Trichostrongylus colubriformis extract upregulates TNF-α receptor expression and enhances TNF-α sensitivity of L929 cells by Riffkin, M.C., Seow, H.-F., Wood, P.R., Brown, L.E.

“…Results in the present paper demonstrate that soluble T. colubriformis factors promote proliferation of the TNF-susceptible mouse fibrosarcoma cell line L929, while inhibiting proliferation of all other cell types tested. …”
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Short-Term Shoreline Evolution Mapping by using UAV by Siddig, Mohammad lkhmal, Kaamin, Masiri, Daucla, Mohd Effendi, Mokhtar, Mardiha, Sabri, Muhamad Syamil, Ariffinm, Effi Helmy

“…The "Pix4D Capture" application has been programmed with the flight planning route, and the drone takes pictures along the entire grid line provided. The data on shoreline evolutions were processed using the Pix4d Mapper and Global Mapper tools. …”
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Determination of had kifayah zakat among pre-graduate students at Universiti Sains Islam Malaysia (USIM) by Ismail, Abdul Manan, Hasbullah, Mushaddad, Zakaria, Mohamad Zaharuddin, Salleh, Ahmad Zaki, Abdul Majid, Mohd. Nasir, Abdullah Thaidi, Hussein'Azeemi, Ab. Jalil, Mohd. Afiq, Rosman, Arieff Salleh, Khan, Aqeel

“…Through a survey that covers aspects of student spending and income, the average of spending method has been used as per agreed with all team members to determine the Had Kifayah, in line with the method used by the state Islamic religious council as a reference. …”

Oil palm smallholder's income and sustainable development goals (SDGs) achievement in Peninsular Malaysia by Applanaidu, Shri Devi, Abidin, Norhaslinda Zainal, Mustapha, Mukhtar, Abdullahi Baba, Mohammed, Joseph, Viandrito

“…The analysis showed that all the oil palm smallholders in Peninsular Malaysia have a daily average income far above the poverty line. Johor has the highest daily average income in Peninsular Malaysia, therefore, it is easy for the oil palm smallholders in Johor to achieve SDG 1, SDG 2, SDG 3, SDG 5 and SDG 8 faster than the rest of the oil palm smallholders in Pahang, Selangor and Kelantan with lower average daily incomes…”
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Near-Infrared Fluorescent Molecular Probe for Sensitive Imaging of Keloid by Miao, Qingqing, Yeo, David Chenloong, Wiraja, Christian, Zhang, Jianjian, Ning, Xiaoyu, Xu, Chenjie, Pu, Kanyi

“…As keloid cells have high expression levels of fibroblast activation protein-alpha (FAPα), the probe (FNP1) is designed to have a caged NIR dye and a FAPα-cleavable peptide substrate linked by a self-immolative segment. FNP1 can quickly and specifically turn on its fluorescence at 710 nm by 45-fold in the presence of FAPα, allowing it to effectively recognize keloid cells from normal skin cells. …”
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Investigation on the mechanical and water absorption properties of eco-friendly bricks produced from waste polypropylene (PP) Bumper by Ong, Hueiruey, Wan Mohd Eqhwan, Iskandar, Mohamad Abid, Yunos, Muhammad Faiz, Mohd Zaki, Khan, Md Maksudur Rahman, Hong, Chi Shein, Mohd Syahiful Adlan, Maarof, Nora Fandy, Ismail

“…The waste PP bumper was collected from a local industry and mixed with sand in ratios ranging from 100 % PP to 40% PP. …”
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Information technology capability, supply chain practices and leagility: A systematic literature review by Mustafa Al Dirawi, Ammar Nazar, Khudari, Mohamed, Salina, Daud

“…This study suggests the need for further research in understudied locations on leagility, IT capability, and supply chain practices, using qualitative and mixed-method approaches to fully comprehend the issue. …”
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Centering Patient and Clinician Voices in Developing Tools to Address Pain Related School Impairment: A Phase I Study of a Virtual Reality School Simulation for Children and Adoles... by Logan, Deirdre E., Khanna, Karina, Randall, Edin, O’Donnell, Shealyn, Reks, Talis, McLennan, Logan

“…In phase II, we pilot-tested a vRS prototype and collected patient and clinician feedback via mixed method approaches. Phase I results highlight four themes related to pain in school, including physical/environmental challenges and solutions, academic challenges and solutions, peer interaction challenges and solutions, and teacher interaction challenges and solutions. …”
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Motivations for watching videos on mobile phones while driving in parking lots and while waiting at intersections in the United States by Gao, Jingkang, Jackson, Jason, Zhao, Jinhua

“…This is a two-part mixed methods study that investigated motivations for watching videos on mobile phones while driving. …”
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The cognitive and neural basis of complex decision-making in the primate brain by Ramadan, Mahdi F.

