Glorious autarky? Foreign resources and the British fiscal-military state, 1688-1815 by Graham, A

“…Easy access to these resources enabled ministers to retain a bare-bones military and naval establishments in peacetime and then, in wartime, to ‘surge’ the state by using off- the-shelf foreign military labour to hold the line while British forces were recruited. Relying upon cheap foreign money enabled the British state to hold down taxation and expensive borrowing. …”

Sustainable performance measurement through digital transformation within the sustainable development framework: the mediating effect of supply chain concentration by Sun, Le, Ong, Tze San, Teh, Boon Heng, Di Vaio, Assunta

“…By examining a sample of 3947 listed Chinese firms, this study's results highlight a noteworthy link between digital transformation and enhanced sustainable performance, assessed through the triple bottom line framework, thus helping to achieve sustainable development goals (SDGs), such as the eighth and ninth SDGs. …”

Trichostrongylus colubriformis extract upregulates TNF-α receptor expression and enhances TNF-α sensitivity of L929 cells by Riffkin, M.C., Seow, H.-F., Wood, P.R., Brown, L.E.

“…Results in the present paper demonstrate that soluble T. colubriformis factors promote proliferation of the TNF-susceptible mouse fibrosarcoma cell line L929, while inhibiting proliferation of all other cell types tested. …”
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Short-Term Shoreline Evolution Mapping by using UAV by Siddig, Mohammad lkhmal, Kaamin, Masiri, Daucla, Mohd Effendi, Mokhtar, Mardiha, Sabri, Muhamad Syamil, Ariffinm, Effi Helmy

“…The "Pix4D Capture" application has been programmed with the flight planning route, and the drone takes pictures along the entire grid line provided. The data on shoreline evolutions were processed using the Pix4d Mapper and Global Mapper tools. …”
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Determination of had kifayah zakat among pre-graduate students at Universiti Sains Islam Malaysia (USIM) by Ismail, Abdul Manan, Hasbullah, Mushaddad, Zakaria, Mohamad Zaharuddin, Salleh, Ahmad Zaki, Abdul Majid, Mohd. Nasir, Abdullah Thaidi, Hussein'Azeemi, Ab. Jalil, Mohd. Afiq, Rosman, Arieff Salleh, Khan, Aqeel

“…Through a survey that covers aspects of student spending and income, the average of spending method has been used as per agreed with all team members to determine the Had Kifayah, in line with the method used by the state Islamic religious council as a reference. …”

Oil palm smallholder's income and sustainable development goals (SDGs) achievement in Peninsular Malaysia by Applanaidu, Shri Devi, Abidin, Norhaslinda Zainal, Mustapha, Mukhtar, Abdullahi Baba, Mohammed, Joseph, Viandrito

“…The analysis showed that all the oil palm smallholders in Peninsular Malaysia have a daily average income far above the poverty line. Johor has the highest daily average income in Peninsular Malaysia, therefore, it is easy for the oil palm smallholders in Johor to achieve SDG 1, SDG 2, SDG 3, SDG 5 and SDG 8 faster than the rest of the oil palm smallholders in Pahang, Selangor and Kelantan with lower average daily incomes…”
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论包公形象在不同文本中的呈现方式 ：以陈州粜米故事为例 = An investigation on the representations of Magistrate Bao in different operatic texts on the story of “selling rice at Chen Zhou”... by 欧思敏 Au, Sze Mien

“…This paper investigates different representations of Magistrate Bao in different texts such as Yuan drama “Bao Dai Zhi Chen Zhou Tiao Mi”, Ming dynasty “Singing narrative on Bao Long Tu’s ‘Selling rice in Chen Zhou’” (Xin Kan Quan Xiang Shuo Chang Bao Long Tu Chen Zhou Tiao Mi Ji), Qing dynasty popular fiction “San Xia Wu Yi”, as well as folk operas “Chen Zhou Yuan” and “Bao Gong Gan Lu”.…”
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二十世纪七八十年代新华女性小说作者的世界 = The worlds of Singapore Chinese female writers of fiction : a study of short stories and novellas during the seventies and eighties from a feminist perspecti... by 胡月宝 Aw, Guat Poh

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Smart material based on magnetorheological elastomer and its 3D printing by Bastola, Anil K.

