Metabolic modulation to improve MSC expansion and therapeutic potential for articular cartilage repair by Tee, Ching A., Roxby, Daniel N., Othman, Rashidah, Denslin, Vinitha, Bhat, Kiseer S., Yang, Zheng, Han, Jongyoon, Tucker-Kellogg, Lisa, Boyer, Laurie A.

“…We further demonstrate that AA treatment reduced the proportion of senescent cells and cell heterogeneity also allowing for long-term expansion that led to a > 300-fold increase in yield of MSCs with enhanced chondrogenic potential compared to untreated cells. …”
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Co-seismic ruptures of the 12 May 2008, Ms 8.0 Wenchuan earthquake, Sichuan : East–west crustal shortening on oblique, parallel thrusts along the eastern edge of Tibet by Liu-Zeng, J., Zhang, Z., Wen, L., Sun, J., Xing, X., Hu, G., Xu, Q., Zeng, L., Ding, L., Ji, C., Hudnut, K. W., van der Woerd, J., Tapponnier, Paul

“…The Ms 8.0, Wenchuan earthquake, which devastated the mountainous western rim of the Sichuan basin in central China, produced a surface rupture over 200 km-long with oblique thrust/dextral slip and maximum scarp heights of ~ 10 m. …”
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Direct seeding of mass-cultured coral larvae is not an effective option for reef rehabilitation by Edwards, Alasdair J., Guest, James R., Heyward, Andrew J., Villanueva, Ronald D., Baria, Ma. Vanessa, Bollozos, Iris S. F., Golbuu, Yimnang

“…While some studies have shown positive short-term effects on settlement, to date, none have examined the long-term effects of larval seeding for a broadcast-spawning coral. …”
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Hydrated eutectic electrolyte with ligand-oriented solvation shell to boost the stability of zinc battery by Han, Mingming, Huang, Jiwu, Xie, Xuesong, Li, Tian Chen, Huang, Jiangtao, Liang, Shuquan, Zhou, Jiang, Fan, Hong Jin

“…An electrolyte cation additive strategy provides a versatile route for developing high-energy and long-life aqueous zinc-ion hybrid capacitors. However, the mechanisms of energy storage and Zn anode protection are still unclear in Zn-based systems with dual-ion electrolytes. …”
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Visual analytics for massive urban public transport data by Zeng, Wei

“…Hence, studying PTS is highly beneficial to both individuals as well as a city as a whole, and it has long been a hot topic in transport research. However, many conventional transport researches have long been relying on simulation and survey data, making the results less of conviction. …”
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基于高掺锗石英光纤的中红外超连续谱产生 = Mid-infrared supercontinuum generation with highly germanium-doped silica fiber by 朱磊 Zhu Lei, 王鹿鹿 Wang Lulu, 董新永 Dong Xinyong, 沈平 Shen Ping, 苏海斌 Su Haibin

“…The free space coupling efficiency from the pump laser to the germanium-doped fiber is enhanced by fusion-splicing a 100~200 μm long multimode fiber. Length of germanium-doped fiber is optimized. …”
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Spatial and temporal distributions of water physicochemical properties, sediment quality and sedimentation in Sembrong Reservoir by Baharim, Nor Bakhiah

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Guaranteeing safe drinking water services for public schools in Kenya: a costed professional service delivery model for Kitui County by Nyaga, C, Hope, R, Charles, K, Nowicki, S, Katuva, J, Mugo, P, Hoque, S, Olago, D, Thomas, M, Mumma, A

“…Since 2016, FundiFix has been supported by the Water Services Maintenance Trust Fund (WSMTF) designed explicitly to subsidize long-term maintenance services in rural areas. Through results-based contracts guaranteeing service levels, corporates have provided funds to progressively pay for most of the operational costs. …”

A Performance Analysis between Conventional and Shariah Private Retirement Scheme in Malaysia (S/O 14551) by Sofi, Mohd Fikri

“…However, the difference in return performance can be found significant in long term cumulative return within 4 years of conventional fund operating since inception. …”
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Printable superelastic conductors with extreme stretchability and robust cycling endurance enabled by liquid-metal particles by Wang, Jiangxin, Cai, Guofa, Li, Shaohui, Gao, Dace, Xiong, Jiaqing, Lee, Pooi See

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Semantic segmentation with less annotation efforts by Zhang, Tianyi

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Case report: the 'vanished' left pulmonary artery by Chan, Charmaine Jiahui, Kotecha, Monika Kantilal, Choo, Jonathan Tze Liang, Fortier, Marielle V., Sundararaghavan, Sreekanthan

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Orchestration and value co-creation in ecosystems : a mixed methods investigation by Agarwal, Neha

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The influence of nutrition on obesity by Ee, Xing Min

“…The causes of obesity have often been linked to overconsumption and a lack of physical exercise. …”
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Decoding divergence in marine protistan communities: from strain diversity to basin biogeography by Krinos Quinn, Arianna Isabella

“…Scalable workflows highlight the challenge and promise of meta-omic data to link community structure to physiology. I developed a pipeline for metatranscriptome analysis and taxonomic annotation to address the lack of tools built specifically for microbial eukaryotes, and created mock communities to assess recovery success in protistan metatranscriptome analysis workflows (Chapters 4 and 5). …”
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Mechanics of Three-Dimensional Micro-Architected Interpenetrating Phase Composites by Chen, Andrew Y.

“…Altogether, this work broadens our established understanding of the link between architecture and mechanical performance by considering the framework of interpenetrating phase composites, creating the foundation for a new class of strong, resilient, and programmable materials with architected stress states.…”
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LEO satellite formation for SSP : energy and doppler analysis by Goh, Shu Ting, Zekavat, Seyed Alireza, Abdelkhalik, Ossama

“…In this paper, first, the transmission link budget from LEO and geostationary orbits to the Earth are compared, and the harvested energy by the ground station on the Earth is investigated. …”
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Distributed hierarchical control of AC microgrid operating in grid-connected, islanded and their transition modes by Hou, Xiaochao, Sun, Yao, Lu, Jinghang, Zhang, Xin, Koh, Leong Hai, Su, Mei, Guerrero, Josep M.

“…In addition, stability analysis is added to facilitate the control parameter designs, and substantial simulation cases are provided to validate the control feasibility, link-failure-resiliency, and plug-and-play capability.…”
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Functional homogeneity and specificity of topological modules in human proteome by Kaalia, Rama, Rajapakse, Jagath Chandana

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Oct4 switches partnering from Sox2 to Sox17 to reinterpret the enhancer code and specify endoderm by Ng, Calista Keow Leng, Herath, Wishva, Lili, Sun, Hutchins, Andrew P, Robson, Paul, Kolatkar, Prasanna R, Stanton, Lawrence W, Aksoy, Irene, Jauch, Ralf, Chen, Jiaxuan, Dyla, Mateusz, Divakar, Ushashree, Bogu, Gireesh K, Teo, Roy

“…This work provides insights in understanding cell fate transcriptional regulation by highlighting the direct link between the DNA sequence of an enhancer and a developmental outcome.…”
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