Terrorism and Violent Extremism in North-Eastern Nigeria: Toward a Model of Radicalization of the Almajiri Cohort by Usman, Abbo, Mohd. Zain, Zawiyah, Ali, Salim Ibrahim

“…It’s therefore explored the societal practices and individual factors responsible for revamping the support for terrorism among the Almajiri cohorts in northeastern Nigeria, specifically the roles of sociocultural factors in encouraging conviction and involvement, as well as the contribution of myriads of push and pull factors such as unfavorable sociopolitical condition, economic strain and grievances. …”
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Interferon-γ- and glucocorticoid-mediated pathways synergize to enhance death of CD4(+) CD8(+) thymocytes during Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium infection by Deobagkar-Lele, M, Chacko, SK, Victor, ES, Kadthur, JC, Nandi, D

“…To investigate the functional roles of these molecules, studies were performed using Ifnγ(-/-) mice together with RU486, a glucocorticoid receptor antagonist. …”

Enhancing tensile and fatigue properties of additively manufactured alloys by post-processing heat treatment by Radhakrishnan, Jayaraj

“…The critical role of δ phase in determining the grain growth kinetics and subsequently the anisotropy in mechanical properties of heat-treated IN718 was elucidated. …”
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The sensitivity of tsunami models and tsunami energy to geologically constrained fault sources and shallow bathymetry by Felix, Raquel Picar

“…I first explored the tsunami source region by quantifying the role of the frontal thrusts and other splay faults in the generation of tsunami earthquakes. …”
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Customer knowledge management via social media : the case of Starbucks by Chua, Alton Yeow Kuan, Banerjee, Snehasish

“…Second, Starbucks redefines the roles of its customers through the use of social media by transforming them from passive recipients of beverages to active contributors of innovation. …”
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Development of resistive random access memory for next-generation embedded non-volatile memory application by Sun, Jianxun

“…On the contrary, the inhibition effect of the negative voltage is observed for the set process, which implies that the role of the negative voltage varies with the state of the device. …”
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Design of robot integrated restaurant by Santhosh Pandiaraj

“…In order to tackle these problems, the author has identified integrating robots in the F&B industry to take over the roles of waiters and chefs in restaurants as the most desirable solution. …”
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Structural and functional characterisation of chikungunya virus replication complex dynamics by Tan, Yaw Bia

“…Further biochemical and structural determination of the enzymatic domains of CHIKV RC will reveal the functional roles and spatial organisation of nsPs in the active assembly of RC. …”
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The peculiarities of knowledge management processes in SMEs : the case of Singapore by Wee, Janet Chui Neo, Chua, Alton Yeow Kuan

“…Furthermore, only a small sample of staff from these SMEs was interviewed. Hence the findings need to be interpreted in light of such a scope. …”
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Health monitoring, lifetimes estimation, and thermal management of IGBT-based power converters by Mohamed Halick Mohamed Sathik

“…Power electronics plays a significant role in various applications such as renewable energy, aerospace and marine drive systems to achieve efficient electric energy conversion and to attain high system performance. …”
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2023 roadmap for materials for quantum technologies by Becher, Christoph, Gao, Weibo, Kar, Swastik, Marciniak, Christian D., Monz, Thomas, Bartholomew, John G., Goldner, Philippe, Loh, Huanqian, Marcellina, Elizabeth, Goh, Johnson Kuan Eng, Koh, Teck Seng, Weber, Bent, Mu, Zhao, Tsai, Jeng-Yuan, Yan, Qimin, Huber-Loyola, Tobias, Höfling, Sven, Gyger, Samuel, Steinhauer, Stephan, Zwiller, Val

“…Advancing these materials frontiers will require innovations from a diverse community of scientific expertise, and hence this roadmap will be of interest to a broad spectrum of disciplines.…”
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Preparation of low-dimensional materials for plasmonic bio-sensing by Das, Chandreyee Manas

“…The sensitivity of these SPR sensors play an important role in the precision and accuracy of detection of bio-molecular ligand-analyte or protein-protein interactions. …”
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Mitofusins Mfn1 and Mfn2 are required to preserve glucose- but not incretin-stimulated β-cell connectivity and insulin secretion by Georgiadou, Eleni, Muralidharan, Charanya, Martinez, Michelle, Chabosseau, Pauline, Akalestou, Elina, Tomas, Alejandra, Yong, Fiona Su Wern, Stylianides, Theodoros, Wretlind, Asger, Legido-Quigley, Cristina, Jones, Ben, Lopez-Noriega, Livia, Xu, Yanwen, Gu, Guoqiang, Alsabeeh, Nour, Cruciani-Guglielmacci, Céline, Magnan, Christophe, Ibberson, Mark, Leclerc, Isabelle, Ali, Yusuf, Soleimanpour, Scott A., Linnemann, Amelia K., Rodriguez, Tristan A., Rutter, Guy A.

“…Whether mitofusin gene expression, and hence, mitochondrial network integrity, is important for glucose or incretin signaling has not previously been explored. …”
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Part I : Peptide functionalized materials for gram-negative bacteria targeted PDT and LPS sensing. Part II : Small peptide and membrane lipid based self-assembled nanostructures fo... by Liu, Fang

“…The cell derived MVs are of important self-assembled membrane structures, which are found to play critical roles in antigen presentation, cell to cell communication, cell migration and so on.14-16 In our research, a novel chemical engineered membrane vesicle was developed by introducing an amphiphilic benzophenone derivative into membranes. …”
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