Edible Bird's Nest treatment effects on subchondral bone and articular cartilage changes and synovial fluid proteome profiles in an osteoarthritis rabbit model by Syed Sulaiman, Sharifah Zakiah

“…The joints were subjected to micro-computed tomographic (micro-CT) analysis and histological evaluation. …”
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Monitoring human arboviral diseases through wastewater surveillance: challenges, progress and future opportunities by Lee, Wei Lin, Gu, Xiaoqiong, Armas, Federica, Leifels, Mats, Wu, Fuqing, Chandra, Franciscus, Chua, Desmond Feng Jun, Syenina, Ayesa, Chen, Hongjie, Cheng, Dan, Ooi, Eng Eong, Wuertz, Stefan, Alm, Eric J., Thompson, Janelle

“…Arboviral epidemics have increased in frequency, magnitude and geographical extent over the past decades and are expected to continue increasing with climate change and expanding urbanisation. …”
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Nanotechnology in food production: a comprehensive bibliometric analysis using R-package by Rajendran, Salini Devi, Wahab, Siti Norida, Yeap, Swee Pin, Kamarulzaman, Nitty Hirawaty, Abdul Halim Lim, Sarina

“…The findings of this study are reported using standard bibliometric indicators including source title, source type, document type, publication year, subject area, languages, keywords analysis, authorship, citation analysis, geographical distribution, and active institutions. According to our findings, the number of publications on nanotechnology in food production has increased dramatically since 2003. …”
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Tshangla verb inflections: a preliminary sketch by Andvik, Erik

“…However, the language described by Zhang and Sun is spoken in a cluster of communities geographically separated from Bhutan by several hundred miles, namely the region formerly known as Padma-bkod, located near the point where the Tsangpo River (Siang), crosses the McMahon Line. …”
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中国汽车工业的产业结构及其调整战略 = The industrial structure of China's automobile industry and its reform by 王舜 Wang, Shun

“…The finding is that the Chinese automobile industry is featured as too many firms, too fragmented geographically, too isolated between firms in production corporation. …”
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The iPod index. by Lee, Ferena Jiamei., Lim, Hui Qi., Ng, Jaime Hong Ming., Tan, Rachel Yuting.

“…The 36 countries are also grouped according to regions to see if there are any geographical effects. T-tests are also conducted to see if the individual currency and regions deviate significantly from the parity. …”
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Search in location based social network by Lew, Stephanie Yin Hui.

“…With a location aware search engine, users can submit geographically constrained searches against a structured database of spatial objects. …”
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Influence of rainfall pattern on suction distribution and slope stability by Lee, Min Lee

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Characteristics of religious diversity in mid-nineteenth century Warwickshire: a study of the 1851 religious census by Geary, F

“…This study is rooted in the geographical, socio-economic and religious contexts of Warwickshire in the middle of the nineteenth century, drawing original raw material from transcriptions of the Warwickshire returns of the Religious Census. …”

Canopy functional trait variation across Earth’s tropical forests by Aguirre Gutierrez, J, Rifai. SW, Deng, X, Thomson, E, Wallin, G, Berenguer, E, Girardin, CAJ, Oliveras-Menor, I, Riutta, T, Zhang, H, Malhi, Y

“…This situation arises in part out of a lack of understanding of how and why the functional properties of tropical forest canopies vary geographically. Here, we combine field-collected data from more than 1800 vegetation plots and tree traits and merge these with satellite remote sensing, terrain, climate and soil data to predict variation across 13 tree morphological, structural and chemical functional traits, using these to compute and map the functional diversity of tropical forests. …”

Protracted carbon burial following the Early Jurassic Toarcian Oceanic Anoxic Event (Posidonia Shale, Lower Saxony Basin, Germany) by Celestino, RFS, Ruhl, M, Dickson, AJ, Idiz, E, Jenkyns, HC, Leng, MJ, Mattioli, E, Minisini, D, Hesselbo, SP

“…The bio- and chemostratigraphic framework presented demonstrates that (i) the rock record of the T-OAE at the studied locality registered highly condensed sedimentation and/or multiple hiatuses and (ii) the deposition of organic-rich black shale extended significantly beyond the level of the T-OAE, thereby contrasting with well-studied sections of the Posidonia Shale in southern Germany but showing similarities with geographically nearby basins such as the Paris Basin (France). …”

