Pragmatic and discourse markers used by Malay and Arab postgraduates students during classroom oral presentations by Alkhawaja, Hussein Walid Hussein

“…As part of their postgraduate courses in Malaysian universities, Arab and Malaysian students have to present their assignments and projects orally in front of their professors. …”
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Cytotoxicity and apoptotic DNA fragmentation evaluation of ethanolic extract of Phyllanthus niruri L. in Vero and primary feline testicular cells by Roslan, Rasydan Hadi, Choong, Siew Shean, Mohamed, Maizan, Abu Bakar, Md Zuki, Gilbert, Brenda Sabrina, Noralidin, Amalina, Izamin, Izzati, Mohd Sani, Nani Izreen

“…This study was aimed to explore the safety of P. niruri as a male herbal contraceptive to be used in veterinary medicine as one of the non-surgical sterilisation methods. For the preliminary part of this ongoing research, we have investigated the cytotoxicity activity of P. niruri ethanolic extract on Vero and primary feline testicular cells (FTC) and DNA apoptotic activity in FTC. …”
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Absolute deviance method for symmetrical uniform designs by Lau, Grace Chui Ting

“…Furthermore, an optimization part is added to the cutting method to find an appropriate number for experimental runs of the initial design. …”
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Methodology for domain ontology development with human-centered design by Iqbal, Rizwan

“…Moreover, a term extraction engine (application) is also developed as a part of the methodology for automatically extracting the potential terms for concept mapping. …”
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Meta-Heuristic Search Based Test Data Generation Method for Dynamic-Functional Testing in Automatic Programming Assessment (S/O 13793) by Romli, Rohaida, Abd Wahab, Alawiyah, Romli, Rusnida, Yusoff, Nooraini

“…By utilizing this method as part of APA, the lecturers’ workload can be reduced effectively since the typical manual assessments are always prone to errors and leading to inconsistency. …”
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Exploiting LoRaWAN for efficient and resilient IoT networks by Gu, Chaojie

“…The details of the two main problems and this thesis' solutions are as follows. The first part of this thesis addresses the Separation of Control and Data Planes (SCDP) for low-power multi-hop wireless networks using LoRaWAN. …”
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Mechanism design for internet of things services market by Jiao, Yutao

“…Over the past decade, the Internet of Things (IoT) adoption and applications have significantly increased. …”
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Conditional prosociality in development: deconstructing social and materialistic factors that modulate early prosocial behavior by Lee, Kristy Jia Jin

“…The past decade of developmental research has illuminated a fascinatingly diverse range of prosocial behavior in young children. …”
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论新加坡对红头巾和印度建筑工的态度 = A case study of Singapore government and Singaporeans' attitude towards Samsui women and Indian construction workers by 颜莉娜 Gan, Linda

“…Since the 1990s, Samsui women have become a figure of the past. Indian construction workers started coming to Singapore to make a livelihood. …”
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Deep transcriptome profiling reveals limited conservation of A-to-I RNA editing in Xenopus by Nguyen, Tram Anh, Heng, Joel Jia Wei, Ng, Yan Ting, Sun, Rui, Fisher, Shira, Oguz, Gokce, Kaewsapsak, Pornchai, Xue, Shifeng, Reversade, Bruno, Ramasamy, Adaikalavan, Eisenberg, Eli, Tan, Meng How

“…Background: Xenopus has served as a valuable model system for biomedical research over the past decades. Notably, ADAR was first detected in frog oocytes and embryos as an activity that unwinds RNA duplexes. …”
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Thermoplastic polymer nanocomposites based on polydopamine-coated clay : preparation, structures and properties by Phua, Si Lei

“…Polymer/clay nanocomposites have been widely investigated over past three decades due to the dramatic boost in properties at low filler content. …”
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Budget efficient online active learning and its applications by Hao, Shuji

