Enhancing construction site performance through technology and management practices as material waste mitigation in the Malaysian construction industry by Mohammed Abdullah Abkar, Mahdi, Yunus, Riduan, Gamil, Yaser, Albaom, Mohammed Abdo

“…The geographical specificity adds depth to the analysis, offering a comprehensive understanding of regional dynamics. Despite acknowledging limitations in technology and material usage, the study offers recommendations for refining waste mitigation and improving construction site performance. …”
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Computational modeling of low-density lipoprotein accumulation at the carotid artery bifurcation after stenting by Nasrul Hadi, Johari, Menichini, Claudia, Hamady, Mohamad S., Xu, Xiaoyun

“…Restenosis typically occurs in regions of low and oscillating wall shear stress, which also favor the accumulation of atherogenic macromolecules such as low-density lipoprotein (LDL). …”
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Energizing solar still efficiency with eco-friendly coconut shell biochar enhanced organic phase change material by Rajamony, Reji Kumar, Suraparaju, Subbarama Kousik, Kalidasan, B., Yadav, Aman, Kumar Pandey, Adarsh Kumar, Nurhanis Sofiah, Abd Ghafar, Siaw Paw, Johnny Koh, Fatehmulla, Amanullah, Samykano, Mahendran, Saidur, Rahman Md

“…These findings underscore the scalability and practical applicability of the proposed system, positioning it as a sustainable, cost-efficient, and adaptable solution for clean water production in water-scarce regions globally.…”
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Coloration and functionalization of organic cotton fabric using Chinese fringe leaf extraction: A greener approach by Hossain, Md Shazzat, Ullah, Mohammad, Mia, Rony, Assiri, Mohammed Ail, Zhou, Yahui, Saeed, Haroon A.M., Mahmud, Sakil

“…The dyed OCF also demonstrated superior UV protection, with an Ultraviolet Protection Factor (UPF) value of 59.19 ± 1.82, and minimal UV transmission in the UV−A and UV−B regions. Despite a slight reduction in air permeability compared to the undyed OCF, the dyed OCF maintained good breathability. …”
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Deep reinforcement learning for adaptive mesh refinement by Foucart, Corbin, Charous, Aaron, Lermusiaux, Pierre F.J.

“…Finite element discretizations of problems in computational physics often rely on adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) to preferentially resolve regions containing important features during simulation. …”
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Predicted Losses of Sulfur and Selenium in European Soils Using Machine Learning: A 2 Call for Prudent Model Interrogation and Selection by Jones, Gerrad D., Insinga, Logan, Droz, Boris, Feinberg, Aryeh, Stenke, Andrea, Smith, Jo, Smith, Pete, Winkel, Lenny H. E.

“…Both elements exhibited similar spatial patterns with predicted gains in Scandinavia versus losses in the central and Mediterranean regions of Europe, respectively, by the end of the 21st century for an extreme climate scenario. …”
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Unexpected anthropogenic emission decreases explain recent atmospheric mercury concentration declines by Feinberg, Aryeh, Selin, Noelle E., Braban, Christine F., Chang, Kai-Lan, Custódio, Danilo, Jaffe, Daniel A., Kyllönen, Katriina, Landis, Matthew S., Leeson, Sarah R., Luke, Winston, Molepo, Koketso M., Murovec, Marijana, Nerentorp Mastromonaco, Michelle G., Aspmo Pfaffhuber, Katrine, Rüdiger, Julian, Sheu, Guey-Rong, St. Louis, Vincent L.

“…Using linear mixed effects modeling of observational data from 51 stations, we find negative Hg0 trends in most NH regions, with an overall trend for 2005 to 2020 of −0.011 ± 0.006 ng m−3 y−1 (±2 SD). …”
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Rapid taqman-based quantification of chlorophyll d-containing cyanobacteria in the genus acaryochloris by Behrendt, Lars, Nielsen, Jeppe L., Sørensen, Søren J., Larkum, Anthony W. D., Winther, Jakob R., Kühl, Michael

“…When used on complex natural communities, the TaqMan assay detected the presence of Acaryochloris species in four out of eight samples of crustose coralline algae (CCA), collected from temperate and tropical regions. In three out of these TaqMan-positive samples, the presence of Chl d was confirmed via high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC), and corresponding cell estimates of Acaryochloris species amounted to 7.6 × 101 to 3.0 × 103 per mg of CCA. …”
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Comparative systems biology analysis to study the mode of action of the isothiocyanate compound iberin on pseudomonas aeruginosa by Givskov, Michael, Nielsen, Thomas E., Tolker-Nielsen, Tim, Tan, Sean Yang-Yi, Liu, Yang, Chua, Song Lin, Vejborg, Rebecca Munk, Jakobsen, Tim Holm, Chew, Su Chuen, Li, Yingying, Yang, Liang

“…RNA sequencing-based transcriptomics showed that iberin inhibits the expression of the GacA-dependent small regulatory RNAs RsmY and RsmZ; this was verified by using gfp-based transcriptional reporter fusions with the rsmY or rsmZ promoter regions. Isobaric tags for relative and absolute quantitation (iTRAQ) proteomics showed that iberin reduces the abundance of the LadS protein, an activator of GacS. …”
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Viroporin activity of the foot-and-mouth disease virus non-structural 2B protein by Ao, Da, Guo, Hui-Chen, Sun, Shi-Qi, Sun, De-Hui, Fung, To Sing, Wei, Yan-Quan, Han, Shi-Chong, Yao, Xue-Ping, Cao, Sui-Zhong, Liu, Ding Xiang, Liu, Xiang-Tao

“…An analysis of the FMDV 2B protein domains by computer-aided programs conducted in this study revealed that this protein may contain two transmembrane regions. Further biochemical, biophysical and functional studies revealed that the protein possesses a number of features typical of a viroporin when it is overexpressed in bacterial and mammalian cells as well as in FMDV-infected cells. …”
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DNA-Methylation Patterns in Trisomy 21 Using Cells from Monozygotic Twins by Sailani, M. Reza, Santoni, Federico A., Letourneau, Audrey, Borel, Christelle, Makrythanasis, Periklis, Hibaoui, Youssef, Popadin, Konstantin, Bonilla, Ximena, Guipponi, Michel, Gehrig, Corinne, Vannier, Anne, Carre-Pigeon, Frederique, Feki, Anis, Nizetic, Dean, Antonarakis, Stylianos E.

