Leveraging transfer learning for spatio-temporal human activity recognition from video sequences by Muneer Butt, Umair, Aman Ullah, Hadiqa, Letchmunan, Sukumar, Tariq, Iqra, Hafinaz Hassan, Fadratul, Wei Koh, Tieng

“…Six state-of-the-art pre-trained models are exploited to find the best model for spatial feature extraction. …”
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Evaluation of Stevia leaf (Stevia rebaudiana Bertoni) powder as sugar-substitute in cashew nut fortified cookies by Dilrukshi, H.M.W., Ulpathakumbura, B.S.K., Gunarathna, K.M.R.U., Iqbal, M.C.M., Lai, O.M., Marikkar, J.M.N.

“…Considering the potentials of stevia as a zero-calorie-natural sweetener, this study aimed to assess the antioxidant and anti-hyperglycemic properties of stevia (Stevia rebaudiana Bertoni) leaf powder (SLP) to find its suitability to formulate low-calorie foods. …”
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Efficient top-k continuous query processing over sliding window model (SWM) method on uncertain data stream by Wahab, Raja Azhan Syah Raja, Rum, Siti Nurulain Mohd, Ibrahim, Hamidah, Ishak, Iskandar

“…The current approach for handling continuous queries on UDS within the SWM has proven to be ineffective, resulting in complex trade-offs between maximizing probability and generating high-scoring result sets. The challenge is to find the correct result list that satisfies a Top-k query predicate with scoring and probability. …”
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Exploring of cellulose nanocrystals from lignocellulosic sources as a powerful adsorbent for wastewater remediation by Norfarhana, A. S., Khoo, P. S., Ilyas, R. A., Ab Hamid, N. H., Aisyah, H. A., Norrrahim, Mohd Nor Faiz, Knight, V. F., Rani, M. S. A., Septevani, Athanasia Amanda, Syafri, Edi, Annamalai, Pratheep K.

“…As research and development in this field progress, CNC-based adsorbents are expected to become even more effective and find expanded applications in combating water pollution.…”

Development of ground dune sand blended cement by Hassan, Omer Abdalla Alawad

“…Therefore, there is a growing interest to find an alternative material to be used as a source of siliceous materials for concrete production. …”
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Utilization of Silica Fume and Sodium Hydroxide in Treated Crumb Rubber for Cement Mortar by Supar, Khairi, Mohammad, Hairuddin, Kaamin, Masiri, Mohammad Azmi, Mohamad Azim, Musa, Mohd Kamaruzaman, Abdul Rahman, Mohammad Ashraf, Ahmad, Hilton, Sugiman, Sugiman

“…The compressive strength, density, and water absorption of the mortar were measured at 28 days to find optimum strength. The compressive strength of the cement mortar mixed with treated crumb rubber showed significantly higher values, with an increase of 92% for 12% treated crumb rubber by sodium hydroxide (TN12) compared to untreated crumb rubber. …”
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Predicting the carbon dioxide emissions using machine learning by Geevaretnam, Jothi Letchumy, Megat Mohd. Zainuddin, Norziha, Kamaruddin, Norshaliza, Rusli, Hazlifah, Maarop, Nurazean, Wan Hassan, Wan Azlan

“…Net zero is the new ambition of industries in balancing the CO2 emissions in environment. Thus, this study finds the best predictive model for CO2 emissions using machine learning model with the dataset of CO2 emissions from 1991 until 2020. …”
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Exploring of cellulose nanocrystals from lignocellulosic sources as a powerful adsorbent for wastewater remediation by A. S., Norfarhana, Khoo, Pui San, Rushdan, Ahmad Ilyas, Ab. Hamid, Nur Hafizah, H. A. Aisyah, H. A. Aisyah, Norrrahim, Mohd. Nor Faiz, Knight, Victor Feizal, Rani, Mohd. Saiful Asmal, Athanasia Amanda Septevani, Athanasia Amanda Septevani, Edi Syafri, Edi Syafri, Annamalai, Pratheep K.

“…As research and development in this field progress, CNC-based adsorbents are expected to become even more effective and find expanded applications in combating water pollution.…”

Influence of machining parameters and tool geometry on tool wear during cobalt chromium-molybdenum micro drilling by Abdul Patar, Mohd. Affifudin, Suhaimi, Mohd. Azlan, Sharif, Safian, Amrifan S. Mohruni, Amrifan S. Mohruni, Hisam, Muhammad Juzaili, Shaharum, Mohd. Sallehuddin

“…Cobalt chromium (CoCr) alloys find extensive use in medical applications due to their unique mechanical properties, such as high strength and low thermal conductivity. …”
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A Framework for Lean Green Higher Education (Lghe) for Wealth Generation (S/O 14180) by Razalli, Mohd Rizal, Ahmad, Mohd Akhir, Iteng, Rosman, Wei, Chuah Chin, Taib, Che Azlan

