Targeting c-Met for endoscopic detection of dysplastic lesions within Barrett’s esophagus using EMI-137 fluorescence imaging by Huang, Y-J, Rieder, J, Tan, KV, Tenditnaya, A, Vojnovic, B, Gorpas, D, Quante, M, Vallis, KA

“…<p>Purpose: Esophageal cancer (EC) carries a poor prognosis with 5-year overall survival of less than 20%. Barrett&rsquo;s esophagus (BE) increases the risk of esophageal adenocarcinoma (EAC). …”

Predictors for severe persisting pain in rheumatoid arthritis are associated with pain origin and appraisal of pain by Baerwald, CG, Stemmler, E, Gnüchtel, S, Jeromin, K, Fritz, B, Bernateck, M, Adolf, D, Taylor, PC, Baron, R

“…</p> <br> <p><strong>Results:</strong> Of 567 patients, 337 (59.4%) were classified as reference group, 102 (18.0%) as nonresponders, and 128 (22.6%) as patients with persisting pain. 21 (8.8%) responders, 28 (35.0%) non-responders, and 27 (26.5%) persisting pain patients tested positive for NeP at week 24. …”

Cost-utility analysis of molnupiravir plus usual care versus usual care alone as early treatment for community-based adults with COVID-19 and increased risk of adverse outcomes in... by Png, ME, Harris, V, Grabey, J, Hart, ND, Jani, BD, Butler, D, Carson-Stevens, A, Coates, M, Cureton, L, Dobson, M, Dorward, J, Evans, P, Francis, N, Gbinigie, OA, Hayward, G, Holmes, J, Hood, K, Khoo, S, Ahmed, H, Lown, M, McKenna, M, Mort, S, Nguyen-Van-Tam, J, Rahman, N, Richards, DB, Thomas, N, van Hecke, O, Hobbs, FR, Little, P, Yu, L-M, Butler, CC, Petrou, S

“…<p><strong>Background </p></strong>The cost-effectiveness of molnupiravir, an oral antiviral for early treatment of SARS-CoV-2, has not been established in vaccinated populations. …”

Addition of macrolide antibiotics for hospital treatment of community-acquired pneumonia by Wei, J, Walker, S, Eyre, D

“…No evidence of difference was found in time to discharge from additional macrolides to amoxicillin (restricted mean days lost +1.76 [-1.66,+5.19]), or co-amoxiclav (+0.44 [-1.63,+2.51]). …”

Response of appetite and potential appetite regulators following intake of high energy nutritional supplements by Fatima, S, Gerasimidis, K, Wright, C, Tsiountsioura, M, Arvanitidou, E-I, Malkova, D

“…</p> <p><strong>Design</strong> Twenty three females of 24.4 ± 2.8 years with BMI of 18.2 ± 0.8 kg/m2 consumed HENSD (2.5 MJ) or PLACEBO (0.4 MJ) in fasted state in a single blind randomized cross-over study. …”

Pemencilan, pencirian dan afiliasi filogenetik endofit Streptomyces sp. bioaktif daripada pokok yang mempunyai nilai perubatan by Nurul ‘Izzah Mohd Sarmin, Noraziah Mohamad Zin

“…Berdasarkan analisis filogenetik jujukan gen 16S rRNA, semua pencilan dikelaskan sebagai Streptomyces eurythermus ATCC 14975T (persamaan jujukan gen 98.5%). Pencilan SUK 8, SUK 10 dan SUK 15 juga menunjukkan corak aktiviti biologi yang serupa yang berupaya merencat sehingga 100% organisma patogen yang sama. …”
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Microwave- and oven-heat moisture treatment of broken rice flour and the improvement in the flat rice noodle quality by Mustapha, Nor Afizah, Lai, Yan Tang, Wan Ibadullah, Wan Zunairah, Shukri, Radhiah

“…Rice flour adjusted to 20% moisture content was subjected to two HMT techniques; oven-heat moisture treatment (O-HMT) at 110°C for 3 h and microwave-heat moisture treatment (M-HMT) at 119 W for 5 min. HMT reduced the swelling capacity and solubility of the flour. …”
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Reproductive performance and physiological responses in Awassi ewes under intravaginal sponges application and fed Selenium and Vitamin E by Saeed, O.A., Ahmed, N.K., Taha, M.M., Abedal-Majed, M.A., Ali, F.M., Samsudin, A.A.

“…The experimental ewes were assigned into three groups; the control group (SE0) received 2 mL of sterile saline per head, the second group (SE1) received 1.5 mL/head Se and vitamin E (150 mg α-Tocopherol acetate + 0.15 mg Sodium selenite), while the third group (SE2) received 3 mL/head (150 mg α-Tocopherol acetate + 0.15 mg Sodium selenite). …”
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Optimization of extraction for efficient recovery of kenaf seed protein isolates: evaluation of physicochemical and techno-functional characteristics by Hamim, Nur Aqilah, Saari, Nazamid, Wan Ibadullah, Wan Zunairah, Mohamed, Abdul Manan Dos, Anwar, Farooq, Hasan, Muhamad Yusuf, Abdul Rahim, Mohd Zulkhairi, Abdul Rahman, Muhammad Sharir, Karim, Roselina

