Location Selection for Beekeeping in Optimizing Honey Production using Linear Programming Model (S/O 14038) by Abdul Rahman, Syariza, Benjamin, Aida Mauziah, Omar, Mohd Faizal

“…Meliponiculture is an activity of raising stingless bees to obtain bee products, mainly honey. Honey production by bees varies depending on various factors which also affect its amount and quality. …”
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3D printed magnetic digital microfluidics for biomedical applications by Kanitthamniyom, Pojchanun

“…Here, the detection of hepatitis B surface antigen using enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) was demonstrated on the new platform for the potential diagnostics of hepatitis. …”
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Cross-layer host-network co-design for QoS in streamed video data networking by Nan, Ya

“…The proposed design faces the challenge of constraints of both computation resources at the edge servers and network bandwidth of the edge-cloud links. An accuracy gradient-based resource allocation algorithm is proposed to allocate the limited computation and network resources across different video streams to achieve the maximum overall performance. …”
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The role of filamentous phage in the development of Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilms by Manisha Mukherjee

“…These effects were primarily linked to the appearance of a superinfective form of the Pf4, which was observed at the time of dispersal. …”
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Biomolecular hydration in protein-protein interaction, protein stability and aggregation and lead optimization : computational studies by Mohan Rajan Pradhan

“…After providing a brief overview of biomolecular hydration and outlining the need for new insights to explain experimental observations such as aggregation (Chapter 1), a hydration metric is identified that is linked to Aggregation Prone Regions (APRs) in proteins. …”
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Development of high-affinity peptide-drug conjugates for investigating the TRIM24 PHD and bromodomain by Platt, MA

“…</p> <br> <p>Given the close proximity of the PHD and BRD, and lack of TRIM24 PHD ligands, it was decided that a TRIM24 BRD ligand would be linked to a H3-mimicking peptide containing a KMe₃ isostere, to generate bivalent peptide-drug conjugates (PDCs) (Figure 0.1a). …”

Production and characterization of collagen and gelatin from edible jellyfish (Acromitus hardenbergi Stiasny, 1934) for fabrication of biofunctional scaffold by Khong, Nicholas Mun Hoe

“…The combinations of different jellyfish collagen and gelatin concentrations were observed to have significant effects on the cross-section morphology and the molecular integrity of the cross-linked scaffolds. Proportional combination of jellyfish collagen into the ternary scaffolds was found to significantly (p < 0.05) increase mean pore size and porosity. …”
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Part I : Peptide functionalized materials for gram-negative bacteria targeted PDT and LPS sensing. Part II : Small peptide and membrane lipid based self-assembled nanostructures fo... by Liu, Fang

“…The detection mechanism of our rational design is mainly based on the fact that the specific interactions between LPS and neutralizing peptide could break up the π-π stacking conformation of neighbouring PDI molecules on Fe3O4@SiO2 nanoparticle surfaces, and thus efficiently turn on the self-quenched fluorescence. …”
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Associations between health literacy and health care utilization and mortality in patients with coexisting diabetes and end-stage renal disease : a prospective cohort study by Griva, Konstantina, Loong, Russel K. L., Nandakumar, Mooppil, Rajeswari, Moothathamby, Khoo, Eric Y. H., Lee, Vanessa Y. W., Kang, Augustine W. C., Osborne, Richard H., Brini, Stefano, Newman, Stanton P.

“…Objectives Health literacy encompasses a broad skill set linked to patients' self-management ability and the complexity of their health care environments. …”
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The association between the housing structure and continued breastfeeding in two Southern African countries by Khanyile, Ntuthuko, McLaren, Shawn, Fairbrother, Una

“…Almost half of the deaths in children under-5 years are linked to malnutrition in low- and middle-income countries(LMICs)(Reference Victora, Bahl and Barros1). …”
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A facile approach to nanoarchitectured three-dimensional graphene-based Li–Mn–O composite as high-power cathodes for Li-ion batteries by Zhang, Wenyu, Zeng, Yi, Xu, Chen, Xiao, Ni, Gao, Yiben, Li, Lain-Jong, Chen, Xiaodong, Hng, Huey Hoon, Yan, Qingyu

