Properties study of B20 palm-methyl ester biodiesel added with oxide nanoparticle towards green marine fuels by Che Wan, Mohd Noor, Amirah Nur, Fhatihah, Rizalman, Mamat, Wan Mohd, Norsani, Wan Nurdiyana, Wan Mansor, Mohammad Nor, Khasbi

“…Therefore, this study aims to evaluate the effect of using different types of nanoparticle additives with different concentrations on the properties of biodiesel fuel. Nine test samples were prepared by blending B20 palm methyl ester biodiesel fuel with aluminium oxide (Al2O3), silicon dioxide (SiO2) and titanium dioxide (TiO2) nanoparticle by different concentrations of 50 ppm, 100 ppm and 150 ppm. …”
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Automatic Generation of Chemical Kinetic Models for Biofuel Oxidation and Pyrolysis by Dong, Xiaorui

“…RDMC, a cheminformatics software, is developed, featuring toolkits for elementary reaction analysis and end-to-end automated workflows for generating molecular and transition state conformers. A dataset covering nine reaction types relevant to combustion and pyrolysis radical chemistry is created using the RDMC workflow. …”
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Unified information fusion network for multi-modal RGB-D and RGB-T salient object detection by Gao, Wei, Liao, Guibiao, Ma, Siwei, Li, Ge, Liang, Yongsheng, Lin, Weisi

“…Comprehensive experiments (∼92K image-pairs) demonstrate that the proposed method consistently outperforms the other 21 state-of-the-art methods on nine benchmark datasets. This validates that our proposed method can work well on diverse multi-modal SOD tasks with good generalization and robustness, and provides a good multimodal SOD benchmark.…”
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Multi-stage generative adversarial networks for generating pavement crack images by Han, Chengjia, Ma, Tao, Huyan, Ju, Tong, Zheng, Yang, Handuo, Yang, Yaowen

“…Moreover, the results from ablation experiments, involving the training of nine state-of-the-art crack semantic segmentation and object detection networks using both generated images and real images, demonstrate the effective utility of these generated images for training pavement distress detection networks.…”
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Kinematics of Active Deformation Across the Western Kunlun Mountain Range (Xinjiang, China) and Potential Seismic Hazards Within the Southern Tarim Basin by Guilbaud, Christelle, Simoes, Martine, Barrier, Laurie, Laborde, Amandine, Van der Woerd, Jérôme, Li, Haibing, Tapponnier, Paul, Coudroy, Thomas, Murray, Andrew

“…Combining satellite images and DEMs, we achieve a detailed morphological analysis of the Yecheng–Pishan fold, where we find nine levels of incised fluvial terraces and alluvial fans. …”
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Spatial and temporal distributions of water physicochemical properties, sediment quality and sedimentation in Sembrong Reservoir by Baharim, Nor Bakhiah

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Granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor neutralisation in patients with axial spondyloarthritis in the UK (NAMASTE): a randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled, phase... by Worth, C, Al-Mossawi, MH, MacDonald, J, Fisher, BA, Chan, A, Sengupta, R, Packham, J, Gaffney, K, Gullick, N, Cook, JA, Corn, TH, Teh, J, Machado, PM, Taylor, PC, Bowness, P

“…<p><strong>Methods</p></strong> This proof-of-concept, randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled, phase 2, Bayesian (NAMASTE) trial was done at nine hospitals in the UK. Participants aged 18–75 years with axial spondyloarthritis, meeting the Assessment in SpondyloArthritis international Society (ASAS) criteria and the ASAS-defined MRI criteria, with active disease as defined by a Bath Ankylosing Spondylitis Disease Activity Index (BASDAI), were eligible. …”

History education for transitional justice: how students understand and construct historical legacies in the post-apartheid South African history classroom by Robinson, N

“…</p> <p>This dissertation focuses on how young South Africans learn to construct legacies of historical injustices in the context of their history classrooms. It draws on nine months of ethnographic research in four Grade 9 history classrooms in Cape Town, each with a different racial composition. …”

Magrolimab in combination with azacitidine in patients with higher-risk myelodysplastic syndromes: final results of a phase Ib study by Sallman, DA, Al Malki, MM, Asch, AS, Wang, ES, Jurcic, JG, Bradley, TJ, Flinn, IW, Pollyea, DA, Kambhampati, S, Tanaka, TN, Zeidner, JF, Garcia-Manero, G, Jeyakumar, D, Komrokji, R, Lancet, J, Kantarjian, HM, Gu, L, Zhang, Y, Tan, A, Chao, M, O'Hear, C, Ramsingh, G, Lal, I, Vyas, P, Daver, NG

