Manual versus powered toothbrushes for oral health; an update by Yaacob, Munirah, Scott A, Deacon, Chris, Deery, Anne-Marie , Gleeny, Michael, Heanue, A Damien , Walmsley, Helen, Worthington, Peter G, Robinson

“…Conclusion: Rotation-oscillation powered toothbrushes remove plaque and reduce gingivitis more than manual brushes in the short and long term. …”
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Performance of floating piled raft with varying lengths in soft compressible subsoil by Tan, Yean Chin

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Effect of curing regime on the immobilization of municipal solid waste incineration fly ash in sustainable cement mortar by Baoju Liu, Baoju Liu, Lei Yang, Lei Yang, Jinyan Shi, Jinyan Shi, Shipeng Zhang, Shipeng Zhang, Çağlar Yalçınkaya, Çağlar Yalçınkaya, Abdullah Faisal Alshalif, Abdullah Faisal Alshalif

“…Compared with standard curing, steam curing and carbonation curing made the early-age and long-term performance of MIFAmodified mortar better, which can promote the efficient application of MIFA in OPC products.…”
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A study on the application of discrete curvature feature extraction and optimization algorithms to battery health estimation by Hui Hwang Goh, Hui Hwang Goh, Zhen An, Zhen An, Dongdong Zhang, Dongdong Zhang, Wei Dai, Wei Dai, Tonni Agustiono Kurniawan, Tonni Agustiono Kurniawan, Kai Chen Goh, Kai Chen Goh

“…Therefore, to account for the unpredictable and random character of the application circumstances, we employ the U-chord long curvature feature extraction approach to minimise errors resulting from rotation and noise. …”
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Effect of curing regime on the immobilization of municipal solid waste incineration fly ash in sustainable cement mortar by Baoju Liu, Baoju Liu, Lei Yang, Lei Yang, Jinyan Shi, Jinyan Shi, Shipeng Zhang, Shipeng Zhang, Çağlar Yalçınkaya, Çağlar Yalçınkaya, Abdullah Faisal Alshalif, Abdullah Faisal Alshalif

“…Compared with standard curing, steam curing and carbonation curing made the early-age and long-term performance of MIFAmodified mortar better, which can promote the efficient application of MIFA in OPC products.…”
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Univariate and multivariate time series blood glucose prediction with LSTM deep learning model by Mohamed Nordin, Muhammad Shahmi, Mahmud, Farhanahani

“…Deep learning, particularly Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) networks, proves its ability to grasp long-term dependencies in sequential data however, creating an accurate model for a time-series blood glucose prediction is a complex challenge that requires further research and exploration in the modeling. …”
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The concept of antagonistic metallic couples: a possible antidote for Alzheimer's by Shahab, Syed Alwi

“…The concept that there are naturally occuring antidotes to combat diverse forms of human physical illness has long enthralled the human imagination. The discovery of the existence of antagonistic (opposite) couples among the chemical elements in the periodic table has opened up a promising avenue for investigation into combating the onslaught of Alzheimer's disease and other illnesses involving toxic imbalance of chemical elements in the human body. …”
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Evolving Malaysia by Ani, Mohd Hanafi

“…Towards the end of the 12th century, while Western Europe was still wavering between a dying Roman influence and a dawning Gothicism, preliminaries to a medieval era which would make possible the development of a worldwide humanism, Asia had already lived through her classical period and, sinking into decay, was preparing to face a long period of political and spiritual unrest.…”
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Tony Fretton Architects: buildings and their territories by Fretton, Anthony

“…This monograph provides a long-awaited reference work to his oeuvre.…”

The Arab reawakenig: international responses and implicarions by Hossain, Ishtiaq

“…Finally, the paper aims to assess the short-term and long-term implications of the 2011 Arab Reawakening. …”
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Omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acids as food supplements from marine fishes of Tuba Island, Langkawi, Malaysia by Jaswir, Irwandi, Saeed Mirghaini, Mohamed Elwathig, Mohd. Salleh, Hamzah, Osman, Farida

