Design and construction of a machine-tractable Malay-English lexicon by Bond, Francis, Yamazaki, Takefumi., Quah, Chiew Kin.

“…Secondly, to use a well-developed semantic ontology, in our case the semantic classes from the 2,710 classes used in the machine-tractable Japanese-English Goi-Taikei ontology. Thirdly, to get as wide cover as possible. The lexicon currently contains around 91,000 Malay-English pairs. …”
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Materiality of common good objects by Khonsari, Torange

“…This chapter uses one specific project from the commons organisation the author co-founded entitled Public Works in a neighbourhood in East London (Bow) where she initiated the project in 2014 after being asked to get involved by local residents. Methods in this chapter are framed as forms of common good production and practices within case studies and projects conducted directly by the author. …”
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Migrant maths teachers: deficit, translanguaging, and growing authority by Benson, Alan

“…It shows how the ideology of Standard English can create an uncomfortable sense of different deficits amongst multilingual professionals and evidences how these can be addressed through a model of authority in which teachers get the right mix of mathematical subject knowledge (epistemic authority), the use of school practices and expectations (practical authority), and individual biography (personal authority). …”
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Mechanical problem solving by plush-crested jays: are tools special after all? by Lois-Milevicich, J, Rat-Fischer, L, de la Colina, MA, Gómez, RO, Reboreda, JC, Kacelnik, A

“…In the NT task birds had to open a box with a transparent lid blocked by a latch to get a reward, whereas in the T task, they had to use a rake to pull out the reward from the box. …”

The do's and don'ts of quantum memory in cryptanalysis by Jaques, S

“…<p>This thesis refines the estimates of the costs to attack three different cryptographic problems. To get there, I first survey some fundamental issues in quantum computing. …”

Experimental and numerical studies on the cyclic performance of structural frames equipped with bar dampers by Ghaedi, Khaled, Javanmardi, Ahad, Ibrahim, Zainah, Gordan, Meisam, S. M. Rashid, Raizal, Khatibi, Hamed, Vaghei, Ramin

“…To evaluate the BD effectiveness, a preliminary pushover analysis was performed on a semi-rigid frame equipped with BD devices and compared to bare rigid and semi-rigid frames to get a perception of the BD effect on stress distributions of the frames. …”

The Influence of Human Resource Practices towards Improving Organizational Performance by Mansor, Mohd Fitri, Abu, Noor Hidayah, Kamil, Syahida, Nasir, Hussein

“…Human Resources is the most valuable assets of any organization with the machines, materials and even the money, nothing get done without manpower. In view of that, the aim of study is to investigate the influence of human resource practices towards improving organizational performance. …”
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Engineering Skills: Employer Satisfaction Among Malaysian Graduate Engineer by Saleh, Hasan, Lamsali, Hendrik

“…Proper skills are needed to get employer satisfaction for employability with the necessary skill equipped to the engineering graduates. …”
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Royal Malaysia Custom Department (RMCD): A Case of Information Systems Success towards Employee Performance by Abd Zakaria, Zuhdi, Anuar, Herman Shah, Mohamed Udin, Zulkifli

“…The framework is hoped to get a better overview on how the information system helps to increase employee performance by integrating the elements of internal and external factors of IS system. …”
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Factors Affecting Work Outcomes on the Educators’ Continuous Usage Behaviour of Learning Management System (LMS): A Proposed Conceptual Framework by Mohd Fisol, Nabilah, Salleh, Mohamed Najib, Othman, Siti Norezam

“…The proposed framework would help the organizations to plan for the potential improvement of the systems and teaching strategies in the context of the LMS, in order to meet the educational goals and to get better learning outcomes. Novelty – Currently, there are very limited empirical researches that have been conducted on educator’s outcomes on the post-adoption stage of LMS. …”
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Unveiling the importance of controllable growth of c-axis oriented Sn-doped ZnO nanorod arrays: Towards humidity sensing applications by Ahmad Syakirin, Ismail @ Rosdi, Mohamad Hafiz, Mamat, Ruziana, Mohamed, Embong, Z., Kossar, Shahnaz

“…In this study, tin (Sn)-doped zinc oxide (ZnO) nanorod arrays (SZO) were prepared using a sonication assisted sol-gel immersion method, with the growth of the nanorod arrays controlled by varying the immersion time in the precursor material. …”
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Microscopic dynamics underlying the stress relaxation of arrested soft materials by Song, Jake, Zhang, Qingteng, de Quesada, Felipe, Rizvi, Mehedi H., Tracy, Joseph B., Ilavsky, Jan, Narayanan, Suresh, Del Gado, Emanuela, Leheny, Robert L., Holten-Andersen, Niels, McKinley, Gareth H.

