Near-infrared light for phototherapy : photothermal induced drug release and tumor ablation by Li, Menghuan

“…Amongst all these efforts, near-infrared-light-involved anticancer therapy has drawn increasing attention in recent years, due to the minimal invasiveness and high tissue penetration of near-infrared light (NIR). …”
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Engineering memristor : control over the fourth fundamental element for memory application and beyond by Ge, Ning

“…However, it was only a theory for nearly thirty years until the first paper published by HP Labs by the Stanley Williams group in Nature on May 1st, 2008. …”
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Enviro-toons : what do parents think about it? by Goh, Jeannette

“…In recent years there has been an increased societal focus on the detrimental effects that modernization has brought upon the environment, leading to more attention being put into solving these environmental issues. …”
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Modeling, optimization and thermal characterization of micropillar evaporator based high performance silicon vapor chamber by Wei, Mengyao

“…To overcome the high heat generation challenge and ensure sustainable development in the semiconductor industries, thermal management for high density electronic devices has drawn much attention in recent years. Being a passive thermal management device with high heat removal capability, vapor chamber that spreads concentrated heat via liquid-to-vapor phase change phenomena was proven to be a promising cooling technique. …”
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Efficient algorithms for embedded optimisation-based control by Dang, Van Thuy

“…Solving optimisation problem is computationally demanding, and hence Model Predictive Control (MPC), an optimisation-based control technology, is traditionally employed in applications with slow dynamics. In recent years, due to its ability to systematically handling constraints and multiple-input and multiple-output systems, MPC has been extended to many non-traditional areas, in particular networked or embedded applications. …”
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Alkaline earth complexes supported by chelating diamido ligands by Haynes, M

“…<p>The alkaline earth metals magnesium, calcium, strontium and barium have received increasing attention in recent years due to their high abundance, low cost and biocompatibility. …”

Contraceptive experience and factors associated with desire for postpartum family planning among pregnant women of the nkongsamba health district, Littoral Region, Cameroon by Ajong, AB, Yakum, MN, Mangala, FN, Bekolo, CE, Agbor, VN, Waffo, LM, Kenfack, B

“…Compared to their respective counterparts, participants ≤ 30 years old (AOR = 0.71[0.52–0.99]), with monthly revenue below 100 thousand FCFA (AOR = 0.45[0.32–0.62]), who were single (AOR = 0.38[0.27–0.54]), had lower odds for desire of postpartum family planning. …”

Long Covid: a global health issue – a prospective, cohort study set in four continents by Pazukhina, E, Garcia-Gallo, E, Reyes, LF, Kildal, AB, Jassat, W, Dryden, M, Holter, JC, Chatterjee, A, Gomez, K, Søraas, A, Puntoni, M, Latronico, N, Bozza, FA, Edelstein, M, Gonçalves, BP, Kartsonaki, C, Kruglova, O, Gaião, S, Chow, YP, Doshi, Y, Duque Vallejo, SI, Ibáñez-Prada, ED, Fuentes, YV, Hastie, C, O'Hara, ME, Balan, V, Menkir, T, Merson, L, Kelly, S, Citarella, BW, Semple, MG, Scott, JT, Munblit, D, Sigfrid, L

“…<p><strong> Results </p></strong>Of 11 860 participants (median age: 52 (IQR: 41–62) years; 52.1% females), 56.5% were from HICs and 43.5% were from LMICs. …”

Imagined futures and relational agency in nurses' writing transitions: a qualitative study across two writing group interventions in a higher education setting by Waite, M

“…</p> <p>I collected data through participant observation, samples of writing-in-development, and individual narratives spanning up to three years. I analysed the data through a conceptual framework that draws theoretically from a sociocultural understanding of developmental transitions and a cultural-historical perspective on relational agency.…”

Cost-effectiveness of a group psychological intervention for postnatal depression in British South Asian mothers: an economic evaluation from the ROSHNI-2 trial by Ullah, A, Lunat, F, Brugha, T, Pierce, M, Morriss, R, Sharma, D, Rahman, A, Bhui, K, Bower, P, Husain, N

“…</p> <br> <p><strong>Outcomes:</strong> The base-case intention-to-treat analysis showed PHP significantly increased costs (£912, 95% CI £420–£1405) and quality-adjusted life years (QALYs) (0.037, CI 0.006–0.068), with an incremental cost-effectiveness ratio (ICER) of £24,739 (CI £15,539–£39,692). …”

Transforming kernel-based learners to incorporate domain knowledge from climate science by Bouabid, S

“…<p>In the face of persistent modelling and observational challenges in climate science, which hinder our understanding of the climate system, statistical machine learning has emerged as a potential ally in recent years. Modern machine learning methods promise to leverage the vast volumes of data from climate model simulations, satellite imagery, or in-situ measurements to advance our understanding of the climate system and, thereby, our ability to anticipate the adverse consequences of climate change. …”

Expressions of grief on the early modern stage by Welch, K

“…Tracking fake funerals over this time period revealed a sharp increase in this device after 1603, which the final chapter suggests is related to anxieties over public performances of mourning after Elizabeth I's death and one of the worst plague years on record.</p> <p>Performances of theatrical mourning thus occur displaced in time, preemptive requests for a death not to happen rather than the belated wish to bring the dead back to life. …”

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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