A study on mechanical properties, electrical conductivity and EMI shielding performance of syntactic foams. by Zhang, Liying.

“…Flexural strength and fracture toughness were increased with increasing CNFs content and decreased beyond 1.5 vol% of CNFs. The decreasing trend was due to agglomeration and clustering of the CNFs. …”
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Optimization of the thermal performance of building double-skin envelope by Chua, Wei Jin

“…When radiant barriers are installed, the optimum air gap height changes to the range of 9.5 cm to 10 cm. No conclusion was made for the optimum height when insulations are installed, as the efficiency continues to rise even after reaching the maximum gap height of this study. …”
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Essays in interactional dynamics of financial markets by Chen, Zhenxi

“…This kind of cluster formation is similar to the concept of coupled map lattices (CML) in other disciplines such as Physics. Chapter 5 applies Markov-regime switching technique to show the existence of inter-market traders whose trading decision is based on the fundamental value of foreign market under a two-market framework. …”
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Chemical methods in dewatering clayey slurry for land reclamation (GE27AB/ISP) by Andi

“…The obvious effect was observed when the PAM increase from 0.5 g/kg dry soil to 4 g/kg dry soil. Cationic PAM+15 type seemed to be the most effective type with optimum dosage of 1 g/kg dry soil. …”
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Design of low power PLL synthesizer for 60 GHz applications by Mahalingam, Nagarajan

“…The fully integrated PLL synthesizer for the 60 GHz application operates in the K-band dissipating a power of 42 mW from 1.8 V supply voltage. The 3rd order external loop filter is used in the PLL synthesizer.…”
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Identification and characterisation of novel human dendritic cell progenitors by See, Peter Chi Ee

“…We also demonstrated that pre-cDC but not pDC were able to differentiate into cDC subsets in MS5 stromal culture supplemented with the cytokines Flt3L, SCF and GM-CSF. …”
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Effect of geometry on temporal development of quasi-1D jet scour by Tan, Ian Haoyang

“…It was discovered that quasi-1D equilibrium scour depth (dse) generally decreased when impingement height is increased, with the exception of a variation at H = 2.5 cm due to jet diffusion effect. It was also observed that both dse and time to reach equilibrium (te) increase when L was increased due to a larger erodible bed volume which facilitates better vortex formation. …”
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Cadê o Kauê? Co-design and acceptability testing of a chat-story aimed at enhancing youth participation in the promotion of mental health in Brazil by Pavarini, G, Murta, SG, Mendes, JAA, Siston, FR, Souza, RRA, Cunha, RO, Ferreira, JA, Santos, VHL, Seabra, BTR, Talk2U, Singh, I

“…In Part 3, the chat-story was user tested (<em>n</em>&thinsp;=&thinsp;32). Parts 4 and 5 assessed acceptability through a qualitative study in schools (<em>n</em>&thinsp;=&thinsp;138) and initial efficacy during an online campaign (<em>n</em>&thinsp;=&thinsp;795).…”

Acquisition of musical skills and abilities in older adults—results of 12 months of music training by Losch, H, Altenmüller, E, Marie, D, Passarotto, E, Kretschmer, CR, Scholz, DS, Kliegel, M, Krüger, THC, Sinke, C, Jünemann, K, James, CE, Worschech, F

“…Methods: One hundred fifty-six healthy older adults (age = 69.5 years ± 3.2) from Hannover and Geneva with no prior musical training participated in weekly piano practice (PP) or ‘music culture’ (MC) sessions over a one-year period. …”

Transforming kernel-based learners to incorporate domain knowledge from climate science by Bouabid, S

“…This emulator, we call FaIRGP, can learn from data and outperform purely process-based emulators, while retaining the robustness from the incorporated energy balance model. In Chapter 5, we consider an applied observational challenge in climate science: obtaining global estimates of aerosol vertical profiles. …”

Role of primary and secondary care data in atrial fibrillation ascertainment: impact on risk factor associations, patient management, and mortality in UK Biobank by Camm, CF, Von Ende, A, Gajendragadkar, PR, Pessoa-Amorim, G, Mafham, M, Allen, N, Parish, S, Casadei, B, Hopewell, JC

