‘On-demand’ soft tissue adhesives by Mogal, Vishal Tukaram

“…When compared to non-treated polyester thin films, plasma intensity could give rise to a ~ 6-fold (for 100 W, 5 min.) increase in shear adhesion strength (157 ± 24 mN/cm2). …”
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Mosquito-borne diseases in urban East African Community region: a scoping review of urban typology research and mosquito genera overlap, 2000-2024 by Joseph, NK, Mumo, E, Morlighem, C, Macharia, PM, Snow, RW, Linard, C

“…This literature review collates entomological data from five East African Community (EAC) countries, studying the definitions of urban settings, co-occurrence of Anopheles, Aedes and Culex mosquito genera and their infection rates to provide a wholistic understanding of MBDs in urban EAC. …”

Mechanisms in Heterogeneous Catalysis / by Santen, R. A. van (Rutger A.), author 419818, World Scientific (Online service) 655444

“…An introductory chapter presents the development of catalysis science and catalyst discovery from a historical perspective. Five chapters that form the thrust of the book are organized by type of reaction, reactivity principles, and mechanistic theories, which provide the scientific basis to structure-function relationships of catalyst performance. …”
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The future of the timeshare industry : will the brands dominate? : A summary of the vacation ownership industry and an analysis of the advantages that the brands have over smaller... by Bornstein, Ethan S., 1973-

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Precision holography and supersymmetric theories on curved spaces by Genolini, P

“…This allows us to show that the gravitational free energy of any smooth filling vanishes in both AdS₄/CFT₃ and AdS₅/CFT₄.</p> <p>In the second part of the thesis, we study the same question in minimal <em>N</em> = 2 gauged supergravity in four and five dimensions. …”

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

“…Employing Kissinger model, activation energy (Ea) and frequency factor (A) for various components of biomass i.e., hemicellulose, cellulose and lignin were calculated as 83.14 kJ mol−1, 99.76 kJ mol−1, 124.71 kJ mol−1 and 1.9 × 107 min−1, 1.0 × 108 min−1, 1.0 × 1010 min−1, respectively. …”
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Assessing the financial performance of container shipping companies by Shen, Wanling.

“…The objective of this research paper is to determine if vertical integration improves the financial performance of container shipping companies, by comparing various financial indicators of the firms prior to and after vertical integration. Five companies were shortlisted from the top 30 container shipping lines, where trends and changes in five selected indicators were analyzed over a specified timeframe before and after integration. …”
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Simple and flexible vision-based hand gesture recognition system by Lee, Chun Kiat.

“…The fundamental concept of the system is to count the number of fingers displayed in particular gesture based on the unique characteristic of human hands which normally constituted by five fingers in a circle-like palm. The developed system is capable of recognizing six gestures ranging from “zero” to “five”. …”
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Disposition kinetics of tylosin administered intravenously and intramuscularly in Desert Sheep and Nubian Goats by Taha, A.A., Elsheikh, H.A., Khalafalla, A.E., Osman, I. A. M., Abdullah, A. Salam

“…The pharmacokinetic behaviour of tylosin was compared in five Desert sheep and five Nubian goats. The animals were given a single dose of 20% tylosin (15 mg/kg), either intravenously (i.v.) or intramuscularly (i.m.). …”
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Effect of hybridisation on crushing behaviour of carbon/glass fibre/epoxy circular-cylindrical shells by Mahdi, E., Hamouda, A.M.S., Sahari, B.B., Khalid, Y.A.

