Immuno-protective effect of commercial IBD vaccines against emerging novel variant infectious bursal disease virus in specific-pathogen-free chickens by Aliyu, Hayatuddeen Bako, Hamisu, Tasiu Mallam, Hair-Bejo, Mohd, Omar, Abdul Rahman, Ideris, Aini

“…The vaIBDV strain, UPM1432/2019, was used for the challenge at 21 and 28days post-vaccination (dpv). Five birds from unchallenged and challenged groups were sacrificed seven days post-challenge, and blood, bursa, spleen, and cloacal swabs were collected. …”
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Developing a Positive Psychology Principles Based on Social Media Utilization Among Housewives (S/O 13751) by Abdul Hamid, Norsiah, Ishak, Mohd Sobhi, Mohd Rashid, Sabrina

“…This study delves into housewives’ motives of social media usage and its effects on their well-being and flourishing based on the uses and gratification and self-determination theories. Five motives have been proposed namely Escapism, Information Seeking, Friendship Maintenance, Relationship Initiation, and Nostalgia, which were then tested for with Well-being and Flourishing. …”
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Ionic covalent organic framework based electrolyte for fast-response ultra-low voltage electrochemical actuators by Yu, Fei, Ciou, Jing-Hao, Chen, Shaohua, Poh, Wei Church, Chen, Jian, Chen, Juntong, Haruethai, Kongcharoen, Lv, Jian, Gao, Dace, Lee, Pooi See

“…Specifically, the actuator shows a large peak to peak displacement (9.3 mm, ±0.5 V, 1 Hz), a fast-response time to reach equilibrium-bending (~1 s), a correspondingly high bending strain difference (0.38%), a broad response frequency (0.1-20 Hz) and excellent durability (>99%) after 23,000 cycles. …”
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Structural mimicry of the dengue virus envelope glycoprotein revealed by the crystallographic study of an idiotype–anti-idiotype Fab complex by Wong, Yee Hwa, Goh, Boon Chong, Lim, She Yah, Teo, En Wei, Lim, Angeline P. C., Dedon, Pete C., Hanson, Brendon J., MacAry, Paul A., Lescar, Julien

“…A detailed understanding of the fine specificity of serotype-specific human antibodies is vital for the development and evaluation of new vaccines for pathogenic flaviviruses such as dengue virus (DENV) and Zika virus. …”
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Towards depth-resolved multi-cubic-centimeter field of view endoscopic camera for intraoperative nerve identification. by Yoon, Yong-Chul

“…One out of every five peripheral nerve injuries in the United States has an iatrogenic origin. …”
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High yield synthesis of graphene quantum dots from biomass waste as a highly selective probe for Fe3+ sensing by Abbas, Aumber, Tabish, Tanveer A., Bull, Steve J., Lim, Tuti Mariana, Phan, Anh N.

“…A sensitive sensor is prepared for the selective detection of Fe3+ ions with a detection limit of as low as 2.5 × 10–6 M. The utilisation of renewable resource along with facile microwave treatment paves the way to sustainable, high yield and cost-effective synthesis of GQDs for practical applications.…”
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A facile alternative strategy of upcycling mixed plastic waste into vitrimers by Ng, Joseph Kok Wei, Lim, Jacob Song Kiat, Gupta, Nupur, Dong, Bing Xue, Hu, Chun Po, Hu, Jingdan, Hu, Xiao

“…Recovered PET (RPET) oligomer was then used as a feedstock to produce a crosslinked yet reprocessable vitrimer (vRPET) despite having a wide molecular weight distribution using a solventless melt processing approach. …”
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Decellularization of human stromal refractive lenticules for corneal tissue engineering by Yam, Gary Hin-Fai, Yusoff, Nur Zahirah Binte M., Goh, Tze-Wei, Setiawan, Melina, Lee, Xiao-Wen, Liu, Yu-Chi, Mehta, Jodhbir Singh

“…The SDS-based method was superior to other treatments with hyperosmotic 1.5 M sodium chloride, 0.1% Triton X-100 and nucleases (from 2 to 10 U/ml DNase and RNase) in preserving extracellular matrix content (collagens, glycoproteins and glycosaminoglycans). …”
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Totally embedded hybrid thin films of carbon nanotubes and silver nanowires as flat homogenous flexible transparent conductors by Pillai, Suresh Kumar Raman, Wang, Jing, Wang, Yilei, Sk, Md Moniruzzaman, Prakoso, Ari Bimo, Rusli, Chan-Park, Mary Bee Eng

