Isolation of Bifidobacteria infantis and its antagonistic activity against ETEC 0157 and Salmonella typhimurium S-285 in weaning foods by Mohd Yusof, Rokiah, Haque, Formuzul, Ismail, Maznah, Hassan, Zaiton

“…Trypticase phytone peptone yeast extract agar (TPY) was used as a selective media for the isolation. …”

Structural investigation, computational analysis, and theoretical cryoprotectant approach of antifreeze protein type IV mutants by Eskandari, Azadeh, Leow, Thean Chor, Abdul Rahman, Mohd Basyaruddin, Oslan, Siti Nurbaya

“…In this in silico study, the helical peptide afp1m from an Antarctic yeast AFP was modeled into a sculpin AFPIV, to replace each of its four α-helices in turn, using various computational tools. …”

Design of system for parking and repositioning of bikes in a public bike-sharing system by Siong, Jun Wei

“…In the case study of this report, the proposed model is shown to be able to determine a bike reallocation plan that incurs the least cost. Also, the model provides information of the quantity of bikes to reallocate and when to reallocate to incur the least cost. …”
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Globalization and environmental quality : insights from 128 countries by Le, Ha Chi

“…Fixed Effects (FE) is employed as the main estimation technique while panel Ordinary Least Squares (OLS), Feasible Generalized Least Squares (FGLS) and Driscoll-Kraay (D-K) standard errors estimations are employed as robustness check. …”
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A comparative study on parameter recovery of three approaches to structural equation modeling by Malhotra, Naresh K., Tomiuk, Marc A., Hwang, Heungsun, Kim, Youngchan, Hong, Sungjin

“…Traditionally, two approaches have been employed for structural equation modeling: covariance structure analysis and partial least squares. A third alternative, generalized structured component analysis, was introduced recently in the psychometric literature. …”
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Geometry of single axis motions using conic fitting by Jiang, G, Tsui, H-T, Quan, L, Zisserman, A

“…The main advantage is that determining only five parameters of a conic from one corresponding point over at least five views is simpler and more robust than determining a fundamental matrix from two views or a trifocal tensor from three views. …”

Microbial lipid production from food waste saccharified liquid and the effects of compositions by Ma, Xiaoyu, Gao, Zhen, Gao, Ming, Ma, Yingqun, Ma, Hongzhi, Zhang, Min, Liu, Yu, Wang, Qunhui

“…The residues of food waste after removing waste cooking oils could be converted to microbial lipid by oleaginous yeasts and microbial lipid could be used as a raw material of biodiesel with waste cooking oils. …”
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R-loopDB: a database for R-loop forming sequences (RLFS) and R-loops by Jenjaroenpun, Piroon, Wongsurawat, Thidathip, Sutheeworapong, Sawannee, Kuznetsov, Vladimir A.

“…It includes genome-scale prediction of RLFSs for humans, six other animals and yeast. Using the extended quantitative model of RLFSs (QmRLFS), we significantly increased the number of RLFSs predicted in the human genes and identified RLFSs in other organism genomes. …”
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Expression of recombinant geobacillus SP a-amylase in pichia pastoris GS 115 by Gandhi, Sivasangkary

“…Pichia pastoris is a currently well established methanol utilizing yeast expression system. The aim of the studies was to produce a recombinant Geobacillus sp. α-amylase SR74 in P. pastoris GS115 and characterize the biochemical properties of the purified recombinant α-amylase. …”
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Measuring shear wave velocity using bender elements by Leong, Eng Choon, Yeo, Sir Hoon, Rahardjo, Harianto

“…The interpretation of the bender element test can be improved if two performance criteria are adopted: (1) a signal-to-noise ratio of at least 4 dB for the receiver signal, and (2) a wave path length to wavelength ratio of at least 3.33. …”
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New techniques for searching differential trails in Keccak by Liu, Guozhen, Qiu, Weidong, Tu, Yi

“…Of particular note is that the exhaustiveness in 3-round trail core search of at least one out-Kernel α is only experimentally verified. …”
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The formation and evolution of Earth’s inner core by Wilson, AJ, Davies, CJ, Walker, A, Pozzo, M, Alfé, D, Deuss, A

“…Mineral physics calculations suggest that a supercooling of at least 450 K is needed to nucleate the inner core, while inferences from geophysical observations constrain the maximum available supercooling to 420 K, and more likely <100 K when satisfying constraints on long-term core-mantle evolution. …”

Advances in 3D optical profilometry by Huang, Lei

“…It is more accurate than the existing least squares calibration method which is verified with both simulation and experiment. …”
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Cellular studies on the role of OGFOD1, a 2-oxoglutarate-dependent dioxygenase by Attwood, M

“…<p>2-Oxoglutarate (2-OG) and iron (Fe²⁺) dependent Oxygenase Domain containing protein 1 (OGFOD1) is an evolutionarily conserved prolyl hydroxylase enzyme in mammals, invertebrates (Sud1 in D. melanogaster) and yeast (TPA1 in S. cerevisiae and Ofd1 in S. pombe). …”

Medium formulation and optimisation of fermentation condition enhancing g-aminobutyric Acid (GABA) biosynthesis by Lactiplantibacillus plantarum B7 by Pannerchelvan, Sangkaran, Faizal Wong, Fadzlie Wong, Wasoh, Helmi, Mohamed, Mohd Shamzi, Mohamad, Rosfarizan, Halim, Murni

“…A nutrient-rich medium was developed through single-parameter optimisation, comprising 1%, 2.5% and 0.0002% of glucose, yeast extract and each trace element (CaCO3, KI, and Tween 80) respectively. …”
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On the Complexity of Neural Computation in Superposition by Adler, Micah, Shavit, Nir

“…This implies that any “lottery ticket” sparse sub-network must have at least Ω(m′ log m′ ) parameters no matter what the initial dense network size. …”
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The effect of rare-earth nanoparticles on drug delivery by Li, Linda Shi Wen

“…We investigate various synthesis methods to produce the least cytotoxic rare-earth nanoparticle, we evaluate its efficiency in drug delivery and we analyze the changes it induces in cells. …”
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Robust parameter estimation for one-inflated positive Poisson Lindley distribution under the presence and absence of outliers with applications to crime data by Mohd Tajuddin, Razik Ridzuan, Mohd Safari, Muhammad Aslam, Ismail, Noriszura

“…Hence, several estimators: maximum likelihood, method of moments, ordinary least squares, weighted least squares, Cramér-Von Mises, modified Cramér-Von Mises (MCVM) and maximum product of spacing (MPS); for the parameters of the model are also proposed and investigated in terms of unbiasedness, consistency and joint efficiency under the presence and absence of outliers. …”
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Tidal corrections from and for SWOT using a spatially coherent variational Bayesian harmonic analysis by Monahan, T, Tang, T, Roberts, S, Adcock, T

“…The approach demonstrates superior robustness to different types of noise contamination in comparison to conventional least-squares approaches while providing full uncertainty estimation. …”

Report on industrial attachmeny with Micron Semiconductor Asia Pte Ltd 2002 by Kwan, Hon Fai.

“…The purpose of the report is to find out and improve upon the design and manufacturing process weaknesses by applying accelerated stresses in the least amount of time and corrects the source of the weaknesses before the production of the product begins.…”
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