Glucokinase activity in diabetes: too much of a good thing? by Ashcroft, FM, Lloyd, M, Haythorne, EA

“…Because glucose must be metabolised to stimulate insulin release it was initially argued that drugs that stimulate glucokinase (the first enzyme in glucose metabolism) would enhance insulin secretion in diabetes. However, in the long term, glucokinase activators have been largely disappointing. …”

Renewables in GCC countries: the next frontier? by Haug, M

“…The GCC countries may find that long-term commitment, flexibility, and localization of policies may offer cost effective or efficient solutions to this dilemma.…”

Gender equality, growth, and how a technological trap destroyed female work by Humphries, J, Schneider, B

“…Development economists have long studied the relationship between gender equality and economic growth. …”

The representation dynamic and the “normalization” of group differences by Carvalho, J-P, Pradelski, BSR

“…When there are multiple career stages, underrepresentation can escalate at senior levels long after “glass ceilings” have disappeared. Underrepresentation disappears as economic returns rise and/or group identification weakens.…”

The Viking Great Army north of the Tyne: A Viking camp in Northumberland? by Kershaw, J, Jarman, C, Weber, H, Horton, M

“…We argue that the site was strategically situated and long-lived, with evidence for occupation spanning the Roman to later medieval periods. …”

Complete genome sequences of five bacteria isolated from rice plants in a paddy field in Sekinchan, Selangor, Malaysia by Abdul Malek, Ahmad Zuhairi, Mohd Hashim, Amalia, Khairil Mokhtar, Nur Fadhilah, Saidi, Noor Baity, Abu Bakar, Mohd Faizal, Singaram, Nallamai

“…The five complete bacterial genomes from the genera Pseudomonas, Burkholderia, Sphingobacterium, Stenotrophomonas, and Pantoea were sequenced using Nanopore long-read sequencing technology.…”
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Cross-modal size-contrast illusion : acoustic increases in intensity and bandwidth modulate haptic representation of object size by Uesaki, Maiko, Ashida, Hiroshi, Kitaoka, Akiyoshi, Pasqualotto, Achille

“…In this study, a series of images each comprising a pair of pine-tree figures were translated into auditory modality using sensory substitution software. …”
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Gerak BAYANG : Eddin Khoo, Mohd Kamarulzaman Taib, Dr. Jalaini Abu Hassan by Khoo, Eddin, author 312871, Mohd Kamarulzaman Taib, author 656405, Jalaini Abu Hassan Dr. author 656406

“…Seramai lebih daripada 35 orang seniman seperti Nik Zainal Abidin, Long Thien Shih, Ismail Mat Hussin, Masnoor Ramli Mahmud, Adeputra, Haris Abadi dan Ismail Awi dikumpulkan dalam pameran ini untuk kita nikmati dan amati serta memaknai ‘suara’ mereka yang secara tidak langsung memberi kesedaran dalam memastikan kelestarian para Dalang dan seni persembahan wayang kulit.…”

An on-skin electrode with anti-epidermal-surface-lipid function based on a zwitterionic polymer brush by He, Ke, Liu, Zhiyuan, Wan, Changjin, Jiang, Ying, Wang, Ting, Wang, Ming, Zhang, Feilong, Liu, Yaqing, Pan, Liang, Xiao, Meng, Yang, Hui, Chen, Xiaodong

“…This work provides a material‐based solution to improve the long‐term reusability of on‐skin electronics and offers a unique prospective on developing next generation wearable healthcare devices.…”
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Carrier localization on the nanometer-scale limits transport in metal oxide photoabsorbers by Schleuning, Markus, Kölbach, Moritz, Ahmet, Ibbi, Präg, Raphael, Gottesman, Ronen, Gunder, Rene, Zhang, Mengyuan, Wargulski, Dan Ralf, Abou-Ras, Daniel, Grave, Daniel A., Abdi, Fatwa F., van de Krol, Roel, Schwarzburg, Klaus, Eichberger, Rainer, Friedrich, Dennis, Hempel, Hannes

