Effect of heat-producing needling technique on the local skin temperature : clinical dataset by Liao, Zehuan, Zhao, Yan

“…Within each session, the local ST36 skin temperature and basal body temperature of each participant were measured at 1 min before needle insertion, just after needle insertion and manipulation (if any), 5 min after needle insertion with needle removal immediately after temperature taking, and 5 min after needle removal. …”
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A comparison of gravity-driven membrane (GDM) reactor and biofiltration + GDM reactor for seawater reverse osmosis desalination pretreatment by Lee, Seonki, Suwarno, Stanislaus Raditya, Quek, Bryan Wei Hong, Kim, Lanhee, Wu, Bing, Chong, Tzyy Haur

“…The cost analysis indicated that BF + GDM-RO requires 5.2% less operating cost and 1.5% less water production cost than GDM-RO.…”
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An evaluation of inhaled antibiotic liposome versus antibiotic nanoplex in controlling infection in bronchiectasis by Tran, The-Thien, Yu, Hong, Vidaillac, Celine, Lim, Albert Y. H., Abisheganaden, John A., Chotirmall, Sanjay Haresh, Hadinoto, Kunn

“…The CIP liposome, however, possessed much lower CIP payload than the nanoplex (84% versus 3.5%), resulting in high lipid contents in its DPI formulation that led to higher cytotoxicity and lower aerosolization efficiency. …”
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Double‐shelled nanostructure of SnO2@C tube‐in‐SnO2@C tube boosts lithium‐ion storage by Tian, Qinghua, Zhang, Feng, Yang, Li, Chen, Peng

“…More importantly, the as-prepared SnO 2 @C DHNWs show outstanding electrochemical performance as a lithium-ion battery anode, that is, 774.5 and 462.5 mAh g −1 are retained at 200 and 1000 mA g −1 after 450 and even 1000 cycles, respectively, demonstrating high capacity, long lifespan, and good rate performances. …”
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Generating domain-specific paraphrases of questions from FAQ by Ng, Jing Rui

“…Firstly, T5 is used to fine-tune on the paraphrase dataset for the task of paraphrase generation. …”
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Development of an ultrasonic decellularization process for porcine oesophagus by Toh, Amoz Jin Kai

“…Through the use of 0.2% Sodium dodecyl sulphate (SDS) solution and the method of perfusion of about 147.5 µl/min, the processed oesophagi are often fully decellularized within 4 to 5 days to produce the scaffolds. …”
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Ultrafast diffusive cross-sheet motion of lithium through antimonene with a 2+1 dimensional kinetics by Kistanov, Andrey A., Kripalani, Devesh Raju, Cai, Yongqing, Dmitriev, Sergey V., Zhou, Kun, Zhang, Yong-Wei

“…Specifically, our first-principles calculations combined with discrete geometry analysis revealed that the energy barrier for a lithium atom to diffuse across the antimonene sheet is as low as 0.36 eV, which can be further reduced to 0.18 eV under a tensile strain of 4%. …”
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Modulation of instagram number of followings by avoidance in close relationships in young adults under a gene x environment perspective by Bonassi, Andrea, Carollo, Alessandro, Cataldo, Ilaria, Gabrieli, Giulio, Tandiono, Moses, Foo, Jia Nee, Lepri, Bruno, Esposito, Gianluca

“…Genotypes from the 5-HTTLPR/rs25531 region were extracted from the users’ buccal mucosa and analyzed. …”
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2D Cairo pentagonal PdPS : air-stable anisotropic ternary semiconductor with high optoelectronic performance by Duan, Ruihuan, He, Yanchao, Zhu, Chao, Wang, Xiaowei, Zhu, Chao, Zhao, Xiaoxu, Zhang, Zhonghan, Zeng, Qingsheng, Deng, Ya, Xu, Manzhang, Liu, Zheng

“…Notably, 2D pentaPdPS exhibits outstanding electronic and optoelectronic performance under 650 nm laser: high electron mobility of ≈208 cm2 V−1 s−1, an ultrahigh on/off ratio of ≈108, a high photoresponsivity of 5.2 × 104 A W−1, a high photogain of 1.0 × 105, an ultrahigh detectivity of 1.0 × 1013 Jones, respectively. …”
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High mobility 3D Dirac semimetal (Cd₃As₂) for ultrafast photoactive terahertz photonics by Dai, Zijie, Manjappa, Manukumara, Yang, Yunkun, Tan, Thomas CaiWei, Qiang, Bo, Han, Song, Wong, Liang Jie, Xiu, Faxian, Liu, Weiwei, Singh, Ranjan

