recruit Polo and Aurora A. …”

Design and development of an android application “Bus NTU” by Yin, Bangqi.

“…Since the past few years, smartphones have been playing increasingly important role in daily life. …”
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Symmetry breaking for semiconductor photocatalysis by Di, Jun, Jiang, Wei, Liu, Zheng

“…Numerous strategies have been developed to tailor the photocatalytic performance of catalysts. …”
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DNA extraction methodologies for ultra long nanopore sequencing to determine chromosome specific rodent telomere lengths by Kidd, Elliot, Mooruth, Ravi, Meimaridou, Eirini, Walley, Andrew, Fairbrother, Una

“…Ultra long sequencing has been attempted with Human TL (5-15Kb) with some success. …”
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DSF-family quorum sensing signal-mediated intraspecies, interspecies, and inter-kingdom communication by He, Ya-Wen, Deng, Yinyue, Miao, Yansong, Chatterjee, Subhadeep, Tran, Tuan Minh, Tian, Jing, Lindow, Steven

“…Over the last decade, extensive progress has been made in understanding DSF-mediated communication among bacteria, fungi, insects, plants, and zebrafish. …”
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