A review on substitution of natural sand with granite fines in sustainable concrete by Li, Ziyang, Lao, Junying, Wang, Lijie, Lim, Namyo Salim, Tan, Kang Hai, Qian, Shunzhi

“…A mass amount of granite fine (GF), a byproduct of the cutting and grinding process in the masonry industry, is generated every year all around the world. Most of these wastes are landfilled which will cause serious environmental problems. …”
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Requests for actions and their responses in caregiver-child interactions : a conversation analytic approach by Tse Crepaldi, Yvonne

“…The present thesis offers an interactional account of how a two-year-old child handles these ever-changing impositions on their freedom, focusing first on equivocal resistance-implicative actions and then outright non-compliance. …”
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A social media-based participatory epidemiology approach for vector-borne disease prevention (VBDP) in South Asia by Lwin, May Oo, Foo, Schubert, Theng, Yin-Leng, Vijaykumar, Santosh, Cheong, Siew Ann, Lim, Gentatsu

“…Every year millions of people in south Asia and other tropical regions face the threat of vector-borne infectious diseases (VBD) such as Malaria and Dengue. …”
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Calibration and limits of camera-based fluorescence correlation spectroscopy : a supported lipid bilayer study by Bag, Nirmalya, Sankaran, Jagadish, Paul, Alexandra, Kraut, Rachel Susan, Wohland, Thorsten

“…This allows us to provide measurements of absolute diffusion coefficients for bilayers with different compositions, which were stable over many different bilayer preparations over a time of at least one year, using a single PSF calibration.…”
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‘Maturing out’ as dilemmatic: transitions towards relatively light drinking practices among UK University students by Conroy, Dom, Morton, Charlotte, Griffin, Christine

“…Semi-structured interviews were conducted with ten 18-27-year-old UK undergraduate university students who self-identified as light or non-drinkers. …”
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On the distributional forecasting of UK economic growth with generalised additive models for location scale and shape (GAMLSS) by Iworiso, Jonathan, Mansi, Nera Ebenezer, Ocharive, Aruoriwo, Fubara, Shepherd

“…The UK’s economic growth has witnessed instability over these years. While some sectors recorded positive performances, some recorded negative performances, and these unstable economic performances led to technical recession for the third and fourth quarters of the year 2023. …”
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US exceptionalism? International trends in midlife mortality by Dowd, JB, Doniec, K, Zhang, L, Tilstra, A

“…Midlife mortality also increased in the UK for people aged 45–54 year and in Canada, Poland and Sweden among for those aged 25–44 years.…”

Hormone replacement therapy and cancer survival: a longitudinal cohort study: protocol paper by Ranger, TA, Burchardt, J, Clift, AK, Mei, WX, Coupland, C, Tan, PS, Dixon, S, Cardwell, CR, Hippisley-Cox, J

“…<p><strong> Methods and analysis </strong></p>We will conduct a population-based longitudinal cohort study of 18–79 year-old women diagnosed with cancer between 1998 and 2020, using the QResearch database. …”

Clinical and neuroimaging markers of prodromal neurodegeneration in rapid eye movement sleep behaviour disorder by Barber, TR

“…Using ioflupane SPECT, we found that 43% of RBD patients already had evidence of dopaminergic deficit, and that this declines by an estimated 7% per year. Neuromelaninsensitive and susceptibility weighted MRI of the substantia nigra revealed signal changes in RBD patients consistent with early neurodegeneration. …”

Most of the world's largest flowers (genus Rafflesia) are now on the brink of extinction by Malabrigo Jr, P, Tobias, AB, Witono, J, Mursidawati, S, Susatya, A, Siti-Munirah, MY, Wicaksono, A, Raihandhany, R, Edwards, S, Thorogood, CJ

“…Taxonomy is disputed, new species are described each year, and the plant has proven recalcitrant to cultivation. …”

Emergency care knowledge, utilization, and barriers in Northern Tanzania: A community-based survey by Shayo, F, Zaccheus, GG, Sakita, F, Hernandes, TR, Vissoci, JRN, Gordee, A, Kuchibhatla, M, Kiremeji, M, Minja, L, Mmbaga, BT, Staton, CA, Keating, EM, Joiner, AP

“…The mean monthly household income was 226,107.6 Tanzanian Shillings. 76 (14.1%) households reported experiencing an emergency condition in the past year and 225 (41.7%) of respondents had an inappropriate response to at least one hypothetical emergency condition. …”

