The epidemiology of periportal fibrosis and relevance of current Schistosoma mansoni infection within the context of repeated mass drug administration: a population-based, cross-se... by Ajayi, S, Nabatte, B, Mpooya, S, Tinkitina, B, Opio, CK, Kabatereine, NB, Chami, G

“…Periportal fibrosis likelihood linearly increased with age from age 5 years to age 25 years, non-linearly increased from age 26 years to age 45 years, attenuated or remained unchanged from age 46 years to age 60 years, and steadily decreased past 60 years of age. History of liver diseases, HIV, and ultrasound-detected chronic hepatitis or early cirrhosis-like disease were associated with more than two-times increased periportal fibrosis likelihood.…”

Impact of media literacy on soft drink consumption among adolescents in Klang Valley, Malaysia by Mohammad Shahid, Nur Nadirah

“…Results revealed that 36% of respondents drank a minimum of 1 can, bottle or glass of soft drink for the past seven days and possessed good level of media literacy (45.1%). …”
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Towards the Realization of National Automotive Policy (NAP): Modelling the Malaysian Consumers’ Purchase Behavioral Intention towards Energy Efficient Vehicles (EEVs) (S/O 14165) by Mohd Noor, Nor Azila, Mohd Fadhil, Faudziah Hanim, Md Isa, Filzah, Salleh, Hayatul Safrah, Muhammad, Azli

“…Malaysian Automotive Association disclosed that energy efficient vehicles have enjoyed tremendous sales growth in the past few years after the introduction of duty exemptions. …”
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Biogeochemical cycling and environmental footprints of peatland-derived organic carbon in the coastal ocean in Southeast Asia by Zhou, Yongli

“…Terrigenous DOC derived from peatlands is advected from the east coast of Sumatra to the Singapore Strait during the Southwest Monsoon. …”
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Atmospheric characterization of cold exoplanets using a 1.5-m coronagraphic space telescope by Maire, Anne-Lise, Galicher, Raphael, Boccaletti, Anthony, Baudoz, Pierre, Schneider, Jean, Stam, Daphne, Cahoy, Kerri, Traub, Wes

“…We find that the characterization of the main planetary properties (identification of molecules, effect of metallicity, presence of clouds and type of surfaces) would require a median signal-to-noise ratio of at least 30. In the case of a solar-type star <10 pc, SPICES will be able to study Jupiters and Neptunes up to -5 and -2 AU respectively, because of the drastic flux decrease with separation. …”
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Efficient optimization of network metrics in large uncertain graphs by Saha, Arkaprava

“…As an example, the well-known social network Twitter alone has at least 187 million users and 132 billion connections as of now, and these numbers keep on increasing. …”
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SPP/LSP coupled hybrid mode directed multi-functional surface-enhanced Raman system by Du, Luping

“…Meanwhile, due to the extremely narrow linewidth of Raman peaks, the SPCE curve of SERS can also be employed for measuring the propagation length of SPPs and quantitatively characterizing the point spread function of an SPCE microscopy. Last but not least, as a promising application, the two-dimensional mapping of the strongly-dominant longitudinal field component of SPPs was realized based on the SERS imaging. …”
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Biomimetic whisker transducer for vibrissal tactile sensing by Ju, Feng

“…And a wide measurement range of viscosity was achieved which is at least from 8.93×10-4 to 4.15×10-2 N•s/m2. The WT can also self-sense the fluid velocity without using any additional sensors. …”
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Photonic engineering of terahertz quantum cascade lasers by Liang, Guozhen

“…The terahertz (THz) frequency range, lying between microwave and mid-infrared frequencies (~0.3 THz to 10 THz), remains one of the least developed regions in the electromagnetic spectrum. …”
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Dynamics of current-driven magnetic domain walls and skyrmions by Indra Purnama

“…Our results shows it is possible to optimize the speed of the DWs in PMA nanowires by locking the DWs in a configuration that is least hindered when driven by current. Lastly, our work on the skyrmion research provides a framework to solve the issue of skyrmion annihilations. …”
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Development of (TAML) iron complexes for photocatalytic, oxidative water treatment by Lim, Jia Hui

