Water quality and prevalence of extended spectrum beta lactamase producing escherichia coli (ESBL E. coli) in Sungai Terengganu, Malaysia by Noor Haza Fazlin Hashim, Muhammad Azroie Mohamed Yusoff, Rachel Trevor Gunggang, Roslina Abdul Razak, Muhamad Zulfatihi Jaafar, Nasehir Khan E.M. Yahaya

“…ESBL E. coli was found in 8 of 13 sampling sites (61.5%), with the highest concentration at 800 CFU/100 mL. …”
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Evaluation of environmental parameters and economic efficiency of integrated farming system on acidic soil and saltwater intrusion in the coastal area: a case study of Mekong Delta... by Ha, Vo Van, Di, Huynh Ba, Nha, Duong Van, Phuoc, Nguyen Van

“…Therefore, diversified land use in coastal areas to grow sedge grass combined with snails and tilapia increased household income in these study sites.…”
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Catalytic deoxygenation of waste cooking oil for sustainable bio-jet fuel: A comparative study of Ni-Co/SBA-15 and Ni-Co/SBA-15-SH catalysts by Razak, Noor Azira Abdul, Taufiq-Yap, Yun Hin, Derawi, Darfizzi

“…It was revealed that the bimetallic catalysts with 10 wt% of Ni and Co were not favorable as high metal content possibly blocked the porous support, reducing the active sites of the catalysts and decreasing deoxygenation activity. …”
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Synthetic recrystalization matrix for converting coal ash into value added product by Ong, Khiaw Chong.

“…Increasing massive amount of coal ash is forecasted, large amount of land is needed to be used for coal ash disposal sites. Moreover, the toxic contaminants will leach out to the surrounding areas causing environmental impact. …”
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Modeling of functional materials : perovskite solar cells by Aruj Shukla

“…This report, written as partial fulfillment of the undergraduate thesis shows amongst other results that, the bandgap energy levels are independent of the organic component (A sites in ABX3), concur with experimental data, an increase in the band gap as the symmetry of the crystallographic structure decreases from cubic to tetragonal and most importantly that the band gap of perovskite can be tuned i.e. manipulated, by changing and mixing different compositions of halides in the structure. …”
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Development and application of novel proteomics methods in proteomics research by Hao, Piliang

“…The existing challenges for accurately identifying and quantifying protein deamidation sites in proteomics include tremendous false positive identifications of deamidated peptides from database searches, substantial interference of artificial deamidation from sample preparation, difficulties in differentiating and quantifying the isomeric n-Asp and isoAsp deamidation products in proteome scale, and inability of validating quantification of deamidated peptides by either ELISA or multiple reaction monitoring. …”
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Formation of the postmitotic nuclear envelope from extended ER cisternae precedes nuclear pore assembly by Lu, Lei, Ladinsky, Mark S., Kirchhausen, Tomas.

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Strategic and operational issues in sustaining community-based dementia support groups: the Get Real with Meeting Centres realist evaluation part 2 by Morton, T, Evans, SB, Swift, R, Bray, J, Frost, F, Russell, C, Brooker, D, Wong, G, Hullah, N

“…</p> <br> <p><strong>Method:</strong> Semi-structured interviews and focus group discussions were conducted with 77 participants across three MC sites in England and Wales, including people living with dementia, informal carers, staff, volunteers, trustees, and supporting professionals/practitioners. …”

Small-island interactions: pottery from Roman Malta by Anastasi, M

“…These data were also fed into a series of network analyses, which plotted the common pottery links shared between small-island and mainland sites in the region. The analyses were interpreted in conjunction with a critique of existing pottery quantification methods, and the potential acceptance for utilising all known pottery data irrespective of the quality and quantity of the published data available. …”

GIS-based multi-criteria decision analysis model for utility water demand: the case of Lodwar Municipality, Turkana County, Kenya by Wanguba, B, Siriba, DN, Okumu, BO

“…The resulting model outcome identified the potential demand priority sites within the region of which some are underserved. …”

A pure world: moral cognition and spiritual experiences in Chinese World of Warcraft by Hornbeck, R

“…Chapter 1 introduces the game, field sites, data collection methods, and the questions and paradigms that structure the dissertation's narrative. …”

Linking root microbiome composition to relative fitness differences that impact plant-plant competition by Norton, CH

“…I added soil communities to the growing media as inocula made from soils collected at multiple time points from four sites in Oxfordshire. The four soil communities added each generation of the experiment were distinct over sampling time, so plant communities adapted to different soil communities (Chapter 4). …”

The early struggle of black internationalism: intellectual interchanges among American and French black writers during the interwar period by Gaetan, M

“…</p> <p>Although, during the interwar period, the perspective shifted from a preeminence of local paradigms to an emphasis on diasporic views of the black race, the national and the transnational, understood as sites of social positioning, cultural self-definition, and political agency, remained inextricably intermingled. …”

Responses of gas exchange and growth in Merkus pine seedlings to expected climatic changes in Thailand by Koskela, Jarkko

“…Responses of gas exchange and growth in Merkus pine (Pinus merkusii Jungh. et de Vriese) seedlings to changing climate were analysed for high- and low-altitude sites in Thailand. A gas exchange model, based on the optimality approach, derived the effect of drought from the probability of rains. …”

Combining laser frequency combs and iodine cell calibration techniques for Doppler detection of exoplanets by Cahoy, K., Fischer, D., Spronck, J., Demille, D.

“…We propose a fiber-fed high precision spectrograph design that combines the existing ~5000-6000 A Iodine calibration system with a high-precision Laser Frequency Comb (LFC) system from ~6000-7000 A that just meets the redward side of the Iodine lines. The scientific motivation for such a system includes: a 1000 A span in the red is currently achievable with LFC systems, combining the two calibration methods increases the wavelength range by a factor of two, and moving redward decreases the 'noise' from starspots. …”
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Sequence-Dependent & -Independent Effects of Intron-Mediated Enhancement (IME) by Kowal, Emma J. K.

“…In this study we report the design and execution of several massively parallel reporter assays (MPRAs), interrogating the effect of tens of thousands of synthetic and natural intron sequences on gene expression in the human HEK293T and HeLa cell lines. We observe that even with random internal sequence, most of these introns splice well and trigger IME. …”
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Multi-criteria re-entrant jobs scheduling problems using GA and AHP by Lin, Danping.

“…The validation is conducted in two experiments, firstly single GA is implemented for the re-entrant lines and later a new combination of GA and AHP is carried out. …”
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Study of cascade failures of power grids by Ng, Jason Wei Long.

“…The substations and the transmission lines are denoted as the nodes and edges of the complex network respectively. …”
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EMS of hybrid AC/DC micro grid by Zhao, Yi

“…The issues coming along with traditional power system can be terrible for the environments, such as large use of fossil fuels, coal; long distance of transmission lines also will cause the cost of money and fuels for the electricity transmission process. …”
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Barriers and leverage points for seeing alcohol differently in integrated care systems in England: a senior stakeholder interview study by Madden, Mary, Stewart, Duncan, McCambridge, Jim

“…Results: ICS formation occurred when services had been under sustained pressures with lines of communication and accountability emergent and unclear. …”
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