Design of slender concrete column using chinese design code GB50010-2010 by Chen, Qiaofen

“…Their eccentricity to depth ratios e/h range from 0 to 0.75, length to depth ratios L/h range from 14.697 to 50, percentages of reinforcements As/(bh) range from 0.8884% to 5.24%, actual concrete strengths fcu range from 16.7MPa to 106.7MPa, and actual yield strengths of steels fy range from 206MPa to 625MPa. …”
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New algorithms and VLSI architectures for efficient RNS computations by Tay, Thian Fatt

“…As a result, the proposed architecture achieves at least 21.6% of area saving, 28.8% of speedup and 32.5% of total power reduction compared to the state-of-art designs. …”
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Feasibility study of industrial waste heat recovery in Singapore by Khairul Azahar Abdul Rashid

“…After the simulations are conducted, the results shows that the losses calculated are at the optimal range of 5 to 10% which is the efficiency that a DSC should adopt. …”
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Tensile strength of compacted soil by Lee, Wen Yan

“…Test series 3-1 and 3-2 consists of specimens that were dynamically compacted at 24.2% (W4) and 26% (W5), respectively. The specimens were subsequently dried to other water contents before testing using the Brazilian tensile test. …”
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Enantioselective epoxidation of protected allylic and homoallylic amines via chiral cationic ion-pairing catalysis by Chin, Kek Foo

“…The versatility and practicality of this methodology have been demonstrated by low catalyst loading (2.5mol %), ease of operation (under air), use of green oxidant and gram-scale synthesis.…”
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Large area perovskite solar cells by Chen, Ho Tung

“…XRD, Current and Voltage Characteristic (I-V curve) have shown that they have similar degradation trend. …”
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Blockchain opportunities in the maritime industry liner industry by Muhammad Imran Md Zin

“…Out of the top 10 Container operators, there are 6 different blockchain initiatives to digitize the global trade (See Figure 5). Blockchain technology was supposed to be an industrial platform that connects all stakeholders within the industry. …”
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Offline eLearning for undergraduates in health professions : a systematic review of the impact on knowledge, skills, attitudes and satisfaction by Wark, Petra A., Rasmussen, Kristine, Belisario, José Marcano, Molina, Joseph Antonio, Loong, Stewart Lee, Cotic, Ziva, Papachristou, Nikos, Riboli–Sasco, Eva, Car, Lorainne Tudor, Musulanov, Eve Marie, Zhang, Yanfeng, Kunz, Holger, George, Pradeep Paul, Heng, Bee Hoon, Wheeler, Erica Lynette, Al Shorbaji, Najeeb, Svab, Igor, Atun, Rifat, Majeed, Azeem, Car, Josip

“…Eight studies detected significantly higher skill gains in the eLearning intervention groups, whilst the other 5 testing skill gains did not detect differences between groups. …”
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Energy efficient resource migration based load balance mechanism for high traffic applications IoT by Kumar, Sunil, Cengiz, Korhan, Vimal, Suresh, Suresh, A.

“…This leads to a cause of emerging challenge of load balancing of networks for meeting up with highly demanding requirements (e.g., high performance, lower latency, high throughput, and high availability) of IoT and 5G network applications. For meeting up highly increasing demands, various proposal of load balancing techniques comes forward, in which highly dedicated balancers of loads are being required for ever service in some of them, or for every new service, manual recognition of device is required. …”
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An analysis of contact stiffness and frictional receding contacts by Parel, KS

“…The tangential contact stiffness for ground Ti-6Al-4V surfaces is measured to linearly decrease with the application of tangential load, approaching zero at slip. …”

Exploring effects of calcitonin and procalcitonin in cardiomyocytes by Moreira, LMF

“…</p> <p>Using cardiac surgery patient serum samples I found 5-fold lower pre-operative circulating levels of CT in patients who developed post-operative AF (poAF). …”

Personalised modelling of geographic movements in depression by Palmius, N

“…This is applied to 59 participants who provided more than 5 weeks of data for analysis, and finds that there are indeed several groups of individuals that appeared to behave similarly. …”

Accelerating convolutional neural networks through enhanced designs by Gennari do Nascimento, M

“…We show that by keeping the accuracy always close to the original model through knowledge distillation, we are able to achieve more than 5× speedup on commonly used superresolution networks without suffering significant perception loss.…”

