Human genome editing after the “CRISPR babies”: the double-pacing problem and collaborative governance by Wang, Leifan, Shang, Lijun, Zhang, Weiwen

“…The occurrence of the “CRISPR babies” in 2018 publicly brought this issue into sharp focus, and led to comprehensive regulatory reform in China and various countries around the world. The current article analyzes this event-driven regulatory reform in China by elaborating the most salient provisions designed to prevent risk and protect individual rights, public health, and social morality relating to human genome editing in four important sectors of law: biosecurity law, civil code, criminal law and patent law. …”
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A wave of psychological forces in second language learning: an Arabic experience at IIUM by Yaakub, Muhamadul Bakir

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Analysis of electrooculography (EOG) for controlling wheelchair motion by Baharom, Nor Azurah

“…Persons suffering from extremely limited peripheral mobility like Spinal Cord Injury (SCI) usually have the ability to coordinate eye movements. …”
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Profession of engineering ethics at work: Melamine issue as case study by Habib Khan, Md. Noman, Kabbashi, Nassereldeen Ahmed

“…Its looks like a white powder and place of origin are china (Mainland), Shandong. In China and in some food categories have been using milk power as an ingredient, like chocolate, candy, ice-cream, biscuits and eggs. …”
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A Novel Approach for Audio Watermarking by Zamani, Mazdak, Abdul Manaf, Azizah, Ahmad, Rabiah, Zeki, Akram M., Magalingam, Pritheega

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Signature recognition using artificial neural network by Abushariah, Ahmad A. M., Gunawan, Teddy Surya, Khalifa, Othman Omran, Chebil, Jalel

“…It might be done by asking a secret question that the user will answer to get into that application, and it might be a password or a pin code, face, eye, fingerprint or signature. Automatic signature verification is an active field of research with many practical applications. …”
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Tribological (wear) properties of aluminum–silicon eutectic base alloy under dry sliding condition by Alias, Tuti Yasmin, Khalid, Asad A., Haque, Md. Mohafizul

“…Wear experiments on both samples were conducted with a pin-on-disk type wear testing apparatus. The test variables were the rotational speed, input weight, and time/sliding distance. …”
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Influence of single and multiple particle size variation on mechanical and wear behaviour of aluminium silicon carbide composites by Adebisi, Adetayo A., Maleque, Md. Abdul, Ali , Mohammad Yeakub, Bello, Kamilu Adeyemi

“…Standard impact and hardness test was conducted to ascertain the energy absorbed before fracture failure and resistance to plastic deformation of the composite. Pin-on-disc test was also investigated at room temperature under dry sliding wear condition. …”
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3rd order coupled-resonator bandpass filter assisted by Groove Gap-Waveguide technology for 26-GHz radio link diplexer by Alibakhshikenari, Mohammad, Parand, Peiman, Zidour, Ali, Virdee, Bal Singh, Longhi, Patrick, See, Chan Hwang, Limiti, Ernesto

“…Its unit-cells consist of a rectangular metal-pin which is connected to a bottom metal plate and its other side is electromagnetically coupled to a top plate with an air-gap of approximately λ/4 that creates a bandgap, preventing unwanted electromagnetic-wave propagation. …”
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Frequency reconfigurable substrate integrated waveguide (SIW) cavity F-shaped slot antenna by AL-Fadhali, Najib, A Majid, Huda, Omar, Rosli, Mokhtar, Mohd Hezri, Abo Mosali, Najmaddin

“…Configurability is accomplished by embeddings PIN diode switches in the 'F' slot. The proposed antenna is equipped for exchanging between working band of 3.172 GHz to 3.606 GHz in four different narrow bands and it underpins the cognitive system for LTE2300, WiMAX and WLAN. …”
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Prevalence of snoring and craniofacial features in Malaysian children from hospital-based medical clinic population by Banabilh, Saeed, Asha'ari, Zamzil Amin, Hamid, Suzina

“…The cephalometric X-ray showed that the snoring children manifested a significant different craniofacial features, such as narrow airway at the level of the soft palate and oropharynx (p<0.05), more inferiorly positioned hyoid bone (p<0.05), longer vertical airway length from posterior nasal spine to the base of epiglottis (p<0.05), more protruding maxilla, and anterior–posterior discrepancy of maxilla and mandible (p<0.05). …”
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Islam in minority Muslim countries: a case study on Japan and Korea by Fathil, Fauziah, Fathil, Fathiah

“…This is in marked contrast to nearby China, which, though is also a Muslim minority country attracted a wide attention from scholars of either Muslim or non-Muslim world. …”
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DNA barcoding of Lates calcarifer (Bloch, 1970) by John, Akbar, Kumar, C. Prasanna, Lyla, P.S., Khan, S. Ajmal, Khan Chowdhury, Ahmed Jalal

“…Compare to Australian, Indian and Singapore (48.1-48.89%) water L. calcarifer, Myanmar and South China species shows high average GC content (49.38-49.41%). …”
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The mixed spices increase serum adiponectin protein (adipokine) and insulin in STZ induced hyperglycemic rats by Khattak, Muhammad Muzaffar Ali Khan

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Remote operation of CNC milling through virtual simulation and remote dekstop interface by , Afzeri, Sutjipto, Agus Geter Edy, Muhida, Riza, Konneh, Mohamed, ., Darmawan

“…Capability of remote operation is supported by an auto setup attachment with a reconfigurable pin type setup free technology installed on the table of CNC milling machine to perform unattended machining process. …”
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Aluminium metal matrix composite: improving wear performance through treatment by Maleque, Md. Abdul, Karim, Md. Rezaul, Yassin, N.

“…The wear test was carried out using a pin-on- disc type tribo-test machine under dry sliding condition. …”
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Wear behavior of modified surface layer produced by TIG melting of preplaced Ti powder in nitrogen environment by Mridha, Shahjahan, Dyuti, S., Shaha, S.K.

“…The wear property of the melt track was investigated using pin-on-disk tribometer at room temperature. The modified surface layer gave a low friction value of 0.12 and wear rate of 0.007895 ×10-4 compared to 1.648 × 10-4 mm3/N/m for the uncoated steel surface.…”
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Recovery of virus producing NDV vaccine by Tangential Flow Filtration (TFF) by Mel, Maizirwan, Arifin, Mohd Azmir, M Pauzi, Sazana

“…The results revealed that higher pressure input (Pin), lower pressure output (Pout), and higher virus concentration led to higher virus titer. …”
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Wear properties of Fe-C-Al cast iron and conventional cast iron - a comparative study by Maleque, Md. Abdul

“…In the present study, the wear test was conducted on both conventional cast iron (CI) and Fe-C-Al cast iron using universal pin-on-disk (POD) machine. The wear track profile and damage surface were characterized using optical profilometer and scanning electron microscopy (SEM) respectively. …”
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Microelectrical mechanical systems switch for designing multi-band antenna by Alam, A. H. M. Zahirul, Islam, Md. Rafiqul, Khan, Sheroz, Rashid, Muhammad Mahbubur

“…Problem statement: In this study Microelectrical Mechanical System (MEMS) switches were proposed to design a reconfigurable/multi-band antenna to replaced PIN diode switches or semiconductor switches due to lower insertion losses, good isolation, much lower intermodulation distortion, and lower power consumption. …”
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