“…Arrested soft materials such as gels and glasses exhibit a slow stress relaxation with a broad distribution of relaxation times in response to linear mechanical perturbations. …”
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Engineering of In Vitro 3D Capillary Beds by Self-Directed Angiogenic Sprouting by Chan, Juliana Maria, Zervantonakis, Ioannis K., Rimchala, Tharathorn, Polacheck, William Joseph, Whisler, Jordan, Kamm, Roger Dale

“…Here, we report the engineering of 3D capillary beds in an in vitro microfluidic platform that is comprised of a biocompatible collagen I gel supported by a mechanical framework of alginate beads. …”
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Highly stretchable, elastic, and ionic conductive hydrogel for artificial soft electronics by Zhou, Yang, Wan, Changjin, Yang, Yongsheng, Yang, Hui, Wang, Shancheng, Dai, Zhendong, Ji, Keju, Jiang, Hui, Chen, Xiaodong, Long, Yi

“…The proposed ionic conductive hydrogel is achieved by physically cross-linking the tough biocompatible polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) gel as the matrix and embedding hydroxypropyl cellulose (HPC) biopolymer fibers inside matrix followed by salt solution soaking. …”
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Rapid construction of green nanopesticide delivery systems using sophorolipids as surfactants by flash nanoprecipitation by Ma, Enguang, Chen, Kai, Sun, Liang, Fu, Zhinan, Guo, Jiangtao, Liu, Jichang, Zhao, Jigang, Liu, Zhiyong, Lei, Zhigang, Li, Li, Hu, Xiao, Guo, Xuhong

“…In this work, the acidic and lactonic sophorolipids were successfully separated from the sophorolipid mixture through silica gel column chromatography. A series of cost-effective green nanopesticides loaded with lambda-cyhalothrin (LC) were rapidly fabricated based on a combination of the acidic and lactonic sophorolipids as surfactants by flash nanoprecipitation. …”
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Experimental study for synthesization and characterization of porous adsorbents for cooling and gas storage applications by Soh, Michael Wai Kit

“…Generally, zeolites, activated carbon, fibres and silica gel are used as adsorbents to fabricate the bed heat exchanger. …”
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Red blood cell extracellular vesicles incorporated into 3D printed scaffolds for spinal cord injury regeneration by Huang, Chongquan, Jayasinghe, Migara Kavishka, Lau, Kieran, Thi Nguyet Minh Le, Chew, Sing Yian

“…Thereafter, the RNA-loaded RBCEVs were incorporated into gelatin meth acryloyl (GelMA) solution for 3D printing, which could permit physical support and guidance for neural regeneration and act as a reservoir for gene materials.…”
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Synthesis of metal alloy catalysts using high-throughput experiments and machine learning optimization by Calista, Vania

“…An acceleration factor of 2.4 relative to the traditional auto combustion sol gel synthesis method is achieved by synthesizing 24 samples in 620 minutes. …”
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In vitro analyses of the anti-fibrotic effect of SPARC silencing in human Tenon’s fibroblasts : comparisons with mitomycin C by Seet, Li-Fong, Su, Roseline, Toh, Li Zhen, Wong, Tina T.

“…We demonstrate that SPARC-silenced HTFs showed normal proliferation and negligible cellular necrosis but were impaired in motility and collagen gel contraction. The expression of pro-fibrotic genes including collagen I, MMP-2, MMP-9, MMP-14, IL-8, MCP-1 and TGF-β2 were also reduced. …”
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Modulation and green synthesis of metal organic frameworks for higher water uptakes and kinetics : adsorption cooling application by Teo, Benjamin How Wei

“…Traditionally, inorganic porous substances such as silica gel, aluminophosphates, or zeolites have been investigated for cooling purposes. …”
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