Using edge detection and polarimetric imaging for vaccine inspection by Sharan, Praveer, Tellbach, Denise, Sarma, Sanjay E.

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Use of co-cultivation method to stimulate the production of antimicrobial natural products from mangrove microorganisms by Tan, Jin Wei

“…Cryptic gene clusters from actinomycetes are suspected to harbor potential in producing bioactive products, and in this study, co-cultivation is utilized to stimulate these cryptic gene clusters in novel antibiotics production. 10 actinomycete strains isolated from Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve were co-cultured with Mycobacterium Abscessus and Asperigillus Westerdijikiae in two liquid mediums, Glucose-Yeast extract-Malt extract (GYM) and Minimum Media (MM). …”
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On a problem of El-Zahar and Erdős by Nguyen, T, Scott, A, Seymour, P

“…First, a strengthening: we can ask for one of the two subgraphs to have large chromatic number: that is, for all <i>t</i>, <i>c</i> ≥ 1 there exists <i>d</i> ≥ 1 such that if <i>G</i> has chromatic number at least <i>d</i>, and does not contain the complete graph <i>K_t</i> as a subgraph, then there are anticomplete subgraphs <i>A</i>, <i>B</i>, where <i>A</i> has minimum degree at least <i>c</i> and <i>B</i> has chromatic number at least <i>c</i>.…”

Sexual violence at higher education institutions: prevalence, nature, and opportunities for prevention by Steele, B

“…Among the students participating in the OUR SPACE survey, I found 20% experienced at least one act of SV and 53% experienced at least one act of sexual harassment (which included unwanted acts of a sexual nature that did not involve physical touch, such as crude sexual or sexist remarks and stalking). …”

South African real estate investment trusts prefer Tuesdays by Ajayi, Oluwaseun Damilola, Gavu, Emmanuel Kofi

“…Generally, Wednesday was found to be the least profitable day to invest in all REIT classifications because it had the least average daily return. …”
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Green human resources in higher education institutions: a systematic literature review by Zuria Akmal, Saad, Muhammad Ashraf, Fauzi, Laili, Zulkepeli, Moshood, Taofeeq D., Suhaidah, Hussain

“…The GHRM concept has emerged from the broader environmental management concept in the last decade. Its adoption has diffused in many sectors, particularly manufacturing, but empirical studies in HEIs are lacking. …”
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A regulatory role for repeated decoy transcription factor binding sites in target gene expression by Lee, Tek‐Hyung, Maheshri, Narendra

“…Using a synthetic system in budding yeast, we demonstrate that repeated decoy sites inhibit gene expression by sequestering a transcriptional activator and converting the graded dose–response of target promoters to a sharper, sigmoidal‐like response. …”
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Discovery of stabilized functional mutants of human aquaporin 1 by Soh, Miao Yi

“…A cell-based freeze-thaw functionality assay that was developed by the lab was conducted on yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae cells transformed with the plasmids to identify the functional mutants, i.e., mutants that express the mutated AQP1 protein that would allow them to exhibit a protective effect in response to rapid freezing. ~ 5% of mutants from a total of 2816 screened from thirty-three 96-well plates were identified after a series of initial and verification screens. …”
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Optimization of carbon and nitrogen sources for phytase production by Mitsuokella jalaludinii, a new rumen bacterial species by Lan, G.Q., Abdullah, N., Jalaludin, S., Ho, Y.W.

“…Methods and Results: Replacement of glucose, cellobiose and starch in MF1 medium by RB or palm kernel cake and replacement of trypticase peptone and yeast extract in the medium by SM or enzymatic digested soybean milk significantly increased the phytase production by M. jalaludinii. …”
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Exploring the development of a firewall using Windows filtering platform by Pang, Willy Boon Tee.

“…A firewall is also required to have learning mode, allowing the user the ability to block or allow an application to connect upon its initial execution. Last but not least, a firewall has to be able to save its data so it can be retrieved easily. …”
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Catastrophic risk analysis and management for Public-Private Partnership (PPP) infrastructure systems by Qian, Qiyu

“…Such strategy is developed based on an in-depth understanding of the project’s risk exposure derived from catastrophe model, layered risk financing portfolio setup decided by concession agreement, cost and benefit analysis between different risk financing instruments and mitigation efforts, and last but not least, a good understanding of dynamic financial demand.…”
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Motor adaptation with passive machines: A first study on the effect of real and virtual stiffness by Tommasino, Paolo, Melendez-Calderon, A., Burdet, E., Campolo, Domenico

“…Several studies conducted over the last two decades used active robotic manipulanda to generate force fields capable of perturbing the baseline trajectories of both healthy and impaired subjects. …”
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Archaia Phusis: the original nature of the soul in Plato’s Middle Dialogues by Körner, H

“…Do we desire our fully realized state because it ‘belongs’ (is <em>oikeion</em>) to us or because it is good? Last but not least, what do we make of the fact that immortality and the theory of recollection seem to play no role in the <em>Symposium</em>? …”

Nonlinear adjustment of exchange rate and exchange rate policy : lessons from Singapore by Yan, Fangli, Yip, Paul Sau Leung

“…Thus, one should be cautious of the significant portion of past empirical studies that did not incorporate the HBS effect in their estimations. …”
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Development of compact power electronics inverter using gallium nitride (GaN) devices by Sinurat, Hendry Donald Hanesty

“…The world of electronics industry has been increasing rapidly and expanding widely in the past three decades. Its development from time to time has shown huge potential to bring electronics into a more advanced and sophisticated stage. …”
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Emergency care knowledge, utilization, and barriers in Northern Tanzania: A community-based survey by Shayo, F, Zaccheus, GG, Sakita, F, Hernandes, TR, Vissoci, JRN, Gordee, A, Kuchibhatla, M, Kiremeji, M, Minja, L, Mmbaga, BT, Staton, CA, Keating, EM, Joiner, AP

“…The mean monthly household income was 226,107.6 Tanzanian Shillings. 76 (14.1%) households reported experiencing an emergency condition in the past year and 225 (41.7%) of respondents had an inappropriate response to at least one hypothetical emergency condition. …”

Participation and cooperation in global climate governance by Rowan, SS

“…<p>International climate politics have seemed stalled throughout much of the past three decades. At least until the 2015 Paris Agreement on Climate Change, states largely failed to adopt new substantive treaties through the United Nations-led climate governance process. …”

Macroeconomic and Firm-Specific Effects on Islamic Deposits Sustainability by Ab Rahman, Sazana, Ahmad, Nor Hayati, Che Arshad, Noraziah

“…Then, the panel data regression analysis continues with the Least Square Dummy Variable (LSDV), which includes the control variable to test the presence of the firm-specific effects. …”
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Using shock tube species time-histories in Bayesian parameter estimation: Effective independent-data number and target selection by Chen, Huaibo, Ji, Weiqi, Cassady, Séan J, Ferris, Alison M, Hanson, Ronald K, Deng, Sili

“…The influence of target selection is investigated by comparing LastP and C-1. LastP outperformed C-1 slightly, which can be attributed to the fact that larger discrepancies observed between experimental data and model predictions of the last point can increase the weights of likelihood functions. …”
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How many online workers are there in the world? A data-driven assessment by Kässi, O, Lehdonvirta, V, Stephany, F

“…Approximately 19 million of them have obtained work through the platform at least once, and 5 million have completed at least 10 projects or earned at least $1000. …”