The modern comfort object by Goh, Sherri Sze Yin

“…Combined with research and analysis from personal experience as well as surveys done in the field of anxiety disorders, this project aims to draw connections and blur the line between the immateriality of mental health and physical touch. …”
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Exploring students' hypertext reading behaviour and social media use in their learning by Sharifah Maisharah Mohamed

“…This study continues this line of inquiry by exploring students’ hypertext reading behaviour and the use of social media in their learning. …”
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Design and development of a social network platform for research community by A Priyanka

“…As easy and beneficial these platforms are when learning and sharing information, they still raise some concerns among academics and researchers. The thin line between a professional and personal connection on these sites have limited academics from using these platforms to its full potential. …”
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Exploration of a low-cost radar and image processing by Zhang, Xingwen

“…The analysis results for this project lay a solid foundation for the development of in-wall detection, such as detection of pipelines before electric line installation to ensure safety. The background information and details of how the experiments are conducted are illustrated in detail in the following section of this report. …”
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Biofuels as alternative energy sources for shipping industry : assessment of straight vegetable oil as marine fuel by Low, Chun Feng

“…This paper aims to analyse the outlook of biofuel to be integrated into maritime industry for the next 10-15 years in line with the IMO Strategy. First, various biofuel, such as biodiesel, straight vegetable oil, biomethanol and biomethane, will be studied and assess on their potentiality. …”
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Tensile Behavior of High Performance Structural Steel T-stub Joints by Zhao, Ming Shan, Lee, C. K., Chiew, S. P.

“…The results were further validated against the analytical yield line method and the design resistance equations provided by the EC3. …”
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Pronounced peptide selectivity for melanoma through tryptophan end-tagging by Duong, Dinh Thuy, Singh, Shalini, Bagheri, Mojtaba, Verma, Navin Kumar, Schmidtchen, Artur, Malmsten, Martin

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Let's vote to classify authentic and manipulative online reviews : the role of comprehensibility, informativeness and writing style by Banerjee, Snehasish, Chua, Alton Y. K., Kim, Jung-Jae

“…Scholars increasingly seek to investigate differences between authentic and manipulative online reviews. A common line of research argues that authentic and manipulative reviews are distinguishable based on three textual characteristics, namely, comprehensibility, informativeness and writing style. …”
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Achromatic super-oscillatory lenses with sub-wavelength focusing by Yuan, Guang Hui, Rogers, Edward T. F., Zheludev, Nikolay I.

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Elucidating the role of metabolic changes in modulating cell fate following treatment with anti-mitotic drugs by Wong, Alex Xing Fah

“…Anti-mitotic drugs are the most-commonly utilised class of chemotherapeutic agents that are administered as first-line therapy; however, their clinical success has been impeded by chemoresistance and disease relapse. …”
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Proteome mapping of Plasmodium: identification of the P. yoelii remodellome by Siau, Anthony, Huang, Ximei, Weng, Mei, Sze, Siu Kwan, Preiser, Peter R.

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Correlation between optical absorption redshift and carrier density in phase change materials by Ho, H. W., Song, W. D., Bai, K., Branicio, P. S., Tan, Teck L., Ji, R., Law, L. T., Ng, C. M., Lan, Wang.

“…We found that, with phase change from amorphous to crystalline, the observed redshift increases with Ge concentration along pseudo-line of compositions, which directly reflects the enhanced electron delocalization/resonant bonding and increased carrier concentrations in the respective crystal compounds. …”
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A new hybrid method for 3D object recovery from 2D drawings and its validation against the cubic corner method and the optimisation-based method by Lee, Yong Tsui, Fang, Fen

“…This paper uses a hybrid method to reconstruct 3D polyhedral objects from 2D line drawings by combining two known methods, the cubic corner method and the optimisation-based method, and presents comprehensive test results comparing the three methods. …”
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Hierarchical TiO2 nanoflakes and nanoparticles hybrid structure for improved photocatalytic activity by Tang, Yuxin, Wee, Peixin, Lai, Yuekun, Wang, Xiaoping, Gong, Dangguo, Kanhere, Pushkar D., Lim, Teik-Thye, Dong, Zhili, Chen, Zhong

“…The nanostructure of hierarchical microspheres undergoes three evolution steps, which includes the change from nanosheets into hybrid nanoflakes/nanoparticles and finally to nanoparticles as calcination temperature increases, in line with the predicable trend of increase in crystallinity and decrease in specific surface area. …”
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Relationship between irregularities of the nuclear envelope and mitochondria in HeLa cells observed with electron microscopy by Brito-Pacheco, Daniel, Karabağ, Cefa, Brito-Loeza, Carlos, Giannopoulos, Panos, Reyes-Aldasoro, Constantino Carlos

“…Whilst these results were obtained from a single cell line and a relatively small number of cells, they encourage further study as the methodology proposed can be easily applied to other cells and settings. …”
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Chloroquine has shown high therapeutic efficacy against uncomplicated Plasmodium vivax malaria in southern Ethiopia: seven decades after its introduction by Mare, AK, Mohammed, H, Sime, H, Hailgiorgis, H, Gubae, K, Gidey, B, Haile, M, Assefa, G, Bekele, W, Auburn, S, Price, R, Parr, JB, Juliano, JJ, Tasew, G, Abay, SM, Assefa, A

“…<p><strong>Background: </strong><em>Plasmodium vivax</em> malaria is a leading cause of morbidity in Ethiopia. The first-line treatment for <em>P. vivax</em> is chloroquine (CQ) and primaquine (PQ), but there have been local reports of CQ resistance. …”

Autoimmune encephalitis by Irani, SR

“…Observational studies provide the mainstay of evidence guiding first- and second-line immunotherapy administration in autoimmune encephalitis and, whereas these typically result in some clinical improvements, almost all patients have residual neuropsychiatric deficits, and many experience clinical relapses. …”

Literary metatranslation: understanding the multiple in post-communist Poland by Szymanska, K

“…In discussing the ethical ideas underpinning these works, I demonstrate how literary metatranslations and their gesture of acknowledging more than one view and line of thinking could also undermine totalised discourses and put forward a more democratic agenda.…”

The bHLH transcription factor OsPRI1 activates the Setaria viridis PEPC1 promoter in rice by Carvalho, P, Gomes, C, Gonçalves, I, Lourenço, TF, Vlad, D, Langdale, JA, Saibo, NJM

“…The role of OsPRI1 <i>in planta</i> was characterized using a rice line harbouring <i>SvPEPC1_pro::GUS</i>.…”

Building the semiotic meaning of critical thinking from the Prophet Ibrahim's discourses in the scene of da'wah to his father in the Qur'anic story by Mhd Ramli, Mhd Faizal, Othman, Mohd Sukki, Hajimaming, Pabiyah, Wan Sulong, Wan Muhammad

“…Although the study of critical thinking is of interest to researchers in the field of contemporary education, many people still neglect and ignore the logical and rational aspects of Prophet Ibrahim's discourses as a comprehensive scientific approach to critical thinking based on divine revelation.This has led to Muslims being accused of stagnation and backwardness due to their inability to provide evidence and produce new knowledge from the Holy Quran in line with the development of contemporary knowledge.The research adopted the descriptive analytical approach through the semiotic pragmatic method pioneered by Peirce, which consists of components namelyrepresentamen, object and interpretant, and the research relied on thecritical thinking elements by the Delphi Report, as the basis for this research. …”
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