Direct and indirect effects of fire on microbial communities in a pyrodiverse dry-sclerophyll forest by Bowd, Elle J., Egidi, Eleonora, Lindenmayer, David B., Wardle, David A., Kardol, Paul, Cary, Geoffrey J., Foster, Claire

“…For instance, recent and more frequent fire was associated with reduced soil sulphur, which led to an increase in soil fungal plant pathogens and saprotrophic fungi in these sites. …”
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Whence came these plants most foul? Phylogenomics and biogeography of Lowiaceae (Zingiberales) by Niissalo, Matti A., Gardner, Elliot M., Khew, Gillian S., Šída, Otakar, Poulsen, Axel Dalberg, Leong-Škornicková, Jana

“…The remaining species form a more widespread clade. A biogeographic analysis shows that the distribution of Lowiaceae can explained by vicariance and gradual dispersal from a shared ancestral range of Borneo and Indochina. …”
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Sea-level rise from land subsidence in major coastal cities by Tay, Cheryl, Lindsey, Eric O., Chin, Shi Tong, McCaughey, Jamie W., Bekaert, David, Nguyen, Michele, Hua, Hook, Manipon, Gerald, Karim, Mohammed, Horton, Benjamin Peter, Li, Tanghua, Hill, Emma M.

“…We show that cities experiencing the fastest RLLS are concentrated in Asia. RLLS is also more variable across the 48 cities (−16.2 to 1.1 mm per year) than the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change estimations of vertical land motion (−5.2 to 4.9 mm per year). …”
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Fringe projection profilometry method with high efficiency, precision, and convenience: theoretical analysis and development by Lv, Shenzhen, Tang, Dawei, Zhang, Xuejun, Yang, Dongyu, Deng, Weijie, Qian, Kemao

“…We also believe that our work is insightful in revealing fundamental FPP properties, provides a more reasonable measurement for practice, and thus is beneficial to further FPP studies.…”
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Evaporation and crystallisation of saline droplet with surfactant on smooth surfaces by Wong, Dennis Kin Wai

“…This observation suggests that CTAB played a more significant role in the initial contact angle than SDS did. …”
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Molecular recognition in protein-DNA assemblies by Davey, Curt Alexander

“…Investigation of new DNA constructs may not only yield valuable sequence-versus-conformation relationships for the nucleosome, but would function in a synergistic capacity with our other projects, in particular for drug design and functional investigations, giving us a variety of substrates to work with. We more recently completed an in depth DNA footprinting and X-ray crystallographic study of platinum anticancer drug reaction with a NCP and the corresponding histone-free DNA. …”
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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

“…We deduce that para-mercaptobenzoic acid with a stronger electron-withdrawing ability establishes more partial positive charges on Au(I) (i.e., active sites) for facilitating feasible adsorption of OH- in alkaline media. …”
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Counterfactual explanations for machine learning models on heterogeneous data by Wang, Yongjie

“…In this thesis, we improve this problem from the angles of trust, actionability, and safety, thus making counterfactual explanations more deployable. One goal of counterfactual explanations is to seek action suggestions from the model. …”
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Simulation study of semiconductor thermoelectric power generator for waste heat recovery and energy harvesting by Chan, Murphy Kim Hua

“…One of the proven initiatives is to perform waste heat recovery using thermoelectric generators (TEGs) in wide variety of applications including space, solar photovoltaic, automotive, smelting and more. To understand key aspects of TEG performances such as power output and efficiency, the study of thermoelectric material with respect to applied temperature is also another important consideration. …”
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Evaluation of the safety and immunogenicity of different COVID-19 vaccine combinations in healthy individuals: study protocol for a randomized, subject-blinded, controlled phase 3... by Poh, Xuan Ying, Lee, I. Russel, Lim, Clarissa, Teo, Jefanie, Rao, Suma, Chia, Po Ying, Ong, Sean W. X., Lee, Tau Hong, Lin, Ray J. H., Ng, Lisa F. P., Ren, Ee Chee, Lin, Raymond T. P., Wang, Lin-Fa, Renia, Laurent, Lye, David C., Young, Barnaby Edward

