An observational study of the prevalence of metabolic syndrome in treatment-experienced people living with HIV in Singapore by Ang, Li Wei, Ng, Oon Tek, Boudville, Irving Charles, Leo, Yee Sin, Wong, Chen Seong

“…The median duration of HIV infection and duration of exposure to cART was 6.8 years and 5.7 years, respectively. All had been exposed to nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors (NRTIs) as the first line of treatment, 93.9% to non-NRTIs, 28.6% to protease inhibitors (PIs) and 12.8% to integrase strand transfer inhibitors. …”
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Cytomegalovirus infection is associated with an increase in aortic stiffness in older men which may be mediated in part by CD4 memory T-cells by Kirkham, Frances, Pera, Alejandra, Simanek, Amanda M., Bano, Aalia, Morrow, George, Reus, Bernhard, Caserta, Stefano, Smith, Helen Elizabeth, Davies, Kevin A., Rajkumar, Chakravarthi, Kern, Florian

“…Human Cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection is associated with atherosclerosis, higher cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk, and an increase in memory T-cells (Tmem). T-cells have also been implicated in CVD, independently of CMV infection. …”
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Lattice strain and atomic replacement of CoO₆ octahedra in layered sodium cobalt oxide for boosted water oxidation electrocatalysis by Sun, Lan, Dai, Zhengfei, Zhong, Lixiang, Zhao, Yiwei, Cheng, Yan, Chong, Shaokun, Chen, Guanjun, Yan, Chunshuang, Zhang, Xiaoyu, Tan, Huiteng, Zhang, Long, Dinh, Khang Ngoc, Li, Shuzhou, Ma, Fei, Yan, Qingyu

“…Layered alkali metal oxides have been emerged as an alternative group with low-cost and promising electrocatalysts in water oxidation. …”
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A materials science framework for connecting protein stability with surface adsorption and coating applications by Ma, Gamaliel Junren

“…Although a protein’s conformational stability has been closely linked to its extent of unfolding in the adsorbed state, it remains to be understood how this relationship may be exploited in order to control a protein’s adsorption behavior and adlayer properties to suit specific application needs. …”
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Prediction of stable perovskite quantum dots (QDs) using machine learning (ML) algorithms by Cheong, Ivan

“…However, they have not been widely studied, with applications limited to solar cells and catalytic activity, the full extent of possible applications are yet to be realised. …”
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Domain-agnostic document and question classification using natural language processing techniques by Supraja, S.

“…This technique is driven by the fact that phrases have been shown to be more effective than words to represent questions. …”
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Exfoliation and alignment of h-BN for thermal application by Teo, Jing Xiang

“…Various exfoliation methods have been employed and analysed, from dispersion of pristine h-BN in the ethanol-water mixture and other techniques involving the Leiden-frost effect to allow for water surface tension. …”
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Translational GTPase BipA is involved in the maturation of a large subunit of bacterial ribosome at suboptimal temperature by Goh, Kwok Jian, Ero, Rya, Yan, Xin-Fu, Park, Jung Eun, Kundukad, Binu, Zheng, Jun, Sze, Siu Kwan, Gao, Yong-Gui

“…BPI-inducible protein A (BipA), a highly conserved paralog of the well-known translational GTPases LepA and EF-G, has been implicated in bacterial motility, cold shock, stress response, biofilm formation, and virulence. …”
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女性媒介形象建构与话语权赋权 ——《脱口秀大会》系列为例 = Female discourse power and construction of female image —— Rock&Roast stand-up comedy series... by 郭跃男, Guo, Yuenan

“…Traditional forms Chinese comedy, represented by comic strips (xiao pin) and sketches (xiang sheng), has been produced by and for the gaze of male, both in terms of its historical development and the content. …”
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Progress in metafibers for sustainable radiative cooling and prospects of achieving thermally drawn metafibers by Qi, Miao, Wu, Tingting, Wang, Zhe, Wang, Zhixun, He, Bing, Zhang, Haozhe, Liu, Yanting, Xin, Jiwu, Zhou, Tianzhu, Zhou, Xuhui, Wei, Lei

“…Metamaterials with unique photonic structures are applicable to radiative cooling and have been extensively studied. Incorporating meta-elements to the fiber level of the fabric to construct metafibers is expected to achieve personal thermal management through radiative cooling. …”
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Optically trapped room temperature polariton condensate in an organic semiconductor by Wei, Mengjie, Verstraelen, Wouter, Orfanakis, Konstantinos, Ruseckas, Arvydas, Liew, Timothy Chi Hin, Samuel, Ifor D. W., Turnbull, Graham A., Ohadi, Hamid

