Microtissue-encapsulating devices for hypoxia reduction of cellular therapeutics in diabetes treatment by Chen, Yang

“…Furthermore, encapsulated microtissues in a homogeneous distribution preserved high cellular viability and glucose-responsive insulin-secreting function. Lastly, we applied this novel waffle-inspired hydrogel-based macrodevice to in situ encapsulate toroid in a homogeneous distribution and investigated the effect of microtissue geometry and distribution on cellular survival and hypoxia. …”
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Natural robustness of machine learning in the open world by Wei, Hongxin

“…Training with the proposed loss, the network tends to give conservative predictions and results in strong separability of softmax confidence scores between in- and out-of-distribution inputs. Lastly, traditional machine learning algorithms only exploit information from in-distribution examples that are normally expensive and challenging to collect. …”
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论汉魏六朝挽歌与悼亡诗的生死主题 = Theme on life and death in elegy and lament poetry of Han, Wei and six dynasties by 郑慧萍 Teh, Hui Ping

“…The third chapter further explores relations between couples, sadness, isolation and sorrow that transcends seasons in laments. Lastly, it sums up comparison of elegies and laments and their literary significance.…”
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Developing optogenetics for use in vascular research by Rorsman, N

“…The main findings of this thesis are:</p> <p>1) Blue light activation of ChR2 and the ChR2 variant ChR2(H134R) led to long-lasting and non-inactivating depolarising currents. …”

Response of appetite and potential appetite regulators following intake of high energy nutritional supplements by Fatima, S, Gerasimidis, K, Wright, C, Tsiountsioura, M, Arvanitidou, E-I, Malkova, D

“…</p> <p><strong>Design</strong> Twenty three females of 24.4 ± 2.8 years with BMI of 18.2 ± 0.8 kg/m2 consumed HENSD (2.5 MJ) or PLACEBO (0.4 MJ) in fasted state in a single blind randomized cross-over study. …”

Effect of less refined sugar (LRS) vs. refined sugar (RS) on postprandial glycaemic responses, glycaemic profile, and lipid profile, in normal and type 1 diabetic rats: a prelimina... by Zidan, D., Azlan, A., Abas, F., Hamzah, H., Khaza’ai, H., Shafie, S.R., Ebadi, S.

“…Consumption of LRS showed lower insulin resistance (IR), as revealed by reduced fasting insulin and homeostatic model assessment of insulin resistance (HOMA-IR) compared to RS treatment groups. …”
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Sensor-based human activity recognition via zero-shot learning by Wang, Wei

“…The experimental results show the effectiveness of our method. Lastly, we study the problem of multi-resident activity recognition including unseen classes in smart homes. …”
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论明泰昌、天启初年内臣与朝臣的关系 ：以宦官王安为例 = The relationship between eunuchs and imperial officials from Ming Tai Chang period to early Tian Qi period : a case study of eunuch Wang An... by 马爱连 Ma, Ah Lain

“…Using the three major cases in the late Ming and other incidents to illustrate the development and importance of Wang An, we can understand the importance of the partnership between him and the court officials. Lastly, Wang’s death meant the rise of Wei Zhongxian and his followers, as well as the fall of the Donglin faction due to the loss of support from the inner court.…”
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Community noise measure via crowd sourcing by Lim, Yun Jie

“…Machine, traffic, human and lastly the simulation of trees and their possible noise mitigating effects. …”
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Mechanics in dehydration-induced leaf morphing behaviors by Guo, Kexin

“…We also systematically studied the effects of various geometric properties on the folding behavior. Lastly, we investigate the rolling of Costus spicatus leaves upon dehydration. …”
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Nonlinear regression approach for GPS multipath mitigation : from code to carrier-phase measurements by Phan, Quoc Huy

“…Multipath, where GPS signals arrive by more than one path and thereby create a range error, has remained the long-lasting major error source in GPS solutions although having been a target of the GPS research community since the day the system started operating. …”
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孟子与董仲舒论“圣人之善”的比较分析 = A comparative analysis between the "Sage's Goodness" as proposed by Mencius and Dong Zhong Shu by 范舒玲 Wan, Cassandra Sue-Lynn

