A hidden lethal effect of long microplastic fibres on the coastal copepod Acartia erythraea by Takahashi, Kazutaka, Teh, Jun Chin

“…We investigated the lethal effects of a long fibrous microplastic (the range of lengths, widths, and thicknesses were 1.5–3.6 mm, 10–16 μm, and 7–8.5 μm, respectively) made of polyethylene terephthalate textile, on the marine copepod Acartia erythraea. …”
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Human metapneumovirus in Singapore : epidemiology, fusion-attachment protein interaction and virus-like particle assembly by Loo, Liat Hui

“…In the years that followed, an increasing number of research groups began to publish work on various aspects of HMPV. One of the main concerns was that this virus was detected in a significant proportion of children below the age of 3 years and caused respiratory symptoms very similar to its nearest related human pathogen: human respiratory syncytial virus. …”
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Identification and application of self-binding zipper-like sequences in SARS-CoV spike protein by Zhang, Si Min, Liao, Ying, Neo, Tuan Ling, Lu, Yanning, Liu, Ding Xiang, Vahlne, Anders, Tam, James Pingkwan

“…Self-binding peptides containing zipper-like sequences, such as the Leu/Ile zipper sequence within the coiled coil regions of proteins and the cross-β spine steric zippers within the amyloid-like fibrils, could bind to the protein-of-origin through homophilic sequence-specific zipper motifs. …”
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Automated lesion segmentation and quantification for prediction of paradoxical worsening in patients with tubercular serpiginous-like choroiditis by Kalra, Gagan, Agarwal, Aniruddha, Marchese, Alessandro, Agrawal, Rupesh, Bansal, Reema, Gupta, Vishali

“…To develop and evaluate a fully automated pipeline that analyzes color fundus images in patients with tubercular serpiginous-like choroiditis (TB SLC) for prediction of paradoxical worsening (PW). …”
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Fine-scale genetic structure and natural selection signatures of southwestern Hans inferred from patterns of genome-wide allele, haplotype, and haplogroup lineages by Wang, Mengge, Yuan, Didi, Zou, Xing, Wang, Zheng, Yeh, Hui-Yuan, Liu, Jing, Wei, Lan-Hai, Wang, Chuan-Chao, Zhu, Bofeng, Liu, Chao, He, Guanglin

“…The evolutionary and admixture history of Han Chinese have been widely discussed via traditional autosomal and uniparental genetic markers [e.g., short tandem repeats, low-density single nucleotide polymorphisms). However, their fine-scale genetic landscapes (admixture scenarios and natural selection signatures) based on the high-density allele/haplotype sharing patterns have not been deeply characterized. …”
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Characterization of alginate-like exopolysaccharides from aerobic granules treating palm oil mill effluent / by Syamimi Md. Jamal, 1990- author 613367, Norhayati Abdullah, 1980-, supervisor 521402, Muhammad Ali Yuzir, supervisor 613368, Fakulti Biosains dan Kejuruteraan Perubatan

Characterization of alginate-like exopolysaccharides from aerobic granules treating palm oil mill effluent / by Syamimi Md. Jamal, 1990- author 613367

Development of diamond-like carbon films for large area microelectronic applications using ECR-CVD by Yoon, Soon Fatt.

“…In this project, the ECR-CVD technique has been used to deposit amorphous and diamond-like carbon films from a mixture of hydrogen and methane, and for the characterisation of optical, structural and mechanical properties of the films, the following analytical techniques has been employed.…”
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Fabrication and packaging of piezoresistive MEMS pressure sensor array for passive fish-like underwater sensing by Chia, Mark Sebastian Xiong Wei.

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Plasmonic Nanohole Sensor for Capturing Single Virus-Like Particles toward Virucidal Drug Evaluation by Jackman, Joshua Alexander, Linardy, Eric, Yoo, Daehan, Seo, Jeongeun, Ng, Wei Beng, Klemme, Daniel J., Wittenberg, Nathan J., Oh, Sang-Hyun, Cho, Nam-Joon

“…A plasmonic nanohole sensor for virus-like particle capture and virucidal drug evaluation is reported. …”
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DRD-UNet, a UNet-like architecture for multi-class breast cancer semantic segmentation by Ortega-Ruíz, Mauricio Alberto, Karabağ, Cefa, Roman-Rangel, Edgar, Reyes-Aldasoro, Constantino Carlos

