Establishing the association between traditional tobacco, e-cigarette and dual use and mental health problems among high school students: results from a 2022 behavioral surveillanc... by Thepthien, BO, Tinn, CS, Sharma, R

“…This study examined the association among past-year use of conventional cigarette (CC), e-cigarette (EC), dual use (using both CC and EC), with presence of substance use (i.e., alcohol use and marijuana use), having friends and family members who use cigarettes, and mental health problems (e.g., depression, anxiety, psychological distress (PD), problem gambling (PG) and adverse childhood experiences (ACEs)). …”

Salient keypoint detectors and compact feature descriptors for 3D perception by Prakhya, Sai Manoj

“…The second part of the thesis focusses on 3D feature description, in which, we firstly propose a fast real valued low dimensional 3D descriptor, then the first binary 3D descriptor in literature and lastly, a set of even lower bitrate 3D descriptors, which are extremely fast to compute, match yet still offer better performance. …”
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Food environments and obesity: a geospatial analysis of the South Asia Biobank, income and sex inequalities by Atanasova, Petya, Kusuma, Dian, Pineda, Elisa, Anjana, Ranjit Mohan, De Silva, Laksara, Hanif, Abu A. M., Hasan, Mehedi, Hossain, Md Mokbul, Indrawansa, Susantha, Jayamanne, Deepal, Jha, Sujeet, Kasturiratne, Anuradhani, Katulanda, Prasad, Khawaja, Khadija I., Kumarendran, Balachandran, Mrida, Malay K., Rajakaruna, Vindya, Chambers, John Campbell, Frost, Gary, Sassi, Franco, Miraldo, Marisa

“…Interpretation: The results suggest the availability of fast-food outlets influences obesity, especially among female and lower-income groups. …”
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120 children of UMPSA staff participated in Exploring Mathematics Programme by Nor Salwana, Mohammad Idris

“…PEKAN, 21 December 2023 - A total of 120 participants consisting of the children of Universiti Malaysia Pahang Al-Sultan Abdullah (UMPSA) staff participated in the Exploring Mathematics Programme held at both campuses for four sessions starting last Monday.…”
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Taliban await US withdrawal from Kabul by Sajjad Ashraf

“…US Secretary of State John Kerry and President Hamid Karzai announced in Kabul last week that the two sides are close to a much-delayed deal on the Bilateral Security Agreement (BSA). …”
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Development and investigation of bileaflet heart valve prostheses by Ramesh Veerappan

“…Artificial heart valves are in use the last four decades. They seem to be gaining ever increasing popularity though they are prone to have problems such as thrombosis and haemolysis. …”
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The relationships between irrational beliefs, self-esteem and public and private self-consciousness in adults by Lee, Janice Niann Tsyr

“…Thirdly, there is a positive relationship between irrational beliefs and public and private self-consciousness. The fourth and last hypothesis is that there are no gender differences in self esteem, irrational beliefs and public and private self-consciousness.…”
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3D interactive internet application based on VRML by Gao, Bo

“…Second aspect is on finding out all advantages and disadvantages of VRML by comparing it with other 3D authoring languages and formats. Last and the most important aspect is on proposing a set of non-proprietary mechanisms and the ways of implementation for creating a shared multi-user VRML environment.…”
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Pinch. by Koh, Kim Joo., Manoj Prabhoda Chandran.

“…With millions of dollars suddenly at stake for the now underworld players, the film takes a violent surreal turn when the twosome head out for one last heist.…”
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Study of goods vehicles in intermodal supply chain by Chng, Jing Feng.

“…Being widely utilised for first and last mile freight, road transportation is as critical a link as any in an intermodal supply chain. …”
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Piracy in the South China Sea : maritime ambushes off the Mangkai passage by Frecon, Eric

“…But what about surrounding areas such as Anambas Islands in the South China Sea? Attacks occured last year in this outlying place and the growing danger there deserves as much attention.…”
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ASEAN Plus eight defence cooperation : rise of a new player by Desker, Barry

“…The ground-breaking ASEAN Defence Ministers Meeting Plus Eight convened for the first time last week. The emergence of the ADMM Plus will have implications for ASEAN and the evolving regional security architecture.…”
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Colombia’s early steps to becoming a regional energy hub by Zamora, A, Martínez, H

“…Colombia has traditionally been a leading advocate of economic and political integration in Latin America, even as it struggles internally with a civil conflict that has brought grief to its population over the last half century. The country has been proactive in the creation of all the regional economic integration bodies, including the Latin American Energy Organization, OLADE – one of the economic integration bodies that Colombia has supported and used as a lever to promote the energy integration of the continent, and its own role in the process.…”

Archaeology in Albania 2014-2024 by Gilkes, O, Melfi, M, Muka, B

“…This paper presents a review of new research being carried out within the borders of modern Albania in the last ten years. It offers a roughly geographical outline—albeit incomplete—of recent discoveries from prehistory to the middle-ages, and attempts at placing them in the wider context of current research in the field. …”

Report on professional attachment with American International Assurance. by Cheung, Wai Man.

“…This will be followed by the description of the tangible benefits of the PA program - the various projects and tasks author has been doing and learning for the past 8 weeeks.…”
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Pareto Adaptive Robust Optimality via a Fourier–Motzkin Elimination lens by Bertsimas, Dimitris, ten Eikelder, Stefan C. M., den Hertog, Dick, Trichakis, Nikolaos

“…A worst-case optimal solution pair of here-and-now decisions and wait-and-see decisions is PARO if it cannot be Pareto dominated by another solution, i.e., there does not exist another worst-case optimal pair that performs at least as good in all scenarios in the uncertainty set and strictly better in at least one scenario. …”
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Advanced diagnosis of electrical systems by Cao, Huimin

“…Two kind of faults are investigated in this project: sensor measurement error and power cell fault. “l1 regularized least-squares optimization” method is employed for sensor fault identification. …”
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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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Interventions for smoking cessation in hospitalised patients: a systematic review by Munafò, M, Rigotti, N, Lancaster, T, Stead, L, Murphy, M

“…<p><b>Conclusions</b></p> High intensity behavioural interventions that include at least 1 month of follow up contact are effective in promoting smoking cessation in hospitalised patients. …”

Moringa oleifera seed oils: Physico-chemical characterization and its authentication using FTIR spectroscopy and chemometrics by Irnawati, Rohman, Abdul, Yamin, Ahmad Fadzillah, Nurrulhidayah, Azmi, Aida Azrina, Nurlatifah, Windarsih, Anjar, Susidarti, Ratna Asmah, Ruslin

“…Partial least square (PLS) could predict soybean oil levels as adulterant at combined wavenumbers region of 2935-2830 and 1800-710 cm−1. …”
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