“…Partial carrier localization further slows carrier diffusion beyond localization lengths of 1–6 nm and explains the extraordinarily long conductivity tails, which should not be taken as a sign of long diffusion lengths. …”
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The association of sleep duration with the risk of chronic kidney disease: a systematic review and meta-analysis by Koh, Jin Hean, Yeo, Brian Sheng Yep, Tan, Timothy Wei En, See, Mark Yong Siang, Ng, Adele Chin Wei, Loh, Shaun Ray Han, Gooley, Joshua, Tan, Chieh Suai, Toh, Song Tar

“…Conclusion. Both short and long sleep durations were significantly associated with a higher risk of chronic kidney disease. …”
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Crystallographic Correlations with Anisotropic Oxide Ion Conduction in Aluminum-Doped Neodymium Silicate Apatite Electrolytes by An, Tao, Baikie, Tom, Wei, Fengxia, Pramana, Stevin S., Schreyer, Martin K., Piltz, Ross O., Shin, J. Felix, Wei, Jun, Slater, Peter R., White, Timothy John

“…This semicircle disappeared after long-term (up to 3 months) annealing of the single crystals at 950 °C, also leading to a reduction in the bulk conductivity. …”
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Nation in action : making Chinese in the rural borderland between China and North Korea by Chen, Shiwei

“…Long-term fieldwork was supplemented by several short-term visits, usually around two weeks per visit, to Yanbian, South Korea, and North Korea. …”
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Tysnd1 deficiency in mice interferes with the peroxisomal localization of PTS2 enzymes, causing lipid metabolic abnormalities and male infertility by Kurochkin, Igor V., Alkuraya, Fowzan S., Iwasa, Hiroyasu, Akita, Masumi, Tsukui, Tohru, Ito, Chizuru, Shimozawa, Nobuyuki, Iseki, Mioko, Mizuno, Yumi, Ninomiya, Yuichi, Nakachi, Yutaka, Toshimori, Kiyotaka, Nishimukai, Megumi, Hara, Hiroshi, Maeba, Ryouta, Okazaki, Tomoki, Alodaib, Ali Nasser Ali, Amoudi, Mohammed Al, Jacob, Minnie, Horai, Yasushi, Watanabe, Mitsuhiro, Motegi, Hiromi, Wakana, Shigeharu, Noda, Tetsuo, Mizuno, Yosuke, Schönbach, Christian, Okazaki, Yasushi

“…Peroxisomes are subcellular organelles involved in lipid metabolic processes, including those of very-long-chain fatty acids and branched-chain fatty acids, among others. …”
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Combating Household Bankruptcy: Developing a New Integrated Financial Education Model for Malaysian (S/O 13585) by Sawandi, Norfaiezah, Abu Bakar, Abu Sufian, Shaari, Hasnah, Amran, Noor Afza, Saad, Ram Al Jaffri

“…The incidents of bankruptcy amongst Malaysian can contribute to a financially distress situation amongst those involved which in the long term may affect, to a great extent, the economic stability particularly at the micro level. …”
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Effects of Surface Scattering in Waveform Inversion by Bleibinhaus, Florian, Rondenay, Stephane

“…Our test model and data conform to a long-offset survey of the upper crust in terms of size and frequency. …”
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Optimization of Lithium Iron Phosphate Battery Charging and Performance by Misic, Aleksandar

“…Experiments were performed to investigate various charging algorithms (Section 5.2.3), temperature effects (Sections 5.1.1-5.1.3 and 5.2.2) and long term health of the battery pack (Section 5.2.4). …”
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A decade after the first full human genome sequencing : when will we understand our own genome? by Eisenhaber, Frank

“…This articles estimates how long will it take to achieve this goal if we extrapolate from the previous decade (indeed, a century!) …”
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Investigations of buoyant jet discharges using digital particle image velocimetry (DPIV) and planar laser induced fluorescence (PLIF) by Wang, Hongwei

“…The key advantage of the short duration required for the turbulence measurements as opposed to the relatively long duration using point-based techniques is highlighted.…”
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Synaptic CMOS transistor by Chai, Zhen Hong

“…In this work, electrical measurements were conducted on commercial level TiN/HfO2 gated n-channel MOSFET transistor (with an equivalent oxide thickness of 1.7nm) to demonstrate that it can exhibit some critical synaptic characteristics of a biological synapse such as excitatory and inhibitory postsynaptic current (EPSC and IPSC), short-term plasticity (STP) and long-term potentiation (LTP), metaplasticity, and spike timing dependent plasticity (STDP). …”
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