Developing a Household Flood Vulnerability Index for Managing the Risk of Flood Disasters (S/O 13584) by Hassan, Sallahuddin, Abu Bakar, Arpah, Othman, Zalila, Khalid, Mohamad Sukeri, Abu Talib, Mansor

“…While floods cannot be fully prevented despite recent developments in infrastructures, preparedness, recovery and response, enhancing community resilience is therefore needed to be a priority in flood-prone communities. The findings of this study tend to vary by the district and state, accordingly. …”
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Characterizing dry mass and volume changes in human multiple myeloma cells upon treatment with proteotoxic and genotoxic drugs by Liu, Xili, Moscvin, Maria, Oh, Seungeun, Chen, Tianzeng, Choi, Wonshik, Evans, Benjamin, Rowell, Sean M., Nadeem, Omar, Mo, Clifton C., Sperling, Adam S., Anderson, Kenneth C., Yaqoob, Zahid, Bianchi, Giada, Sung, Yongjin

“…We show that human MM cell lines (RPMI8226, MM.1S, KMS20, and AMO1) increase dry mass upon bortezomib treatment. …”
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Bursting on a vortex tube with initial axial core-size perturbations by Ji, Lingbo, Van Rees, Wim M.

“…To further assess the relevance and prevalence of bursting in practical settings, subsequent investigations in the stability and sensitivity of our results to varying Reynolds number, nonrectilinear vortex center lines, and external strain fields are needed.…”
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A low-cost, open-source cylindrical Couette rheometer by Erni, Makita, Hart, A. John, Trumper, David, Owens, Crystal E.

“…As a result, rheometers are typically large, expensive, and require additional infrastructure (e.g., gas lines), rendering them inaccessible for regular use by many individuals, small organizations, and educators. …”
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Holocene rate of slip and tentative recurrence interval for large earthquakes on the San Andreas fault, Cajon Pass, southern California by Sieh, Kerry, Weldon, Ray J.

“….; it has provided tentative evidence for 6 earthquakes in about the past 1,000 yr. Both lines of evidence suggest an average recurrence interval for large earthquakes of ∼1½ to 2 centuries. …”
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Who learns when workers are trained? a case of safety training of maintenance contractors’ workers for a major petrochemical plant shutdown by A., Fakhru'l-Razi, S.E., Iyuke, M.B., Hassan, M.S., Aini

“…The curves obtained are typical for the whole exercise, which gave perfect straight lines for Introduction to Safety, Hydrogen Sulphide, Confine Space and Permit to Work, respectively. …”
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A novel human stem cell platform for probing adrenoceptor signaling in iPSC derived cardiomyocytes including those with an adult atrial phenotype by Ahmad, F

“…</p> <p>Drug targeting of atrial-specific ion channels has been difficult because of lack of availability of appropriate cardiac cells, and preclinical testing studies have been carried out in non-cardiac cell lines, heterogeneous cardiac populations or animal models that have been unable to accurately represent human cardiomyocyte physiology. …”

Inflammation and colorectal cancer: elucidation of the cellular and molecular mechanisms by which interleukin 22 contributes to the development and progression of colorectal cancer by McCuaig, S

“…Using a panel of CRC cell lines and primary human organoids, we confirmed that this prognostic association is due to a functional interaction between IL-22 and mutant KRAS by observing that IL-22 enhances chemoresistance, 3-dimensional clonogenicity, and proliferation specifically in CRC cells with both high IL-22 receptor levels and <em>KRAS</em> mutations. …”

Citizenship and the politics of poverty definition during the segregation, apartheid and democratic eras in South Africa: 1910-2010 by Magasela, W

“…The Household Subsistence Level (HSL) and the Minimum Living Level (MLL) were derivatives of the PDL (the HSL was exactly the PDL, the MLL was lower in value) and were conceptually similar were used as poverty definitions and poverty lines to fix the wages of black workers, thus showing the link between the denial of citizenship and the politics of poverty definition.…”

Dress, Feminism, and British New Woman Novels by Allen-Johnstone, C

“…For example, Grand elevated cross-class feminism, but she belittled middle-class women's taste, side-lined poor women’s most pressing sartorial concerns, and dressed to impress. …”

Colon Cancer Disparities in Stage at Presentation and Time to Surgery for Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders: A Study with Disaggregated Ethnic Groups by Jain, Bhav, Bajaj, Simar S., Patel, Tej A., Vapiwala, Neha, Lam, Miranda B., Mahal, Brandon A., Muralidhar, Vinayak, Amen, Troy B., Nguyen, Paul L., Sanford, Nina N., Dee, Edward C.

