Establishing an antibody mimetic applicable to targeting in the gastrointestinal tract by Wicke, NS

“…Gastrobodies bind their target after incubation with physiological concentrations of gastrointestinal proteases, including pepsin at pH 2. Lastly, I explored alternative gastrobody backbones using structural homologues of SBTI. …”

Interferon-α promotes HLA-B-restricted presentation of conventional and alternative antigens in human pancreatic β-cells by Carré, A, Samassa, F, Zhou, Z, Perez-Hernandez, J, Lekka, C, Manganaro, A, Oshima, M, Liao, H, Parker, R, Nicastri, A, Brandao, B, Colli, ML, Eizirik, DL, Aluri, J, Patel, D, Göransson, M, Burgos Morales, O, Anderson, A, Landry, L, Kobaisi, F, Scharfmann, R, Marselli, L, Marchetti, P, You, S, Ternette, N

“…While the resting β-cell immunopeptidome is dominated by HLA-A-restricted peptides, IFN-α largely favors HLA-B and only marginally upregulates HLA-A, translating into increased HLA-B-restricted peptide presentation and activation of HLA-B-restricted CD8+ T cells. Lastly, islets of patients with T1D show preferential HLA-B hyper-expression when compared with non-diabetic donors, and islet-infiltrating CD8+ T cells reactive to HLA-B-restricted granule peptides are found in T1D donors. …”

Experimentation in wicked situations: how activists construct pragmatic action frames by Savaget, P, Roulet, T, Ventresca, M

“…We contribute to the literature on action frames by demonstrating how multiple viable pragmatic action frames are constructed iteratively without threatening an alternative, dominant frame. Lastly, we contribute to the literature on robust action by demonstrating how pragmatic action frames pave the way for distributed experimentation and by unpacking the core attributes that make ‘robust actors’ accepting of open-ended wayfinding journeys.…”

The origin of cultivated mangosteen (Garcinia mangostana L. var. mangostana): critical assessments and an evolutionary-ecological perspective by Yao, T. L., Nazre, M., McKey, D., Jalonen, R., Duminil, J.

“…Dusun (Malay) refers to subsistence orchards in this context. Lastly, we propose future studies to address identified knowledge gaps.…”
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Social anxiety and social support perceivability among undergraduate students in Universiti Sains Malaysia by Roslan, Nur Aleeya Syafikah

“…This study also found that 60.2 % of the undergraduate students had a high level of social support perceivability, meanwhile 34.3% had medium level and only 5.5% had low level of social support perceivability. Lastly, there is a significant association between prevalence of social anxiety and level of social support perceivability among undergraduate students in USM (p=0.003). …”
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Quality of life among patients with lower limb osteoarthritis in Hospital Universiti Sains Malaysia by Nazeri, Nuranis Milani Ahmad

“…There is a significant association between age and types of osteoarthritis with physical activity (p = 0.030), level of education with mental health (p = 0.01), age and Body Mass Index with pain (p = 0.001). Lastly, there is no significant association between the sociodemographic characteristics with social support and social functioning. …”
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Knowledge and practice of periconceptional use of folic acid among primigravida mothers in Hospital Universiti Sains Malaysia by Roslan, Siti Nur Adila

“…There was as association between level of knowledge and level of practice (p = 0.221). Lastly, there is no association between age, educational level with the level of knowledge of periconceptional use of folic acid (p = 0.988) and (p = 0.743) respectively. …”
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Psychological distress and social support among nurses in outpatient clinics at Hospital Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) by Ngah, Nurul Hafiezatul Akma Awang Ngah

“…And as for the level of social support, the results show 77.9% for high level and 22.1% for moderate level of social support, respectively. Lastly, there is no association between prevalence of psychological distress and level of social support (p = 0.060). …”
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Performance of unit trusts in Singapore by Ng Mei Yen, Ong Siew Leng, Puah Siok Tin

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REITs in a dividend portfolio (industrial, hospitality, healthcare, new economy) by Loke, Zhao Fook

“…In the fundamental analysis we can focus on two parts which are qualitative and quantitative factors. …”
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Fitness-for-service of local metal loss by Chen, Zhihuang.