“…The key parameters affecting the yield and protein content were optimized, including extraction pH (2–11), seed:water ratio (5:1–50:1), temperature (30–90 °C), and duration (20–360 min). …”
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Association between breakfast consumption pattern with body mass index (bmi) and physical activity among undergraduate students in Universiti Sains Malaysia, Health Campus, Kubang... by Zulkifflee, Iwani Afifah

“…The majority of respondents were female (81.0%), aged between 19 and 23 years (90.5%) with a mean age of 21.90 ± 1.40 years. Most respondents were third-year students (32.8%), PPSK students (87.1%), and of Malay ethnicity (64.7%). …”
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Uncovering the potential of yttrium doped zinc oxide nanoparticles as an efficient catalyst for photodegradation of recalcitrant pollutant and a contributor antibacterial property by Peechmani, Prakash, Mohd. Makhtar, Siti Nurfatin Nadhirah, Mansur, Sumarni, Othman, Mohd. Hafiz Dzarfan, Kamaludin, Roziana, Puteh, Mohd. Hafiz, Wong, Keng Yinn, Tonni Agustiono Kurniawan, Tonni Agustiono Kurniawan, Abdul Rahman, Mukhlis, Jaafar, Juhana, Ismail, Ahmad Fauzi

“…Ultraviolet-visible-near-infrared spectroscopic measurement revealed a red shift of the bandgap energy of 0.128 eV, which confirmed the substitution process. It was observed that the Y-dopant significantly improved the photocatalytic activity of the ZnO nanoparticles; 91.8 %, 72.9 %, 29.2 % and 85.0 % of 20 ppm of humic acid, 20 ppm of BPA, 20 ppm of phenol and 20 ppm of caffeine respectively under UVA light irradiation. …”

Kesan Kadar Haddul Kifayah Baharu dalam Zakat Pendapatan di Negeri Kedah (S/O 14241) by Abd Muin, Mohd Adib, Shuib, Mohd Sollehudin, Che Omar, Azizah, Abd Ghani, Amirul Haqeem, Saidon, Ruhaida, Anuar, Herman Shah

“…Proses temubual telah melibatkan 13 orang informan yang terdiri daripada empat (4) orang Pegawai Zakat di LZNK, empat (4) orang ahli akademik dalam bidang pengurusan dan perniagaan Islam dan lima (5) orang pembayar zakat pendapatan di negeri Kedah. …”
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Electronic cigarettes for smoking cessation by Lindson, N, Butler, AR, McRobbie, H, Bullen, C, Hajek, P, Begh, R, Theodoulou, A, Notley, C, Rigotti, NA, Turner, T, Livingstone-Banks, J, Morris, T, Hartmann-Boyce, J

“…There is moderate-certainty evidence of no difference in the rate of AEs between these groups (RR 1.01, 95% CI 0.91 to 1.11; I&lt;sup&gt;2&lt;/sup&gt; = 0%; 5 studies, 1840 participants). There is insufficient evidence to determine whether rates of SAEs differ between groups, due to very serious imprecision (RR 1.00, 95% CI 0.56 to 1.79; I&lt;sup&gt;2&lt;/sup&gt; = 0%; 9 studies, 1412 participants; low-certainty evidence). …”

Physical unclonable function based solutions to unification of user, device and data authentication by Zheng, Yue

“…The non-repudiation assumption of these conventional techniques is being challenged by emerging artificial-intelligent assisted and malware-based attacks on independently chained weak links (factors), and their limited extension to IoT scenarios, where the sheer number of inexpensive and often insufficiently protected endpoints prevent application of standard, secret-key based techniques. …”
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Security for automotive electrical/electronic (E/E) architectures by Mundhenk, Philipp

“…The security approaches in this thesis are closely linked. Without a flexible message transmission scheme, authentication protocols cannot be implemented. …”
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Computational modeling of selective laser melting process by Le, Kim Quy

“…When the ratio between melt pool depth and melt pool width was greater than a reference value of 1.5, it can be considered as the well-deep keyhole. …”
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Dysregulation of the Pdx1/Ovol2/Zeb2 axis in dedifferentiated β-cells triggers the induction of genes associated with epithelial-mesenchymal transition in diabetes by de Jesus, Daniel S., Mak, Tracy C. S., Wang, Yi-Fang, von Ohlen, Yorrick, Bai, Ying, Kane, Eva, Chabosseau, Pauline, Chahrour, Catherine M., Distaso, Walter, Salem, Victoria, Tomas, Alejandra, Stoffel, Markus, Rutter, Guy A., Latreille, Mathieu

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Multivariate normative comparison, a novel method for improved use of retinal nerve fiber layer thickness to detect early glaucoma by Chua, Jacqueline, Schwarzhans, Florian, Wong, Damon, Li, Chi, Husain, Rahat, Crowston, Jonathan G., Perera, Shamira A., Sng, Chelvin C. A., Nongpiur, Monisha E., Majithia, Shivani, Tham, Yih Chung, Thakur, Sahil, Soh, Zhi Da, Cheng, Ching-Yu, Aung, Tin, Fischer, Georg, Vass, Clemens, Schmetterer, Leopold

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Combinatorial algorithms for scheduling jobs to minimize server usage time by Ren, Runtian

“…Based on this lower bound, we develop a 5-approximation algorithm in the offline setting. …”
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Two-dimensional metal-organic frameworks for gas sensing by Lister, AM