The unintended consequences of information system change on organizational memory: remembering and forgetting in English and Ontarian child protection services by Vogl, TM

“…Information technology change in this sector is ostensibly aimed at addressing key challenges exposed by child death reviews, performance audits, and research into child outcomes, such as the issue of past information not being available for front-line or policy decision making. However, the promise of digitization was not always achieved. …”

Global availability of medications and health technologies for kidney care: A multinational study from the ISN-GKHA by Kelly, DM, Jones, ESW, Barday, Z, Arruebo, S, Caskey, FJ, Damster, S, Donner, J, Jha, V, Levin, A, Nangaku, M, Saad, S, Tonelli, M, Ye, F, Okpechi, IG, Bello, AK, Johnson, DW

“…Public funding (and free at point of delivery) for medications for dialysis and kidney transplantation was available in only 24% (n = 39) and 30% (n = 50) of countries worldwide, with the proportion increasing in line with country income levels. There was reduced capacity for the management of CKD mineral bone disease in low-income countries (LICs) - serum parathyroid hormone was available in only 26% (n = 5) of LICs and the ability to administer non-calcium-based phosphate binders and cinacalcet was also very limited in LICs [16% (n = 3) and 5% (n = 1), respectively]. …”

Utilizing Social Return on Investment (SROI) as a framework for sustainable social investment: insights from flood mitigation by Dona Raihana Don Ramli, Kadaruddin Aiyub, Sarina Yusoff

“…This article explores the concept of sustainability within the framework of the triple bottom line and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), specifically focusing on the Sungai Muda Flood Mitigation Program (SMFMP), Kedah involving quantitative data. …”
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Building the semiotic meaning of critical thinking from the Prophet Ibrahim's discourses in the scene of da'wah to his father in the Qur'anic story by Mhd Ramli, Mhd Faizal, Othman, Mohd Sukki, Hajimaming, Pabiyah, Wan Sulong, Wan Muhammad

“…Although the study of critical thinking is of interest to researchers in the field of contemporary education, many people still neglect and ignore the logical and rational aspects of Prophet Ibrahim's discourses as a comprehensive scientific approach to critical thinking based on divine revelation.This has led to Muslims being accused of stagnation and backwardness due to their inability to provide evidence and produce new knowledge from the Holy Quran in line with the development of contemporary knowledge.The research adopted the descriptive analytical approach through the semiotic pragmatic method pioneered by Peirce, which consists of components namelyrepresentamen, object and interpretant, and the research relied on thecritical thinking elements by the Delphi Report, as the basis for this research. …”
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Variational model with image denoising fitting term for boundary extraction of breast ultrasound images by Badrulhisam, Nurdina, Ismail, Nurhuda, Jumaat, Abdul Kadir, Maasar, Mohd Azdi, Laham, Mohamed Faris

“…A variational model was used to extract or segment the breast ultrasound (BUS) image boundary in order to find a closed curve line of the abnormality region for further diagnosis. …”
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Learning moral values through cartoons for Malaysian preschool-aged children by Abdullah, Muhammad Alif Redzuan

“…The families' explanations helped the preschoolers distinguish between good and bad moral values in line with Malay culture and Islamic teachings. The analysis was limited by the small sample size and geographical location of this study. …”
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A case study on the application of new media technology and market expansion of rural enterprises in Central China by Liu, Meng, Wan Abas, Wan Antia, Mamat, Roslina

“…In the process of brand building, this article emphasizes the combination of product characteristics and local culture to ensure that the brand image is more in line with the tastes and needs of local consumers. …”
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Development of a recombinant non-replicating Newcastle disease virus by Cheow, Pheik-Sheen, Tan, Tiong Kit, Song, Adelene Ai-Lian, Yusoff, Khatijah, Chia, Suet Lin

“…The virus retained its oncolytic activities similar to that of the replicating rAF-GFP as observed in a cell viability assay when a breast cancer cell line, MCF-7, was treated with the virus. In conclusion, this study has successfully generated a system to produce a non-replicating NDV which can be used as a viral vector for heterologous protein delivery, as a safer alternative compared to the virulent strains as an oncolytic virus. …”

Development and in vitro bioevaluation of cockle shell-calcium carbonate (Aragonite) nanoparticles for intracellular drug delivery by Isa, Tijani

