Infection patterns of scabies and tinea between inland and resettled indigenous Negrito communities in peninsular Malaysia by Er, Yi Xian, Than, Leslie Thian Lung, Muslim, Azdayanti, Yap, Nan Jiun, Tee, Mian Zi, Abdull-Majid, Nurmanisha, Lee, Soo Ching, Shahrizal, Shezryna, Lim, Yvonne Ai Lian

“…Addressing these infections requires targeted interventions, including regular medical care in inland villages and socio-economic support for resettled communities, considering the distinct predispositions in different village types. …”
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A longitudinal qualitative study on lived experience of oral cancer patients during covid-19 pandemic in khyber pakhtunkhwa Pakistan by Khattak, Maria Ishaq

“…Eight major broad-level themes were derived at T1: (1) pain and generalized physical weakness, (2) shock at diagnosis, (3) psychological distress of the COVID-19 pandemic, (4) faith and religion, (5) double hit loss of employment, (6) social isolation, (7) social support from caregivers, and (8) lack of support from health care professionals. At T2, five major broad-level themes were derived: (1) physical impairment and limitations, (2) psychological vulnerability, (3) reliance on God for protection, (4) availability of social support systems, and (5) financial decline. …”
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Spatiotemporal signatures of elastoinertial turbulence in viscoelastic planar jets by Yamani, Sami, Raj, Yashasvi, Zaki, Tamer A., McKinley, Gareth H., Bischofberger, Irmgard

“…In agreement with linear stability analyses of viscoelastic jets, an inertioelastic shear-layer instability emerges near the edge of the jet for small levels of elasticity, independent of bulk undulations in the fluid column. …”
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Explorations of combined nonsolvent and thermally induced phase separation (N-TIPS) method for fabricating novel PVDF hollow fiber membranes using mixed diluents by Zhao, Jie, Chong, Jeng Yi, Shi, Lei, Wang, Rong

“…To further control the membrane formation especially near the membrane surface, an amphiphilic additive Pluronic F127 was also added as a potential pore-former and surface hydrophilicity modifier. …”
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Timber-framed building damage from tephra fall and lahar : 2015 Calbuco eruption, Chile by Hayes, Josh L., Calderón B., Rodrigo, Deligne, Natalia I., Jenkins, Susanna F., Leonard, Graham S., McSporran, Ame M., Williams, George Thomas, Wilson, Thomas M.

“…The 2015 subplinian eruption of Calbuco volcano, Chile, caused damage to buildings near the volcano because of tephra fall and lahars. …”
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Optical study of excitonic complexes in transition metal dichalcogenides monolayers by Bao, Di

“…In this thesis, we investigate the excitonic structures of TMDs monolayers via optical spectroscopy. With near-resonance photoluminescence excitation spectroscopy, multiple scattering processes between excitons and phonons carrying non-zero wavevector are revealed, indicating the presence of indirect excitons whose constituent electrons and holes locate at different valleys. …”
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Multi-objective optimization design and performance evaluation of a novel multi-stream intermediate fluid vaporizer with cold energy recovery by Wang, Zhe, Cai, Wenjian, Hong, Wei, Shen, Suping, Yang, Huizhu, Han, Fenghui

“…The results indicate that this new type of IFV can reach the highest cold energy recovery efficiency up to 95% within the 8% error range when the heat transfer capacity is 11.5 kW and the heat medium flow rate is near 330 L/h.…”
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Constructing 3D self-supporting surfaces with isotropic stress using 4D minimal hypersurfaces of revolution by Ma, Long, He, Ying, Sun, Qian, Zhou, Yuanfeng, Zhang, Caiming, Wang, Wenping

“…Our method guarantees convergence and can produce near-regular triangle meshes, thanks to a local mesh refinement strategy similar to centroidal Voronoi tessellation. …”
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Direct measurement of a non-Hermitian topological invariant in a hybrid light-matter system by Su, Rui, Estrecho, Eliezer, Biegańska, Dąbrówka, Huang, Yuqing, Wurdack, Matthias, Pieczarka, Maciej, Truscott, Andrew G., Liew, Timothy Chi Hin, Ostrovskaya, Elena A., Xiong, Qihua

