Advancing the chemotherapy of tuberculous meningitis: a consensus view by Wasserman, S, Donovan, J, Kestelyn, E, Watson, JA, Aarnoutse, RE, Barnacle, JR, Boulware, DR, Chow, FC, Cresswell, FV, Davis, AG, Dooley, KE, Figaji, AA, Gibb, DM, Huynh, J, Imran, D, Marais, S, Meya, DB, Misra, UK, Modi, M, Raberahona, M, Ganiem, AR, Rohlwink, UK, Ruslami, R, Seddon, JA, Skolimowska, KH, Solomons, RS, Stek, CJ, Thuong, NTT, van Crevel, R, Whitaker, C, Thwaites, GE, Wilkinson, RJ

“…In this Personal View, a global consortium of tuberculous meningitis researchers articulate a coordinated, definitive way ahead via globally conducted clinical trials of novel drugs and regimens to advance treatment and improve outcomes for this life-threatening infection.…”

Regimental agents as Language Intermediaries in the Eighteenth-Century Habsburg Realms by Pataki, K

“…Schmid was an expert of transcribing, translating, and analysing Old Medieval High German texts and his comments on the production of the news provide unique insight into Isenflamm’s social and business life through the lens of a meticulous philologist. …”

The need for regulation: permissive governance and disproportionate use of live facial recognition technology by the Metropolitan Police Service by Croker, JT

“…The MPS has used LFR since 2016, and this use threatens the enjoyment of a range of protected rights, including Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights (the protection of private and family life). While the technology itself poses novel challenges to the enjoyment of a range of rights, the contribution made by this thesis highlights the risk of police ineffectually self-regulating their use of artificial intelligence (AI) tools without ensuring effective oversight, accountability or appropriate rights protections. …”

Disposition kinetics of tylosin administered intravenously and intramuscularly in Desert Sheep and Nubian Goats by Taha, A.A., Elsheikh, H.A., Khalafalla, A.E., Osman, I. A. M., Abdullah, A. Salam

“…Following i.v. administration, the volumes of distribution and the elimination half-life times were similar in both species, whereas in goats a greater volume of the central compartment and faster clearance were observed. …”
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A lead(II) ion selective electrode via a metal complex of poly(hydroxamic acid) by Anuar, K., Hamdan, S.

“…The response time was 50-120 sec over the whole concentration range and the electrode has a working life of at least 4 weeks. Iron(III) severely poisoned the electrode membrane. …”
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Issues of Group Settlement’s Land Inheritance Management in Peninsular Malaysia by Mohd Asri, Mohammad Hazim Firdaus, Maamor, Selamah, Mohd Noor, Fauziah

“…Therefore, the inherited wealth should be distributed to the rightful heir to benefit and live a comfortable life. The study aims to review the inheritance management issues in the group settlement through a literature study. …”
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Resettlement of Northern Muslims: A Challenge for Sustainable Post-War Development and Reconciliation in Sri Lanka by Yusoff, Mohammad Agus, Sarjoon, Athambawa, Mohd. Zain, Zawiyah

“…This study drew on important insights from a quarter-century history of forcefully evicted Muslims in Sri Lanka’s northern province by examining the nature of their displaced life and their permanent resettlement in their traditional villages, particularly in the post-civil war context. …”
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The Search of Best Practices of Malaysian Halal Cosmetics Industry to Improve Firm Performance by Md Sin, Mohammad Aizat, Razalli, Mohd Rizal, Mohamed Ismail, Risyawati

“…Halal refers to the Islamic law that Muslims must adhere to, which includes all materials used in everyday life, such as cosmetic products. Muslims not only need the final product to be Halal, they also need to ensure that all aspects of supply chain of the products, such as raw materials, handling, processing, transportation, distribution, storage, product safety, and evaluation of the effectiveness of the product comply with Halal principles as well. …”
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The big five personality traits and eating habits among female students at Zayed University by AlBlooshi, S, AlSabbah, K, Thani, S, Hijazi, R, Al Dhaheri, AS, Zeb, F, Cheikh Ismail, L

“…Background: Adhering to healthy dietary habits is crucial for disease prevention and improving overall quality of life. Understanding how personality traits influence eating behaviors is essential for developing effective interventions aimed at promoting healthier eating habits. …”