Analysis of incidence of motor neuron disease in England 1998–2019: use of three linked datasets by Burchardt, JM, Mei, XW, Ranger, T, McDermott, CJ, Radunovic, A, Coupland, C, Hippisley-Cox, J

“…The median age of diagnosis was 72 years. Peak incidence occurred in the 80–84 year age group in men and 75–79 in women. …”

Optimising investigative pathways in military medicine: operational impact of a military cardiopulmonary exercise testing clinic by Holland, JL, Cowie, P, Gardner, L, Mulae, J, Richards, S, Holdsworth, D

“…Mean age was 36 (±11.3) years, and 91% were male. Median waiting time for an appointment was 14.4 weeks (cf NHS 17.4 weeks). …”

Galaxy bias in the era of LSST: perturbative bias expansions by Nicola, A, Hadzhiyska, B, Findlay, N, García-García, C, Alonso, D, Slosar, A, Guo, Z, Kokron, N, Angulo, R, Aviles, A, Blazek, J, Dunkley, J, Jain, B, Pellejero, M, Sullivan, J, Walter, CW, Zennaro, M

“…In this work, we present the results of the Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) bias challenge, the goal of which is to compare the performance of different nonlinear galaxy bias models in the context of LSST Year 10 (Y10) data. Specifically, we compare two perturbative approaches, Lagrangian perturbation theory (LPT) and Eulerian perturbation theory (EPT) to two variants of Hybrid Effective Field Theory (HEFT), with our fiducial implementation of these models including terms up to second order in the bias expansion as well as nonlocal bias and deviations from Poissonian stochasticity. …”

Targeting c-Met for endoscopic detection of dysplastic lesions within Barrett’s esophagus using EMI-137 fluorescence imaging by Huang, Y-J, Rieder, J, Tan, KV, Tenditnaya, A, Vojnovic, B, Gorpas, D, Quante, M, Vallis, KA

“…<p>Purpose: Esophageal cancer (EC) carries a poor prognosis with 5-year overall survival of less than 20%. Barrett&rsquo;s esophagus (BE) increases the risk of esophageal adenocarcinoma (EAC). …”

A loss-of-function mutation in KCNJ11 causing sulfonylurea-sensitive diabetes in early adult life by Vedovato, N, Salguero, MV, Greeley, SAW, Yu, CH, Philipson, LH, Ashcroft, FM

“…<p><strong>Methods</strong></p> A 31-year-old woman was diagnosed with mild hyperglycaemia during an employee screen. …”

Association of Indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase (ido) activity with outcome after cardiac surgery in adult patients by Stieger, A, Huber, M, Yu, Z, Kessler, BM, Fischer, R, Andereggen, L, Kobel, B, Stueber, F, Luedi, MM, Filipovic, MG

“…Perioperative dynamics were descriptively assessed and associated with pre-defined clinical outcome measures (30-day mortality, 1-year mortality, incidence of stroke and myocardial infarction, and length of hospital stay) through a multi-step exploratory regression analysis. …”

Performance and validation of a digital memory test across the Alzheimer’s disease continuum by Toniolo, S, Attaallah, B, Maio, MR, Tabi, YA, Slavkova, E, Klar, VS, Saleh, Y, Idris, MI, Turner, V, Preul, C, Srowig, A, Butler, C, Thompson, S, Manohar, SG, Finke, K, Husain, M

“…Memory imprecision was able to predict cognitive decline on standard cognitive tests over one year. Overall, these findings show how it might be possible to use a digital memory test in clinics and clinical trial contexts to stratify and track performance across the Alzheimer’s disease continuum.…”

Water-mediated optical and morphological tuning of highly stable orange-emitting Mn-doped perovskite for white light-emission by Cho, S, Sree, VG, Fulari, AV, Park, S, Mei, M, Kim, M, Jana, A, Das, D, Im, H, Kyhm, K, Taylor, RA

“…The synthesized Mn:CsPbBr3−xClx NCs form a highly stable colloidal solution with approximately 100 % emission stability for up to one year under ambient conditions and retain 98.9 % of its photoluminescence after aging at 85 °C for 200 h. …”

Fossil fuels subsidy rationalization and renewable energy initiatives in Malaysia: results from a CGE analysis by Masoud Yahoo, Norlida Hanim Mohd Salleh, Fatemeh Chatri, Lin, Mu

“…The recently published GTAP database is utilized as the base data source, with 2017 as the reference year. The study updates and extends the database to model policy simulations for two periods: 2017-2022 and 2023-2025. …”
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