Integrating alternative and complementary medicine in the management of epilepsy and its comorbidities in low- and middle-income settings by Kariuki, SM, Newton, CRJC

“…There are however serious concerns on reliability of reported findings because of inadequate randomization, and small sample sizes, and concerns on quality and safety owing to lack of standardization of bioactive compounds, accidental or intention botanical substitution of products and unhygienic handling. …”

Structure of a fully assembled γδ T-cell antigen receptor by Gully, BS, Ferreira Fernandes, J, Gunasinghe, SD, Vuong, MT, Lui, Y, Rice, MT, Rashleigh, L, Lay, C-S, Littler, DR, Sharma, S, Santos, AM, Venugopal, H, Rossjohn, J, Davis, SJ

“…However, in contrast to the apparently rigid αβ TCR^2,3,6, the γδ TCR exhibits considerable conformational heterogeneity, owing to the ligand-binding TCR-γδ subunits being tethered to the CD3 subunits by their transmembrane regions only. …”

Catalytic deoxygenation of waste cooking oil for sustainable bio-jet fuel: A comparative study of Ni-Co/SBA-15 and Ni-Co/SBA-15-SH catalysts by Razak, Noor Azira Abdul, Taufiq-Yap, Yun Hin, Derawi, Darfizzi

“…Indeed, the 5Ni5Co/SBA-15-SH catalyst showed superior performance of deoxygenation activity by producing 80 % of yield with 92 % of bio-jet selectivity, owing to the porous properties of the catalyst, which exhibits a substantial surface area (509 m2/g) and a significant pore size (4.4 nm). …”
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Effect of B2O3 on the physical and mechanical properties of calcium fluoroaluminosilicate glass system by Mohammed Efa, Abdelkader, Matori, Khamirul Amin, Mohd Zaid, Mohd Hafiz, Che Abdullah, Che Azurahanim, Zainuddin, Norhazlin, Mayzan, Mohd Zul Hilmi, Kamis, Shahira Liza

“…Bioactive glasses containing boron oxide have attracted substantial attention owing to their unique attributes and the promising prospects they offer for biomedical uses. …”

GC-MS analysis and nutra-pharmaceutical potential of Mentha piperita essential oil extracted by supercritical fluid extraction and hydro-distillation by Abbas, Ali, Anwar, Farooq, Ahmad, Naveed, Rehman, Afifa tur, Mohammed, Osama A., Abdel-Reheim, Mustafa Ahmed, Iqbal, Munawar, Iqbal, Shahid, Nazir, Arif

“…The peppermint EO obtained by SCFE, owing to potent bioactive components, can be a potential candidate to develop nutra-pharmaceuticals.…”
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Assessment of IoT-driven predictive maintenance strategies for Computed Tomography equipment: a machine learning approach by Mohd Azrul Shazril, Mohammad Habib Shah Ershad, Mashohor, Syamsiah, Amran, Mohd Effendi, Hafiz, Nur Fatinah, Ali, Azizi Mohd, Naseri, Mohd Saiful, Rasid, Mohd Fadlee A.

“…The readings were preprocessed to follow a normal distribution, representing the typical working conditions of the machine. Owing to limited faulty condition data, synthetic data were generated by expanding the tails of the data distribution and using a Gaussian noise generator. …”
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Mineralization of palm oil mill effluent by advanced oxidation processes: A review on current trends and the way forward by Vijayan, Veena, Joseph, Collin G., Taufiq-Yap, Yun Hin, Gansau, Jualang Azlan, Nga, Janice L.H., Li Puma, Gianluca, Chia, Poh Wai

“…Palm oil mill effluent (POME) is regarded as deleterious to the environment, primarily owing to the substantial volume of waste it produces during palm oil extraction. …”
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Thermoelectric Energy Harvesting from the Roof and Attics of a Building by Abubakar, Saleh Umar, Jumaat, Siti Amely, Yakubu, Babangida, Haruna, Yau Shuaibu, Abdulrahman, Suleiman

“…Furthermore, The finding also reveals that the attic side has the capacity to store thermal energy, which can be harnessed owing to the fast heat transfer to the surroundings during the convection process. …”
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Challenges and opportunities for physiologically controlled therapy in neural systems by Marks, VS, Piper, RJ, Van Rheede, JJ, Benjaber, M, Green, AL, Tisdall, MT, Denison, TJ

