Association between extreme heat exposure and acute physiological change among steel mill workers in Terengganu, Malaysia by Che Hasan, Nurul Atikah

“…The results from the study also shows there was no significant correlation between WBGT Index and acute health score (r=-0.5, p=0.86).The regression analysis suggested sweating (p<0.05), age (p<0.05), duration of heat exposure (hours) (p<0.001) and rating of perceived exertion (RPE) (p<0.001) are the predictors factors of acute health score (AHS). The finding in this study concluded that steel mill plant considered as a hot workplace area since most of their workplaces were exceed the acceptable temperatures, 28.2°C according to (ACGIH) Threshold Limit Value (TLV). …”
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Recent developments in chemical techniques for foulant removal from NF membranes by Samavati, Zahra, Goh, Pei Sean, Ismail, Ahmad Fauzi, Hashim, Norbaya, Kerisnan@Krishnan, Nirmala Devi, Yahaya, Nasehir Khan E. M., Raja Mamat, Raja Baharudin

“…Nanofiltration (NF) membranes find extensive use in many fields such as food processing, water treatment, and resource recovery due to their exceptional capacity to selectively separate small solutes and exhibit high permeability to water. …”
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Contribution of zeolitic imidazolate framework-8 in improving the performance of polymer electrolyte membrane for direct methanol fuel cell by Junoh, Hazlina, Awang, Nuha, Ahmad, Siti Nur Afifi, Azhar, Masaud, Jaafar, Juhana, Md. Nordin, Nik Abdul Hadi, Ismail, Ahmad Fauzi, Qtaishat, Mohammed Rasool, Matsuura, Takeshi, Othman, Mohd. Hafiz Dzarfan, Abdul Rahman, Mukhlis, Mohd. Zainoodin, Azran

“…We employed dry-wet phase inversion techniques to fabricate PES-cSMM, finding that a 3 wt% cSMM content yielded optimal results. …”

A study on the pedagogical content knowledge of Medical English teachers in medical universities in China: The problems and strategies by Kong, Yuan, Ali, Nor Liza

“…Through investigation, this study aimed to understand the pedagogical content knowledge of medical English teachers from the four dimensions: i) knowledge of content and language integration, ii) knowledge of teaching contexts and objectives, iii) knowledge of teachers and students, iv) knowledge of teaching strategies, in order to find out the potential problems, analyze the causes and make out the corresponding strategies. …”
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The Impact of Different Level of Education Towards Acceptance of Islamic House Financing by Abd Aziz, Noriza, Abu Bakar, Azizi, Abd Aziz, Ibrahim, Yusuff, Noraini, Ahmad Musadik, Siti Hajar Salwa

“…level of education, and the extent of the impact their education have on their acceptance of Islamic house financing. The finding shall enable banks to better understand and recognize this one aspect of the criteria in choosing Islamic house financing, and how these categories of customers should be pursued. …”
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Exploratory Survey on UUM Student’s Acceptance Towards the Founding of Waqf Institution For Education by Omar, Hydzulkifli Hashim, Abu Bakar, Azizi, Basary, Noor Faezah, Shuib, Mohd Sollehudin, Yusuff, Noraini

“…In cases where the above methods are deemed unsuitable, then the Nazir should try to find other alternatives to make the waqf land productive. …”
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Unexpected anthropogenic emission decreases explain recent atmospheric mercury concentration declines by Feinberg, Aryeh, Selin, Noelle E., Braban, Christine F., Chang, Kai-Lan, Custódio, Danilo, Jaffe, Daniel A., Kyllönen, Katriina, Landis, Matthew S., Leeson, Sarah R., Luke, Winston, Molepo, Koketso M., Murovec, Marijana, Nerentorp Mastromonaco, Michelle G., Aspmo Pfaffhuber, Katrine, Rüdiger, Julian, Sheu, Guey-Rong, St. Louis, Vincent L.