“…After Confucian thought (儒家思想，ru’jia si’xiang) has been regarded as the state ideology in 136 B.C, it has managed to retain such a position for many a time in the long course of Chinese history, and this state of affairs lasted until 1905. The impetus of the movement to elevate the status of Confucian thought in the state was brought about by the high position and theory of an esteemed court official in the Western Han dynasty, Dong Zhong Shu (董仲舒，Dong Zhong Shu, 179 A.D.－104 A.D.).As such, since the time of Confucius (孔子, Kongzi), Confucian thought has only managed to truly gain a place of standing during the Western Han dynasty,when Dong Zhong Shu pushed for the sole elevation of the status of Confucian thought via the rejection of “the School of a Hundred Thought” (百家思想, bai’jia si’xiang). …”
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The development and application of fish scale waste for tissue engineering applications : waste-to-resource conversion of resource resilient materials by Wang, Jun Kit

“…On the other hand, the methylated SHCol crosslinked with 1,4-butanediol diglycidyl ether (BDE) crosslinker significantly promoted (p < 0.05) the formation and growth of LVs, thus making it suitable for treatment of lymphedema or other inflammatory related diseases. Lastly, a biocomposite scaffold consisting of both SHCol and snakehead scale-derived HA (SHHA) was fabricated. …”
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Modelling familiarity : towards age-friendly exergame design by Zhang, Hao

“…Based on this familiarity model, I propose a set of familiarity design guidelines to help game designers incorporate familiarity into the exergame design for older adults. Lastly, an applicable familiarity instrument is proposed to easily evaluate the familiarity levels of exergames to each individual. …”
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Individual-fMRI-approaches reveal cerebellum and visual communities to be functionally connected in obsessive compulsive disorder by Kashyap, Rajan, Eng, Goi Khia, Bhattacharjee, Sagarika, Gupta, Bhanu, Ho, Roger, Ho, Cyrus S. H., Zhang, Melvyn, Mahendran, Rathi, Sim, Kang, Chen, Annabel Shen-Hsing

“…Then, we explored the brain network organization of both groups by estimating the subject-specific communities within each group. Lastly, we evaluated associations between the inter-individual variation of nodes in the communities to clinical measures using linear regression. …”
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Vision language representation learning by Yang, Xiaofeng

“…Additionally, our proposed method attains comparable or superior performance to other end-to-end models with only ten percent of the pretraining GPU hours. Lastly, the decision-making process of vision language models remains opaque. …”
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An evidence-based serious game app for public education on antibiotic use and resistance: randomized controlled trial by Huang, Zhilian, Ow, Jing Teng, Tang, Wern Ee, Chow, Angela

“…Future research should assess the effectiveness of interventions in facilitating long-term knowledge retention and long-lasting behavioral change.…”
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Synthesis and characterization of silver nanoprism-based nanostructures by Mohammad Mehdi Shahjamali

“…The synthetic approaches described are expandable to other noble metals and open up new avenues for the complex buildup of new complex structures with more functionality. Lastly, the same gold coating protocol with some minor changes has also been applied to synthesize bimetallic nanobox with a proper integrity and uniformity, with preserving the initial triangular Ag nanoprism template. …”
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Posture control and balance for quality of walking in rehabilitation by Li, Lei

“…The developed exoskeleton is proven to be able to trigger a stable swing motion in terms of XcoM stability criteria and reduce the human effort by 50% compared with the exoskeleton without lateral balance shifting ability. Lastly, an additional active balance stabilizer is used to further improve user-independence and balance when walking with lower-limb assistive device. …”
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Real-time animation of vegetation : novel 2D approach and interactive authoring interface by Chen, Kan

“…This approach represents vegetation as view-dependent 2D billboard layers, adopts the proposed 2D harmonic motion simulation for modeling the dynamics of vegetation at the first layer (closest to the viewer), and utilizes this dynamics to guide the animation of the rest of the layers while addressing the motion effects in depth and occlusion effects. Lastly, short plants, such as grass, flowers, and shrubs, are common vegetation species. …”
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