Characterisation of ball impact conditions in professional tennis: Matches played on hard court by Lane, Ben, Sherratt, Paul, Xiao, Hu, Harland, Andy

“…As a result, assuming all balls in play are used evenly, a single ball is expected to be subjected to 105 (±24) impacts over the course of the nine games that it is in play. The results of the investigation could be used to design a wear protocol capable of artificially wearing tennis balls in a way that is representative of professional play.…”
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Seismic performance of continuous link reinforced concrete beam-column connections subjected to earthquake loading by Mohammadamin Azimi

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Identifying antifungal resistance mechanisms and modes of action using SAturated Transposon Analysis in Yeast (SATAY) by Karadzas, M

“…</p> <p>This thesis applies SATAY to uncover novel antifungal resistance mechanisms and to examine the modes of action of nine antifungal compounds. These screens reveal antifungal drug targets, transporters responsible for drug uptake or efflux, as well as metabolic, signalling and trafficking pathways affecting antifungal susceptibility. …”

Survey of healthcare-associated sink infrastructure, and sink trap antibiotic residues and biochemistry, in 29 UK hospitals by Rodger, G, Chau, K, Aranega Bou, P, Moore, G, Roohi, A, The SinkBug Consortium, Walker, AS, Stoesser, N

“…<p><strong> Methods</strong></p> Twenty-nine UK hospitals submitted photos and metadata for sinks across three wards (ICU/medical/surgical; January-March 2023). …”

Assessing the odd secondary structural properties of nuclear small subunit ribosomal RNA sequences (18S) of the twisted-wing parasites (Insecta: Strepsiptera) by Gillespie, J, McKenna, C, Yoder, M, Gutell, R, Johnston, J, Kathirithamby, J, Cognato, A

“…The longer sequence has the potential to form a nine base pair helix with a sequence in the variable region 2, consistent with a recent study proposing this tertiary interaction. …”

Medical management pathways for Cushing’s disease in pituitary tumors centers of excellence (PTCOEs) by Giustina, A, Uygur, MM, Frara, S, Barkan, A, Biermasz, NR, Chanson, P, Freda, P, Gadelha, M, Haberbosch, L, Kaiser, UB, Lamberts, S, Laws, E, Nachtigall, LB, Popovic, V, Schilbach, K, Lely, AJVD, Wass, JAH, Melmed, S, Casanueva, FF

“…Methods: Based on the activities of nine international PTCOEs between 2018 and 2020, we evaluated patients under medical treatment and their biochemical control rates. …”

Who polarises? Who targets? Parties’ educational speech over the long run by Gingrich, J, Giudici, A

“…The EPD distinguishes nine educational issues, grouped under the three fundamental policy dimensions of distribution, governance and curricular content. …”

Consolidated Health Economic Evaluation Reporting Standards for Interventions that use Artificial Intelligence (CHEERS-AI) by Elvidge, J, Hawksworth, C, Avşar, TS, Zemplenyi, A, Chalkidou, A, Petrou, S, Petykó, Z, Srivastava, D, Chandra, G, Delaye, J, Denniston, A, Gomes, M, Knies, S, Nousios, P, Siirtola, P, Wang, J, Dawoud, D

“…<p><b>Results</b></p> A total of 58 participants responded to survey round 1, 42, and 31 of whom responded to rounds 2 and 3, respectively. Nine participants joined the consensus meeting. Ultimately, 38 reporting items were included in CHEERS-AI. …”

Evolution of an extracellular pathogen recognition mechanism in Solanaceae by Kourelis, J

“…First, I present a review and meta-analysis of the molecular mechanisms by which <em>R</em> gene products function, thereby identifying nine molecular mechanisms conferring pathogen resistance in plants. …”

