Market surveillance of porcine DNA detection in commercial food products in Sibu, Sarawak by Yong, S.P. A., Sajali, N., Desa, M. N. M., Koh, C. C., Sani, M., Wong, S. C., Lani, M. N., Wasoh, H., Abubakar, S.

“…Porcine adulteration in food products is unacceptable to consumers who avoid pork consumption due to religious or health reasons; hence, detecting pork and its derivatives in food products is vital. …”
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Differentiation of lard from other fat in pastry products using fourier transform infrared spectroscopy combined multivariate analysis by Mohamed Rani, Wan Siti Farizan

“…The determination of lard in pastry products is increasing important in the food industry. Hence, this study was used Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy combined with chemometric analysis for investigating the lard adulteration in the pastry products. …”
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Relationships between general self-efficacy, number of counselling sessions, mandated counselling satisfaction and readiness to change among institutionalised adolescents in Malays... by Muhammad Shariff Paul, Azzah Sabrina

“…Furthermore, the popularity of mandated counselling as part of behavioural treatment among institutionalised adolescents in Malaysia strengthens the justification of the current research. Hence, the current research determined to study the relationships between general self-efficacy, number of counselling sessions, mandated counselling satisfaction and readiness to change among institutionalised adolescents in Malaysia. …”
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Intracranial volume post cranial expansion surgery using 3D CT scan imaging in children with craniosynostosis by Sulong, Shukriyah

“…Again the p-value was insignificant (P> 1.0). Hence, there were no significant resolution in copper beaten sign and improvement in neurodevelopmental delay in this study. …”
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Optimization and mechanistic insight of phenol removal using an effective green kaolin adsorbent through experimental and computational approaches by Zubir, Aisyah, Erna Normaya, Erna Normaya, Zuhaidi, Nurul Huda, Goh, Pei Sean, Mat Piah, Mohd. Bijarimi, Ismail, Mohamad Wafiuddin, Show, Pau Loke, Ismail, Ahmad Fauzi, Ahmad, Mohammad Norazmi

“…The discharge of phenols into the aquatic environment has detrimentally affected human health and the aquatic ecosystem. Hence, removing phenols from polluted water bodies has been a global concern. …”

A recent development on core-shell-based material and their application in membranes for water and wastewater treatment by Dinia Astira, Dinia Astira, Abdullah, Romario, Widyanto, Alvin Rahmad, Cipta Dharma, Hadi Nugraha, Santoso, Liangga, Sulistiono, Dety Oktavia, Zeni Rahmawati, Zeni Rahmawati, Gunawan, Triyanda, Jaafar, Juhana, Othman, Mohd Hafiz Dzarfan, Ratna Ediati, Ratna Ediati, Muhammad Hasan, Muhammad Hasan, Fansuri, Hamzah

“…On the other hand, when used in the form of powder or solid, there are various challenges associated with its application, including the complications of separation, susceptibility to saturation, and the issue of leaching. Hence, one of the solutions is to develop core–shell-based materials in the form of membranes or incorporate them into a membrane matrix. …”

Food Expenditure of the B40 Households: Developing a Decision-Support System for Food Price Determination in Malaysia (S/O14168) by Jan, Soon Jan, Applanaidu, Shri Dewi, Abdul Adzis, Azira, Zainal Abidin, Norhaslinda

“…The B40 group spends almost 80% of income on routine essential expenses, with the highest proportion spent on food and non-alcoholic beverages. Hence, any spikes in food prices will impact this income group the most. …”
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Dynamic stabilization of formation fines to enhance oil recovery of a medium permeability sandstone core at reservoir conditions by Agi, Augustine Aja, Radzuan, Junin, Mohd Zaidi, Jaafar, Zulkifli, Abdul Majid, Nor Aishah Saidina, Amin, Akhmal, Sidek, Yakasai, Faruk, Muhammad Abbas Ahmad, Zaini, Azrul Nurfaiz, Mohd Faizal, Gbadamosi, Afeez Olayinka, Sirajo, Lawal, Oseh, Jeffrey Onuoma

“…However, previous studies on the use of nanoparticles to combat this problem were not done at reservoir condition and the effect of porous media length was neglected. Hence, the objective of this study is to use mesoporous silica (SiO2) nanoparticles (MSNP) to stabilize formation fines to increase oil recovery during low salinity water flooding at reservoir condition. …”
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Direct seeding of mass-cultured coral larvae is not an effective option for reef rehabilitation by Edwards, Alasdair J., Guest, James R., Heyward, Andrew J., Villanueva, Ronald D., Baria, Ma. Vanessa, Bollozos, Iris S. F., Golbuu, Yimnang

“…Large-scale rearing of coral larvae during mass spawning events and subsequent direct introduction of competent larvae onto denuded reefs (‘larval seeding’) has been proposed as a low-tech and affordable way of enhancing coral settlement and hence recovery of degraded reefs. While some studies have shown positive short-term effects on settlement, to date, none have examined the long-term effects of larval seeding for a broadcast-spawning coral. …”
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“双城” 新加坡与香港 ： “一带一路”的策略及其反应 = “Twin Cities” Singapore and Hong Kong : belt road initiative strategies and responses by Tham, Kok Yung

