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

“…The present systematic review evaluates the quality of evidence of empirical studies about the efficacy of cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) and combination therapy (psychopharmacotherapy) in the treatment of selective mutism in young children aged 4–10 years old. 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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Trajectories of interferon-gamma release assay results over two years in independent cohorts from China, South Africa, Tanzania, and the United States by Chen, C, Xue, H, Horsburgh, CR, Amour, M, Hatherill, M, Tameris, M, von Reyn, CF, Rees, C, Shen, Y, McShane, H, García-Basteiro, AL, Liu, D, Wang, Y, Nathavitharana, RR, Graviss, EA, Shao, Y, Liu, Q, Lu, W, Zhu, L, Martinez, L

“…</p> <br> <p><strong>Results:</strong> 26,596 IGRA measurements were taken over 13,593 years of follow-up (Nparticipants=7,683). Stringent reversion at year 2 after stringent conversion at year 1 varied between cohorts, occurring in 48% (43/90) for WANTAI, 37% (22/59) for QuantiFERON, and 17% (2/12) for T-SPOT.TB, respectively. …”

Robust generation of neutralising antibodies against Omicron variants following bivalent mRNA booster vaccine in elderly people aged >80 years by Parry, H, Bruton, R, Uwenedi, G, Roberts, T, Sylla, P, Cook, J, Elzaidi, A, Lau, M, Drury, T, Bray, A, Mallick, S, Spencer, K, Bentley, C, McIlroy, G, Scott, S, Logan, N, Zuo, J, Willett, B, Moss, P

Near field wireless power transfer by Er, Gavin Kian Ming

“…Wireless power transmission has been around since the 1890s and has started to become more prominent in the recent years thanks to technological advancements and breakthroughs in near-field wireless power systems using magnetic resonance. …”
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Near-zero environmental impact aircraft by Prashanth, Prakash, Elmourad, Jad, Grobler, Carla, Isaacs, Stewart, Zahid, Syed Shayan, Abel, James, Falter, Christoph, Fritz, Thibaud, Allroggen, Florian, Sabnis, Jayant S., Eastham, Sebastian D., Speth, Raymond L., Barrett, Steven R. H.

“…We use these models to propose and analyze near-zero environmental impact aircraft, which we define as having net zero climate warming and a greater than 95% reduction in air quality impacts relative to present day. …”
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Inter-relationship between ageing, body mass index, diabetes, systemic blood pressure and intraocular pressure in Asians : 6-year longitudinal study by Chua, Jacqueline, Chee, Miao Li, Chin, Calvin Woon Loong, Tham, Yih Chung, Tan, Nicholas, Lim, Sing Hui, Aung, Tin, Cheng, Ching-Yu, Wong, Tien Yin, Schmetterer, Leopold

“…Methods: Participants aged 40–80 years were recruited for baseline and 6-year follow-up visits between 2004–2009 and 2010–2015, respectively. …”
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The association between hip morphology parameters and 19-year risk of end-stage osteoarthritis of the hip in caucasian females: a case-control study by Nicholls, AS

“…Pelvis radiographs taken at study-year two were analyzed for variations in hip morphology using the software. …”

The association between learning style, academic performance, and participation in co-curricular activities among second-year medical students in Universiti Putra Malaysia by Azmah Sa’at, Suryati Mohd. Thani, Nizar Abd. Manan

“…This study explores how learning preferences impact academic performance and participation in extracurricular activities among second-year medical students at Universiti Putra Malaysia. …”
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Recent 10-year development on surface modification of polymeric hollow fiber membranes via surface coating approach for gas separation: a review by Roslan, Rosyiela Azwa, Lau, Woei Jye, Ismail, Ahmad Fauzi, Sutrasno Kartohardjono, Sutrasno Kartohardjono

Canonical Diffeomorphisms of Manifolds Near Spheres by Wang, Bing, Zhao, Xinrui

“…Abstract For a given Riemannian manifold $$(M^n, g)$$ ( M n , g ) which is near standard sphere $$(S^n, g_{round})$$ ( S n , g round ) in the Gromov–Hausdorff topology and satisfies $$Rc \ge n-1$$ R c ≥ n - 1 , it is known by Cheeger–Colding theory that M is diffeomorphic to $$S^n$$ S n . …”
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Multi-element spectrometric analysis of stingless bee honey in Johor for forensic provenancing application / by Aidil Fahmi Shadan, 1979-, author 610823, Wan Aini Ibrahim, 1987- , supervisor 500094, Naji Arafat Mahat, supervisor 569255, Zaiton Ariffin, supervisor 610824, Fakulti Sains 8004

Multi-element spectrometric analysis of stingless bee honey in Johor for forensic provenancing application / by Aidil Fahmi Shadan, 1979- , author 610823

Influences of East Asian winter monsoon and El Niño-southern oscillation variability on the Kuroshio intrusion to the South China Sea over the past 60 years by Lin, Ke, Han, Tao, Zhang, Yilin, Shen, Chuan-Chou, Lee, Shih-Yu, Wang, Jingyu, Mohtar, Ahmad T., Huang, Kuo-Fang, Chiang, Hong-Wei, Chen, Yue-Gau, Wang, Xianfeng

“…Here, we present a 60-year bi-monthly resolved coral oxygen isotope (δ18Oc) record from Dongsha Atoll, the northern SCS. …”
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The System Architecture-Function-Outcome Framework for Fostering and Assessing Systems Thinking in First-Year STEM Education and Its Potential Applications in Case-Based Learning by Lavi, Rea, Bertel, Lykke Brogaard

“…However, viable methods for teaching and assessing systems thinking with active learning across STEM disciplines, particularly in first-year undergraduate education, are still under-researched. …”
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A community-based intervention (the Omama Project) improves neurodevelopment in impoverished 2-year-old Roma children: a quasi-experimental observational study by Fernandes, M, Matuskova, O, Babelova, R, Santosa, WB, Shaw, O, Hrica, P

“…Interventions targeting early child development (ECD) during the first 2 years of life can improve neurodevelopmental outcomes in vulnerable children; however, evidence from Roma preschoolers is scarce. …”

A Self-Polymerizing Mesh of Nano-Tethers for the Mechanical Constraint of Degraded Intervertebral Discs—A Review of 25 Years of Pre-Clinical and Early Clinical Research by Hedman, Thomas, Rogers, Adam, Beall, Douglas

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Efficient artificial bee colony algorithms for global solution of constrained optimization problems [electronic resource] / by Soudeh Babaeizadeh, 1982-, author 608738, Rohanin Ahmad, supervisor 190297, Fakulti Sains 8004

Near Optimal Alphabet-Soundness Tradeoff PCPs by Minzer, Dor, Zheng, Kai Zhe

“…Our result has the following implications: (1) Near optimal hardness for Quadratic Programming: it is NPhard to approximate the value of a given Boolean Quadratic Program within factor (log) 1− (1) under quasi-polynomial time reductions. …”
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0-1 Knapsack in Nearly Quadratic Time by Jin, Ce

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A Nearly Quadratic Improvement for Memory Reallocation by Farach-Colton, Martin, Kuszmaul, William, Sheffield, Nathan S., Westover, Alek

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