Northern gene flow into southeastern East Asians inferred from genome-wide array genotyping by He, Guang-Lin, Li, Ying-Xiang, Zou, Xing, Yeh, Hui-Yuan, Tang, Ren-Kuan, Wang, Pei-Xin, Bai, Jing-Ya, Yang, Xiao-Min, Wang, Zheng, Guo, Jian-Xin, Chen, Jin-Wen, Chen, Jing, Yang, Mei-Qing, Zhao, Jing, Sun, Jin, Zhu, Kong-Yang, Ma, Hao, Wang, Rui, Yang, Wen-Jiao, Hu, Rong, Wei, Lan-Hai, Hou, Yi-Ping, Wang, Meng-Ge, Chen, Gang, Wang, Chuan-Chao

“…The southeastern coastal modern East Asians are genetically similar to other southern indigenous groups as well as geographically close to Neolithic-to-Iron Age populations, but they also shared excess alleles with post-Neolithic Yellow River ancients, which suggested a southward gene flow on the modern southern coastal gene pool. …”
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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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Learning to generalize to new tasks/domains with limited data by Peng, Danni

“…While the former has been well-achieved with the recent advances of large AI models, the latter still remains a challenge for AI researchers. …”
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Deep generative modeling for image synthesis and manipulation by Yu, Yingchen

“…In this thesis, we propose several novel techniques for image synthesis and manipulation that aim to generate more realistic and diverse images, as well as achieve more accurate and flexible image manipulation. …”
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Deep transcriptome profiling reveals limited conservation of A-to-I RNA editing in Xenopus by Nguyen, Tram Anh, Heng, Joel Jia Wei, Ng, Yan Ting, Sun, Rui, Fisher, Shira, Oguz, Gokce, Kaewsapsak, Pornchai, Xue, Shifeng, Reversade, Bruno, Ramasamy, Adaikalavan, Eisenberg, Eli, Tan, Meng How

“…In protein-coding regions, only a small subset of sites that are found mostly in the brain are well conserved between frogs and mammals. Conclusions: Collectively, our work provides fresh insights into ADAR activity in vertebrates and suggest that species-specific editing may play a role in each animal’s unique physiology or environmental adaptation.…”
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Self-healing cementitious composites by encapsulation techniques by Feng, Jianhang

“…Owing to the modification by GO, hydrogels could reduce pH of cracks, bond well with surrounding matrix and alter morphology of calcium carbonate from cubic to needle shapes. …”
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Efficient and privacy-preserving feature importance-based vertical federated learning by Li, Anran, Huang, Jiahui, Jia, Ju, Peng, Hongyi, Zhang, Lan, Tuan, Luu Anh, Yu, Han, Li, Xiang-Yang

“…Extensive experiments on both synthetic and real-world datasets show that FedSDG-FS and FedSDG-FS++ significantly outperform existing approaches in terms of achieving more accurate selection of high-quality features as well as improving VFL performance in a privacy-preserving manner.…”
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Effective type label-based synergistic representation learning for biomedical event trigger detection by Hao, Anran, Yuan, Haohan, Hui, Siu Cheung, Su, Jian

“…Moreover, additional experiments on BioLSL show that it performs exceptionally well with limited training data under the data-scarce scenarios.…”
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An evidence-based serious game app for public education on antibiotic use and resistance: randomized controlled trial by Huang, Zhilian, Ow, Jing Teng, Tang, Wern Ee, Chow, Angela

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Geometric hashing for camera based localization by Tan, Wei Chian

“…The most popular localization system now, Global Positioning System (GPS), is well known for its limitation in high rise urban areas due to difficulty in establishing line of sight to multiple GPS satellites. …”
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Tantalum based amorphous thin films as copper diffusion barrier by Yan, Hua

“…Among all Ta-based binary alloy barriers, interface integrity of Ta-Ni barrier is well maintained at initial failure temperature, while interface integrity is completely lost for Ta-Cr and Ta-Ti barriers. …”
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Advances in 3D optical profilometry by Huang, Lei

“…The combination of both fringe projection and reflection techniques is a practical solution as well. At last, a method is proposed to analyze the fringe patterns of double-side reflection from the front and rear interfaces of a transparent surface to retrieve the fringe phase from either surface for further dimensional reconstruction.…”
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Export competitiveness in the context of Singapore by Chew, Kheng Lee, Phua, Chin Tiong, Yau, Puay Hiang

“…To conclude, the q-model works reasonably well in a Singapore scenario and that Singapore's export competitiveness can be sustain in the future.…”
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Thermoplastic polymer nanocomposites based on polydopamine-coated clay : preparation, structures and properties by Phua, Si Lei

“…On the other hand, the stabilizing function of D-clay was verified using polypropylene (PP) as the polymer matrix since PP is well-known for its poor UV stability. Firstly, D-clay was incorporated into polyether-based PU via solvent mixing and good filler dispersion was obtained. …”
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Dynamic drug combination methods for suppressing bacterial antibiotics resistance adaptation by Bhone, Myint Kyaw

“…Therefore, there is a concern that MRSA would gradually become fully-resistant to vancomycin in the near future and newer treatment strategies or compounds that can effectively cure S. aureus related infections should be well underway before our last antibiotic runs out. …”
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“新游牧精神”为文化冲突的和解方案 ：从《陆犯焉识》探讨严歌苓的身份认同 = “New normadic spirit” as a solution to cultural identity conflict : an analysis of Yan Ge Ling’s cultural identity through her novel, Lu Fan... by See, Seow Ling

“…Bringing together the experiences of the novel’s characters, their dilemmas between staying or leaving, and the closing chapter; as well as Yan Ge Ling’s own life, it becomes apparent that the “New Nomadic Spirit” is uniquely transcendental, going beyond the original cultural referents of identity. …”
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Mechanism of an arched basilar membrane in mammalian cochlea by Chan, Wei Xuan

“…The theoretical analysis of the energy absorption and distribution in the thin film composite provides a guideline for selection of thermoplastic and elastomer as well as estimation of the power required for ultrasonic bonding of the film composite. …”
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Posture control and balance for quality of walking in rehabilitation by Li, Lei

“…Thus, the research work reported in this thesis focuses on developing methods of coordination and control of human posture and the stabilizing devices to make sure that they are working closely and well together to reduce human effort. The research work covers three aspects: human posture and passive stabilizing device control, trajectory generation and human-intention recognition, and development of active balance stabilizer mechanism. …”
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Budget efficient online active learning and its applications by Hao, Shuji

“…Third, in the typical online learning setting, most of the OAL algorithms adopt the margin-based query strategies, which usually assume that the model is well trained and the margin value is accurate. However, this assumption is often not true in reality, such as in the early training phrase. …”
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The relations between Van Der Waals and covalent forces in layered crystals by Chaturvedi, Apoorva

“…While traditionally every layered material has out-of-plane anisotropy on account of their sensitivity to van der Waals forces, there is less explored member of LTMD family that has both in-plane and out-of-plane anisotropy as well as insensitivity towards weak forces (vdW forces). …”
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