“…This paper describes a UNet-like deep learning architecture called DRD-UNet, which adds a novel processing block called DRD (Dilation, Residual, and Dense block) to a UNet architecture. …”
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Recombinant expression systems for production of stabilised virus-like particles as next-generation polio vaccines by Sherry, L, Bahar, MW, Porta, C, Fox, H, Grehan, K, Nasta, V, Duyvesteyn, HME, De Colibus, L, Marsian, J, Murdoch, I, Ponndorf, D, Kim, S, Shah, S, Carlyle, S, Swanson, JJ, Matthews, S, Nicol, C, Lomonossoff, GP, Macadam, AJ, Fry, EE, Stuart, DI, Stonehouse, NJ, Rowlands, DJ

“…Continued use of these vaccines, however, threatens ultimate disease eradication and achievement of a polio-free world. Virus-like particles (VLPs) that lack a viral genome represent a safer potential vaccine, although they require particle stabilization. …”

Bacteriocin-like peptides encoded by a horizontally acquired island mediate Neisseria gonorrhoeae autolysis by Poncin, K, McKeand, SA, Lavender, H, Kurzyp, K, Harrison, OB, Roberti, A, Melia, C, Johnson, E, Maiden, MCJ, Greaves, DR, Exley, R, Tang, CM

“…The nap island in the gonococcus encodes 3 cationic, bacteriocin-like peptides which have no detectable antimicrobial activity. …”

Distinct movement disorders in contactin-associated-protein-like-2 antibody-associated autoimmune encephalitis by Gövert, F, Abrante, L, Becktepe, J, Balint, B, Ganos, C, Hofstadt-van Oy, U, Krogias, C, Varley, J, Irani, SR, Paneva, S, Titulaer, MJ, de Vries, JM, Boon, AJW, Schreurs, MWJ, Joubert, B, Honnorat, J, Vogrig, A, Ariño, H, Sabater, L, Dalmau, J, Scotton, S, Jacob, S, Melzer, N, Bien, CG, Geis, C, Lewerenz, J, Prüss, H, Wandinger, K-P, Deuschl, G, Leypoldt, F

“…In the elderly, anti-LGI1 and contactin associated protein like 2 (CASPR2) antibody-associated diseases compose a relevant fraction of autoimmune encephalitis. …”

Antigen presentation dynamics shape the antibody response to variants like SARS-CoV-2 Omicron after multiple vaccinations with the original strain by Yang, Leerang, Van Beek, Matthew, Wang, Zijun, Muecksch, Frauke, Canis, Marie, Hatziioannou, Theodora, Bieniasz, Paul D, Nussenzweig, Michel C, Chakraborty, Arup K

“…After the first dose, limited antigen availability in germinal centers (GCs) results in a response dominated by B cells that target immunodominant epitopes that are mutated in an Omicron-like variant. After the second dose, these memory cells expand and differentiate into plasma cells that secrete antibodies that are thus ineffective for such variants. …”
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Action/inaction and regret : is closeness the moderating effect of regret? by Chua, Li Bing., Leong, Wan Bin., Leong, Yew Bin.

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Mixed-Deciduous Beam (Wood Awards 2023) by Fereday, George

Subjects: “…700 The arts; fine & decorative arts…”
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Determination of thermal field frequency for aerospace materials using infrared thermography technology by Yang, Bin

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Prediction of international rice production using long short- term memory and machine learning models by Arya, Suraj, Anju, ., Nor Azuana, Ramli

“…By predicting its production, we can develop a global plan for its production and stock, thereby preventing issues like famine. This paper proposes machine learning (ML) and deep learning (DL) models like linear regression, ridge regression, random forest (RF), adaptive boosting (AdaBoost), categorical boosting (CatBoost), extreme gradient boosting (XGBoost), gradient boosting, decision tree, and long short-term memory (LSTM) to predict international rice production. …”
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Molecular beam epitaxy of dilute nitride indium antimonide materials for long wavelength infrared application by Pham, Huynh Tram

“…By adding a small amount of N into InSb, the band gap is found to decrease and this is useful for long wavelength infrared detector application. The main objectives of this thesis are to investigate the effect of N incorporation in InSbN and control the N incorporation to obtain the desired band gap. …”
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