“…Using linear mixed effects modeling of observational data from 51 stations, we find negative Hg0 trends in most NH regions, with an overall trend for 2005 to 2020 of −0.011 ± 0.006 ng m−3 y−1 (±2 SD). …”
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Analysis of Poly(ethylene terephthalate) degradation kinetics of evolved IsPETase variants using a surface crowding model by Zhong-Johnson, En Ze Linda, Dong, Ziyue, Canova, Christopher T, Destro, Francesco, Cañellas, Marina, Hoffman, Mikaila C, Maréchal, Jeanne, Johnson, Timothy M, Zheng, Maya, Schlau-Cohen, Gabriela S, Lucas, Maria Fátima, Braatz, Richard D, Sprenger, Kayla G, Voigt, Christopher A, Sinskey, Anthony J

“…Hence, we develop a surface crowding model to analyze the biochemical effects of three hit mutations (T116P, S238N, S290P) that enhanced ambient temperature activity and/or thermostability. We find that T116P decreases susceptibility to crowding, resulting in higher PET degradation product accumulation despite no change in intrinsic catalytic rate. …”
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Plasmonic-induced overgrowth of amorphous molybdenum sulfide on nanoporous gold : an ambient synthesis method of hybrid nanoparticles with enhanced electrocatalytic activity by Phan-Quang, Gia Chuong, Yang, Zhe, Koh, Charlynn Sher Lin, Sim, Howard Yi Fan, Leong, Shi Xuan, Ling, Xing Yi

“…By tuning the concentration ratio between the precursor and NPG, the amount of MoSx particles deposited can be systematically controlled from 0.5% to 2% of the Mo/(Au + Mo) ratio. Importantly, we find that the hybrid particles exhibit higher bridging and an apical S to terminal S atomic ratio than pure molybdenum sulfide, which gives rise to their enhanced electrocatalytic performance for hydrogen evolution reaction. …”
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Genotype-specific expression and NLR repertoire contribute to phenotypic resistance diversity in Plantago lanceolata by Safdari, Pezhman, Höckerstedt, Layla, Brosche, Mikael, Salojärvi, Jarkko, Laine, Anna-Liisa

“…Analysis on the conserved NB-ARC domain demonstrated a diverse NLR repertoire in P. lanceolata consistent with the high phenotypic resistance diversity in this species. We find evidence of selection generating diversity at some of the NLR loci. …”
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Elongated magma plumbing system beneath the Coso volcanic field, California, constrained by seismic reflection tomography by Wang, Dongdong, Wu, Shucheng, Li, Tianjue, Tong, Ping, Gao, Yongxin

“…Our final velocity model reveals a prominent low-velocity body sitting right beneath the CVF at 5–20 km depths, which we interpret as a rhyolite magma reservoir that supplies heat flux to the hot springs and also feeds the volcanic activities at Coso. We find that the upper-middle crustal low-velocity body dips southwards into the lower crust, extending to regions beneath the Indian Wells Valley and the Garlock Fault at depth greater than 20 km. …”
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2D-3D perovskite memristor with low energy consumption and high stability for neural morphology calculation by Sun, Kaixuan, Wang, Qingrui, Zhou, Long, Wang, Jingjuan, Chang, Jingjing, Guo, Rui, Tay, Beng Kang, Yan, Xiaobing

“…Moreover, this perovskite-based artificial synapse has ultra-low power consumption due to the switchable p-i-n structure in organic-inorganic halide perovskites. Our finding highlights the immense application potential of the 2D-3D perovskite memristor in the future neuromorphic computing system.…”
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Valley-optical absorption in planar transition metal dichalcogenide superlattices by Hashemi, R., Shojaei, S., Rezaei, B., Liu, Zheng

“…Moreover, the role of incident light angle and light polarization were studied in details at different valleys of [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text]. The most important finding is that by changing the polarization of incident light, it is possible to increase the absorption coefficients of [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text] valleys by up to 30 times. …”
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A novel eukaryotic RdRP-dependent small RNA pathway represses antiviral immunity by controlling an ERK pathway component in the black-legged tick by Feng, Canran, Torimaru, Kyosuke, Lim, Mandy Yu Theng, Chak, Li-Ling, Shiimori, Masami, Tsuji, Kosuke, Tanaka, Tetsuya, Iida, Junko, Okamura, Katsutomo