“…Reduced Representation Bisulfite Sequencing (RRBS) revealed 35 differentially methylated promoter regions (DMRs) (Absolute methylation differences = 25%, FDR < 0.001) in MZ twins discordant for T21 that have also been observed in comparison between unrelated normal and T21 individuals. …”
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First record of multi-species synchronous coral spawning from Malaysia by Chelliah, Alvin, Amar, Halimi Bin, Hyde, Julian, Yewdall, Katie, Guest, James R., Steinberg, Peter David

“…Data on the timing of spawning and extent of synchrony, however, are still lacking for many coral reefs, particularly from equatorial regions and from locations within the coral triangle. …”
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Visual hull based 3D reconstruction of shocks in under-expanded supersonic bevelled jets by Lim, Desmond Haoxiang, New, Tze How, Mariani, Raffaello, Cui, Y. D.

“…When applied to bevelled jets with non-uniform nozzle exit geometries, an additional assumption was made to address the problem of schlieren line-of-sight blockage by the non-conventional nozzle, and reconstruction errors were found to be larger near regions of poorer shock wave contrast. Current results indicate that the technique is robust and fast during image calibration and processing, with accuracy of reconstructed shock waves in both conventional and non-conventional nozzles strongly dependent on shock wave contrast. …”
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Multiscale virtual particle based elastic network model (MVP-ENM) for normal mode analysis of large-sized biomolecules by Xia, Kelin

“…Even with low resolutions, our MVP-GNM can still capture the global behavior of the B-factor very well with mismatches predominantly from the regions with large B-factor values. Further, it has been demonstrated that the low-frequency eigenmodes from our MVP-ANM are highly consistent with the ones from ANM even with very low resolutions and a coarse grid. …”
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Identification and application of self-binding zipper-like sequences in SARS-CoV spike protein by Zhang, Si Min, Liao, Ying, Neo, Tuan Ling, Lu, Yanning, Liu, Ding Xiang, Vahlne, Anders, Tam, James Pingkwan

“…Self-binding peptides containing zipper-like sequences, such as the Leu/Ile zipper sequence within the coiled coil regions of proteins and the cross-β spine steric zippers within the amyloid-like fibrils, could bind to the protein-of-origin through homophilic sequence-specific zipper motifs. …”
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Cognizant multitasking in multiobjective multifactorial evolution : MO-MFEA-II by Bali, Kavitesh Kumar, Gupta, Abhishek, Ong, Yew-Soon, Tan, Puay Siew

“…In the presence of similarities (or even partial overlaps) between high-quality solutions of related optimization problems, the resulting scope for intertask genetic transfer often leads to significant performance speedup-as the cost of re-exploring overlapping regions of the search space is reduced. While multitasking solvers have led to recent success stories, a known shortcoming of existing methods is their inability to adapt the extent of transfer in a principled manner. …”
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Maximizing dissimilarity in resting state detects heterogeneous subtypes in healthy population associated with high substance use and problems in antisocial personality by Kashyap, Rajan, Bhattacharjee, Sagarika, Yeo, Thomas B. T., Chen, Annabel Shen-Hsing

“…The distribution of weights of the common-COBE-component for the two groups across rs-fMRI networks and subcortical regions was evaluated. We found the weights in the default mode network to be lower in the MCD compared to the CS. …”
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The January 11, 2018, Mw 6.0 Bago-Yoma, Myanmar earthquake : a shallow thrust event within the deforming Bago-Yoma range by Fadil, Wardah, Lindsey, Eric Ostrom, Wang, Yu, Maung, Phyo Maung, Luo, Heng, Swe, Tint Lwin, Tun, Pa Pa, Wei, Shengji

“…Using a local broadband seismic network and regional seismic stations, we refine the locations and moment tensors of the earthquake sequence. …”
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Evaluating the ecotoxicity of agropesticides and environmental water contaminants using cell-line and zebrafish embryonic assays by Tan, Roy Zi Hao

“…These findings confirm the presence of contaminants in the aquatic environment of agriculture-dominated regions, which can potentially alter physiological development in exposed organisms and decrease overall fitness. …”
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Rewilding in Southeast Asia: Singapore as a case study by Lamperty, Therese, Chiok, Wen Xuan, Khoo, Max D. Y., Amir, Zachary, Baker, Nick, Chua, Marcus A. H., Chung, Yi Fei, Chua, Yen Kheng, Koh, Joshua J.-M, Lee, Benjamin P. Y.-H., Lum, Shawn K. Y., Mendes, Calebe P., Ngiam, Jonathan, O Dempsey A., Png, Kenny G. C., Sovie, Adia R., Tan, Lorraine, Teo, Robert, Thomas, Noel, Li, Tianjiao, Lim, Bryan Tze-Ming, Loo, Adrian H. B., Wardle, David A., Luskin, Matthew Scott

“…Wild pigs, in contrast, have reached high numbers rapidly and may require active management to avoid hyperabundance and negative ecological impacts in regions, such as Singapore that lack both hunting and large predators.…”
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