“…HADP-only cases also had higher rates of death [PC-only: 9.3 (6.8, 12.7), PC + HADP: 23.4 (20.5, 26.6), HADP-only: 81.2 (73.8, 89.2) events per 1000 person-years, P &lt; 0.0001] compared to other groups. …”

Assessment of novel pre-erythrocytic malaria vaccines in humans by Venkatraman, N

“…High level efficacy (&amp;GT; 80%) is reported in Chapter 5 with a three-dose schedule of 10/10/10μg R21/MM given 4 weeks apart. …”

An external validation of the QCovid risk prediction algorithm for risk of mortality from COVID-19 in adults: a national validation cohort study in England by Nafilyan, V, Humberstone, B, Mehta, N, Diamond, I, Coupland, C, Lorenzi, L, Pawelek, P, Schofield, R, Morgan, J, Brown, P, Lyons, R, Sheikh, A, Hippisley-Cox, J

“…Similar results were obtained for the second time period. In the top 5% of patients with the highest predicted risks of death, the sensitivity for identifying deaths in the first period was 65·94% for men and 71·67% for women. …”

Kesan persekitaran pekerjaan terhadap penglibatan wanita dalam STEM by Nurhamizah Rashid, Norain Mod Asri, Azrina Abdullah Al-Hadi, Norshamliza Chamhuri, Hazrul Izuan Shahiri

“…Model 4 bertemakan pengalaman iaitu tempoh tempoh (bilangan tahun) pengalaman wanita telah berkhidmat dalam industri berkaitan STEM, model 5 bertemakan pengalaman iaitu tempoh (bilangan tahun) pengalaman wanita telah berkhidmat dalam syarikat berkaitan STEM dan model 6 bertemakan persaraan iaitu wanita bercadang untuk bersara lebih awal dari yang ditetapkan oleh organisasi/ kerajaan. …”
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Expert system for real time optimization of solid waste management in Malaysia by Abu Samah, Mohd Armi

“…From the sampling done, it was found that the actual waste composition generated for a month in residential, shopping and industrial area in Balakong was approximately 5,344.00 kg, 9067.90 kg,864.95 kg, respectively. …”
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Prospective associations between an empirically derived dietary pattern and life satisfaction in Malaysian adolescents by Magendiran, Mugambikai, Appannah, Geeta, Emi, Nor Aishah, Chin, Yit Siew, Mohd Shariff, Zalilah, Anuar Zaini, Azriyanti, Shamsuddin, Nurainul Hana, Suppiah, Subapriya, Saini, Suraini Mohamad, Thambiah, Subashini C., Ching, Siew Mooi

“…Female adolescents [67.6(8.9)] had a mean (SD) of life satisfaction that was higher than male adolescents [67.5(10.8)] p < 0.05 in 2019–2020. Prospective analysis found a significant positive association between the identified DP and school domain, in male adolescents (β = 0.117; 95% CI 0.001, 0.234) and an inverse relationship between the DP z-score and self-domain in all adolescents (β = − 0.060; 95% CI − 0.115, − 0.005) from 2016 to 2019–2020. …”
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Mesh quality improvement by re-triangulation surface meshes on 3-dimensional CAD model of a human wrist joint by Leong, Mun Teik

“…For control size of triangle mesh, 0.5 mm of control edge length of triangle was taken to produce 92.35 % and 92.09 % for cortical and cancellous bones respectively. …”
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A behaviour-based analytical malware detection framework for android smartphones by Damshenas, Mohsen

“…Previous studies reported that the initial detection rate of a newly created Android virus is less than 5%, which indicate that the available products in the market are not really effective. …”
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Self-healing framework for service level agreement monitoring and violation reacting in cloud computing by Mosallanejad, Ahmad

“…The implemented frameworks are executed in described scenario for 20 minutes and every 5 minutes an intrusion attack applied to stop SQL service. …”
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Induction of apoptosis and the signalling pathways involved by dillenia suffruticosa dichloromethane root extract in mcf-7 and mda-mb-231 breast cancer cells by Foo, Jhi Biau

“…The mode of cell death was evaluated by using an inverted light microscope and AnnexinV/PI-flow cytometry analysis. Cell cycle analysis and measurement of intracellular reactive oxygen species (ROS) level were performed by using flow cytometry. …”
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