The Brazilian disc test for rock mechanics applications : review and new insights by Li, Diyuan, Wong, Louis Ngai Yuen

“…A simple extension strain criterion was put forward by Stacey (Int J Rock Mech Min Sci Geomech Abstr 18(6):469–474, 1981) to account for extension crack initiation and propagation in rocks, although this is not widely used. …”
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Changes in cardiorespiratory fitness following exercise training prescribed relative to traditional intensity anchors and physiological thresholds: a systematic review with meta-an... by Meyler, Samuel J. R., Swinton, Paul A., Bottoms, Lindsay, Dalleck, Lance C., Hunter, Ben, Sarzynski, Mark A., Wellsted, David, Williams, Camilla J., Muniz-Pumares, Daniel

“…The MID was predefined as one metabolic equivalent (MET; 3.5 mL kg−1 min−1). Results In controlled studies, mean O2max change was greater in the THR group compar…”
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Point of care assay for blood aripiprazole concentrations: development, validation and utility by Atkins, M, Taylor, D, Catalan, A, Desouza, N, Chesney, E, Reilly, TJ, Baburina, I, Hilaire, MR, Dratcu, L, Harland, R, Salamone, SJ, McGuire, P

“…Capillary blood samples were tested by the MyCare™ Insite POC analyser, which provided measurement of aripiprazole concentration in 6 min, and the venous blood sample was tested by the standard laboratory method.…”

A systematic review of transanal total mesorectal excision: is this the future of rectal cancer surgery? by Simillis, C, Hompes, R, Penna, M, Rasheed, S, Tekkis, PP

“…The mean operation time ranged from 143 to 450 min and mean operative blood loss from 22 to 225 ml. …”

Territorial movements of African lions: can waterholes shape multiple central-place territories in a savanna ecosystem? by Dejeante, R, Loveridge, A, Macdonald, D, Madlamoto, D, Chamaille-James, S, Valeix, M

Microbiological, physicochemical and nutritional properties of fresh cow milk treated with industrial high pressure processing (HPP) during storage by Lim, Shu Huey, Chin, Nyuk Ling, Sulaiman, Alifdalino, Tay, Cheow Hwang, Wong, Tak Hiong

“…The safety, shelf life, and quality of fresh cow milk treated using industrial High-Pressure Processing (HPP) treatment at 600 MPa for 10 min was studied to identify the novelty of this non-thermal technology in milk processing. …”
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Microwave-assisted treatment for the improvement of rice flour properties and rice flour bread quality by Md Yunos, Noor Seribainun Hidayah, Hafid, Halimatun Saadiah, Omar, Farah Nadia, P. Mohammed, Mohd Afandi, Wakisaka, Minato, Mustapha, Nor Afizah, Samsu Baharuddin, Azhari

“…Rice flour having two different water content (20% and 30%) were exposed to different level of microwave power (600 W, 700 W and 800 W) with 8 min treatment time to assess its influence on amylose content, thermal properties, morphological structure, functional and crystalline structural that affect bread quality. …”

A newly isolated organic solvent tolerant Bacillus sphaericus 205y producing organic solvent-stable lipase by Hun, Chin John, Raja Abd Rahman, Raja Noor Zaliha, Salleh, Abu Bakar, Basri, Mahiran

“…Four production media were tested and medium M3 yielded the highest lipase activity of 0.42 U ml-1 min-1 at 36 h incubation time. Stability studies in various organic solvents at 25% (v/v) showed that lipase from B. sphaericus 205y were not only stable but also activated by n-hexane and p-xylene by 3.5- and 2.9-folds, respectively. …”
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Application of Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy to determine free fatty acid contents in palm olein by Che Man, Y.B., Setiowaty, G.

“…The implementation of such a method as a quality control tool would eliminate the use and disposal of hazardous solvents required by the chemical method, and drastically reduce analysis time to less than 2 min/sample.…”
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Tribological study of modified palm oil-with single and hybrid nanofluids for metalworking fluid by Sabri, Ainaa Mardhiah, Talib, Norfazillah, Abdul Sani, Amiril Sahab, Abdullah, Haslina, Kamdani, Kamaruddin