“…Conclusions Our findings reveal key disparities in stage at presentation and time to surgery by race/ethnicity among AANHPI subgroups. …”
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Mechanistic Studies of Interfacial Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer to Molecularly Defined Surface Sites by Lewis, Noah B.

“…With these observations we construct a mechanistic model in which I-PCET is not a single step, but a multi-step reaction sequence in which elementary I-PCET is gated by an ion exchange reaction between proton donor/acceptor species and proton-neutral supporting electrolyte at the electrode-electrolyte interface. These findings demonstrate how supporting electrolyte can be leveraged as a design parameter to independently control electrolyte pH and the rates of I-PCET-based reactions.…”
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GPU-Oriented Algorithms for Continuous Energy Monte Carlo Neutron Transport by Ridley, Gavin

“…We then present a specialized root-finding algorithm that takes advantage of the structure of the problem to efficiently sample the resonance upscatter effect on GPUs. …”
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Interaction of TiO2 and ZnO NPs with human skin cells by Gautam, Archana

“…Therefore, the goal of this study is to assess the physiological effects of TiO2 and ZnO NPs interactions with primary human epidermal keratinocytes and dermal fibroblasts, with attention to accurate dosimetry measurements and particle solubility considerations. Since the current findings on NPs interaction with skin cells are mostly based on 2D monolayer cell culture and animal models, in this study, 3D human skin explants have also been used to better understand the effects of NPs in the skin tissue. …”
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Analysis of lava flow impacts for use in risk assessments by Meredith, Elinor Siwan

“…Along with the 2018 Kīlauea assessment, I used this compiled dataset to assess relationships between lava flow thickness as a proxy for hazard intensity and damage severity, presenting the first empirically-derived and non-linear fragility functions for lava flow structure damage, for different structure types. The findings show a recent increase in recorded impact events, and that these events occur more frequently than previously thought, with almost three impact events, to population centres, per decade in the past 100 years. …”
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Mechanics in dehydration-induced leaf morphing behaviors by Guo, Kexin

“…This thesis focuses on three shape-morphing phenomena observed in plant leaves as passive responses to the strain mismatch caused by dehydration. The research findings indicate the significant influence of mechanics on the formation of leaf shapes. …”
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Efficacy of Wolbachia-mediated sterility to reduce the incidence of dengue: a synthetic control study in Singapore by Lim, Jue Tao, Bansal, Somya, Chong, Chee Seng, Dickens, Borame, Ng, Youming, Deng, Lu, Lee, Caleb, Tan, Li Yun, Chain, Grace, Ma, Pei, Sim, Shuzhen, Tan, Cheong Huat, Cook, Alex R., Ng, Lee Ching

“…To compare interventions, we used the synthetic control method to generate appropriate counterfactuals for the intervention towns using a weighted combination of 30 control towns between EW 1, 2014 and EW 26, 2022. Findings: Our study comprised an at-risk population of 607 872 individuals living in intervention sites and 3 894 544 individuals living in control sites. …”
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Origin of a topotactic reduction effect for superconductivity in infinite-layer nickelates by Zeng, Shengwei, Tang, Chi Sin, Luo, Zhaoyang, Chow, Lin Er, Lim, Zhi Shiuh, Prakash, Saurav, Yang, Ping, Diao, Caozheng, Yu, Xiaojiang, Xing, Zhenxiang, Ji, Rong, Yin, Xinmao, Li, Changjian, Wang, Renshaw Xiao, He, Qian, Breese, Mark B. H., Ariando, A., Liu, Huajun

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Dynamics of current-driven magnetic domain walls and skyrmions by Indra Purnama

“…At present, the investigation of domain wall dynamics is mainly focused on finding additional driving mechanisms to improve its mobility. …”
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The development and application of fish scale waste for tissue engineering applications : waste-to-resource conversion of resource resilient materials by Wang, Jun Kit

“…Therefore in this thesis, fish scale-derived collagen (FSCol) and fish scale-derived HA (FSHA) were extracted from different fish species and the potential of the extracted products for various TE applications were explored. Findings from the studies demonstrated that Type I FSCol was successfully extracted using a modified acid solubilization extraction method with preserved structural quality (i.e. retention of triple helical structures) where snakehead scale-derived collagen (SHCol) exhibited significant higher (p < 0.05) thermal stability as compared to other species. …”
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