The Pandemic EVIDENCE Collaboration Pillar 3: practice and policy by Leal, J, Byambasuren, O, Richards, G, Maltoni, S, Stelfox, T, Fiest, K, Bartoszko, J

“…Central questions still need to be addressed, mainly how policy should be better informed about the benefits, harms and unintended consequences of any of any interventions. …”

A comparison of the flavonoids in Athyriaceae and Aspleniaceae by Umikalsom, Y., Grayer-Barkmeijer, Renée J., Harborne, Jeffrey B.

“…Flavonoid patterns were examined for 18 species of Athyriaceae and 15 species of Aspleniaceae, mainly of Malaysian origin. In the Athyriaceae, flavonol 3-O-glycosides based on both quercetin and kaempferol were the most common flavonoids found, and additionally in some species of Diplazium and Deparia flavone C-glycosides were detected, based on apigenin. …”
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Performance-based identity in a BIM environment : An architect’s perceptions and experiences by Syafizal, Shahruddin, Mohd, Zairul, Ahmad Tarmizi, Haron, Meor Mohammad, Fared

“…Consequently, architects' failing to adapt their core identity to the varying circumstances may lead to their irrelevance and being side-lined merely as aesthetic building surgeons. The current study therefore seeks a better understanding of their perceptions and experiences in manifesting their identities in the phenomenon. …”
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Tablets, Pens, and Pencils: The Influence of Tools on Sketching in Early Stage Design by Das, Madhurima, Huang, May, Yang, Maria C

“…We hypothesize that participants using tablet and pencil will produce fewer drawings than those using pen due to their ability to erase and focus on perfecting drawings, and we expect participants using the tablet to produce cleaner drawings with smoother strokes due to the tablet’s ability to auto-smooth lines. Based on prior literature, we posit that women and gender minorities will produce fewer sketches and use the feathering style of sketching more than men.…”
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Regulation of microRNA degradation in Caenorhabditis elegans via the E3 ubiquitin ligase EBAX-1 by Stubna, Michael William

“…TDMD underlies the instability of many miRNAs in diverse cell lines and animals. In this work, I probe the biological scope of TDMD as a regulatory mechanism in the nematode Caenorhabiditis elegans, which tolerates homozygous loss of the ZSWIM8 ortholog, EBAX-1, and expresses some miRNAs that are subject to rapid, developmentally regulated decay. …”
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Development of immunomodulatory RNA therapeutics for immune disorders by Iyer, Vaishnavi Srinivasan

“…We show that these ASOs can modulate T cell behavior in human cell lines and human primary cells, validating the potential of ASOs as a therapeutic approach for immune diseases. …”
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Data-driven distributionally robust CVaR portfolio optimization under a regime-switching ambiguity set by Pun, Chi Seng, Wang, Tianyu, Yan, Zhenzhen

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Financial forecasting using meta-cognitive fuzzy neural networks by Singh Akhand Pratap

“…The primary meta-cognitive strategies are Sample deletion, Sample Learning and Sample Reserve. Following on the lines of Technical Analysis carried out by traders and investors on the historical prices of a company’s stock, the project makes use of various Financial Indicators to decide whether a particular instance of time is good for investment, disinvestment or to remain idle. …”
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Taliban resurgence in Afghanistan : the role of post-conflict reconstruction by Sadia Sulaiman

“…Under the auspices of Bonn-I, the international community initiated a process of post-conflict reconstruction on both security and non-security lines. Bonn-I provided a framework for setting up an interim government tasked with drafting a constitution, convening a Loya Jirga (grand assembly), holding presidential and parliamentary elections by 2005, strengthening the Afghan police and military forces, and establishing a judicial system. …”
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Multi-spectral polarimetry imaging for early gastric cancer diagnosis by Wang, Wenfeng

“…Gastric cancer, which develops from the lining of stomach, is the fifth most severe disease worldwide. …”
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Cellular studies on the role of OGFOD1, a 2-oxoglutarate-dependent dioxygenase by Attwood, M

“…The transcriptional regulator, Thanatos associated protein 11 (THAP11) was identified as a novel high stoichiometry OGFOD1-interacting protein across a range of cell lines. Analysis of the THAP11 transcriptional programme in SW620 cells defined a repressive action of OGFOD1 overexpression on THAP11 DNA binding and target gene expression. …”

