Optical gain in ultrathin self-assembled bi-layers of colloidal quantum wells enabled by the mode confinement in their high-index dielectric waveguides by Foroutan-Barenji, Sina, Erdem, Onur, Gheshlaghi, Negar, Altintas, Yemliha, Demir, Hilmi Volkan

“…The active slabs of these CQW monolayers in the proposed waveguide structure are constructed with great care to obtain near-unity surface coverage, which increases the density of active particles, and to reduce the surface roughness to sub-nm scale, which decreases the scattering losses. …”
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Low-dose spironolactone and cardiovascular outcomes in moderate stage chronic kidney disease: a randomized controlled trial by Hobbs, FDR, McManus, RJ, Taylor, CJ, Jones, NR, Rahman, JK, Wolstenholme, J, Kim, S, Kwon, J, Jones, L, Hirst, JA, Yu, L-M, Mort, S

“…In this prospective, randomized, open, blinded endpoint trial, we assessed the effectiveness of 25 mg spironolactone in addition to usual care or usual care alone for reducing cardiovascular outcomes in stage 3b CKD among an older community cohort (mean age = 74.8 years and s.d. = 8.1). …”

Nurses lived experiences on the nurse-patient relationship by Koo, Alvina Min En

“…This study examines the perspectives of Singaporean non-palliative care trained nurses (NPNs), working in local general hospitals, on their experiences in forming the nurse-patient relationship (NPR) with their patients. …”
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Examining the quality of life of elders in Singapore by Chee, Wai Ern

“…However, accessibility to quality food and private medical care proved challenging, particularly for low-income elderly individuals. …”
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Assisted child-minding based visual activity monitoring in a home camera surveillance system by Sruthi Inbavanan

“…In today’s fast-paced world, adults are having less and less time to stay home and take care of their children throughout a day. Child care is increasingly becoming a challenging task. …”
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Motivation & family caregivers of elderly individuals : exploring the relevance of filial piety & autonomy by Nur 'Atiqah Mohd Farhan

“…Individuals who provide care for their sick or frail family members are reported to be at risk of developing depression and other psychosomatic symptoms due to the burden of caregiving. …”
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Loss analysis of a mix-flow turbine with nozzled twin-entry volute at different admissions by Xue, Yingxian, Yang, Mingyang, Martinez-Botas, Ricardo F., Romagnoli, Alessandro, Deng, Kangyao

“…Loss breakdown of turbine shows that loss is higher in nozzle but lower in rotor when the majority of flow is fed from upper part of the component (near shroud). Opposite phenomenon happens when the majority is fed from lower part (near hub). …”
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Exploring and Exploiting Ribonuclease 1: from Protein Biochemistry to Protein Engineering by Wralstad, Evans Christian

“…Efforts to establish a zymogen directed toward the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 are described in two parts of this thesis. …”
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Interventions for smoking cessation in hospitalised patients by Rigotti, NA, Clair, C, Munafo, MR, Stead, LF

“…A specific benefit for post‐discharge contact compared with usual care was found in a subset of trials in which all participants received a counselling intervention in the hospital and were randomly assigned to post‐discharge contact or usual care. …”

Model of quality improvement and risk mitigation in the supply chain of concrete spun piles industry by Mahardhika, Welly, Iveline Anne Marie, ., Surjasa, Dadang, Mohd Yazid, Abu

“…In the pile industry, product defects often occur, such as broken PC bars, cracks in stock, dry concrete, broken end plates and etc. …”
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On the influence of workpiece material on friction in microforming and lubricant effectiveness by Taureza, Muhammad, Song, Xu, Castagne, Sylvie

“…A mathematical function is proposed to describe the calibration curves for different friction coefficients. Round bars of copper, aluminum and silver of diameter 1 mm and length 5 mm were used as the workpieces to study the material influence on friction factor, m, during unlubricated microforming process through comparison between simulation and experimental results. …”
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Preliminary study on the characteristics of FO/PRO hollow fiber membranes by Chen, Yunfeng.

