Understanding the justifications for food policies through political theory: a method for public policy analysis by Thomas, O

“…In response to this, states have gradually introduced policies to curb sugar consumption, ranging from restrictive interventions like bans, to high-agency interventions like awareness campaigns. …”

Relationship of sperm protamine content with bull breeding soundness evaluation and sperm DNA damage by Mohamed Abbad Alfadel, Fatima

“…Five Brangus bulls from the University Putra Malaysia farm, between 3 – 8 years old and body weights ranging from 308 – 568 kg, were subjected to BBSE. …”
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The development and validation of digital medical education environment (digimee) instrument in measuring online learning environment for undergraduate medical students by Haris, Noor-I-Kiran

“…The internal consistency for these components was high, with a Cronbach’s alpha of 0.952. Factor loadings ranged from 0.404 to 0.721 for each component, indicating strong associations within each factor.CFA of the final 28-item Digi-MEE instrument showed good model fit indices, excellent internal consistency (Cronbach’s alpha: 0.952), and acceptable composite reliability (0.7). …”
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Genome-based analysis of extended-spectrum β-lactamase-producing Escherichia coli in the aquatic environment and Nile perch (Lates niloticus) of Lake Victoria, Tanzania by Baniga, Zebedayo, Hounmanou, Yaovi M. Gildas, Kudirkiene, Egle, Kusiluka, Lughano J. M., Mdegela, Robinson H., Dalsgaard, Anders

“…Cluster C1 included five strains (3 to 13 SNPs) belonging to ST167, phylogroup A, and serotype O9:H21; the two C2 strains (11 SNPs) belong to ST156, phylogroup B1, and serotype ONT:H28; and C3 was made up of four strains (SNPs ranged from 4 to 17) of ST636, phylogroup B2, and serotype O45:H7. …”
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Coupled acoustic resonator systems with novel acoustic properties by Yang, Yahui

“…The work in this thesis has theoretically studied and experimentally investigated topological related novel properties in acoustic resonator systems, ranging from the strain field induced magnetic-like effects, to the bulk polarization. …”
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Physics-informed machine learning for green data center operations by Wang, Ruihang

“…However, existing operating principles only focus on maintaining temperatures within certain ranges without taking system power usage into account. …”
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Structural and mechanistic studies of herpes virus proteins by Patel, Vidhi Kanaiyalal

“…Herpes viruses are nuclear-replicating viruses, known to cause a variety of diseases in humans ranging from painful skin and genital lesions to life-threatening cancers. …”
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Electronic structures of twisted two-dimensional materials studied by angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy by Pei, D

“…Using ARPES in different energy ranges (from vacuum ultraviolet to soft X-ray), we report a comprehensive study on their electronic structures. …”

Macrobrachium rosenbergii De Man nodavirus recombinant capsid protein production and its interactions with RNA by Goh, Zee Hong

“…All the mutants were shown to assemble into VLPs ranging from 18 to 34 nm in diameter. Mutants with the positively-charged amino acids deleted, namely 29ΔMrNvc and 20-29ΔMrNvc did not contain RNA molecules in their VLPs. …”
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Rule-based meta-analysis reveals the major role of PB2 in influencing influenza A virus virulence in mice by Ivan, Fransiskus Xaverius, Kwoh, Chee Keong

“…PART models achieved the best performance, with moderate average model accuracies ranged from 65.0 to 84.4% and from 54.0 to 66.6% for the two-class and three-class problems, respectively. …”
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Magnetic nanochain enabled microarray and microfluidic bioassays by Xiong, Qirong

“…Microarray techniques have found widespread uses in diverse fields ranging from fundamental genomic research to clinical diagnosis. …”
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Development of in-line fiber-optic interferometric sensors by using biopolymer : chitosan. by Chen, Li Han.

“…Due to its excellent elastic property, the sensor is able to define dynamic air pressure and has shown a high sensitivity of 0.002 V/mPa at 1 kHz with frequency response ranging from 20 Hz to 20 kHz. The success of integrating chitosan diaphragm into the Fabry-Perot fiber sensor had motivated us to further employ the sensor for in-vivo ultrasound measurement. …”
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“可爱” 又 “可恶” 的女人 ：中国广场舞大妈 = Adorable or abominable? : Chinese square dancing dama by 徐昕 Xin, Xu

“…Participants of square dancing are mainly female ranging from middle to old age. They are often name as square dancing "dama". …”
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From node embedding to community embedding on graphs by Cavallari, Sandro

“…The proposed architecture is able to outperform strong baselines in various data sets ranging from the prediction of the household’s energy load to traffic congestion, and many others.…”
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Arsenic (III) removal from water using natural sedimentary rocks by Yusof, Nur Zulaikha

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Pregnant women admitted to hospital with covid-19 in 10 European countries: individual patient data meta-analysis of population based cohorts in International Obstetric Survey Syst... by Engjom, HM, de Bruin, O, Ramakrishnan, R, Aabakke, AJM, Äyräs, O, Deneux-Tharaux, C, Donati, S, Knight, M, Jonasdottir, E, Svanvik, T, Vercoutere, A, Vousden, N, Bleomenkamp, KWM

“…The pooled incidence of hospital admissions for covid-19 per 1000 maternities was 0.8 (95% confidence interval (CI) 0.5 to 1.2, τ2=0.44), ranging from no hospital admissions in Iceland to 1.7 in France and 1.9 in the UK. 13 women died due to covid-19. …”

Landless in God’s own country: development and perpetual struggles in Kerala by Ramapurath Chemmencheri, S

“…Scholarship on relative surplus populations shows their variegated forms, ranging from labourers in constant migration in search of wage work under capitalist relations to people argued as being totally disconnected from the uneven expansion of capitalism. …”

Effects of energy and protein supplementation on microbial-N synthesis and allantoin excretion in sheep fed guinea grass by Jetana, T, Abdullah, N, Halim, R.A, Jalaludin, S, Ho, Y.W

“…The results showed that rumen pHs were similar, ranging from pH 5.8 to 6.0, for all animals fed the different dietary supplements. …”
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Investigations into high resolution imaging and contouring for diagnostic bio-applications by Valiyambath, Krishnan Mohankumar

“…Experimental verification was carried out on silicone phantoms and to a limited extent, with animal model, with abnormality sizes ranging from about 5 mm to 8 mm. A fiber based high resolution imaging methodology was investigated that is capable of producing microscopic images of the targeted tissues. …”
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Effectiveness of digital education on communication skills among medical students : systematic review and meta-analysis by the digital health education collaboration by Kyaw, Bhone Myint, Posadzki, Pawel, Paddock, Sophie, Car, Josip, Campbell, James, Car, Lorainne Tudor

“…The overall risk of bias was high, and the quality of evidence ranged from moderate to very low. For skills outcome, meta-analysis of three studies comparing digital education to traditional learning showed no statistically significant difference in postintervention skills scores between the groups (standardized mean difference [SMD]=–0.19; 95% CI –0.9 to 0.52; I2=86%, N=3 studies [304 students]; small effect size; low-quality evidence). …”
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