Development a novel paradigm for characterization of emerging contaminants in mixed-use anthropogenic impacted watersheds by Lee, Theodora Hui Yian

“…With more compounds synthesized overtime, it is nearly impossible to monitor all compounds. Thus, the understanding of spatial and temporal variations of contaminant source and sink becomes a priority in contaminant research to aid intervention. …”
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Cardiovascular risk factors in childhood and adulthood and cardiovascular disease in Middle Age by Kartiosuo, N, Raitakari, OT, Juonala, M, Viikari, JSA, Sinaiko, AR, Venn, AJ, Jacobs, DR, Urbina, EM, Woo, JG, Steinberger, J, Bazzano, LA, Daniels, SR, Magnussen, CG, Rahimi, K, Dwyer, T

“…Life-course models confirmed that for the risk of CVD, childhood BMI plays nearly as important role as adulthood BMI, whereas for the other risk factors and the combined score, adulthood was the more important period. …”

A dynamic knowledge graph approach to distributed self-driving laboratories by Bai, Jiaru, Mosbach, Sebastian, Taylor, Connor J., Karan, Dogancan, Lee, Kok Foong, Rihm, Simon D., Akroyd, Jethro, Lapkin, Alexei A., Kraft, Markus

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A product conceptualization strategy based on crowd-innovation by Chang, Danni

“…For this purpose, a crowdsourcing platform development approach is established with careful consideration regarding target analysis, task design, and cheating control. …”
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From public health to AI safety: improving machine learning approaches by collecting, selecting, or reducing the need for high-quality data by Brauner, J

“…To guide high-stakes policy decisions, we need carefully validated, high-quality data. We collect two datasets with extensive quality-control measures as the basis of our modelling studies. …”

Exploring COVID-19 circuit breaker (CB) restrictions at a migrant worker dormitory in Singapore: a case study and nested mixed-method analysis of stress management and mental healt... by Wong, Melvyn Chung Pheng, Tan, Chuen Seng, Chan, Alyssa Yenyi, Khaled, Nazrana, Hasan, Md Tahmid, Panchapakesan, Chitra, Tripathi, Shilpi, Afsana, Afsana, Lwin, May Oo, Chen, Mark I-Cheng, Hildon, Zoe Jane-Lara

“…Employees feeling their employers cared about their health and well-being was especially protective to mental health, OR=17.24 (95% CI 4.00 to 85.74, p<0.001). …”
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Tumor-targeted nano-assemblies for energy-blocking cocktail therapy in cancer by Chen, Manling, Liu, Yidu, Li, Yang, Liu, Xue

“…In human lung tumor cells, the half-maximal inhibitory concentration (IC50) of 2-DG@MA-dots was significantly lower than that of either metformin or 2-DG alone, showing a nearly 100-fold and 30-fold reduction in IC50 values to 11.78 µg mL-1, from 1159 µg mL-1 and 351.20 µg mL-1, respectively. …”
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A randomized waitlist-controlled trial of an intergenerational arts and heritage-based intervention in Singapore: project ARTISAN by Ho, Andy Hau Yan, Ma, Stephanie Hilary Xinyi, Tan, Michael Koon Boon, Bajpai, Ram Chandra

“…This holistic intervention framework that integrates stories, arts and heritage for bridging and empowering lives fills a critical gap in knowledge and practice between the arts, health and citizenship, paving the way for further research in creating a more caring and inclusive society with the arts. Clinical Trials Registration:www.ClinicalTrials.gov, identifier: NCT03048708.…”
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Conductive materials stimulated direct interspecies electron transfer and application in anaerobic digestion by Yan, Wangwang

“…The working principles were carefully investigated. The results indicated CM promoted organic degradation via promoting sludge conductivity, acting as electron conduit for interspecies electron transfer, enriching electron shuttles within EPS, and altering microbial community. …”
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Structure and phase engineering of 2D transition metal chalcogenides by Tang, Bijun

“…In the second project, monolayer WTe2xS2(1-x) alloys with tunable chemical compositions and phases are fabricated using a carefully designed one-step CVD method. By controlling the synthesis condition, both semiconducting 1H and metallic 1T´ phase 2D WTe2xS2(1-x) alloys are obtained. …”
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Large-scale capacitive touch panels : sensor pattern design, sampling and interpolation by Akhtar, Humza

“…Looking at the capacitive touch sampling problem carefully, one realizes that the touch signal is highly structured and therefore we propose modified greedy algorithms for capacitive touch sampling which are not only efficient, but accurate in the presence of noise. …”
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Investigation of Synthetic Proteins Produced via Automated Fast-Flow Peptide Synthesis by Cowfer, Amanda Elizabeth

“…Since the introduction of solid phase peptide synthesis (SPPS), the peptide community has endeavored to combine the convenience of flow chemistry with the iterative steps associated with peptide elongation in SPPS. Nearly one decade ago, members of the Pentelute lab envisioned and developed a flow-based peptide synthesizer, the Automated Fast-Flow Peptide Synthesizer, or AFPS for short. …”
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Learning to generalize to new tasks/domains with limited data by Peng, Danni

“…To avoid the adverse effects caused by uncontrolled extrapolation, a strategy is carefully designed to generate the sample weights based on gradients and learned towards flatter minima. …”
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System design and development of human-robot interaction control scheme for assistive robotic Arm extender by Yang, Sibo

“…The interactive workspace has been carefully designed to accommodate the range of motion required for Activities of Daily Living (ADLs) tasks by 95\% of the population, thereby ensuring broad usability. …”
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Budget efficient online active learning and its applications by Hao, Shuji

“…And all of the proposed algorithms are carefully evaluated on a large number of large-scale real-world applications and achieved promising results. …”
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A cross-layer payload-dropping scheme for improving CSMA/CA throughput in interference-limited co-channel cells by Jayabal, Raymond J.

“…For transceivers which do not support CST, PD-CSMA/CA adequately mitigates the exposed node problem, thereby allowing nodes to enjoy nearly the maximum throughput as provided by CSMA/CA in the single cell scenario. …”
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Optimized GPU algorithms for sparse data problems by Pham, Nguyen Quang Anh

“…Our SpGEMM algorithm efficiently enumerates all the work done during a computation to achieve perfect load balancing, and also uses a randomized algorithm to nearly optimally partition the matrix into pieces small enough to be operated on using the fast but limited amount of shared memory. …”
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Efficient techniques for subgraph mining and query processing by Lin, Wenqing

“…We explore the design space of GPU-based subgraph matching algorithms, with careful analysis of several crucial factors that affect the performance of GPU programs. …”
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Topochemical manipulation of some complex transition metal oxides by Amano Patiño, ME

“…The observed differing reactivity is inconsistent with the crystal structure and composition of the LaSrNiRuO₆ samples, from which all the materials are identical. Careful investigation of the X-ray diffraction data collected from the LaSrNiRuO6 materials revealed that the reactivity of the samples is a consequence of the microstructure. …”

Compositionally graded alloys fabricated using the laser powder bed fusion technique by Wei, Siyuan

“….% Ni was proved to be the lower threshold for fabricating nearly full-density Cu-Ni binary alloy. Cu-7.6Ni-3Al (wt.%) was further designed and fabricated. …”
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