Knowledge, attitude and practice on cardiopulmonary resuscitation (cpr) among critical care nurses in Hospital Universiti Sains Malaysia by Mughni, Muhamad Hafizuddin

“…The chi-square test result (χ² = 22.609, p < 0.001) suggests a significant association between the years of working experience in critical care and the level of knowledge.…”
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PostIndependentzia by Calzada, I

“…This core idea of this book is that the Basque Country, due to its own intricacies rather than merely as a consequence of its being kidnapped and held captive by the old-fashioned Spanish and French state legal frameworks, has come, over the years, to develop many points of inertia that are inherent in its territorial policies and strategies. …”

Supporting activex-based client for large-scale collaborative virtual environment by Wu, Liang.

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Physical unclonable function based solutions to unification of user, device and data authentication by Zheng, Yue

“…These solutions are typically realized using conventional techniques that require the safekeeping of a secret binary key in the non-volatile memory, or battery-backed SRAM of some device, or a token owned by the user, which have been proven to be vulnerable to various kinds of invasive, semi-invasive and side channel attacks. …”
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Nature-inspired lightweight auxetic structures for enhanced stiffness and absorption capacity by Zhang, Ee Teng

“…Traditionally, gradients in these structures have been introduced through variations in thickness. …”
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Semantic scene understanding on 3D point clouds by Dong, Shichao

“…While standard methods like rotations and flips have been common, they often lack high-level diversity. …”
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Tracking and detecting objects in image sequence by Wang, Li

“…Although many promising methods have been proposed in this area, it is still very challenging to track and detect arbitrary objects due to issues such as complicated motion transformations and occlusions. …”
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Development of human enterovirus 71 nano calcium phosphate adjuvanted candidate vaccine for parenteral and mucosal delivery by Saeed Ahmed, Mohamed Ibrahim

“…Chitosan loaded nano-adjuvant offered ascending and extended vaccine antigen release, due to its smaller adjuvant size and reversibility of interaction, but not in alginate-adjuvant formulations, due the vaccine been sequestered in the calcium-alginate chemical crosslink. …”
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#Hooked? Extending the social cognitive model in examining the antecedents of problematic social network sites use among Singaporean adolescents and adults by Lee, Edmund Wei Jian

“…Cases of social network sites (SNSs) users potentially developing problematic SNSs use have revived scholarly interest in addictive media research in the last few years. As a nascent research area, there is a need for clear communication-centric theoretical paradigms and rigorous methods in guiding empirical inquiry in problematic SNSs use. …”
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Integrating quantitative and qualitative methodologies to build a national R&amp;D plan using data envelopment analysis based on R&amp;D stakeholders’ perspectives by Park, Wan, Kim, Sang-Gook

“…The yearly increase in government R&amp;D investment and top-down national R&amp;D investment allocation requires a more quantitative decision-making system that maximizes R&amp;D performance and efficient budget allocation. …”
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Expanding the CRISPR Toolbox for Engineering Lycopene Biosynthesis in Corynebacterium glutamicum by Zhan, Zhimin, Chen, Xiong, Ye, Zhifang, Zhao, Ming, Li, Cheng, Gao, Shipeng, Sinskey, Anthony J., Yao, Lan, Dai, Jun, Jiang, Yiming, Zheng, Xueyun

“…The microbial production of lycopene has received increasing concern in recent years. Corynebacterium glutamicum (C. glutamicum) is considered to be a safe and beneficial industrial production platform, naturally endowed with the ability to produce lycopene. …”
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Compact Capabilities: Developing and Evaluating a Field-Portable Neutron Resonance Capture Analysis System by Rahon, Jill M.