“…In addition, optical fluence dependent ultrafast charge carrier relaxation (15.5 ps), terahertz mobility, and long momentum scattering time (157 fs) comparable to superconductors that invoke kinetic inductance at terahertz frequencies are demonstrated. …”
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Enhancing the mechanical strength of Multi Jet Fusion–printed polyamide 12 and its glass fiber-reinforced composite via high-temperature annealing by Liu, Xiaojiang, Tey, Wei Shian, Choo, Jasper Yeng Chee, Chen, Jiayao, Tan, Pengfei, Cai, Chao, Ong, Adrian, Zhao, Lihua, Zhou, Kun

“…Moreover, the melting temperatures of both PA12 and GF/PA12 specimens are increased by more than 5 °C after the annealing process. Further experimental results reveal that the crystallinity increase is the primary enhancement mechanism of the high-temperature annealing. …”
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Microalgal-bacterial granular sludge for municipal wastewater treatment under simulated natural diel cycles: performances-metabolic pathways-microbial community nexus by Ji, Bin, Wang, Shulian, Silva, Mahamalage Rochelle Udani, Zhang, Meng, Liu, Yu

“…It was found that about 94.9% of organics, 69.5% of ammonia-N and 90.6% of phosphate-P could be removed on average over a day-night cycle at a shorter hydraulic retention time of 2 h in the daytime, while 93.1% of organics, 62.5% of ammonia-N and 80.8% of phosphate-P removed at a hydraulic retention time of 4 h during the nighttime. …”
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Impact of innovation on performance of shipping companies in Singapore by Nah, Laura Yan Ling

“…Singapore’s maritime industry contributes approximately 7% of her GDP and employs over 100,000 people in more than 5,000 different establishments from various sectors of the industry. …”
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Continuous, high-throughput production of artemisinin-loaded supramolecular cochleates using simple off-the-shelf flow focusing device by Shuddhodana, Wong, Kathy Pooi Wen, Judeh, Zaher

“…The device achieved high throughput of 11.5 g/day with ART encapsulation of 64.24 ± 2.5% and loading of 83.37 ± 3.68 mg ART/g of cochleates. …”
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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

“…Our 1:1 Li-doped (PEA)2PbBr4 demonstrates a fast decay time of 11 ns (80%), a clear photopeak with an energy resolution of 12.4%, and a scintillation yield of 11,000 photons per MeV under 662 keV gamma-ray radiation. Additionally, our Li-doped crystal shows a clear alpha particle/gamma-ray discrimination and promising thermal neutron detection through 6Li enrichment. …”
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Exciton polariton interactions in Van der Waals superlattices at room temperature by Zhao, Jiaxin, Fieramosca, Antonio, Dini, Kevin, Bao, Ruiqi, Du, Wei, Su, Rui, Luo, Yuan, Zhao, Weijie, Sanvitto, Daniele, Liew, Timothy Chi Hin, Xiong, Qihua

“…The vacuum Rabi splitting is enhanced from 36 meV for one monolayer up to 72 meV for the four-monolayer microcavity. …”
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A porous TiC supported nanostructured complex metal oxide ceramic electrode for oxygen evolution reaction by Yang, Jianye, Wu, Kai, Li, Xing, Wang, Xuejiao, Pi, Guangguang, Fang, Wei, Yan, Qingyu

“…The optimal SFNMO/TiC electrode requires a stable overpotential of ∼380 mV to achieve a current density of 30 mA cm−2 within 20 h of operation. …”
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Prevalence of lumbosacral transition vertebrae in symptomatic adults and the levels of degeneration in the suprajacent disc by Song, Joshua, Betzler, Brjan Kaiji, Kaliya-Perumal, Arun-Kumar, Oh, Jacob Yoong-Leong

“…LSTV was found to be present in 106 patients (19.4%) with sacralization of L5 and lumbarization of S1 occurring in 96 patients (17.6%) and 10 patients (1.8%), respectively. …”
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High-entropy spinel oxides for water oxidation: surface entropy evolution and activity promotion by Wang, Jiarui, Sun, Shengnan, Xi, Shibo, Sun, Yuanmiao, Ong, Samuel Jun Hoong, Seh, Zhi Wei, Xu, Jason Zhichuan

“…The formation of a completely new metal (oxy)hydroxide Zn2Cr1.5Mn2Fe1Co2Ni1.5OxHy is observed at the surface, leading to an increase in surface entropy over the pristine spinel HEOs. …”
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An experimental investigation of MobileNet SSD on fabric defect detection by Zhou, Wei

“…This study presents an investigation into improving fabric defect detection using MobileNetV2 SSD as the baseline model and exploring various existing methods to further enhance performance. …”
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