Prioritizing questions and topics for the development of guidelines and consensus-based recommendations supported by ILAE: a scoping review and proposal of prioritization criteria by Lin, K, Eyal, S, Demarchi, IG, Ben-Shushan, T, Auvin, S, Khoo, CS, Al-Baradie, R, Sen, A, Newton, C, Ngwende, G, Candez, NM, Sperling, M, Brigo, F, Jette, N, Wiebe, S

“…A consensus-based process was followed to develop a prioritization scoring tool for CPGs and another for CBRs. Thirty-nine participants, including clinicians, experts in the field, methodologists, and other relevant stakeholders, contributed to developing the final instrument (based on a 5-point Likert scale). …”

Linguistic and content validation of the stroke impact scale (SIS) 3.0 in three languages by Ahmad Ainuddin, Husna, Romli, Muhammad Hibatullah, SF Salim, Mazatulfazura, Hamid, Tengku Aizan, Mackenzie, Lynette

“…The objective of the study is to culturally adapt, translate and validate the Bahasa Melayu, Mandarin and Tamil versions of the Stroke Impact Scale (SIS) 3.0 for its application in clinical practice and stroke research in Malaysia. Methods: A total of nine translators translated the SIS 3.0 and five professional experts carried out the linguistic validation of the SIS 3.0 in accordance with the Mapi Research Institute’s linguistic validation guideline. …”
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Strategies of rendering difficult syntactic structures in English-Arabic simultaneous interpreting by Abdulameer, Muhannad Hadi Abdulameer

“…The findings of the study indicate that simultaneous interpreters employed nine interpreting strategies when rendering noun phrases. …”
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Predicting and modeling the effects of turbines noise on operator’s mental task performance in AL-DORA power plant by Mosa, Ali I., Al-Sadawi, Laith A., Attia, Osam H., Adam, Nor Mariah

“…The measurements were carried out for duration of nine weeks, three times a day during summer, and the extensive noise level was up to 110 dB. …”
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Investigating the influence of elements in pocket parks on the psychological restoration of young people: a study from Guiyang and Chongqing in Southwest China by Ma, Geng, Pellegrini, Paola, Ma, Jiaqi, Shi, Linfeng

“…Analysis of these images led to the identification of nine critical elements. Participants provided insights into how these factors relate to psychological characteristics and their subsequent restorative effects by responding to five carefully designed questions. …”
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To assess the impact of physical factors on velocity, speed, and accuracy of tennis serve by Ma, Xudong, Yaacob, Azhar, Tengku Kamalden, Tengku Fadilah, Ng, Yee Guan

“…Variations in serve velocity improvements ranged from 3.0% to 29.0% across studies, with disparities potentially due to different study durations (four weeks to nine months) and methodologies. Match fatigue significantly reduces serve velocity and stroke volume (SV) over time. …”
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Efficiency of Banks in Malaysia: a Super Efficiency Approach by Mat Kasim, Maznah, Ramli, Razamin, Baten, Md Azizul, Mohd Jamil, Jastini, Taleb, Mushtaq

“…Considering the weakness of the radial and non-radial DEA, this paper aims to calculate the banks efficiency of nine commercial banks in Malaysia from 2004 to 2013 by adopting the two-stage of super efficiency slack-based measure (SE-SBM) model. …”
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Practice of CSFs for the Pre-Development Process in New Product Innovation Processes at SMEs: Questionnaire Development by Abu, Noor Hidayah, Deros, B.M., Abd Wahab, Dzuraidah, Ab Rahman, Mohd Nizam

“…Therefore the instrument is valid and reliable and considered as satisfactory. Nine CSFs, which are believed suitable for SMEs have been proposed in this paper. …”
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Investigation of low coherence interferometry techniques for biomedical applications by Chow, Tzu Hao

“…The results showed that there is sufficient resolution in the overall endoscopic OCT probe system to pick out sweat ducts beneath a human skin. The axial resolution of the OCT system depends on the bandwidth of the light source. …”
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Medical image analysis for eye disease by Liang, Zi Yang.

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Development of an intelligent solar energy system for off-grid application by Ng, Cindy Shi Hui.

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