The impact of photopigment bleaching on the human rod photoreceptor subretinal space measured via optical coherence tomography by Messner, Alina, Dos Santos, Valentin Aranha, Puchner, Stefan, Stegmann, Hannes, Schlatter, Andreas, Schmidl, Doreen, Leitgeb, Rainer, Schmetterer, Leopold, Werkmeister, René M.

“…The optical path length of the rod photoreceptor subretinal space (SRS), that is, the distance between signal bands of rod outer segment tips and retinal pigment epithelium, was measured in 15 healthy subjects in ambient light and during a long-duration bleaching white-light exposure. RESULTS. …”
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Electronic cigarette use and chest pain in US adults: evidence from the PATH study by Behrooz, Leili, Xie, Wubin, Goghari, Aboli, Robertson, Rosemarie, Bhatnagar, Aruni, Stokes, Andrew, Hamburg, Naomi M.

“…Although e-cigarettes contain fewer toxins than combustible cigarettes, their long-term cardiovascular and pulmonary effects remain unknown. …”
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A tandem-locked chemiluminescent probe for imaging of tumor-associated macrophage polarization by Huang, Jingsheng, Xu, Mengke, Cheng, Penghui, Yu, Jie, Wu, Jiayan, Pu, Kanyi

“…Through a combined molecular engineering approach via both atomic alternation and introduction of electron-withdrawing groups, near-infrared (NIR) chemiluminophores are screened out to possess record-long emission (over 800 nm), record-high CL quantum yield (2.7 % einstein/mol), and prolonged half-life (7.7 h). …”
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GTG-shapley: efficient and accurate participant contribution evaluation in federated learning by Liu, Zelei, Chen, Yuanyuan, Yu, Han, Liu, Yang, Cui, Lizhen

“…Federated Learning (FL) bridges the gap between collaborative machine learning and preserving data privacy. To sustain the long-term operation of an FL ecosystem, it is important to attract high-quality data owners with appropriate incentive schemes. …”
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Urban region representation learning with human trajectories: a multi-view approach incorporating transition, spatial, and temporal perspectives by Zhang, Yu, Huang, Weiming, Yao, Yao, Gao, Song, Cui, Lizhen, Yan, Zhongmin

“…We utilize skip-gram to model human transition patterns exhibited from massive amounts of human trajectories, where long-range dependency is meaningful. Subsequently, we leverage unsupervised graph representation learning to model spatial adjacency and temporal pattern similarities, where short-range dependency is favorable. …”
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教会华校的特色与地位 ：以新加坡公教中学为案例 = Missionary Chinese-medium school : its traits and position with Catholic high school, Singapore as case study by 卓汶德 Toh, Boon Teck

“…Historical evidences have shown that the missionary Chinese-medium schools are created on the basis of Chinese-medium schools and dominantly English-speaking Christian schools. With a long history of nearly 80 years and holding onto the teaching ideology of focusing students to become bilingual with Chinese and English, Catholic High School has produced some of the well-known personalities in the entertainment and the political arenas in Singapore. …”
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Relevance judgment during health information seeking on a discussion forum by Pian, Wenjing

“…In contrast, participants browsing with no particular health issue used mostly their personal and general interest topics in their judgments, which took a relatively long time to scan post surrogates and to skim detailed post content.…”
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Characterisation of novel electroactive consortia from environmental samples enriched through potentiostatic growth by Doyle, Lucinda Elizabeth

“…After this validation, the platform was then used to characterise a complex microbial community, during long-term electrochemical enrichment. Tropical climate sediment was chosen as inoculum source, as it is currently under-explored in this context which frequently focuses on enrichment from waste water. …”
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Synthesis of noble metal-based nanocomposites for enhanced catalytic performance by Liu, Ye

“…Noble metals have been applied as heterogeneous catalysts for a long time. In recent decades, it was found that noble metal nanostructures exhibit superior catalytic performance than their bulk counterpart owing to the high surface-to-volume ratio. …”
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华教观的差异 ：马来西亚国民中学与华文独立中学比较研究 = Difference views Of Chinese education in Malaysia national schools and Chinese private schools by Ng, Jun Xiong

