Immunogenicity and safety of beta variant COVID-19 vaccine AZD2816 and AZD1222 (ChAdOx1 nCoV-19) as primary-series vaccination for previously unvaccinated adults in Brazil, South A... by Costa Clemens, SA, Jepson, B, Bhorat, QE, Ahmad, A, Akhund, T, Aley, PK, Bansal, H, Bibi, S, Kelly, EJ, Khan, M, Lambe, T, Lombaard, JJ, Matthews, S, Pipolo Milan, E, Olsson, U, Ramasamy, MN, Moura de Oliveira Paiva, MS, Seegobin, S, Shoemaker, K, Szylak, A, Villafana, T, Pollard, AJ, Green, JA

“…<p><b>Background</b></p> AZD2816 is a variant-adapted COVID-19 vaccine that expresses the full-length SARS-CoV-2 beta variant spike protein but is otherwise similar to AZD1222 (ChAdOx1 nCoV-19). …”

Intelligent Solutions for Sustainable Power Grids / by Kumar, L. Ashok, editor 623258, Angalaeswari, S., 1981-, editor 655486, K., Mohanasundaram, 1977-, editor 655487, Bansal, Ramesh C., editor 655488, Patil, Arunkumar, 1985-, editor 655489, IGI Global (Online service) 631983

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Compositionally graded alloys fabricated using the laser powder bed fusion technique by Wei, Siyuan

“….% Ni was proved to be the lower threshold for fabricating nearly full-density Cu-Ni binary alloy. Cu-7.6Ni-3Al (wt.%) was further designed and fabricated. …”
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Scaling up parametric human recovery by Cai, Zhongang

“…Third, we developed SynBody, a synthetic dataset created using the Unreal Engine, where we have full control over the assets, to further diversify human models and enhance annotation quality. …”
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Blood-stage malaria vaccine candidate RH5.1/Matrix-M in healthy Tanzanian adults and children; an open-label, non-randomised, first-in-human, single-centre, phase 1b trial by Silk, SE, Kalinga, WF, Salkeld, J, Mtaka, IM, Ahmed, S, Milando, F, Diouf, A, Bundi, CK, Balige, N, Hassan, O, Mkindi, CG, Rwezaula, S, Athumani, T, Mswata, S, Lilolime, NS, Simon, B, Msami, H, Mohamed, M, David, DM, Mohammed, L, Nyaulingo, G, Mwalimu, B, Juma, O, Mwamlima, TG, Sasamalo, IA, Mkumbange, RP, Kamage, JJ, Barrett, JR, King, LDW, Hou, MM, Pulido, D, Carnrot, C, Lawrie, AM, Cowan, RE, Nugent, FL, Roberts, R, Cho, J-S, Long, CA, Nielsen, CM, Miura, K, Draper, SJ, Olotu, AI, Minassian, AM

“…</p> <br> <p><strong>Findings:</strong> Between Jan 25, 2021, and April 15, 2021, we recruited 12 adults (six [50%] in the Adults 10M group and six [50%] in the Adults DFx group) and 48 children (12 each in the Children 10M, Children 10D, Children DFx, and High Children DFx groups). 57 (95%) of 60 participants completed the vaccination series and 55 (92%) completed 22 months of follow-up following the third vaccination. …”

Energy-efficient hardware accelerators based on bit-serial graph and memory-centric computing architectures by Mu, Junjie

“…With the motivation of the lack of reconfigurability and scalability of the existing PDE hardware solvers, we propose the first single chip to solve 2D and 3D PDEs using a full-digital, graph-based architecture in Chapter 5. …”
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Stability improvement and control optimization of isolated two-stage AC-DC-DC converter systems by Feng, Fan

“…To analyze the stability of the DAB-based two-stage AC-DC-DC converter, the full-order impedance model of the DAB converter is derived for the first time in this thesis. …”
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Towards electrically injected colloidal semiconductor lasers by Thung, Yi Tian

“…Their advantages of excellent solution processability, large absorption cross-sections, narrow full-width-half-maximum, flexible wavelength tunability, and reduced Auger effects make them promising gain media for next-generation lasing. …”
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Evaluation of diabetic wound healing properties of moringa oleifera lam using in vitro and in vivo wound models by Muhammad Amali, Abubakar

“…The in vivo study involved topical application of the formulated bioactive fraction using full thickness excision wound model in streptozotocin (STZ) and nicotinamide (NAD) induced diabetic rats. …”
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Burden of disease scenarios for 204 countries and territories, 2022-2050: a forecasting analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021 by Vollset, SE, Ababneh, HS, Abate, YH, Lacey, BWH, GBD 2021 Forecasting Collaborators

“…&lt;h4&gt;Methods&lt;/h4&gt;Using forecasts of major drivers of health such as the Socio-demographic Index (SDI; a composite measure of lag-distributed income per capita, mean years of education, and total fertility under 25 years of age) and the full set of risk factor exposures captured by GBD, we provide cause-specific forecasts of mortality, years of life lost (YLLs), years lived with disability (YLDs), and disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs) by age and sex from 2022 to 2050 for 204 countries and territories, 21 GBD regions, seven super-regions, and the world. …”

Energy storage management for renewable energy systems by Feng, Xue

“…The research methods and findings are transferable to other renewable sources based on the common feature of intermittency. …”
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Quantification and ACD: Evidence from Real-Time Sentence Processing by Hackl, Martin, Koster-Hale, Jorie, Varvoutis, Jason

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Innocent Until Proven Guilty: Addressing Problem of Criminal Investigation in Pakistan by Ghani, Abdul, Ayub, Zainal Amin, Mat Rus, Mukhriz

“…The data has been analyzed by using analytical research methodology techniques. Some of the filed cases out of ninety-five (95) have been analyzed in detail, while the rest of the murder cases filed in district Multan, have been generalized to support qualitative findings quantitatively. …”
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Practical fuzzing on open-source projects by Ng, Chun Kai

“…The input files (seeds) contain multiple text files containing various special characters and languages. …”
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Falling for Rachel / by Roberts, Nora, 1950- author 465662

Understanding conflict in the franchised restaurant industry: insights from court records by Siti Nurhayati Khairatun, Zheng, Tianshu

“…Out of the 20 cases, the courts found that 13 cases filed by the franchisees had no meritorious causes of action. …”
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Gram-scale mechanochemical synthesis of atom-layer MoS₂ semiconductor electrocatalyst via functionalized graphene quantum dots for efficient hydrogen evolution by Hu, Bingjie, Wu, Yao, Wang, Kang, Guo, Huazhang, Lei, Zhendong, Liu, Zheng, Wang, Liang

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Web-based collaborative working environment by Ong, Rong Hui

“…The paper also shows how Box and Google Drive handles conflicting operations, and reveals that Google Drive was inconsistent in reproducing replicated copies of the files. From the findings, this paper will contribute to better inform cloud storage providers the problems that surfaced during our research, and show how our benchmarking tool can serve as a tool to test the robustness of the cloud storage.…”
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Numerical Methods for Engineers / by Chapra, Steven C., author 289854, Canale, Raymond P., author 234599

“…This includes material on developing MATLAB m-files and VBA macros. Also, many, many more challenging problems are included. …”

KSS-ICP: point cloud registration based on Kendall shape space by Lv, Chenlei, Lin, Weisi, Zhao, Baoquan

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