The effects of Indonesia's ‘Midwife in the Village’ programme 10 years post-launch by Triyana, Margaret

“…The results indicate that only the programme’s effect on the use of prenatal care services persisted, and that the loss of village midwives during the crisis had no significant effect on pregnancy outcomes.…”
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Successes and failures of cultural theme parks in Singapore. by Cheng, Yong Hui., Lim, Junie Ling., Ng, Kae Leong.

“…A SWOT analysis used in context within Swarbrooke's model had been conducted for our study. In particular, two case studies, namely Tang Dynasty and Haw Part Villa, were carried out, due to their parallelism in terms of the cultural theme which they provide. …”
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The challenge of the unique and unprecedented, comment on Agnihorti et al. (2021) by Bates, J, Lancelotti, C, Suryanarayan, A, Madella, M

“…Using a combination of microbotanical, geochemical and isotopic analysis they argued that the objects were multi-grained food-balls that had ritual and social functions, with further reaching implications for adaptations to much later period climate change in the Late Harappan. …”

On political tradition and ideology: Russian dimensions of practical Zionism and Israeli politics by Rabkin, Y, Yadgar, Y

“…The Russian Empire and its neighbors, which form most of today’s Eastern Europe and large swaths of Central Europe, was the homeland of most early Zionist settlers. They had acquired experience in a range of clandestine political organizations in the Russian Empire. …”

Road capacity, domestic trade and regional outcomes by Coşar, AK, Demir, B, Ghose, D, Young, N

“…Reductions in travel times increased local employment-to-population ratio but had no effect on local population. We extend the model by endogenizing the labor supply decision to capture this finding. …”

Neutralizing autoantibodies against interleukin-10 in inflammatory bowel disease by Griffin, H, Ceron-Gutierrez, L, Gharahdaghi, N, Ebrahimi, S, Davies, S, Loo, PS, Szabo, A, Williams, E, Mukhopadhyay, A, McLoughlin, L, Irwin, S, Travis, S, Klenerman, P, Bunn, S, Cant, AJ, Hambleton, S, Uhlig, HH, Doffinger, R

“…A second child with neutralizing anti–interleukin-10 autoantibodies had a milder course of IBD and has been treated without B-cell depletion. …”

Emergency hysterectomy following iatrogenic injury to the descending branch of the uterine artery during colposcopy by Soleymani majd, H, Yancheva, S, Abdul, B, Hellner, K

“…Here, we present a rare case resulting in emergency hysterectomy. A healthy para 3, who had been diagnosed with microscopic cancer of the cervix, attended colposcopy for repeat excision. …”

Building fame through tea: the Wu Family and the Manufacture of zisha teapots during the Ming and Qing dynasties by Gao, X, Hein, A

“…This study found that the authors of these texts were all connected to the Wu family. This family had success in imperial examinations but wanted to raise their social profile further via their involvement in tea and teaware production and connoisseurship. …”

Coping with peripheralization in small cities. What is the role of human agency? by Bosák, V, Slach, O, Paszová, L, Hýllová, L, Mykhnenko, V, Krtička, L, Nováček, A

“…The agency of public providers (in contrast to private providers) in the foundational economy has buffered the impact of peripheralization on the well-being of residents, while the agency of companies in the competitive economy has had a major impact on path development and demographic change.…”

Assessing the Islamic State’s commitment to attacking the West by Hegghammer, T, Nesser, P

“…We examine IS statements and take stock of IS-related attack plots in Western Europe, North America, and Australia from January 2011 through June 2015 using a new dataset of jihadi plots and a new typology of links between organizations and attackers. IS appears to have had a decentralized attack strategy based on encouraging sympathiser attacks while not mounting centrally directed operations of their own. …”

Purification and molecular properties of papaya pectinesterase by Fayyaz, A., Asbi, B.A., Ghazali, H.M., Che Man, Y.B., Jinap, S.

“…The enzyme was eluted in a single peak after CmdashSephadex and Sephadex G-100 chromatography. The purified enzyme had a uniform specific activity throughout the final chromatographic peak. …”
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Effect of tocotrienol on the activities of cytosolic glutathione-dependent enzymes in rats treated with 2-acetylaminofluorene by Shamaan, Nor Aripin, Wan Ngah, Wan Zurinah, Ibrahim, Rusli, Jarien, Zanariah

“…Tocotrienol on its own had no effect on the enzyme activities. © 1993.…”
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A Conceptual Framework in Developing a New Location Model by Hamid, Hashibah, Ngu, Penny Ai Huong

“…However, the smoothed location model had smoothed all the cells either empty or not, where the smoothing process causing changes to the original information of the non-empty cells. …”
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Islamic Retail Banking - An Integrated Customer Centric Framework to Study Intentions to Use Islamic Banking Products in Malaysia (S/O: 12921) by Abdul Rahman, Maria, Ramli, Mona Fairuz, Chauhan, Ajay

“…This study had attempted to develop an integrated customer centric research framework to study usage of IB products. …”
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Studies of bioactivity of proteins encapsulated in liposomes by Ho, Amelia May Teng.

“…One of the leading causes for blindness in the developed world is Age-related macular degeneration (AMD). …”
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Universal, Intuitive, and Permanent Pictograms : A Human-Centered Design Process Grounded in Embodied Cognition, Semiotics, and Visual Perception / by Bühler, Daniel, author 643113

“…This book presents a complete human-centered design process (ISO 9241:210) that had two goals: to design universal, intuitive, and permanent pictograms and to develop a process for designing suitable pictograms. …”

POWER TO CHOOSE / by Sargent, Haydn, author 656354

“…It comes from the pen of a man who has had a brush with cancer and writes with a positive view of life - DICK SMITH. …”

A computational fluid dynamics analysis of cryo-CO2 flow and thermal behaviour in high-speed milling process by Nur Fatini, Mohamad Fauzee, Nurul Hayati, Abdul Halim, Zainoor Hailmee, Solihin, Izdihar, Tharazi, Irnie Azlin, Zakaria, Musfirah, Abdul Hadi

“…The proportion of the h had a significant influence on the heat transfer. …”
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Expediting treatments in the 21st century: orphan drugs and accelerated approvals by Domike, Reuben, Raju, G. K., Sullivan, Jamie, Kennedy, Annie

“…Both programs have had increases in their use for therapies targeting oncological diseases. …”
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Investigating Interventions in Fine-grained Contexts for Habit Formation by Khan, Mina

“…After the additional two-week post-study, without interventions, the website-entry group had the largest percentage increase in mean SRHI/SRBAI, whereas the interval-based group had the largest percentage increase in median SRHI/SRBAI. …”
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