“…Chinese education in Malaysia not only has a long history, but also has been developed and restructured into a complete education system, from primary level to tertiary level. …”
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Finite element analysis of a free-standing concrete sea-wall as alternative to traditional land reclamation by Harris, Raymond

“…The caisson seawall spans 40 m long to 28 m wide. It is connected on its longer side continuously so that it forms a wall barrier in which 20 m of seawater level will be drained from the usable side. …”
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Kinematics of Active Deformation Across the Western Kunlun Mountain Range (Xinjiang, China) and Potential Seismic Hazards Within the Southern Tarim Basin by Guilbaud, Christelle, Simoes, Martine, Barrier, Laurie, Laborde, Amandine, Van der Woerd, Jérôme, Li, Haibing, Tapponnier, Paul, Coudroy, Thomas, Murray, Andrew

“…From their incision pattern and using age constraints retrieved on some of these terraces from field sampling, we quantify the slip rate on the underlying blind ramp to 0.5 to 2.5 mm/yr, with a most probable long-term value of 2 to 2.5 mm/yr. The evolution of the Yecheng–Pishan fold is proposed by combining all structural, morphological, and chronological observations. …”
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Building occupant sensing : occupancy prediction and behavior recognition by Zhu, Qingchang

“…For simple motion-related activity recognition based on Inertial Measurement Unit, i.e. accelerometer, gyroscope and magnetometer, we propose a semi-supervised learning framework using Deep Long Short- Term Memory method. As the unlabeled data is pervasively available, the pro- posed method could enhance performance of the classification of simple motions. …”
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How does gamification impact on medical students’ academic motivation towards otolaryngology, and what demographics influence this: a mixed methods study by Burr, C

“…However, educational academics argue that gamification impacts on academic motivation negatively and reduce engagement with learning in the long-term. Thus far, studies have shown that the impacts of gamification on academic motivation are person- and context-specific. …”

Government resilience in the digital age by Raieste, A, Rebane, A, Tapupere, M, McBride, K

“…</li></ul> <br> “States that adopt our recommendations will be rewarded with a resilient digital state that could run its core and critical digital services even if there was a temporary or more long-term loss of its physical territory due to a crisis,” said Dr Keegan McBride, Lecturer in AI, Government, and Policy, Oxford Internet Institute. …”

Association between self-reported napping and risk of cardiovascular disease and all-cause mortality: a meta-analysis of cohort studies by Wang, Meng, Xiang, Xin, Zhao, Zhengyan, Liu, Yu, Cao, Yang, Guo, Weiwei, Hou, Linlin, Jiang, Qiuhuan

“…It highlights that the long duration time of the nap can serve as a risk factor for evaluating both overall mortality and cardiovascular mortality.…”
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Correlation between spectral permittivity characteristics and fatty acid methyl ester composition for lard detection in edible oils by Amat Sairin, Masyitah

“…The study on fatty acid composition shows edible oils that have higher long chain fatty acid composition have lower spectral permittivity; and spectral permittivity of edible oils increases with increasing degree of fatty acid unsaturation. …”
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Development, validation and the effects of culturally specific guided imagery and progressive muscle relaxation audio for patients with functional abdominal bloating by Shen, Vincent Tee Wei

“…Mind-body techniques, including Guided Imagery (GI) and Progressive Muscle Relaxation (PMR) has been long used as therapeutic modalities for various disorders. …”
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Machine learning, IoT and 5G technologies for breast cancer studies: A review by Saroğlu, Havva Elif, Shayea, Ibraheem, Saoud, Bilal, Azmi, Marwan Hadri, El-Saleh, Ayman A., Saad, Sawsan Ali, Mohammad Alnakhli, Mohammad Alnakhli

“…Consequently, the imperative for early detection and prognosis has emerged as a means to enhance long-term survival rates and mitigate mortality. …”
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Agent-Based Model of Virtual Community Cohesion (S/O: 13443) by Yusop, Nor Iadah, Mat Aji, Zahurin, Ab. Aziz, Azizi, Md Dahalin, Zulkhairi

“…Cohesion is a state that can only be witnessed as a result of long-term interactions amongst the participating members of a community, commonly in the physical community. …”
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