“…Paper will show that Singaporeans are relatively consistent with the government argument, while the Hong Kongese had presented their multifaceted political and economic concerns on it. Hence, analysis will show that during the course of interaction, both cities halted at the political and business level, shortcoming of involving in the integration of the social level and these highlightened their limitations and perspectives on the initiative.…”
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TriviA and uTriviA : two fast and secure authenticated encryption schemes by Chakraborti, Avik, Chattopadhyay, Anupam, Muhammad Hassan, Mridul Nandi

“…TriviA-v2 uses a pairwise independent hash which is an adaptation of the EHC or “Encode-Hash-Combine” hash that requires the optimum number of field multiplications and hence requires small hardware footprint. uTriviA uses a pairwise independent hash which is an adaptation of the HC or “Hash-Combine” hash which is close to EHC but does not use any encode function. …”
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Wind tunnel design and fabrication for lift force investigation by Ong, Jun Wei

“…However, a good and accurate sting balance is very costly. Hence, this project will focus on designing an experiment set-up that is relatively cheaper and suitable for the budget allocated. …”
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Remarkably distinct mechanical flexibility in three structurally similar semiconducting organic crystals studied by nanoindentation and molecular dynamics by Devarapalli, Ramesh, Kadambi, Sourabh Bhagwan, Chen, Chun-Teh, Krishna, Gamidi Rama, Kammari, Bal Raju, Buehler, Markus J., Ramamurty, Upadrasta, Reddy, C. Malla

“…The results emphasize that the alkyl side chains in functional organic crystals may be exploited for tuning their self-assembly as well as their mechanical properties. Hence, the study has broad implications, for example, in crystal engineering of various flexible, ordered molecular materials.…”
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High performance thin nonwovens for thermal insulation by Lou, Bi Ying

“…So, development of high-performance thin thermal insulation materials is essential to increase comfort, structural stability, and compression recovery, and to decrease the cost, and complexity. Hence, in this work, an effort had been made to create thin and light weight nonwovens with high thermal insulation performance. …”
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ZkRep: a privacy-preserving scheme for reputation-based blockchain system by Huang, Chenyu, Zhao, Yongjun, Chen, Huangxun, Wang, Xu, Zhang, Qian, Chen, Yanjiao, Wang, Huaxiong, Lam, Kwok-Yan

“…However, most existing works only consider static adversaries. Hence, they are vulnerable to slowly adaptive attackers, who can target validators with high reputation value to severely degrade the system performance. …”
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2023 roadmap for materials for quantum technologies by Becher, Christoph, Gao, Weibo, Kar, Swastik, Marciniak, Christian D., Monz, Thomas, Bartholomew, John G., Goldner, Philippe, Loh, Huanqian, Marcellina, Elizabeth, Goh, Johnson Kuan Eng, Koh, Teck Seng, Weber, Bent, Mu, Zhao, Tsai, Jeng-Yuan, Yan, Qimin, Huber-Loyola, Tobias, Höfling, Sven, Gyger, Samuel, Steinhauer, Stephan, Zwiller, Val

“…Advancing these materials frontiers will require innovations from a diverse community of scientific expertise, and hence this roadmap will be of interest to a broad spectrum of disciplines.…”
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High-performance thermomagnetic generator controlled by a magnetocaloric switch by Liu, Xianliang, Chen, Haodong, Huang, Jianyi, Qiao, Kaiming, Yu, Ziyuan, Xie, Longlong, Ramanujan, Raju V., Hu, Fengxia, Chu, Ke, Long, Yi, Zhang, Hu

“…Low grade waste heat accounts for ~65% of total waste heat, but conventional waste heat recovery technology exhibits low conversion efficiency for low grade waste heat recovery. Hence, we designed a thermomagnetic generator for such applications. …”
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Accelerated multi-property screening of Fe–Co–Ni alloy libraries by hyper-heuristic combinatorial flow synthesis and high-throughput spark plasma sintering by Padhy, Shakti P., Tan, Li Ping, Varma, Vijaykumar B., Chaudhary, V., Tsakadze, Zviad, Ramanujan, Raju V

“…However, HT methods are limited by the need for expensive robotic systems, complicated methodology, and low yield. Hence, we developed a hyper-heuristic combinatorial flow synthesis (HCFS) device capable of composition gradient generation and production of an adequate mass of Fe–Co–Ni alloy nanoparticles. …”
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Mechanical properties of additively manufactured kraft paper lattices and paper-epoxy interpenetrating phase composites for polymer foam replacement by Lim, Guo Yao, Kuek, Ryan Jian Xing, Teo, Javen, Seetoh, Ian Peiyuan, Lai, Chang Quan

“…Conversely, finite element simulations indicate that stresses were better distributed in the isostress orientation and hence, such lattices were stronger. The addition of epoxy matrix into an Octet Truss paper lattice increased its specific stiffness, specific strength and isotropy significantly. …”
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Deep neural network technique for automated detection of ADHD and CD using ECG signal by Loh, Hui Wen, Ooi, Chui Ping, Oh, Shu Lih, Barua, Prabal Datta, Tan, Yi Ren, Molinari, Filippo, March, Sonja, Acharya, U. Rajendra, Fung, Daniel Shuen Sheng

“…We hope that by conducting this pilot study, we will be able to encourage larger-scale research with a larger biosignal dataset. Hence allowing biosignal-based computer-aided diagnostic (CAD) tools to be implemented in healthcare and ambulatory settings, as ECG can be easily obtained via wearable devices such as smartwatches.…”
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