The amygdala and the pursuit of future rewards by Johnson, ST, Grabenhorst, F

“…Success and failure in these processes have been linked to differential life outcomes and psychiatric conditions. …”

Self-healing cementitious composites by encapsulation techniques by Feng, Jianhang

“…Cracking of cementitious composites is almost inevitable, which requires manual repair and maintenance to extend service life of cracked cementitious composites. However, manual remediation may not be practical in case of inaccessible cracks and would cause high carbon emissions and cost. …”
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Removal of ammonia from rubber wastewater using rubber-sludge-based biochar to enhance biogas production by NurulEzza Fazlina, Abu, Noor Yahida, Yahya, Fatin Zafirah, Mansur, Nurmunira, Muhammad

“…The highest ammonia removal was 7.5 mg/l at an initial adsorbent loading dosage of 1.5 g of RSB for 30 min of mixing. Further, during the AD process, the highest biogas yield of 19.061 ml/g was achieved after 28 days at pH 8. …”
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Development of an educational method to rethink and learn oncological brain surgery in an “a la carte” connectome-based perspective by Valdes, Pablo A., Ng, Sam, Bernstock, Joshua D., Duffau, Hugues

“…Conclusions Taking no more than 3–5 min per patient and irrespective of their resource settings, we believe that this method will enable junior surgeons to develop an intuition, and a robust 3-dimensional imagery of WMT by regularly applying it to their cases both before and after surgery to develop an “a la carte” connectome-based perspective to glioma surgery.…”
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Quantum Speed-ups for String Synchronizing Sets, Longest Common Substring, and \(k\) -mismatch Matching by Jin, Ce, Nogler, Jakob

“…Our result improves upon previous upper bounds $\tilde O(\min \{n/d^{1/2}, n^{2/3}\})$ (Le Gall and Seddighin ITCS 2022, Akmal and Jin SODA 2022), and answers an open question of Akmal and Jin. …”
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Lenzen’s Distributed Routing Generalized: A Full Characterization of Constant-Time Routability by Ghaffari, Mohsen, Wang, Brandon

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Towards Optimal Output-Sensitive Clique Listing or: Listing Cliques from Smaller Cliques by Dalirrooyfard, Mina, Mathialagan, Surya, Williams, Virginia Vassilevska, Xu, Yinzhan

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Electrostatic microfiltration (EM) enriches and recovers viable microorganisms at low-abundance in large-volume samples and enhances downstream detection by Liu, Yaoping, Raymond, Joshua J, Wu, Xiaolin, Chua, Patrina Wei Lin, Ling, Sharon Yan Han, Chan, Chia Ching, Chan, Cheryl, Loh, Joanne Xin Yi, Song, Melody Xing Yen, Ong, Matilda Yu Yan, Ho, Peiying, Mcbee, Megan E, Springs, Stacy L, Yu, Hanry, Han, Jongyoon

“…This study develops an efficient electrostatic microfiltration (EM)-based sample preparation technique capable of processing ultra-large-volume (≥500 mL) samples at high throughput (≥10 mL min−1). This approach achieves a significant enrichment (>8000×) of extremely-low-abundance pathogens (down to level of 0.02 CFU mL−1, i.e., 10 CFU in 500 mL). …”
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Cooperation and Fairness in Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning by Aloor, Jasmine, Nayak, Siddharth Nagar, Dolan, Sydney, Balakrishnan, Hamsa

“…We find that by training agents using min-max fair distance goal assignments along with a reward term that incentivizes fairness as they move towards their goals, the agents (1) learn a fair assignment of goals and (2) achieve almost perfect goal coverage in navigation scenarios using only local observations. …”
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Selectivity of stop codon recognition in translation termination is modulated by multiple conformations of GTS loop in eRF1 by Li, Yan, Pillay, Shubhadra, Frolova, Ludmila, Pervushin, Konstantin, Wong, Leo E.

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The influence of Ti doping on morphology and photoelectrochemical properties of hematite grown from aqueous solution for water splitting by Zhao, Xin, Feng, Jianyong, Wang, Ning, Yao, Xin, Chen, Wei, Chen, Shi, Huang, Zhaohong, Chen, Zhong

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