Inter-relationship between ageing, body mass index, diabetes, systemic blood pressure and intraocular pressure in Asians : 6-year longitudinal study by Chua, Jacqueline, Chee, Miao Li, Chin, Calvin Woon Loong, Tham, Yih Chung, Tan, Nicholas, Lim, Sing Hui, Aung, Tin, Cheng, Ching-Yu, Wong, Tien Yin, Schmetterer, Leopold

“…Blood pressure (BP) was measured with an automatic BP monitor and IOP were obtained by Goldmann applanation tonometry. Main outcome was change in IOP, defined as the difference between the 6-year IOP and the baseline IOP. …”
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Brewers’ spent grains as potential novel functional food ingredients for food security by Tan, Yong Xing

“…Strategies to enhance food security can be categorized into three main areas, urban farming, processing technology and alternative food sources. …”
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Essays on merchant-generated contents and merchant-to-merchant spillovers in e-commerce platform by Zhang, Xueli

“…I derive the retailer’s optimal strategies as a function of the real product quality, the consumer’s disutility factor for the product mismatch, and the disutility factor for the exaggeration. The main results show that the optimal price and displayed quality are negatively related to the exaggeration disutility factor but will not be affected by the mismatch disutility factor under certain conditions. …”
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Modelling and characterization of membrane fouling in osmotically-driven membrane processes (ODMPs) by Lai, Li

“…To address this problem, this study focuses on two main part on investigation of membrane fouling: Characterization and Modelling. …”
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Modulation and control strategies for neutral-point-clamped converters by Beniwal, Neha

“…In order to address this drawback, a band-limited three-level (BL-3L) modulation technique is proposed which aims to balance the average CVs without any substantial increase in the switching losses, thereby concentrating mainly on enhancing the steady state performance of the system. …”
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Designer broad-spectrum polyimidazolium antibiotics by Zhong, Wenbin, Shi, Zhenyu, Mahadevegowda, Surendra H., Liu, Bo, Zhang, Kaixi, Koh, Chong Hui, Ruan, Lin, Chen, Yahua, Zeden, Merve S., Pee, Carmen J. E., Marimuthu, Kalisvar, De, Partha Pratim, Ng, Oon Tek, Zhu, Yabin, Chi, Robin Yonggui, Hammond, Paula T., Yang, Liang, Gan, Yunn-Hwen, Pethe, Kevin, Greenberg, E. Peter, Gründling, Angelika, Chan-Park, Mary B.

“…We synthesized several cationic peptide mimics, main-chain cationic polyimidazoliums (PIMs), and discovered that, although select PIMs show little acute mammalian cell toxicity, they are potent broad-spectrum antibiotics with activity against even pan-antibiotic-resistant gram-positive and gram-negative bacteria, and mycobacteria. …”
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Coacervates derived from mussel foot proteins by Guo, Qi

“…Observed from the phase diagrams, CD spectra and MD simulations, Dopa involved hydrogen bonds formed with a triangle configuration dominate within the LLPS process, followed by the side chain-main chain hydrogen bonds among Dopa residues and Gly residues. …”
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Multi-scale and multiphase modeling of abrasive flow machining process with experimental validation by Mohamed Adel Abdelhakem Amen

“…Different from the common thought, the study proves that MR mechanism mainly comes from drag and impulse forces activated when the particle is blocked by surface asperity/protrusion…”
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Effect of surface albedo of urban fabrics on urban climate in tropical area by Long, Yongping

“…To combat the adverse effects of UHI, it’s assumed that the UHI is mainly caused by heat absorption during the daytime and heat release during the night-time. …”
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Xunzi's concern for yu (desire) and ritual approaches for its moral transformation by Zhou,Yalin

“…The embodied and the sociocultural perspectives could supplement or complement some prior works on how a bad-natured self could develop a love for Dao and propriety. One main argument is that for Xunzi, it is possible to feel the higher pleasure of propriety and Dao, with its content being primarily sensory or bodily. …”
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Development of advanced Fe-based oxygen carriers for chemical looping applications by Fan, Qianwenhao

“…The focus of this thesis is to address the challenges in developing advanced Fe-based oxygen carriers with improved activity and stability. The main results and findings are summarized as follows. 1. …”
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Nonequilibrium hyperuniform fluids by Lei, Yusheng

“…And we divide them into three main parts. The first one is the systems stemmed from random organization (RO) dynamics, which is a model originally proposed to describe the chaotic particle motion in sheared non-Brownian suspensions. …”
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Thermal energy storage enhancement of latent heat thermal energy storage systems by Low, Zheng Hua

“…A numerical model was built and validated to conduct parameter study on the proposed designs. Two main arrangements, half section (1 split) and quarter section (3 splits) were investigated using an annular LHTES system employing RT42 as PCM. …”
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Advanced control of wind power systems by Dang, Dinh Quy

“…Among these controllers, the classical PI (proportional integrator) controller has been well applied to d-q axis currents of both generator and grid side from the literature so that it is not a main study in this thesis. The control algorithm for aerodynamics drive-train and dc-link voltage is therefore of the research interest. …”
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Synthesis and characterization of silver nanoprism-based nanostructures by Mohammad Mehdi Shahjamali

“…All the aforementioned structures have better stability than bare Ag nanoprism due to the gold chemical inertness and have better localized surface plasmon resonance (LSPR) tunability. One of the main advantages of this protocol is that it can preserve the initial shape of the particles which is a key factor in preserving the optical properties for different applications. …”
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“新游牧精神”为文化冲突的和解方案 ：从《陆犯焉识》探讨严歌苓的身份认同 = “New normadic spirit” as a solution to cultural identity conflict : an analysis of Yan Ge Ling’s cultural identity through her novel, Lu Fan... by See, Seow Ling

“…Yan Ge Ling’s longest novel “Lu Fan Yan Shi” describes the life of main character Lu Yan Shi through the years 1925 to 1990, covering major events in China and multiple instances of diaspora. …”
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话语标记 “可是” 在马来西亚华语会话中的语用功能 = Pragmatic functions of discourse marker “Keshi” in conversational Malaysian Mandarin by 胡文绮 Woo, Wen Qi

“…As a typical advesative conjunction in Mandarin, “keshi” is mainly seen as a cohesive device to express the logical adversative relation and the comparative presented between clauses. …”
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Essays on multi-echelon inventory control by Wan, Guangyu

“…This accounting method, however, often significantly underestimates system costs when inventory related costs actually accrue in continuous time. The main contribution of the current study is two-fold. …”
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Posture control and balance for quality of walking in rehabilitation by Li, Lei

“…Based on the stability analysis, crutch support forces, support positions and CoM states (including position, velocity and acceleration) are identified as three main effectors. The forward dynamics simulation results of this study provide the suggestion on the correct ways of posture control and manipulating the balance stabilizers to achieve a stable walking. …”
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Quantitative analysis of coronary artery from computed tomography angiography images by Cui, Hengfei

“…To evaluate the severity of a coronary stenosis, two main different approaches at present can be used: by evaluating longitudinal diameter reduction (angiography imaging) or by measuring the reduction of lumen (Computed Tomography (CT) imaging) [2, 3]. …”
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