Genetically engineered microalgae for enhanced bioactive compounds by Ahmad Kamal, Ahmad Hanafi, Mohd Hamidi, Nor Farahdevah, Zakaria, Muhammad Faiz, Ahmad, Aziz, Harun, Mohd Razif, Chandra Segaran, Thirukanthan, Jusoh, Malinna

“…These metabolites make them a renewable and sustainable source of bioactive compounds in nutraceuticals, food, feed for aquaculture, and biofuels. Genetic engineering of the existing strains remains crucial in utilising and upscaling microalgae-based biorefineries. …”
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Roughness-Controlled Self-Assembly of Mannitol/LB Agar Microparticles by Polymorphic Transformation for Pulmonary Drug Delivery by Zhang, Fengying, Ngoc, Nguyen Thi Quynh, Tay, Bao Hui, Mendyk, Aleksander, Shao, Yu-Hsuan, Lau, Raymond

“…An FPF of 28.6 ± 2.4% was achieved by microparticles transformed from spray-dried microparticles using 2% mannitol(w/v)/LB Agar as feed solution. It is comparable to the highest FPF reported in the literature using lactose and spray-dried mannitol as carriers.…”
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Antibiotic sensitivity of selected bacteria and microbiological quality of Lactobacillus-fed broiler meat in comparison with commercial broiler meat by Tan, Stephanie Yin Yi

“…The use of probiotics to replace antibiotics in poultry feed had been introduced in recent years. It is believed that probiotics may give the same overall health effect to livestock, without the undesirable development of antibiotic resistance to vital antibiotics. …”
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Membrane compaction in forward osmosis process by Ng, Daniel Yee Fan, Chen, Yunfeng, Dong, Zhili, Wang, Rong

“…The TFC membranes were continuously tested in FO experiments for 24 h by using DI water as feed and NaCl solutions of different concentrations as draw solution, and their performances were checked again using fresh feed solutions. …”
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Activation of Aspen Wood with Carbon Dioxide and Phosphoric Acid for Removal of Total Organic Carbon from Oil Sands Produced Water: Increasing the Yield with Bio-Oil Recycling by Hill, Josephine M., Veksha, Andrei, Bhuiyan, Tazul I.

“…Due to the higher carbon yield, the corresponding total organic carbon removal, per mass of wood feed, increased by a factor of 1.2 thus improving the overall process efficiency.…”
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Application of glucoamylase hydrolysis with anaerobically driven microbial fuel cells : Effect on energy generation from potato wastes by Siddique, Md Nurul Islam, Zaied, Khalid, Mohd Zamri, Ibrahim, Noraaini, Ali, Nazaitulshila, Rasit, Muhammad Syarifuddin, Yahya, Ghanem, Waheed Ali H.M.

“…During the second phase, the soluble potato waste hydrolyzate was utilized to feed microbial fuel cells (MFC), which produced electricity. …”
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Botanical composition and models of metabolizable energy availability from undergrowth in oil palm plantations for ruminant production by Dahlan, I., Yamada, Y., Mahyuddin, M.D.

“…This is because undergrowth can be used as a feed resource for ruminants. This type of production system has the advantage of diversifying income and controlling weeds in the plantation. …”
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Design of a conformal end-fire array antenna by Wang, Xin Xin

“…The finalized design model has been fabricated and measured to validate the proposed design structure. …”
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Power quality analyser and simulator using MATLAP (PASUM) by Levey, Paul D.

“…The waveforms can be from a single piece of equipment such as a motor or from the main supply feed of a building.…”
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The economics of breastfeeding in Singapore. by Tay, Guan Mong., Chua, Dominic Mui Hock.

