The effect of prenatal administration of lead acetate on the morphology of epididymal and testicular spermatozoa in offspring mature male mice by Al-Ani, Imad Matloub Dally, Al-Khafaji , Inaam N., Fakhridin, Mohamed M., Mangalo, Hanna H., Al-Obaidi, Salim Rasheed

“…In conclusion this study demonstrated that lead acetate when exposed prenatally have toxic effects on the sperm abnormal morphology in the offspring male mice most likely by interfering with the phase(s) of spermatogenesis and/or spermiogenesis. …”
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Rain fade estimations for the X-Band satellite communication link in the tropics by Nuroddin, Amirah, Ismail, Ahmad Fadzil, Abdullah, Khaizuran, Badron, Khairayu, Ismail , Maszlan, Hashim, Wahidah

“…The attributes of an X-band satcom hardware are expected to be designed specifically for military operations and they are expected to differ very much to those of commercial frequencies. The satcom will be likely to be exclusively designed to support smaller, low powered, tactical terminals deployed across various theatres of operation. …”
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Financial fragility of urban households in Malaysia by Abdullah Yusof, Selamah, Abd. Rokis, Rohaiza, Wan Jusoh, Wan Jamaliah

“…Household income significantly affects a household current financial situation, while those with better financial knowledge and higher levels of education are less likely to be in asset poverty. The inability to cope with financial shocks differs across ethnic groups partly due to the wealth disparity and access to sources of funds. …”
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The impact of economic development on water pollution: trends and policy actions in Malaysia by Muyibi, Suleyman Aremu, Ambali, Abdul Rauf, Eissa, Garout Suleyman

“…Some crucial conclusions of where the problems likely to be, as reflected in the findings, are: (a) the issue of interactive-effects between pollutants that many policy-makers are not aware of. …”
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The coverage of vaccination in the Malay newspapers: an exploratory study by Wan Mohd Ghazali, Wan Norshira, Mohamed, Shafizan, Mohd Nasir, Nur Shakira, Yusoh, Mohd Helmi

“…The return of vaccine-preventable diseases such as polio, diphtheria, measles, mumps and the likes indicates the increasing popularity and effectiveness of the anti-vaccine movement in inseminating its sentiments. …”
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Earnings management, corporate governance and corporate performance among Malaysian listed companies by Nasiri, Mojtaba

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Studies on the neural processing of conspecific songs in the cricket Teleogryllus oceanicus (Le Guillou) by Harrison, Lesley Anne

“…Song type recognition therefore is likely to be based on neurones capable of producing an accurately coded response to the song patterns. …”
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Metal complexes of oxygen-, nitrogen-, and sulphur-containing macrocyclic ligands; synthetic and structural studies by Waikar, Smruti

“…In addition, they have impinged on the biomedical field, where they have become likely candidates for therapeutic reagents required for the treatment of metal intoxication, or used as diagnostic agents in the form of radio-labelled macrocycle-conjugated antibodies for better tumor imaging while their specificity and efficacy prove excellent for enzyme modelling. …”
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Molecular tiling on the surface of a bacterial spore - the exosporium of the Bacillus anthracis/cereus/thuringiensis group by Terry, Cassandra, Jiang, Shuo, Radford, David S., Wan, Qiang, Tzokov, Svetomir, Moir, Anne, Bullough, Per A.

“…Through heterologous expression in Escherichia coli, we also demonstrate that ExsY can self-assemble into ordered 2D arrays that mimic the structure of the exosporium basal layer. Self-assembly is likely to play an important role in the construction of the exosporium. …”
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The experience of the role of being a caregiver for carers who identify as ‘black’: an IPA study by Powell, Debra

“…Further it has been empirically noted that individuals from BME groups are less likely to access counselling services than White British people. …”
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After COVID-19: time to agree a biosecurity code of conduct under the biological and toxin weapons convention (book chapter) by Whitby, Simon, Tang, Cheng, Shang, Lijun, Dando, Malcolm

“…The devastating COVID-19 disease outbreak in early 2020 is likely to cause a major rethink about the dangers of natural, accidental and deliberate disease outbreaks in humans, animals and plants when the outbreak is eventually brought under control. …”

Get your facts right: preschoolers systematically extend both object names and category-relevant facts by Holland, Amanda, Mather, Emily, Simpson, Andrew, Riggs, Kevin J.

