The working class in Schrader’s Blue Collar (1978) by Wheeler, Mark

“…Within this rust-belt drama, two of the men are black --- the thirty year-old Ezekiel ‘Zeke’ Brown (Richard Pryor) and the two-time ‘loser’ ex-convict thirty-five-year-old Sam ‘Smokey’ James (Yaphet Kotto) --- and one is white --- the thirty two year old Polish American Jerry Bartowski (Harvey Keitel). …”
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The effect of fabric constructions on elastic behaviour and tension decay of compression garment by Idris, M. K. M., Nasir, S. H., Roslan, M. N.

“…The strain of fabrics was measured using a tensile testing machine, and each sample was cycled five times between zero and the specified strain to simulate the repeated use of compression garments. …”
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Empirical bayesian binary classification forests using bootstrap prior by Olaniran, Oyebayo Ridwan, Abdullah, Mohd Asrul Affendi, Gopal Pillay, Khuneswari A/P, Olaniran, Saidat Fehintola

“…An illustration of the proposed, and existing methods was performed using five high-dimensional microarray datasets that emanated from colon, breast, lymphoma and Central Nervous System (CNS) cancer tumours. …”

A carnivorous plant algorithm for solving global optimization problems by Ong, Kok Meng, Ong, Pauline, Sia, Chee Kiong

“…The applicability of the CPA was further examined on mechanical engineering design problems and a real-world challenging application of controlling the orientation of a five degree-of-freedom robotic arm. Experimental simulations demonstrated the supremacy of the CPA in solving global optimization problems.…”
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Identification of aldolase C, actin-related protein 2 homolog, and enolase 1 as potential biomarkers for electrically stunned chickens by Abu Samah, Norshahida, Amid, Azura, Yusof, Faridah

“…The different voltages studied were 10, 40, and 70 V while the values for current studied were 0.25, 0.5, and 0.75 A. …”
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Low-dose methamphetamine addiction induced opioid receptor sensitization in polydrug-dependent mice by Ridzwan, Irna Elina, Suhaimi, Maryam Saadah, Muhamad, Abdul Halim, Kasmuri, Abdul Razak, Mohamed Nazar, Nor Ilyani, Hashim, Ridzwan, Syd Mohmad Faudzi, Syed Mohd Syahmi

“…Next, naive mice were randomly divided into three groups (n=at least 12), where the mice were made dependent (p<0.01) to morphine (7.5 mg/kg, i.p.), methamphetamine (1.0 mg/kg, i.p) or morphine/methamphetamine combination (7.5 mg/kg and 1.0 mg/kg respectively). …”
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Co-movement of output and price in Malaysia: Empirical evidence and macroeconomic policy implications by Abdul Manap, Turkhan Ali, Kassim, Salina

“…We analyze the short- and long-run co-movements between real activity and prices using several tests in efforts to arrive at conclusive findings. …”
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Volatility component of derivative market: evidence from FBMKLCI based on CGARCH by Haron, Razali, Mansurat Ayojimi, Salami

“…Using data from January 1, 2009 to December 31, 2013, this study aims to examine the volatility component of Malaysian stock index post financial crisis period, specifically on the mean-reversion, short-run (transitory) volatility, long-run (permanent) and speed of adjustment based on the generalized autoregressive conditional heteroskedasticity (GARCH). …”
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Sport and social development: evaluating a professional sport league’s domestic violence and sexual abuse camp by Hills, Stephen, Walker, Matthew

“…However, a broader and more long-term focus on developmental outcomes should be sought.…”
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Foreign aid and tourism induced electricity consumption in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus by Wolde-Rufael, Yemane, Mulat-Weldemeskel, Eyob

“…Our results are robust to the Canonical Cointegrating Regression (CCR), the fully modified ordinary least squares (FMOLS) and the dynamic ordinary least squares (DOLS) long-run tests. We also found bidirectional causality between foreign aid and electricity consumption while unidirectional causality from tourism to electricity consumption. …”
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The wind of change by Ermolayeva, Nadezhda

“…Zorkin's publication in Rossiyskaya Gazeta appears to be a sudden explosion in the long-brewing conflict between Russia and Western democracies. …”
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Sequence-dependent drug binding to the minor groove of DNA: crystal structure of the DNA dodecamer d(CGCAAATTTGCG)2 complexed with propamidine by Nunn, Christine M., Neidle, Stephen

“…The long AT tract of six base pairs in length allows the propamidine many potential binding sites in the DNA groove, and its binding is seen to occur where there is least perturbation to the DNA from that seen in the native structure. …”

Integrated metric-ad hoc on-demand distance vector: a routing protocol over Wireless Mesh Networks by Rahman, Md. Arafatur, Anwar, Farhat, Azad, Md. Saiful

“…Several performance metrics has been designed for WMNs such as Expected Transmission Count (ETX), Expected Transmission Time (ETT), interference Aware Routing Metric (iAWARE), Link Type Aware (LTA) Metric, Success Probability Product (SPP) and so on. …”
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Pre-treatment of Malaysian agricultural wastes toward biofuel production by Yusup, Suzana, Ahmad, Murni Melati, Uemura, Yoshimitsu, Ali, Razol Mahari, Azmi, Azlin Suhaida, Mohamad, Mas Fatiha, Lay, Sean Lim

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Angiogenic potential of extracellular matrix of human amniotic membrane by Md Hashim, Siti Nurnasihah, Hilmi Yusof, Muhammad Fuad, Zahari, Wafa’, Ahmad Amin Noordin, Khairul Bariah, Kannan, Thirumulu Ponnuraj, Sheikh Abdul Hamid, Suzina, Mokhtar@Makhtar, Khairani Idah, Ahmad, Azlina

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eHalal4All Program—Promoting Halal rural products and services globally by harnessing the Network-of-Mosques (NoM) capabilities by Ahmad Dahlan, Abdul Rahman, Ahmad H.Osman, Rahmah, Ibrahim, Jamaludin, Othman, Mohd Zainudin

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Electrode wear and material removal rate during EDM of aluminum and mild steel using copper and brass electrodes by Khan, Ahsan Ali

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Retention in second year computing students in a London-based university during the post-Covid-19 era using learned optimism as a lens: a statistical analysis in R by Chrysikos, Alexandros, Bamford, Neal

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Cloud Spark Cluster to analyse English prescription big data for NHS intelligence by Fernando, Sandra, Sowinski-Mydlarz, Viktor, Virdee, Bal Singh

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Propagation of guided waves in a fluid layer bounded by two viscoelastic transversely isotropic solids by Ashour, Ahmed S

“…Also, it is important for many geophysics considerations, e.g. for tremor and long-period events observed in volcanoes and geothermal areas. …”
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