Measuring social desirability bias in a multi-ethnic cohort sample: its relationship with self-reported physical activity, dietary habits, and factor structure by Teh, Wen Lin, Abdin, Edimansyah, P. V., Asharani, Siva Kumar, Fiona Devi, Roystonn, Kumarasan, Wang, Peizhi, Shafie, Saleha, Chang, Sherilyn, Jeyagurunathan, Anitha, Vaingankar, Janhavi Ajit, Sum, Chee Fang, Lee, Eng Sing, van Dam, Rob M., Subramaniam, Mythily

“…Methods: Prior to the main analyses, confirmatory and exploratory factor analyses were conducted to determine the factorial validity of a western derived concept of social desirability. …”
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Removal of ciprofloxacin by anaerobic membrane bioreactor (AnMBR) and post-treatment of AnMBR effluent by Mai, Do Thi

“…Biological degradation was the main mechanism for removing CIP, with a few intermediate compounds detected, but when CIP was added to the feed at 4.7 ± 0.7 mg/L, the removal of CIP decreased to < 20%. …”
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Effectiveness of clinician client-centered counseling on knowledge, attitudes and sexual bahaviors of antiretroviral therapy patients in Yola, Nigeria by Martins, Olutayo Folashade

“…There was a significant main effect for time (F (2, 219) = 4.093, p = 0.020) for HIV status disclosure to spouse and/or sexual partners. …”
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Beginning IoT Projects : Breadboard-less Electronic Projects / by Bell, Charles, author 643171

“…There is also a short tutorial on programming each host; Arduino C-like sketches and Python scripts respectfully. Thus, the book also helps you get started with your choice of platform. …”

The Whole Picture : The colonial story of the art in our museums... and why we need to talk about it / by Procter, Alice, author 656024, Octopus (Online service) 656025

“…People are waking up to the seedy history of the world's art collections, and are starting to ask difficult questions about what the future of museums should look like. In The Whole Picture , art historian and Uncomfortable Art Tour guide Alice Procter provides a manual for deconstructing everything you thought you knew about art, and fills in the blanks with the stories that have been left out of the art history canon for centuries. …”
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How Stories Change Us : A Developmental Science of Stories from Fiction and Real Life / by Reese, Elaine, author 655966

“…Stories may even help future generations to cope with global issues like future pandemics and climate change"--…”
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21W.730-4 Writing and the Environment, Fall 2002 by Taft, Cynthia B.

“…We will consider the strategies of popular science writers like Lewis Thomas, David Quammen, John McPhee, and Ursula K. …”
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15.389 Global Entrepreneurship Lab, Fall 2002 by Locke, Richard M., 1959-, Murray, Fiona E., Johnson, Simon, Pentland, Alex Paul

“…We would like MIT Sloan to become the first place that global startups look for advice and help. …”
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Self-assembled structures using CABC multi-block copolymers by Zheng, Jie

“…Varying the lengths of A and C segments (varying the hydrophobicity), the assembly morphological change from spherical micelles to discs, toroids, oval toroids, and cage-like structures. I also crosslinked toroids and studied their size change below and above LCST with keeping the toroid structures.…”
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Microtissue-encapsulating devices for hypoxia reduction of cellular therapeutics in diabetes treatment by Chen, Yang

“…First, islet-like microtissues with varying geometries such as toroid, rod and spheroid were designed and fabricated using micromolded non-adhesive hydrogels where monodispersed rat insulinoma β cells assembled into microtissues. …”
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Public opinion trend analysis on nuclear energy via aspect-based sentiment analysis methods by Huang, Fan

“…As online social media platforms like Twitter prevail in recent years, many public ideas and opinions are generating and spreading around the virtual world every minute. …”
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Biocompatible ionic liquids in high-performing organic electrochemical transistors for ion detection and electrophysiological monitoring by Li, Ting, Koh, Cheryl Jie Yan, Moudgil, Akshay, Cao, Huan, Wu, Xihu, Chen, Shuai, Hou, Kunqi, Surendran, Abhijith, Stephen, Meera, Tang, Cindy, Wang, Chongwu, Wang, Qi Jie, Tay, Chor Yong, Leong, Wei Lin

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Investigation of digital twins and metaverse by Chow, Harry Yun Fatt

“…Currently, 73% of construction companies use BIM in their projects [5], and countries like the UK, USA, and Singapore have mandated the use of BIM in public sector projects [6]. …”
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Optical and optoelectronic properties of Si nanocrystals embedded in dielectric matrix by Ding, Liang

“…Visible and near infrared (IR) electroluminescence (EL) has been observed from a metal–oxide–semiconductor-like (MOS-like) structure with nc-Si embedded in the gate oxide. …”
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Sound event recognition in unstructured environments using spectrogram image processing by Dennis, Jonathan William

“…Although this field is traditionally overshadowed by the popular field of automatic speech recognition (ASR), an SER system that can achieve human-like sound recognition performance opens up a range of novel application areas. …”
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Electro spun dual structured and three-dimensional biodegradable scaffolds for bone and cartilage tissue engineering by Vidya Chamundeswari Narasimhan

“…Using a blend of hydrophobic and hydrophilic polymers, this mechanically viable, sponge-like 3D scaffold exhibited sufficiently large pores and enabled cell penetration beyond 500 μm. …”
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Understanding the justifications for food policies through political theory: a method for public policy analysis by Thomas, O

“…In response to this, states have gradually introduced policies to curb sugar consumption, ranging from restrictive interventions like bans, to high-agency interventions like awareness campaigns. …”

Acute inflammatory diseases of the central nervous system after SARS-CoV-2 vaccination by Francis, AG, Elhadd, K, Camera, V, Ferreira Dos Santos, M, Rocchi, C, Adib-Samii, P, Athwal, B, Attfield, K, Barritt, A, Craner, M, Fisniku, L, Iversen, AKN, Leach, O, Matthews, L, Redmond, I, O'Riordan, J, Scalfari, A, Tanasescu, R, Wren, D, Huda, S, Leite, MI, Fugger, L, Palace, J

“…MOGIgG+ patients presented most commonly with TM (10/12, 83%), frequently in combination with ADEM-like brain/brainstem lesions (6/12, 50%). Transverse myelitis was longitudinally extensive in 7 of the 10 patients. …”

Blockchain and federated learning for data sharing in vehicular network by Qiu, Stanley

“…A relatively new development in the field of machine learning, is the federated learning framework. It was mainly developed to preserve the privacy of data contributors in the process of collective machine learning training and data mining. …”
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Fabrication and characterisation of NiFe nanoparticles and nanowires. by Renuka Prasobhan.

“…Nanoparticles are widely researched upon mainly for its capability and potentials in biomedical applications, such as cancer therapy and as contrast agents in Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI). …”
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