“…In one flavor, sophisticated tasks thought to invoke high-level cognitive strategies are used, but their complexity precludes them from rigorous quantitative modeling, leading to mixed interpretations. In another flavor, very simple tasks are used, which have afforded detailed characterization of behavior and the underlying neurobiology, but are limited in eliciting high-level cognitive strategies. …”
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Stakeholder views on the uptake of sustainable and responsible nickel mining and processing supply chains for electric vehicles in Indonesia by Malik, Rameen Hayat

“…Employing a policy mobility framework, this thesis navigates the trans-local dynamics of policy making in Indonesia, juxtaposing these with global economy wide pursuits of transportation decarbonization via the EV industry. Through a mixed-methods approach, combining literature review, stakeholder interviews, and field observations, the research unveils the multifaceted perspectives of various stakeholders including industrial entities, government bodies, and civil society organizations. …”
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Predictive and Prescriptive Trees for Optimization and Control Problems by Kim, Cheol Woo

“…In Chapter 5, we introduce a prescriptive machine learning approach to speed up the process of solving mixed integer convex optimization (MICO) problems. …”
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Microporous Polymer-Metal Organic Framework (MOF) Hybrid Materials for Separations by Wu, Wan-Ni

“…Recent advancements in microporous materials, such as polymers of intrinsic microporosity (PIMs) and metal-organic frameworks (MOFs), have demonstrated performance improvements over conventional polymers. Mixed-matrix membranes (MMMs) have emerged as a potent strategy, combining the processability of polymers with the superior separation properties of MOFs to create high-performance membranes. …”
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Symmetry and its Signatures in Quantum Many-Body Dynamics by Ogunnaike, Olumakinde

“…The recent developments in the field of quantum many-body dynamics provide satisfactory accounts of many interesting phenomena, including failures of the Eigenstate Thermalization Hypothesis, various dynamical and mixed-state phases of matter, and measurement-induced dynamics and phase transitions. …”
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从“花园城市”到“花园中的城市” : 新加坡环境政策的理念与实践及其对中国的启示 = From “Garden city” to “A city in a garden” : the ideals and practices of Singapore’s environmental greenery policy and its implications f... by 王君 Wang, Jun, 刘宏Liu, Hong

“…First, it introduces the policy evolution from “Garden City” to “City in A Garden”; secondly, we discuss the government’s conceptualization of the policy; thirdly, it explores various mechanisms that are used by the government to implement the “Garden City” and “City in A Garden” policies; fourthly, we use “Marina South” mixed-use residential district as an example to demonstrate how the policy is put into implementation. …”
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Refining learning models in grammatical inference by Wang, Xiangrui

“…Test results based on Splice-junction Gene Sequence database demonstrate the method reduces model size by 32% from the widely used deterministic finite automaton model. By mixed k-th order Markov Chains, stochastic information for all possible substrings within k+1 length is captured. …”
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Optimal network charge for peer-to-peer energy trading: a grid perspective by Yang, Yu, Chen, Yue, Hu, Guoqiang, Spanos, Costas J.

“…Besides, we propose a method to obtain the network charge price by converting the bi-level optimization into a single-level mixed-integer quadratic programming (MIQP), which can handle a reasonable scale of prosumers efficiently. …”
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Visualization of robust two-dimensional bulk states with suppressed surface state on epitaxial PdCoO₂ thin films with bipolar surfaces by Kawamoto, Tomoki, Krishnadas, Anjana, Hsu, Chia-Hsiu, Pardo-Almanza, Markel, Fujisawa, Yuita, Chang, Guoqing, Harada, Takayuki, Okada, Yoshinori

“…Using in situ angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy, we investigated the electronic states of epitaxial PdCoO2 thin films with high crystalline quality and bipolar surface with mixed termination. On this characteristic surface, we observed a surprisingly prominent bulklike single hexagonal large Fermi surface with suppressed surface state. …”
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Ectomycorrhizal community composition, diversity, and their environmental drivers across common UK temperate woodlands by Ong, Wei Sern

“…While overall ECM richness/diversity was higher among the ancient semi-natural broadleaved habitats than the coniferous-dominant planted woodlands, coppicing and monoculture growth did not appear to reduce ECM richness when compared against their non-coppiced woodlands and mixed conifer woodlands counterparts. The main variables identified to influence ECM community composition (pH, vegetation species richness) were also different from the variables identified to influence ECM richness (vegetation proportions, fine root biomass). …”
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Hybrid organic–inorganic perovskite superstructures for ultrapure green emissions by Chan, Wen Kiat, Chen, Jiawei, Zhou, Donglei, Ye, Junzhi, Vázquez, Ricardo Javier, Zhou, Cheng, Bazan, Guillermo Carlos, Rao, Akshay, Yu, Zhongzheng, Tan, Timothy Thatt Yang

“…We hope that this work will be seminal in advancing the exploration of perovskite SSs using mixed cation groups to further improve their optoelectronic applications.…”
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