From phosphate to refugees: the offshore refugee boom in the Republic of Nauru by Morris, J

“…</p> <p>In the first part of the dissertation, I put together my theoretical framework, detailing the global industrial assemblage that has led the refugee to become so heavily saturated within daily life. Nauru’s supply chain is entangled in the political potency of Australian consumer scares. …”

Psychiatric comorbidities in persons with epilepsy compared with persons without epilepsy: a systematic review and meta-analysis by Kwon, C-S, Rafati, A, Ottman, R, Christensen, J, Kanner, AM, Jetté, N, Newton, CR

“…This, in turn, underscores the need for appropriately identifying and treating psychiatric comorbidity in epilepsy to manage patients effectively and improve quality of life.</p>…”

Prevalence and risk factors of long covid and its associated adverse work outcomes among workers in the manufacturing sector in Malaysia – a mixed-methods study protocol by Mohd Yusoff, Hanizah, Che Mohamed, Norfariha, Yew, Sheng Qian, Mohammed Nawi, Azmawati, Rashidah Ismail, Ohnmar Htwe, Mohd Tohit, Noorlaili, Mohamed, Zuraida, Muhamad Noordin, Muhamad Ariff, Mohd, Fazlin Hazirah, Shariff, Mohammad Izzat Akmal, Shaharum, Muaz Haqim, Abd. Rahman, Anita, Dapari, Rahmat

“…This is further exacerbated by Long COVID-19 symptoms among the manufacturing workers, which are proven to influence work performance and quality of life. Of note, there is currently a lack of knowledge regarding the burden of Long COVID-19 in the Malaysian manufacturing sector. …”
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Xunzi's concern for yu (desire) and ritual approaches for its moral transformation by Zhou,Yalin

“…One’s pleasure-based liking is not merely painted by joy but a configuration of the more variable affective experiences, including the feeling of an 安 (security; at ease) and the feeling of comfort in fortunes and anxiety in misfortunes, and involves the higher and lower pleasures; and the potent force of wanting is normatively grounded in the general goal of living a truly happy life. …”
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Distribution and risk factors of canine heart diseases and survey for owners treatment intention by Noordin, Norhidayah

“…Small breed dogs (OR: 3.95,p <0.001) were more likely affected by the disease compared with other breed sizes. …”
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Nanoscale Origins of Thermal Transport Phenomena for Hybrid Layered Perovskites by Dahod, Nabeel S.

“…This probe identifies the persistence of bulk-like phonons even in the atomically thin 2D LHPs, in addition to identifying coherent acoustic phonons in lead iodide 2D LHPs potentially capable of carrying thermal energy across the organic-inorganic interfaces without scattering. …”
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Exploring the utility of silane cross-linkers for synthesis of superhydrophobic antibacterial fabrics by Agrawal, Neha

“…Functionalization of the textiles with additional properties like superhydrophobicity and antibacterial activity can greatly improve their performance, especially in clothing and healthcare sectors. …”
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Enantiomeric glycosylated cationic block co-beta-peptides eradicate Staphylococcus aureus biofilms and antibiotic-tolerant persisters by Zhang, Kaixi, Du, Yu, Si, Zhangyong, Liu, Yang, Turvey, Michelle E., Raju, Cheerlavancha, Keogh, Damien, Ruan, Lin, Jothy, Subramanion Lachumy, Reghu, Sheethal, Marimuthu, Kalisvar, De, Partha Pratim, Ng, Oon Tek, Mediavilla, José R., Kreiswirth, Barry N., Chi, Robin Yonggui, Ren, Jinghua, Tam, Kam C., Liu, Xue-Wei, Duan, Hongwei, Zhu, Yabin, Mu, Yuguang, Hammond, Paula T., Bazan, Guillermo C., Pethe, Kevin, Chan-Park, Mary Bee Eng

“…The copolymer displays bacteria-activated surfactant-like properties, resulting from contact with the bacterial envelope. …”
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Postprandial glucose, insulin and incretin responses differ by test meal macronutrient ingestion sequence (pattern study) by Sun, Lijuan, Goh, Hui Jen, Govindharajulu, Priya, Leow, Melvin Khee-Shing, Henry, Christiani Jeyakumar

