Structure-activity relationships of photo-activated soft tissue Adhesive by Wicaksono, Gautama

“…Soft tissue fixation relies on mechanical means such as sutures, pins, and screws, with potential complications such as concentrated tissue damage, perforation, and the need for secondary surgeries. …”
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Discovery of a new predominant cytosine DNA modification that is linked to gene expression in malaria parasites by Hammam, Elie, Ananda, Guruprasad, Sinha, Ameya, Scheidig-Benatar, Christine, Bohec, Mylene, Preiser, Peter Rainer, Dedon, Peter C., Scherf, Artur, Vembar, Shruthi S.

“…Here, we report the first identification of a hydroxymethylcytosine-like (5hmC-like) modification in P. falciparum asexual blood stages using a suite of biochemical methods. …”
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READY PLAYER ONE / by Cline, Ernest, author 655943

“…Famine, poverty, and disease are widespread. Like most of humanity, Wade Watts escapes this depressing reality by spending his waking hours jacked into the OASIS, a sprawling virtual utopia where you can be anything you want to be, where you can live and play and fall in love on any of ten thousand planets. …”

Hedonic and non-hedonic bias toward the future by Greene, Preston, Latham, Andrew J., Miller, Kristie, Norton, James

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The ethics of silence : reading the lover's discourse in contemporary trauma narratives by Goh, Pei Hua

“…In Testimony, Felman and Laub contend that a historical and collective trauma like the Holocaust cannot be represented, and cannot be understood, because it lacks a frame of reference. …”
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Functional characterization of orexin system by Chua, Peiling

“…Orexin, which has been known to be involved in feeding and sleep-wake cycle, might have antidepressant-like effects. Researches indicate that depression might be associated with nucleus accumbens and its dopaminergic inputs from ventral tegmental area, which make up the mesolimbic dopamine system. …”
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Sound and smoke propagation models for virtual crowd environments by Vaisagh Viswanathan Thattamparambil

“…Virtual crowd simulations are important for various applications like defense, social studies, etc. While literature exists on agent design and sensor modeling, there is still no generic model for sound and smoke propagation that can be integrated into existing virtual crowd simulation frameworks. …”
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Behavioural and biochemical abnormalities in a mouse model for Parkinson's disease. by Ten, Rachel Rui Xian.

“…In addition to motor abilities, 2 and 4 months old LRRK2R1441G mice were tested in the elevated plus-maze for anxiety-like behaviour, and in the tail suspension test and forced swim test to assess depression-like behaviour. …”
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Allianz's success factors in the European market and their challenges faced in China. by Chin, Chee Meng., Koh, Teck Chee., Li, Heng., Saqlain Javed.

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Understanding the transition to adulthood of young Singaporeans living in university halls : a space and time analysis by Soh, Jan

“…Limited research in adolescent’s transition to adulthood in Singapore has motivated this study which hopes to contribute to works examining various life pathways within the sociology of life course. …”
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Navigating cognitive success (and failure): Cicero, Lucullus 66 by Reinhardt, T

“…The Academic’s way of navigating life, while being avowedly imperfect and fallible, emerges as entirely serviceable.…”

Thematic Analysis : A Practical Guide / by Braun, Virginia, author 541348, Clarke, Victoria (Associate Professor in Sexuality Studies), author 643784

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Multi-Agent cubature Kalman optimizer: A novel metaheuristic algorithm for solving numerical optimization problems by Zulkifli, Musa, Zuwairie, Ibrahim, Mohd Ibrahim, Shapiai

“…MACKO is evaluated on the CEC 2014 benchmark suite with 30 optimization problems, and its performance is compared with nine existing metaheuristic algorithms. Simulation results demonstrate that MACKO is superior, outperforming the benchmark algorithms, as indicated by Friedman's test with a 5 % significance level.…”
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Decarbonizing airport using solar and wind farm: A case of Biratnagar, Nepal by Yadav, Bharosh Kumar, Yadav, Ramhit, Jahangiri, Mehdi, Priya, S. Shanmuga, Bajracharya, Tri Ratna, Sudhakar, Kumarasamy

“…The combined 15 kW wind turbine-grid scenario is superior to the grid scenario for wind speeds of more than nine m/s and interest rates of less than 10 %. These findings increase airport authorities' and stakeholders' confidence in the investment in greener airports.…”
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Centering Patient and Clinician Voices in Developing Tools to Address Pain Related School Impairment: A Phase I Study of a Virtual Reality School Simulation for Children and Adoles... by Logan, Deirdre E., Khanna, Karina, Randall, Edin, O’Donnell, Shealyn, Reks, Talis, McLennan, Logan

“…These themes guided the development of our vRS prototype. Nine patients and eleven treating clinicians then engaged with the vRS prototype and provided feedback via semi-structured interviews and validated self-report measures. …”
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Inter-laboratory comparison of eleven quantitative or digital PCR assays for detection of proviral bovine leukemia virus in blood samples by Pluta, Aneta, Jaworski, Juan P., Droscha, Casey, VanderWeele, Sophie, Taxis, Tasia M., Valas, Stephen, Brnić, Dragan, Jungić, Andreja, Ruano, María J., Sánchez, Azucena, Murakami, Kenji, Nakamura, Kurumi, Puentes, Rodrigo, De Brun, MLaureana

“…DNA samples were extracted from blood of BLV-seropositive cattle and lyophilized to grant a better preservation during shipping to all participants around the globe. Twenty nine out of 44 samples were correctly identified by the 11 labs and all methods exhibited a diagnostic sensitivity between 74 and 100%. …”
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Rotator cuff tendons of the shoulder joint : anatomy and investigation of strain profile by Sheng, Jia-Min

“…The objective of this project is to investigate the effect of arm positions, tendon tears and surgical repair on the strain profile of the rotator cuff tendons. Nine fresh-frozen shoulders were tested using displacement variable reluctance transducers (DVRTs) to measure the strains of the supraspinatus, infraspinatus and subscapularis tendons simultaneously with the glenohumeral joint intact at various arm positions. …”
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Spoofing detection from a feature representation perspective by Tian, Xiaohai, Wu, Zhizheg, Xiao, Xiong, Chng, Eng Siong, Li, Haizhou

“…A fusion of them has been shown to achieve 0.0% the equal error rates for nine of ten attack types.…”
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Subretinal timrepigene emparvovec in adult men with choroideremia: a randomized phase 3 trial by MacLaren, RE, Fischer, MD, Gow, JA, Lam, BL, Sankila, E-MK, Girach, A, Panda, S, Yoon, D, Zhao, G, Pennesi, ME

“…In a key secondary endpoint, nine of 65 (14%), six of 35 (18%) and one of 62 (2%) participants in the high-dose, low-dose and control groups, respectively, experienced ≥10-letter ETDRS improvement from baseline BCVA at 12 months. …”

Identification of Southeast Asian Anopheles mosquito species with matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry using a cross-correlation approach by Chaumeau, V, Sawasdichai, S, Min, TZMMM, Kularbkeeree, T, Jaruwan, N, Gloria, N, Lee, NY, Trackoolchengkaew, M, Phanaphadungtham, M, Rongthong, P, Inta, A, Watthanaworawit, W, Nosten, F

“…A subset of 403 specimens was selected for inclusion in either the reference or the test panel (270 and 133 specimens, respectively). Three hundred fifty-nine specimens could be identified with DNA barcodes and were assigned to 21 sensu stricto species and five sibling species pairs or complexes. …”