“…The testing was done at temperature set to 75 ± 2 °C, load of 392 N, rotating speed of 1200 rpm for 60 min. MRPOaw show the lowest COF (0.06281) and smallest MWSD (607.1 μm). …”
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Ionic liquid based ultrasonic assisted extraction of flavonoids from Artemisia vulgaris and in vitro evaluation of anticancer activity by Lim, Jin Ru, Chua, Lee Suan, Mustaffa, Azizul Azri, Dawood, Dawood Ali Salim

“…Single-factor experiments reported that the optimum extraction time, 30 min and solid-to-liquid ratio, 1:10 could obtain high extraction yield (9.3 %) and flavonoid content (5.30 mg/g). …”

Parameter optimization for high-speed end milling on Inconel 718 using uncoated carbide tool by Hisam, Muhammad Juzaili, Suhaimi, Mohd. Azlan, Sharif, Safian, Abd. Rahim, Erween, Amrifan S. Mohruni, Amrifan S. Mohruni, Zhuang, Kejia

“…The final model suggested that by using uncoated carbide tools, the lowest cutting speed and feed rate of 50 m/min and 0.05 mm/tooth can be implemented to obtain the desired cutting responses.…”
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Investigations into high resolution imaging of the aqueous outflow system and cornea by Hong, Jesmond Xun Jie

“…The imaging probe has resolutions of 10.08 line pairs per mm (~49.61 µm) at the iridocorneal angle region and 5.04 line pairs per mm (~99.21 µm) at the fundus. …”
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Characterization of the biosynthetic gene cluster and shunt products yields insights into the biosynthesis of balmoralmycin by Ma, Guang-Lei, Xin, Lingyi, Liao, Yanghui, Chong, Zhi-Soon, Candra, Hartono, Pang, Li Mei, Lee, Sean Qiu En, Gakuubi, Martin Muthee, Ng, Siew Bee, Liang, Zhao-Xun

“…Balmoralmycin (compound 1) represents a unique group of angucyclines that contain an angular benz[a]anthracene tetracyclic system, a characteristic C-glycosidic bond-linked deoxy-sugar (D-olivose), and an unsaturated fatty acid chain. …”
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Decoding divergence in marine protistan communities: from strain diversity to basin biogeography by Krinos Quinn, Arianna Isabella

“…Scalable workflows highlight the challenge and promise of meta-omic data to link community structure to physiology. I developed a pipeline for metatranscriptome analysis and taxonomic annotation to address the lack of tools built specifically for microbial eukaryotes, and created mock communities to assess recovery success in protistan metatranscriptome analysis workflows (Chapters 4 and 5). …”
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Mechanics of Three-Dimensional Micro-Architected Interpenetrating Phase Composites by Chen, Andrew Y.

“…Altogether, this work broadens our established understanding of the link between architecture and mechanical performance by considering the framework of interpenetrating phase composites, creating the foundation for a new class of strong, resilient, and programmable materials with architected stress states.…”
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LEO satellite formation for SSP : energy and doppler analysis by Goh, Shu Ting, Zekavat, Seyed Alireza, Abdelkhalik, Ossama

“…In this paper, first, the transmission link budget from LEO and geostationary orbits to the Earth are compared, and the harvested energy by the ground station on the Earth is investigated. …”
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Threshold estimation models for linear threshold-based influential user mining in social networks by Talukder, Ashis, Tran, Nguyen H., Niyato, Dusit, Park, Gwan Hoon, Hong, Choong Seon, Mohammad Golam Rabiul Alam

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Distributed hierarchical control of AC microgrid operating in grid-connected, islanded and their transition modes by Hou, Xiaochao, Sun, Yao, Lu, Jinghang, Zhang, Xin, Koh, Leong Hai, Su, Mei, Guerrero, Josep M.

“…In addition, stability analysis is added to facilitate the control parameter designs, and substantial simulation cases are provided to validate the control feasibility, link-failure-resiliency, and plug-and-play capability.…”
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Oct4 switches partnering from Sox2 to Sox17 to reinterpret the enhancer code and specify endoderm by Ng, Calista Keow Leng, Herath, Wishva, Lili, Sun, Hutchins, Andrew P, Robson, Paul, Kolatkar, Prasanna R, Stanton, Lawrence W, Aksoy, Irene, Jauch, Ralf, Chen, Jiaxuan, Dyla, Mateusz, Divakar, Ushashree, Bogu, Gireesh K, Teo, Roy

“…This work provides insights in understanding cell fate transcriptional regulation by highlighting the direct link between the DNA sequence of an enhancer and a developmental outcome.…”
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