“…Two different patterned were considered in this study, namely, line-patterned and dot-patterned 3D printed MR elastomers (3DP-MREs), line-patterned samples were formed by continuous printing while dot-patterned samples were formed by discontinuous printing. …”
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Longitudinal assessment of antibiotic resistance gene profiles in gut microbiomes of infants at risk of eczema by Loo, Evelyn Xiu Ling, Zain, Amanda, Yap, Gaik Chin, Purbojati, Rikky Wenang, Drautz-Moses, Daniela Isabel, Koh, Yanqing Michelle, Chong, Yap Seng, Tan, Kok Hian, Gluckman, Peter D., Yap, Fabian, Eriksson, Johan Gunnar, Tham, Elizabeth, Shek, Lynette Pei-Chi, Kjelleberg, Staffan, Schuster, Stephan Christoph, Banerjee, Ritu, Lee, Bee Wah

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Yeast9: a consensus genome-scale metabolic model for S. cerevisiae curated by the community by Zhang, Chengyu, Sánchez, Benjamín J., Li, Feiran, Cheng, Eiden Wei Quan, Scott, William T., Liebal, Ulf W., Blank, Lars M., Mengers, Hendrik G., Anton, Mihail, Rangel, Albert Tafur, Mendoza, Sebastián N., Zhang, Lixin, Nielsen, Jens, Lu, Hongzhong, Kerkhoven, Eduard J.

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Investigating molecular vulnerabilities in TP53-mutant transformed myeloproliferative neoplasms by Paterson, A

“…Furthermore, all upregulated RBP were identified to be essential for cancer cell line survival via <em>in silico</em> analysis and validated by candidate RBP-targeted gene perturbation screens.…”

Advances in Remanufacturing : Proceedings of the VII International Workshop on Autonomous Remanufacturing / by International Workshop on Autonomous Remanufacturing (7th : 2023 : Caserta, Italy), Fera, Marcello, editor 656030, Caterino, Mario, editor 656031, Macchiaroli, Roberto, editor 656032, Pham, Duc Truong, editor 326888

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A Sufficient Condition for k-Contraction of the Series Connection of Two Systems by Ofir, Ron, Margaliot, Michael, Levron, Yoash, Slotine, Jean-Jacques

“…The flow of contracting systems contracts 1-dimensional parallelotopes, i.e., line segments, at an exponential rate. One reason for the usefulness of contracting systems is that many interconnections of contracting sub-systems yield an overall contracting system. …”
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Dual-frequency vortex-induced vibrations of long flexible stepped cylinders by Li, Ang, Mentzelopoulos, Andreas, Triantafyllou, Michael S., Fan, Dixia

“…The results show that the maximum in-line (IL) and cross-flow (CF) displacements and the frequency ratio of the stepped cylinder separated by individual frequency resemble those of a uniform cylinder vibrating in the uniform flow at a single frequency. …”
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Active Extrinsic Contact Sensing: Application to General Peg-in-Hole Insertion by Kim, Sangwoon, Rodriguez, Alberto

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Microlensing Near Macro-Caustics by Weisenbach, Luke, Anguita, Timo, Miralda-Escudé, Jordi, Oguri, Masamune, Saha, Prasenjit, Schechter, Paul L.

“…Micro-caustics join into a connected network in a region around the macro-critical line of a width proportional to the surface density of microlenses; within this region, the increase of the mean magnification toward the macro-caustic is driven by the increase of the number of micro-images rather than individual magnifications of micro-images. …”
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Effect of curvature variations on the hydrodynamic performance of heaving and pitching foils by van Rees, Wim M.

“…Overall, our results demonstrate that curving fins are consistently able to significantly outperform rigid fins with the same chord line kinematics on both thrust and hydrodynamic efficiency.…”
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Chillbot: Content Moderation in the Backchannel by Seering, Joseph, Khadka, Manas, Haghighi, Nava, Yang, Tanya, Xi, Zachary, Bernstein, Michael

“…Moderating online spaces effectively is not a matter of simply taking down content: moderators also provide private feedback and defuse situations before they cross the line into harm. However, moderators have little tool support for these activities, which often occur in the backchannel rather than in front of the entire community. …”
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Regional seismic risk of railway system including derailment consequences by Uchiyama, Yayoi Misu

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