Understanding lived experiences of bereaved parents of children with chronic life-threatening Illness : towards a culture-specific and meaning-oriented narrative E-writing interven... by Dutta, Oindrila

“…In Singapore, while deaths among children and youths (age<19) have been steadily declining over the past decade, the number of child deaths caused by chronic conditions has increased by about 27% from 120 in 2014 to 152 in 2016. …”
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Technology index : a millennium perspective. by Chan, Kai Wai., Lee, Tuck Weng., Ng, Bee Hoong.

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The novel quinoline derivative SKA-346 as a KCa3.1 channel selective activator by Wong, Brandon Han Siang, Shim, Heesung, Goay, Stephanie Shee Min, Ong, Seow Theng, Nur Ayuni Binte Muhammad Taib, Chai, Kelila Xin Ye, Lim, Kerry, Huang, Dachuan, Ong, Choon Kiat, Vaiyapuri, Thamil Selvan, Cheah, Yeong Cheng, Wang, Yulan, Wulff, Heike, Webster, Richard David, Shelat, Vishalkumar G., Verma, Navin Kumar

“…Genetic manipulation of T-cells to upregulate the expression of K+ channels has been shown to boost T-cell cytotoxicity in cancer. …”
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Dynamic altruistic cooperation within breast tumors by Muhammad Sufyan Bin Masroni, Lee, Kee Wah, Lee, Victor Kwan Min, Ng, Siok Bian, Law, Chao Teng, Poon, Kok Siong, Lee, Bernett Teck Kwong, Liu, Zhehao, Tan, Yuen Peng, Chng, Wee Ling, Tucker, Steven, Ngo, Lynette Su-Mien, Yip, George Wai Cheong, Nga, Min En, Hue, Susan Swee Shan, Putti, Thomas Choudary, Bay, Boon Huat, Lin, Qingsong, Zhou, Lihan, Hartman, Mikael, Loh, Tze Ping, Lakshmanan, Manikandan, Lee, Sook Yee, Tergaonkar, Vinay, Chua, Huiwen, Lee, Adeline Voon Hui, Yeo, Eric Yew Meng, Li, Mo-Huang, Chang, Chan Fong, Kee, Zizheng, Tan, Karen Mei-Ling, Tan, Soo Yong, Koay, Evelyn Siew-Chuan, Archetti, Marco, Leong, Sai Mun

“…Such behaviors are widely exemplified in nature but have been underexplored in cancer cells which are conventionally seen as selfish competitive players. …”
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Functional metagenomic analysis of quorum sensing signaling in a nitrifying community by Tan, Chuan Hao, Yeo, Yee Phan, Muhammad Hafiz Ismail, Ng, Noele Kai Jing, Subramoni, Sujatha, Taj, Shireen, Tay, Martin, Chao, Xie, Kjelleberg, Staffan, Rice, Scott A.

“…In wastewater treatment systems, acylated homoserine lactone (AHL)-based QS has been correlated with the conversion of floccular biomass into microbial granules, as well as EPS production and the nitrogen removal process. …”
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Opto-electrical bimodal recording of neural activity in awake head-restrained mice by Cobar, Luis Fernando, Kashef, Alireza, Bose, Krishnashish, Tashiro, Ayumu

“…Although opto-electrical bimodal recording is beneficial by enabling us to exploit the strength of both approaches, it has not been widely used. In this study, we devised three methods of bimodal recording from a deep brain structure in awake head-fixed mice by chronically implanting a gradient-index (GRIN) lens and electrodes. …”
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MCI-frcnn: a deep learning method for topological micro-domain boundary detection by Tian, Simon Zhongyuan, Yin, Pengfei, Jing, Kai, Yang, Yang, Xu, Yewen, Huang, Guangyu, Ning, Duo, Fullwood, Melissa Jane, Zheng, Meizhen

“…RAID and TAD alterations have been found to be associated with diseases. They can be further dissected as micro-domains (micro-TADs and micro-RAIDs) by clustering single-molecule chromatin-interactive complexes from next-generation three-dimensional (3D) genome techniques, such as ChIA-Drop. …”
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iMAT: energy-efficient in-memory acceleration for ternary neural networks with sparse dot product by Zhu, Shien, Huai, Shuo, Xiong, Guochu, Liu, Weichen

“…Therefore, many IMC-based TNN accelerators have been proposed. They build dedicated ternary multiplication cells or utilize efficient bitwise operations on IMC architectures. …”
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Design and analysis of passive phase shifters using controllable defected ground structures in 65nm CMOS technology for 77-81 GHz automotive radar by Wu, Jiaqi

“…Many phase shifter topologies have been demonstrated. Active phase shifters like vector summing type employing active devices consume large amount of power and the phase accuracy is normally low due to the active components. …”
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Multi-site benchmark classification of major depressive disorder using machine learning on cortical and subcortical measures by Belov, Vladimir, Erwin-Grabner, Tracy, Aghajani, Moji, Aleman, Andre, Amod, Alyssa R., Basgoze, Zeynep, Benedetti, Francesco, Besteher, Bianca, Bülow, Robin, Ching, Christopher R. K., Connolly, Colm G., Cullen, Kathryn, Davey, Christopher G., Dima, Danai, Dols, Annemiek, Evans, Jennifer W., Fu, Cynthia H. Y., Gonul, Ali Saffet, Gotlib, Ian H., Grabe, Hans J., Groenewold, Nynke, Hamilton, J. Paul, Harrison, Ben J., Ho, Tiffany C., Mwangi, Benson, Jaworska, Natalia, Jahanshad, Neda, Klimes-Dougan, Bonnie, Koopowitz, Sheri-Michelle, Lancaster, Thomas, Li, Meng, Linden, David E. J., MacMaster, Frank P., Mehler, David M. A., Melloni, Elisa, Mueller, Bryon A., Ojha, Amar, Oudega, Mardien L., Penninx, Brenda W. J. H., Poletti, Sara, Pomarol-Clotet, Edith, Portella, Maria J., Pozzi, Elena, Reneman, Liesbeth, Sacchet, Matthew D., Sämann, Philipp G., Schrantee, Anouk, Sim, Kang, Soares, Jair C., Stein, Dan J., Thomopoulos, Sophia I., Uyar-Demir, Aslihan, van der Wee, Nic J. A., van der Werff, Steven J. A., Völzke, Henry, Whittle, Sarah, Wittfeld, Katharina, Wright, Margaret J., Wu, Mon-Ju, Yang, Tony T., Zarate, Carlos, Veltman, Dick J., Schmaal, Lianne, Thompson, Paul M., Goya-Maldonado, Roberto

