Toxicological evaluation of Sargassum polycystum in mice with loperamide-induced constipation by Chittipong Tipbunjong, Tanaporn Hengpratom, Saranya Peerakietkhajorn, Jaruwan Mayakun, Nawiya Huipao, Pissared Khuituan, Piyaporn Surinlert, Chumpol Pholpramool

“…Additionally, no significant differences in blood haematological and biochemical indices between the control, constipation and SPE-treated groups were detected. Histopathological examinations revealed non-toxic effects in liver, kidney and colon tissue samples from the SPE-treated groups compared with the control and constipation groups. …”
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The road to federalism : finding the middle ground in Nepal, Myanmar and Sri Lanka by Breen, Michael Gerard

“…Following the establishment of post-World War II modern nation-states, many Asian countries including Nepal, Myanmar and Sri Lanka sought to nation build on the basis of their dominant ethnic group’s identity, to the exclusion of smaller ethnic groups. …”
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Ethnicity and anthropometric deficits in children: A cross-sectional analysis of national survey data from 18 countries in sub-Saharan Africa by Tusting, LS, Mishra, S, Gibson, HS, Lindsay, SW, Weiss, DJ, Flaxman, S, Bhatt, S

“…The SDGs recommend disaggregation of health indicators by ethnic group. However, few studies have assessed how ethnicity is associated with anthropometric deficits across SSA. …”

Investigation of the effects of self-myofascial release combined with static stretching on muscle parameters representing tone, elasticity and stiffness using the MyotonPRO by Tan, Dominic Swee Pin

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Participatory monitoring in farmer field school program through Whatsapp among indigenous farmers in rural Sarawak, Malaysia by Agnese, Federica, Othman, Zakirah, Mitin, Anni, Wan Yahaya, Wan Ahmad Jaafar

“…Descriptive analysis was performed on a 182-day WhatsApp Group chat taking place from 17 September 2019 to 16 March 2020. …”
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The physisorption mechanism of SO2 on graphitized carbon by Tan, Johnathan Shiliang, Do, D. D., Chew, Jia Wei

“…The results indicate that the functional group has a negligible effect on the enhancement of adsorption and its role is to localize 2D-clusters of SO2 molecules. …”
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Development of solar power systems for solar UAV : evaluation of nomura MPPTs at sub-zero temperatures & solar modules encapsulation by Teo, Boon Rong

“…The author chose to be involved in the Solar Group, which has 4 group members. In this group, the author and a team member, Jason, was tasked to work on the Solar Panels section. …”
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Identification of lactic acid bacteria from chili bo, a Malaysian food ingredient by Leisner, Jørgen J., Pot, Bruno, Christensen, Henrik, Rusul, Gulam

“…Two other strains did not belong to any previously described 16S rRNA group of LAB and occupied an intermediate position between the L. casei/Pediococcus group and the Weissella group and species of Carnobacterium. …”
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Circularly polarized antennas and phased arrays for 5G applications by Hu, Yiyun

“…The 4×4 beam scanning array adopts a similar feeding network as the 2×2 sub-array and the 1×4 antenna group placed along the phi=90° axis is used as the unit for beam scanning. …”
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Introduction - Oxford Energy Forum – Issue, 98

“…These circumstances have coincided with the North American unconventional boom and Mexico’s landmark reform that brought the Americas back onto the industry map again.</p> <p>Since the pre-salt discoveries in Brazil – which are underway to reach their first production milestone – were first announced in 2007, a new wave of diverse potential opportunities has emerged. …”

Autoinhibition releasing provides a platform for developing p21-activated kinase-1 (PAK1) activators for hypertrophic heart diseases by He, Y

“…Moreover, molecular dynamics simulations, combined with crystallographic and kinase kinetic studies provided evidence elucidating that these molecules activate PAK1 through neutralising its autoinhibitory regulation, and mapped out detailed conformational states that PAK1 undergoes during this regulatory process.…”

Spatio-temporal enhanced sparse feature selection for video saliency estimation by Luo, Ye, Tian, Qi

“…Features selected spatio-temporally are enhanced and fused together to generate the proposed video saliency maps. Comparisons with several state-of-th-art methods on two public video datasets further demonstrate the effectiveness of our method.…”
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Big data analytics for smart transportation by Tan, Jenny Ya Ting

“…In this report, it will elaborate on how this project is implemented using Python, Django Framework, MySQL database and MapBoxGL to achieve the main objective of this project.…”
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Debonding of adhesively bonded composite joints by Murugesh, Sanjay Matthew

“…In this study, tests were used to investigate the failure characteristics between different types of adhesives. To create a debonding map, glass fibre reinforced polymer (GFRP), Aluminium (AL) and Titanium (TI) alloy sheets were joined together using a modified epoxy film adhesive (tailored adhesive). …”
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Inverse and pseudo-inverse prefixes in Kiranti languages: evidence from Belhare, Athpare, and Dungmali by Ebert, Karen H.

“…No further information is available about the situation of Dungmali. (Please see map p. 91.)…”
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Iterated MIDO space-time code constructions by Markin, Nadya, Oggier, Frederique

“…We present an iterated construction, which allows us to start with any algebraic 2 × 2 space-time code, and map it to a 4 × 4 MIDO code, for which a criterion for full diversity is available. …”
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Z8-Kerdock codes and pseudorandom binary sequences by Lahtonen, Jyrki, Ling, San, Sole, Patrick, Zinoviev, Dmitrii

“…We study the binary sequences of period n - 1 obtained from their cyclic version by using the most significant bit (MSB)-map.The relevant Boolean functions are of degree 4 in general. …”
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Beyond kinetic harm and towards a dynamic conceptualization of cyberterrorism by Straub, VJ

“…This article presents the result of an integrative review which maps the development of the term and which situates the epistemic communities that have shaped the debate. …”

VR-CFD : interactive simulation of computational fluid dynamics by Yang, Sida

“…The developed VR-CFD application utilized an attractive design with bright colours, familiar game characters and game-like user interface aimed to make the introductory CFD class fun, interactive and engaging, helping students intuitively grasp the physics concepts. It is hoped that with further development on the early prototype demonstrated in this paper, the VR-CFD application could truly contribute to students’ learning in fluid dynamics problems and how CFD is used to solve them, therefore revolutionizing the way traditional mechanical engineering subjects are taught in class.…”
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Crystal phase control in two-dimensional materials by Wang, Jialiang, Wei, Yang, Li, Hai, Huang, Xiao, Zhang, Hua

“…In this contribution, we review the recent development of crystal phase control in 2D materials, including group V and VI. transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs), group IVA metal chalcogenides and noble metals. …”
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