Septic patients with cancer : do prehospital antibiotics improve survival? A sub-analysis of the PHANTASi trial by Panday, Rishi Nannan, Wang, S., Schermer, E. H., Cooksley, T., Alam, N., Nanayakkara, P. W. B.

“…Results: 357(13.4%) of the 2658 included patients had cancer in the past five years, of which, 209 (58.5%) were included in the intervention and 148 (41.5%) usual care groups; 28-day mortality was significantly higher in patients who were diagnosed with cancer in the past five years than those without cancer in the past five years: 15.2% vs. 7.1%, respectively (p < 0.001). …”
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Neotropical understory birds and mammals show divergent behaviour responses to human pressure by Negret, Pablo Jose, Luskin, Mathew Scott, Gomez-Valencia, Bibiana, Diaz-Pulido, Angelica, Romero, Luis Hernando, Restrepo, Adriana, Zaehringer, Julie G., Jones, Kendall R., Ochoa-Quintero, Jose Manuel, Mendes, Calebe Pereira

“…We found that diel activity significantly changed with higher human pressure for 45% of the birds (five species) and 36% of the mammals (five species) assessed, with four of five birds becoming more diurnal and all five mammals becoming more nocturnal. …”
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Co-designing the implementation of a rural health systems-strengthening rheumatic heart disease program with remote First Nations Australian communities using Theory of Change by Jones, B, Mitchell, A, Haynes, E, Howard, NJ, Wade, V, Pears, C, Rossingh, B, Gatti, J, Ramadani, S, Corpus, E, Yan, J, Marangou, J, Kaethner, A, Bailey, M, Francis, JR, English, M, Nagraj, S

“…Methods: A qualitative study using a Theory of Change approach and ‘yarning’ methods, was conducted with five remote First Nations Australian communities. …”

CLT for linear spectral statistics of normalized sample covariance matrices with the dimension much larger than the sample size by Chen, Binbin, Pan, Guangming

“…Let A = 1/√np(XT X−pIn) where X is a p×n matrix, consisting of independent and identically distributed (i.i.d.) real random variables Xij with mean zero and variance one. …”
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3D modelling using digital camera by Chong, Yeow Koon.

“…Some other trial targets that we have done includes fire station, NTU N2 building and a three pin plug. More details will be covered in chapter 2 of this report.…”
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NTU e-bike by Zeng, Wei

“…To support the touchscreen, the expansion board pin configurations are modified according to the schematic connections, also the kernel changed to detect the GPS device, the Éclair system can‟t get GPS information directly since a hardware abstraction layer (HAL) is needed for interacting between the Android framework and the kernel. …”
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Active queue management of multimedia flows over ATM networks by Zhang, Hong

“…The simulation results have confirmed that the CBT can protect the TCP connections from starvation by "aggressive" or non-responsive UDP applications and reserve the link capacity for UDP that requires continuous transmission. …”
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Investigation of the effects of distributed propulsion over a flying body by Lee, Ann

“…This project investigates the technique applied on a wing model. The effects of three parameters, namely rotational direction of propellers, total power output, and number of propellers were explored. …”
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Exploring the extension of firefox to support trusted login through browser by Huang, Jun Hao.

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Design and develop an ornithopter by Wahyu Benardo Fanthony

“…Animal in other hand has unique style; bird for example is able to flying by flapping the wings. It is very interesting way to perform flight. …”
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Potential of serum in creation of small-diameter vascular graft by Lim, Wee Keng

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Understanding Environmental Knowledge Sharing Behaviour Using a Modified Theory of Planned Behaviour (S/O 13603) by Muhammad Jamil, Che Zuriana, Mohamed, Rapiah, Abd Mutalib, Hafizah

“…The objective of the study is to identify factors that influence the intention to share environmental knowledge among accounting educators and students at the universities level in Malaysia in order to improve their involvement on sustainable development process, thus, can lead to knowledge and responsibility sharing. Five (5) universities were chosen as sample, representing the five (5) regions; UUM, UITM, UTM, UMT and UMS. …”
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Analysis of the knowledge export industry : exploration of the management education market in China. by Fu, Xiao Fang., Tan, James., Parthasarathi Sathya Veerappan.

“…This study is organized into five sections. The first section examines the evolution of Internationalization of Management Education and the factors impending the evolution and the resultant variant process of Internationalization of Management Education. …”
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A fundamental relation between phase and group velocity, and application to the failure of perfectly matched layers in backward-wave structures by Loh, Po-Ru, Skorobogatiy, Maksim, Oskooi, Ardavan, Johnson, Steven

“…http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevE.79.065601…”
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Communication of sex-related messages and the third-person effect amongst college students in Singapore. by Lim, Yan Wen., Ong, Natalynn Shu Lin.

“…This study examined the prevalence of the third-person perceptual gap amongst college students in Singapore, with regards to sex-related messages in mass media and interpersonal communication. The behavioral link, which is the likelihood of engaging in risky sexual behavior, was tested as well. …”
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Distributed wavelength provisioning in WDM optical networks by Liu, Jian

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Application of RFID by Kerk, Poh Keong.

“…Also, we will talk about the use of UDR 6061 RFID Desktop Reader together with Microsoft Visual Basic .Net 2005 by creating custom Dynamic Link Library (DLL) file.…”
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A Mitochondrial Basis for Heart Failure Progression by Watson, WD, Arvidsson, PM, Miller, JJJ, Lewis, AJ, Rider, OJ

“…This review aims to examine the mechanisms and pathologies that link increased energy demand to this disrupted situation. …”

Criminality in patients with autoimmune encephalitis: a case series by Michael, S, Varley, J, Williams, R, Bajorek, T, Easton, A, Irani, SR

“…All five were adult males, with LGI1 autoantibodies (n = 3), CASPR2 autoantibodies, or seronegative AE. …”

The scientific study of consciousness cannot and should not be morally neutral by Mazor, M, Brown, S, Ciaunica, A, Demertzi, A, Fahrenfort, J, Faivre, N, Francken, JC, Lamy, D, Lenggenhager, B, Moutoussis, M, Nizzi, M-C, Salomon, R, Soto, D, Stein, T, Lubianiker, N

“…Considering the tight link between consciousness and moral status, answers to these questions have implications for law and ethics. …”