Design and Implementation of Active Antennas for IoT-Based Healthcare Monitoring System by MUSA, UMAR, MOHD SHAH, SHAHARIL, A. MAJID, HUDA, MAHADI, ISMAIL AHMAD, A. RAHIM, MOHAMAD KAMAL, YAHYA, MUHAMMAD SANI, ZAINAL ABIDIN, ZUHAIRIAH

“…Two dual-band (2.4 GHz and 5.8 GHz) microstrip patch antennas, one with a PIN diode and one without, are fabricated using Rogers Duroid RO3003™ substrate. …”
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Parametric study of gravure printing process for R2R printed electronics by Pua, Suan Tai

“…In this study, however, various printing parameters were investigated to establish their effects on printed line width and film thickness, in an attempt to achieve fine line printing resolution over a large printing area. …”
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Evaluation of population immunity against SARS-CoV-2 variants, EG.5.1, FY.4, BA.2.86, JN.1, JN.1.4, and KP.3.1.1 using samples from two health demographic surveillance systems in K... by Lugano, D, Kutima, B, Kimani, M, Sigilai, A, Gitonga, J, Karani, A, Akech, D, Karia, B, Ziraba, AK, Maina, A, Lambisia, A, Omuoyo, D, Mugo, D, Lucinde, R, Owuor, S, Konyino, G, Newman, J, Bailey, D, Nduati, E, Githinji, G, Agoti, CN, Bejon, P, Scott, JAG, Agweyu, A, Warimwe, GM

“…The majority of these mutations mainly target the spike protein, allowing the new variants to escape the immunity previously raised by vaccination and/or infection by earlier variants of SARS-CoV-2. …”

An immunoinformatic approach for identifying and designing conserved multi-epitope vaccines for coronaviruses by Ong, Yu Chuan, Tejo, Bimo Ario, Yap, Wei Boon

“…Methods: This study utilized an immunoinformatic approach to identify evolutionarily conserved CD4+ (HTL) and CD8+ (CTL) T cells, and B-cell epitopes in the coronaviral spike (S) glycoprotein. Results: A total of 132 epitopes were identified, with the majority of them found to be conserved across the bat CoVs, pangolin CoVs, endemic coronaviruses, SARS-CoV-2, and Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV). …”
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Advancements in Management Science: Applications to Online Retail, Healthcare, and Non-Profit Fundraising by Zhai, Chen Wen (Sabrina)

“…Studies on the efficacy of first-line versus second-line and alternative antibiotics for UTI are limited and dated. …”
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Hearing loss and risk of major osteoporotic fracture: a population-based cohort study in the United Kingdom by Khalid, S, Alhambra, DP, Hasheminasab, SA, Vinogradova, Y, Qureshi, N, Ratzinger, M, Brunetti, V, Salas, A, Canals, L

“…Purpose: Assess association between hearing loss (HL) and major osteoporotic fracture (MOF; spine, wrist/forearm, shoulder/proximal humerus, hip) in individuals aged ≥ 60 years, and risk factors for MOF in individuals with HL. …”

Design of a >500MHz current starving VCO/DLL with low phase noise for digital PWM control by Chua, Dillon Yu Ze

“…It typically consist of a voltage controlled delay line, a phase detector. A delay line consists of a chain of delay cells that can be varied to adjust the amount of delay between the output and input signal through the delay line. …”
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Unraveling the Dynamics of Mental and Visuospatial Workload in Virtual Reality Environments by Bernal, Guillermo, Jung, Hahrin, Yassı, İsmail Emir, Hidalgo, Nelson, Alemu, Yodahe, Barnes-Diana, Tyler, Maes, Pattie

“…Our findings indicate a broadband increase in EEG power just prior to a helper event, followed by a spike of visuospatial engagement (parietal alpha and beta 0-1-3 s) occurring concurrently with a decrease in mental workload (frontal theta 2–4 s), and subsequent decreases in visuospatial engagement (parietal theta at 14 s) and physiological arousal (HRV at 20 s). …”
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Analysis and reduction of mismatch in silicon neurons by Shuo, Sun, Basu, Arindam

