Retention and storage stability of vitamins A and C in extruded native and pregelatinized starches by Abdul Manan, Siti Farhiah

“…It can be concluded that in all the extruded starches, the stability during extrusion and upon storage was significantly higher for vitamin C than vitamin A. The findings provided information on the application of the fixed extrusion conditions for better retention of vitamin A or vitamin C in starches. …”
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Neuroprotective effect of tocotrienol-rich fraction and a-tocopherol of vitamin E against glutamate toxicity in neuronal cells and astrocytes by Selvaraju, Thilaga Rati

“…The flow cytometry morphological findings were validated by scanning electron microscopy analysis. …”
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Factors associated with body weight status and internet addiction among malaysian university students in Penang: mixed method study before and during covid-19 pandemic by Isaac, Nesamalar

“…They were also encouraged to share their perception of face-to-face personal interaction with family and friends, sports and other offline activities as compared to similar online activities. The findings of this study prove that there is a significant contribution of demographic and socio-economic factors to internet addiction among Malaysian university/college students in Penang. …”
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From the microbial to the mechanical : environmental impacts on coral nitrogen cycling, microbial communities, and skeletal properties by Moynihan, Molly Anne

“…As Porites corals are likely to incur higher forces in the direction parallel to corallite growth, particularly from predation, anisotropy may provide the skeleton with a structural advantage. …”
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Spatial, temporal, and demographic patterns in prevalence of smoking tobacco use and attributable disease burden in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis... by Reitsma, M. B., Kendrick, P. J., Ababneh, E., Abbafati, C., Abbasi-Kangevari, M., Abdoli, A., Abedi, A., Abhilash, E. S., Abila, D. B., Aboyans, V., Abu-Rmeileh, N. M., Adebayo, O. M., Advani, S. M., Aghaali, M., Ahinkorah, B. O., Ahmad, S., Ahmadi, K., Ahmed, H., Aji, B., Akunna, C. J., Al-Aly, Z., Alanzi, T. M., Alhabib, K. F., Ali, L., Alif, S. M., Alipour, V., Aljunid, S. M., Alla, F., Allebeck, P., Alvis-Guzman, N., Amin T. T., Amini, S., Amu, H., Amul, G. G. H., Ancuceanu, R., Anderson, J. A., Ansari-Moghaddam, A., Antonio, C. A. T., Antony, B., Anvari, D., Arabloo, J., Arian, N. D., Arora, M., Asaad, M., Ausloos, M., Awan, A. T., Ayano, G., Aynalem, G. L., Azari, S., B, D.B., Badiye, A. D., Baig, A. A., Bakhshaei, M. H., Banach, M., Banik, P.C., Barker-Collo, S. L., Bärnighausen, T. W., Barqawi, H. J., Basu, S., Bayati, M., Bazargan-Hejazi, S., Behzadifar, M., Bekuma, T. T., Bennett, D. A., Bensenor, I. M., Berfield, K. S. S., Bhagavathula, A. S., Bhardwaj, N., Bhardwaj, P., Bhattacharyya, K., Bibi, S., Bijani, A., Bintoro, B. S., Biondi, A., Birara, S., Braithwaite, D., Brenner, H., Brunoni, A. R., Burkart, K., Butt, Z. A., Caetano dos Santos, F. L., Car, Josip, Cárdenas, R., Carreras, G., Carrero, J. J., Castaldelli-Maia, J. M., Cattaruzza, M. S. S., Chang, J. C., Chen, S., Chu, D. T., Chung, S. C., Cirillo, M., Costa, V. M., Couto, R. A. S., Dadras, O., Dai, X., Damasceno, A. A. M., Damiani, G., Dandona, L.

“…We used a direct estimation approach to estimate attributable burden, providing more comprehensive estimates of the health effects of smoking than previously available. Findings: Globally in 2019, 1·14 billion (95% uncertainty interval 1·13–1·16) individuals were current smokers, who consumed 7·41 trillion (7·11–7·74) cigarette-equivalents of tobacco in 2019. …”
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Evaluating conversational agents for mental health: scoping review of outcomes and outcome measurement instruments by Jabir, Ahmad Ishqi, Martinengo, Laura, Lin, Xiaowen, Torous, John, Subramaniam, Mythily, Car, Lorainne Tudor

“…Descriptive and thematic analyses of the findings were performed. Results: We included 32 studies that targeted the promotion of mental well-being (17/32, 53%) and the treatment and monitoring of mental health symptoms (21/32, 66%). …”
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Predicting cognitive scores from wearable-based digital physiological features using machine learning: data from a clinical trial in mild cognitive impairment by Rykov, Yuri G., Patterson, Michael D., Gangwar, Bikram A., Jabar, Syaheed B., Leonardo, Jacklyn, Ng, Kok Pin, Kandiah, Nagaendran

“…The model predicted the actual executive function scores with correlation r = 0.69 and intra-individual changes in executive function scores with r = 0.61. Conclusions: Our findings demonstrated that wearable-based physiological measures, primarily HRV, have potential to be used for the continuous assessments of cognitive function in individuals with MCI.…”
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Doctor, Will You Pray for Me? : Medicine, Chaplains, and Healing the Whole Person / by Klitzman, Robert, author 655971

