High-density lipoprotein function is modulated by the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein in a lipid-type dependent manner by Correa, Yubexi, Del Giudice, Rita, Waldie, Sarah, Thépaut, Michel, Micciula, Samantha, Gerelli, Yuri, Moulin, Martine, Delaunay, Clara, Fieschi, Franck, Pichler, Harald, Haertlein, Michael, Forsyth, V. Trevor, Le Brun, Anton, Moir, Michael, Russell, Robert A., Darwish, Tamim, Brinck, Jonas, Wodaje, Tigist, Jansen, Martin, Martín, César, Roosen-Runge, Felix, Cárdenas, Marité

“…The severity of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is inversely correlated with HDL plasma levels. It is known that the SARS-CoV-2 spike (S) protein binds the HDL particle, probably depleting it of lipids and altering HDL function. …”
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Near-infrared light for phototherapy : photothermal induced drug release and tumor ablation by Li, Menghuan

“…Amongst all these efforts, near-infrared-light-involved anticancer therapy has drawn increasing attention in recent years, due to the minimal invasiveness and high tissue penetration of near-infrared light (NIR). …”
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Investigation of gamma index parameters in patient specific quality assurance (PSQA) for radiotherapy treatment planning technique: retrosective study by Mukhtar, Siti Yuni Sara

“…The patient specific quality assurance (PSQA) is a pre-treatment procedure performed to evaluate the validity of the inversed treatment plans, before the actual radiotherapy (RT) treatment delivery, to ensure the patient’s safety. …”
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Feature extraction from EEG signals and regularization for brain-computer interface by Mishuhina, Vasilisa

“…We choose EEG because it is a non-invasive and low cost technology with good time resolution. …”
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Preliminary environmental risk consideration for small UAV ground risk mapping by Chung, Han Jie, Mohd Hasrizam Che Man, Sivakumar, Anush Kumar, Low, Kin Huat

“…Findings for environmental risk-tiering and risk-mapping are preliminary and based on the available environmental data as identified in this study. …”
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Assessment of arterial stiffness via measurement of pulse wave velocity a study for the normotensive population by Chang, Serene Wei Nee.

“…In addition, the ease of measuring reproducible baPWV non-invasively and taking reading in the absence of any psychological stress on the subject make it very favourable. …”
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Investigation of fluorescence lifetime imaging for quantitative cervical cancer screening and diagnosis by Gu, Jun

“…The proposed method can provide more accurate and faster cervical diagnosis, which can better supplement traditional gold standard histopathological examination. Liquid based cytological (LBC) Papanicolaou test is a very effective pre-invasive tool to screen for cervical intraepithelial neoplasia (CIN). …”
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Studies of insulin transport across intestinal epithelium using nano-encapsulation for oral delivery by Zhang, Yiming

“…An oral route not only minimizes the patient compliance issue by eliminating the use of invasive needles, more importantly, it offers hepatic glucose regulation as the orally administered insulin would potentially be carried by hepatic portal vein to reach the liver, where glucose homeostasis take place. …”
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3D surface analysis of coral microatolls by Gautam, Rohan

“…Studying microatolls is typically done by slabbing, an invasive process where a radial slice is obtained in order to study its annual growth bands. …”
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Precipitation trend analysis for The Langat River Basin, Selangor, Malaysia by Palizdan, Narges

“…In order to identify the homogeneous regions respectively for the annual and seasonal scales, firstly, at- site mean total annual and separately at site mean total seasonal precipitation were spatialized into 5 km × 5 km grids using the inverse distance weighting (IDW) algorithm. Next, the optimum number of homogeneous regions (clusters) is computed using the Silhouette Coefficient approach. …”
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Genetic and observational associations of nuclear magnetic resonance-measured lipid-related traits and atherosclerotic cardiovascular mortality in the Mexico City Prospective Study by Wang, Y

“…However, previous evidence is mainly based on European populations and traditional lipid panels. …”

Developing a portable, high-speed, low-cost desktop photoacoustic tomography imaging system by Kalva, Sandeep Kumar

“…Photoacoustic tomography (PAT) is a non-invasive, hybrid biomedical imaging modal- ity. Conventional PAT system uses Nd:YAG-OPO laser as excitation source and a single-element ultrasound transducer (SUT) for detecting the generated photoacoustic (PA) waves from the imaging object. …”
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New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) : Day-of-the-week effect and bid-ask spreads by Guo, Lisa Xiuhui, Ernest Julian Sutanto, Quek, Benny Shiwei

“…We find that the technology sector is associated with higher transaction cost. Last but not least, our results in the last section present the absence of DOW effect in all three types of classifications by trading volume.…”
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Multilinear hyperquiver representations by Muller, T, Nanda, V, Seigal, A

“…Our formula specialises to known results that count the singular vectors and eigenvectors of a generic tensor. Lastly, we study a hypergraph generalisation of the inverse tensor eigenvalue problem and solve it algorithmically.…”

Differences in the effectiveness of individual-level smoking cessation interventions by socioeconomic status by Theodoulou, A, Fanshawe, TR, Leavens, E, Theodoulou, E, Wu, AD, Heath, L, Stewart, C, Nollen, N, Ahluwalia, JS, Butler, AR, Hajizadeh, A, Thomas, J, Lindson, N, Hartmann-Boyce, J

“…We pooled RORs by intervention type in random‐effects meta‐analyses, using the generic inverse‐variance method. We subgrouped by type of SES indicator and economic classification of the study country. …”

Know Thy Cell-Free DNA: Early Detection of Microsatellite Instability Using Ultra-Low-Pass Cell-Free DNA Sequences by Lu, Nicole

“…Microsatellites are short segments of repeated DNA motifs (i.e., base pair patterns) that are widespread in our genomes. …”
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Increasing antibiotic activity by rapid bioorthogonal conjugation of drug to resistant bacteria using an upconverted light-activated photocatalyst by Du, Quanchao, Wu, Xiangyang, Bi, Wuguo, Xing, Bengang, Yeow, Edwin Kok Lee

“…Antibiotic vancomycin (Van) is often used as the drug of last resort to treat methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus. …”
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Dynamics and Implications of ROS in Marine Systems by Taenzer, Lina

“…Lastly, I characterized hydrogen peroxide associated with different coral species during a Stony Coral Tissue Loss Disease transmission experiment. …”
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Optical coherence tomography angiography imaging to monitor anti-VEGF treatment of corneal vascularization in a rabbit model by Devarajan, Kavya, Ong, Hon Shing, Lwin, Nyein C., Chua, Jacqueline, Schmetterer, Leopold, Mehta, Jodhbir Singh, Ang, Marcus

“…Optical coherence tomography angiography (OCTA) is a well-established non-invasive retinal vascular imaging technique. It has been recently adapted to image the anterior segment and has shown good potential to image corneal vascularisation. …”
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Biospectroscopy with chemometrics analysis of blood for species identification and age estimation by Sandran, Durga Devi

“…Utilising ATR-FTIR spectroscopy, two major blood protein bands (Amides I and II) can be successfully detected in fresh and aged blood spectra for up to one year. …”
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