'The burglar's mate'? How London's probation officers persuaded magistrates in Social Enquiry Reports, 1958-72 by Lunan, J

“…Sorting the SERs into types of offender, the thesis shows that both generations ultimately persuaded magistrates by subtly indicating in reports whether or not the offender and their families conformed to conventional gender norms. The main reason why SERs by the permissive university graduates closely resembled those written by their older colleagues was due to their common perception of magistrates as being socially conservative. …”

Sympathetic-neuron-derived neuropeptide Y (NPY) regulates adipose tissue immunometabolic homeostasis by Zhu, Y

“…Our imaging of cleared murine brown and white adipose tissue (BAT and WAT) established that NPY⁺ sympathetic axons are only a minority that mostly maps to the peri-vasculature; our analysis of single-cell RNA-sequencing datasets identifies mural cells as the main NPY-responsive cells in adipose tissues. We show that NPY sustains mural cells, known as a source of beige cells in both BAT and WAT (Long et al., 2014; Shamsi et al., 2021) and that NPY facilitates the differentiation to thermogenic adipocytes. …”

Dynamics of SARS-CoV-2 infection over two epidemic waves in Manaus, Brazil: A serological study of seven thousand blood donors by Alexander, N, Dye, C, Busch, MP, Buss, L, Prete, CA, Brady, OJ, Mee, P, Abrahim, CMM, Crispim, MAE, da Costa, AG, Salomon, T, Mayaud, P, Oikawa, MK, Faria, NR, Sabino, EC

“…The overall force of infection was 1.19 per person year (95% confidence interval 1.14–1.24) during the two main waves. The estimated number of suspected hospitalizations per infection, was approximately 4.1 times higher in the second wave than in the first. …”

Strong electron–phonon coupling in magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene by Chen, C, Nuckolls, KP, Ding, S, Miao, W, Wong, D, Oh, M, Lee, RL, He, S, Peng, C, Pei, D, Li, Y, Hao, C, Yan, H, Xiao, H, Gao, H, Li, Q, Zhang, S, Liu, J, He, L, Watanabe, K, Taniguchi, T, Jozwiak, C, Bostwick, A, Rotenberg, E, Chen, Y

“…These findings, although they do not necessarily put electron–phonon coupling as the main driving force for the superconductivity in MATBG, unravel the electronic structure inherent in superconducting MATBG, thereby providing crucial information for understanding the unusual electronic landscape from which its superconductivity is derived.…”

The encoded codex: a digital, statistical, and codicological examination of Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, fonds français, 24432 by Dows-Miller, SH

“…<p>The main objective of this thesis is methodological, showing the value of using methods from the digital humanities alongside analogue approaches to expand our understanding of Western medieval manuscripts and their texts. …”

The four worlds of ‘welfare reality’ – social risks and outcomes in Europe by Ferragina, E, Seeleib-Kaiser, M, Spreckelsen, T

“…Outcomes cluster countries largely in line with previous institutionalist literature, differentiating between conservative, liberal, Mediterranean and social-democratic regimes. As the main exception, we identify Germany, which can no longer be characterised as the proto-typical conservative welfare state. …”

Looking deep at people: towards understanding and generating humans in images with deep learning by de Bem, RA

“…</p> <p>This thesis pursues further advances towards understanding and generating people in visual data by the development of new discriminative and generative deep learning methods. The main contributions are: </p> <p>i) A deep learning framework for 2D human pose estimation, which allows for mean-field inference over part-based models; </p> <p>ii) A conditional deep generative model that achieves state-of-the-art results on generating images of humans conditioned on body posture; and </p> <p>iii) A structured semi-supervised deep generative model that jointly performs pose estimation and image generation, <em>understanding</em> and <em>generating</em> people in images in a single framework.…”

First cast the beam from thine own eye: the condemnation at the University of Paris 1241/4 by Grice, D

“…It aims to view the condemnation in its contemporary context, concentrating on contemporary texts or those available in the period. The study’s main focus is not the condemnation itself. Instead it seeks to set it against the background of wider doctrinal, intellectual, institutional and historical developments within the emerging 'university'. …”

Leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) technology for enhanced border surveillance at the Malaysia-Thailand land border by Norilyani Md Nor, Marina Abdul Majid, Andika Ab. Wahab

“…Based on a series of interviews with relevant ministries, enforcement agencies, technology experts, academic experts and other stakeholders, as well as secondary sources, this study found that AI technology has the potential to overcome issues pertaining to weak border control management faced by the Royal Malaysian Police (RMP), the main enforcement agency that manages the Malaysia-Thailand land border along with other enforcement agencies. …”
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Bibliometric analysis of global media representations of marginalized groups by Li, Caiwei, Mohd. Nor Shahizan Ali, Ammar Redza Ahmad Rizal, Xu, Jingwen

