Effectiveness and user experience of nose and throat swabbing techniques for SARS-CoV-2 detection: results from the UK COVID-19 National Testing Programme by Futschik, ME, Kulasegaran-Shylini, R, Blandford, E, Harper, S, Chapman, D, Turek, E, Agrawal, S, Phillips, V, Fordham, H, Chan, L, Kidd, M, Dodgson, A, Klapper, PE, Sudhanva, M, Vipond, R, Hopkins, S, Peto, T, Tunkel, S, Fowler, T

“…Background: The UK’s National Health Service Test and Trace (NHSTT) program aimed to provide the most effective and accessible SARS-CoV-2 testing approach possible. Early user feedback indicated that there were accessibility issues associated with throat swabbing. …”

Search for a light CP-odd Higgs boson decaying into a pair of τ -leptons in proton-proton collisions at s = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector by Aad, G, Aakvaag, E, Abbott, B, Abdelhameed, S, Abeling, K, Abicht, NJ, Abidi, SH, Aboelela, M, Aboulhorma, A, Abramowicz, H, Abreu, H, Abulaiti, Y, Acharya, BS, Ackermann, A, Adam Bourdarios, C, Adamczyk, L, Addepalli, SV, Addison, MJ, Adelman, J, Adiguzel, A, Adye, T, Affolder, AA, Afik, Y, Agaras, MN, Barr, AJ, Bortoletto, D, Bruckler, TL, Chen, M, Conroy, EI, Cooper-Sarkar, AM, Dingley, T, Draguet, MA, Eberwein, GH, Frost, JA, Gallas, EJ, Grabarczyk, RP, Gwenlan, C, Haslbeck, F, Hays, CP, Hodkinson, BH, Huffman, TB, Iizawa, T, Karava, K, Koch, SF, Moser, B, Nagai, K, Nedic, L, Nickerson, RB, Pacey, HA, Rossi, E, Ruggiero, A, Schopf, E, Shipsey, IPJ, Sultan, DMS, Viehhauser, GHA, Weidberg, AR, Yildirim, TP

“…This paper reports a search for a light CP-odd scalar resonance with a mass of 20 GeV to 90 GeV in 13 TeV proton-proton collision data with an integrated luminosity of 140 fb−1 collected with the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider. …”

Kajian teori fungsian ketumpatan pada struktur, tapak perangkap muon dan interaksi hiperhalus muon dalam Poli(3-heksiltiofena-2,5-dil) by Wan Nurfadhilah Zaharim, Shukri Sulaiman, Risdiana, Safriani, Lusi, Rizafizah Othaman

“…Polimer semikonduktor seperti Poli(3-heksiltiofene-2,5-dil) (P3HT) telah mendapat perhatian kerana sifatnya dan telah digunakan dalam sel suria. …”
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Assessment of the biological durability of oil palm trunk modified with 1,3-dimethylol-4,5-dihydroxy-ethyleneurea (DMDHEU) following subsequent curing at elevated temperatures by Rosli, Siti Nurul Ashikin, Chin, Kit Ling, Lee, Chuan Li, Maminski, Mariusz, Abdullah, Luqman Chuah, Toczylowska-Maminska, Renata

“…The biological durability of oil palm trunk modified with 1,3-dimethylol-4,5-dihydroxyethyleneurea (DMDHEU) was tested after subsequent curing at elevated temperatures. …”
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Dry powder microneedle-enabled transdermal anti-inflammatory therapy for obesity, diabetes, hyperlipidemia, and fatty liver by Zan, Ping, Than, Aung, Leow, Melvin Khee-Shing, Cai, Helen Xinyi, Wen, Hanqi, Zhang, Zheye, Chen, Peng

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Search for top squark pair production in a final state with at least one hadronically decaying tau lepton in proton-proton collisions at √𝑠 = 13 TeV by Tumasyan, A., Adam, W., Andrejkovic, J. W., Bergauer, T., Chatterjee, S., Damanakis, K., Dragicevic, M., Escalante Del Valle, A., Hussain, P. S., Jeitler, M., Krammer, N., Lechner, L., Liko, D., Mikulec, I., Paulitsch, P., Schieck, J., Schöfbeck, R.

