Improving patient outcomes following total knee arthroplasty : identifying rehabilitation pathways based on modifiable psychological risk and resilience factors by Ditton, Elizabeth, Johnson, Sarah, Hodyl, Nicolette, Flynn, Traci, Pollack, Michael, Ribbons, Karen, Walker, Frederick Rohan, Nilsson, Michael

“…Total knee arthroplasty (TKA) is a commonly implemented elective surgical treatment for end-stage osteoarthritis of the knee, demonstrating high success rates when assessed by objective medical outcomes. However, a considerable proportion of TKA patients report significant dissatisfaction postoperatively, related to enduring pain, functional limitations, and diminished quality of life. …”
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Sensitivity study of weather research and forecasting physical schemes and evaluation of cool coating effects in Singapore by weather research and forecasting coupled with urban ca... by Zhou, Mandi, Long, Yongping, Zhang, Xiaoqin, Donthu, Eswara V. S. K. K., Ng, Bing Feng, Wan, Man Pun

“…Maximum UHI intensity of 3.2°C is found at nighttime (21:00) at a hot spot in the Commercial/Industrial area. At nighttime, when the UHI effect is generally more intense than daytime, applying cool coating on all urban surfaces can reduce the UHI effect by about 30% in residential areas and about 6% in commercial/industrial areas. …”
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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

“…The capacity of artificial intelligence systems to mimic such cognitive behaviors for effective problem solving is deemed invaluable, particularly when tackling real-world problems where speed and accuracy are critical. …”
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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

“…However, in p–i–n architecture when these inorganic HTLs are deposited before the perovskite, it forms a suboptimal interface quality for the crystallization of perovskite, which reduces device stability, causes recombination, and limits the power conversion efficiency of the device. …”
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Three essays on behavioral and experimental economics by Li, Yupeng

“…Our results show that people exhibited a lower degree of loss aversion when the payoff information was conveyed using a pronoun that induced a higher level of self-distancing. …”
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Synthesis of metal nanomaterials with unconventional crystal phases and their applications in electrocatalysis by Liu, Jiawei

“…These nanorods, with similar size and morphology, but different crystal phases, provide an effective platform to explore the crystal phase-dependent catalytic applications. When they are employed as electrocatalysts toward the electrochemical ethanol oxidation reaction (EOR) in alkaline media, both the mass activity and stability follow the trend that the L12 PdCuSn > L12 Pd3Sn > fcc Pd3Sn > Pd/C, demonstrating the significance of alloying effect and crystal phase in determining their catalytic performance.…”
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Anisotropic hair keratin-dopamine composite scaffolds exhibit strain-stiffening properties by Zhao, Zhitong, Chua, Huei Min, Goh, Bernice Huan Rong, Lai, Hui Ying, Tan, Shao Jie, Moay, Zi Kuang, Setyawati, Magdiel Inggrid, Ng, Kee Woei

“…However, none of the reported HHK based scaffolds is able to replicate the strain-stiffening capacity of living tissues when responding to large deformations. In the present study, strain-stiffening property was achieved in scaffolds fabricated from HHK via a synergistic effect of well-defined, aligned microstructure and chemical crosslinking. …”
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Principled asymmetric boosting approaches to rapid training and classification in face detection by Pham, Minh Tri

“…An additional constraint on propagating the weights of the data points is introduced, allowing the online learning to converge faster. When compared with the Online Boosting algorithm recently applied to object detection problems, a 0-10% increase in accuracy and 5-30% gain in learning speed were observed. …”
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Understanding lay conceptions of workplace criers: a prototype analysis by Tan, Terri Su-May

“…These issues present crucial gaps in this nascent area of research, and potentially compromise validity when subsequently predicting downstream consequences for workplace criers. …”
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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

