HET428 - Discourse And Pragmatics December 2018/January 2019 by PPIK, Pusat Pengajian Ilmu Kemanusiaan

“…First Semester Examination Academic Session 2018/2019 December 2018/January 2019 HET428- Discourse And Pragmatics Duration : 2 hours Please check that this examination paper consists of 'FOUR (4) pages of printed material before you begin the examination. …”
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"中华胶不胶?" ：从媒体留言分析探讨马来西亚华人的对中立场 = Sinophobia or Sinophilia? Discussing the identity confusion among Malaysian Chinese : based on the comments analysis... by 李政辉 Lee, Chan Hui

“…However, after the Hong Kong Protest 2019, the identity turn had been found among Malaysian Chinese, followed by the phenomenon of “Chinese Gum” and “Western Puppies”, which showed that they are confused about their identity of being Malaysian and Chinese, and few studies were conducted to explore this identity turn. …”
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Analysis of brain signals by Tan, Yi Bing

“…All neurons are electrically excitable hence this process in turn, generate a great amount of electrical activity in our brain which can be measured using several functional imaging methods such as Electroencephalography (EEG) and Magnetoencephalography (MEG). …”
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READY PLAYER ONE / by Cline, Ernest, author 655943

“…Like most of humanity, Wade Watts escapes this depressing reality by spending his waking hours jacked into the OASIS, a sprawling virtual utopia where you can be anything you want to be, where you can live and play and fall in love on any of ten thousand planets. …”

Understanding the physical and chemical properties of keratin films by Chia, Sheryl CaiYing.

“…In this project, glycerol is chosen as a plasticizer to be added to keratin solution and casted into films at 60oC for 21 hours. Glycerol is added to keratin solution at four different concentrations and cast into films. …”
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Diffuse Correlation Spectroscopy (DCS) and Diffuse Optical Spectroscopy (DOS) for photodynamic therapy monitoring. by Siti Raudhah Matyasir.

“…Partial responder has its tumour reduced less than 50% or a regrowth subsequently after therapy therefore both rStO2 and rBF might decrease but increase back starting from 3 hours post PDT. Predictions can be made about photodynamic therapy efficacy; the average value for rBF below 0.5 at 3 hours post PDT is considered to be responder while above 0.5 is considered to be non-responder. …”
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Effect of solution treatment on high tempreature oxidation of Fe-33Ni-19Cr alloys Fe-40Ni-24Cr alloys. by Parimin, Noraziana

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In vitro and in silico studies of Lawsone on inflammation-induced skin cells for development of skin anti-inflammatory treatment by Abdullah, Shazleen Sofea, Mohammad Latif, Muhammad Alif, Md Tohid, Siti Farah

“…Lawsone was further tested on A431 cells stimulated with ethanol (200 mM) or hydrogen peroxide (250 µM) for 24 hours (acute) and 48 hours (chronic) to induce pro-inflammatory cytokine (TNF-α) release. …”
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Machine learning baseline energy model (MLBEM) to evaluate prediction performances in building energy consumption by Mustapa, Rijalul Fahmi, Hairuddin, Muhammad Asraf, Mohd Nordin, Atiqah Hamizah, Dahlan, Nofri Yenita, Mohd Yassin, Ihsan, Khirul Ashar, Nur Dalila

“…The hours and temperature are considered as independent variables to be tested with residual error evaluations, whilst the correlation coefficient, coefficient of determination, and training time are also takeninto account. …”
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Quality assurance of vital® test meal in gastric emptying scintigraphy by Wen, Ngo Hui

“…For the radiolabelling efficiency and stability experiment, 12 samples of Vital® were mixed with 99mTc-P, incubated with human saliva supernatant and gastric fluid for 4 hours, then centrifuged and filtered at hourly intervals. …”
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Parametric optimisation of microhardness on heat-treated electroless Ni-YSZ cermet coating by Baba, N. Bahiyah, Ghazali, A. S., Abdul Rahman, A. H., Sharif, S.

“…The temperature and time were varied in a range of 300-400oC and 0-2 hours respectively. The microhardness measurements were carried out using a Vickers microhardness tester (Shimadzu) according to ISO 6507-4. …”

Unconventional exhibitions of desire. by Ng, Hwei Yun.

“…Cixous urges women to write or remain suppressed and entrapped in their own bodies. Women have their own private language when they write through their bodies, because it is writing that is inherently female and less easily understood by men. …”
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First-principles study of the lattice dynamics of Sb2S3 by Liu, Yun, Eddie Chua, Kun Ting, Sum, Tze Chien, Gan, Chee Kwan

“…We present a lattice dynamics study of orthorhombic antimony sulphide (Sb2S3) obtained using density-functional calculations in conjunction with the supercell force-constant method. The effect of Born effective charges is taken into account using a mixed-space approach, resulting in the splitting of longitudinal and transverse optical (LO-TO) phonon branches near the zone center. …”
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The international growth standard for children and adolescents project: environmental influences on preadolescent and adolescent growth in weight and height by Ulijaszek, S

“…Exclusion of children born at low birth and/or experiencing catch-up growth could be most realistically operationalized if populations in which secular trends in growth were either completed or minimal were selected. …”

Comparison of INTERGROWTH- 21st and Fenton growth standards to assess size at birth and at discharge in preterm infants in the United Arab Emirates by Cheikh Ismail, L, Mohamad, MN, Ohuma, EO, ElHalik, MS, Dash, SK, Osaili, TM, Hasan, H, Hashim, M, Saleh, ST, Daour, RA, Parker, SR, Ali, HI, Stojanovska, L, Al Dhaheri, AS

“…Methods: A retrospective single-center evaluation of medical records of infants born < 37 weeks of gestation was conducted using data from 2018 to 2020. …”

Islam in Late Antiquity: state-making, the Bedouin, and the end of empires by Wakeley, JM

“…Extensive use of the Islamic historical tradition has been embraced – and justified – but the thesis’s broader approach to the world into which Muḥammad was born is underpinned by the Greek and Latin sources of the Roman Empire. …”

THE MAYFLY / by Hazel, James, author 656313

“…When lawyer Charlie Priest is attacked in his own home by a man searching for information he claims Priest has, he is drawn into a web of corruption that has its roots in the last desperate days of World War Two. …”

Design and development of iOS app for medical consultation by Tan, Adam Teng Guan

“…With the use this app, patients themselves can submit and manage their own medical records on their own.…”
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The Ukraine crisis: another crossroads on Russia’s downward path by Pirani, S

“…As for Russia, the obsessive focus on its government’s geopolitical aspirations obscures larger issues: that its economic influence over (and energy trade with) Ukraine and other neighbours is declining, its own economy is becoming more and more one-sidedly a supplier of oil, gas, and other raw materials to world markets, and its own development in the broadest sense is suffering as a result.…”

Swift: poetical repurposer by Cox, O

“…He did so ironically, however, by lifting a line from John Denham's On Mr Abraham Cowley and putting it into the mouth of a hypothetical, ignorant critic elegizing “Swift”: Denham's “what he wrote was all his own” becomes Swift's “what he writ was all his own” (1–2). …”