When mobile phone use becomes problematic : the influence of self, parents and peers on adolescents' mobile phone behavior in Singapore and Malaysia by Chuah, Soo Fei

“…The second and third parts of this dissertation investigate the effects of adolescents’ personalities (such as self-esteem, extraversion, neuroticism, and self-control), parental influence (such as parental mobile phone use, parenting styles, and parental mediation), and peer influence (such as peer mediation, peer norms, and peer capital) on both mobile phone use and problematic mobile phone use among adolescents in Singapore and Malaysia. …”
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Urban space heating with a heat pump-condenser temperature water system by Yee, Wee Tong.

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Examining the role of family, media, peers in young Caucasian men’s understandings of body dissatisfaction: a thematic analysis using the tripartite influential model and social comparison theory by Apopei, Daria, Coe, Jennifer, Cordoba, Sebastian

“…It focuses on family, peers, and media influences, addressing a gap in the literature that rarely integrates men’s experiences. …”
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Isolation and characterization of biohydrogen-producing bacteria for biohydrogen fermentation using oil palm biomass-based carbon source by Luthfi, Abdullah Amru Indera, Abdul, Peer Mohamed, Md Jahim, Jamaliah, Engliman, Nurul Sakinah, Jamali, Nur Syakina, Tan, Jian Ping, Abdul Manaf, Shareena Fairuz, Sajab, Mohd Shaiful, Bukhari, Nurul Adela

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Okara: a promising resource for novel bioflocculant synthesis by Agustin, Yuana Elly, He, Ning, Yeap, Swee Keong, Luthfi, Abdullah Amru Indera, Ding, Gongtao, Abdul, Peer Mohamed, Abdul Manaf, Shareena Fairuz, Jamali, Nur Syakina, Chen, Binghui, Tan, Jian Ping

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Tailored policies for perennial woody crops are crucial to advance sustainable development by Martinez-Nuñez, C, Velado-Alonso, E, Avelino, J, Rey, PJ, ten Hoopen, GM, Pe’er, G, Zou, Y, Liu, Y, Antwi-Agyei, P, Rusch, A, Staver, C, Priyadarshana, TS, Sonwa, DJ, Buchori, D, Garibaldi, LA, Concepción, ED, Lewis, OT, Perfecto, I, Bartomeus, I

100 UMPSA athletes to compete in 10 events at the 2024 SUKUM Championship by Siti Nur Azwin, Zulkapri

“…PEKAN, 6 August 2024 – The enthusiastic cheers of “UMPSA! Minda Juara!” echoed as 100 athletes, comprising 65 men and 35 women from Universiti Malaysia Pahang Al-Sultan Abdullah (UMPSA), prepared to represent their university in the upcoming 2024 SUKUM Championship.…”
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Cost of the national malaria control program and cost-effectiveness of indoor residual spraying and insecticide-treated bed net interventions in two districts of Madagascar by Andrianantoandro, VTA, Audibert, M, Kesteman, T, Ravolanjarasoa, L, Randrianarivelojosia, M, Rogier, C

“…The cost-effectiveness ratio (CER) of ITN intervention was then compared to the CER of IRS intervention to identify the most cost-effective intervention. …”

Thermal phase-change storage for power regeneartion by Toh, Jeremy Wei Hong

“…A series of experiments were conducted on the designed TES unit at various working conditions where the fan speed and heater power were the controllable variables. The experimental results show that the PCM underwent phase change at slow fan speed and high heater power. …”
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FTKPM Senior Project Showcase presents 146 research projects by Nor Salwana, Mohammad Idris

“…PEKAN, 21 June 2023 – Concerned with the community involved in drying fishery products has given the idea to two Universiti Malaysia Pahang (UMP) students to produce an innovative solar house dryer equipped with an additional heater in a research project titled “Go Green Dryer Prototype for Agriculture and Marine Product”.…”
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Essays on foreign direct investment: some missing pieces by Fernandez-Delgado, K

“…<p>This thesis contains three chapters. All are based on firm-level data for Chile between the mid-1990s and the mid-2000s, and all concern the effects of foreign direct investment: the first and second chapters are about the gender balance of employment and training, respectively, while the third analyses how productivity spillovers depend on distance from the productivity frontier.…”

Unequal health: the scandal of our times by Dorling, D

“…He provides nine new chapters and updates a wide selection of his highly influential writings on health, including international-peer reviewed studies, annotated lectures, newspaper articles, and interview transcripts, to create an accessible collection that is both contemporary and authoritative. …”

Attentional control of goal directed behaviour by King, R

“…Chapter 3 takes a subset of patients from the previous chapter and uses a voxel-based lesion-symptom mapping approach to examine damage associated with impaired attentional control. …”

Identifying novel neuromodulator targets of human cognition by Colwell, MJ

“…<strong>Chapter 6</strong>, the final chapter, unifies the research findings reported within this thesis, placing them in a broader literature context, with suggestions for potential directions of travel for future research. …”

Divine assemblies in early Greek and Mesopotamian narrative poetry by Ballesteros Petrella, B

“…The comparative approaches in Part 3 are developed in two chapters (9-10). Chapter 9 offers a detailed comparison of this typical scene's poetic morphology and compositional purpose. …”

The junior officers of the Roman army, 91BC - AD14 by Wrobel, T

“…There follow three chapters of diachronic analysis, each analysing the number of officer positions available, the roles and functions of the junior officers, and the status of the junior officer positions in the periods 91 – 50BC, 49 – 31BC, and 30BC – AD14, and finally three thematic chapters examining professionalism and other motivations for service, the perception of service as a junior officer, and the role of the municipal elite within the junior officer corps. …”

A landscape of conflict? Rural fortifications in the Argolid (400 – 146 BC) by Blomley, AM

“…</p> <br> <p>Chapters 2–4 “set the scene” for the analysis of fortified sites in the Argolid. …”

Introduction by Mander, WJ

“…This introductory chapter briefly surveys the main philosophical developments of the nineteenth century, contextualising the chapters that follow. …”

Social medicine : polarisation and perspectives by Dorling, D

“…Unequal health: The scandal of our times by Danny Dorling [...] gives a flavour of one of the major themes: social medicine and contains three chapters from the book, preceded by an all-new introduction specially written by Danny Dorling. …”

Dharmakīrti versus Akalaṅka on the nature, object, and structure of perception by Nahata, S

“…and (3) Is perception structured non-dualistically (Dharmakīrti) or dualistically (Akalaṅka)? While chapters 1 and 2 introduce Dharmakīrti’s theory of perception and Akalaṅka’s theory of perception respectively, each of the subsequent chapters (chapters 3, 4, 5) examines a particular point of contention by (a) explaining the philosophical issue at stake, (b) reconstructing and analysing the arguments advanced by both sides for their respective positions, and (c) reflecting on the significance of the debate. …”