Influence of depression and loneliness on suicidal behaviour among public university students in Malaysia by Norazizi, Nur Dini Kamilia, Che Amat, Muhammad Asyraf, Mohammad Hanafi, Nor Hafizah, Firman, Salam, Syahrul Nizam

“…Suicide is a serious and curable public health issue that is alarming towards early adults like university students who are undergoing personal and social phase changes and pressures. …”
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Evaluation of oil palm frond for biobutanol production by different Clostridia species by Abubakar, Abdurrahman, Md Salleh, Madihah, Yahya, Adibah, Hussin, Huszalina, Shiong, Chong Chun, Mohamad, Shaza Eva, Abd Aziz, Suraini

“…Fermentation inhibitors like gallic and ferulic acids were also detected in the juice using the HPLC technique, and their concentrations also increased with age. …”

The effectiveness of Building Information Modelling (BIM) in solving railway project management issues in Malaysia by Molarn, M A, Ang, P S E, Ali, R B

“…MRT 2 faced problems like design discrepancies and coordination issues, while Gemas - JB ETS encountered issues with construction changes, cost overruns, and project delays. …”
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Policy Framework: Providing Social Protection to the Frontline Healthcare Workers During the Pandemic (S/O 14696) by Abdul Wahab, Harlida, Abdullah, Nor Anita, Abdul Rahim, Asmar

“…Its major impacts on the public health sector, health care services and the like, inclusive of their workers are obvious. Health care and medical services are essential where their interruption would imperil the life, health and safety of the whole nation. …”
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A New Framework on Success Factors of Social Media Applications Usage (S/O 14449) by Mohd Sappri, Mazlan, Abdul Hamid, Mohamad Shukri, Sulaiman, Nor Intan Saniah, Omar, Mohd Faizal

“…ISSM contains several success factors like system quality, service quality and information quality that affect the user satisfaction and use of a system, where this model were modified in this study with the addition of networking quality and perceive privacy factors. …”
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How Competent Are You? Developing A C.A.B. Crosscultural Competency Framework for Inculcating Cultural Sensitivity Among Malaysian Nurse Expatriates (S/O: 13593) by Abdul Talib, Asmat Nizam, Zakaria, Norhayati, Zakaria, Nasriah

“…In the recent statistics of the Ministry of Health, it was indicated that between 7000-8000 of Malaysian nurses work abroad in countries like Saudi Arabia, Australia and New Zealand. However, to become an expatriate specifically in Saudi, it warrants an intensified level of sacrifices from the Malaysian female nurses because they could not bring their families unlike in the Western countries, and a total change of lifestyles when they moved to the country. …”
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Defining and Developing Measures of Lean Sustainability for Manufacturing Sector by Osman, Azim Azuan, Othman, Abdul Aziz, Abdul Rahim, Mohd Kamarul Irwan

“…However, due to lack of clear understanding of the lean sustainability concept, many manufacturers are unable to fully transform into a true lean organisation like Toyota. In fact, without a proper measurement, the organisation’s transformation progress will be unknown and the specific gains made from lean improvement cannot be monitored. …”
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Taking eService-Learning to the Next Level / by Strait, Jean R., 1965-, editor 656157, Shumer, Robert D., 1947-, editor 656160, Nordyke, Katherine J., editor 656159, IAP Books (Online service) 656161

“…Strait takes us from the first chapter examining current issues and considerations for eService-Learning, to a second chapter that documents the growth and maturation of a program at Missouri State University, to chapters that introduce “critical” e-service learning with a social justice orientation (Gordon and Jackson-Brown), and chapters that address international experiences (Ong, Tan, et al., and Dietrich and Ekici) that involve eService-learning in Singapore and long-distance relationships between the U.S. and Afghanistan, to illustrate the multiplicity and diversity of current models of service and learning that occur through electronic means. …”
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Essays on blood supply management by Senga, Juan Ramon Liboro

“…The final analysis compares the strategies of short-term and long-term planning horizons, such that long-term planning horizons focus on recruitment of new donors at the start and retention of more regular donors towards the end.…”
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Persistent symptoms and association with inflammatory cytokine signatures in recovered coronavirus disease 2019 patients by Ong, Sean Wei Xiang, Fong, Siew-Wai, Young, Barnaby Edward, Chan, Yi-Hao, Lee, Bernett, Siti Naqiah Amrun, Chee, Rhonda Sin-Ling, Yeo, Nicholas Kim-Wah, Tambyah, Paul, Pada, Surinder, Tan, Seow Yen, Ding, Ying, Renia, Laurent, Leo, Yee Sin, Ng, Lisa F. P., Lye, David C.