“…At test, children provided with the object name or category-relevant fact were significantly more likely to display systematic category extension than children who learnt the category-irrelevant fact. …”
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The Radio Garden: private pleasures and public benefits by Lewis, Peter M., Mitchell, Caroliine

“…With a touch of the screen Radio Garden offers an escape from the bubble of ‘likes’ to new musical and linguistic encounters, geographical difference and distance, perhaps even an escape from the bubble of nationality. …”
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The impact of Covid-19 on struggling ethnic minority entrepreneurs’ business strategy: the case of Bangladeshi curry houses in the United Kingdom by Razzak, B. M., Idris, Bochra, Hasan, Rahaman, Saridakis, George, Hansen, Jared M.

“…Originality/value: The results indicates that the ethnic minority owned SMEs are less likely to plan for the future operations; furthermore, they tend not to have formulated a strategy for dealing with an external shock hence affecting and threatening their performance and competitiveness in the marketplace.…”

Methodological implications of participant and researcher multilingualism: making language dynamics visible by Rolland, Louise, King, Hannah M., Lorette, Pernelle

“…This special issue (SI) brings together seven contributions which discuss the methodological implications of researching in a multilingual world, where researchers and/or research participants are likely to know more than one language. The papers examine the relationship between researchers’ language ideologies and actual practices with multilingual participants, teams or projects, from a range of theoretical and methodological perspectives. …”
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UK Vietnamese Businesses: Cultural Influences and Intra-cultural Differences by Bagwell, Sue

“…In particular 2nd generation and recent immigrants were less likely to adopt traditional collectivist approaches to the running of their business compared with the first generation, but their business practice was still often influenced by strong family loyalties. …”
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A hybrid technique using minimal spanning tree and analytic hierarchical process to prioritize functional requirements for parallel software development by Muhammad Yaseen, Muhammad Yaseen, Mustapha, Aida, Shah, Muhammad Arif, Ibrahim, Noraini

“…Software for large enterprises such as the enterprise resource planning (ERP) is more likely to be developed by a team of software developers where the functional requirements (FRs) are distributed in parallel developers. …”
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The Efficacy of Students‟ Knowledge Construction Process in Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL) Environment: A Malaysian View by Hashim, Suhaizal, Masek, Alias, Mohamed Zahir, Nur Zahira, Khamis, Nurhani

“…However, efforts to digitise education usually encounter two major issues: first, the applications developed are more likely to emphasise the qualities of graphics and animations; second, the multimedia presentation highlighted in the application is a stereotype that causes users to become bored. …”
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A hybrid technique using minimal spanning tree and analytic hierarchical process to prioritize functional requirements for parallel software development by Muhammad Yaseen, Muhammad Yaseen, Mustapha, Aida, Muhammad Arif Shah, Muhammad Arif Shah, Ibrahim, Noraini

“…Software for large enterprises such as the enterprise resource planning (ERP) is more likely to be developed by a team of software developers where the functional requirements (FRs) are distributed in parallel developers. …”
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Antioxidant and antiproliferative activities of Malaysian sea cucumber, (Holothuria edulis Lesson), extracts by Althunibat, Osama Yousef, Hashim, Ridzwan, Bakhtiar, M. Taher, Mohd. Daud, Jamaludin, Ikeda, Masa-Aki

“…The inhibitory effect of the exfacts on proliferation of MCF-7 (human breast adenocarcinoma) and TEI (Human esophageal squamous cell carcinoma) human cancer cell lines were demonstrated by 3-(4,5- dimethylthiazol-2-yl)-2,5-diphenyltetrazolium bromide (MTT) assay. …”
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