“…Biocompatibilities were evaluated on macrophage cell line (J774.A1) using 3-(4,5-Dimethylthiazol-2-yl)-2,5-diphenyltetrazolium bromide (MTT) and 5-Bromo-2ʹ-deoxyuridine (BrdU) assays. …”
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Synthesis, Characterisation Of Stilbene–Arylcinnamide Hybrids And Cytotoxic Studies Against Lung Cancer Cell A549 by Mohd Zaki, Nurain Syazwani

“…The cytotoxicity against human lung cancer A549 cell line was assessed by the 3-(4,5-dimethylthiazol-2-yl)-2,5-diphenyltetrazolium (MTT) assay, using cisplatin as the positive control. …”
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Corrugation and Squat Classification and Detection with VGG16 and YOLOv5 Neural Network Models by Mohd Yazed, Muhammad Syukri, Mohd Yunus, Mohd Amin, Ahmad Shaubari, Ezak Fadzrin, Abdul Hamid, Nor Aziati, Amzah, Azmale, Md Ali, Zulhelmi

“…The research's uniqueness lies in its application of these specific models and the composition of a dataset collected from extensive field measurements and inspections across various railway tracks within the Track Network Maintenance Ampang Line in Malaysia. The results demonstrate that these models achieve high precision in defect classification and detection of defects by more than 80%. …”
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The Effect of National Debt on Private Investment (S/O 14327) by Hassan, Sallahuddin

“…The Malaysian debt policies and Acts need to be changed accordingly and must be in line with the changes of investment environment. …”
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A Sustainable System Dynamics Optimization Model for Rice Self-Sufficiency in Malaysia (S/O: 13248) by Hawari, Nurul Nazihah, Zainal Abidin, Norhaslinda, Benjamin, Aida Mauziah, Applanaidu, Shri Dewi

“…Findings from this research shows that by 2020, the rice SSL in Malaysia is only 73% achievement from 100% target. This research is in line with the Malaysia’s Plan agenda of empowering the agricultural sector which finding from this research is significant in assisting MOA on designing policy for the better future prospect of rice industry in Malaysia…”
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Value Co-creation with Customers by Facebook Community: A Successful Example of PKT Logistics by Belal, H. M., Noordin, Alminnourliza, Hasan, Quamrul, Ahmad Zaidi, Mohamad Faizal

“…Cisco company is providing an on-line service for giving its customers open access to Cisco’s resources, information and systems, thereby Cisco and its customers can get involved with each other and make user community. …”
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Towards practical data-driven predictive maintenance: a robust and generalizable deep learning approach by Mohamed Ragab Mohamad Adam

“…The focus of this thesis is on two main tasks of predictive maintenance: fault diagnosis and fault prognosis (i.e., Remaining Useful Life Estimation (RUL)) tasks. …”
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Photonic analog-to-digital conversion and photonic microwave signal generation by Wong, Jia haur

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Intelligent microgrid management and EV control under uncertainties in smart grid by Wang, Ran

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Luteolin restricts dengue virus replication through inhibition of the proprotein convertase furin by Peng, Minhua, Watanabe, Satoru, Chan, Kitti Wing Ki, He, Qiuyan, Zhao, Ya, Zhang, Zhongde, Lai, Xiaoping, Luo, Dahai, Vasudevan, Subhash G., Li, Geng

“…In addition, ADE-mediated dengue virus infection of human cell lines and primary PBMCs was inhibited. In a time-of-drug-addition study, luteolin was found to reduce infectious virus particle formation, but not viral RNA synthesis, in Huh-7 cells. …”
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Benchmarking Pavement Environmental Performance Using Data-Driven Modeling and Policy by Vaidyanath, Varsha

“…This paper addresses how a new pavement evaluation system and policy framework might drive better solutions to reduce carbon emissions, from a climate change standpoint. The main components include: establishing why current pavement rating systems and current policy are not sufficient, performing a data-driven analysis with a grading and scorecard system to assess, compare, and summarizing pavement design quality, and proposing an effective policy framework to implement the system.…”
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Intel’s Fall from Grace by Cusumano, Michael

“…Intel's decline has two main causes, apart from the innovations at Nvidia. …”
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