“…The study identifies five main clusters: mass media, anthropology, public health, gender studies, and sexual minority health, showing the evolving diversity in media research on marginalized groups. …”
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Exploratory factor and reliability analysis of entrepreneurial mindset instrument by Aryati Abd Rahman, Sheerad Sahid, Ahmad Zamri Mansor

“…Due to the study, which confi rms the main construct on the importance of an EM, well-known graduates certainly benefi t as the group’s major target need. …”
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The effectiveness of contemporary children’s literature module in enhancing the upper primary school pupils’ vocabulary mastery by Dg Syuhada Nabilah Abdull Majid, Azlina Abdul Aziz

“…Then, the data were analysed using the descriptive analysis model and Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS). The main findings indicated the results from the pre-test and post test showed a significant difference where the pupils’ marks in the post-test were higher than the pre-test. …”
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Experimental evaluation and statistical modeling of kenaf fiber-reinforced geopolymer concrete by Noor Abbas, Al-Ghazali, Abdul Aziz, Farah Nora Aznieta, Abdan, Khalina, Mohd Nasir, Noor Azline, Fahim Huseien, Ghasan

“…However, its brittleness is still the main issue to be overcome. Hence, in this research, natural kenaf fiber (KF) as environmental-friendly low-cost material is introduced to enhance the overall quality of the geopolymer. …”

Exploratory factor analysis of the items for measuring consumers' online health information seeking by Engku Alwi, Sharifah Sumayyah, Azmi Murad, Masrah Azrifah, Abdullah, Salfarina, Kamaruddin, Azrina

“…Past literature reviews on HIS show limited discussion on the dimensions that motivate HIS among consumers. This study’s main objective is to comprehensively validate twelve (12) dimensions of consumer online HIS using the Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA) procedure. …”
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Are spiritual, ethical, and eating qualities of poultry meat influenced by current and frequency during electrical water-bath stunning? by Hayat, Muhammad Nizam, Kumar, Pavan, Sazili, Awis Qurni

“…The new dimension is mainly attributed to ensuring animal welfare and ethical treatment (ethical quality), spiritual quality (such as halal status, cleanliness), and eating quality standards set by religion. …”
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Predicting work engagement among young adult cancer survivors: a moderated mediation model by Musa, Siti Nur Syuhada, Hamzah, Siti Raba'ah, Muda, Zulaiha, Asimiran, Soaib, Krauss, Steven E.

“…However, in recent studies on the outcomes of long-term survivorship, some of the main areas of cancer survivorship research revolves around employment issues of young adult cancer survivors. …”
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Inclination of keris research theme according to colonial scholars perspective by Mohd. Zafri, Muzaffar, Hamdan, Rahimah, Sujud, Arba'ie, Ahmad, Abdul Muati@Zamri

“…The results revealed that the themes associated with the study of keris by colonial scholars mainly focus on non-physical properties, such as mystical elements and beliefs on keris. …”
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Overall quality of life perception among occupants of green and non-green office buildings in Malaysia by Laiche, Abdelfatah Bousbia, Dahlan, Nur Dalilah, Shari, Zalina, Zaky Jaafar, Mohamad Fakri

“…Indoor environmental quality (IEQ) has become an important component of building design because people tend to spend the majority of their time indoors. The main purpose of this study is to investigate the occupants’ overall perceived Quality of Life (QoL) experience in two green and two non-green office buildings. …”
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The relationships between job performance, job burnout, and psychological counselling: a perspective on sustainable development goals (SDGs) by Lei, Miao, Alam, Gazi Mahabubul, Bashir, Karima

“…Job burnout (as an independent variable) and job performance (as a dependent variable) are often correlated, and one of the main arguments is that psychological counseling can mitigate job burnout, which in turn influences job performance. …”
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Longitudinal relationship between loneliness and cognitive function among unmarried older adults in Malaysia: exploring gender disparities by Foong, Hui Foh, Ibrahim, Rahimah, Abdullah, Siti Farra Zillah, Bagat, Mohamad Fazdillah

“…Methods: The study follows up a sample of 733 unmarried older adults who were either never married, widowed, divorced or separated, from waves one and two of the ‘Neuroprotective Model for Healthy Longevity among Malaysian Older Adults’ study. The main statistical analysis used to answer the research question was the PROCESS macro (model 1) for SPSS. …”