“…BipA binds to the aminoacyl-(A) site of the bacterial ribosome and establishes contacts with the functionally important regions of both subunits, implying a specific role relevant to the ribosome, such as functioning in ribosome biogenesis and/or conditional protein translation. When cultured at suboptimal temperatures, the Escherichia coli bipA genomic deletion strain (ΔbipA) exhibits defects in growth, swimming motility, and ribosome assembly, which can be complemented by a plasmid-borne bipA supplementation or suppressed by the genomic rluC deletion. …”
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Nano-engineering the evolution of skyrmion crystal in synthetic antiferromagnets by Ma, Mangyuan, Huang, Ke, Li, Yong, Li, Sihua, Feng, Qiyuan, Ang, Calvin Ching Ian, Jin, Tianli, Lu, Yalin, Lu, Qingyou, Lew, Wen Siang, Ma, Fusheng, Wang, Renshaw Xiao

“…The out-of-plane magnetization hysteresis loops and first-order reversal curves show that the nucleation and annihilation of the artificial skyrmion can be controlled by tuning the diameter of and spacing between the nanodots. Moreover, when the bottom layer thickness increases, the annihilation of skyrmion shifts from evolving into a ferromagnetic spin texture to evolving into an antiferromagnetic spin texture. …”
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Amelioration of saline stress on Chia (Salvia hispanica L.) seedlings inoculated with halotolerant plant growth-promoting bacteria isolated from hypersaline environments by Yañez-Yazlle, María Florencia, Romano-Armada, Neli, Rajal, Verónica Beatriz, Irazusta, Verónica Patricia

“…On the other hand, seedlings displayed no responses when inoculated with Planomicrobium sp. 3S.31 and Pseudarthrobacter sp. …”
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Grid optimization and demand side mangement for electric vehicles penetration in remote area by Zhang, Yixiao, Ng, Eddie Yin Kwee, Li, Ning

“…The results show that though a lower resistance and reactance can reduce the power loss and voltage drop during transmission, the relationship does not follow a linear relationship when integrating into the whole power system. The range of resistance and reactance scenarios is set with equal intervals. …”
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Development a novel paradigm for characterization of emerging contaminants in mixed-use anthropogenic impacted watersheds by Lee, Theodora Hui Yian

“…This results in a prioritization dilemma when selecting contaminants for water quality monitoring. …”
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Toward multivariate fragility functions for seismic damage and loss estimation of high-rise buildings by Kourehpaz, Pouria, Hutt, Carlos Molina, Lallemant, David

“…These loss estimates are significantly improved when bivariate or multivariate building fragility functions are used. …”
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Gate-level hardware priority resolvers for embedded systems by Balasubramanian, Padmanabhan, Maskell, Douglas Leslie

“…An N-bit priority resolver having N inputs and N outputs functions as polling hardware in an embedded system, enabling access to a resource when multiple devices initiate access requests at its inputs which may be located on-chip or off-chip. …”
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Development of vision-based terrain recognition method for lower limb exoskeleton for outdoor environments by Gupta, Paluk

“…One problem that can be seen in using exoskeletons for everyday activities comes when vision-based systems fail due to conditions such as occlusions in depth maps caused due to uneven texture of surfaces, sunlit or reflective surfaces - these factors greatly affect image quality and how accurately they are classified. …”
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Self-healable multifunctional fibers via thermal drawing by Qi, Miao, Liu, Yanting, Wang, Zhe, Yuan, Shixing, Li, Kaiwei, Zhang, Qichong, Chen, Mengxiao, Wei, Lei

“…However, they still face the risk of damage when exposed to sharp objects in real-life applications. …”
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Differences in pulse manifestations at Cunkou based on simplified modeling of tactile sensing by Shi, Yubing, Yang, Hongyi, Yeo, Joon Hock

“…The arterial pressures measured invasively with equipment from 14 patients with aorta coarctation were processed to simulate different pulse manifestations at Cun, Guan, and Chi positions of Cunkou when different compression levels were applied. Results: Due to the characteristics of tactile sensing, significant variations were observed in pulse manifestations at different pulse-depths under the application of changing compression levels; while no such changes in pulse manifestations were observed from the employment of transducer only, without tactile sensing involved. …”
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杜牧“‘秋’意象诗”研究 = Research on Du Mu’s autumn imagery poems by 林宛仪 Lim, Wan Yi

“…In the history of Chinese classical poetry, it is prevalent to use “Autumn Imagery” as a mean to express personal feeling and to integrate such feeling into the poetry.Very often when “Autumn Imagery” is mentioned, it gives an impression for people to link it with “Grief”. …”
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