Genome-wide transcriptome profiling reveals molecular response pathways of Trichoderma harzianum in response to salt stress by Yang, Qihong, Mao, Zhenchuan, Hao, Yali, Zheng, Shijie, Zhao, Jianlong, Li, Yan, Yang, Yuhong, Xie, Bingyan, Ling, Jian, Li, Yanlin

“…GO enrichment analysis showed that the T2-treatment DEGs were highly enriched in detoxification (p < 0.001), while the T4 DEGs were mainly enriched in cell components, mostly in cellular detoxification, cell surface, and cell wall. …”
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Study on the regulation of focal adesions and cortical actin by matrix nanotopography in 3D environment by Han, Jingjing, Lin, Keng-Hui, Chew, Lock Yue

“…With current studies on this topic being performed mainly in 2D platforms, the question on how nanotopography can influence cell bahaviors in 3D environments has yet to be addressed. …”
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Impacts on the solidification of water on plate surface for cold energy storage using ice slurry by Liu, Shengchun, Li, Hailong, Song, Mengjie, Dai, Baomin, Sun, Zhili

“…Since the heterogeneous nucleation energy is mainly determined by the substance and the roughness, while not by the surface material, it is important to increase the roughness in order to reduce subcooling and save energy, especially for copper and aluminum.…”
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Linear A and Minoan : some new old questions by Perono Cacciafoco, Francesco

“…The aim of this paper is to provide a synthetic outline of the attempts so far produced by scholars in trying to decipher Linear A, an undeciphered Aegean writing system (dating back to the European Bronze Age), highlighting some still unanswered epistemological questions. Linear A documents (mainly clay tablets) come (predominantly) from the Mediterranean island of Crete and transcribe Minoan, an unknown language. …”
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Examining derivatives of quinacridone, diketopyrrolopyrrole and indigo as the visible-light organic photocatalysts for metal-free atom transfer radical polymerization by Jia, Tao, Huang, Shuo, Bohra, Hassan, Wang, Mingfeng

“…To date the majority of reported organic photocatalysts for ATRP mainly absorb light in the UV region. Here we examined three organic chromophores, quinacridone, diketopyrrolopyrrole and indigo, as visible-light-absorbing organic photocatalysts for controllable polymerization of a series of methacrylates monomers via a scheme of light-mediated ATRP. …”
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Online matching with its applications to ridesharing by Wang, Hao

“…It brings new inspirations and challenges to the area of online matching and its generations because of different scenarios of ridesharing. In this thesis, we mainly focus on two specific ridesharing scenarios: ride hitch and ridesourcing, and develop two novel online matching models to characterize these problems. …”
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Upcycling of non-biodegradable plastics by base metal photocatalysis by Li, Chenfei, Kong, Xin Ying, Lyu, Maoping, Tay, Xiu Ting, Đokić, Miloš, Chin, Kek Foo, Yang, Crystal Ting, Lee, Erin Ke Xin, Zhang, Jinfan, Tham, Chun Yuan, Chan, Wei Xin, Lee, Wen Jie, Lim, Teik Thye, Goto, Atsushi, Sullivan, Michael B., Soo, Han Sen

“…In addition, the latest efforts in the photochemical upcycling of plastics near ambient temperatures are mainly restricted to polystyrene. Here, we report a base metal photo-driven upcycling of most conventional plastics such as polystyrene, polypropylene, polyethylene, polyvinyl chloride, and polyvinyl acetate by a tandem carbon–hydrogen bond oxidation/carbon–carbon bond cleavage reaction, with carbon recoveries up to 77% and selective formation of valuable, isolable products including formic, acetic, and benzoic acids. …”
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An artificial neural network model for multi-flexoelectric actuation of plates by Fan, Mu, Yu, Pengcheng, Xiao, Zhongmin

“…Case studies showed that the flexoelectricity induced stress mainly concentrate near the probe, the size and shape of the flexoelectric patch have limited effect on the actuation, hence, only the actuator positions were choosing as the input of the ANN model. …”
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Accelerating sparse matrix operations on FPGAs with on/off-chip memories by Li, Shiqing

“…Especially, well-organized on-chip memories can buffer reusable data and mitigate the off-chip memory bandwidth requirement. In this thesis, we mainly target sparse-matrix dense-vector multiplication (SpMV), Sparse-matrix sparse-matrix multiplication (SpMM), and sparse Long short-term memory (SpLSTM). …”
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