Blind quantum computing with trapped ions and single photons by Drmota, P

“…We perform laser-based quantum gates between a ⁸⁸Sr⁺ and a ⁴³Ca⁺ ion with 0.961(2) fidelity, and between two ⁴³Ca⁺ ions with 0.985(5) fidelity. Ion-photon entanglement generated with a network qubit in ⁸⁸Sr⁺ is transferred to ⁴³Ca⁺ with 0.977(7) fidelity using error detection. …”

Deep learning methods for genome-based prediction of drug resistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis by Wang, C

“…<p>Tuberculosis is a highly lethal infectious disease, causing approximately 1.5 million deaths annually. Recent years have seen a concerning rise in drug-resistant tuberculosis cases, calling for the development of new approaches for drug susceptibility testing. …”

Translation, adaptation and validation of an epilepsy screening instrument in two Ghanaian languages by Darkwa, EK, Asiamah, S, Awini, E, Sottie, C, Godi, A, Williams, JE, Akpalu, A, Cross, JH, Sander, JW, Sen, A, Newton, CR, Danso-Appiah, A, Adjei, P

“…The Asante Twi questionnaire reliably specified epilepsy with positive predictive values of 92.5% and 94.1% at stages 1 and 2. It excluded epilepsy with negative predictive values of 97.9% and 95.9% for the two stages Conclusions: Our questionnaire is valid for the two languages and usable for community-based epilepsy surveys in Ghana. …”

Rethinking village malaria workers in Cambodia: Perspectives from the communities, programme managers, and international stakeholders by Orng, LH, Jongdeepaisal, M, Khonputsa, P, Dysoley, L, Sovannaroth, S, Peto, TJ, Callery, JJ, Pell, C, Maude, RJ, Liverani, M

“…Respondents included managers and implementers involved in the VMW programme at the central and provincial level (n = 9), technical officers at international agencies in Cambodia (n = 7), international stakeholders in non-governmental and research organisations based in Cambodia or other countries in the region (n = 5), as well as VMWs (n = 10), and community members (n = 16) in six endemic communes of Kravanh District, Pursat Province. …”

Recurrent urinary tract infections and prophylactic antibiotic use in women: cross-sectional study by Sanyaolu, L, Best, V, Cannings-John, R, Wood, F, Edwards, A, Akbari, A, Hayward, G, Ahmed, H

“…Of women taking prophylactic antibiotics, 64.2% (<em>n</em> = 9926/<em>N</em> = 15 455) had a urine culture result before initiation and 18.5% (<em>n</em> = 320/<em>N</em> = 1730) of women prescribed trimethoprim had resistance to it on the antecedent sample.…”

Numerical simulation of a forced circulation solar water heating system by Remlaoui, Ahmed, Nehari, Driss, Kada, Benhanifia, Mohd Nasir, Nor Ain Azeany, Abd-Elmonem, Assmaa, Alhubieshi, Neissrien, ElSeabee, Fayza Abdel Aziz, Hussain, Syed M.

“…The flow rate at this temperature is lower, at 7 kg/hr, while the water mass flow rate exiting the mixer is higher, at 10.5 kg/hr. In terms of thermal performance, the system’s solar fraction (SF) and thermal efficiency were evaluated. …”
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Investigating the impact of dietary guidelines transition on cardiometabolic risk profile: a forensic analysis using diet quality metrics by Sualeheen, Ayesha, Khor, Ban Hock, Lim, Jun Hao, Balasubramanian, Gaiyal Viliy, Chuah, Khun Aik, Yeak, Zu Wei, Chinna, Karuthan, Narayanan, Sreelakshmi Sankara, Sundram, Kalyana, Mat Daud, Zulfitri Azuan, Karupaiah, Tilakavati

“…Notably, participants with the highest adherence to MHEI2020 scores exhibited significantly reduced odds for elevated TG (AOR 0.44, 95% CI 0.21–0.93, p = 0.030), HOMA2-IR (AOR 0.44, 95% CI 0.21–0.88, p = 0.022), and hsCRP (AOR 0.54, 95% CI 0.31–0.96, p = 0.040, compared to those with the lowest adherence. Each 5-unit increase in MHEI2020 scores reduced odds for elevated BMI (− 14%), WC (− 9%), LDL-C (− 32%), TG (− 15%), HOMA2-IR (− 9%) and hsCRP (− 12%). …”
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