Current status and recent advances in magnesium-matrix syntactic foams: preparation, mechanical properties, and corrosion behavior by Motaharinia, A., Drelich, J. W., Goldman, J., Bakhsheshi Rad, H. R., Sharif, Safian, Ismail, A. F., Razzaghi, M.

“…Over the last ten years, magnesium (Mg)-based syntactic foams (SFs) have gained significant attention and their popularity continues to grow. …”
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A study on the employment outlooks of Chinese university students majoring in Japanese: A government recruitment perspective by Zhang, Ziran, Hasan, Ahmad

“…Through semi-structured interviews with ten recruitment personnel from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of China, we analyze their evaluations of the abilities of Japanese major graduates and the key factors influencing hiring decisions. …”
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The efficacy of cognitive behavioural therapy in treating selective mutism in young children aged 4 to 10 years old: a qualitative systematic review by Ng, Benjamin Zeming, Atikah Binte Hassan, Dun, Yawen

“…Of the 223 studies returned in a systematic review of the literature from a ten-year period from 2012 to 2022, only fifteen studies matched the selection criteria for the qualitative synthesis. …”
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Brewers’ spent grains as potential novel functional food ingredients for food security by Tan, Yong Xing

“…BSG are residues generated as side streams from beer production. Currently, BSG are used as animal feed or disposed in landfills and these massive amount of BSG generated annually are causing significant environmental, economic, and climatic issues. …”
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Nonparametric Adaptive Control and Prediction: Theory and Randomized Algorithms by Boffi, Nicholas M., Tu, Stephen, Slotine, Jean-Jacques

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Enhancing the Antioxidant Activity of Tea (Camellia sinensis) Through Common Herbal Infusions by Ortiz-Islas, Sofia, Espinosa-Leal, Claudia A., González-Rodríguez, Tzitziki, García-Lara, Silverio

“…This study quantifies phenolic compounds and assesses antioxidant activity in ten types of tea and selected herbal infusions, individually and in combination. …”
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Controlling the Porosity and Microarchitecture of Hydrogels for Tissue Engineering by Annabi, Nasim, Nichol, Jason W., Zong, Xia, Ji, Chengdong, Koshy, Sandeep Tharian, Khademhosseini, Ali, Dehghani, Fariba

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Attempting developmental regionalism through AFTA : the domestic politics - domestic capital nexus by Helen E. S. Nesadurai

“…Althought AFTA is acknowledged as a project of open regionalism aimed at attracting FDI to Southeast Asian region, its member surprisingly chose to accord foreign investors full market access and national treatment privileges at least ten years later than to ASEAN national investors in AFTA's investment liberalisation component programme. …”
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Forecasting the demand for electric vehicles in Singapore by Ong, Hui Ying

“…Respondents were asked to rank the various statements which represent the factors, on a scale of one to ten and provide their resulting decision with regards to purchasing or using an electric vehicle. …”
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Paddling to the dyadic rhythm in post-stroke recovery: coping mechanisms among survivor-caregiver dyads in Singapore by Chan, Luo Ming

“…Findings: The analysis generated three conceptual themes and ten subthemes which formed the Family-Oriented Reciprocal Stroke Care Among Singaporeans (FORSCAS) Model. …”
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Three dimensional numerical manifold method and rock engineering applications by He, Lei

“…These features equip 3-D NMM with an efficient and accurate strategy of contact treatment. A total of ten numerical examples are analyzed in the present thesis, including verification of the 3-D NMM formula, analysis of a discrete blocky system, verification of the contact algorithm, and two scenarios in rock engineering, i.e., stability analysis of rock slopes and tunnels. …”
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Efficient simulation of large-scale urban environment with adaptive multiple-scene management by Le, Minh Duc

“…Project sizes and complexities of 3D Games and Simulations have increased drastically during the last ten years. Nowadays, a large number of applications have increasing scene complexity with non-scene-boundaries and contain many types of objects, both outdoors and indoors. …”
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Mapping of city growth with socio-economic growth data by Mun, Cassandra Ji Kay

“…Year 2000, 2010 and 2020 are selected to track the trends over two ten-year periods and a twenty-year period for the specific Southeast Asian cities of Jakarta and Manila. …”
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Defending, contesting and rejecting formal drinker categories: how UK university students identify as ‘light-drinkers’ or ‘non-drinkers’ by Conroy, Dom, Griffin, Christine, Morton, Charlotte

“…Semi-structured interviews with ten 18-27-year-old UK University students self-identifying as non-/light-drinkers were analysed using critical discourse analysis. …”
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Evaluation of the precision of the Plasmodium knowlesi growth inhibition assay for Plasmodium vivax Duffy-binding protein-based malaria vaccine development by Mertens, JE, Rigby, CA, Bardelli, M, Quinkert, D, Hou, MM, Diouf, A, Silk, SE, Chitnis, CE, Minassian, AM, Moon, RW, Long, CA, Draper, SJ, Miura, K

“…To determine the precision in percentage of inhibition in GIA (%GIA) and in GIA<sub>50</sub> (antibody concentration that gave 50 %GIA), ten GIAs with transgenic Pk parasites were conducted with four different anti-PvDBPII human monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) at concentrations of 0.016 to 2 mg/mL, and three GIAs with eighty anti-PvDBPII human polyclonal antibodies (pAbs) at 10 mg/mL. …”

Models for predicting risk of endometrial cancer: a systematic review by Forder, BH, Ardasheva, A, Atha, K, Nentwich, H, Abhari, R, Kartsonaki, C

“…Results: Twenty studies describing 19 models were included. Ten were designed for the general population and nine for high-risk populations. …”

Characterising human disparity tuning properties using population receptive field mapping by Alvarez, I, Mancari, A, Ip, IB, Parker, AJ, Bridge, H

“…We also used psychophysics to measure stereoacuity thresholds compared to backgrounds at different depths (pedestal disparity). Ten human participants (7 female) observed correlated or anticorrelated random-dot stereograms with disparity ranging from –0.3° to 0.3°, and responses were modelled as 1-dimensional tuning curves along the depth dimension. …”

Linking root microbiome composition to relative fitness differences that impact plant-plant competition by Norton, CH

“…Here, I test relative fitness differences affected by four local soil communities on ten <em>Arabidopsis thaliana</em> genotypes, grown as individuals, or in communities over five generations. …”

Development of geography alternative assessment module for Malaysia secondary school by Hanifah Mahat, Nasir Nayan, Yazid Saleh, Muhammad Hariz Muhamad Adnan, Nuraini Sawal, Saiyidatina Balkhis Norkhaidi

“…The interview method included three Geography teachers with over ten years of teaching experience, while the document analysis method focused on Form One’s Geography Standard Document for Curriculum and Assessment (DSKP) and the Classroom Assessment Handbook. …”
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Designing the smart shopping cart mobile application (SmartCart) using mobile application development life cycle by Roslan, Muhammad Amirul Asyraaf, Haron, Haryani

“…To evaluate the application's usability, ten users from various backgrounds took part in the testing process, and their feedback, measured through the System Usability Scale (SUS), indicated a positive reception of the application. …”
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