Assessment of arterial stiffness via arterial pulse waveform by See, Clement Wei Xian.

“…The conclusion of the project acknowledges that in spite of the improvement in the accuracy of the results this project had set out to achieve, due to certain limitations which are further elaborated on in the final chapter, there is still potential for further accuracy in the study of the arterial pulse waveforms. …”
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Terrorism and Violent Extremism in North-Eastern Nigeria: Toward a Model of Radicalization of the Almajiri Cohort by Usman, Abbo, Mohd. Zain, Zawiyah, Ali, Salim Ibrahim

“…Despite the existence of a voluminous studies on Radicalization and violent Extremism the concept is still new within the Nigerian context, as there is absence of empirical model explaining the why and how of the African version of Radicalization, in spite of the increasing surge of insurgency and terrorist related activities in the continent. …”
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Investigating novel drug delivery systems to enhance tissue regeneration in the central nervous system by Lin, Vincent Po Hen

“…In this review, the development of injectable hydrogels in stroke and spinal cord injury treatment, focusing on the cellular response and tissue integration, was discussed.…”
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Living with fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva: radiological images of a patient with extensive heterotopic ossification by Mohammed Mostafa Kotb, Omar, Usama Farghaly, Kaliya-Perumal, Arun-Kumar

“…Here, we present the radiological findings of an 18-year-old female diagnosed with FOP who had severe spinal and right-upper-limb abnormalities. Her SF-36 scores suggested significant impairment in physical function, affecting work and other regular daily activities. …”
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Investigating the adoption of MOOCs : a technology-user-environment perspective by Ma, Long, Lee, Chei Sian

“…In spite of the potentials promised by MOOCs (massive open online courses), the adoption rate of MOOCs is still low, especially in developing countries. …”
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Fatigue investigations on steel pipeline containing 3D coplanar and non-coplanar cracks by Xiao, Zhongmin, Zhang, Wengang, Zhang, Yanmei, Fan, Mu

“…Fluctuated loadings from currents, waves and sea ground motions are observed on offshore steel pipelines, and they will result in small cracks to propagate continuously and cause unexpected damage to offshore/geotechnical infrastructures. In spite of the availability of efficient techniques and high-power computers for solving crack problems, investigations on the fatigue life of offshore pipelines with 3D interacting cracks are still rarely found in open literature. …”
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Accumulated decoupled learning with gradient staleness mitigation for convolutional neural networks by Zhuang, Huiping, Weng, Zhenyu, Luo, Fulin, Toh, Kar-Ann, Li, Haizhou, Lin, Zhiping

“…As a new learning scheme, the proposed ADL is theoretically shown to converge to critical points in spite of its asynchronism. Extensive experiments on CIFAR-10 and ImageNet datasets are conducted, demonstrating that ADL gives promising generalization results while the state-of-theart methods experience reduced generalization and divergence. …”
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Dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model in international finance : inflation inertia in a small open economy model by Teo, Jansen Tiu.

“…Traditionally, the foundation of the NKPC is the Calvo sticky price model. In spite of being widely used, the Calvo sticky price model has several flaws. …”
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Egg development, hatching, and larval development of Marble Goby Oxyeleotris marmoratus under artificial rearing conditions by Senoo, Shigeharu, Kaneko, Masaharu, Cheah, Sin Hock, Ang, Kok Jee

“…All embryonic heads were located at the basal part of the egg and this was taken as normal egg development for O. marmoratus. In spite of their well-developed eyes and mouths, and the fact that they exhibited the active S-posture, the larvae did not feed on artificial powdered feed or Brachionus spp. for 4--6 days (d) AF, and the mortality before the feeding of Brachionus spp. was much higher than that of the later stages. …”
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Finite element analysis on post-buckling of thin-walled structures using ANSYS by Theint, Yi Mon

“…The results obtained were checked against experimental data and led to the development and the revision of design procedures for the pin-ended lipped column and hollow box section.…”
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Driving mechanism development for autonomous hospital bed by Tan, Jia Liang

“…Demand is foreseen to spike and a range of healthcare services that range from acute to community care is necessary for a holistic healthcare system. …”
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Efficient position decoding methods based on fluorescence calcium imaging in the mouse hippocampus by Tu, Mengyu, Zhao, Ruohe, Adler, Avital, Gan, Wen-Biao, Chen, Zhe S.