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Individual-fMRI-approaches reveal cerebellum and visual communities to be functionally connected in obsessive compulsive disorder by Kashyap, Rajan, Eng, Goi Khia, Bhattacharjee, Sagarika, Gupta, Bhanu, Ho, Roger, Ho, Cyrus S. H., Zhang, Melvyn, Mahendran, Rathi, Sim, Kang, Chen, Annabel Shen-Hsing

“…While the main results were consistently observed with accounting for head motion and using another atlas, the key findings were not reproduced with GSR application. …”
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ESBL and AmpC β-lactamase encoding genes in E. coli from pig and pig farm workers in Vietnam and their association with mobile genetic elements by Hounmanou, Yaovi Mahuton Gildas, Bortolaia, Valeria, Dang, Son Thi Thanh, Truong, Duong, Olsen, John E., Dalsgaard, Anders

“…Overall, despite evidence of transferability of plasmids in the analyzed strains, our findings do not support that ESBL-producing E. coli from pigs or their ESBL/AmpC encoding plasmids are commonly spread to workers in close contact with the animals.…”
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Wireless channel modeling and spectrum monitoring for interference mitigation and link reliability insurance for existing and future CBTC systems by Kalyankar Shravan Kumar

“…The statistics of the clustered data are analyzed to understand the characteristics of radio signals from different access points, and the findings of this technique are presented. The study shows that the proposed approach can be used in real-time monitoring of access points (APs) and help the MRT operators identify the faulty APs without any in-field tests. …”
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Examining twitter discourse on electronic cigarette and tobacco consumption during national cancer prevention month in 2018: topic modeling and geospatial analysis by Lu, Jiahui, Lee, Edmund Wei Jian

“…Conclusions: Though people recognized the importance of traditional tobacco control policies in reducing lung cancer incidences, their views on e-cigarette risks were divided, and discussions on the importance of e-cigarette policy control were missing from public discourse. Findings suggest the need for health organizations to continuously engage the public in discussions on the potential health risks of e-cigarettes and raise awareness of the insidious lobbying efforts from the tobacco industry.…”
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Multi-scale and multiphase modeling of abrasive flow machining process with experimental validation by Mohamed Adel Abdelhakem Amen

“…AFM studies commonly lump this abrasion action either by empirical model or simplified shapes with simplified force-indentation equation therefore, the abrasion action details are missing. Here, the study finds out the particle forces, surface deformation, and MR mechanisms. …”
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Self-healing cementitious composites by encapsulation techniques by Feng, Jianhang

“…In terms of the in-situ gelation and subsequent volume growth of hydrogels, a model for simulations of crack sealing evolutions by generated hydrogels was developed and simulation outcomes were in agreement with experimental findings. Based on the research in this thesis, it can be concluded that autonomous healing of cementitious composites can be enhanced with these novel encapsulation or immobilization techniques and the new self-healing strategy, whilst future research in robust autonomous healing, cost reductions and life cycle analysis can be conducted to further upgrade autonomous healing cementitious composites.…”
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Development of advanced Fe-based oxygen carriers for chemical looping applications by Fan, Qianwenhao

“…The main results and findings are summarized as follows. 1. We successfully synthesized oxygen carriers with nominal compositions of MgO•MgFe2O4 (1M1F) and 5MgO•MgFe2O4 (3M1F) using a simple ball-milling assisted solid-state reaction. …”
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Computational modeling of light processing in the habenula and dorsal raphe based on laser ablation of functionally-defined cells by Cheng, Ruey-Kuang, Jagannathan, N. Suhas, Kathrada, Ahmad Ismat, Jesuthasan, Suresh, Tucker-Kellogg, Lisa

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System design and development of human-robot interaction control scheme for assistive robotic Arm extender by Yang, Sibo

“…Feedback from questionnaires completed by participants yielded both positive and constructive responses. The findings of this thesis demonstrate the substantial potential of the ARAE as an assistive device for chronic stroke patients with upper limb disabilities, supporting them in performing Activities of Daily Living (ADLs) within clinical settings.…”
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Wage premium in Singapore. by Tan, Ruo Hui., Tan, Yan Yu., Lee, Wai Meng.

“…The following variables that were found to have significant impact: a) Respondents who were themselves, or have family members and close friends being severely injured, sick or killed due to job-related accidents reported higher values, b) respondents who were covered by life and accident insurance reported higher values, c) respondents with higher monthly income before taxes tended to report higher values and d) respondents who received higher education levels reported lower values. The findings of our study give interesting insights to the attitudes towards occupational risk within the Singapore context. …”
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话语标记 “可是” 在马来西亚华语会话中的语用功能 = Pragmatic functions of discourse marker “Keshi” in conversational Malaysian Mandarin by 胡文绮 Woo, Wen Qi

“…Previous research have investigated extensively the truth value semantics of “keshi” based on written Mandarin, however, this paper finds that the various uses of “keshi” in natural conversations can hardly be explained with such semantics. …”
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Essays on multi-echelon inventory control by Wan, Guangyu

“…Optimal inventory control policies for two-level distribution systems are notoriously complicated because of the stock allocation problem when shortage occurs at the warehouse. However, finding warehouse stock allocation policies that are optimal or near-optimal and easy to implement is of practical importance. …”
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