Shattered nation: inequality and the geography of a failing state by Dorling, D

“…Once affluent suburbs are now unproductive places where opportunity has been replaced by food banks. Before COVID, life expectancy had dropped as a result of poverty for the first time since the 1930s. …”

Enhancing growth performance and health of coloured-broiler chickens with signal grass meal (Brachiaria decumbens) supplementation under tropical conditions by Ong, Yee Lyn, Chung, Eric Lim Teik, Nayan, Nazri, Aziz, Muhamad Faris Ab, Jesse, Faez Firdaus Abdullah, Sazili, Awis Qurni, Dunshea, Frank R.

“…Throughout the eight-week study, body weight and feed intake were recorded weekly for each replicate to calculate body weight gain and feed conversion ratio. …”
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Best practices and factors to enhance transfer of training in Oman by Al Ghafri, Ahmed Mohammed Issa

“…The list includes training designers, trainers, supervisor, managers, peers, top management, and customers or clients of the organizations. …”
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Metformin degradation with combined Ozone/UV/H2O2 process by Fujinami, Shoko Carissa

“…An increase in ozone feed rate leads to an increase in amount of ozone molecules to undergo photolysis under UV light. …”
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Effects of fermented products on performance, faecal pH, Enterobacteriaceae and lactic acid bacteria counts and interrelationships, and plasma cholesterol concentration in rats by Loh, T., Foo, H., Tan, S., Goh, Y., Shukriyah, M., Kufli, C.

“…The final liveweight, growth rate, total feed intake and feed conversion ratio were not significantly different for all the treatment groups. …”
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Development of novel monitors for early detection of fouling in reverse osmosis systems by Sim, Victor Siang Tze

“…As the primary energy use in an RO system is the power required for the high pressure to pump the feed water and is directly related to the feed pressure and flow rate, savings can come in the energy costs in pre‐empting fouling problems. …”
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Preliminary study on the preparation and characterization of novel organophilic membranes used for organic extraction by Xia, Yuan

“…Hence, thin film composite (TFC) membrane has been proposed for the membrane extraction process due to its improved mass transfer efficiency. …”
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Reconfigurable antennas for GSM and WLAN applications by IHD Mavidu Nipunath Iddagoda

“…The design presents a novel nested patches structure with a proper slot width to isolate the two nested patches. A probe feed is used to feed the antenna structure. Determination of a single common suitable location to feed to feed both the patches was undertaken. …”
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Lithium Concentration from Salt-Lake Brine by Donnan-Enhanced Nanofiltration by Foo, Zi Hao, Rehman, Danyal, Bouma, Andrew T, Monsalvo, Sebastian, Lienhard, John H

“…In the case of salt-lake brines, however, the high feed salinity and low pH of the post-treated feed have an uncertain impact on nanofiltration's selectivity. …”
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Electrospinning of low density PCL fibers on SLS scaffold by Leong, Yew Meng.

“…In this study, PCL fibers were spun on a spinning mandrel collector and investigated to examine the effects of electrospinning parameters- acceleration voltage and feed rate on fiber diameter. Hence both small (0.5-1um) and large (8-10um) fibers were attempted to be spun by varying acceleration voltage and feed rate. …”
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Understanding Public and Nonprofit Managers' Motivation Through the Lens of Self-Determination Theory by Chen, Chung-An, Bozeman, Barry

“…The findings show that public managers exhibit stronger service motivation, identified motivation, external motivation, and amotivation when compared to their nonprofit peers. In addition, public managers' strong external motivation and amotivation compromise their overall level of self-determination, suggesting that they may be less motivated by their work requirements than are nonprofit counterparts.…”
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Policy design and professional service delivery performance of drinking water services in rural Mali by Wagner, J

“…Additionally, when payment modalities switch from volumetric to monthly flat fees, a handpump registers, on average, more than three times higher monthly revenue, along with a two-fold increase in daily water use. …”

Ideas of intelligence across development : a look into children's implicit attitudes of the male = brilliant stereotype by Ng, Sara Hui Xin

“…The stereotyped belief of men being more intelligent that women in various domains have been well studied across the years. Much lesser attention has been paid to whether children endorse such gender stereotype attitudes as well. …”
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Cognitive aspects of generalised anxiety disorder in adolescents: exploring intolerance of uncertainty, cognitive avoidance, and positive beliefs about worry by Shipp, LR, Leigh, E, Laverton, A, Percy, R, Waite, P

“…Intolerance of uncertainty, cognitive avoidance, and positive beliefs about worry have been well researched in adults with Generalised Anxiety Disorder (GAD), but few studies have explored these aspects in adolescent clinical samples. …”

Part I : Ranking of 2004 financial sector reforms and liberalisation of ASEAN 10+5 economies. by Khoo, Miaosi., Seah, Terence Choon Kiat., Shahirah Arshad.

“…This study aims to motivate the ASEAN 10+5 economies to push for greater financial reforms and liberalisation by ranking and comparing them with their regional peers.…”
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Design and development of a web-based platform for EEE MSc student orientation by Soo, Serena Keng Shuang

“…The main aim of the web application is for students to have cultural exchanges, to explore Singapore, and to engage in school life by forming interest groups with like-minded peers.…”
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Reframing stigma in Tourette syndrome: an updated scoping review by Pring, K, Malli, M, Hardy, BW, Rapp, SR, Storch, EA, Mink, JW, Martindale, JM

“…On the individual level, youth with PTD had lower self-esteem than peers, often leading to fear of future stigmatization, avoidant behaviors, and self-stigmatization. …”

Fermented bed flooring systems enhance profitability in smallholder native pig production by Sivilai, Bounlerth, Vongpaserth, Thonglai, Liang, Juan Boo, Bush, Russell

“…Data on feed intake, liveweight change, carcass trait and costs and returns of production in the two treatments were analysed using Student’s paired-sample t-test. …”

Effects of Lemuru fish oil (Sardinella sp.) on estrous response, hormonal profile and conception rates in Garut ewes by Nurlatifah, Aeni, Herdis, Herdis, Menassol, Jean-Baptiste, Khotijah, Lilis, Arifiantini, Raden Iis, ShikhMaidin, Mashitah, Astuti, Dewi Apri, Sitaresmi, Pradita Iustitia

“…The aim of this study was to determine the effects of short-term feed supplementation of Lemuru fish oil on the reproductive performance of 20 primiparous Garut ewes. …”
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Mixed polyamide-based composite nanofiltration hollow fiber membranes with improved low-pressure water softening capability by Fang, Wangxi, Shi, Lei, Wang, Rong

“…Under an operating pressure of 2 bar, the membrane exhibited rejection of 96.3% and 93.8% to 1000 ppm MgCl2 and MgSO4 feed solutions, respectively. The capability of the newly developed membrane for low-pressure water softening was evaluated by employing simulated hard water feed solutions with different ionic compositions and total hardness. …”
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