“…The results probe top squark masses up to 1150 GeV for a nearly massless neutralino. This search covers a relatively less explored parameter space in the context of supersymmetry, and the exclusion limit is the most stringent to date for the model considered here.…”
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Symmetric aqueous rechargeable lithium battery using Na1.16V3O8 nanobelts electrodes for safe high volume energy storage applications by Nair, Vivek Sahadevan, Cheah, Yan Ling, Madhavi, Srinivasan

“…The nanobelts are observed to have a large aspect ratio, with a diameter of 75(±5)nm and an average length of ∼5 μm. Electrochemical behavior of Na1.16V3O8 nanobelts were studied via cyclic voltammetry (CV) and galvanostatic studies. …”
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High-mass loading V3O7·H2O nanoarray for Zn-ion battery : new synthesis and two-stage ion intercalation chemistry by Chen, Duo, Lu, Menjie, Wang, Boran, Cheng, Hongfei, Yang, Hang, Cai, Dong, Han, Wei, Fan, Hong Jin

“…In this work, we first show a new facile synthesis approach for V3O7·H2O nanoarray cathode with large mass loadings (1.0–12 mg cm−2). …”
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Gold-catalyzed cycloisomerization of 1,7-diyne benzoates to indeno[1,2-c]azepines and azabicyclo[4.2.0]octa-1(8),5-dines by Rao, Weidong, Koh, Ming Joo, Kothandaraman, Prasath, Chan, Philip Wai Hong

“…A synthetic method that relies on Au(I)-catalyzed cycloisomerization reactions of 1,7-diyne benzoates to prepare indeno[1,2-c]azepines and azabicyclo[4.2.0]octa-1(8),5-dines is described.…”
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Plasmacytoid dendritic cells are central regulators of the humoral ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 vaccine response in a human tonsil organoid model by Provine, N, Pudjohartono, M, Powell, K, Ferry, H, Barnes, E, Klenerman, P

Virus-like particles of nodavirus displaying the receptor binding domain of SARS-CoV-2 spike protein: a potential VLP-based COVID-19 vaccine by Kumar, Kiven, Tan, Wen Siang, Arshad, Siti Suri, Ho, Kok Lian

“…The efficacy of the initial vaccines based on the ancestral strain of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus type 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has become a point of contention due to the emergence of new variants of concern (VOCs). …”
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Towards natural and realistic E7 GUTs in F-theory by Li, Shing Yan, Taylor, Washington

“…For example, dimension-4 and 5 terms associated with proton decay are ubiquitously suppressed. …”
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Factor models with many assets: Strong factors, weak factors, and the two-pass procedure by Anatolyev, Stanislav, Mikusheva, Anna

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Digging Up Threats to Validity: A Data Marshalling Approach to Sensitivity Analysis by Zeng, Anna, Cafarella, Mike

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Employment equity and mental health conditions: what affects Singaporeans' willingness to work with people with schizophrenia and people with depression? by Cheang, Anna Xin Hui

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Design of whole-genome tiling microarrays for pseudomonas aeruginosa PAO1. by Chong, Anna Siew Chyn.

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Influence of particle velocity when propelled using N2 or N2-He mixed gas on the properties of cold-sprayed Ti6Al4V coatings by Tan, Adrian Wei-Yee, Lek, Jun Yan, Boothroyd, Chris Brian, Sun, Wen, Bhowmik, Ayan, Marinescu, Iulian, Song, Xu, Zhai, Wei, Li, Feng, Dong, Zhili, Liu, Erjia

“…This technology has the potential to enhance or restore damaged parts made of light metal alloys, such as Ti6Al4V (Ti64). Particle deposition velocity is one of the most crucial parameters for achieving high-quality coatings because it is the main driving force for particle bonding and coating formation. …”
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Predictions of PM2.5 using air pollutants and meteorological factors with COVID-19 cases in Malaysia and Indonesia: a comparative study using feature selection and robust regression by Salsabila, Norin Binta, Jalaludin, Juliana, Suhaimi, Nur Faseeha, Wan Mansor, Wan Nurdiyana, Sumantri, Arif

“…Predictive models for PM2.5 levels using robust regression techniques showed strong performance in Kuala Lumpur (R² > 0.9) but exhibited overfitting tendencies in Jakarta, suggesting the need for a longer study period for more accurate results.…”

Automatic segmentation of the choroid in enhanced depth imaging optical coherence tomography images by Tian, Jing, Marziliano, Pina, Baskaran, Mani, Tun, Tin Aung, Aung, Tin

“…The experiments comparing automatic segmentation results with the manual labelings are conducted on 45 EDI-OCT images and the average of Dice’s Coefficient is 90.5%, which shows good consistency of the algorithm with the manual labelings. …”
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Classification of non-tumorous skin pigmentation disorders using voting based probabilistic linear discriminant analysis by Liang, Yunfeng, Sun, Lei, Ser, Wee, Lin, Feng, Thng, Steven Tien Guan, Chen, Qiping, Lin, Zhiping

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