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

“…This is because from the Taichang to the early years of the Tianqi, the Donglin faction strongly supported the crown prince and proposed to abolish the mineral tax, etc. Thus, when the Taichang emperor ascended to the throne, the Donglin managed to return to power and dominated the imperial court. …”
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Filamentous oligomer structure reconstruction and a new filament picking method for Cryo-EM micrographs by Xu, Chenrui

“…NLRP1 and CARD8 are two similar innate immune receptors that undergo auto-proteolytic activation, when encountering the right triggering signals from cellular damage or pathogen infection, and release a filament-forming CARD domains. …”
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Non-contact laser-ultrasonic subsurface thermography using waveform inversion by Hu, Lei

“…These defects start to initiate when the temperature of engineering components is greater than a threshold. …”
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Server allocation for massively multiplayer online cloud games by Zhao, Meiqi

“…A trace prediction that predicts the future positions of players for a few time steps when they log into the MMOCG system. Experiments are conducted to evaluate our method by measuring the network latency, mean opinion score, and the time consuming computation. …”
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Why do Chinese firms go public abroad and how do they perform? by Yuan, Mengying

“…Then, we investigate reasons for such valuation discounts by examining the impact of policy distortions on the overseas listing. When there are policy distortions such as foreign investment restrictions, administrative approval IPO system, and tighter capital outflow controls, the valuation discount of Chinese firms listed overseas further expands. …”
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Functional analysis of germline RAD51C missense variants highlight the role of RAD51C in replication fork protection by Kolinjivadi, Arun Mouli, Chong, Siao Ting, Choudhary, Ramveer, Sankar, Haresh, Chew, Ee Ling, Yeo, Claresta, Chan, Sock Hoai, Ngeow, Joanne

“…In addition to HR repair, the role of RAD51C in DNA replication is emerging when replication forks are transiently or irreversibly stalled. …”
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Conservation of red blood cell signalling in Plasmodium merozoite invasion by Yong, James Jia Ming

“…Furthermore, we provide novel evidence that host cAMP-Ca2+ signalling is required for RBC Ca2+ influx in both P. falciparum and P. knowlesi invasion, in which specific ligand-receptor interactions lead to β-adrenergic-receptor-mediated cAMP generation in the RBC that activates the host L-type Ca2+ channels. This is also evident when L-type Ca2+ channel inhibitor and cAMP signalling inhibitors block both P. falciparum and P. knowlesi invasion. …”
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牛车水的塑造：政治活动中华人的自主性和殖民管治 = The shaping of Chinatown: relationship of Chinese agency and colonial governance in political activities by 蔡晓欣 Choi, Irene Hiu Yan

“…The origin of Chinatown could be traced back to the urban planning of colonial Singapore, when the Southwest area of the Singapore River was demarcated as Chinese settlement area. …”
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A microfluidic platform to study pathogen-host interactions at single cell level by Zhang, Rui

“…Single A549 cells were isolated into the individual micro-wells by one-step vacuum driven microfluidics when cell density was pre-adjusted to less than 0.3 cell/well. …”
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Biomimetic whisker transducer for vibrissal tactile sensing by Ju, Feng

“…The texture sensing experiment showed that when the WT sweeps across a surface, the force and velocity sensed at whisker tip both have strong linear relationship with roughness (regression analysis R2 > 0.99). …”
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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

“….－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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Perfect- and quasi- complementary sequences by Liu, Zilong

“…Specifically, the “fractional-delay” problem occurs when any inter-user delay takes on a value which is a fraction (rather than an integer) of the half chip-duration. …”
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Micro electro mechanical systems (MEMS) enabled digital pen by Tan, Joel Qi Zhi

“…With keyboards, notes-taking became digitized and can be done in a much shorter time as compared to physical writing. However, when it comes to mobile note-taking, bringing a keyboard around can be a hassle; thus digital pens were invented to combine the advantages of both physical writing and keyboard input. …”
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Photonic engineering of terahertz quantum cascade lasers by Liang, Guozhen

“…A breakthrough occurred in 2002, when the first THz quantum cascade lasers (QCLs) was demonstrated. …”
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Synthesis, assembly and applications of novel two-dimensional metal chalcogenide nanomaterials by Tan, Chaoliang

“…TEM analyses revealed that these metal sulphide nanoplates were aligned on the TiS2 with perfect epitaxial alignment effect to vertical 2D epitaxial heteronanostructures. Moreover, when used as the anode in a Li ion battery, the CuS-TiS2 heteronanostructure-based electrode exhibited good performance. …”
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Carbon nanomaterial/thermoplastic polyurethane composites for sports application : preparation, characterization and simulation by Jing, Qifei

“…The most efficient improvement of mechanical properties was achieved when 0.4 wt% FGO was added into the PU matrix. Regarding the thermal stability, PU filled with 1 wt% FGO showed the largest extent of improvement. …”
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Compact transformer based power combination techniques for millimeter-wave CMOS power amplifiers by Han, Jiangan

“…The implementation strategies of the hybrid combining transformer are acquired by investigating its coupling effect. When the combiner is connected with active devices, its nonlinear behaviors are studied. …”
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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

“…In general, collagen with high thermal stability is required to provide the necessary thermo-mechanical strength and degradation stability when implanted in vivo. Although studies have shown that the freshwater fish-derived collagen exhibits better thermal stability as compared to seawater fish-derived collagen, to our knowledge, limited studies have been carried out to compare the fish-derived collagen from different fish species, particular those extracted from fish scales. …”
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Hybrid lasers and modulator on silicon in the near- and mid-infrared region by Hu, Xiaonan

“…No such device is demonstrated when the work was initialized. The hybrid QCL is expected to be an important component for MIR SOI platforms. …”
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Development of (TAML) iron complexes for photocatalytic, oxidative water treatment by Lim, Jia Hui

“…To achieve this undertaking, we hypothesized that (TAML)Fe caomplexes, which have been reported to be excellent catalysts for the degradation of persistent pollutants, can be activated photochemically, when coupled with suitable photosensitizers in the right conditions. …”
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