“…Doris Fok, the Lactation Consultant of Kandang Kerbau Hospital conducted a study on mothers who delivered in KKH with the objective of determining if it were more economical for households to breastfeed or bottlefeed (also refered to as artificial feed) an infant for the first three months. The hypothesis that it is more cost effective to breastfeed than to bottlefeed was tested. 321 mothers participated in the survey over a period of 6 months facilitated by 25 nurses who participated in a lactation course conducted by Mrs. …”
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ISIS in Afghanistan: A Growing Threat to Pakistan? by Sara Mahmood

“…The province’s critical location along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border and the group’s readiness to feed demand for narcotics trade grant it strength.…”
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Modelling and characterization of membrane fouling in osmotically-driven membrane processes (ODMPs) by Lai, Li

“…With intensification of water scarcity, forward osmosis has been drawing increasing attention due to its low energy requirement and power of removing pollutants in wastewater treatment and desalination processes. …”
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Microfiltration of oil emulsions stabilized by different surfactants by Trinh, Thien An, Han, Qi, Ma, Yunqiao, Chew, Jia Wei

“…Firstly, the steep flux enhancement vis-à-vis a DI water feed by the feed containing CTAB-stabilized oil emulsion was tied to the attractive interaction of the surfactant with the membrane, as evident from the DLVO model. …”
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Development of fouling resistant nanofiltration membrane for microbial biomass harvesting by Lai, Yanjun

“…Microbial organisms have long been utilized to remove nutrients from waste streams at high efficiency, while also producing biomass which can be used as fuel or further processed into other valuable resources. …”
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Fatty acid composition of milk of refugee Karen and urban Korean mothers. Is the level of DHA in breast milk of Western women compromised by high intake of saturated fat and linole... by Golfetto, I, McGready, R, Ghebremeskel, K, Min, Y, Dubowitz, L, Nosten, F, Drury, P, Simpson, JA, Arunjerdja, R, Crawford, MA

“…<p><b>Background:</b> Lower proportions of docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) and total n-3 metabolites have been reported in breast milk of European, Australian and North American women compared with milk of mothers from non-Western countries. …”

The dietetic practice of prescribing amino acid-based formulas in paediatrics patients without cow’s milk allergy: a single centre retrospective study by O’Connor, Graeme, Mansell, Melissa

“…AAFs contain macronutrients that have been enzymatically hydrolysed, requiring minimal digestion and promoting optimal absorption. …”
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Learning progressive joint propagation for human motion prediction by Cai, Yujun, Huang, Lin, Wang, Yiwei, Cham, Tat-Jen, Cai, Jianfei, Yuan, Junsong, Liu, Jun, Yang, Xu, Zhu, Yiheng, Shen, Xiaohui, Liu, Ding, Liu, Jing, Thalmann, Nadia Magnenat

“…First, to capture the long-range spatial correlations and temporal dependencies, we apply a transformer-based architecture with the global attention mechanism. Speci cally, we feed the network with the sequential joints encoded with the temporal information for spatial and temporal explorations. …”
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Production and optimisation of used cooking palm oil into protected fat calcium salts by fusion method using response surface methodology (RSM) by Mohamad Asrol, Kalam, Pak Dek, Mohd Sabri, Suyub, I. B., Sugnaseelan, Sumita, Jusoh, Shokri

“…UCO, with its high content of fatty acid, can be used as source material for animal feed. However, high unsaturated fatty acid in UCO is harmful to the ruminant’s microflora. …”
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Influence of machining parameters and tool geometry on tool wear during cobalt chromium-molybdenum micro drilling by Abdul Patar, Mohd. Affifudin, Suhaimi, Mohd. Azlan, Sharif, Safian, Amrifan S. Mohruni, Amrifan S. Mohruni, Hisam, Muhammad Juzaili, Shaharum, Mohd. Sallehuddin

“…A flood cooling system was employed throughout the study, with a constant machining feed rate of 0.1 mm/rev. Three cutting tools with different point angles (118°, 130°, and 140°) and a diameter of 0.2 mm were utilized. …”
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In-situ power generation and nutrients recovery from waste activated sludge – long-term performance and system optimization by Wu, Dan, Sun, Faqian, Chua, Desmond Feng Jun, Lu, Dan, Stuckey, David Campbell, Zhou, Yan

“…Fermented liquor (FL) was used as feed for MFC, which produced maximum voltage of 0.477 V and power density of 8.07 W m−3. …”
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