Intention to purchase family takaful: An extension of decomposed theory of planned behavior by Qazi, Mansoor Ahmad, Md Husin, Maizaitulaidawati

“…Furthermore, it is found that attitude with dimensions such as perceived usefulness, knowledge, and perceived religiosity has a positive link with the intention to purchase a family takaful. …”
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Next generation design of floating systems for coastal solar farms by Bi, Cheng

“…Vertical tensioned viscoelastic barriers are further used to stabilize the compliant platforms of floating solar farms in coastal environments. …”
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Surface engineering to manipulate solar energy for thermal management by Fei, Jipeng

“…The use of sustainable energy sources has risen significantly in recent years due to the tremendous pollution and waste associated with traditional fossil fuels, and the urgent needs of decarbonization. …”
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In-situ infrared spectroscopy studies of surface reactions over irradiated photocatalysts by Gong, Dangguo

“…Commercial material, Degussa P25 TiO2, was used mainly for system verification and fundamental studies on the state of material under bandgap excitation, especially ATR-FTIR, and as a benchmark (in pristine and metalized form) for novel visible-sensitized photocatalysts prepared in this thesis. …”
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Global burden and strength of evidence for 88 risk factors in 204 countries and 811 subnational locations, 1990–2021: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2... by Brauer, M, Roth, GA, Aravkin, AY, Bandyopadhyay, S, Bennett, DA, Browne, AJ, Graham, SM, Rodriguez, JAB, Runghien, T, Sartorius, B

“…<p><b>Methods</b></p> The GBD 2021 risk factor analysis used data from 54 561 total distinct sources to produce epidemiological estimates for 88 risk factors and their associated health outcomes for a total of 631 risk–outcome pairs. …”

Patient-Centered Clinical Trial Design for Heart Failure Devices via Bayesian Decision Analysis by Chaudhuri, Shomesh E., Adamson, Phillip, Bruhn-Ding, Dean, Ben Chaouch, Zied, Gebben, David, Rincon-Gonzalez, Liliana, Liden, Barry, Reed, Shelby D., Saha, Anindita, Schaber, Daniel, Stein, Kenneth, Tarver, Michelle E., Lo, Andrew W.

“…Methods We use the results from a discrete-choice experiment study focusing on heart failure patients’ preferences, questioning respondents about their willingness to accept therapeutic risks in exchange for quantifiable benefits with alternative hypothetical medical device performance characteristics. …”
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Non-linear Log-Sobolev Inequalities for the Potts Semigroup and Applications to Reconstruction Problems by Gu, Yuzhou, Polyanskiy, Yury

“…These improvements advocate information-theoretic methods as a useful complement to the conventional techniques originating from the statistical physics.…”
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“双城” 新加坡与香港 ： “一带一路”的策略及其反应 = “Twin Cities” Singapore and Hong Kong : belt road initiative strategies and responses by Tham, Kok Yung

“…Since China President Xi Jinping announced the establishment of the “Belt and Road Initiative” in 2013, it has attracted great attention from the international community and countries along the initiative. This paper will use it as a reference point on “Twin Cities”, namely Singapore and Hong Kong, to review their various considerations and strategies. …”
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Grid optimization and demand side mangement for electric vehicles penetration in remote area by Zhang, Yixiao, Ng, Eddie Yin Kwee, Li, Ning

“…Power grid model simulation: use government data to predict that Trincomalee's electricity demand will increase from the current 40MW to 640MW in five years and build a grid simulation model for Sri Lanka's national high-voltage transmission lines. …”
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Writing Hong Kong Sinophonicity : history, gender and ethnicity in Hong Kong fiction by Long, Chao

“…Such an analysis also forms a useful comparison with the previous two chapters, thus deepening our understanding of the intersectionality of class, gender and ethnicity on identity formation. …”
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Tolerability and efficacy of the anticluster of differentiation 47 antibody magrolimab combined with azacitidine in patients with previously untreated AML: phase ib results by Daver, NG, Vyas, P, Kambhampati, S, Al Malki, MM, Larson, RA, Asch, AS, Mannis, G, Chai-Ho, W, Tanaka, TN, Bradley, TJ, Jeyakumar, D, Wang, ES, Sweet, K, Kantarjian, HM, Garcia-Manero, G, Komrokji, R, Xing, G, Ramsingh, G, Renard, C, Zeidner, JF, Sallman, DA

“…<p><strong>Purpose</p></strong> Magrolimab is a first-in-class humanized monoclonal antibody against cluster of differentiation 47, an antiphagocytic signal used by cancer cells to evade phagocytosis. Azacitidine upregulates prophagocytic signals on AML cells, further increasing phagocytosis when combined with magrolimab. …”

