The causes of presenteeism : a study of the antecedents of sickness presenteeism in the Singapore context. by Chang, Hua Lin., Yeo, Ciau Er., Phua, Justin Wei Zheng.

“…The main reason for its growing importance in the eyes of professionals is the overwhelming cost, surpassing the cost of absenteeism, incurred by employers when employees turn up for work feeling unwell. …”
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Effect of WuWeiXiaoDuYin (五味消毒饮) and its components on LFA-1 mediated leukocyte adhesion to ICAM-1. by Tan, Kang Ting.

“…However, these medications have problems with prolonged usage. As such, many turn to Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) as an alternative for treatment. …”
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Monitoring of group discussion using Android apps by Hamdi Hamzah

“…As our ultimate goal is to improve the current computer systems and social robots that suffer from a lack of social skills, we will explore the social signals and social behaviors, including social interactions (like turn taking), social attitude (like alliance), and social relations/ roles to build more socially intelligent model for robots. …”
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Advancing the chemistry of phosphole by Ng, Kim Hong

“…The presence of this vinylic group has induced linear π-conjugation with the diene unit of phosphole. This has in turn activated the dienic system resulting in a unique chemistry that is rarely (or never) observed in the other 5-membered heteroarene derivatives. …”
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Regulation of Stress Responses and Translational Control by Coronavirus by Liao, Ying, Fung, To Sing, Liu, Ding Xiang

“…The close association of coronavirus replication with the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) results in the ER stress responses, which impose a challenge to the viruses. Viruses, in turn, have come up with various mechanisms to block or subvert these responses. …”
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Audiences’ acts of authentication in the age of fake news: a conceptual framework by Tandoc, Edson C., Ling, Richard, Westlund, Oscar, Duffy, Andrew, Goh, Debbie, Zheng Wei, Lim

“…In broad strokes, we find that individuals rely on both their own judgment of the source and the message, and when this does not adequately provide a definitive answer, they turn to external resources to authenticate news items.…”
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On the algebraic structure of quasi-cyclic codes IV : repeated roots by Ling, San, Niederreiter, Harald, Sole, Patrick

“…The main working tool is the Generalized Discrete Fourier Transform (GDFT), which in turn relies on the Hasse derivative of polynomials. …”
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Effect of annealing on microstructure evolution and mechanical property of cold forged magnesium pipes by Lu, Liwei, Liu, Tianmo, Tan, Ming-Jen, Chen, Jian, Wang, Zhongchang

“…It is found that a series of twins, {1012}(1011), {1012} - {1012}, {1013}(3032), {1012} - {0112}, {1013} - {1012}, and {1011}(1012), turn up in the as-forged Mg pipes, which play a crucial role in the SRX through acting as recrystallization sites and in refining grains during annealing, especially the contraction twins and triple junctions. …”
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Cluster based power efficient cooperative spectrum sensing under reduced bandwidth using location information by Smitha, Kavallur Gopi, Vinod, Achutavarrier Prasad

“…The reduction in the number of sensing bits using proposed method in turn reduces the total transmission power of the secondary users in the cognitive network thus improving its battery life.…”
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Improving rice nitrogen-use efficiency by modulating a novel monouniquitination machinery for optimal root plasticity response to nitrogen by Huang, Y, Ji, Z, Tao, Y, Wei, S, Jiao, W, Fang, Y, Jian, P, Shen, C, Qin, Y, Zhang, S, Li, S, Liu, X, Kang, S, Tian, Y, Song, Q, Harberd, NP, Wang, S, Li, S

“…Plant nitrogen (N)-use efficiency (NUE) is largely determined by the ability of root to take up external N sources, whose availability and distribution in turn trigger the modification of root system architecture (RSA) for N foraging. …”

Slowdown: the end of the great acceleration—and why it's good for the planet, the economy, and our lives by Dorling, D

“…Rather than lament this turn of events, Dorling embraces it as a moment of promise and a move toward stability, and he notes that many of the older great strides in progress that have defined recent history also brought with them widespread warfare, divided societies, and massive inequality.…”

The role of funding in the ‘performative decarbonisation’ of transport in England by Verlinghieri, E, Haines-Doran, T, Marsden, G, Schwanen, T

“…This means that the nature of the funds, such as the requirement for experimentation, innovation or private sector leverage, defines direction. In turn, and to maintain success in attracting funds, there is an emphasis on presenting ‘premium spaces of ambition’ with little evidence of attention to broader systemic change. …”

On fundamental aspects of quantum extreme learning machines by Xiong, W, Facelli, G, Sahebi, M, Agnel, O, Chotibut, T, Thanasilp, S, Holmes, Z

“…As a cautionary note on scalability, we identify four sources that can lead to the exponential concentration of the observables as the system size grows (randomness, hardware noise, entanglement, and global measurements) and show how this can turn QELMs into useless input-agnostic oracles. In particular, our result on the reservoir-induced concentration strongly indicates that quantum reservoirs drawn from a highly random ensemble make QELM models unscalable. …”

Effects of hormonal regulation on cell number and cell size in determining fruit size: a mini-review by Siti Khadijah A. Karim, Zamri Zainal, Nik Marzuki Sidik

“…We focused on hormones that are mainly involved in determining cell proliferation and cell size and on their interaction during genetic regulation and their signaling pathways, which in turn, influence final fruit size. We also deliberated the current findings around this research niche at cellular and molecular levels. …”
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Effect of crosslinking reagents and hydroxypropylation levels on dual-modified sago starch properties by Wattanachant, Saowakon, Muhammad, K., Mat Hashim, D., Abd. Rahman, R.

“…Through hydroxypropylation, it was found that there was a significant increase in molar substitution which in turn induces an increase in crosslinking and this was seen from the marked increase in phosphorus content and degree of substitution. …”
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Spectral variation of normalised laplacian for various network models by Liang, Y.S.J., Chan, K.T., Shah, N.M.

“…Results from the spectral measures have revealed specific characteristics for different models, which in turn make them easier to be recognised.…”
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Can good ESG performance help companies resist external shocks? by Yang, Xin, Sheikh Hassan, Ahmad Fahmi, Karbhari, Yusuf

“…Additionally, we uncover that revenue growth acts as a critical pathway through which ESG performance reduces firm-specific risk, highlighting that firms with strong ESG practices achieved higher revenue growth, which in turn contributed to risk reduction. Further analysis shows that the political environment and dividend policy influence this relationship, as examined through heterogeneity analysis. …”
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Doctor, Will You Pray for Me? : Medicine, Chaplains, and Healing the Whole Person / by Klitzman, Robert, author 655971

“…New technologies are redefining the beginning and end of life, raising religious, spiritual, and existential quandaries about whether and when to turn off the machines and “play God.” COVID-19 made these dilemmas ever more acute. …”
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Personal Food Computer: A new device for controlled-environment agriculture by Castelló Ferrer, Eduardo, Rye, Jake, Brander, Gordon, Savas, Tim, Chambers, Douglas, England, Hildreth, Harper, Caleb

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Partial grounding, identity, and nothing-over-and-aboveness by Werner, Jonas

“…In this context, I propose and discuss a way to spell out nothing-over-and-aboveness in terms of generalised identity that does justice to the claim that the fully grounded is nothing over and above its full grounds. It will turn out that the related question whether partial grounding and nothing-over-and-aboveness yield full grounding pertains to considerations concerning how finely factual content is individuated. …”
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