“…Results: There were significant food intake sequence × time interaction effects on plasma glucose, insulin, glucose-dependent insulinotropic polypeptide (GIP) and glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) concentrations (P < 0.001). …”
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A general method for the synthesis of hybrid nanostructures using MoSe2 nanosheet-assembled nanospheres as templates by Han, Shikui, Zhou, Kai, Yu, Yifu, Tan, Chaoliang, Chen, Junze, Huang, Ying, Ma, Qinglang, Chen, Ye, Cheng, Hongfei, Zhou, Weijia, Zhang, Hua

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Towards automated damage detection for in-situ remanufacturing by Nguyen, Keith Wei Liang

“…Remanufacturing is the restoration of used products to a like-new condition, with warranty matching the original product. …”
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Sequence- and structure-specific probing of RNAs by short nucleobase-modified dsRNA-binding PNAs incorporating a fluorescent light-up uracil analog by Krishna, Manchugondanahalli Shivakumar, Toh, Desiree-Faye Kaixin, Meng, Zhenyu, Ong, Alan Ann Lerk, Wang, Zhenzhang, Lu, Yunpeng, Xia, Kelin, Prabakaran, Mookkan, Chen, Gang

“…Compared to DNA and RNA, peptide nucleic acids (PNAs) are chemically stable and have a neutral peptide-like backbone, and thus, they show significantly enhanced binding to natural nucleic acids. …”
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Two-step machine learning enables optimized nanoparticle synthesis by Mekki-Berrada, Flore, Ren, Zekun, Huang, Tan, Wong, Wai Kuan, Zheng, Fang, Xie, Jiaxun, Tian, Isaac Parker Siyu, Jayavelu, Senthilnath, Mahfoud, Zackaria, Bash, Daniil, Hippalgaonkar, Kedar, Khan, Saif, Buonassisi, Tonio, Li, Qianxiao, Wang, Xiaonan

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A rapid CRISPR competitive assay for in vitro and in vivo discovery of potential drug targets affecting the hematopoietic system by Shen, Yunbing, Jiang, Long, Iyer, Vaishnavi Srinivasan, Raposo, Bruno, Dubnovitsky, Anatoly, Boddul, Sanjaykumar V., Kasza, Zsolt, Wermeling, Fredrik

“…As proof of principle, we present examples studying various aspects related to hematopoietic cells (T cell development in vivo and activation in vitro, differentiation of macrophages and dendritic cells, as well as a leukemia-like phenotype induced by overexpressing a proto-oncogene). …”
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Strain-relaxed GeSn-on-insulator (GeSnOI) microdisks by Burt, Daniel, Joo, Hyo-Jun, Jung, Yongduck, Kim, Youngmin, Chen, Melvina, Huang, Yi-Chiau, Nam, Donguk

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Hodge theory and its applications to molecular data analysis by Koh, Ronald Joon Wei

“…Furthermore, disruption of TAD boundaries are associated with several diseases like cancer. Nevertheless, there are currently many methods to call TADs, all of which are not based on a rigorous topological mathematical model. …”
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Whence came these plants most foul? Phylogenomics and biogeography of Lowiaceae (Zingiberales) by Niissalo, Matti A., Gardner, Elliot M., Khew, Gillian S., Šída, Otakar, Poulsen, Axel Dalberg, Leong-Škornicková, Jana

“…They are known for possessing orchid-like flowers that are smelly, apparently mimicking dead animals, feces, or mushrooms. …”
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Lithium-doped two-dimensional perovskite scintillator for wide-range radiation detection by Xie, Aozhen, Hettiarachchi, Chathuranga, Maddalena, Francesco, Witkowski, Marcin E., Makowski, Michal, Drozdowski, Winicjusz, Arramel, Arramel, Wee, Andrew T. S., Springham, Stuart Victor, Vuong, Phan Quoc, Kim, Hong Joo, Dujardin, Christophe, Coquet, Philippe, Birowosuto, Muhammad Danang, Dang, Cuong

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Development of an application to improve mental health (A) by Khor, Chin Yi

“…Generally, most of these applications present features that offer ways to stay engaged with the user, like daily reminders, feelings trackers, abundant learning materials, and search for therapists and treatments via the apps. …”
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Lead federated neuromorphic learning for wireless edge artificial intelligence by Yang, Helin, Lam, Kwok-Yan, Xiao, Liang, Xiong, Zehui, Hu, Hao, Niyato, Dusit, Poor, H. Vincent

“…The proposed technique will enable edge devices to exploit brain-like biophysiological structure to collaboratively train a global model while helping preserve privacy. …”
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