Shattered nation: inequality and the geography of a failing state by Dorling, D

“…Once affluent suburbs are now unproductive places where opportunity has been replaced by food banks. Before COVID, life expectancy had dropped as a result of poverty for the first time since the 1930s. …”

Discovery of reversing enzymes for RNA ADP-ribosylation reveals a possible defence module against toxic attack by Lu, Y, Schuller, M, Bullen, N, Mikolcevic, P, Zonjic, I, Raggiaschi, R, Mikoc, A, Whitney, J, Ahel, I

“…Nucleic acid ADP-ribosylation and its associated enzymes involved in catalysis and hydrolysis are widespread among all kingdoms of life. Yet, its roles in mammalian and bacterial physiology including inter-/intraspecies conflicts are currently underexplored. …”

Olga Tokarczuk’s art of reading: a linguistic view by Bilut-Homplewicz, Zofia, Krauz, Maria

“…The article portrays reading as an interweaving of primordial dichotomies: reading as a skill and process in human development versus reading as a process in the life of a writer; and of secondary dichotomies involving different criteria: age, gender, text type, and reader. …”
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Titanium elastic nailing system of diaphyseal femur fracture in a 7 years old child: a case report by Tarmalinggam, Shangeetha, Appasamy, Edzell Swamy, Abdul Ghani, Kamarul Al-Haqq, Kamisan, Norazian

“…Conclusion: Titanium Elastic Nailing System is fixed with minimally invasive techniques in children 6-16 years of age with diaphyseal femoral fractures, which gives a good outcome and minimizes the complications and allows earlier rehabilitation and return to school life by speeding up the fracture healing. However, an experienced surgeon and good surgical technique is desired to minimize the complications that may occur.…”
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Practices, attitudes and motives for domestic waste recycling by Aini, M. S., Fakhru'l-Razi, A., Lad, S. M., Hashim, A. H.

“…The 15 000 tonnes of garbage produced daily are thrown into 230 landfills nationwide, where 80% of them have only two years of life span left. Although recycling programmes were launched as early as 1990, only 5% of the wastes are recycled. …”

Estimation of crown characters and leaf biomass from leaf litter in a Malaysian canopy species, Elateriospermum tapos (Euphorbiaceae) by Osada, Noriyuki, Takeda, Hiroshi, Kawaguchi, Hideyuki, Furukawa, Akio, Awang, Muhamad

“…Leaf fall rate was estimated to be 2.0-28.1 kg per tree per year in the five trees of various heights, and was greater in taller trees. Since leaf life span was smaller for taller trees, leaf biomass was estimated to be 2.6-30.5 kg per tree, and was also greater in taller trees. …”
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Public willingness to pay for an entrance fee at the newly proposed Marine protected area in Malacca by Ahmad Sufi, Ayu Naqibah, Matthew, Nitanan Koshy, Japry, Julia Aqila, Nik Ab Rahim, Nik Nor Rahimah, Ya'Cob, Mohd Rusli, Abdurofi, Ilmas

“…The Department of Fisheries can benefit from this study to justify the entrance fee and design an effective strategy for maintaining the sustainability of the marine park in alignment with the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 13 'Life Below Water'.…”

Fatigue analysis of woven intraply carbon/kevlar hybrid composite below ambient temperature by Majid, D.L., Hashim, N., Baitab, D.M., Karunakaran, S.

“…Using the maximum likelihood estimation (MLE), the life degradation rate at sub-zero temperature decreased from 5.2 to ~ 3% of its ultimate tensile strength. …”

Investigating the impact of the stratified cognitive apprenticeship model on high school students’ math performance by Wang, Ruimei, Zulkifli, Nurul Nadwa, Mohd Ayub, Ahmad Fauzi

“…Students’ performance was evaluated based on a mathematics test including the following dimensions: knowing and understanding, investigating, communication, and application (of mathematical knowledge to real-life problems). The data were analyzed using an analysis of covariance (ANCOVA). …”
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Recent microencapsulation trends for enhancing the stability and functionality of anthocyanins: a review by Ijod, Giroon, Mohamed Nawawi, Nur Izzati, Anwar, Farooq, Abd Rahim, Muhamad Hafiz, Ismail-Fitry, Mohammad Rashedi, Mohd Adzahan, Noranizan, Mohamad Azman, Ezzat

“…Spray drying has emerged as an effective microencapsulation technique to enhance the shelf life, quality, and stability of ACNs. This manuscript reviews the latest scientific developments in spray drying microencapsulation of ACNs-rich fruit extracts. …”

