Social support, depression, anxiety and stress among breast cancer patients receiving chemotherapy in Hospital Universiti Sains Malaysia by Rokhman, Nik Nor Izwana

“…Depressive disorder or depression is a common mental disorder that involves a depressed mood or loss of pleasure or interest in activities for long periods of time. Social support is an important variable in buffering the effects of depression, anxiety and stress. …”
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Model predictive and fuzzy logic controllers for reactor power control at Reaktor TRIGA PUSPATI by Minhat, Mohd. Sabri, Mohd. Subha, Nurul Adilla, Hassan, Fazilah, Husain, Abdul Rashid, Ahmad, Anita

“…At present, the power tracking performance of the system could be considered unsatisfactory which produces a relatively long settling time and high control effort. Hence, a study of a model predictive control (MPC) strategy by integrating the current Power Change Rate Constraint (PCRC) using fuzzy logic which is part of the core power control design is conducted. …”
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A review of flame aerosol synthesis technology for the synthesis of nanoparticles and functional energy materials by Zhang, Haoyu, Goh, Brandon Han Hoe, Chong, Cheng Tung, Zhang, Yiran, Lee, Chew Tin, Gao, Yi, Tian, Bo, Tran, Manh Vu, Mohd. Yasin, Mohd. Fairus, Ng, Jo Han

“…Traditional synthesis methods are relatively stunted in industrial applicability and scalability due to complex manufacturing processes and long preparation times, hampering the development and commercialisation of nanomaterials. …”

Adsorption of hyaluronic acid on solid supports: Role of pH and surface chemistry in thin film self-assembly by Choi, Jae-Hyeok, Kim, Seong-Oh, Linardy, Eric, Dreaden, Erik C., Zhdanov, Vladimir P., Hammond, Paula T., Cho, Nam-Joon

“…The findings extend the physicochemical background of design strategies for improving the use of passive HA adsorption for surface modification applications.…”
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Evaluation of Deep Learning Algorithms in Predicting Seismic Response of a Reinforced Concrete Structure by Morgan, Jacob A.

“…By employing a variety of results metrics previously used in the literature, including correlation coefficients, normalized error distributions, and peak errors, this thesis examines different components of the models’ capabilities to learn more about patterns in the data learned by the computational mechanisms of each architecture, and exploring the feasibility of a generalized approach for further application in structural response prediction. Findings from the work show the data-driven Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) network performing the most accurately, but not consistently outperforming the other algorithms. …”
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Empirical estimation of metal powder bed fusion technological improvement rate by Alves de Campos, António, Torres Ferreira, Bruna, Gonçalves, Afonso, Leite, Marco, Ribeiro, Inês, L. Magee, Christopher, Henriques, Elsa

“…This study empirically estimates the technological improvement rate (TIR) of metal powder bed fusion (PBF) technology, widely used in aerospace, automotive, and medical industries. PBF's continuous long-term adoption growth is driven by its ability to enhance manufacturing efficiency in terms of time and raw material use, as well as its capability to produce high-quality, high-strength, complex-shaped parts. …”
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The Language Network Reliably “Tracks” Naturalistic Meaningful Nonverbal Stimuli by Sueoka, Yotaro, Paunov, Alexander, Tanner, Alyx, Blank, Idan A., Ivanova, Anna, Fedorenko, Evelina

“…To do so, we measured BOLD responses to a set of ∼5-minute-long video and audio clips that consisted of meaningful event sequences but did not contain any linguistic content. …”
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Metabolomic characterisation of low-density lipoproteins isolated from iodixanol and KBr-based density gradient ultracentrifugation by Webb, Richard, Lodge, John, Scott, Sophie, Davies, Ian

“…In negative mode, both methods detected phospholipids, long-chain sphingolipids, and ceramides, but IGUC showed higher fold differences for some phospholipids. …”
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HSV-1 amplicon system for human artificial chromosome formation in human ES/iPS cells and pluripotency induction by Khoja, S

“…HAC offers many potential advantages including the provision for carrying large genes with corresponding regulatory elements to obtain long-term regulated gene expression. In addition, they can replicate and segregate independently without integration into the host cell genome. …”

Implications of contextual ambidexterity and digital platform capability on SME performance: the role of absorptive capacity as a moderator by Ramdan, Mohamad Rohieszan, Abdullah, Nor Liza, Abd. Aziz, Nurul Ashykin, Mohd. Fuzi, Nursyazwani, Ong, Sharon Yong Yee, Ab. Wahab, Nur Yuhainis

“…Contextual ambidexterity and digital platform capability can help SMEs achieve long-term success. However, achieving a balance between exploration and exploitation of contextual ambidexterity for integrating and reconfiguring organisations using digital platform capability is challenging to SMEs. …”
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Early Vocal Development in Autism Spectrum Disorder, Rett Syndrome, and Fragile X Syndrome: Insights from Studies Using Retrospective Video Analysis by Roche, Laura, Zhang, Dajie, Bartl-Pokorny, Katrin D., Pokorny, Florian B., Schuller, Björn W., Esposito, Gianluca, Bölte, Sven, Roeyers, Herbert, Poustka, Luise, Gugatschka, Markus, Waddington, Hannah, Vollmann, Ralf, Einspieler, Christa, Marschik, Peter B.