“…Despite this significant reduction of source of income, the universities have to find a way to overcome this challenge by becoming more efficient and effective in their services to the stakeholders. …”
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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

“…The findings show that the most prioritized main criteria are financial factor followed by location and socio¬ cultural. …”
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Social Media Marketing Adoption among SMEs in Malaysia and Nigeria (S/O 14089) by Ramanchandram, Rajoo, Abdullah, Shahmir Sivaraj, Kolandaisamy, Indraah, Soo, Hooi Sin, Mohd Jani, Mohamad Yusop

“…This will, therefore, provide input for further research or discussions that will find the study relevant in the scholarly field of entrepreneurship. …”
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Rationalisation of antifungal properties of α-helical pore-forming peptide, mastoparan B by Lim, Edward Jianyang, Goh, Eunice Tze Leng, Tram, Nhan Dai Thien, Periayah, Mercy Halleluyah, Ee, Rachel Pui Lai, Barkham, Timothy Mark Sebastian, Poh, Zhi Sheng, Verma, Navin Kumar, Lakshminarayanan, Rajamani

“…Host defense peptides are regarded as the first line of defense against microbial invasion in both vertebrates and invertebrates. …”
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Origins of the long-range exciton diffusion in perovskite nanocrystal films : photon recycling vs exciton hopping by Giovanni, David, Righetto, Marcello, Zhang, Qiannan, Lim, Melvin Jia Wei, Ramesh, Sankaran, Sum, Tze Chien

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Epithelial-mesenchymal transition of cancer cells using bioengineered hybrid scaffold composed of hydrogel/3D-fibrous framework by Pal, Mintu, Chen, Huizhi, Lee, Bae Hoon, Lee, Justin Yin Hao, Yip, Yun Sheng, Tan, Nguan Soon, Tan, Lay Poh

“…In this study, we focused on two major points (i) designing and fabrication of 3D hybrid scaffolds comprising electrospun fibers with cancer cells embedded within hydrogels, and (ii) determining the potential roles of 3D hybrid scaffolds associated with EMT in cancer progression and metastasis. Our findings revealed that 3D hybrid scaffold enhances cell proliferation and induces cancer cells to undergo EMT, as demonstrated by significant up-regulation of EMT associated transcriptional factors including Snail1, Zeb1, and Twist2; and mesenchymal markers whereas epithelial marker, E-Cadherin was downregulated. …”
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Biomimetic whisker transducer for vibrissal tactile sensing by Ju, Feng

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A DEVELOPER'S GUIDE TO BUILDING RESILIENT CLOUD APPLICATIONS WITH AZURE : Deploy applications on serverless and event-driven architecture using a cloud database / by Trabelsi, Hamida Rebai 656262

“…Professionals looking to enhance their cloud and cloud-native programming concepts on Azure will also find this book useful. A solid background in C#, ASP.NET Core, and any recent version of Visual Studio and basic knowledge of cloud computing, Microsoft Azure, and databases will be helpful when using this book.…”
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Impact of China's financial development on the sustainable development goals of the Belt and Road Initiative participating countries by Li, Chenggang, Zhao, Gang, Koh, Keumseok Peter, Xu, Zhenci, Yue, Mu, Wang, Weiyan, Tan, Yuanyuan, Wu, Liang

“…To address this gap, we utilized panel regression models to quantitatively assess the impact of China’s financial development scale, structure, and efficiency on the SDGs of the BRI participating countries, and adopted Geographically and Temporally Weighted Regression (GTWR) model to explore the spatial-temporal effects of China’s financial development scale, structure, and efficiency on the SDGs of the BRI participating countries. Our findings indicate that China’s financial development has significantly promoted the SDGs of the BRI participating countries. …”
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A materials science framework for connecting protein stability with surface adsorption and coating applications by Ma, Gamaliel Junren

“…Finally, the experimentally observed differences in conformational properties and adsorption behavior of certain types of BSA proteins were correlated with their surface passivation performance. In summary, the findings in this thesis presented how materials science concepts can be used to rationalize the relationship between protein conformational stability and adsorption behavior and offer a broadly applicable approach to engineer protein coatings for various useful applications.…”
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Association of nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors with adverse perinatal outcomes in pregnant women living with HIV: systematic review and meta-analysis by Cowdell, I, Beck, K, Hey, M, Portwood, C, Sexton, H, Kumarendran, M, Brandon, Z, Kirtley, S, Hemelaar, J

“…Abacavir is not associated with adverse perinatal outcomes. Our findings support current WHO guidelines.</p>…”