Aircraft noise, overheating and poor air quality in London primary schools' classrooms by Montazami, Azadeh

“…To prevent failure, extra care should be taken to select a suitable ventilation strategy for providing both air quality and thermal comfort during summer for the schools located under the flights paths. …”
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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. …”

Pathogen diversity and antimicrobial resistance transmission of Salmonella enterica serovars Typhi and Paratyphi A in Bangladesh, Nepal, and Malawi: a genomic epidemiological study... by Dyson, ZA, Ashton, PM, Khanam, F, Chunga Chirambo, A, Shakya, M, Meiring, JE, Tonks, S, Karkey, A, Msefula, C, Clemens, JD, Dunstan, SJ, Baker, S, Dougan, G, Pitzer, VE, Basnyat, B, Qadri, F, Heyderman, RS, Gordon, MA, Holt, KE, Pollard, AJ, STRATAA Study Group

“…</p> <br> <p><strong>Funding:</strong> Wellcome Trust, Bill &amp; Melinda Gates Foundation, EU Horizon 2020, and UK National Institute for Health and Care Research.</p>…”

The influence of pregnancy complications on fetal and neonatal cardiovascular development by Aye, C

“…Modification of clinical care and discovery of novel targets for disease prevention during this potentially tractable period will be of future interest.…”

Multi-colony coral skeletal Ba/Ca from Singapore’s turbid urban reefs : relationship with contemporaneous in-situ seawater parameters by Tanzil, Jani Thuaibah Isa, Goodkin, Nathalie Fairbank, Sin, T. M., Chen, Mengli, Fabbro, Gareth Nicholas, Boyle, E. A., Lee, A. C., Toh, K. B.

“…Our results highlight the possibility of high heterogeneity in coral responses to environmental conditions, and the need for careful selection of colonies and a site-specific, replicated approach when attempting to apply Ba/Cacoral as a trace element proxy.…”
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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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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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Colon Cancer Disparities in Stage at Presentation and Time to Surgery for Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders: A Study with Disaggregated Ethnic Groups by Jain, Bhav, Bajaj, Simar S., Patel, Tej A., Vapiwala, Neha, Lam, Miranda B., Mahal, Brandon A., Muralidhar, Vinayak, Amen, Troy B., Nguyen, Paul L., Sanford, Nina N., Dee, Edward C.

“…Abstract Background Vast differences in barriers to care exist among Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander (AANHPI) groups and may manifest as disparities in stage at presentation and access to treatment. …”
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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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Epidemiology of endometriosis in women of Arab ancestry by Mousa, M

“…Further research must be conducted among Arab women to improve early diagnosis and provide culturally sensitive clinical care.</p>…”

Effect of consumers' awareness about country of origin on purchasing decision in Klang Valley, Malaysia by Taheri, Nasim

“…The accumulated information was examined with care to double check the accuracy using SPSS. The data collected was analysed using descriptive analysis, cross-tabulation analysis, factor analysis and multiple regression analysis. …”
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Effectiveness of health education intervention based on health belief model among elderly women in Urmia, Iran by Iranagh, Jamileh Amirzadeh

“…Then from each respective zone one primary health care centre was selected. The population sampled using a stratified, multistage probability cluster sampling design. …”
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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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Macrobrachium rosenbergii De Man nodavirus recombinant capsid protein production and its interactions with RNA by Goh, Zee Hong

“…Macrobrachium rosenbergii nodavirus (MrNv) is a causative agent of white tail disease (WTD) causing nearly 100% mortality in post-larvae of giant freshwater prawns. …”
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Use of smartphones to detect diabetic retinopathy : scoping review and meta-analysis of diagnostic test accuracy studies by Tan, Choon Han, Kyaw, Bhone Myint, Smith, Helen, Tan, Colin Siang Hui, Car, Lorainne Tudor

“…Future studies should standardize reference criteria and classification criteria and evaluate other available forms of smartphone ophthalmoscopy in primary care settings.…”
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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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