“…The wider operation voltage window can lead to increased theoretical capacity, e.g., 148 mAh·g−1 between 3 and 4.5 V and 296 mAh·g−1 between 2 and 4.5 V; (3) more importantly, it is found that the attachment of LMO onto graphene can help to reduce the dissolution of Mn2+ into the electrolyte, as indicated by the inductively coupled plasma (ICP) measurements, and which is mainly attributed to the large specific surface area of the graphene sheets.…”
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Si photocathode with Ag-supported dendritic Cu catalyst for CO2 reduction by Gurudayal, Beeman, Jeffrey W., Bullock, James, Wang, Hao, Eichhorn, Johanna, Towle, Clarissa, Javey, Ali, Toma, Francesca M., Mathews, Nripan, Ager, Joel W.

“…Under simulated diurnal illumination conditions photocathodes maintain over 60% faradaic efficiency to hydrocarbon and oxygenate products (mainly ethylene, ethanol, propanol) for several days. …”
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Sequence- and structure-specific probing of RNAs by short nucleobase-modified dsRNA-binding PNAs incorporating a fluorescent light-up uracil analog by Krishna, Manchugondanahalli Shivakumar, Toh, Desiree-Faye Kaixin, Meng, Zhenyu, Ong, Alan Ann Lerk, Wang, Zhenzhang, Lu, Yunpeng, Xia, Kelin, Prabakaran, Mookkan, Chen, Gang

“…The strategy of directly targeting double-stranded RNA (dsRNA) by triplex-formation is relatively underexplored mainly due to the weak binding at physiological conditions for the traditional triplex-forming oligonucleotides (TFOs). …”
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Correlation-oriented complex system structural risk assessment using Copula and belief rule base by Chang, Leilei, Zhang, Limao, Xu, Xiaojian

“…The numerical case is mainly used to explain the knowledge-driven Copula-BRB inferencing framework, and the practical case is conducted in a comparative fashion where three Copula functions are used, namely Clayton, Frank, and Gumbel, and the results are compared with the Support Vector Machine (SVM) and conventional BRB (without consideration of the attribute correlation). …”
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First-principles study of the anisotropic thermal expansion and thermal transport properties in h-BN by Niu, Bo, Zhong, Lixiang, Hao, Wei, Yang, Zhihua, Duan, Xiaoming, Cai, Delong, He, Peigang, Jia, Dechang, Li, Shuzhou, Zhou, Yu

“…And the anisotropic TEC is mainly determined by the anisotropic isothermal bulk modulus and the low-frequency out-of-plane longitudinal phonon modes. …”
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Dual-functional witherite in improving chemical looping performance of iron ore and simultaneous adsorption of HCl in syngas at high temperature by Wang, Haiming, Liu, Guicai, Boon, Yinn Zhao, Veksha, Andrei, Giannis, Apostolos, Lim, Teik-Thye, Lisak, Grzegorz

“…With increasing the inlet HCl concentration, the CLC performance of IO-Ba was further improved mainly because the chlorination process made the witherite particles more porous, which benefits the solid-solid interactions. …”
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Magnetic nanochain enabled microarray and microfluidic bioassays by Xiong, Qirong

“…The magnetic dynamic nanomixers were expected to find widespread uses in on-surface bioassays that suffer from diffusion limitation, such as microfluidic assays, enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA), and heterogeneous catalysis. …”
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Advances in 3D optical profilometry by Huang, Lei

“…For guiding strategies, the classical guiding strategy with a data structure of indexed interwoven linked list is fastest to achieve the most reasonable unwrapping results. …”
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Bit allocation techniques for video coding and broadcasting applications by Yao, Wei

“…However, due to the increased video data compared to conventional single-view video, efficient coding format and joint bit rate allocation among multiple stereo videos on bandwidth limited transmission links are still challenging problems. A scalable coding scheme for stereo video is first designed such that regulating output bit rate of each video to match the allocated bandwidth can be achieved by simple bitstream extraction. …”
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Electrochemical DNA biosensor based on nanoporous alumina membrane by Deng, Jiajia

“…Probe DNA sequences were covalently attached within the pores of the nanoporous alumina membrane using glutaraldehyde cross linking. Binding of target DNA to the probe inside nanopores caused impedance changes due to blocking of nanopores, which provided the sensing signals. …”
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