Prevalence and seasonal variation of severe childhood protein calorie malnutrition in Khartoum : implication for brain function by Ahmed, Zahra

“…In terms of demographic factors, mothers who delivered their first baby before they were 18 years old, mothers with a BMI of less than 18.5 Kg /m2 , a birth interval of less than 2 years, children aged 6-11 months (for marasmus), children aged 12-23 months (for kwashiorkor), children whose mid-upper arm circumference was less than 12.5cm and the number of children in a family were all highly associated with the incidence of PCM (p<0.001). …”
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New approach to suppress mutual coupling between longitudinal-slotted arrays based on SIW antenna loaded with metal-fences working on VHF/UHF frequency-bands: study, investigation,... by Alibakhshikenari, Mohammad, Virdee, Bal Singh, See, Chan, Abd-Alhameed, Raed, Falcone, Francisco, Limiti, Ernesto

“…The resulting isolation is shown to be is better than -83 dB across 200 MHz to 1.0 GHz with gain greater than 1.5 dBi, and side-lobe level less than 40 dB. …”
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Exploring spatial memory in children with autism and ADHD by Kochhar, Ridhi

“…Technical objects were better remembered by the mainly male sample than roleplay and neutral objects, but this particular category of objects had the slowest reaction times. …”
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Low SAR PIFA Antenna for Wideband Applications by Naser-Moghadasi, Mohammad, Mansouri, Zahra, Sharma, Sachin, Zarrabi, Ferdows, Virdee, Bal Singh

“…Its radiation pattern is approximately omnidirectional, VSWR < 2, gain in the range 2–4.6 dBi, and efficiency greater than 78%. The prototype antenna exhibits a low SAR of around 1.04 for 1 g at 1800 MHz, which is less than 51% than a conventional PIFA antenna. …”
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Developing regional weight-for-age growth references for malaria-endemic countries to optimize age-based dosing of antimalarials by Hayes, Daniel J., van Buuren, Stef, ter Kuile, Feiko O., Stasinopoulos, Dimitrios, Rigby, Robert A., Terlouw, Dianne J.

“…It contained data collected between 1995 and 2012 on 1263119 individuals (909368 female, 353751 male) older than 14 days and younger than 50 years in 64 malaria-endemic countries. …”
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University lecturers’ constructions of undergraduate writing : a gender analysis by Read, Barbara, Francis, Becky, Robson, Jocelyn

“…Women are now obtaining more first degrees overall than men and (if first and upper second results are added together) more ‘good’ degrees than men, with all subjects being taken together.…”
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Enhancing relationship marketing using social media tools in food and beverages industries by Kormin, Kamisah

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Improved electroporator for liquid food pasteurization through continuous flow and double-exponential impulse waveform by Arshad, Rai Naveed

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Enhanced priority-based adaptive energy-aware mechanisms for wireless sensor networks by Uzougbo, Onwuegbuzie Innocent

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Autonomous mobile robot navigation and control in the road following and roundabout environments incorporating laser range finder and vision system by Hashem Ali, Mohammed Abdo

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Characterisation and optimisation of flame-retarding palm oil-based polyurethane/montmorilloniteammonium polyphosphate foam by Dzulkifli, Mohd. Haziq

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Drivers of implementing big data analytics in food supply chains for transition to a circular economy and sustainable operations management by Kazancoglu, Yigit, Ozbiltekin-Pala, Melisa, Deniz Sezer, Muruvvet, Luthra, Sunil, Kumar, Anil

“…This study is unique in examining these BDA drivers based on FSC. We hope to find sustainable solutions to minimize losses or other negative impacts on these SC. …”
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Words and facts: children's fast mapping, retention and extension by Holland, Amanda

“…In contrast, retention of colour labels, shape labels, texture labels and linguistic facts was no better than chance, despite good short-term performance. …”
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International students and plagiarism : an analysis of the reasons for plagiarism among international foundation students by Bamford, Jan, Sergiou, Katerina

“…Plagiarism is regarded as a serious academic offence, although more often than not it results from misunderstanding rather than a deliberate intention to cheat. …”
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An exploration of female journalists’ experiences of covering potentially traumatic news stories : an IPA study by Schumacher, Ruth Elizabeth

“…War-reporting journalists have a higher prevalence of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) than the general population (Feinstein, Owen & Blair, 2002). …”
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Meta-Surface Wall Suppression of Mutual Coupling Between Microstrip Patch Antenna Arrays for THz-Band Applications by Alibakhshikenari, Mohammad, Virdee, Bal Singh, Shukla, Pancham, See, Chan, Abd-Alhameed, Raed, Falcone, Francisco, Limiti, Ernesto

“…The proposed technique achieves mutual coupling suppression of more than 10 dB over a much wider frequency bandwidth (2 GHz) than achieved to date. …”
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The role of aquatic macrophytes in the availability of food for young fish by Northcott, Dorabella Susan

“…No microcrustacea longer than 1mm occurred in the open water. The size range in the weedbeds was 0 .1 -2 .0mm. …”
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Motion sickness susceptibility in healthy subjects and vestibular patients: effects of gender, age and trait-anxiety by Paillard, Aurore, Quarck, Gaëlle, Paolino, F., Denise, Pierre, Paolino, M., Golding, John F., Ghulyan-Bedikian, V.

“…When patients were divided into those who had vestibular loss (n = 51) vs. patients without vestibular loss (n = 43), the MSSQ scores (mean ± SD) for patients with vestibular loss (18.8 ± 30.9) were lower than healthy subjects (36.4 ± 34.8), who were lower than vestibular patients without vestibular loss (59.0 ± 39.7). …”
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A study differentiating credit risk management strategy between Islamic and non-Islamic Banks in UEA by Al-Suwaidi, Hassan

“…Islamic banks are performing better making lending decision and lending policies than non-Islamic banks. Whereas, non-Islamic (conventional) banks are having better expert system than Islamic bank. …”
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Practical poetics: rhythmic spatiality and the communicative movement between site, architecture and sculpture by Lynch, Patrick

“…Central to characterizing this communicative depth was recovering the cultural - rather than formal or picturesque - continuity of Renaissance and Classical poetics. …”
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