Genome-wide transcriptome profiling reveals molecular response pathways of Trichoderma harzianum in response to salt stress by Yang, Qihong, Mao, Zhenchuan, Hao, Yali, Zheng, Shijie, Zhao, Jianlong, Li, Yan, Yang, Yuhong, Xie, Bingyan, Ling, Jian, Li, Yanlin

“…In addition, we screened 13 genes related to active oxygen clearance, including six upregulated and seven downregulated genes, alongside five fungal hydrophobic proteins, of which two genes were highly expressed. …”
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Neural abstractive summarization: improvements at the sequence-level by Ravaut, Mathieu

“…Automatic text summarization has made a fantastic leap forward in the last five to ten years, fueled by the rise of deep learning systems. …”
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Colloidal quantum dot light-emitting diode architectures for high performance by Leck, Kheng Swee

“…Here an improvement in the device performance of over five-folds was obtained with the proposed device architecture in comparison to the reference device in which the QD layer is deposited between the HTL and the ETL. …”
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“British English is much more prestigious, everybody knows that!”: reproducing and resisting hegemonic language ideologies in Chilean English teacher education by Pérez Andrade, Gonzalo

“…As prospective teachers usually spend four to five years in training, teacher educators play a crucial role in the formation and transformation of their trainees’ beliefs about English language use and users (Gimenez et al, 2018). …”
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Characterization of Newcastle disease virus (NDV) isolated from NDV vaccinated broiler farms and investigation of vaccine efficacy against challenge with Velogenic genotype VII NDV by Shahrestani, Kiarash Roohani

“…Sequencing and phylogenetic analysis based on the F gene of five NDV isolates (IBS001 to IBS005) showed that the viruses belong to genotype VII and sub-genotype VIId of NDV, with F cleavage site motif of 112RRRKRF117. …”
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Adaptive management framework for growth response analysis of tomato in controlled environment plant production systems by Shamshiri, Ramin

“…Results of ER analysis indicated possible savings of energy up to 62% at growth stage=1, 17% at stage=2 and 30% at stage=3 to 5, in providing ideal climate condition for closed-field production of tomato. …”
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Characterization of exopolysaccharides from probiotic Lactobacillus strains isolated from traditional Malaysian foods by Suliman, Eilaf Suliman Khalil

“…Moreover, the optimal values for the tested variables were: 41 and 39.5 °C for incubation temperature, pH 6.4 and 6.5, and the incubation times were 33.7 and 48 h for Lb. reuteri and Lb. pentosus, respectively. …”
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The evolution and fate of waste plastics in landfills subject to physical and biochemical processes — implications for microplastics by Lu, Xuhong

“…In this study, identical compositions of municipal solid waste (MSW) were loaded into five laboratory-scale bioreactors, with three of them supplemented with 5.0 mg of polypropylene (PP) MPs per kg of dry MSW. …”
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AI techniques in CFD: leveraging physical priors with deep learning to improve on numerical solvers by Loh, Jessica Sher En

“…Also, experimental results on two datasets with five different state-of-the-art GNN methods for CFD indicate that the SV, DID, FVF and low resolution-based residual training can effectively reduce the predictive error of current GNN-based methods by as much as 41%. …”
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Studies on the assessment of abdominal aortic aneurysm rupture risk by Canchi, Tejas

“…The resulting six geometric indices can be used as geometric surrogates to quantify wall stresses in the patients. The five indices in addition to maximum diameter can predict the spatially averaged wall stresses with an accuracy of 72.87% in the Asian patient group and 74.74% in the Caucasian patient group. …”
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#Hooked? Extending the social cognitive model in examining the antecedents of problematic social network sites use among Singaporean adolescents and adults by Lee, Edmund Wei Jian

“…The overall analysis showed that the social cognitive model was a viable communication model in understanding problematic SNSs use as it had good psychometric properties and all the hypothesized paths were significant. Chapter Five—which is the third study—builds upon the findings of Chapter Four by postulating that problematic SNSs use is a three-dimensional factor comprising of excessive SNSs use, withdrawal symptoms, and negative outcomes, and extends the social cognitive model to include both external- (relationship with parents) and individual-level antecedents (i.e., depression, loneliness, dependence on SNSs for identity formation, and self-reactive outcome expectations). …”
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Improved 3-D frequency-selective structures and their applications by Ahmed Abdelmottaleb Abdelfattah Attia Omar

“…A 67% and 79% thickness reduction compared to the basic bandpass 3-D frequency-selective structure is achieved by employing three- and five-layer folded substrate, respectively. Moreover, a half-cylindrically shaped radome as an example of a conformal frequency-selective surface is constructed based on the proposed technique and integrated with a broadband horn antenna. …”
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Prioritising conservation areas in Southeast Asia: highlighting zoological biodiversity hotspots and assessing spatiotemporal patterns of the felids guild by Chiaverini, L

“…Biodiversity is declining globally, at rates comparable with the five previous mass extinctions of Earth’s history. …”

Amino-functionalised β-diketiminate ligands (N-nacnacs): Synthesis and coordination chemistry with Main Group elements by Huan, D

“…On the other hand, metathesis reactions of (<b>1-Dipp</b>)SiCl with sources of H- or tBuO- are found to result in a ring contraction process, generating five-membered aza-butadienyl SiIV-complexes of the form (<b>5-Dipp</b>)Si(NDipp)R (R = H, ^tBuO). …”

Genetic and observational associations of nuclear magnetic resonance-measured lipid-related traits and atherosclerotic cardiovascular mortality in the Mexico City Prospective Study by Wang, Y

“…NMR lipid traits were also associated with a range of baseline sociodemographic and lifestyle characteristics. GWAS of five major lipid traits revealed hundreds of conditionally independent signals, including multiple previously known genetic loci involved in lipid metabolism (e.g., variants in <em>APOE, CELSR2, PCSK9, APOB, HMGCR, LPA, LPL, LDLR</em> for LDL-C) plus several potentially novel ones. …”

Molecular and immunological profiling of Bartonella spp. in shelter cat population in Peninsular Malaysia by Alias, Nurul Najwa Ainaa

“…Surveys from management practices of shelter cats revealed that five out of ten shelters were practicing ectoparasite control and 93.3% (28/30) shelter’s personnel were aware that cat and cat flea might contribute to zoonotic diseases. …”
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Towards A Robust Integrated Urban Mobility System: Public Transit and Ride-Sharing Systems by Guo, Xiaotong

“…The dissertation presents five distinct studies to elaborate on these objectives. …”
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Enhancing tensile and fatigue properties of additively manufactured alloys by post-processing heat treatment by Radhakrishnan, Jayaraj

“…Additionally, to gain clarity about wide spectrum of mechanical properties of LB-PBF Inconel 718 reported in literature, tensile properties of as-built specimens fabricated using two different LB-PBF machines were considered. Amongst the five different heat treatment schedules examined, one set led to the retention of as-built grain morphology and texture with the formation of the δ phase. …”
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Semantic scene understanding on 3D point clouds by Dong, Shichao

“…This is a fundamental and challenging task for scene understanding, with a variety of real-world applications, such as indoor robots, autonomous driving, drones, AR/VR devices, etc. We propose five different novel methods, including one fully supervised method, two weakly supervised methods, one zero-shot method, and an augmentation method to enhance model generalization. …”
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Effects of noise exposure on occupational stress among palm oil mill workers in Malaysia by Roya, Latifi Naeini

“…The study was conducted at seven sections of five selected palm oil mills and 173 participants were invited through purposive sampling based on inclusive criteria. …”
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