Assessment of novel pre-erythrocytic malaria vaccines in humans by Venkatraman, N

“…Though the search for an effective vaccine has seen unprecedented advances in recent years and one of the leading vaccine candidates, RTS,S/AS01 is going to enter pilot deployments in Africa in 2018, there has been no vaccine that has demonstrated durable high level efficacy. …”

Associations of accelerometer-measured physical activity, sedentary behaviour, and sleep with next-day cognitive performance in older adults: a micro-longitudinal study by Bloomberg, M, Brocklebank, L, Doherty, A, Hamer, M, Steptoe, A

“…Methods: British adults aged 50-83 years (N = 76) without evidence of cognitive impairment or dementia wore accelerometers for eight days, and took daily cognitive tests of attention, memory, psychomotor speed, executive function, and processing speed. …”

Determining the feasibility of a full-scale randomised controlled trial evaluating rehabilitation for people after acute patellar dislocation by Forde, C

“…Fifty participants aged ≥14 years with an acute first-time or recurrent patellar dislocation were recruited and randomised 1: 1 to the interventions. …”

Mesh quality improvement by re-triangulation surface meshes on 3-dimensional CAD model of a human wrist joint by Leong, Mun Teik

“…With the recent advances computing technologies nowadays, reverse engineering is rapidly developing and has been strongly established many years in biomedical industry. Three dimensional geometric modeling is now being extensively used in many applications such as surgical planning, rapid prototyping, medical implants design, numerical simulation and etc. …”
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Inference for autoregressive and moving average models with extreme value distribution via simulation study by Samuel, Bako Sunday

“…Time series analysis has emerged as one of the most important statistical discipline and it has been applied in different fields over the years. Literature reviews show that independent identical distributed Gaussian random variables is not suitable for modelling extreme events. …”
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A behaviour-based analytical malware detection framework for android smartphones by Damshenas, Mohsen

“…The fact is that today, after more than seven years of initial Android release, there are still malwares spreading in official Android markets. …”
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Development of an integrated scheduling model for handling equipment in automated port container terminals by Sadeghian, Syed Hamidreza

“…Automated Lifting Vehicle (ALV) is one of the automatic vehicles that has been introduced during recent years and can be used in container terminals. Using ALVs, due to their ability in lifting a container from the ground by themselves, can decrease the delay of loading and unloading tasks in automatic container terminals. …”
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Antibiotic sensitivity of selected bacteria and microbiological quality of Lactobacillus-fed broiler meat in comparison with commercial broiler meat by Tan, Stephanie Yin Yi

“…The use of probiotics to replace antibiotics in poultry feed had been introduced in recent years. It is believed that probiotics may give the same overall health effect to livestock, without the undesirable development of antibiotic resistance to vital antibiotics. …”
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Nature and effects of Chinese outward foreign direct investments. by Tjoenneland, Tor Erik.

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Starting and Scaling a Set-Based Design Method for a Maritime System of Systems: Designing a Modern Warship by Page, J. E., Higgins, C. J., Seering, W. P.

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India's counter-terrorism policy: through the lens of federalism. by Manaswini Ramkumar

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The Arabisation of Islam the observation of Arab culture as authoritative Islamic norms amongst Muslims in Singapore & its implications. by Muhammad Ridzwan Bin Rahmat

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Space weather radiation effects on geostationary satellite solid-state power amplifiers by Lohmeyer, W. Q., Cahoy, K. L.

“…In order to understand and mitigate the effects of space weather on the performance of geostationary (GEO) communications satellites, we analyze 16 years of archived telemetry data from Inmarsat, the UK-based telecommunications company. …”
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Towards Synergistic Understanding of Language Processing in Biological and Artificial Systems by Hosseini Asl, Eghbal

“…Despite decades of research aimed at uncovering the neural mechanisms underlying activity in this network, a computationally precise account has remained elusive. Over the past five years, artificial neural networks (ANNs) have achieved capabilities in the comprehension and production of language that are indistinguishable from those of humans, and their internal representations bear similarity to activity within the language network. …”
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From Sample to Answer: Innovations in sample processing and CRISPR-based diagnostics for enhanced clinical translation and field deployment by Arizti Sanz, Jon

“…However, the global diagnostic testing capacity is currently insufficient to effectively respond to emerging infectious disease threats, which has fueled the spread of Lassa, Ebola, SARS-CoV-2, and Zika virus in recent years. Globally, this diagnostic gap is particularly pronounced at the primary care or community level, an essential site for swift and effective response. …”
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Modeling the Future Space Debris Population and Orbital Capacity by Jang, Daniel

“…Many models have been proposed over the years to quantify the risk of collisions between resident space objects, including the seminal paper by Kessler that described the runaway conditions for which LEO could become unusable. …”
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The U.S. Indo-Pacific strategy and its implications for U.S.-ASEAN economic governance architecture by Pitakdumrongkit, Kaewkamol

“…Moreover, the text authorizes $1.5 billion to “the Department of State, United States Agency for International Development [USAID], and, as appropriate, the Department of Defense . . . for each of the fiscal years 2019 through 2023, which shall be used” to achieve several objectives including ensuring “the regulatory environments for trade, infrastructure, and investment in partner countries are transparent, open, and free of corruption.” …”
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Associations between health literacy and health care utilization and mortality in patients with coexisting diabetes and end-stage renal disease : a prospective cohort study by Griva, Konstantina, Loong, Russel K. L., Nandakumar, Mooppil, Rajeswari, Moothathamby, Khoo, Eric Y. H., Lee, Vanessa Y. W., Kang, Augustine W. C., Osborne, Richard H., Brini, Stefano, Newman, Stanton P.

“…Results A total 221 participants [median age: 59 years, 61.6% men, 54.8% Chinese] were recruited. …”
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Sustaining antimicrobial stewardship in a high-antibiotic resistance setting by Ng, Tat Ming, Heng, Shi Thong, Chua, Boon Hou, Ang, Li Wei, Tan, Sock Hoon, Tay, Hui Lin, Yap, Min Yi, Quek, Jason, Teng, Christine B., Young, Barnaby Edward, Lin, Ray, Ang, Brenda, Lee, Tau Hong, Lye, David C.

“…During the same period, the mean monthly patient days increased from 33929 in 2007 to 45603 in 2018, and the proportion of patients older than 65 years increased from 45.5% in 2007 to 56.6% in 2018. …”
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Surface reconstruction on spinel oxides for oxygen evolution reaction by Luo, Songzhu

“…In recent years, burgeoning energy demand has precipitated a marked increase in fossil fuel consumption, elevating greenhouse gas emissions and exacerbating the global climate crisis. …”
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