“…Fish lipids are well known to be rich in long chain polyunsaturated fatty acid (PUFA), especially eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) and docosahexaenoic acid (DHA). …”
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The monetary model of exchange rate: evidence from The Philippines by Chin, Lee, Azali, Mohamed, Yusop, Zulkornain, Yusoff, Mohammed

“…It is found that the monetary model is a valid framework for the long-run exchange rate between Philippines peso-US Dollar exchange rate. …”
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Ethical dimensions in robot creation industry by Shuriye, Abdi Omar

“…Being one of the salient fields, it has for long intrigued engineers as to how to invent the adjacent human-like machine that could emulate human emotions, styles and patterns in precisely identical mode. …”
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Throw Away the Spoon! Making Life Difficult for Students by Hardman, David

“…In addition, several other ways of fostering long-term learning are discussed.…”
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Zinc’s time in the sun? Tracing the reopening of the Riso and Parina Valleys’ mines from precarious optimism to affective indeterminacy by West, Robin, Crowhurst, Isabel

“…This chapter addresses a peripheral feature of global extractivism and of the exclusionary practices discussed in this volume: the revitalization of European mining via renewed extraction activities in long-closed mines.…”
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Vision-Based Hand Detection and Tracking Using Fusion of Kernelized Correlation Filter and Single-Shot Detection by Haji Mohd, Mohd Norzali, Mohd Asaar, Mohd Shahrimie, Ong Lay Ping, Ong Lay Ping, Rosdi, Bakhtiar Affendi

“…The results demonstrate the promising potential of the proposed method for long-sequence tracking stability, reducing drift issues, and improving tracking performance during occlusions.…”
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Development of paediatric dosage forms of furosemide using the problem structuring method of morphological analysis by Baghdadi, Hani

“…The lack of age-appropriate (paediatric) authorised medicines is a long-standing problem amongst regulatory authorities, patients, parents and prescribers. …”
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Anti-diabetic and pharmacological activities, of phytoestrogens by Roostaei, Davoud, Rezazadeh, S., Sharafi, S., White, Kenneth

“…Incubation of cells (104/ml, in 24 well plate at 37 °C in 5% CO2 / air) with three phytoestrogens at concentration of 10-4 M to 10-9M in two studies mood, short term treatment (one hour) and long term treatment (24 hours) revealed, daidzein stimulates uptake of glucose, with a greater effect after a short treatment of one hour compared with treatment 24 hours. …”
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Nicotinamide Nucleotide Transhydrogenase as a novel treatment target in adrenocortical carcinoma by Chortis, Vasileios, Taylor, Angela E., Doig, Craig L., Walsh, Mark D., Meimaridou, Eirini, Jenkinson, Carl, Rodriguez-Blanco, Giovanny, Ronchi, Cristina L., Jafri, Alisha, Metherell, Louise A., Hebenstreit, Daniel, Dunn, Warwick B., Arlt, Wiebke, Foster, Paul A.

“…This study provides preclinical evidence of the therapeutic merit of antioxidant targeting in ACC as well as illuminating the long-term adaptive response of cells to oxidative stress.…”
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Effects of a protein-rich, low-glycaemic meal replacement on changes in dietary intake and body weight following a weight-management intervention—the ACOORH trial by Röhling, Martin, Stensitzky, Andrea, Oliveira, Camila L. P., Beck, Andrea, Braumann, Klaus-Michael, Halle, Martin, Führer-Sakel, Dagmar, Kempf, Kerstin, McCarthy, H. David, Predel, Hans-Georg, Schenkenberger, Isabelle, Toplak, Hermann, Berg, Aloys

“…The results indicate that a protein-rich dietary strategy with a meal replacement can improve long-term nutritional intake, and was associated with weight loss.…”
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