Alkaline earth complexes supported by chelating diamido ligands by Haynes, M

“…</p> <p>A THF-free synthetic route enabled the isolation and characterisation of a new family of dimeric calcium, strontium and barium complexes bearing phenyl-substituted 1,8-bis(silylamido)naphthalene ligands, which display two distinct dimerisation modes and form unstable monomeric adducts when dissolved in THF.…”

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.

“…The study selected food products which lacked JAKIM (Jabatan Kemajuan Islam Malaysia) certified halal logo, and those bearing foreign or counterfeit halal logos in Sibu, Sarawak. …”
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Co-existing study of a radar and communication (Radcomm) system by Tan, Danial Norman Jee Chuan

“…The performance evaluation for the communication aspect of the coexisting system will be based on the bit-error rate (BER) while the detected target range will determine the performance of the radar system using range-speed response pattern (RSRP) plots.…”
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Mitigating fading effects for mobile communications by Balaji, Srinivasan

“…Performance comparison parameters like signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), bit error rate (BER) etc. are calculated and analyzed. Mitigation using diversity combining techniques is then analyzed and implemented in these fading environments. …”
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Design and simulation of periodic dielectric waveguide splitter by Ng, Kah Sheng.

“…During simulation, it is found that single mode beam splitter do not carry the ability to provide tunable outputs and quadruple mode beam splitter produce excess losses, dual mode beam splitter meanwhile, have the best results. …”
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Performance evaluations of fast frequency-hopped spread-spectrum communication systems with partial-band noise jamming and multitone jamming by Teh, Kah Chan.

“…The effects of additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN)are also taken into consideration. The bit-error rate (BER)expressions presented in this thesis are applicable to higher diver-sity levels without much extra computational complexity. …”
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Biconcave micro-optofluidic lens with low-refractive-index liquids by Song, Chaolong, Nguyen, Nam-Trung, Asundi, Anand Krishna, Low, Cassandra Lee-Ngo

“…For the characterization of the lens, a telescope system was constructed from polydimethylsiloxane lenses to collimate and expand a light beam emitted from an optical fiber. The tunable optofluidic biconcave lens focuses the parallel beam. …”
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Minimum Wage Policy Effects on Economic Efficiency and Poverty (S/O 12183) by Abd Karim, Mohd Zaini, Hassan, Sallahuddin, Gee, Chan Sok

“…First, the mere presence of minimum wage policy does not have any bearing on efficiency, poverty and income inequality. …”
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Integration of array antennas in chip package for 60-GHz radios by Liu, Duixian., Zhang, Y. P.

“…First, we evaluate fixed-beam array antennas, showing that most of them suffer from feed network complexity and require sophisticated process techniques to achieve enhanced performance. …”
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Towards robust sensing and recognition : from statistical learning to transfer learning by Yang, Jianfei

“…Four algorithms for domain adaptation have been evaluated on public visual benchmark (e.g. Image-CLEF and Office-Home) and WiFi-based gesture recognition dataset. …”
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Graph representation learning by Zhang, Xinyi

“…Graph representation learning has been shown to be promising in graph analysis where the graphs or part of the graphs will be converted into a lower-dimensional space while the important information (e.g., structure information and attribute information) of the graph is still well preserved. …”
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Surface engineering to manipulate solar energy for thermal management by Fei, Jipeng

“…Besides, the mechanism of electrostatic influence on water molecule network has been investigated, which inspired rational manipulation of water structure to tune evaporative behavior. …”
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Global burden and strength of evidence for 88 risk factors in 204 countries and 811 subnational locations, 1990–2021: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2... by Brauer, M, Roth, GA, Aravkin, AY, Bandyopadhyay, S, Bennett, DA, Browne, AJ, Graham, SM, Rodriguez, JAB, Runghien, T, Sartorius, B

“…<p><b>Interpretation</b></p> Substantial progress has been made in reducing the global disease burden attributable to a range of risk factors, particularly those related to maternal and child health, WaSH, and household air pollution. …”

Global age-sex-specific mortality, life expectancy, and population estimates in 204 countries and territories and 811 subnational locations, 1950–2021, and the impact of the COVID-... by Schumacher, AE, Kyu, HH, Aali, A, Almidani, O, Bandyopadhyay, S, Basnyat, B, Maude, RJ, Bennett, D, Browne, AJ, Dolecek, C, Dunachie, SJ, Newton, CRJ, Rodriguez, JAB

“…Although COVID-19 had a substantial impact on many demographic indicators during the first 2 years of the pandemic, overall global health progress over the 72 years evaluated has been profound, with considerable improvements in mortality and life expectancy. …”

Influence of no-core fiber on the focusing performance of an ultra-small gradient-index fiber probe by Bi, Shubo, Wang, Chi, Zhu, Jun, Yuan, Zhiwen, Yu, Yingjie, Valyukh, Sergiy, Asundi, Anand

“…The light-beam expansion effect of a no-core fiber on the focusing performance of an ultra-small gradient-index fiber probe is investigated with a view to optimizing the optical performance of such probes. …”
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Roseburia intestinalis generated butyrate boosts anti-PD-1 efficacy in colorectal cancer by activating cytotoxic CD8⁺ T cells by Kang, Xing, Liu, Changan, Ding, Yanqiang, Ni, Yunbi, Ji, Fenfen, Lau, Harry Cheuk Hay, Jiang, Lanping, Sung, Joseph Jao Yiu, Wong, Sunny Hei, Yu, Jun

“…R. intestinalis or butyrate also significantly improved antiprogrammed cell death protein 1 (anti-PD-1) efficacy in mice bearing MSI-low CT26 tumours. Mechanistically, butyrate directly bound to toll-like receptor 5 (TLR5) receptor on CD8(+) T cells to induce its activity through activating nuclear factor kappa B (NF-& kappa;B) signalling. …”
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Inferring electrospray emission characteristics from molecular dynamics and simulated retarding potential analysis by Schroeder, Madeleine, Gallud, Ximo, Petro, Elaine, Jia-Richards, Oliver, Lozano, Paulo C

“…Both ionic liquid cluster temperatures and beam composition agree with previous analysis of this experimental work, supporting the use of coordinated molecular dynamics and retarding potential analysis as a method of inferring electrospray beam parameters. …”
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Performance of a novel LED lamp arrangement to reduce SNR fluctuation for multi-user visible light communication systems by Wang, Zixiong, Yu, Changyuan, Zhong, Wende, Chen, Jian, Chen, Wei

“…After time domain zero-forcing (ZF) equalization, the BER performances and channel capacities of 100-Mbit/s and 200-Mbit/s bipolar on-off-keying (OOK) signal with most significant inter-symbol interference (ISI) are very close to that of the channel without any ISI caused by this LED lamp arrangement.…”
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(宋代「武夷棹歌」中的地景空間與文化意蘊) = Landscape and culture in the Wu-yi Zhao Ge (Wu-yi boat song) of Song dynasty by 衣若芬 I, Lo-fen

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论阮籍诗文中的逃避主义 = Escapism in the literary works of Ruan Ji by 王岳明 Wang, Yueming

“…Even if such attempts have been made, there still lacks a unifying concept which facilitates such discussions. …”
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