“…So far, all room temperature polariton condensate lattices have been achieved by nanoimprinting microcavities, which by nature lacks the crucial tunability required for realistic reconfigurable simulators. …”
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Environmental calibration of coral luminescence as a proxy for terrigenous dissolved organic carbon concentration in tropical coastal oceans by Kaushal, Nikita, Tanzil, Jani T. I., Zhou, Yongli, Ong, Maria Rosabelle, Goodkin, Nathalie F., Martin, Patrick

“…The resulting coral skeletal luminescence variability has traditionally been used to reconstruct hydroclimate variation. …”
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Parent-infant affect synchrony during social and solo play by Kidby, Sayaka, Neale, Dave, Wass, Sam, Leong, Victoria

“…While mother-infant affect synchrony has been proposed to facilitate the early development of social understanding, most investigations into affect synchrony have concentrated more on negative than positive affect. …”
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Evaporation and crystallisation of saline droplet with surfactant on smooth surfaces by Wong, Dennis Kin Wai

“…While numerous studies have investigated the impact of surfactants on liquid droplets, very little research has been conducted on surfactants with opposing charges mixed with salt solutions. …”
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Waffle-inspired hydrogel-based macrodevice for spatially controlled distribution of encapsulated therapeutic microtissues and pro-angiogenic endothelial cells by Pham, Chi H. L., Zuo, Yicong, Chen, Yang, Tran, Nam M., Nguyen, Dang T., Dang, Tram T.

“…However, microtissue aggregation and absence of vasculature have been implicated in the inadequate transfer of nutrients and oxygen to the transplanted cellular grafts. …”
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2D-3D perovskite memristor with low energy consumption and high stability for neural morphology calculation by Sun, Kaixuan, Wang, Qingrui, Zhou, Long, Wang, Jingjuan, Chang, Jingjing, Guo, Rui, Tay, Beng Kang, Yan, Xiaobing

“…Recently, rapid progress has been made in the application of organic-inorganic halide perovskites in electronic devices, such as memristors and artificial synaptic devices. …”
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Ligand effect on switching the rate-determining step of water oxidation in atomically precise metal nanoclusters by Liu, Zhihe, Tan, Hua, Li, Bo, Hu, Zehua, Jiang, De-en, Yao, Qiaofeng, Wang, Lei, Xie, Jianping

“…The ligand effects of atomically precise metal nanoclusters on electrocatalysis kinetics have been rarely revealed. Herein, we employ atomically precise Au25 nanoclusters with different ligands (i.e., para-mercaptobenzoic acid, 6-mercaptohexanoic acid, and homocysteine) as paradigm electrocatalysts to demonstrate oxygen evolution reaction rate-determining step switching through ligand engineering. …”
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Partial desensitization of MYC2 transcription factor alters the interaction with jasmonate signaling components and affects specialized metabolism by Hou, Xin, Singh, Sanjay Kumar, Werkman, Joshua R., Liu, Yongliang, Yuan, Qinghua, Wu, Xia, Patra, Barunava, Sui, Xueyi, Lyu, Ruiqing, Wang, Bingwu, Liu, Xiaoyu, Li, Yongqing, Ma, Wei, Pattanaik, Sitakanta, Yuan, Ling

“…The effects of the conserved residue MYC2D128 on interaction with MED25 have not been investigated. Using tobacco as a model, we generated all possible substitutions of aspartic acid 128 (D128) in NtMYC2a. …”
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A hand-targeted auxiliary personal protective equipment for intervention of fomite transmission of viruses by Tan, Justin Kok Soon, Song, Shang Wei, Zeng, Jialiu, Lo, Chih Hung

“…In COVID-19, fomite transmission has been shown to be a major route for the spreading of the SARS-CoV-2 virus due to its ability to remain on surfaces for extended durations. …”
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Carrier localization on the nanometer-scale limits transport in metal oxide photoabsorbers by Schleuning, Markus, Kölbach, Moritz, Ahmet, Ibbi, Präg, Raphael, Gottesman, Ronen, Gunder, Rene, Zhang, Mengyuan, Wargulski, Dan Ralf, Abou-Ras, Daniel, Grave, Daniel A., Abdi, Fatwa F., van de Krol, Roel, Schwarzburg, Klaus, Eichberger, Rainer, Friedrich, Dennis, Hempel, Hannes

“…However, their power conversion efficiencies usually suffer from poor transport of photogenerated charge carriers, which has been attributed previously to a variety of effects occurring on different time and length scales. …”
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