“…With addition of SWCNTs embedded in the resin, sheet resistance of the hybrid film is 29 ± 5 Ω/sq and uniform across the 47 mm diameter film discs; further, the optimized film has 85% transparency. …”
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Positive innovative thinking based on the integration of spiritual knowledge through the subjects of design and technology by Zaipah, Ismail, Aede Hatib, Musta’amal @ Jamal, Nornazira, Suhairom, Rohana, Hamzah

“…However, the teaching and learning process and the existing curriculum often ignore the spiritual element, which can play an important role in forming positive innovative thinking and student morals. This research is in line with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), especially SDG 4 (Quality Education) and SDG 9 (Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure), by emphasizing the integration of intellectual and spiritual knowledge education to produce students with positive innovative thinking and noble character. …”
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Device and material investigations of GaN enhancement-mode transistors for Venus and harsh environments by Xie, Qingyun, Niroula, John, Rajput, Nitul S., Yuan, Mengyang, Luo, Shisong, Fu, Kai, Isamotu, Mohamed Fadil, Palash, Rafid Hassan, Sikder, Bejoy, Eisner, Savannah R., Surdi, Harshad, Belanger, Aidan J., Darmawi-Iskandar, Patrick K., Aksamija, Zlatan, Nemanich, Robert J., Goodnick, Stephen M., Senesky, Debbie G., Hunter, Gary W., Chowdhury, Nadim, Zhao, Yuji, Palacios, Tomás

“…Through transistor, Transmission Line Method (TLM), and Hall-effect measurements vs temperature, it is revealed that the mobility decrease is the primary cause of reduction of on-state performance of this GaN transistor at high temperature. …”
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Holey graphene-wrapped porous TiNb24O62 microparticles as high-performance intercalation pseudocapacitive anode materials for lithium-ion capacitors by Li, Shaohui, Chen, Jingwei, Gong, Xuefei, Wang, Jiangxin, Lee, Pooi See

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β-Ginkgotides: Hyperdisulfide-constrained peptides from Ginkgo biloba by Wong, Ka Ho, Tan, Wei Liang, Xiao, Tianshu, Tam, James P.

“…Disulfide mapping revealed a novel disulfide connectivity of CysI‒IV, CysII‒VI and CysIII‒V. Oxidative folding of synthetic β-gB1 to the native form was obtained in 70% yield. …”
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Origins of the long-range exciton diffusion in perovskite nanocrystal films : photon recycling vs exciton hopping by Giovanni, David, Righetto, Marcello, Zhang, Qiannan, Lim, Melvin Jia Wei, Ramesh, Sankaran, Sum, Tze Chien

“…Surprisingly, the resulting exciton mobilities in these PNC films can reach 10 ± 2 cm2 V-1 s-1, which is counterintuitively several times higher than the carrier mobility in 3D perovskite films. …”
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An encoding scheme capturing generic priors and properties of amino acids improves protein classification by Zhou, Xinrui, Yin, Rui, Zheng, Jie, Kwoh, Chee-Keong

“…Automated feature engineering, i.e., an encoding scheme automating the construction of features, saves the redesigning process and allows the researchers to try different representations with minimal effort. This is more in line with the explosion of data and the goal of building an intelligent system. …”
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Effects of condensed tannin fractions from Leucaena leucocephala (LAM.) De wit hybrid on methane mitigation, rumen fermentation and diversity of methanogens, protozoa and bacteria... by Mookiah, Saminathan

“…Condensed tannins were extracted from LLR and fractionated into five fractions (F1–F5) using size exclusion chromatography procedure. …”
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Synthesis of Au@Pd core/shell nanomaterials for high-performance ethanol oxidation reactions by Xu, Weichang

“…When the concentration of PdCl2 was reduced to 2.5 mM, the Au surface would be partially coated with Pd domains and the CV scan could facilitate the physical movement of Pd atoms to realize full coverage of the exposed Au surface. …”
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High-spin impurities and surface acoustic waves in piezoelectric crystals for spin-lattice coupling by Magnusson, E

“…We found that the nominally pure ZnO was conductive at room temperature due to <em>n</em>-type intrinsic doping, and electrical losses inhibited any transmission through a SAW delay line above <em>T</em> = 200K. The one-port resonator measured down to milli-Kelvin temperatures showed excellent quality factors of up to <em>Q</em> &amp;sime; 1.5 × 10⁵ in its superconducting state.…”

Cell and tissue specific functional genomics of psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis by Lledo Lara, A

“…The highest number of DARs were found in monocytes (5,285 FDR<0.01) for both tissues with synovial fluid monocytes specifically enriched for interleukin and NF-κB signalling pathways. …”

探 = In search of harmony by Ng, Woon Lam

“…Back in the days when I was learning the classical oil painting approach in New York Academy of Fine Art, I discovered the similarity in the painting techniques between watercolor and oil painting. …”
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