“…Technological advances in the thorium fuel cycle and other advanced reactor concepts suggest their possible commercialization for nuclear power use in the next ten years. Although the thorium cycle shares many aspects with the uranium and plutonium fuel cycles, it introduces the requirement for the nondestructive assay of multiple isotopes (²³8U, ²³²Th, ²³³U, ²³⁵U, or ²³⁹Pu) in varied concentrations and chemical or physical forms. …”
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Tectonics of the semi-permanent: Reassembling fit-out architecture by Schnitzler, Jenna

“…The uneven wearing that Bolton wrote about in 1911, appears again in the iconic shearing layers diagram from Frank Duffy and Stewart Brand, who make a very similar economic argument, demonstrating that the economically fast-wearing interior layer accumulates the most investment over time, rebuilt on a cycle of every 5-10 years. We are facing a turning point in building; as of 2020, over 35% of total construction activity is renovation work, and we are making increasingly rapid changes to building function. …”
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Artificial Intelligence and the US-China Balance of Power by Chang, Benjamin Angel

“…I find that control over the production of advanced AI chips by the United States and allies almost certainly means the United States would better exploit such weapons, if they emerged as decisive in modern warfare, within at least the next ten years. Potential Chinese policy responses, such as cannibalizing its civilian sector or substituting with older chips, would likely fail for technical reasons.…”
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Direct and indirect effects of fire on microbial communities in a pyrodiverse dry-sclerophyll forest by Bowd, Elle J., Egidi, Eleonora, Lindenmayer, David B., Wardle, David A., Kardol, Paul, Cary, Geoffrey J., Foster, Claire

“…Fire is one of the predominant drivers of the structural and functional dynamics of forest ecosystems. In recent years, novel fire regimes have posed a major challenge to the management of pyrodiverse forests. …”
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Fabrication of high-performance thin-film composite and nanochannel-enabled next-generation membranes for water desalination by Lim, Yu Jie

“…Water reuse and seawater desalination have evolved into alternative water sources in the last 40 years in response to the increasing freshwater scarcity. …”
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Outcome assessment for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest patients in Singapore and Japan with initial shockable rhythm by Okada, Yohei, Shahidah, Nur, Ng, Yih Yng, Chia, Michael Y. C., Gan, Han Nee, Leong, Benjamin S. H., Mao, Desmond R., Ng, Wei Ming, Irisawa, Taro, Yamada, Tomoki, Nishimura, Tetsuro, Kiguchi, Takeyuki, Kishimoto, Masafumi, Matsuyama, Tasuku, Nishioka, Norihiro, Kiyohara, Kosuke, Kitamura, Tetsuhisa, Iwami, Taku, Ong, Marcus Eng Hock

“…This study included adult (18–74 years) OHCA patients with initial shockable rhythm. …”
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Insights from coral microatolls into sea-level variability and subduction zone behavior by Sarkawi, Gina Muthia

“…Two generations of fossil coral microatolls were analyzed, one from 1000 calibrated years before present and the younger fossil generation from the 19th century. …”
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Electronic cigarette use and chest pain in US adults: evidence from the PATH study by Behrooz, Leili, Xie, Wubin, Goghari, Aboli, Robertson, Rosemarie, Bhatnagar, Aruni, Stokes, Andrew, Hamburg, Naomi M.

“…Presence of established cardiovascular disease was examined at wave 4, and participants aged >40 years were asked about chest pain during wave 5. …”
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The association of sleep duration with the risk of chronic kidney disease: a systematic review and meta-analysis by Koh, Jin Hean, Yeo, Brian Sheng Yep, Tan, Timothy Wei En, See, Mark Yong Siang, Ng, Adele Chin Wei, Loh, Shaun Ray Han, Gooley, Joshua, Tan, Chieh Suai, Toh, Song Tar

“…In total, 42 studies (2 613 971 patients) with a mean age of 43.55 ± 14.01 years were included in the meta-analysis. Compared with a reference range of 7 to 8 hours of sleep, short sleep durations of ≤4 hours (RR 1.41, 95% CI: 1.16 to 1.71, P < 0.01), ≤5 hours (RR 1.46, 95% CI: 1.22 to 1.76, P < 0.01), ≤6 hours (RR 1.18, 95% CI: 1.09 to 1.29, P < 0.01), and ≤7 hours (RR 1.19, 95% CI: 1.12 to 1.28, P < 0.01) were significantly associated with an increased risk of incident chronic kidney disease. …”
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