“…In Singapore, two mRNA vaccines (BNT162b2 and mRNA-1273) and the inactivated vaccine CoronaVac are currently authorized under the National Vaccination Programme for use as the primary vaccination series. More than 90% of the Singapore population has received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine as of December 2021. …”
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Zero-knowledge arguments for lattice-based accumulators: logarithmic-size ring signatures and group signatures without trapdoors by Libert, Benoît, Ling, San, Nguyen, Khoa, Wang, Huaxiong

“…In particular, we obtain: (i) the first lattice-based ring signatures with logarithmic size in the cardinality of the ring and (ii) the first lattice-based group signature that does not require any GPV trapdoor and thus allows for a much more efficient choice of parameters.…”
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Janus particles with tunable patch symmetry and their assembly into chiral colloidal clusters by Zhang, Tianran, Lyu, Dengping, Xu, Wei, Feng, Xuan, Ni, Ran, Wang, Yufeng

“…With the ability to encode symmetry and directional bonding information, our strategy could give access to more complex colloidal superstructures through assembly.…”
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Adjoint-state differential arrival time tomography by Tong, Ping, Li, Tianjue, Chen, Jing, Nagaso,Masaru

“…One advantage of differential arrival time data is that it cancels or reduces the influence of common factors, making it more sensitive to a specific subset of model parameters compared to first arrival times. …”
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Towards efficient video-based action recognition: context-aware memory attention network by Koh, Thean Chun, Yeo, Chai Kiat, Jing, Xuan, Sivadas, Sunil

“…A persistent challenge in this field is to develop more efficient models capable of real-time recognition with high accuracy for widespread implementation. …”
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You must be myths-taken: examining belief in falsehoods during the COVID-19 health crisis by Lwin, May Oo, Sheldenkar, Anita, Tng, Pei Ling

“…However, belief in myths varied across population demographics, with ethnic minorities (Indians and Malays), females, young adults and those with lower education levels being more susceptible to myths than their counterparts (p < 0.05). …”
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Influences of East Asian winter monsoon and El Niño-southern oscillation variability on the Kuroshio intrusion to the South China Sea over the past 60 years by Lin, Ke, Han, Tao, Zhang, Yilin, Shen, Chuan-Chou, Lee, Shih-Yu, Wang, Jingyu, Mohtar, Ahmad T., Huang, Kuo-Fang, Chiang, Hong-Wei, Chen, Yue-Gau, Wang, Xianfeng

“…The impact of the East Asian winter monsoon (EAWM) on Dongsha δ18Oc was more pronounced during the 1970s and 1980s and after the early 2000s, while the influence of the El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) on Dongsha δ18Oc was higher between the 1980s and 1990s. …”
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Impact of China's financial development on the sustainable development goals of the Belt and Road Initiative participating countries by Li, Chenggang, Zhao, Gang, Koh, Keumseok Peter, Xu, Zhenci, Yue, Mu, Wang, Weiyan, Tan, Yuanyuan, Wu, Liang

“…This study further reveals that the scale and efficiency of China’s financial development have had a more pronounced impact on the SDGs of Asian countries, low- and middle-income countries, and the Land Silk Road participating countries, compared to those of European countries, high-income countries, and the Maritime Silk Road participating countries, respectively. …”
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Application and control for virtual synchronous generators by Guo, Yian

“…Continuing the exploration to align with real-world conditions more closely, the paper delves into the operation of two VSGs running in parallel. …”
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Acoustic resolution photoacoustic microscopy imaging enhancement: learning based and model based approaches by Zhang, Zhengyuan

“…Variable splitting techniques, like the HQS method, can be employed to solve this problem, iterative schemes are developed to enhance the AR-PAM image with deep PnP prior. What’s more, a novel GSDP-PAM approach integrates group sparsity and deep PnP priors is proposed, which further enhances AR-PAM imaging quality. …”
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PESI: paratope-epitope set interaction for SARS-CoV-2 neutralization prediction by Wan, Zhang, Lin, Zhuoyi, Rashid, Shamima, Ng, Shaun Yue Hao, Yin, Rui, Senthilnath, J., Kwoh, Chee Keong

“…Experimental results show that PESI achieves a more balanced overall performance and a significant improvement on MCC as compared to existing architectures.…”
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