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View article: Distinctive tumor biology of oral squamous cell carcinoma associated with oral submucous fibrosis and its suppressive immune microenvironment
Distinctive tumor biology of oral squamous cell carcinoma associated with oral submucous fibrosis and its suppressive immune microenvironment Open
OSCC with OSF displays more aggressive tumor biological behavior and worse prognosis, which contributed by a more suppressive immune microenvironment marked by elevated levels of IL-17, Treg cells, and PD-1/PD-L1 expression. These results …
View article: Compliant control of robots in dynamic uncertain environments
Compliant control of robots in dynamic uncertain environments Open
Deep reinforcement learning (DRL) has become pivotal in robotic control for its superior learning and decision-making capabilities. This study focuses on compliant control of rehabilitation massage robots under dynamic uncertainty, proposi…
View article: A Case-Study-Based Comparative Analysis of Using Prefabricated Structures in Industrial Buildings
A Case-Study-Based Comparative Analysis of Using Prefabricated Structures in Industrial Buildings Open
Construction costs have increased significantly since the COVID-19 pandemic due to supply chain disruption, labour shortages, and construction material price hikes. The market is increasingly demanding innovative construction methods that …
View article: Career progression of female and male managers in the Australian construction industry: a comparative analysis using LinkedIn data
Career progression of female and male managers in the Australian construction industry: a comparative analysis using LinkedIn data Open
Despite ongoing efforts to promote gender diversity, gender disparities in leadership roles remain in the Australian construction industry. Existing research has identified barriers to women’s career progression in construction using tradi…
View article: Optimisation of Embodied Carbon and Thermal Performance of Roof Material Selections for Australian Residential Housing
Optimisation of Embodied Carbon and Thermal Performance of Roof Material Selections for Australian Residential Housing Open
This research is responding to the latest sustainable development policy for residential housing in Australia, which mandates a minimum R6.0 for roof insulation and a requirement of reporting the embodied carbon footprint for new build res…
View article: Evolving Job Roles of Women in the Construction Industry
Evolving Job Roles of Women in the Construction Industry Open
As the construction industry faces labor shortages, it is important to tap into the talents and potential of women. This study conducted a systematic literature review (SLR) to explore the job roles of women in the construction industry an…
View article: Development of an orally bioavailable CDK12/13 degrader and induction of synthetic lethality with AKT pathway inhibition
Development of an orally bioavailable CDK12/13 degrader and induction of synthetic lethality with AKT pathway inhibition Open
Cyclin-dependent kinases 12/13 play pivotal roles in orchestrating transcription elongation, DNA damage response, and maintenance of genomic stability. Biallelic CDK12 loss has been documented in various malignancies. Here, we develop a se…
View article: Analysis of Gender Diversity Initiatives to Empower Women in the Australian Construction Industry
Analysis of Gender Diversity Initiatives to Empower Women in the Australian Construction Industry Open
Organizations play an essential role in fostering a diverse and inclusive work environment. Despite attempts to encourage gender diversity in the workplace, the construction industry in Australia remains one of the most male-dominated indu…
View article: Framework for Promoting Women’s Career Development across Career Stages in the Construction Industry
Framework for Promoting Women’s Career Development across Career Stages in the Construction Industry Open
Despite efforts to promote gender diversity, the construction industry in Australia remains one of the most male-dominated industries. Women, compared to their male counterparts, progress more slowly and encounter major obstacles to career…
View article: Uni-SMART: Universal Science Multimodal Analysis and Research Transformer
Uni-SMART: Universal Science Multimodal Analysis and Research Transformer Open
In scientific research and its application, scientific literature analysis is crucial as it allows researchers to build on the work of others. However, the fast growth of scientific knowledge has led to a massive increase in scholarly arti…
View article: SciAssess: Benchmarking LLM Proficiency in Scientific Literature Analysis
SciAssess: Benchmarking LLM Proficiency in Scientific Literature Analysis Open
Recent breakthroughs in Large Language Models (LLMs) have revolutionized scientific literature analysis. However, existing benchmarks fail to adequately evaluate the proficiency of LLMs in this domain, particularly in scenarios requiring h…
View article: Cobra Effect in Reference-Free Image Captioning Metrics
Cobra Effect in Reference-Free Image Captioning Metrics Open
Evaluating the compatibility between textual descriptions and corresponding images represents a core endeavor within multi-modal research. In recent years, a proliferation of reference-free methods, leveraging visual-language pre-trained m…
