A circular ferrofluid driven microchip for rapid polymerase chain reaction by Sun, Yi, Kwok, Yien Chian, Nguyen, Nam-Trung

“…In the past few years, much attention has been paid to the development of miniaturized polymerase chain reaction (PCR) devices. …”
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Adoption of green finance and green innovation for achieving circularity: an exploratory review and future directions by Agrawal, Rohit, Agrawal, Shruti, Samadhiya, Ashutosh, Kumar, Anil, Luthra, Sunil, Jain, Vranda

“…The analysis provides an unexplored and significant contribution to current literature in terms of delivering evidence of the past and present approaches to GF and GI in a circular economy. …”
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The legacy of polders: Diagnosing complex flooding processes and adaptation options in the coastal region of Bangladesh by Adnan, MSG

“…</p> <p>By analysing complex coastal flood processes and adaptation options spatially and quantitatively, this thesis provides new evidence to the effectiveness of the past (polders), and potential future (TRM) adaptation options. …”

Does not compute: social dissonance in England's computing education policy by Larke, L

“…</p> <p>Using teacher interviews, student writing and drawings, student interviews, extensive classroom observations, and policy analysis, this ethnographic case study of four primary school classrooms in the South of England will examine how the addition of computing to England’s National Curriculum came to pass and why it is not meeting its stated goals, before discussing what this means about past assumptions and future possibilities for young people’s engagement with and understanding of modern digital technologies in formal education settings. …”

Cortical regulation of sleep by Krone, LB

“…<p>Sleep is vital but the regulation of sleep is poorly understood. Over the past decades, several subcortical regions in the mammalian brain have been identified, which promote wakefulness or sleep and constitute a ‘sleep switch’. …”

Association between a selective 5-HT4 receptor agonist and incidence of major depressive disorder: emulated target trial by de Cates, AN, Harmer, CJ, Harrison, PJ, Cowen, PJ, Emmanuel, A, Travis, S, Murphy, SE, Taquet, M

“…<p><b>Aims</b></p> To determine whether prucalopride (a 5-HT4R agonist and licensed treatment for constipation) is associated with reduced incidence of depression in individuals with no past history of mental illness, compared with anti-constipation agents with no effect on the central nervous system. …”

Gender differences in perceptions of psoriatic arthritis disease impact, management, and physician interactions: results from a global patient survey by Eder, L, Richette, P, Coates, LC, Azevedo, VF, Cappelleri, JC, Johnson, EP, Hoang, M, Moser, J, Kessouri, M

“…Eligible patients were aged ≥ 18 years, with a self-reported diagnosis of PsA for > 1 year, had visited a rheumatologist/dermatologist in the past 12 months, and had reported previously using ≥ 1 conventional synthetic or biologic disease-modifying antirheumatic drug. …”

Evaluation of naturally occurring IgG anti-Vi antibody titers as predictors and correlates of typhoid fever in Dhaka, Bangladesh by Khanam, F, Rickett, NY, Ahmmed, F, Islam, MT, Mbae, CK, Im, J, Aziz, AB, Ongadi, B, Chowdhury, F, Khan, AI, Akter, A, Firoj, MG, Rahman, SIA, Haile, K, Park, SE, Mwebia, MB, Mwangi, M, Ngugi, B, Behute, MG, Kering, K, Agampodi, S, Kanungo, S, Liu, X, Pollard, AJ

“…The increasing seroprevalence with age suggests that these antibodies could serve as markers of cumulative past typhoid infections. Future research should explore these possibilities. …”

Factors associated with the quality of life among river communities along Sungai Pahang and Sungai Muar, Malaysia by Ramli, Siti Aisyah

“…Although the government has been championing efforts to keep rivers clean and environmentally sustainable but there are only certain to be known about the past and current impact of rivers onto the quality of life for those living near the rivers. …”
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Effects of applying the instructional systems design process on transfer of training to workplace by Malekzadeh, Robabeh

“…Numerous researches have studied the issues of training transfer in the past decades, however, training transfer literature shows that because of lack of a standard and widely accepted methodology, measuring transfer of training still is a complicated component. …”
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English newspaper coverage of financial education on old age savings by Ng, Chooi Fun

“…Malaysia is projected to become an aged nation by 2030 and Malaysians are projected to live longer. Past research posit that individuals were not saving enough for retirement. …”
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The Impact of Different Level of Education Towards Acceptance of Islamic House Financing by Abd Aziz, Noriza, Abu Bakar, Azizi, Abd Aziz, Ibrahim, Yusuff, Noraini, Ahmad Musadik, Siti Hajar Salwa