“…The method presented allows the corrected neurons to compute both rate codes and spike time codes in a mismatch resilient fashion…”
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A high efficiency buck converter for IoT sensors by Mo, Mingwei

“…When the system is activated for data collection and processing, the load current may spike to tens of milliamperes. Thus, it's essential for the DC-DC converter to accommodate a broad spectrum of load currents, ensuring versatility and reliability in various operational states. …”
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Synaptic devices towards neuromorphic electronics by Datta, Indira

“…Area Transfer curves, gate voltage hysteresis loops, and multilevel resistance modulation were studied, and biological functions including long-term potentiation and Depression (LTP and LTD), Excitatory and Inhibitory Postsynaptic Current (EPSC and IPSC), Spike Amplitude and Duration Dependent Plasticity (SADP and SDDP), Paired Pulse Facilitation and Depression (PPF and PPD), and repeated learning and forgetting curves were emulated by our novel device. …”
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Modeling of functional materials : perovskite solar cells by Aruj Shukla

“…However, for a more holistic analysis of perovskite light harvesters as replacement to the existing TiO2 nano particles, a more nuanced modeling and analysis which incorporates a study of transport properties such as trapping effects (for further spike in efficiency), photo catalytic reaction kinetics and surface & bulk defects (for easier fabrication) is demanded as an integral part of future research plans.…”
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The impacts of US Fed interest rate liftoff on Southwest Asia stock markets, sovereign bond and currencies by Ooi, Teik Khim

“…Based on the more reliable model I (using FFF), it implies the negative effect of spike in VIX dominated the positive effect from lower market expectation on interest rate lift-off, which led to decline in ASEAN financial market during 2015 A SEAN slump.…”
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High wavenumber coherent structures in low re apg-boundary-layer transition flow—a numerical study by Lo, Edmond Yat-Man, Chen, Weijia

“…Both parts are imbedded at the primary Λ-vortex stage and spatially coincide with the spike region and high shear layer. The tip part is associated with the later first ring-like vortex, while the rear part with the remainder of the Λ-vortex. …”
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Time to fill up India’s strategic oil reserves by Narula, K

“…Although oil stocks are generally not released to manage oil prices (the IEA’s intention is to stabilize the market and release stocks only in case of physical shortages), it may be possible to use the stored oil to offset a spike in oil prices, especially for developing countries which have administered oil prices.…”

Modelling Malaysia air quality data using Bayesian Structural Time Series models by Aeshah Mohammed, Mohd Aftar Abu Bakar, Mahayaudin M. Mansor, Noratiqah Mohd Ariff

“…The BSTS model integrates three main techniques: The structural model, which employs the Kalman filter approach to model trend and seasonality components; spike and slab regression for variable selection; and Bayesian model averaging to estimate the best-performing prediction model while accounting for uncertainty. …”
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Automated teller machines in Singapore by Soh, Yong Chee, Phua, Alice Loo Huay, Tan,Yang Leng

“…Activation of ATMs can also be enhanced by substituting the present A TM card and PIN system with either voice recognition, retina recognition or thumbprints. …”
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Real time analysis of social behavior from video and kinect recordings by Ramasamy, Pandi Ramesh

“…Finally,analysis will be performed using pattern recognition algorithms and machine learning classifiers to detect the emotion of the subject.In this project,machine learning classifiers such as K-nearest neighbors,Naive Bayes and C4.5 Decision tree learning has been used. The prime aim is to pin point the most seemly machine learning classifier for obtaining highest accuracy for classification.…”
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Rapid process modeling of the aerosol jet printing based on gaussian process regression with latin hypercube sampling by Zhang, Haining, Moon, Seung Ki, Ngo, T. H., Tou, J., Bin Mohamed Yusoff, M. A.

“…Hence, it is necessary to develop a small data set based machine learning approach to model relationship between the process parameters and the line morphology. In this paper, we propose a rapid process modeling method for AJP process and consider sheath gas flow rate, carrier gas flow rate, stage speed as AJP process parameters, and line width and line roughness as the line morphology. …”
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Recovery of three-dimensional objects from single two-dimensional sketches using cubic corners by Vishnuprasad Venugopalapanicker

“…This report describes the work done to recover 3D objects from a single 2D line drawing using theconcept of cubic corner. …”
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