“…Background: The complications and sequelae of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and their effect on long-term health are unclear, and the trajectory of associated immune dysregulation is poorly understood. …”
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A Brewster route to Cherenkov detectors by Lin, Xiao, Hu, Hao, Easo, Sajan, Yang, Yi, Shen, Yichen, Yin, Kezhen, Blago, Michele Piero, Kaminer, Ido, Zhang, Baile, Chen, Hongsheng, Joannopoulos, John, Soljačić, Marin, Luo, Yu

“…Overcoming this fundamental material limit is important for future particle detectors yet remains a long-standing challenge. Here, we propose a different paradigm for Cherenkov detectors that utilizes the broadband angular filter made from stacks of variable onedimensional photonic crystals. …”
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Contact-free motion-robust vital signs monitoring by Zheng, Tianyue

“…However, these methods are often not well received by human subjects due to the discomfort and inconvenience associated with long-term usage. Consequently, researchers have been pursuing contact-free alternatives to address these limitations. …”
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Predicting glaucoma progression using deep learning framework guided by generative algorithm by Hussain, Shaista, Chua, Jacqueline, Wong, Damon, Lo, Justin, Kadziauskiene, Aiste, Asoklis, Rimvydas, Barbastathis, George, Schmetterer, Leopold, Yong, Liu

“…In this work, we developed a multimodal deep learning model comprising a convolutional neural network (CNN) and a long short-term memory (LSTM) network, for glaucoma progression prediction. …”
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Deep learning-based concrete image analysis and generalization capability by Qian, Hanjie

“…In summary, this thesis addresses the long-standing issues of low accuracy, low efficiency, poor generalization capability and label dependency in previous studies based on concrete SEM data. …”
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Dynamics and stability of evaporating and condensing liquid layers by Wei, Tao

“…Finally, conclusions are drawn, and perspectives of future study based on these works have been proposed, including to model the dynamics of thin evaporating droplets with moving contact lines resulting from the successive touchdown of an evaporating layer and to investigate the relation between short-wave convection and long-wave deformation instabilities in the presence of phase change.…”
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VAERS Vasculitis Adverse Events Retrospective Study: Etiology Model of Immune Complexes Activating Fc Receptors in Kawasaki Disease and Multisystem Inflammatory Syndromes by Ricke, Darrell O., Smith, Nora

“…Ongoing ischemia can result in long-term cardiac damage. Cases associated with pathogens are likely to have persistent infections triggering disease onset. …”
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Quality and outcomes of diabetes care in patients diagnosed with cancer by Griffiths, R

“…Cancer patients were no less likely to meet quality measures for retinal screening, foot examination, or dietary review. …”

Enhancing ESL learners’ writing through collaborative learning with canva by Asiah, Kassim, Noraisah Nurul Fatwa, Mohd Razali

“…The study concludes that Canva holds significant potential for enhancing collaborative writing and recommends further research to explore its long-term benefits and overcome existing limitations.…”
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Energetic driving force for LHCII clustering in plant membranes by Manna, Premashis, Hoffmann, Madeline, Davies, Thomas, Richardson, Katherine H., Johnson, Matthew P., Schlau-Cohen, Gabriela S.

“…Collectively, this work captures the interactions that drive the organization of membrane protein networks from the perspective of equilibrium statistical thermodynamics, which has a long and rich tradition in biology.…”
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Towards a Multimodal Synchronized System for Quantifying Psychophysiological States in Canine Assisted Interactions by Holder, Timothy R. N., Nichols, Colt, Summers, Emily, Roberts, David L., Bozkurt, Alper

“…Our repeated measures pilot study also combined this with a novel dyadic behavioral coding system and short-, and long-term surveys. We evaluate these multimodal data streams independently, and further correlate these psychological, physiological, and behavioral metrics to better elucidate the outcomes and dynamics of CAIs. …”
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