Shattered nation: inequality and the geography of a failing state by Dorling, D

“…In Shattered Nation, leading geographer and author of Inequality and the 1% shows that we are growing further and further apart. …”

Molecular detection of feline leukemia virus (FeLV) in clinically ill local cats by Mummoorthy, Kunambiga

“…Therefore, this study aim to detect FeLV antigen in clinically ill cats by RT-PCR and to compare the currently identified variant similarity with previous related virus isolates from Malaysia and other geographical distribution. By using convenience sampling method, plasma and saliva were collected from 15 clinically ill cats and 5 healthy cats from Gasing Veterinary Hospital. …”
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Pandemic Marine Risks Assessment for Marine Spatial Planning (MSP): A Case Study of Northport, Malaysia by Parmen, Ayati, Mohamad, Nazirah, Ismail, Badrul Hisham, Opaluwa, Yusuf Drisu

“…These results can be integrated into Geographical Information System (GIS) and Multi Criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA) to convert them from numerical values to spatial data, and visualize them hierarchically. …”

Knowledge transfer across dissimilar cultures by Boh, Wai Fong, Nguyen, T. T., Xu, Yun

“…Practical implications – This paper contributes to the literature in cross border knowledge transfer, showing that due to geographical distance or cultural differences between the HQ and the subsidiary, the cultivation of trust and openness to diversity on the part of local employees is critical for knowledge transfer.…”
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The spectacularization of NGOs accountability in disaster situations: evidence from the 2015 Nepal’s earthquakes by Adhikari, Pawan, Upadhaya, Bedanand, Dhakal Adhikari, Shovita, Aryal, Sanjaya, Wijethilake, Chaminda

“…Such requirements put certain NGOs, which were established to pursue political and personal goals, in a position to benefit from the situation, allowing them to obfuscate the ground level reality, for instance by manipulating the number of beneficiaries and geographical areas served, showcasing their performance on social media and facilitating pseudo-ceremonies and participation. …”
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Weather radar to study rain and cloud events by Tan, Xin Yi

“…A relation for melting layer’s height and ground temperature was noticed and a trend in melting layer’s height was seen as it shifts from tropical, sub-tropical and temperature climate. Even the geographical location such as inland, coastal or island cities had certain effect on the melting layer. …”
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Reconstructing prehistoric lifeways using multi-Isotope analyses of human enamel, dentine, and bone from Legaire Sur, Spain by Griffith, JI, James, HF, Ordoño, J, Fernández-Crespo, T, Gerritzen, CT, Cheung, C, Spros, R, Claeys, P, Goderis, S, Veselka, B, Snoeck, C

“…Oxygen and strontium isotope analysis suggest all individuals come from a similar, likely local, geological region, aside from one biological female who presents a notably different geographical birthplace, weaning, and dietary life history than the rest of the burial population. …”

Medical tourism in South East Asia: Science mapping of present and future trends by Muhammad Ashraf, Fauzi, Norhana, Mohd Aripin, Nur Sofia Nabila, Alimin, Ting, Irene Wei Kiong, Wider, Walton, Siti Sarah, Maidin, Zainul-Abideen, Ahmed Yousif Abbas

“…This study evaluates the knowledge structure of medical tourism within the geographical context of South East Asia. This region is one of the growing economic powerhouses in the world, and tourism activities have contributed a lot to its advancement. …”
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Application of a targeted-enrichment methodology for full-genome sequencing of Dengue 1-4, Chikungunya and Zika viruses directly from patient samples by Kamaraj, Uma Sangumathi, Tan, Jun Hao, Pan, Louise, Chawla, Tanu, Ong, Xin Mei, Uehara, Anna, Wang, Lin-Fa, Ooi, Eng Eong, Gubler, Duane J., Tissera, Hasitha, Ng, Lee Ching, Wilder-Smith, Annelies, de Sessions, Paola Florez, Barkham, Timothy, Anderson, Danielle E., Sessions, October Michael

“…The frequency of epidemics caused by Dengue viruses 1–4, Zika virus and Chikungunya viruses have been on an upward trend in recent years driven primarily by uncontrolled urbanization, mobility of human populations and geographical spread of their shared vectors, Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus. …”
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