“…We experimentally map out both the real (energy) and imaginary (linewidth) parts of the spectrum near the exceptional points and extract the novel topological invariant—fractional spectral winding. …”
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Perovskite metasurfaces with large superstructural chirality by Long, Guankui, Adamo, Giorgio, Tian, Jingyi, Klein, Maciej, Krishnamoorthy, Harish N. S., Feltri, Elena, Wang, Hebin, Soci, Cesare

“…We identify a direct spectral correspondence between the near- and the far- field chirality, and tune the electric and magnetic multipole moments of the resonant chiral metamolecules to obtain large anisotropy factor of 0.49 and circular dichroism of 6350 mdeg. …”
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Exploring the potential benefits of using metasurface for galloping energy harvesting by Wang, Junlei, Sun, Shaokang, Hu, Guobiao, Yang, Yaowen, Tang, Lihua, Li, Pan, Zhang, Guojie

“…The vortex shedding processes around the wind flow fields near the bluff bodies wrapped in metasurfaces are simulated. …”
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Enhancing Landsat image based aboveground biomass estimation of black locust with scale bias-corrected LiDAR AGB map and stratified sampling by Qin, Shuhong, Wang, Hong, Li, Xiuneng, Gao, Jay, Jin, Jiaxin, Li, Yongtao, Lu, Jinbo, Meng, Pengyu, Sun, Jing, Song, Zhenglin, Donev, Petar, Ma, Zhangfeng

“…In summary, our study provides a framework to harmonize near-surface LiDAR and satellite data for AGB estimation in plantation forest ecosystems with small patch sizes and fragmented distribution.…”
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A tandem-locked chemiluminescent probe for imaging of tumor-associated macrophage polarization by Huang, Jingsheng, Xu, Mengke, Cheng, Penghui, Yu, Jie, Wu, Jiayan, Pu, Kanyi

“…Through a combined molecular engineering approach via both atomic alternation and introduction of electron-withdrawing groups, near-infrared (NIR) chemiluminophores are screened out to possess record-long emission (over 800 nm), record-high CL quantum yield (2.7 % einstein/mol), and prolonged half-life (7.7 h). …”
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Development of squaraine and croconaine probes for theranostic applications by Ferdinandus

“…This unique feature enables the development of probes with absorption in the far-red or near-infrared (NIR) regions. In this thesis, we delve into the synthesis of a library of SQR and CRO probes and explore their applications in theranostics. …”
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Quantum spin Hall effect and topological phase transition in InNxBiySb1−x−y/InSb quantum wells by Song, Zhigang, Bose, Sumanta, Fan, Weijun, Zhang, Dao Hua, Zhang, Yan Yang, Li, Shu Shen

“…The simultaneous incorporation of nitrogen and bismuth in InSb is instrumental in lowering the bandgap, while inducing opposite kinds of strain to attain a near-lattice-matching conducive for lattice growth. …”
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Modelling of traffic control delays at priority junctions using artificial neural network by Mohammad Ali Sahraei

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High-spin impurities and surface acoustic waves in piezoelectric crystals for spin-lattice coupling by Magnusson, E

“…We observed a clear signal at T &amp;sime; 25 K, at a field near the expected one for a Δ<em>m</em>_s = 2 transition between the |−1〉 and |+1〉 states. …”

Modelling laser-induced vapour bubbles for lithotripsy treatment of kidney stones by Abrahams, S

“…Axisymmetry gives the flexibility to introduce solid boundaries near the bubble and measure the effect this has on both the bubble and the boundary.…”

Determination of mosquitoes species diversity and molecular detection of West Nile virus in wild bird habitats in Perak and Selangor, Malaysia by Jafar Ali, Natasha

“…The aim of this study was identifying the diversity of mosquito species found near to the wild bird habitats and determining the presence of WNV RNA in the mosquitoes in the selected areas of West Coast Malaysia. …”
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Development of an integrated scheduling model for handling equipment in automated port container terminals by Sadeghian, Syed Hamidreza

“…In addition, results proved that the modified meta-heuristic algorithm is able to find near optimal solutions and on average, the solutions found by the GA algorithm are only 0.2% worse than the optimal solutions and in the worst case in the test cases this difference is 2.3% which is acceptable. …”
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