Formulation, optimization and characterization of palm kernel oil esters nanoemulsion system containing sodium diclofenac by Rezaee, Malahat

“…Special characteristic of PKOEs which has been reported is excellent wetting behavior without the oily feeling which makes it suitable for delivery of actives. …”
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Paternal parenting behaviour, self-esteem, and psychological health of adolescents in Malaysia by Yahya, Amira Najiha

“…However, little attention has been given to how fathers influence their adolescents‟ psychological health, especially in an Asian context. …”
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Effects of carbon to nitrogen ratio and organic loading rate on biogas methane production from anaerobic digestion of food waste by Tanimu, Musa Idris

“…This study has been concerned with an investigation of biogas methane generation from the abundant food waste (FW) available in Malaysia by anaerobic digestion (AD) process at mesophilic (35oC) conditions. …”
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Molecular characterisation of alpha-thalassaemia in patients investigated for hypochromic microcytic indices in Hospital Universiti Sains Malaysia by Vijian, Divashini

“…Many genetic mutations in α- thalassaemia have been discovered, which produced wide spectrum of clinical manifestation, ranging from asymptomatic to lethal. …”
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Impact of BPL penalty functions and PSF models in PET/CT radial spatial resolution recovery by Si, Wang Jie

“…Introduction: A conventional three-point source method adhering to NEMA NU 2-2018 has been introduced where three-point sources are placed at 1 cm, 10 cm, and 20 cm within the PET/CT FOV to evaluate impact of radial distance on spatial resolution. …”
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A general and facile method for preparation of large-scale reduced graphene oxide films with controlled structures by Bi, Hengchang, Wan, Shu, Cao, Xiehong, Wu, Xing, Zhou, Yilong, Yin, Kuibo, Su, Shi, Ma, Qinglang, Sindoro, Melinda, Zhu, Jingfang, Zhang, Zhuoran, Zhang, Hua, Sun, Litao

“…Impressively, the rapid preparation of rGOF with area as large as ∼216 cm2 in only 6 h has been successfully achieved, which is significant since normally it takes several days to prepare a rGOF with small area of ∼10 cm2 by using conventional filtration method. …”
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Three-dimensional photonic topological insulator without spin-orbit coupling by Kim, Minkyung, Wang, Zihao, Yang, Yihao, Teo, Hau Tian, Rho, Junsuk, Zhang, Baile

“…Spin-orbit coupling, a fundamental mechanism underlying topological insulators, has been introduced to construct the latter's photonic analogs, or photonic topological insulators (PTIs). …”
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Contrastive graph pooling for explainable classification of brain networks by Xu, Jiaxing, Bian, Qingtian, Li, Xinhang, Zhang, Aihu, Ke, Yiping, Qiao, Miao, Zhang, Wei, Sim, Jeremy Wei Khang, Gulyás, Balázs

“…Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) is a commonly used technique to measure neural activation. Its application has been particularly important in identifying underlying neurodegenerative conditions such as Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, and Autism. …”
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An NKX2-1GFP and TP63tdTomato dual fluorescent reporter for the investigation of human lung basal cell biology by Goh, Kim Jee, Tan, Ee Kim, Lu, Hao, Roy, Sudipto, Dunn, Norris Ray

“…To address this outstanding question, in the last several years differentiation protocols incorporating human pluripotent stem cells (hPSC) have been developed to produce human basal cells in vitro with varying efficiencies. …”
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Understanding lived experiences of bereaved parents of children with chronic life-threatening Illness : towards a culture-specific and meaning-oriented narrative E-writing interven... by Dutta, Oindrila

“…In Singapore, while deaths among children and youths (age<19) have been steadily declining over the past decade, the number of child deaths caused by chronic conditions has increased by about 27% from 120 in 2014 to 152 in 2016. …”
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The novel quinoline derivative SKA-346 as a KCa3.1 channel selective activator by Wong, Brandon Han Siang, Shim, Heesung, Goay, Stephanie Shee Min, Ong, Seow Theng, Nur Ayuni Binte Muhammad Taib, Chai, Kelila Xin Ye, Lim, Kerry, Huang, Dachuan, Ong, Choon Kiat, Vaiyapuri, Thamil Selvan, Cheah, Yeong Cheng, Wang, Yulan, Wulff, Heike, Webster, Richard David, Shelat, Vishalkumar G., Verma, Navin Kumar