“…The utility of such a bidirectional application is exemplified by the success of the NeuroPace responsive neuro stimulation (RNS) device in the reduction of seizures [1] and pivotal trials of spinal cord stimulation for chronic leg pain using evoked compound action potentials to facilitate a homeostatic feedback system [2] .…”

Finite rate Innovation and its applications in electrocardiography by Amrish Nair

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Design of wideband low-loss reconfigurable reflectarray antenna by Zhang, Xiran

“…It proposes an RRA design that integrates a PIN diode with air gap. The switch of the reconfigurable unit is directly mounted on the reflective element, reducing the loss introduced by the switching device. …”
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Development of optical transceiver by Sim, Sebastian Shih Wei.

“…For PIN photodiodes, the epitaxial layer was introduced to the structures to act as an intrinsic layer. …”
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Optimized core design of a supercritical carbon dioxide-cooled fast reactor by Handwerk, Christopher S. (Christopher Stanley), 1974-

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Surfactant effects in functionalized multiwall carbon nanotube-filled phase change materials by M. Arif Fikri, ., Pandey, A. K., Rajamony, Reji Kumar, Sharma, Kamal, Kalidasan B., ., Mahendran, Samykano, Buddhi, D., Tyagi, V. V.

“…However, the PCMs have lower thermal conductivity; owing to this, the thermal performance and heat transfer rate are inadequate. …”
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Enhancing the Permselectivity of Thin-Film Composite Membranes Interlayered with MoS₂ Nanosheets via Precise Thickness Control by Cao, Siyu, Deshmukh, Akshay, Wang, Li, Han, Qi, Shu, Yufei, Ng, How Yong, Wang, Zhongying, Lienhard, John H

“…However, improving and tuning membrane permeability and selectivity simultaneously remains highly challenging owing to the lack of thickness control in polyamide films. …”
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Molecular dynamics simulations of a new branched antimicrobial peptide : a comparison of force fields by Li, Jianguo, Lakshminarayanan, Rajamani, Bai, Yang, Liu, Shouping, Zhou, Lei, Pervushin, Konstantin, Verma, Chandra, Beuerman, Roger W.

“…This leads us to hypothesize that B2088 is unlikely to penetrate into the hydrophobic region of the membrane owing to the high free energy costs of transfer from water, and possibly acts by carpeting and thus disrupting the membrane.…”
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High-resolution HDX-MS reveals distinct mechanisms of RNA recognition and activation by RIG-I and MDA5 by Liu, Chuan-Fa, Zheng, Jie, Yong, Hui Yee, Panutdaporn, Nantika, Tang, Kai, Luo, Dahai

“…We show that human RIG-I maintains an auto-inhibited resting state owing to the intra-molecular HEL2i-CARD2 interactions while apo MDA5 lacks the analogous intra-molecular interactions and therefore adopts an extended conformation. …”
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Molecular engineering of biomolecule-based functional nanodots for biomedical applications by Xu Victor Hesheng

“…In recent years, nanotechnology has gained considerable attention owing to its numerous attractive properties. Bestowed with quantum mechanical effects, nanomaterials exhibit unique properties including high surface-to-volume ratio, great strength and ductility, ease of functionalization and enhanced cargo loadings. …”
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Investigation on energy output structure of explosives near-ground explosion by Xu, Wen-long, Wang, Cheng, Yuan, Jian-ming, Goh, Wei-liang, Li, Tao

“…At a distance of 3.0 m from the initiation point, the peak overpressure of aluminized explosives is slightly less than that of RDX explosives. Owing to the exothermic effect of aluminum powder, the pressure drop of aluminized explosives is slower than that of RDX explosives. …”
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HopPER : an adaptive model for probability estimation of influenza reassortment through host prediction by Yin, Rui, Zhou, Xinrui, Rashid, Shamima, Kwoh, Chee Keong

“…Background: Influenza reassortment, a mechanism where influenza viruses exchange their RNA segments by co-infecting a single cell, has been implicated in several major pandemics since 19th century. Owing to the significant impact on public health and social stability, great attention has been received on the identification of influenza reassortment. …”
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