Ultrafast dynamics in quantum materials probed by time-and-momentum-resolved techniques by Su, Yifan

“…CDWs are systems where strong interplays between electrons and phonons drive the phase transition that causes the modulation of charge density and is thus accompanied by periodic lattice distortions. In this dissertation, I will focus on systems with multiple interacting CDW orders. …”
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Brewers’ spent grains as potential novel functional food ingredients for food security by Tan, Yong Xing

“…Bacillus subtilis WX-17 was still viable after a period of 6 weeks with a final cell count of 9.86 log CFU/ mL. …”
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Effect of surface albedo of urban fabrics on urban climate in tropical area by Long, Yongping

“…Different cool coating application scenarios had a payback period from 1 to 4 years, in consistency with the top floor office experiment. …”
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大时代小人物的命运: 论新加坡教育改革下华校师生对语言的情意结 = Fate of individuals in a revolutionary era: a study on the language attachment of Chinese school teachers and students under Singapore's education... by 李瑞君 Lee, Rui Jun

“…This paper will analyse the experiences of Chinese school teachers and students during the educational reform under the period of 1970s to 1980s. Additionally, this paper will go on to analyse different novels written by Singaporean Chinese writers during this era, exploring the profound psychological and ideological changes brought about by linguistic challenges faced by these individuals amidst educational reformation.…”
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SPP/LSP coupled hybrid mode directed multi-functional surface-enhanced Raman system by Du, Luping

“…First of all, as a fundamental investigation, two types of excitation configurations are proposed to achieve the plasmon-hybrid-mode: through a periodic metallic structure and via an attenuated total reflection configuration, respectively. …”
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Perfect- and quasi- complementary sequences by Liu, Zilong

“…In addition, constructions of optimal and near-optimal periodic LC-CSSs (with respect to a derived lower bound) are proposed for the first time by applying linear-phase transform (modulated by Singer difference sets) to optimal quadriphase sequence sets. …”
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Micro electro mechanical systems (MEMS) enabled digital pen by Tan, Joel Qi Zhi

“…In the end, Extended Kalman Filter (EKF) was chosen as it provides reasonable performance without too long of a computational time. …”
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Player acceptance of human computation games by Wang, Xiaohui

“…A longitudinal survey study was conducted with participants using a mobile version of Kpoprally within a two-week period. Individuals’ perceptions and acceptance were measured at the three different time points. …”
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The dietetic practice of prescribing amino acid-based formulas in paediatrics patients without cow’s milk allergy: a single centre retrospective study by O’Connor, Graeme, Mansell, Melissa

“…Patients with gastrointestinal symptoms were the most common reason for commencing an AAF, 76 of 154 (49%) patients. …”
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Aircraft noise, overheating and poor air quality in London primary schools' classrooms by Montazami, Azadeh

“…In addition, one of the reasons for the lack of environmental comfort is the use of relaxed benchmarks. …”
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Global, regional, and national burden of stroke and its risk factors, 1990–2021: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021 by Feigin, VL, Abate, MD, Abate, YH, Bandyopadhyay, S, Bennett, DA, Lacey, B, Newton, CRJ

“…We aimed to provide such estimates for the period 1990–2021. <p><b>Methods</b></p> We estimated incidence, prevalence, death, and disability-adjusted life-year (DALY) counts and age-standardised rates per 100 000 people per year for overall stroke, ischaemic stroke, intracerebral haemorrhage, and subarachnoid haemorrhage, for 204 countries and territories from 1990 to 2021. …”

Development and characterization of collagen type I and hyaluronic acid (HA) based interlaced scaffolds for tissue engineered heart valves (TEHVS) by Nazir, R

“…Scanning electron micrographs (SEM) and images of Alcian blue – Periodic acid Schiff (PAS) stained samples suggested that our crosslinking technique yielded an ECM mimicking microstructure with interlaced bands of collagen and HA in the hybrid scaffolds. …”

Production and characterization of collagen and gelatin from edible jellyfish (Acromitus hardenbergi Stiasny, 1934) for fabrication of biofunctional scaffold by Khong, Nicholas Mun Hoe

“…It was found that this improved process significantly increased the production yield (p < 0.05) by approximately seven times and two times compared to the conventional acid-assisted and pepsin-assisted extraction, respectively. Proximate composition and amino acids profile of collagen extracted using the improved process was found to be similar (p > 0.05) to those extracted using the pepsinassisted extraction. …”
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Effectiveness of health education intervention based on health belief model among elderly women in Urmia, Iran by Iranagh, Jamileh Amirzadeh

“…Second outcome was determination level of fasting blood glucose, lipid profiles and anthropometric parameters before and during intervention program period. One hundred seventy two subjects with mean age 69.32 (SD=5.345), successfully completed the program duration. …”
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Anti-leukaemic and chemotherapy supportive effects of berberis vulgaris l. Fruit crude extract on in vitro and in vivo models by Saedi, Tayebeh Azam

“…Whereas, for the in vivo model, leukaemia was induced in male BALB/c mice using mouse leukaemic cell line (WEHI-3) and treatment was carried out using different concentrations of BVFCE and chemotherapy drug, separately for comparison. After the treatment period (5 weeks), the mice were fasted overnight and sacrificed for biochemical, haematological and histological analyses of their liver, kidney, heart and spleen. …”
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Optimization and scheduling for a large-scale urban transportation system involving human factors by Zhang, Yi

“…Considering the high-incidence rate of pedestrian violations during Flashing GREEN (FG), an additional Dynamic All RED (DAR) phase is introduced at the end of each FG period, whose duration is adaptively adjusted according to the number of non-compliant pedestrians. …”
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3D bioprinting of high cell concentrations & cell spheroids to achieve physiologically relevant cell environments by Chua, Cliff Dun An

“…BaCl2), the stability showed signs of improvement to the structural integrity, lasting longer a longer period. The stability was then further improved with the 1% CaCl2 + 3% BaCl2 and it proved to have the best degree of hydrolysis resistance, cell sustainability and the longest cell proliferation activity. …”
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Probabilistic modeling of nodal charging demand based on spatial-temporal dynamics of moving electric vehicles by Musa, Ryan Rezal

“…This led the companies to come up with more upgrades to further enhance and improve the current versions of EVs and build more charging stations to be on par with the demand for more EVs from the consumers. …”
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Coacervates derived from mussel foot proteins by Guo, Qi

“…Further characterization results using periodate oxidation, NMR and QC calculation found that Dopa residues could form a transient triangular hydrogen bonding network which is specific for Pvfp-5-Dopa. …”
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Thermoplastic polymer nanocomposites based on polydopamine-coated clay : preparation, structures and properties by Phua, Si Lei

“…The results showed polyester-based PU nanocomposites with D-clay concentration above 5 wt% formed percolated clay network structure, this hindered the movement of both hard and soft segments to a certain extent. …”
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