Strategies to increase response rate and reduce non-response bias in population health research: a series of randomised controlled trials during a large COVID-19 study by Atchison, CJ, Gilby, N, Pantelidou, G, Clemens, S, Pickering, K, Chadeau-Hyam, M, Ashby, D, Barclay, WS, Cooke, G, Darzi, A, Riley, S, Donnelly, C, Ward, H, Elliott, P

“…</p> <br> <p><strong>Conclusions:</strong> Conditional monetary incentives improved response rate to an online survey which required the return of a swab test, particularly for younger age groups. Used in a selective way, incentives may be an effective strategy for improving sample response and representativeness in population-based studies.…”

Indicators of global climate change 2022: annual update of large-scale indicators of the state of the climate system and human influence by Forster, PM, Smith, CJ, Walsh, T, Lamb, WF, Lamboll, R, Hauser, M, Ribes, A, Rosen, D, Gillett, N, Palmer, MD, Rogelj, J, von Schuckmann, K, Seneviratne, SI, Trewin, B, Zhang, X, Allen, M, Andrew, R, Birt, A, Borger, A, Boyer, T, Broersma, JA, Cheng, L, Dentener, F, Friedlingstein, P, Gutiérrez, JM, Gütschow, J, Hall, B, Ishii, M, Jenkins, S, Lan, X, Lee, J-Y, Morice, C, Kadow, C, Kennedy, J, Killick, R, Minx, JC, Naik, V, Peters, GP, Pirani, A, Pongratz, J, Schleussner, C-F, Szopa, S, Thorne, P, Rohde, R, Rojas Corradi, M, Schumacher, D, Vose, R, Zickfeld, K, Masson-Delmotte, V, Zhai, P

“…</p> <p>We follow methods as close as possible to those used in the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) Working Group One (WGI) report. …”

Virulence gene profiles and antimicrobial susceptibility of Salmonella Brancaster from chicken by Khoo, Evie, Roslee, Roseliza, Zakaria, Zunita, Ahmad, Nur Indah

“…. © 2023 The Korean Society of Veterinary Science This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0) which permits unrestricted noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.…”
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Numerical simulation of a forced circulation solar water heating system by Remlaoui, Ahmed, Nehari, Driss, Kada, Benhanifia, Mohd Nasir, Nor Ain Azeany, Abd-Elmonem, Assmaa, Alhubieshi, Neissrien, ElSeabee, Fayza Abdel Aziz, Hussain, Syed M.

“…Key findings include a maximum monthly average outlet temperature of 38 °C in September and a peak cumulative useful energy gain of 250 W in August. The auxiliary heating system displayed seasonal energy consumption variations, with the highest rate of 500 kJ/hr in May to maintain the water temperature at 60 °C. …”
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Machine learning, IoT and 5G technologies for breast cancer studies: A review by Saroğlu, Havva Elif, Shayea, Ibraheem, Saoud, Bilal, Azmi, Marwan Hadri, El-Saleh, Ayman A., Saad, Sawsan Ali, Mohammad Alnakhli, Mohammad Alnakhli

“…Finally, IoT and 5G will be how they can be used in order to enhance BC detection, treatment and patient care.…”
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Tsewang Norbu NGB by Cantwell, C, Mayer, R

“…</p> <p>Typically, our texts follow the title(s) with a homage and often with a version of the classic opening formula used in Buddhist sūtra and tantra scriptures: "Thus have I heard, at one time..." …”

Early color photometry of a possible type Iax supernova 2023mnc: inferring the distance and progenitor constraints by Yang, Thomas Z., Zhang, Maureen, Shen, Tianran, Jiang, Justin, Faison, Michael, Warrener, Michael, Zheng, Tai

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Preferences of Persons With or at Risk for Hepatitis C for Long-Acting Treatments by Weld, Ethel D, Astemborski, Jacqueline, Kirk, Gregory D, Sulkowski, Mark S, Katz, Stephanie, Rothman, Richard, Solomon, Sunil S, Matthews, Gail V, Hsieh, Yu Hsiang, Verma, Malvika, Traverso, Giovanni, Swindells, Susan, Owen, Andrew, Feld, Jordan, Flexner, Charles, Mehta, Shruti H, Thomas, David L

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Optimizing OOD Detection in Molecular Graphs: A Novel Approach with Diffusion Models by Shen, Xu, Wang, Yili, Zhou, Kaixiong, Pan, Shirui, Wang, Xin

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