Liposomal nanotherapy for treatment of atherosclerosis : passive versus active targeting by Darwitan, Anastasia

“…Inflammation is the underlying pathological process of atherosclerosis, the major cause of most CVD, but has not been adequately addressed. Additionally, the increasing age trend of general population will present increasing incidence with individual’s unique and complex coronary anatomy with high-risk comorbidities. …”
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Creative ageing in Singapore : a population study on participatory arts engagement and wellbeing among adults aged 50 and above by Ma, Stephanie Hilary Xinyi

“…While anecdotal and increasing empirical evidence suggest that participatory arts can play an essential role in supporting a healthy ageing population, much less research has been conducted in Asian societies. Furthermore, despite growing interest in arts programmes for older adults in Singapore, little is known about the patterns and impact of arts engagement among local seniors. …”
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Feature extraction from EEG signals and regularization for brain-computer interface by Mishuhina, Vasilisa

“…To enhance the performance of CSP, different variations of this method have been proposed in literature. However, each approach has its own limitations and does not perform well for different subjects and datasets. …”
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Shear-flow characteristics of rock fractures and implications for injection-induced seismicity by Ji, Yinlin

“…Hydraulic stimulation has been employed to enhance the permeability of geothermal reservoirs and to maintain the productivity of renewable heat. …”
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Doubly coated, organic–inorganic paraffin phase change materials : zinc oxide coating of hermetically encapsulated paraffins by Mikhaylov, Alexey A., Medvedev, Alexander G., Grishanov, Dmitry A., Sladkevich, Sergey, Xu, Jason Zhichuan, Sakharov, Konstantin A., Prikhodchenko, Petr V., Lev, Ovadia

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Towards sustainable socially-aware mobile crowdsensing : leveraging hierarchical game for incentive mechanisms by Nie, Jiangtian

“…Recently, socially-aware crowdsensing services have been introduced as the integration of social networks and crowdsensing platforms. …”
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Cognizant multitasking in multiobjective multifactorial evolution : MO-MFEA-II by Bali, Kavitesh Kumar, Gupta, Abhishek, Ong, Yew-Soon, Tan, Puay Siew

“…Recently, the notion of evolutionary multitasking has been explored as a means of solving multiple optimization tasks simultaneously using a single population of evolving individuals. …”
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N-heterocyclic carbene-catalyzed atroposelective annulation for access to thiazine derivatives with C-N axial chirality by Li, Tingting, Mou, Chengli, Qi, Puying, Peng, Xiaolin, Jiang, Shichun, Hao, Gefei, Xue, Wei, Yang, Song, Hao, Lin, Chi, Robin Yonggui, Jin, Zhichao

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Broadcast Performance Analysis and Improvements of the LTE-V2V Autonomous Mode at Road Intersection by Md. Noor-A-Rahim, G. G. Md. Nawaz Ali, Guan, Yong Liang, Ayalew, Beshah, Chong, Peter Han Joo, Pesch, Dirk

“…An autonomous V2V communication mode (also known as side-link mode 4), which facilitates V2V communication in out of eNB coverage areas, has recently been introduced into the Long term evolution (LTE) standard. …”
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Dual role of Cu-chalcogenide as hole-transporting layer and interface passivator for p–i–n architecture perovskite solar cell by Sadhu, Anupam, Rai, Monika, Salim, Teddy, Jin, Xin, Tan, Joel Ming Rui, Leow, Shin Woei, Ahmed, Mahmoud Gamal, Magdassi, Shlomo, Mhaisalkar, Subodh Gautam, Wong, Lydia Helena

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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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