“…Five types of composites were tested, namely, carbon fibre/epoxy, glass fibre/epoxy, carbon-glass-glass/epoxy, glass-carbon-glass/epoxy and glass-glass-carbon/epoxy. …”
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Framing Transformative Student Communication Competency (Transcom) for Students of Higher Institutions: Realizing the Importance of Professional Competency in the Workplace Intern... by Mohd Yusof, Fahainis, Abdul Aziz, Norhashimah

“…The data collected are categorized under five categories of stakeholders so as to gauge five different type of analysis. …”
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Arsenic (III) removal from water using natural sedimentary rocks by Yusof, Nur Zulaikha

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Combined ultrasound and photoacoustic imaging of blood clot during microbubble-assisted sonothrombolysis by Das, Dhiman, Pramanik, Manojit

“…In the first case, US and PA SNR values increased by 4.6% and reduced by 20.8%, respectively after 30 min of sonothrombolysis treatment. After 10 min of sonothrombolysis treatment of the blood clot in blood, the US and PA SNR values increased by 7.7% and 38.3%, respectively. …”
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Optimization of methodology for EPS extraction and analysis by Tan, Shu Hui.

“…Sonication at 15 W/ml and above at 50 kHz for more than 1.5 min might lead to cell lysis. ‘NaCl+HCHO’ will only be effective at extracting biomass below 20mg. …”
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Hybrid mesoporous microbeads based on sheets-like sulfur-doped copper oxide embedded in calcium alginate-derived carbon for batch and columnar adsorption of cationic dye by Naggar, Ahmed H., Alshammari, Mutairah S., Seaf-Elnasr, Tarek A., Chong, Kwok Feng, Bakr, Zinab H., Alotaibi, N. F., Ali, Hazim M., El-Nasser, Karam S., Thabet, Mahmoud, Abd El-Monaem, Eman M., Goda, Adel E. S., Gomaa, Hassanien

“…The columnar adsorption tests showed that the adsorption capacity of SCO@CACBs varied from 83.6 to 71.3 mg/g as the flow rate varied from 2 to 6 mL/min and 81.5–115.6 mg/g as the adsorbent mass varied from 1 to 4 g. …”
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Individual, clinical and system factors associated with the place of death : a linked national database study by Tan, Woan Shin, Bajpai, Ram, Low, Chan Kee, Ho, Andy Hau Yan, Wu, Huei Yaw, Car, Josip

“…Data were obtained by extracting and linking data from five different databases. Hierarchical multivariable logistic regression models were used to examine the effects of individual, clinical and system factors sequentially. …”
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Beyond-the-Ice: Designing Games for Facilitating Deeper Conversations by Lee, Cassandra

“…This work builds on formal knowledge from the social sciences, HCI, and game design, as well as informal knowledge from facilitation, gathering practices, party games, and Tarot, by presenting five distinct design principles aligned with theories grounded in past work: 1) Make emotional disclosure special; 2) Scaffold responsiveness; 3) Approach depth through fun; 4) Empower “the work” through constraints and permissions; 5) Center objects to feel with. …”
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Temperature induced biological alterations in the major carp, Rohu (Labeo rohita): assessing potential effects of climate change on aquaculture production by Mridul, Md. Monirul Islam, Zeehad, Md. Shariar Kabir, Aziz, Dania, Salin, Krishna R., Hurwood, David A., Rahi, Md. Lifat

“…This study tested the effects of five different temperature levels (28 °C, 30 °C, 32 °C, 33 °C and 34 °C) on selected physiological and biochemical traits, and also on the expression of five targeted genes of L. rohita. …”
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Organic and inorganic sublattice coupling in two-dimensional lead halide perovskites by Fu, Jianhui, Bian, Tieyuan, Yin, Jun, Feng, Minjun, Xu, Qiang, Wang, Yue, Sum, Tze Chien

“…Here, we examine these interactions using pump-probe spectroscopy and ab initio molecular dynamics simulations. …”
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Electrical characterization of bias temperature instability in MOSFETs with the ultrathin SiON and la-doped HfSiO gate dielectrics by Du, Guoan.

“…The total amount of saturated fast hole traps has strong dependency on gate stress voltage and stress temperature. With the charge pumping and conventional IdVg measurements, the data proves that the energy distribution of stress induced positive interface trapped charge is relatively broad, extending above the middle of the Si bandgap. …”
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