Cytotoxic effect of Bajong LN rice methanol extract on human squamous cell Carcinoma, ORL-48 by Vivi Noryati Ahmad, Nur Aliana Hidayah Mohamed, Zulkhairi Amom, Khor, Goot Heah, Nurhayati Mohamad Zain, Indah Mohd Amin

“…Morphological analysis and the Trypan blue exclusion assay corroborated the MTS assay's findings. Our preliminary findings provide the first scientific evidence of the cytotoxic effect of BLN-ME specifically against human squamous cell carcinoma, ORL-48 cells. …”
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Effectiveness of interpretive exhibits in influencing students’ intention in birdwatching activity at a Bird Interpretive Center, Fraser’s Hill, Pahang, Malaysia by Mokhli, Nuraain Amalina

“…Questionnaire data were collected from 119 first-year students from the Faculty of Forestry and Environment, Universiti Putra Malaysia. The findings indicated significant differences between the mean scores of the control and intervention groups for the affective responses, intentions and design evaluation, except for the birds’ sound construct in the affective responses and the title and contents construct in the design evaluation. …”
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ESBL producing E. coli in chickens and poultry farms environment in Selangor, Malaysia: a cross-sectional study on their occurrence and associated risk factors with environment and... by Aliyu, Abdulrasheed Bello, Jalila, Abu, Saleha, Abdul Aziz, Zunita, Zakaria

“…In the determination of possible factors associated with the presence of ESBL-EC at poultry farms, a questionnaire was used to obtain the information and data. Results: The findings demonstrated the wide distribution of ESBL-EC in all the farms with an overall occurrence of 37.2%. …”

Antibiotic resistance profile, potential drivers and genotype of Escherichia coli, Salmonella sp. and Vibrio sp. isolated from hybrid red tilapia and Asian seabass in the West Coas... by Dewi, Rita Rosmala

“…The result of this study highlighted the aquaculture production system is an important reservoir of clinically important bacteria. The findings revealed that bacteria isolated had a high level of resistance to antibiotics classified as priority and critically important for human use, as well as veterinary critically important medications for food-producing animals, posing a significant risk to human, aquatic and animal health. …”
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Optimization and mechanistic insight of phenol removal using an effective green kaolin adsorbent through experimental and computational approaches by Zubir, Aisyah, Erna Normaya, Erna Normaya, Zuhaidi, Nurul Huda, Goh, Pei Sean, Mat Piah, Mohd. Bijarimi, Ismail, Mohamad Wafiuddin, Show, Pau Loke, Ismail, Ahmad Fauzi, Ahmad, Mohammad Norazmi

“…Based on the response surface methodology findings, the optimum conditions were pH 1.6, 40 min, 50 mg/L, and 2 g with 92.19 % maximum percentage removal. …”

Fabrication and characterization of a novel mullite-stainless steel composed hollow fibre membrane for oil/water separation by Almukhtar Omar, Najib Meftah, Othman, Mohd. Hafiz Dzarfan, Zhong, Sheng Tai, Jaafar, Juhana, A. Rahman, Mukhlis, Puteh, Mohd. Hafiz, Abu Bakar, Suriani, Tonni Agustiono Kurniawan, Tonni Agustiono Kurniawan, Tao, Li

“…Afterwards, they were evaluated in an oil/water separation system regarding water flux and oil rejection rate. Based on the findings, there was a gradual increase in the bending strength from 32.1 to 79.8 MPa with increased SS contents from 0 to 12 % (w/w). …”
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Implementation of lean manufacturing practices and six-sigma among Malaysian manufacturing SMEs: intention to implement IR 4.0 technologies by Ibikunle, Afeez Kayode, Rajemi, Mohamad Farizal, Mohd Zahari, Fadhilah

“…The data were collected using the six-point Likert scale questionnaire. Findings – Based on research findings, about 86% Malaysian manufacturing SMEs implement 6s. …”
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Drive-specific selection in multistable mechanical networks by Kedia, Hridesh, Pan, Deng, Slotine, Jean-Jacques, England, Jeremy L.

“…In equilibrium, a multistable system is more likely to be found in configurations with lower energy, but the presence of an external drive can alter the relative stability of different configurations in unexpected ways. …”
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Overturning of No-Tension Towers by Moir, Katherine

“…A comparison of the predictions for each of the two tower geometries shows that the predicted critical angles of overturning are very close, while the cylinder is likely to begin cracking at lower inclinations compared to rectangular towers. …”
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Semantic sensitive satellite image retrieval by Li, Yikun

“…Although various relevance feedback approaches have been proposed to bridge this gap, most of them can only work well under the assumption that regions belonging to the same or similar signal classes are very likely to share the same semantic concepts as well. …”
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Empowering communication for mute individuals through AI-assisted conversations by Au, Roydon Yew Rong

“…Lastly, to enhance greater flexibility for the mute user, they are also able to edit the generated responses directly and provide feedback to the ai model through liking or disliking certain responses. Since this project was built from scratch, this report highlights all features implemented, experiments attempted, areas of improvements and next steps. …”
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The impact of the solar energy on the load profile of the building by Zhang, Jun

“…Compared to other renewable energy such as wind, hydro, solar electricity is likely to be the largest contributor to Singapore’s energy supply. …”
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Additive friction stir processing by Lin, Longyi

“…The grain size of the SLM specimens was close to that of monolithic FSP specimens, indicating that their higher strengths and microhardness is likely a result of the dense Si phase formed. However, similar to casting, the SLM specimens were brittle and had visible internal defects that acted as nucleation sites for cracks. …”
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Maths pro (I) by Teo, Yu Quan

“…In this independent learning environment, by employing the usage of online lectures, tutorials, quizzes and materials sharing, it will be result in a very different experience for both students and instructors as the whole process of learning and teaching is made more simple and convenient. It is also likely to enhance the learning and understanding of every student in the topic of Engineering Mathematics (Numerical Method etc.).…”
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Sign language recognition – teach machine to talk to deaf people by Goh, Ting Jun

“…The problem is that people who have not learnt sign language before will most likely have difficulties in understanding what the deaf-mutes are trying to convey. …”
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Carbon aerogel for removal of oils and organic solvents spills by Chen, Geng

“…The demand for water is likely to increase due the increase in world population and industrial activities. …”
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Can topology predict a financial crisis? by Dang, Thi Mai Vy

“…Simplical complexes which exists over a longer spatial scales are call persistent features and are more likely the true features of the underlying space. …”
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Cadmium isotope fractionation during adsorption onto calcite by Peng, H, Liu, P, Zheng, H, Belshaw, NS, Hu, S, Zhu, Z

“…However, near identical coordination environments of the aqueous and sorbed Cd species in the presence of PO43− likely led to the reduced Cd isotope fractionation. …”

Neotropical mammal responses to megafires in the Brazilian Pantanal by Bardales, R, Boron, V, Viana, DFP, Sousa, LL, Droge, E, Porfirio, G, Jaramillo, M, Payan, E, Sillero-Zubiri, C, Hyde, M

“…The increasing frequency and severity of human-caused fires likely have deleterious effects on species distribution and persistence. …”

The Pandemic EVIDENCE Collaboration Pillar 1: diagnostics and transmission by Conly, J, Plüddemann, A, Jefferson, T, Rosca, C, Heneghan, C

“…The transmission dynamics to allow for a replication-competent virus to move from a reservoir to a susceptible host and establish an invasive infection is complex and it is likely multiple modes of transmission exist from direct reservoir-to-host (contact, droplet deposition, transplacental) and indirect reservoir-to-intermediary-to- host (vehicle-borne, foodborne, waterborne, and airborne) routes. …”