“…The TAS results have verified that the Ru(bpy)32+/Co(NH3)5Cl3 photosensitizer system is able to oxidize 1 by at least one electron, producing a relatively long-lived oxidized 1 intermediate. …”
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Use of Mid Upper-Arm Circumference (MUAC) as screening tool in an urban township in the Eastern Cape: rationale for testing changed cut-off values to identify malnutrition by McLaren, Shawn, Steenkamp, Liana, Venter, Danie

“…The r-value (0.78) for the relationship between WHZ and MUAC suggests a dependent relationship between these two indicators. The least squares regression formula (Y = 15.409 + 0.803x (males); Y = 15.13 + 0.83x (females)) was then used to predict where WHZ = -2 is most likely to correspond with a MUAC value in cm. …”
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A Lagrangian perspective on the lifecycle and radiative effect of deep convective clouds by Jones, WK

“…While the most intense DCCs have thin anvil fractions 0.15 higher than the least intense, the thin anvil fraction of the most organised DCCs is on average 0.12 less than isolated DCCs. …”

Agarwood oil grade clustering of aquilaria malaccensis species using Extraction by GC-MS analysis: Efficient KNN algorithm based on patterns visualization of two-dimensional graph by Siti Mariatul Hazwa, Mohd Huzir, Anis Hazirah ‘Izzati H., Al-Hadi, Amir Hussairi, Zaidi, Nurlaila F., Ismail, Zakiah, Mohd Yusoff, Saiful Nizam, Tajuddin, Mohd Nasir, Taib

“…A two-dimensional graph (2D graph) is one of the graphical presentations for data visualization. Over the past decades, Agarwood Oil grade clustering is still at a disadvantage since there is no official standard grading system. …”
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Vaccines: The Health of Nations - A Paradigm Shift by Datta, Shoumen

“…"The Health of Nations" is a review/summary of research results over the past 30+ years which indicates that untreated, raw, plant products (leafs, stems, roots) may be effective in delivering antigens (e.g. viral proteins engineered in recombinant vectors for production in transgenic plant tissue) to humans and animals to vaccinate against future infections (e.g. emerging threat from viruses with pandemic potential). …”
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A Heliocentric Satellite Constellation for Continuous Solar Coverage and Space Weather Monitoring by Shtofenmakher, Allan, Gochenaur, Daniel, Waters, Benjamin, Cato, Robert, Miller, Duncan, de Castro, Luke, Zheng, Tai, Koenig, Alexander, Sweeney, Katelyn, Diaz, Joel Jurado, Lepe, Alexis, McLellan-Cassivi, Claire, Ajisafe, Frederick, Saravanan, Akila, Nikolova, Joana, Ma, Clara Ziran, Trautman, Leilani, Khan, Nadia, de Weck, Olivier L., Crawley, Edward F.

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Towards Synergistic Understanding of Language Processing in Biological and Artificial Systems by Hosseini Asl, Eghbal

“…Despite decades of research aimed at uncovering the neural mechanisms underlying activity in this network, a computationally precise account has remained elusive. Over the past five years, artificial neural networks (ANNs) have achieved capabilities in the comprehension and production of language that are indistinguishable from those of humans, and their internal representations bear similarity to activity within the language network. …”
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Predicting Risk and Optimizing Resilience of Digital and Physical Supply Chains by Hu, Kevin

“…A number of disruptions and related challenges have affected the landscape of global supply chains in the past decade. These include the COVID-19 pandemic, geopolitical tensions, and cross-industry cyber breaches, highlighting the need for resilient and adaptive supply chain management. …”
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Expediting treatments in the 21st century: orphan drugs and accelerated approvals by Domike, Reuben, Raju, G. K., Sullivan, Jamie, Kennedy, Annie

“…Results Orphan drug designations and approvals have increased several-fold over the past four decades. The largest increase recently has been in therapies targeting oncological diseases (comprised of both oncology and malignant hematology). …”
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Radioactive Atoms and Molecules for Fundamental Physics by Udrescu, Silviu-Marian

“…The Standard Model (SM) of particle physics and the theory of General Relativity represent two of the greatest achievements in physics in the past century. However, despite their success, many experimental observations remain unanswered: What is the nature of Dark Matter and Dark Energy? …”
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