“…However, the diagnostic predictive power of the existing algorithms has been limited by small sample sizes, lack of representativeness, data leakage, and/or overfitting. …”
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Pricing data tampering in automated fare collection with NFC-equipped smartphones by Dang, Fan, Zhai, Ennan, Li, Zhenhua, Zhou, Pengfei, Mohaisen, Aziz, Bian, Kaigui, Wen, Qingfu, Li, Mo

“…Automated Fare Collection (AFC) systems have been globally deployed for decades, particularly in the public transportation network where the transit fee is calculated based on the length of the trip (a.k.a., distance-based pricing AFC systems). …”
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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

“…Introduction: In low-middle income countries (LMICs) the role of food environments on obesity has been understudied. We address this gap by 1) examining the effect of food environments on adults’ body size (BMI, waist circumference) and obesity; 2) measuring the heterogeneity of such effects by income and sex. …”
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Loss of caveolin-1 impairs light flicker-induced neurovascular coupling at the optic nerve head by Loo, Jing Hong, Lee, Ying Shi, Woon, Chang Yi, Yong, Victor H. K., Tan, Bingyao, Schmetterer, Leopold, Chong, Rachel S.

“…Mutations in Cav-1 have been identified as a major genetic risk factor for glaucoma. …”
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The hazards of unconfined pyroclastic density currents: a new synthesis and classification according to their deposits, dynamics, and thermal and impact characteristics by Lerner, Geoffrey A., Jenkins, Susanna F., Charbonnier, Sylvain J., Komorowsk, Jean-Christophe, Baxter, Peter J.

“…Despite their ability to cause serious impacts, unconfined PDCs have previously only been described for a limited number of specific case studies. …”
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The identification of significant features towards travel mode choice and its prediction via optimised random forest classifier : An evaluation for active commuting behavior by Nur Fahriza, Mohd Ali, Ahmad Farhan, Mohd Sadullah, P.P. Abdul Majeed, Anwar, Mohd Azraai, Mohd Razman, Musa, Rabiu Muazu

“…The use of machine learning has since been ubiquitous in a myriad of fields, including transportation studies and hence is also investigated towards its efficacy in predicting travel mode choice. …”
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Green hydrogen derived from municipal wastewater via bioconversion by attached microalgae onto various sizes of polyurethane foam cubes by Musa Ardo, Fatima, Khoo, Kuan Shiong, Min Woon, Jia, Nurul Tasnim, Sahrin, Fong Yeong, Yin, Ng, Huisuan, Sean Goh, Pei Sean, Herma Dina, Setiabudi, Kiatkittipong, Worapon, Wei Lim, Jun, Ikenaga, Kazutoshi, Ansar, Sabah

“…Immobilization of microalgae onto polyurethane foam had been employed in the current study to increase the hydrogen yield, while offering an easy harvesting process for potential reusability, and preventing cells’ wash out from cultivation system. …”
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The effect of regularly dosed paracetamol versus no paracetamol on renal function in Plasmodium knowlesi malaria (PACKNOW) : study protocol for a randomised controlled trial by Cooper, Daniel J., Plewes, Katherine, Grigg, Matthew J., Rajahram, Giri S., Piera, Kim A., William, Timothy, Chatfield, Mark D., Yeo, Tsin Wen, Dondorp, Arjen M., Anstey, Nicholas M., Barber, Bridget E.

“…The inexpensive and widely available drug paracetamol inhibits CFHb-induced lipid peroxidation via reduction of ferryl haem to the less toxic Fe3+ state, and has been shown to reduce oxidative damage and improve renal function in patients with sepsis complicated by haemolysis as well as in falciparum malaria. …”
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Thermally induced phase separation PVDF membrane fabricated by using NaCl coagulation bath: relation of membrane surface morphology and permeation performance by Chen, Ningyuan, Zhao, Jie, Shi, Lei, Goto, Atsushi, Wang, Rong

“…Efforts have been made in thermally induced phase separation (TIPS) process to modify the morphology of polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) membranes in order to improve their permeation performance and mechanical properties. …”
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Exploring and Exploiting Ribonuclease 1: from Protein Biochemistry to Protein Engineering by Wralstad, Evans Christian

“…RNase 1 and its bovine homologue RNase A exhibit ubiquitous expression across tissues, a catalytic efficiency within the diffusion-limited regime, and minimal substrate sequence requirements. RNase A has been a favorite model protein of biochemists for over half a century; due to the high level of sequence conservation between RNase A and RNase 1, many observations made for RNase A have corollaries for RNase 1. …”
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Smart window for tuning transparency and noise absorption by Shrestha, Milan

“…Recently, a tunable acoustic membrane absorber has been developed based on a membrane DEA. Its resonant frequency is tunable by controlling membrane tension through voltage activation. …”
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