External validation of the QCovid 2 and 3 risk prediction algorithms for risk of COVID-19 hospitalisation and mortality in adults: a national cohort study in Scotland by Kerr, S, Millington, T, Rudan, I, McCowan, C, Tibble, H, Jeffrey, K, Fagbamigbe, AF, Simpson, CR, Robertson, C, Hippisley-Cox, J, Sheikh, A

“…</p> <p><strong>Methods:</strong> We used the Early Pandemic Evaluation and Enhanced Surveillance of COVID-19 national data platform consisting of individual-level data for the population of Scotland (5.4 million residents). Primary care data were linked to reverse-transcription PCR virology testing, hospitalisation and mortality data. …”

Tracking people by learning their appearance by Ramanan, D, Forsyth, DA, Zisserman, A

“…Experiments suggest that our system 1) can count distinct individuals, 2) can identify and track them, 3) can recover when it loses track, for example, if individuals are occluded or briefly leave the view, 4) can identify body configuration accurately, and 5) is not dependent on particular models of human motion.…”

TPepRet: a deep learning model for characterizing T-cell receptors–antigen binding patterns by Wang, M, Fan, W, Wu, T, Li, M

“…We have evaluated TPepRet to a range of challenging scenarios, including performance benchmarking against other tools using diverse datasets, analysis of peptide binding preferences, characterization of T cells clonal expansion, identification of true binder in complex environments, assessment of key binding sites through alanine scanning, validation against expression rates from large-scale datasets, and ability to screen SARS-CoV-2 TCRs. The comprehensive results suggest that TPepRet outperforms existing tools. …”

Distributed quantum computing across an optical network link by Main, D, Drmota, P, Nadlinger, DP, Ainley, EM, Agrawal, A, Nichol, BC, Srinivas, R, Araneda, G, Lucas, DM

“…We then execute Grover’s search algorithm5—to our knowledge, the first implementation of a distributed quantum algorithm comprising several non-local two-qubit gates—and measure a 71% success rate. …”

Body frame dimensions are related to obesity and fatness: Lean trunk size, skinfolds, and body mass index by Henneberg, M, Ulijaszek, SJ

“…Data on the middle class adult Australian women (n 5 1260) collected in 2002 during a National Body Size and Shape Survey were used. …”

Water resources and extreme events in the Awash basin: economic effects and policy implications: report prepared for the Global Green Growth Institute by Smale, R, Walker, O, Vadheim, B, Hope, R, Hope, R, Charles, K, Hall, J, Dadson, S, Borgomeo, E, Kebede, S, Alamirew, T, Bekele, F, Mengistu, A, Beyene, S

“…Plausible future hydrological conditions drawn from global climate models, applied to the Growth and Transition Planning period (GTP) from 2011-15, lead to swings in basin GDP of the order of 5-20%. Furthermore, as the economy is projected to grow sharply in coming years so is the degree of water scarcity. …”

Effects of clozapine-N-oxide and compound 21 on sleep in laboratory mice by Traut, J, Mengual, JP, Meijer, E, McKillop, L, Alfonsa, H, Hoerder-Suabedissen, A, Song, SH, Fehér, KD, Riemann, D, Molnar, Z, Akerman, CJ, Vyazovskiy, VV, Krone, LB

“…Here, we show that intraperitoneal injections of commonly used CNO doses (1, 5, and 10 mg/kg) alter sleep in wild-type male laboratory mice. …”

Kubur kepingan batu di Lembah Bernam by Muhamad Shafiq Mohd Ali, Yunus Sauman

“…Antara pengkaji yang meneliti kebudayaan ini adalah seperti I.H.N Evans, H.D. Collings, P.V.S. Callenfels, Leong Sau Heng dan Yunus Sauman. …”
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Predictive factors for diabetes mellitus: insights from complete blood count analysis by Agnes Ayang Kenyang, Nurliyana Juhan, Yong Zulina Zubairi, Nornazirah Azizan, Ho, Chong Mun

“…In the univariate analysis, all variables are statistically significance at 5% level of significance. However, at multivariate analysis, only age, mean corpuscular hemoglobin concentration (MCHC), white blood cells (WBC) and hematocrit (HCT) emerged as significant predictors of diabetes mellitus. …”
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Leptospirosis modelling using hydrometeorological indices and random forest machine learning by Jayaramu, Veianthan, Zulkafli, Zed, De Stercke, Simon, Buytaert, Wouter, Rahmat, Fariq, Abdul Rahman, Ribhan Zafira, Ishak, Asnor Juraiza, Tahir, Wardah, Ab Rahman, Jamalludin, Mohd Fuzi, Nik Mohd Hafiz

“…The average and extreme models showed similar prediction accuracy ranges (61.5–76.1 and 72.3–77.0) while the mixed models showed an improvement (71.7–82.6 prediction accuracy). …”

Synthesis and characterization of mesoporous expanded graphite modified with PA/H3PO4 for enhanced oil sorption efficiency by Elbidi, Moammar, Mohd Salleh, Mohamad Amran, Gunam Resul, Mohamad Faiz Mukhtar, Rashid, Suraya Abdul

