Integrating alternative and complementary medicine in the management of epilepsy and its comorbidities in low- and middle-income settings by Kariuki, SM, Newton, CRJC

“…There are however serious concerns on reliability of reported findings because of inadequate randomization, and small sample sizes, and concerns on quality and safety owing to lack of standardization of bioactive compounds, accidental or intention botanical substitution of products and unhygienic handling. …”

Structure of a fully assembled γδ T-cell antigen receptor by Gully, BS, Ferreira Fernandes, J, Gunasinghe, SD, Vuong, MT, Lui, Y, Rice, MT, Rashleigh, L, Lay, C-S, Littler, DR, Sharma, S, Santos, AM, Venugopal, H, Rossjohn, J, Davis, SJ

“…However, in contrast to the apparently rigid αβ TCR^2,3,6, the γδ TCR exhibits considerable conformational heterogeneity, owing to the ligand-binding TCR-γδ subunits being tethered to the CD3 subunits by their transmembrane regions only. …”

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

“…Indeed, the 5Ni5Co/SBA-15-SH catalyst showed superior performance of deoxygenation activity by producing 80 % of yield with 92 % of bio-jet selectivity, owing to the porous properties of the catalyst, which exhibits a substantial surface area (509 m2/g) and a significant pore size (4.4 nm). …”
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Revealing the potential role of hsa-miR-663a in modulating the PI3K-Akt signaling pathway via miRNA microarray in spinal muscular atrophy patient fibroblast-derived iPSCs by Gandhi, Gayatri, Kodiappan, Radha, Abdullah, Syahril, Teoh, Hoon Koon, Tai, Lihui, Cheong, Soon Keng, Yeo, Wendy Wai Yeng

“…Although survival motor neuron 2 (SMN2) gene is still present in SMA patients, the production of full-length survival motor neuron (SMN) protein is insufficient owing to missing or mutated SMN1. No current disease-modifying therapies can cure SMA. …”
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Assessment of IoT-driven predictive maintenance strategies for Computed Tomography equipment: a machine learning approach by Mohd Azrul Shazril, Mohammad Habib Shah Ershad, Mashohor, Syamsiah, Amran, Mohd Effendi, Hafiz, Nur Fatinah, Ali, Azizi Mohd, Naseri, Mohd Saiful, Rasid, Mohd Fadlee A.

“…The readings were preprocessed to follow a normal distribution, representing the typical working conditions of the machine. Owing to limited faulty condition data, synthetic data were generated by expanding the tails of the data distribution and using a Gaussian noise generator. …”
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Thermoelectric Energy Harvesting from the Roof and Attics of a Building by Abubakar, Saleh Umar, Jumaat, Siti Amely, Yakubu, Babangida, Haruna, Yau Shuaibu, Abdulrahman, Suleiman

“…Furthermore, The finding also reveals that the attic side has the capacity to store thermal energy, which can be harnessed owing to the fast heat transfer to the surroundings during the convection process. …”
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Digital based qubit controller system for quantum computing by Khan, Kamran

“…The dissertation presents several DDS architectures along with synthesis results that can help the designer choose a particular DDS depending on the application. A single spin qubit can be controlled by a digital-to-analog converter utilizing the output of a DDS module, which is a digitally coded analog signal. …”
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Substation reliability and its impacts on composite system adequacy by Ren, Shuhua

“…Substation and switching station, which forms a link between the bulk transmission system and the generation system, is the pivotal portion of an electric power system. …”
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A local product-of-exponentials method for the kinematic calibration of modular reconfigurable robots by Tan, Chee Tat.

“…A modular reconfigurable robot system is a collection of standardized individual link and joint components that can be assembled into a particular geometry for a specific task. …”
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Control of a 2-axis scara robot with a flexible forearm by Liu, Yaping.

“…In this thesis, issues in the modelling and control design of the tip position trajectory tracking of a two-link SCARA manipulator arm with a flexible forearm are discussed. …”
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Relationship between parent-child endorsed cultural values, language use, and their intended/perceived parenting style. by Sameema Nisa Haja Mohideen.

“…The results of the study indicated that only the home language predicted the endorsement of values thus proving the link between language and culture. Also endorsed values were found to be a predictor of the intended /perceived parenting style. …”
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Distribution system reliability assessment using Monte Carlo simulation techniques by Liang, Xin Ping.

“…As a distribution system is the vital link between the bulk system (generation and transmission combined) and the customers, the reliability of distribution system can be used to measure its performance in a highly competitive environment. …”
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Improving document access and retrieval in a repair workshop by Lim, Tang Boo.

“…In particular, hypertext technology is being recognized as one of the more important text organizing tools with its powerful hyper-link feature to retrieve documents of various formats and its latest frame technique to enable better presentation of information in multiple windows. …”
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Experiencing wireless sensor networks the media access control (Mac) layer by Fong, Gerald Fook Mun.

“…It also provides an overview of the data frame structure at the data link layer as well as the two different types of MAC implementations namely TKN154 and the one which is being utilized by the micaz family range of motes. …”
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Power system virtual inertia implemented by grid-connected solar photovoltaic inverters by Wang, Chuan

“…Without modifying the original inertia coefficient in the system, the capacitance of capacitors and dc-link voltages can be changed to control the virtual inertia. …”
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The construction of a supramolecular polymeric rotaxane from bipyridine-ruthenium and cyclodextrin by Liu, Yu, Song, Shi Hui, Chen, Yong, Zhao, Yanli, Yang, Ying Wei

“…A luminescent supramolecular link is constructed by a very simple method using bipyridine-ruthenium and cyclodextrin, which displays not only a quasi-linear structure, but also a satisfactory fluorescence emission in both solution and the solid state.…”
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Our common journey towards a sustainable existence by Idowu, Samuel O.

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Fermentation studies of stored cocoa beans by Abdul Samah, O., Ibrahim, N., Alimon, H., Abdul Karim, M.I.

Effects of methanol on the synthesis of aspartame precursor catalysed by Pseudomonas aeruginosa elastase by Lee, K.H., Lee, P.M., Siaw, Y.S., Morihara, K.

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Optical study of excitonic complexes in transition metal dichalcogenides monolayers by Bao, Di

“…The Fermi edge singularity may indicate a transition from a fermion-like charged state to a boson-like particle (exciton-plasmon).Due to the inversion symmetry breaking, there are two energy-degenerate but inequivalent valleys (K and K' ). …”
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