View article: A new perspective from hypertournaments to tournaments
A new perspective from hypertournaments to tournaments Open
A $k$-tournament $H$ on $n$ vertices is a pair $(V, A)$ for $2\leq k\leq n$, where $V(H)$ is a set of vertices, and $A(H)$ is a set of all possible $k$-tuples of vertices, such that for any $k$-subset $S$ of $V$, $A(H)$ contains exactly on…
View article: Developing and validating a positive mental health scale for the global south construction industry: the construction industry positive mental health inventory (CI-PMHI)
Developing and validating a positive mental health scale for the global south construction industry: the construction industry positive mental health inventory (CI-PMHI) Open
Purpose Promoting positive mental health is increasingly being encouraged as the focus of research and policies on the mental health of construction personnel. Most measures of mental health, however, typically use negative indicators such…
View article: Biomimetic Surface Engineering to Modulate the Coffee-Ring Effect for Amyloid-β Detection in Rat Brains
Biomimetic Surface Engineering to Modulate the Coffee-Ring Effect for Amyloid-β Detection in Rat Brains Open
Surface engineering of nanoparticles has been widely used in biosensing and assays, where sensitivity was mainly limited by plasmonic colour change or electrochemical responses. Here, we report a novel biomimetic sensing strategy involving…
View article: A scoping review of research on mental health conditions among young construction workers
A scoping review of research on mental health conditions among young construction workers Open
Purpose Current research on mental health in the construction industry is fragmented, making it difficult to obtain a complete picture of young construction workers’ mental health conditions. This situation adversely affects research progr…
View article: Bounding and Filling: A Fast and Flexible Framework for Image Captioning
Bounding and Filling: A Fast and Flexible Framework for Image Captioning Open
Most image captioning models following an autoregressive manner suffer from significant inference latency. Several models adopted a non-autoregressive manner to speed up the process. However, the vanilla non-autoregressive manner results i…
View article: Promoting positive mental health among young construction workers: the role of theory
Promoting positive mental health among young construction workers: the role of theory Open
The post-modern approach to improving young peoples’ mental health emphasizes the need to promote positive mental health. However, research on young construction workers’ mental health has focused mainly on negative mental health, e.g. dep…
View article: DEVO: an ontology to assist with dermoscopic feature standardization
DEVO: an ontology to assist with dermoscopic feature standardization Open
Background The utilization of dermoscopic analysis is becoming increasingly critical for diagnosing skin diseases by physicians and even artificial intelligence. With the expansion of dermoscopy, its vocabulary has proliferated, but the ra…
View article: Development of a gating grid driver of TPC for exotic beam experiments
Development of a gating grid driver of TPC for exotic beam experiments Open
The Multi-purpose Time Projection Chamber (TPC) for nuclear AsTrophysical and Exotic beam experiments (MATE) is being upgraded for the decay and active target experiments at the Heavy Ion Research Facility in Lanzhou (HIRFL). We have devel…
View article: Linear saturation numbers of Berge-$C_3$ and Berge-$C_4$
Linear saturation numbers of Berge-$C_3$ and Berge-$C_4$ Open
The linear saturation number $sat^{lin}_k(n,\mathcal{F})$ (linear extremal number $ex^{lin}_k(n,\mathcal{F})$) of $\mathcal{F}$ is the minimum (maximum) number of hyperedges of an $n$-vertex linear $k$-uniform hypergraph containing no memb…
View article: A Conceptual Framework to Promote the Transition to Positive Mental Health among Young Construction Workers
A Conceptual Framework to Promote the Transition to Positive Mental Health among Young Construction Workers Open
There is a need to promote the mental health and well-being of young people who work in the construction industry worldwide. Although research exists on young construction workers’ mental health, it conceptualises mental health as a diseas…
View article: Dynamic Progress Monitoring of Masonry Construction through Mobile SLAM Mapping and As-Built Modeling
Dynamic Progress Monitoring of Masonry Construction through Mobile SLAM Mapping and As-Built Modeling Open
Traditional progress monitoring can be inaccurate and time-consuming, potentially causing time delay and cost overrun in construction projects. With development in technology, tools such as cameras, laser scanners, and building information…
View article: Anti-NMDA Receptor Autoimmune Encephalitis: Diagnosis and Management Strategies
Anti-NMDA Receptor Autoimmune Encephalitis: Diagnosis and Management Strategies Open
Anti-N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor (NMDAR) encephalitis is the most recognized form of autoimmune encephalitis. It is characterized by a constellation of neurologic and psychiatric features along with positive NMDAR antibody, which is more…