“…To correct this weak assumption, this study proposes two robust online active learning algorithms, which not only consider the predictions of experts on current instance, but also consider the cumulative performance of experts on past instances. To validate the proposed algorithms, a series of experiments are conducted, in which the results show that the proposed algorithms greatly outperform the state-of-the-art existing algorithms and can achieve robust performance both in the normal and noisy scenarios. …”
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Developing metallic cathode for low-temperature solid oxide fuel cell applications by Yu, Chen-Chiang

“…With the effort input by numerous researchers in the past decade, the operating temperature of SOFCs had been successfully decreased to below 500 ˚C with more than 1 W·cm-2 of output power density. …”
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GP-OSMOTIC trial protocol : an individually randomised controlled trial to determine the effect of retrospective continuous glucose monitoring (r-CGM) on HbA1c in adults with type... by Furler, John, O’Neal, David Norman, Speight, Jane, Blackberry, Irene, Manski-Nankervis, Jo-Anne, Thuraisingam, Sharmala, de La Rue, Katie, Ginnivan, Louise, Browne, Jessica Lea, Holmes-Truscott, Elizabeth, Khunti, Kamlesh, Dalziel, Kim, Chiang, Jason, Audehm, Ralph, Kennedy, Mark, Clark, Malcolm, Jenkins, Alicia Josephine, Liew, Danny, Clarke, Philip, Best, James

“…Eligibility: Aged 18–80 years, T2D for ≥1 year, a (past month) HbA1c>5.5 mmol/mol (0.5%) above their individualised target while prescribed at least two non-insulin hypoglycaemic therapies and/or insulin (therapy stable for the last four months). …”
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Association of current Schistosoma mansoni, Schistosoma japonicum, and Schistosoma mekongi infection status and intensity with periportal fibrosis: a systematic review and meta-ana... by Ewuzie, A, Wilburn, L, Thakrar, DB, Cheng, H, Reitzug, F, Roberts, N, Malouf, R, Chami, GF

“…<p><strong>Background:&nbsp;</strong>Periportal fibrosis is a severe morbidity caused by both current and past exposure to intestinal schistosomes. We aimed to assess the association between current infection status and intensity of&nbsp;<em>Schistosoma mansoni, Schistosoma japonicum</em>, or&nbsp;<em>Schistosoma mekongi</em>&nbsp;with periportal fibrosis.…”

Electronic structures of topological materials studied by angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy by He, S

“…<p>This thesis summarizes my DPhil research projects, which involve electron optical simulations for photoelectron spectroscopy instruments and angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES) studies of several novel topological quantum materials:<br> 1. Over the past decades, photoelectron spectroscopy has experienced numerous advancements and become a powerful tool for understanding the electronic properties of solid-state systems. …”

Prevalence of West Nile virus in domesticated mammals (cattle, goat, horse and pig) in selected areas of Peninsular Malaysia by Mohammed, Mohammed Nma

“…Serological results indicate past exposure to WNV in all the species in this study. …”
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Green logistics practices in Malaysian food-based manufacturing industry by Hussin, Hilda

“…Logistics has been regarded as a key determinant to business performance over the past 50 years. However, the increase in environmental concerns over pollution, climate change, congestion, waste disposal, and resource depletion among others have triggered an increased attention from the government and society. …”
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Phase measurements based indoor visible light positioning systems by Zhang, Sheng

“…Companies like Pure-LiFi and Oledcomm (with the product Li-Fi MAX and MyLiFi bidirectional desk lamp), as well as many research institutes, are researching on the secure and high-speed visible light-based communication approach with good adaptivity. The fast development of visible light communication (VLC) provides a great chance for visible light positioning (VLP) systems. …”
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Rotor angle stability-constrained dispatch and control of large-scale wind penetrated power system by Yuan, Heling

“…In general, four main effects on power system transient stability are: 1) wind generation has no contribution to system inertia and system with synchronous generators replaced by wind turbines will lead to reduction of inertia, 2) power electronics converter-based interfacing is added when wind turbines are implemented, which will change the dynamic behavior of the system, 3) power dispatch of synchronous machines will change fast to compensate wind power variation, 4) the magnitude and direction of power flows will fluctuate quickly and randomly in the transmission lines. …”
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