“…The chemical intercalation procedure was carried out at room temperature for 30 min in the first step "oxidation" with an optimum weight ratio of 1 g: 5.1 g: 18.8 g: 0.2 of NGF, PA, H3PO4, and KMnO4. …”

The green energy effect on an HCCI engine from used cooking oil-based biodiesel from Malaysia by Abdulabbas Mossa, Muntasser, Hairuddin, Abdul Aziz, Abdul Aziz, Nuraini, Muhamad Tobib, Hasyuzariza

“…Raising the intake air temperature to 90°C lowered NOx emissions by 96.66%, from 150 ppm to 5 ppm. Using green energy sources as fuel in HCCI engines significantly reduced emissions in this study, suggesting their potential as a future fuel for advanced engines. © Universiti Putra Malaysia Press.…”
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Application of response surface methodology (RSM) for optimization of hydrogen sulphide adsorption using coconut shell activated carbon xerogel: effect of adsorption pressure and h... by Saleh, Ali Mohammed, Mahdi, Hadi Hamdi, Alias, Azil Bahari, Ali, Obed M., Wan Ab Karim Ghani, Wan Azlina, Abdulwahhab Shihab, Thaer, Syed Hasan, Syed Shatir A., Ahmed, Omer Khalil, Mohammed Saleh, Noah

“…In the RSM approach, we selected adsorption pressure (1-3 bar) and H2S flow rate (100-300 L/hr) as the process variables while maintaining a constant contact time (5 minutes), adsorbent weight (11 g) and temperature (30℃). …”
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Ethnic differences in knowledge, attitudes, and practices related to dietary salt intake and association with hypertension in Malaysia: a multi-centre cross-sectional study by Chia, Yook Chin, Ching, Siew Mooi, Chew, Ming Tsuey, Devaraj, Navin Kumar, Oui, Jethro Ee Keat, Lim, Hooi Min, Chew, Bee Nah, Mohamed, Mohazmi, Ooi, Pei Boon, Cheng, Maong Hui, Beh, Hooi Chin, Chung, Felicia Fei-Lei

“…There were 57.4% Malay, 23.5% Chinese, 10.4% Indian, and 8.7% individuals of other ethnic groups. …”

Surface functionalization of oil palm empty fruit bunch (OPEFB)-derived cellulose as a carboxyl platform for metal cations and dyes removal from aquatic media by Sjahro, Noerhidajat, Yunus, Robiah, Abdullah, Luqman Chuah, Abdul Rashid, Suraya, Asis, Ahmad Jaril, Kania, Dina, Karim, Alsultan

“…In comparison, unmodified cellulose removed only 47%, 23.1%, 2.9%, and 7.5% for dye, Pb2+, Cu2+, and Cd2+ cations, respectively. …”
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Thermo-catalytic decomposition of cotton seed press cake over nickel doped zeolite Y, hydrogen: enhanced yield of bio-oil with highly selective fuel-range hydrocarbons by Afraz, Marrij, Nisar, Jan, Shah, Afzal, Ali, Ghulam, Muhammad, Faisal, Anwar, Farooq, Wan Abdul Karim Ghani, Wan Azlina

“…The ideal temperature, duration, and catalyst concentration for pyrolysis experiments were determined to be 300 °C, 20 minutes, and 5% of Ni-doped zeolite Y, hydrogen, respectively, in order to achieve the best bio-oil yield (35%). …”
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Stability characterizations of feed-based bivalent vaccine containing inactivated Streptococcus agalactiae and Aeromonas hydrophila against streptococcosis and Aeromonas infections... by Mohd Ali, Nur Shidaa, Ngalimat, Mohamad Syazwan, Saad, Mohd Zamri, Amal, Mohammad Noor Azmai, Salleh, Annas, Zulperi, Zarirah, Md Yasin, Ina Salwany

“…In 1 g of FBBV contained 1.5×109 CFU/g of S. agalactiae and 4.9×109 CFU/g of A. hydrophila, respectively, even after 60 days of storage at room temperature. …”
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Screening of microbial population in Sabah tea kombucha pellicle for its potential as prebiotic and probiotic supplement by Nasir, Nurul Farhana, Mohamad, Nurul Elyani, Yew, Chee Wei, Saallah, Suryani, Alitheen, Noorjahan Banu

“…The kombucha pellicle was prepared using 10 g of Sabah black tea, 1 L of sterile water containing 10% sugar (w/v), and a 10% kombucha symbiotic culture of bacteria and yeast (SCOBY). …”
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Fear of childbirth among pregnant mothers at Hospital USM, Kelantan by Yi, Ong Yi

“…The mean age of the participants was 31.23 years (SD = 4.980), and the mean gestational age at enrolment was 33.51 weeks (SD = 5.967). Forty-nine (20.2%) participants reported low to mild FOC. …”
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Enrichment of carotene from palm oil by organic solvent nanofiltration by Ghazali, Nazlee Faisal, Md. Hanim, Khairilanuar, Pahlawi, Qadly Ameen, Lim, Ki Min

“…Palm oil is one of the richest sources of natural plant carotene with typical concentration of about 0.5–0.7 g/L. Unfortunately, during physical refining of palm oil, most of the carotenes were destroyed by high temperatures and this represents a loss of potential source of natural carotene. …”