“…These studies were then categorised according to whether children were later diagnosed with ASD (13 studies), RTT (8 studies), or FXS (2 studies) and then described in terms of (a) participant characteristics, (b) control group characteristics, (c) video footage, (d) behaviours analysed, and (e) main findings. This overview supports the use of RVA in analysing the early development of vocalisations in children later diagnosed with ASD, RTT, or FXS and provides an in-depth analysis of vocalisation presentation, complex vocalisation production, and the rate and/or frequency of vocalisation production across the three disorders. …”
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Brazil-China Relations by Horta, Loro

“…The Sino-Brazilian strategic partnership is likely to produce significant changes in the balance of power in the Americas. …”
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A molecular dynamics simulation to shed light on the mechanical alloying of an Al-Zr alloy induced by severe plastic deformation by Morkina, Alina Y., Babicheva, Rita I., Korznikova, Elena A., Enikeev, Nariman A., Edalati, Kaveh, Dmitriev, Sergey V.

“…This happens because in the second case, grain boundary sliding is the main deformation mechanism, and Zr tends to remain within the interfaces. …”
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Organic and inorganic sublattice coupling in two-dimensional lead halide perovskites by Fu, Jianhui, Bian, Tieyuan, Yin, Jun, Feng, Minjun, Xu, Qiang, Wang, Yue, Sum, Tze Chien

“…Theoretical simulations verify that the reduced bandgap is likely due to the enhanced distortion index of the inorganic octahedra. …”
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Adhesive properties of adsorbed layers of two recombinant mussel foot proteins with different levels of DOPA and tyrosine by Bilotto, Pierluigi, Labate, Cristina, De Santo, Maria P., Deepankumar, Kanagavel, Miserez, Ali, Zappone, Bruno

“…Using a surface forces apparatus and an atomic force microscope, we characterized the adhesive properties of adsorbed layers of two recombinant variants of Perna viridis foot protein 5 (PVFP-5), the main surface-binding protein in the adhesive plaque of the Asian green mussel. …”
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Binding modes of teixobactin to lipid ii : molecular dynamics study by Liu, Yang, Liu, Yaxin, Chan-Park, Mary Bee Eng, Mu, Yuguang

“…In agreement with experimental findings, the pyrophosphate group and the attached first sugar subunit of LII are found to be the minimal motif for stable TXB binding. …”
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Motor adaptation with passive machines: A first study on the effect of real and virtual stiffness by Tommasino, Paolo, Melendez-Calderon, A., Burdet, E., Campolo, Domenico

“…In particular, we tested 20 healthy subjects under two different real stiffness conditions (Stiff Channel vs Compliant Channel) and two different virtual conditions (Viscous vs Springy). Our main finding is that compliance of the channel favours a better adaptation featured with less lateral errors and longer retention of the after-effect. …”
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A systematic review of customer Sharia compliance behaviour in Islamic banks: Determinants and behavioural intention by Roni, Andespa, Yulia Hendri, Yeni, Fernando, Yudi, Dessy Kurnia, Sari

“…Theoretically, this study has contributed by finding the main critical domains influencing customers’ Sharia compliance behaviour, such as attitudes, subjective norms, perceptions of behavioural control, knowledge of Islamic finance, religiosity, consumer conformity, Islamic branding and behavioural intentions. …”
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Semantic constraint on preposition incorporation of postverbal locative PPs in Mandarin Chinese by Peck, Jeeyoung, Lin, Jingxia

“…Previous studies claim that adjunct phrases which quantify an event, such as event delimiters, may behave like arguments (“the delimiter hypothesis”). Yet, our observation of Chinese finds that adjunct locative PPs that are not an event delimiter (e.g. directional 向 xiàng/往 wǎng ‘toward’ PPs or non-directional 在 zài ‘at’ PPs) can also allow their prepositional object to appear as the verbal object. …”
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Immediate test or delayed test : evidence of primary Mathematics learning by Arunachalam Thannimalai

“…The findings showed superiority of usage of worked examples in instruction material but there was unexpectedly no superiority of delayed testing over immediate testing. …”
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