In vitro evaluation of oral contraceptives on long-tailed macaque (Macaca fascicularis) primary ovarian cells by Muhammed, Mikail, Tengku Azizan, Tengku Rinalfi Putra, Mohd Noor, Mohd Hezmee, Abu Hassim, Hasliza, Che'Amat, Azlan, Saleh, Annas Bin, Han, Mark Hiew Wen, Ab Latip, Mohd Qayyum

“…The result of the study indicates that human oral contraceptives (Nordette, Noriday, and Ella) inhibit the growth of long-tailed macaque ovarian cells and induce apoptosis in a concentration- and time-dependent manner (at a concentration of 0.0315 μg/mL and an IC50 lower than 10 μg/mL), With a statistically significant value of ****P < 0.001 for each drug compared to the negative control. …”
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TriviA and uTriviA : two fast and secure authenticated encryption schemes by Chakraborti, Avik, Chattopadhyay, Anupam, Muhammad Hassan, Mridul Nandi

“…The uTriviA design achieves a hardware area of only 16.74 KGE, which is lowest among all the TriviA variants but with a lower throughput of 36.76 Gbps. Finally, we provide a brief comparison between the three constructions TriviA-0-v1, TriviA-v2 and uTriviA and the other standard implementations in terms of hardware area-efficiency metric.…”
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Studies on the physicochemical, biomechanical and biological properties of novel decellularized bovine scaffold for bone regeneration by Qabbani, Ali Abdul Qader Hameed Al

“…The results revealed that DCC scaffolds elicited significantly lower white blood cell counts and systemic inflammation compared to DMB and untreated native bone. …”
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Granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor neutralisation in patients with axial spondyloarthritis in the UK (NAMASTE): a randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled, phase... by Worth, C, Al-Mossawi, MH, MacDonald, J, Fisher, BA, Chan, A, Sengupta, R, Packham, J, Gaffney, K, Gullick, N, Cook, JA, Corn, TH, Teh, J, Machado, PM, Taylor, PC, Bowness, P

“…At week 12, the proportion of patients who had an ASAS20 clinical response was lower in the namilumab group (14 of 36) than in the placebo group (three of six; estimated between-group difference 6·8%). …”

Development of an integrated scheduling model for handling equipment in automated port container terminals by Sadeghian, Syed Hamidreza

“…Massive transportation capacity and lower carrying costs lead different countries to increase throughput of their seaport container terminals. …”
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Effectiveness of cognitive behavior therapy and Reiki therapy on adolescents with depressive disorders inTehran, Iran by Charkhandeh, Mansoureh

“…The rate of attempted suicide among depressed patients in a community area is 0.5% in Iran, which is significantly lower than in the most recent clinical research. …”
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Impact of media literacy on soft drink consumption among adolescents in Klang Valley, Malaysia by Mohammad Shahid, Nur Nadirah

“…Moreover, the findings of this study were hoped to also help soft drink marketer and producers to understand media literacy and adolescents‟ soft drink consumption behavior. Other than that, recommendations for future research including using semi-structure in-depth personal interview or focus group were suggested to yield more in-depth data. …”
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Metagenetic analysis of gut microbial community of Malaysian mahseer Tor tambroides (Bleeker, 1854) (Cyprinidae) and its probiotics potential by Tan, Chun Keat

“…Lysozyme activities in T. tambroides juveniles fed with Bacillus sp. were significantly higher (P<0.05) than other treatments. In conclusion, Cetobacterium sp. is a core gut microbiota in T. tambroides. …”
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Radioactive Atoms and Molecules for Fundamental Physics by Udrescu, Silviu-Marian

“…The sensitivity to the sought-after signal is expected to be increased by more than twelve orders of magnitude compared to atoms. …”
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Controls on eruption style at Rabaul, Papua New Guinea – insights from microlites, porosity and permeability measurements by Bernard, Olivier., Bouvet de Maisonneuve, Caroline