Social support and subjective well-being among undergraduate students in School of Health Sciences Universiti Sains Malaysia by Arifin, Nur Shahidah

“…Life in university is a steppingstone and a new challenge for student in learning process. …”
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A Randomized, Double Blind, Placebo-Controlled Human Clinical Trial On The Effects Of Sacha Inchi (Plukenetia Volubilis L.) Oil Supplementation In Hyperglycaemia, Hypertension And... by Mhd Rodzi, Nur Anis Raihana

“…The present randomised, doubleblind, placebo-controlled human clinical trial aimed to explore the effects of SIO supplementation on (1) glycaemic control; (2) BPs; (3) lipid profiles; (4) inflammatory status; (5) oxidative stress; (6) circulating arterial calcification biomarkers; (7) anthropometry measurements; (8) quality of life; (9) mental health status; and (10) compliancy and tolerability among 3Hs patients. …”
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Relay coordination planning for high photovoltaic penetration using preset-time method by Abdulkareem, Ahmed Abduljabbar, Md. Rasid, Madihah, Jamian, Jasrul Jamani, Md. Sapari, Norazliani

“…In light of the advancement and technological development, electricity has become the main component of all areas of life. Photovoltaic (PV) systems are widely used within distribution networks. …”
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Development of Oil Plam Fiber Waste Inventory System for Optimal Electricity Grid Supply: Biomass Briquette by Zakaria, Izatul Husna, Bakri, Adnan, Ibrahim, Jafni Azhan, Othman, Abdul Aziz

“…Green energy is becoming a consequential aspect for developed countries in the world toward energy security by reducing dependence on fuel import and enhancing better life quality by living in a sustainable salubrious environment. …”
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Routing Model of Oil Palm Fibre Waste toward Gas Fuel Production Supply Chain Management: Malaysia Industry by Zakaria, Izatul Husna, Ibrahim, Jafni Azhan, Othman, Abdul Aziz

“…Green energy is becoming an important aspect for developed countries in the world toward energy security by reducing dependence on fuel import and enhancing better life quality by living in sustainable healthy environment. …”
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Development of kinetics model for torrefaction of logging residue and palm oil waste by Nur Hazirah Huda, Mohd Harun, Noor Asma Fazli, Abdul Samad, Suriyati, Saleh

“…Here the sets of experimental data of AWL for sawdust and EFB are based on the different temperature at 240, 270 and 300°C at 10°C/min of heating rate which are obtained from thermogravimetric analysis (TGA). …”
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Virtual reality as a countermeasure for astronaut motion sickness during simulated post-flight water landings by Lonner, T. L., Allred, A. R., Bonarrigo, L., Gopinath, A., Smith, K., Kravets, V., Groen, E. L., Oman, C., DiZio, P., Lawson, B. D., Clark, T. K.

“…While Motion Sickness Questionnaire outcomes did not differ detectably between groups, we found significantly better survival rates (with dropout dictated by reporting moderate nausea consecutively over 2 min) in the visual countermeasure group than the control group (79% survival vs. 33%, t(14) = 2.50, p = 0.027). …”
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Selective Recovery of Gold from E-Wastewater Using Poly-<i>m</i>-phenylenediamine Nanoparticles and Assembled Membranes by Chen, Yuchao, Wang, Li, Shu, Yufei, Han, Qi, Chen, Beizhao, Wang, Mengxia, Liu, Xun, Rehman, Danyal, Liu, Bei, Wang, Zhongying, Lienhard, John H

“…The Au@PmPD membrane loaded with 4 mg gold exhibited a high catalytic reduction performance with an apparent rate constant of 0.59 min−1 , one of the highest catalytic degradation rate constants of p-nitrophenol reported to date. …”
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Limitations of the Impagliazzo–Nisan–Wigderson Pseudorandom Generator Against Permutation Branching Programs by Hoza, William M., Pyne, Edward, Vadhan, Salil

“…In this paper, we prove that any “spectral analysis” of the INW generator requires seed length Ω(log𝑛⋅loglog(min{𝑛,𝑑})+log𝑛⋅log(𝑤/ε)+log𝑑) to fool ordered permutation branching programs of length n, width w, and alphabet size d to within error ε . …”
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Terahertz conductivity of topological surface states in Bi1.5Sb0.5Te1.8Se1.2 by Tang, Chi Sin, Xia, Bin, Zou, Xingquan, Chen, Shi, Ou, Hong-Wei, Wang, Lan, Rusydi, A., Zhu, Jian-Xin, Chia, Elbert E. M.

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