“…Genetic manipulation of T-cells to upregulate the expression of K+ channels has been shown to boost T-cell cytotoxicity in cancer. …”
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Dynamic altruistic cooperation within breast tumors by Muhammad Sufyan Bin Masroni, Lee, Kee Wah, Lee, Victor Kwan Min, Ng, Siok Bian, Law, Chao Teng, Poon, Kok Siong, Lee, Bernett Teck Kwong, Liu, Zhehao, Tan, Yuen Peng, Chng, Wee Ling, Tucker, Steven, Ngo, Lynette Su-Mien, Yip, George Wai Cheong, Nga, Min En, Hue, Susan Swee Shan, Putti, Thomas Choudary, Bay, Boon Huat, Lin, Qingsong, Zhou, Lihan, Hartman, Mikael, Loh, Tze Ping, Lakshmanan, Manikandan, Lee, Sook Yee, Tergaonkar, Vinay, Chua, Huiwen, Lee, Adeline Voon Hui, Yeo, Eric Yew Meng, Li, Mo-Huang, Chang, Chan Fong, Kee, Zizheng, Tan, Karen Mei-Ling, Tan, Soo Yong, Koay, Evelyn Siew-Chuan, Archetti, Marco, Leong, Sai Mun

“…Such behaviors are widely exemplified in nature but have been underexplored in cancer cells which are conventionally seen as selfish competitive players. …”
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Functional metagenomic analysis of quorum sensing signaling in a nitrifying community by Tan, Chuan Hao, Yeo, Yee Phan, Muhammad Hafiz Ismail, Ng, Noele Kai Jing, Subramoni, Sujatha, Taj, Shireen, Tay, Martin, Chao, Xie, Kjelleberg, Staffan, Rice, Scott A.

“…In wastewater treatment systems, acylated homoserine lactone (AHL)-based QS has been correlated with the conversion of floccular biomass into microbial granules, as well as EPS production and the nitrogen removal process. …”
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Opto-electrical bimodal recording of neural activity in awake head-restrained mice by Cobar, Luis Fernando, Kashef, Alireza, Bose, Krishnashish, Tashiro, Ayumu

“…Although opto-electrical bimodal recording is beneficial by enabling us to exploit the strength of both approaches, it has not been widely used. In this study, we devised three methods of bimodal recording from a deep brain structure in awake head-fixed mice by chronically implanting a gradient-index (GRIN) lens and electrodes. …”
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MCI-frcnn: a deep learning method for topological micro-domain boundary detection by Tian, Simon Zhongyuan, Yin, Pengfei, Jing, Kai, Yang, Yang, Xu, Yewen, Huang, Guangyu, Ning, Duo, Fullwood, Melissa Jane, Zheng, Meizhen

“…RAID and TAD alterations have been found to be associated with diseases. They can be further dissected as micro-domains (micro-TADs and micro-RAIDs) by clustering single-molecule chromatin-interactive complexes from next-generation three-dimensional (3D) genome techniques, such as ChIA-Drop. …”
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iMAT: energy-efficient in-memory acceleration for ternary neural networks with sparse dot product by Zhu, Shien, Huai, Shuo, Xiong, Guochu, Liu, Weichen

“…Therefore, many IMC-based TNN accelerators have been proposed. They build dedicated ternary multiplication cells or utilize efficient bitwise operations on IMC architectures. …”
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Design and analysis of passive phase shifters using controllable defected ground structures in 65nm CMOS technology for 77-81 GHz automotive radar by Wu, Jiaqi

“…Many phase shifter topologies have been demonstrated. Active phase shifters like vector summing type employing active devices consume large amount of power and the phase accuracy is normally low due to the active components. …”
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Pricing data tampering in automated fare collection with NFC-equipped smartphones by Dang, Fan, Zhai, Ennan, Li, Zhenhua, Zhou, Pengfei, Mohaisen, Aziz, Bian, Kaigui, Wen, Qingfu, Li, Mo

“…Automated Fare Collection (AFC) systems have been globally deployed for decades, particularly in the public transportation network where the transit fee is calculated based on the length of the trip (a.k.a., distance-based pricing AFC systems). …”
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Food environments and obesity: a geospatial analysis of the South Asia Biobank, income and sex inequalities by Atanasova, Petya, Kusuma, Dian, Pineda, Elisa, Anjana, Ranjit Mohan, De Silva, Laksara, Hanif, Abu A. M., Hasan, Mehedi, Hossain, Md Mokbul, Indrawansa, Susantha, Jayamanne, Deepal, Jha, Sujeet, Kasturiratne, Anuradhani, Katulanda, Prasad, Khawaja, Khadija I., Kumarendran, Balachandran, Mrida, Malay K., Rajakaruna, Vindya, Chambers, John Campbell, Frost, Gary, Sassi, Franco, Miraldo, Marisa

“…Introduction: In low-middle income countries (LMICs) the role of food environments on obesity has been understudied. We address this gap by 1) examining the effect of food environments on adults’ body size (BMI, waist circumference) and obesity; 2) measuring the heterogeneity of such effects by income and sex. …”
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Loss of caveolin-1 impairs light flicker-induced neurovascular coupling at the optic nerve head by Loo, Jing Hong, Lee, Ying Shi, Woon, Chang Yi, Yong, Victor H. K., Tan, Bingyao, Schmetterer, Leopold, Chong, Rachel S.

“…Mutations in Cav-1 have been identified as a major genetic risk factor for glaucoma. …”
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