“…We find that magma feeding sub-plinian eruptions ascends 2–3 orders of magnitude faster than magma feeding vulcanian/effusive eruptions (≥ 1–100 m/s vs 0.1 m/s). …”
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Improved mobility and photovoltaic performance of two-dimensional Ruddlesden−Popper (ThMA)₂(MA)₂M₃I₁₀ perovskites applied in perovskite solar cells by Sun, Ping-Ping, Kripalani, Devesh Raju, Chi, Weijie

“…(ThMA)2(MA)2Ge3I10 and (ThMA)2(MA)2Sn3I10 exhibited the best capacities for electron and hole transport with carrier mobilities of 12.869 and 9.856 cm2 V–1 s–1, respectively, which are 1–2 orders of magnitude higher than that of (ThMA)2(MA)2Pb3I10. …”
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Tools for multi-agent crowd simulation : redesigning and extending the COSMOS crowd simulation suite by Nasri Othman

“…Our performance tests on the optimizations of key simulation components indicated substantial performance improvements of over two orders of magnitude under selected tests. …”
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The use of paleomagnetic analysis to assess nonbrittle deformation within the San Andreas fault zone by Sieh, Kerry, Nagy, Elizabeth A.

“…Inadvertent sample rotation about the axis of the glass holders is one of the most evident sources of error found in this study, although only samples which underwent large rotations (> 60°) could be identified. …”
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Performance analysis of impulse-radio ultra-wideband techniques for low-rate communications by Cui, Shan

“…Over bipolar coding, unipolar coding has the advantages of providing better correlation template, and hence, lower detection error rate for the receiver. …”
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Optimized data reuse via reordering for sparse matrix-vector multiplication on FPGAs by Li, Shiqing, Liu, Di, Liu, Weichen

“…Due to irregular data access patterns of vector elements and the limited memory bandwidth, the computational throughput of CPUs and GPUs is lower than the peak performance offered by FPGAs. …”
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You must be myths-taken: examining belief in falsehoods during the COVID-19 health crisis by Lwin, May Oo, Sheldenkar, Anita, Tng, Pei Ling

“…However, belief in myths varied across population demographics, with ethnic minorities (Indians and Malays), females, young adults and those with lower education levels being more susceptible to myths than their counterparts (p < 0.05). …”
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Preclinical development of antisense conjugates for the treatment of myotonic dystrophy 1 by Stoodley, J

“…Although, DEL01-(CAG)7, was unsuccessful in treating the milder DMSXL mouse model for DM1, it successfully reversed the DM1 phenotype in the more severe HSA-LR mouse model. …”

Pnictogen-halide semiconductors for photovoltaics by Liu, P

“…The emission spectra of indoor light sources are narrower and blue-shifted compared to the standard terrestrial outdoor AM 1.5G solar spectrum, which is the reference spectrum for standard testing of solar energy conversion systems, with a specified standard irradiance of 1000 W/m2[1]; AM stands for air mass coefficient. The intensity of indoor light sources is approximately three orders of magnitude lower than 1-sun illumination [2, 3]. …”

Ammonia-dependent reducing power redistribution for purple phototrophic bacteria culture-based biohydrogen production by Huang, Peitian, Chen, Yun, Li, Zong, Zhang, Baorui, Yu, Siwei, Zhou, Yan

“…However, existing studies report much lower H2 yields than theoretical value when using acetate as carbon source and ammonia as nitrogen source, primarily attributed to the widely employed pulse-feeding mode which suffers from ammonia inhibition effect on nitrogenase. …”
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Comparison of diabetic and non-diabetic human leukocytic responses to different capsule types of klebsiella pneumoniae responsible for causing pyogenic liver abscess by Lee, I. Russel, Sng, Ethel, Lee, Kok-Onn, Molton, James S., Chan, Monica, Kalimuddin, Shirin, Izharuddin, Ezlyn, Lye, David C., Archuleta, Sophia, Gan, Yunn-Hwen

“…Notably, the IL-12–IFNγ axis and its downstream chemokines MIG, IP-10, and RANTES were produced at slightly lower levels by type 2 DM PBMCs than healthy PBMCs in response to representative K1 and non-K1/K2 strains. …”
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