“…Due to the complexities of the actual processes, only main parts will be discussed in details in the report.…”
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A harmony of worldviews by Wee, Rachel Rui Qi

“…It contends that the Biblical account is consistent with what can be known and observed via the scientific method, through a careful exegesis of the text in Genesis, with reference to other parts of the Bible. Close and particular attention will be paid to evolutionary theory and its implications for Christian doctrine: primarily, whether Adam and Eve were real, historical figures and what the conclusion that they were not entails. …”
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HyMap imagery for copper and manganese prospecting in the east of Ameln valley shear zone (Kerdous inlier, western Anti-Atlas, Morocco) by Hajaj, Soufiane, El Harti, Abderrazak, Jellouli, Amine, Pour, Amin Beiranvand, Himyari, Saloua Mnissar, Hamzaoui, Abderrazak, Bensalah, Mohamed Khalil, Benaouiss, Naima, Hashim, Mazlan

“…Finally, this investigation highlights the significant potential of HyMap imagery for mineral exploration in inaccessible and remote parts of the western Anti-Atlas belt.…”

Digital skilling of working adults: a systematic review by Mendoza-Chan, Joji, Pee, Loo Geok

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Foam and antifoam behavior of PDMS in MDEA-PZ solution in the presence of different degradation products for CO2 absorption process by Ng, Eileen Li Shien, Lau, Kok Keong, Chin, Sim Yee, Lim, Soh Fong

“…The presence of hexadecane produced the highest amount of foam, followed by heptanoic acid, glycine and lastly bicine. It was found that increasing the gas flow rate increases foaming tendency and foam stability. …”
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Effect of hydraulic retention time on performances of gravity-driven membrane (GDM) reactor for seawater pretreatment by Lee, Seonki, Nötzli, Peter Andreas, Burkhardt, Michael, Wu, Bing, Chong, Tzyy Haur

“…As different HRTs led to significantly dissimilar microbial community structure and cake layer composition, such higher cake layer resistance at HRT of 54 h was attributed to homogenous nature of the biofilm, which contained greater amount of organics and less abundance of Nematoda (dominant predator). Lastly, as increasing ~5-time of HRT (from 22 h to 102 h) improved ~1.5 of permeate flux, a shorter HRT of 22 h was preferable for the GDM reactor in pretreating seawater with regard to treatment productivity and footprint.…”
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Yeast9: a consensus genome-scale metabolic model for S. cerevisiae curated by the community by Zhang, Chengyu, Sánchez, Benjamín J., Li, Feiran, Cheng, Eiden Wei Quan, Scott, William T., Liebal, Ulf W., Blank, Lars M., Mengers, Hendrik G., Anton, Mihail, Rangel, Albert Tafur, Mendoza, Sebastián N., Zhang, Lixin, Nielsen, Jens, Lu, Hongzhong, Kerkhoven, Eduard J.

“…Furthermore, combining Yeast9 with proteomics revealed metabolic rewiring underlying its preference for nitrogen sources. Lastly, we created strain-specific GEMs (ssGEMs) constrained by transcriptomics for 1229 mutant strains. …”
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The representation of n-cutting site splicing languages for a single string with palindromic rule via de Bruijn graph by Mohd Ruslim, Nooradelena, Yuhani, Yusof, Mohd Sham, Mohamad

“…In the process of generating splicing languages, DNA molecules are cut and pasted, based on the reaction of the molecules with restriction enzyme and ligase. …”
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Phosphorous-nitrogen-silicon modified graphene oxide based fire retardant coating for cotton fabric by Vishwakarma, Ajay, Reddy, Vennapusa Jagadeeswara, Parvate, Sumit, Sharma, Preeti, Kandola, Baljinder K., Dasari, Aravind, Chattopadhyay, Sujay

“…Pigment acrymine binder paste was used to improve the durability of the coating on fabric inside water, which helped in maintaining the fire retardant properties after water soak test.…”
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The Influence of Digital Sketching Tools on Concept Novelty and Evolution by Das, Madhurima, Huang, May, Xu, Christine, Yang, Maria C

“…We expect to see different patterns in concept evolution between the two types of tools, namely, that iPad users will demonstrate more iteration on a concept (concept evolution) than pen and paper users due to the fact that iPad features make it easy to copy and paste previous sketches and then modify them. We find that the tool used is not correlated with concept novelty. …”
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