“…Here, we study sRNAs in the ISE6 cell line, which is derived from the black-legged tick, an important vector of human and animal pathogens. We find abundant classes of ~22nt sRNAs that require specific combinations of RdRPs and sRNA effector proteins (Argonautes or AGOs). …”
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LKAW: a robust watermarking method based on large kernel convolution and adaptive weight assignment by Zhang, Xiaorui, Jiang, Rui, Sun, Wei, Song, Aiguo, Wei, Xindong, Meng, Ruohan

“…Robust watermarking requires finding invariant features under multiple attacks to ensure correct extraction. …”
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Acidic corrosion behaviour of niobium-added welding overlays fabricated by self-shielded metal-cored wires by Liu, Dashuang, Wu, Yucheng, Long, Weimin, Wei, Ping, Wang, Rui, Zhou, Wei

“…In order to determine the amount of ferroniobium addition in the wire to achieve the best corrosion resistance, and find out the mechanism of ferroniobium enhancing the corrosion resistance of the welding overlays, the high-Cr iron-based welding overlays with different niobium addition were fabricated by using self-made self-shielded metal-cored wires and their acidic corrosion resistance in 3.5 wt.% NaCl solution + 0.01 mol/L HCl solution were investigated by electrochemical corrosion test. …”
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Validating Thai translations of perceptual soundscape attributes: a non-Procrustean approach with a Procrustes projection by Watcharasupat, Karn N., Ooi, Kenneth, Lam, Bhan, Ong, Zhen-Ting, Jaratjarungkiat, Sureenate, Gan Woon-Seng

“…In order to align the principal component space to the two-dimensional circumplex space, this work presents a simple and numerically stable method based on the orthogonal Procrustes projection, to find the optimal two-dimensional orthogonal transform that aligns the first two principal components with the axes corresponding to Pleasantness and Eventfulness as defined in ISO/TS 12913-3:2019. …”
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3D electron microscopy for analyzing nanoparticles in the tumor endothelium by Mladjenovic, Stefan M., Chandok, Ishaan S., Darbandi, Ali, Nguyen, Luan N. M., Stordy, Benjamin, Zhen, Mei, Chan, Warren C. W.

“…The 3DEM-NPD method allowed us to establish a metric to quantify nanoparticle transport at the single nanoparticle level and to quantify the morphological features of ~2,800 vesicles. We find that on average there are only 2.4 nanoparticles per vesicle with a theoretical maximum of 158 nanoparticles per vesicle (~66x increase). …”
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Global monitoring of volcanic SO2 degassing with unprecedented resolution from TROPOMI onboard Sentinel-5 Precursor by Barrington, Charlotte, Taisne, Benoit, Theys, N., Hedelt, P., De Smedt, I., Lerot, C., Yu, H., Vlietinck, J., Pedergnana, M., Arellano, S., Galle, B., Fernandez, D., Carlito, C. J. M., Delgado-Granados, H., Loyola, D., Van Roozendael, M.

“…Using the operational processing algorithm, we explore the benefit of improved spatial resolution to the monitoring of global volcanic degassing. We find that TROPOMI surpasses any space nadir sensor in its ability to detect weak degassing signals and captures day-to-day changes in SO2 emissions. …”
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Kinematics of Active Deformation Across the Western Kunlun Mountain Range (Xinjiang, China) and Potential Seismic Hazards Within the Southern Tarim Basin by Guilbaud, Christelle, Simoes, Martine, Barrier, Laurie, Laborde, Amandine, Van der Woerd, Jérôme, Li, Haibing, Tapponnier, Paul, Coudroy, Thomas, Murray, Andrew

“…Combining satellite images and DEMs, we achieve a detailed morphological analysis of the Yecheng–Pishan fold, where we find nine levels of incised fluvial terraces and alluvial fans. …”
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