Boronic acid and nitrofuranyl derivatives as potential therapeutics by Dey, AL

“…It is expected that the average reader would like to skip through the literature review of this chapter; however, at the risk of being forward and in the interests of completeness, a knowledge of its existence is thought desirable for the curious reader so that they may wish to utilise them when occasion demands. The aforementioned relatively short introduction in Chapter 2 precedes the detailed preparations of the Dynamic Combinatorial Library of benzodiazaborines and boronate esters herein. …”

Seroprevalence of SARS-CoV-2 in children and adolescents by Ratcliffe, H

“…The results showed a high prevalence of pre-existing immunity against seasonal coronaviruses when measuring IgG concentration of antibodies against spike protein but did not confer protection against SARS-CoV-2.…”

Neuroprotective effect of tocotrienol-rich fraction and a-tocopherol of vitamin E against glutamate toxicity in neuronal cells and astrocytes by Selvaraju, Thilaga Rati

“…In this study, the effects of vitamin E when supplemented before (pre-treatment) and after (post-treatment) glutamate insult were elucidated in neuronal and astrocyte cell lines. …”
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Essays on development economics by Wang, Wen

“…The estimation results remain robust when subjected to further checks and sensitivity tests. …”
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Discrete time optimal control and its applications in power systems by Zhang, Hehong

“…Not requiring complex power system modelling and historical data, the proposed TD is suitable for real-time synchrophasor estimation application especially when the states are corrupted by noises. The aforementioned SE algorithms can effectively reduce the computational resources needed and meet the requirements of state estimations in power systems. …”
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GeSn alloys fabricated by modified sputtering deposition by Qian, Li

“…Surface plasmon resonance occurred when the light of specified wavelength interacted with the metallic structure, resulting in an enhancement of 2 to 4 times on the basis of GeSn quantum dot/GaAs hetero-structure photodetector. …”
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Investigation of phenylpropanoid sucrose esters as antidiabetic compounds by Wong, Kathy Pooi Wen

“…While all the tested PSE compounds degraded instantaneously when exposed to simulated gastric fluid (SGF) as expected, a trend was identified regarding the stability of the PSE compounds in simulated intestinal fluid (SIF). …”
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Optimization and scheduling for a large-scale urban transportation system involving human factors by Zhang, Yi

“…The second part of the thesis investigates the potential impact of the pedestrian movement to the vehicle traffic networks when pedestrian safety is considered in the system. …”
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Securing untrusted memories in embedded systems by Vig, Saru

“…DISSECT can mitigate the frequent over owing of counters that are used for encryption when the tree arity is increased. Experimental results show an average of 20% reduction in authentication time over the balanced tree approach. …”
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新加坡华语电视剧华人形象研究 = A study of ethnic Chinese images in Singapore Chinese television drama by Xiang, Zhili

“…In terms of the images of Overseas Chinese and Singapore citizens, Singapore Chinese TV dramas have demonstrated the transformation of the identities; before the Second World War, the emphasis was on the establishment of the Overseas Chinese identity; after the independence of Singapore, the attention was on promoting and instilling the identity of Singapore citizens. When it comes to English education and language issues, the TV dramas have reflected on English education and criticized the loss of Chinese traditional values. …”
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Magic v.3 : an integrated software package for systematic structure-based coarse-graining by Mirzoev, Alexander, Nordenskiöld, Lars, Lyubartsev, Alexander

“…The inverse solver includes also variational Inverse Monte Carlo approach when some of the coarse-grained potentials are fixed while others vary in order to fit the whole set of reference distribution functions. …”
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Dynamic fracture mechanics of FRP-concrete interface by Li, Gen

“…It was found that the dynamic enhancing effect on interfacial bond properties became more significant when a specimen has a larger FRP load capacity or a lower concrete load capacity. …”
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Controlling the magnetic properties of LaMnO3/SrTiO3 heterostructures by stoichiometry and electronic reconstruction : atomic-scale evidence by Li, Mengsha, Tang, Chunhua, Paudel, Tula R., Song, Dongsheng, Lü, Weiming, Han, Kun, Huang, Zhen, Zeng, Shengwei, Wang, Renshaw Xiao, Yang, Ping, Ariando, Chen, Jingsheng, Venkatesan, Thirumalai, Tsymbal, Evgeny Y., Li, Changjian, Pennycook, Stephen John

“…It is found that the electronic reconstruction is confined within the first 3 ucs of LMO from the interface, and more importantly, it is robust against oxygen nonstoichiometry. When restoring stoichiometry, an enhanced ferromagnetic insulating state in LMO films with a thickness as thin as 2 nm (5 uc) is achieved, making LMO readily applicable as barriers in spin filters.…”
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Stochastic optimisation of unmanned aerial vehicle assisted package delivery planning by Sawadsitang, Suttinee

“…The computational time gaps between the decomposed GADOP and the original GADOP are grown exponentially when the numbers of drones and uncertainty scenarios increase. …”
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Probabilistic modeling of nodal charging demand based on spatial-temporal dynamics of moving electric vehicles by Musa, Ryan Rezal

“…Applying this to real life situations, this type of probabilistic models would be useful for the many power service providers out there as they can use them to predict when the peak periods are going to happen and then take the corresponding necessary preventive measures to avoid potential power congestions from occurring. …”
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Multi-colony coral skeletal Ba/Ca from Singapore’s turbid urban reefs : relationship with contemporaneous in-situ seawater parameters by Tanzil, Jani Thuaibah Isa, Goodkin, Nathalie Fairbank, Sin, T. M., Chen, Mengli, Fabbro, Gareth Nicholas, Boyle, E. A., Lee, A. C., Toh, K. B.

“…Our results highlight the possibility of high heterogeneity in coral responses to environmental conditions, and the need for careful selection of colonies and a site-specific, replicated approach when attempting to apply Ba/Cacoral as a trace element proxy.…”
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Deep learning based monocular visual-inertial odometry by Mahdi Abolfazli Esfahani

“…However, they cannot perform well in textureless regions and fail when they cannot track features. Moreover, they cannot handle some challenging scenarios where an object moves in front of the camera. …”
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Conditional prosociality in development: deconstructing social and materialistic factors that modulate early prosocial behavior by Lee, Kristy Jia Jin

“…These results point to children's strategic considerations about tradeoffs when deciding whether to benefit the victim of a transgression. …”
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Wireless channel modeling and spectrum monitoring for interference mitigation and link reliability insurance for existing and future CBTC systems by Kalyankar Shravan Kumar

“…As a continuation to spectrum monitoring campaign, spectrum occupancy analysis, signal identification, a Gaussian Mixture Model (GMM) clustering technique is proposed to evaluate the performance of access points from identified CBTC signals when the train is stopped at the MRT station. The statistics of the clustered data are analyzed to understand the characteristics of radio signals from different access points, and the findings of this technique are presented. …”
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Intelligent agent design for persuading the elderly to adopt a healthy lifestyle by Yu, Xinjia

“…According to the Role Model proposed in this thesis, the mismatching between the expectation of the senior parents toward their children and the actual role played by their adult children causes the failure of persuasion. When the proposed multiple agent system selects and provides the suitable agent to play the right role to assist the persuading process, the persuasion success rate will enhance because of the fulfilment of persuadee's role expectation. …”
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