Thismia perlisensis (Thismiaceae), a new red-annulus Thismia species from Peninsular Malaysia by Besi, Edward Entalai, Mad Jabar, Qistina Anis, Abd Rahman, Syamil, Saad, Mohd Zulkifly, Ag Ahmadni, Ag Shaffie, Go, Rusea

“…The new species is easily distinguished from the similar species, T. arachnites, T. javanica, T. tentaculata, and T. kenyirensis by the prominent reddish dome-shaped annulus instead of ring-like with rim, deeply trilobed stigma with bifid and subulate lobes, and claviform apices of the inner tepals.…”
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The Role of Institutional Trust and Political Accountability in Pakistan: An Empirical Study by Sadiq, Saiqa, Mohd. Zain, Zawiyah, Ajis, Mohd Na'eim

“…However, data is thematically analyzed, that is expedient technique for multiethnic country like Pakistan. Therefore, it is find out that weak political accountability and lower government performance have robust trust eroding effects in Pakistan.Thus the overall results are categorical about people lacking trust over political accountability institutions…”
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The Role of Social Media Towards Political Accountability in Pakistan: A Literature Review by Sadiq, Saiqa, Mohd. Zain, Zawiyah, Ajis, Mohd Na'eim

“…However, an emerging democracy like Pakistan, where social media trend is up surging and accountability condition is destitute. …”
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Developing Animation Projects that Foster Student's Creativity: An Application of Design Thinking Process (S/O 14722) by Mohd Suki, Norbayah, Mohd Suki, Norazah, Ahmad, Rosliza

“…Minimal research has been investigated on nurturing students' behavioural intention and actual usage of creative animation using design thinking as the digital social innovation agent to foster creativity at tertiary level within Malaysia context, particularly from the aspects like performance expectancy, effort expectancy, social influence, and facilitating conditions. …”
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Gut microbiota in colorectal cancer: biological role and therapeutic opportunities by Pandey, Himani, Tang, Daryl W. T., Wong, Sunny Hei, Lal, Devi

“…Advances in next-generation sequencing technologies and metagenomics have provided new insights into the gut microbial ecology and have helped in linking gut microbiota to CRC. Many studies carried out in humans and animal models have emphasized the role of certain gut bacteria, such as Fusobacterium nucleatum, enterotoxigenic Bacteroides fragilis, and colibactin-producing Escherichia coli, in the onset and progression of CRC. …”
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Mobility and community at Mesolithic Lake Onega, Karelia, north-west Russia: insights from strontium isotope analysis by Eckelmann, R, Arppe, L, Tarasov, A, Pospieszny, Ł, Ackerman, L, Heyd, V, Gerasimov, D, Moiseyev, V, Fairbanks, V, Hyland, C, Mannermaa, K

“…Only two individuals had strontium values indicating time spent outside of Lake Onega’s northern shores, where the majority of the burial population is likely to have resided. These results suggest that the YOO cemetery predominantly served as a burial place for those with semi-permanent residence in this area, with no significant evidence for gender-based relocation patterns indicative of patri- or matrilocal residency. …”

Young adolescents’ experiences and views on eating and food by Gilmour, A, Gill, S, Loudon, G

“…<p><strong>Purpose: </strong>Poor eating habits established during adolescence are likely to lead to negative long-term health consequences. …”

Capitalizing on a crisis: a computational analysis of all five million British firms during the Covid-19 pandemic by Muggleton, N, Rahal, C, Reeves, A

“…In this respect, the pandemic will likely impact future wealth inequalities. Our work offers methodological guidance for future policymakers during economic crises and highlights the long-term consequences for capital and wealth inequality.…”

Swimming in Data by Douglass, Katherine, Lamb, Augustus, Lu, Jerry, Ono, Ken, Tenpas, William

“…Ladies and Gentlemen, this is the Olympic Final,” thunders from the loudspeakers, yet it is barely audible over the deafening roar of a crowd ten thousand strong. One long blast of the referee’s whistle summons eight of the world’s fastest swimmers to the starting blocks. …”
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Interpreting Photoactive Fluorescence Microscopy Measurements of Steady-State Actin Dynamics by Tardy, Y., McGrath, J.L., Hartwig, J.H., Dewey, C.F.

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Foreign exchange prediction and trading using low-shot machine learning by Faris Ahmad Ishak

“…A comparison study has also been done using a built meta-learner Long Short Term Memory(LSTM) to forecast the same exchange rate. …”
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Suitability of TCLP for cement-based products by Shen, Aldwin Weishun.

“…This is particularly important for the assessment of the long term leaching characteristic after the ANC of the waste is exhausted. …”
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Development of a safety monitoring system in building construction by Yeni Susanti

“…Long term impact from sustaining back injury is expected. …”
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China's engagement with the liberal international order by Chua, Ze Ping

“…The paper argues that China avoids radically challenging the order’s rules by challenging them in a calibrated way to avoid being regarded as a ‘rule breaker’. In the long run, China desires to amend the order’s rules in its favour while also seeking to reduce the impact of US dominance through achieving technological independence and closer ties with neighbouring states.…”
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Erotica in Australian libraries : are we negligent collection managers? by Crook, Edgar

“…Literary erotica has existed alongside erotic art and sculpture for as long as there has been the capacity to publish or otherwise transmit the written word. …”
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Topological data analysis for fake news detection by Deng, Ran

“…For this task, three individual models have been used: least absolute shrinkage and selection operator (LASSO) using 0th Dimensional Persistent Image (PI) vectors, Bidirectional Long Short-Term Memory (BiLSTM), and Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers (BERT). …”
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Design and economic analysis of water treatment system for remote underserved communities in Asia by Tan, Li Ling

“…Progressively, given the advanced development in technology, ceramic membranes have proven to be advantageous such as high chemical resistance, high flux, durability, and long lifespan. However, ceramic membranes require a high initial capital cost compared to polymeric membranes when used for water treatment processes. …”
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Injectable transplantation system for anticancer in-situ cell therapy by Sheng, Nan.

“…Followed by biochemical activation, the construct is able to constantly release therapeutic agent. In a long observation period, the cells inside the capsule gradually die in a spontaneous manner, which is regarded as an advantage of controllability. …”
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Development of boom-free deployment mechanisms for solar sail spacecraft by Baey, Yi Quan

“…A boom-free solar sail deployment is especially useful for long space exploration missions as compared to the use of conventional rockets or rigid boom as it can bring about advantages such as saving more space and lesser limitation to the size of the solar sail. …”
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A still small voice by Yeow, Siobhan Ying Hong

“…Having been silenced for so long due to familial circumstances, she does not know who she is, what she wants to do in life nor how to live. …”
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