“…Here, we develop an efficient strategy to extract features from fluorescence calcium imaging traces and further decode the animal's position. We validate our spike inference-free decoding methods in multiple in vivo calcium imaging recordings of the mouse hippocampus based on both supervised and unsupervised decoding analyses. …”
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Electrolyte-gated neuromorphic transistors for brain-like dynamic computing by He, Yongli, Jiang, Shanshan, Chen, Chunsheng, Wan, Changjin, Shi, Yi, Wan, Qing

“…Particularly, dynamics play an essential role in neural spike information processing. Here, we offer a brief review and perspective in the field of electrolyte-gated neuromorphic transistors for brain-like dynamic computing. …”
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Design and Implementation of Active Antennas for IoT-Based Healthcare Monitoring System by MUSA, UMAR, MOHD SHAH, SHAHARIL, A. MAJID, HUDA, AHMAD MAHADI, ISMAIL, A. RAHIM, MOHAMAD KAMAL, YAHYA, MUHAMMAD SANI, ZAINAL ABIDIN, ZUHAIRIAH

“…Two dual-band (2.4 GHz and 5.8 GHz) microstrip patch antennas, one with a PIN diode and one without, are fabricated using Rogers Duroid RO3003™ substrate. …”
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Design and Implementation of Active Antennas for IoT-Based Healthcare Monitoring System by MUSA, UMAR, MOHD SHAH, SHAHARIL, A. MAJID, HUDA, MAHADI, ISMAIL AHMAD, A. RAHIM, MOHAMAD KAMAL, YAHYA, MUHAMMAD SANI, ZAINAL ABIDIN, ZUHAIRIAH

“…Two dual-band (2.4 GHz and 5.8 GHz) microstrip patch antennas, one with a PIN diode and one without, are fabricated using Rogers Duroid RO3003™ substrate. …”
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Evaluation of population immunity against SARS-CoV-2 variants, EG.5.1, FY.4, BA.2.86, JN.1, JN.1.4, and KP.3.1.1 using samples from two health demographic surveillance systems in K... by Lugano, D, Kutima, B, Kimani, M, Sigilai, A, Gitonga, J, Karani, A, Akech, D, Karia, B, Ziraba, AK, Maina, A, Lambisia, A, Omuoyo, D, Mugo, D, Lucinde, R, Owuor, S, Konyino, G, Newman, J, Bailey, D, Nduati, E, Githinji, G, Agoti, CN, Bejon, P, Scott, JAG, Agweyu, A, Warimwe, GM

“…The majority of these mutations mainly target the spike protein, allowing the new variants to escape the immunity previously raised by vaccination and/or infection by earlier variants of SARS-CoV-2. …”

An immunoinformatic approach for identifying and designing conserved multi-epitope vaccines for coronaviruses by Ong, Yu Chuan, Tejo, Bimo Ario, Yap, Wei Boon

“…Methods: This study utilized an immunoinformatic approach to identify evolutionarily conserved CD4+ (HTL) and CD8+ (CTL) T cells, and B-cell epitopes in the coronaviral spike (S) glycoprotein. Results: A total of 132 epitopes were identified, with the majority of them found to be conserved across the bat CoVs, pangolin CoVs, endemic coronaviruses, SARS-CoV-2, and Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV). …”
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Skeletal myotubes expressing ALS mutant SOD1 induce pathogenic changes, impair mitochondrial axonal transport, and trigger motoneuron death by Martínez, Pablo, Silva, Mónica, Abarzúa, Sebastián, Tevy, María F., Jaimovich, Enrique, Constantine-Paton, Martha, Bustos, Fernando J., van Zundert, Brigitte

“…We report that conditioned media from mutSOD1 myotubes (mutSOD1-MCM), but not from control myotubes (NTg-MCM), induced robust death of primary MNs in mixed spinal cord cultures and compartmentalized microfluidic chambers. …”
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Improved virtual keyboard design for P300-based brain-computer interface by Tay, Abel Ping Liang.

“…Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), brainstem stroke, brain or spinal cord injury, cerebral palsy, muscular dystrophies, multiple sclerosis, and numerous other diseases impair the neural pathways that control muscles or impair the muscles themselves. …”
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Stress analysis and stress intensity factor computation of DNV X65 pipes subjected to four point bending by Lee, Shaun Raphael Kwok Yuen

“…The upside of these high-pressure pipelines that are buried deep underground is the volume that it carries yearly and the design for safety in transportation compared to rail and road tanks. In spite of the high standards and regulations in place to ensure safe and secure pipelines, oil pipeline spills still amount to about a gallon per million barrel-miles, a figure drawn from the USA Association of Oil pipelines. …”
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