“…Revised International Prognostic Scoring System risk was intermediate/high/very high in 27%, 52%, and 21%, respectively. Fifty-nine (62%) had poor-risk cytogenetics and 25 (26%) had TP53 mutation. …”

Anticholinergic burden and cognitive function in psychosis: a systematic review and meta-analysis by Mancini, V, Latreche, C, Fanshawe, J, Varvari, I, Chambrez-Zita, Z, McGinn, N, Ana, C, Pillinge, T, McGuire, PK, McCutcheon, RA

“…</p> <p><strong>Results:</strong> Of 1,337 citations retrieved, 40 met inclusion criteria, comprising 25 anticholinergic burden studies (4,620 patients), six serological anticholinergic activity studies (382 patients), and nine tapering studies (186 patients). A negative correlation was identified between anticholinergic burden and global cognition (r=−0.37, 95% CI=−0.48, −0.25), verbal learning (r=−0.28, 95% CI=−0.36, −0.21), visual learning (r=−0.17, 95% CI=−0.28, −0.06), working mem- ory (r=−0.22, 95% CI=−0.29, −0.14), processing speed (r=−0.24, 95% CI=−0.35, −0.13), attention (r=−0.19, 95% CI=−0.29, −0.08), executive functions (r=−0.17, 95% CI=−0.27, −0.06), and social cognition (r=−0.12, 95% CI=−0.19, −0.05), and between serological anticholinergic activity and verbal learning (r=−0.26, 95% CI=−0.38, −0.14), working memory (r=−0.19, 95% CI=−0.35, −0.03), and executive functions (r=−0.16, 95% CI=−0.27, −0.04). …”

Virulence gene profiles and antimicrobial susceptibility of Salmonella Brancaster from chicken by Khoo, Evie, Roslee, Roseliza, Zakaria, Zunita, Ahmad, Nur Indah

“…Antimicrobial susceptibility assessment was conducted by disc diffusion method on nine selected antibiotics for the S. Brancaster isolates. …”
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Biogenic amines and urocanic acid in keropok lekor, and their effects on cytotoxicity and proinflammatory mediator secretion of macrophage cell culture by Hussain, Husniza

“…This thesis work aimed to develop rapid and robust methods for quantification/screening of nine BAs, UCA isomers and amino acid decarboxylase-producing bacteria in keropok lekor processed at different stages. …”
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Advanced shape memory technology to reshape product design, manufacturing and recycling by Sun, Ke Yuan, Yang, Wen Guang, Lu, Haibao, Huang, Wei Min, Qi, Hang Jerry, Wu, Xue Lian

“…It is concluded that the ASMT is indeed able to provide a range of powerful approaches to reshape part of the life cycle or the whole life cycle of products.…”
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Effect of surface mechanical treatments on the microstructure-property-performance of engineering alloys by Kumar, Dharmesh, Idapalapati, Sridhar, Wang, Wei, Narasimalu, Srikanth

“…One technique for increasing the fatigue life is by inducing surface residual stress to inhibit crack initiation. …”
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Study of long-range dispersion for Cesium-137 in Southeast Asia by Soh, Rachel Li Yi

“…The nuclear crisis in 2011 at Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) has brought greater awareness to safety issues of NPP. Long half-life radionuclides can be transported in the atmosphere and across oceans for long distances, which can exceed thousands of kilometers and allow effects of radioactive fallout to be more widespread. …”
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Zhuangzi's concept of you 遊: limitless transformation along with things by Kamamoto, Yuka

“…It is generally taken to mean the ideal Zhuangzian way of life, whereby one wanders around the world freely and aimlessly without having an ultimate goal in mind. …”
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Memento by Lim, Benjamin Yong Quan

“…The film utilises a train journey as a metaphor to depict the path of life. Sending the message that life, just like a train journeying through various stations, moves forward through different emotions.  …”
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Language attitudes of the T’rung by Perlin, Ross

“…The results show unanimity about the importance of Chinese in all aspects of life, although few T’rung speak the language well and it is a relative newcomer to the region. …”
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Finding meaning behind immortality of Anne Rice’s vampires. by Nurhayati Zakaria.

“…This paper investigates the alluring appeal of immortality through the exploration of humans’ instinctive anxieties against death; it shows how experience in life shapes an individual’s personality and character which in turn is fossilized and magnified during his or her immortal existence; and finally illustrates how the very nature of being trapped in a state of arrested development renders the disenchanted vampire’s perspective of immortality as one that is more limiting rather than liberating.…”
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Transcriptomic profiling of polymicrobial biofilm dynamics on catheters in Vitro by Lai, Valerie Jia Hui

“…Dispersal marks the end of the biofilm life cycle and the beginning of bacterial dissemination which is believed to be responsible for biofilm virulence. …”
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