“…The substrate is mechanically tough and has large pure water permeability (PWP) of 462.4 L m-2 h-1 bar-1. After interfacial polymerization, the TFC HF membrane has PWP of 2.01 L m-2 h-1 bar-1 and solute permeability of 0.525 L m-2 h-1. …”
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The neurological consequences of contracting COVID-19 by Aknin, LB, De Neve, JE, Dunn, EW, Fancourt, DE, Goldberg, E, Helliwell, JF, Jones, SP, Karam, E, Layard, R, Lyubomirsky, S, Rzepa, A, Saxena, S, Thornton, EM, VanderWeele, TJ, Whillans, AV, Zaki, J, Caman, O, Amor, YB

“…Since the first confirmed case in Wuhan, China on December 31, 2019, the novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) has spread quickly, infecting 165 million people as of May 2021. …”

A wireless and battery-free wound infection sensor based on DNA hydrogel by Xiong, Ze, Achavananthadith, Sippanat, Lian, Sophie, Madden, Leigh Edward, Ong, Zi Xin, Chua, Wisely, Kalidasan, Viveka, Li, Zhipeng, Liu, Zhu, Singh, Priti, Yang, Haitao, Heussler, Sascha P., Kalaiselvi, S. M. P., Breese, Mark B. H., Yao, Haicheng, Gao, Yuji, Sanmugam, Kavitha, Tee, Benjamin C. K., Chen, Po-Yen, Loke, Weiqiang, Lim, Chwee Teck, Chiang, Grace Shu Hui, Tan, Boon Yeow, Li, Hao, Becker, David Laurence, Ho, John S.

“…The engineered DNA hydrogels respond selectively to deoxyribonucleases associated with pathogenic bacteria through tunable dielectric changes, which can be wirelessly detected using near-field communication. In a mouse acute wound model, we demonstrate that the wireless sensor can detect physiologically relevant amounts of Staphylococcus aureus even before visible manifestation of infection. …”
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Sold To Be A Wife : ONLY A DETERMINED FOSTER CARER CAN STOP A TERRIFIED GIRL FROM BECOMING A CHILD BRIDE / by Hartley, Maggie, author 656233

“…Fourteen-year-old Shazia has been taken into care after a conversation at school leads her teacher to suspect that the teenager's family are planning to send her to Pakistan for an arranged marriage. …”

Renewing Our Focus on Vulnerable Populations Among People Living with HIV by Ayieko, James, Thorp, Marguerite, Ghebremichael, Musie

“…What are the threats to care engagement for vulnerable people? And what health care system changes are needed to accommodate vulnerable people? …”
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Designing initiatives for vulnerable families : from theory to design in Sydney, Australia by Eastwood, John Graeme, De Souza, Denise E., Shaw, Miranda, Garg, Pankaj, Woolfenden, Susan, Tyler, Ingrid, Kemp, Lynn A.

“…Introduction: Intergenerational cycles of poverty, violence and crime, poor education and employment opportunities, psychopathology, and poor lifestyle and health behaviours require innovative models of health care delivery to break them. We describe a programme of research informed service development targeting vulnerable families in inner metropolitan Sydney, Australia that is designed to build and confirm a “Theory of Neighbourhood Context, Stress, Depression, and the Developmental Origins of Health and Disease (DOHaD)”. …”
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Barriers and facilitators to the initiation of injectable therapies for type 2 diabetes mellitus: a mixed methods study by de Lusignan, S, McGovern, A, Hinton, W, Whyte, M, Munro, N, Williams, ED, Marcu, A, Williams, J, Ferreira, F, Mount, J, Tripathy, M, Konstantara, E, Field, BCT, Feher, M

“…These skills should be concentrated in the hands of a small number of primary care providers to ensure they can maintain their skills.…”

Why federated learning will do little to overcome the deeply embedded biases in clinical medicine by Sauer, Christopher Martin, Pucher, Gernot, Celi, Leo Anthony

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Safety analysis of active mobility mode by Ho, Siu Joon

“…Logistical regression model was chosen as it can be used as future predictor for near misses or crashes at a particular location. …”
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