“…Islamic banks perform the same essential functions as the conventional banks, except that Islamic banks are being guided by Shariah principles in their activities as well as products and services. Past studies found that the reasons for selecting Islamic house financing products from Islamic banks are not solely based on religion, but a combination of religious, demographic, age, gender, attitudes, perception, awareness, understanding and other factors such as promotion and service. …”
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Developing a Positive Psychology Principles Based on Social Media Utilization Among Housewives (S/O 13751) by Abdul Hamid, Norsiah, Ishak, Mohd Sobhi, Mohd Rashid, Sabrina

“…Adopting a positive psychology approach to understanding social media and wellbeing is a new addition to this area and lends itself particularly well to examining certain aspects of users’ wellbeing that have proven challenging in the past. However, it has been pointed out that positive psychology research has not sufficiently explored issues faced by under-represented populations such as women and housewives. …”
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Identification of potent new brain cancer EGFR inhibitor from usimine A and usimine B: computer-aided drug design perspective by Roney, Miah, Issahaku, Abdul Rashid, Wilhelm, Anke, Mohd Fadhlizil Fasihi, Mohd Aluwi

“…The anti-cancer potential of many natural substances has garnered significant research in the past few decades. This study's main goal is to discover the anti-cancer activity of Usimine A and Usimine B against the EGFR protein of brain cancer using the in-silico approaches. …”
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Characterizing dry mass and volume changes in human multiple myeloma cells upon treatment with proteotoxic and genotoxic drugs by Liu, Xili, Moscvin, Maria, Oh, Seungeun, Chen, Tianzeng, Choi, Wonshik, Evans, Benjamin, Rowell, Sean M., Nadeem, Omar, Mo, Clifton C., Sperling, Adam S., Anderson, Kenneth C., Yaqoob, Zahid, Bianchi, Giada, Sung, Yongjin

“…MM remains incurable, but overall survival of patients has progressively increased over the past two decades largely due to novel agents such as proteasome inhibitors (PI) and the immunomodulatory agents. …”
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Spatial structure of workplace and communication between colleagues: A study of E-mail exchange and spatial relatedness on the MIT campus by Sevtsuk, Andres, Chancey, Bahij, Basu, Rounaq, Mazzarello, Martina

“…Our findings suggest that (a) people whose offices are closer to each other by walking are more likely to exchange E-mails, (b) on the campus as a whole, people who are more likely to walk past each other’s offices on the way to or from work are more likely to exchange E-mails, and (c) people who share access to similar eating venues around their offices are more likely to exchange E-mails. …”
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Trouble on the Range: When Does a National Park Become a Bison Zoo? by Hartley, Sophia

“…In 1902, there were merely 25 individual bison in the park, but now, Yellowstone’s herd fluctuates between 3,000 and 5,500 animals. Over the past century, the national park’s conservation effort pushed bison into the public spotlight. …”
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Emergence, Formation and Dynamics of Hot QCD Matter by Scheihing Hitschfeld, Bruno Sebastian

“…The first one is quarkonium transport inside quark-gluon plasma (QGP), the high temperature phase of QCD. Over the past two decades it has been realized that a significant fraction of quarkonium suppression in high energy heavy ion collisions comes from dynamic dissociation and recombination processes, instead of static screening of the interaction potential as originally proposed by Matsui and Satz. …”
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Beyond-the-Ice: Designing Games for Facilitating Deeper Conversations by Lee, Cassandra

“…This work builds on formal knowledge from the social sciences, HCI, and game design, as well as informal knowledge from facilitation, gathering practices, party games, and Tarot, by presenting five distinct design principles aligned with theories grounded in past work: 1) Make emotional disclosure special; 2) Scaffold responsiveness; 3) Approach depth through fun; 4) Empower “the work” through constraints and permissions; 5) Center objects to feel with. …”
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Modelling the chemotactic response of escherichia coli to signalling molecule AI-2 by Tan, Pei Yen

“…The predicted chemotactic response from our model is first compared with experimental reports of maltose chemotactic response as the maltose response is well-studied and there exists a wealth of data in the past literature. Our model achieves good agreement with experimental data for maltose at various levels of periplasmic binding protein concentration as well as extracellular attractant concentration. …”
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