The costs of rearing a buffalo calf from birth until weaning age at buffalo breeding and research centre, Telupid, Sabah by Ishak, Muhammad Hasifsafwan

“…The highest cost was the feed costs (99.85%), in which milk cost contributed 99.57% to overall cost of feed cost. …”
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Tensile Behavior of High Performance Structural Steel T-stub Joints by Zhao, Ming Shan, Lee, C. K., Chiew, S. P.

“…In this study, experiments were conducted to investigate the tensile behavior of ten T-stub joints made of different types of high performance structural steel including the Reheated, Quenched and Tempered (RQT) grade S690 high strength steel, the Thermal-Mechanical Controlled Processed (TMCP) grade S385 and S440 structural steels. …”
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Systematic bias in trait attributions for deceased friends and relatives by Galang, Adrianne John Real, Ellescas, Bianca Ysabel C., Santos, Jan Marie E., Locsin, Maria Aisha V., Sy, Keena Mayumi D.

“…We extend Bering's conjecture through a within-subjects quasi-experimental study testing the possibility that person perception regarding personality traits might shift in a context where (a) the target is someone known personally, and (b) the target happens to be deceased. One-hundred ten undergraduate students in Manila were asked to rate the Big Five traits of two older adult individuals known to them personally, one of whom must be alive, and the other deceased. …”
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Protein delivery options: how well have we succeeded? by Ng, Xu Wen, Subbu, Venkatraman

“…Of the ten top-selling drugs in 2013, the first three (Humira®, Enbrel®, Remicade®) were all monoclonal antibodies for treating autoimmune diseases; together these three accounted for approximately $28 billion in sales. …”
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Network Dynamics of a Financial Ecosystem by Somin, Shahar, Altshuler, Yaniv, Gordon, Goren, Pentland, Alex, Shmueli, Erez

“…Consequently, in recent years research efforts have been directed towards modeling the structure and dynamics of the underlying networks of financial ecosystems. …”
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Stomach tissue classification using autofluorescence spectroscopy and machine learning by Lim, Soo Y., Yoon, Hong M., Kook, Myeong-Cherl, Jang, Jin I., So, Peter T. C., Kang, Jeon W., Kim, Hyung M.

“…Abstract Background and objectives Determination of stomach tumor location and invasion depth requires delineation of gastric histological structure, which has hitherto been widely accomplished by histochemical staining. …”
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Sequence-Dependent & -Independent Effects of Intron-Mediated Enhancement (IME) by Kowal, Emma J. K.

“…This phenomenon, termed Intron-Mediated Enhancement (IME), has been observed in many organisms, genes, and introns. …”
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Enhanced Approach of Decision Making in Determining Contemporary Critical Preferential Factors and Location Decisions for Residential Project using MCDM Technique (S/O 13903) by Lamsali, Hendrik, Mad Lazim, Halim, Abdul Rahim, Mohd Kamarul Irwan, Osman, Wan Nadzri, Salleh, Mohamed Najib

“…Since 2011 has seen demand for residential properties are slowing down and many of the projects has seen up to 30% houses unsold in many states in Malaysia. …”
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Exploring the role of local champion in community-based rural homestay in Malaysia: a case of homestay Sungai Haji Dorani. by Abas, Siti Aisah, Abd. Halim, Norhazliza, Mohd. Hanafiah, Mohd. Hafiz

“…A single case study has been used whereby this research was taken place at Homestay Sungai Haji Dorani. …”
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Incremental or Radical Product Innovation: Overview of Food and Beverage Sector SMEs in Malaysia by Abu, Noor Hidayah, Mansor, Mohd Fitri, Ibrahim, Amlus

“…Most of the respondents that active in product innovation activities is medium size organization and the organization has been established more than ten years. Although they realized the importance of producing new product continually, but they still show a slightly lower level investment in R&D. …”
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Human motion capture data compression by Wang, Dian

“…According to the compression result, SNR and MAE performance has been discussed to estimate the methods. The result is analyzed horizontally and vertically while seen horizontally, the performance comparison are conducted between data from Kinect and data from database and seen vertically, the performance comparison are conducted between different types of motions, such as walk, jump, dance and run. …”
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Encapsulation of probiotics for food and beverage applications by Ang, Kai Lin

“…Up to date, no studies have been done to examine the viability of probiotics in popular, well-liked, commercialized carbonated sodas/beers, but it is known that certain components in these matrices (e.g. phosphoric acid in soda, hops and ethanol in beers) can reduce the viability of probiotics. …”
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Physiological and yield performance of commercial rice varieties under cyclic water stress in Malaysia by Zakaria, Nurul-Idayu, Berahim, Zulkarami, M.D. Hatta, Muhammad Asyraf, Omar, Mohamad Husni, Rosle, Rhushalshafira, Ismail, Mohd Razi, Che’Ya, Nik Norasma, Azmi, Asyraf, Mohd Azhan, Mohammad Iqbal Hakim

“…Therefore, this experiment was conducted to determine the growth, physiological performance, molecular response, and yield of ten available rice varieties, namely MR 219, MR 220-CL2, MR 297, MRQ 76, Vietnam Hybrid, UKM RC2, UKM RC8, Putra 1, MR 303, and MR 307, under ten days of cyclic water stress. …”

Machine learning-based risk prediction model for medication administration errors in neonatal intensive care units: a prospective direct observational study by Henry Basil, Josephine, Lim, Wern Han, Syed Ahmad, Sharifah M., Menon Premakumar, Chandini, Mohd Tahir, Nurul Ain, Mhd Ali, Adliah, Seman, Zamtira, Ishak, Shareena, Mohamed Shah, Noraida

“…Each observation was independently assessed for errors. Ten machine learning (ML) algorithms were applied with features derived from systematic reviews, incident reports, and expert consensus. …”
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Evaluation of membrane distillation system by Bhindo Velaayudan.

“…The fluid dynamics, effects of module diameter, effective fiber length and packing density on the MD performance has also been investigated. It was found that operating variables such as feed temperature, velocity and permeate circulation rates do have significant effects on the flux. …”
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Treatment of acute sore throat in Malaysia: a consensus of multidisciplinary recommendations using modified Delphi methodology by Abdullah, Baharudin, Koh, Kar Chai, Mohamed, Mohazmi, Tan, Vincent Eng Soon, Mohammad, Nurashikin, Sekawi, Zamberi, Periyasamy, Petrick, Ramadas, Anitha, Duerden, Martin

“…Introduction: Using antibiotics in the treatment of acute sore throats has been linked with antimicrobial resistance (AMR) and needs to be addressed. …”
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Distributed machine learning on public clouds by Lim, Ernest Woon Teng

“…Several distributed ML systems have been proposed to reduce model training time. However, the behaviors of these systems on heterogeneous infrastructures such as public cloud infrastructures, e.g., Amazon EC2, Google GCE or Windows Azure, have not been thoroughly investigated. …”
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Open source security issues of the Android operating system by Hong, Hsiang Ted.

“…Smart phone is a very common electronic device today compared to ten years ago. Mobile phone today is not just a device for calling and receiving phone calls, but it also acts as an informative and entertainment devices to the users. …”
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Automated categorization of person by gender/ethnicity by Raghuraman Katherayson

“…As one of the most successful applications of image analysis and understanding, face recognition has recently gained significant attention. Over the last ten years or so, it has become a popular area of research in computer vision and one of the most successful applications of image analysis and understanding. …”
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Dialectic of digital enlightenment: reclaiming radical philosophy for our times by Nayak, Bhabani Shankar

“…From Kant and Hegel to Habermas and Marx, radical philosophical transformation has been marked by technological advancements at every stage of human life. …”