Production risk and technical efficiency of Thai Koi (Anabas testudineus Bloch) farming in some selected areas of Bangladesh by Sarker, Md. Al Amin

“…The overall objective of this study is to examine the production risk and technical efficiency (TE)of Thai koi farming in selected areas of Bangladesh. Specifically it aims at:(i)identifying the nature and extent of risk associated with the use of inputs; (ii) estimating the farm specific as well as mean TE and identifying factors affecting technical inefficiency (TIE), and (iv) assessing how feed type effects on productivity. …”
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Quality of life and healthcare service utilization among methadone maintenance patients in a mountainous area of Northern Vietnam by Nguyen, Long Hoang, Nguyen, Lan Huong Thi, Boggiano, Victoria L., Hoang, Canh Dinh, Van Nguyen, Hung, Le, Huong Thi, Le, Hai Quan, Tran, Tho Dinh, Tran, Bach Xuan, Latkin, Carl A., Zary, Nabil, Vu, Minh Thuc Thi

“…Background: The expansion of methadone maintenance treatment in mountainous areas in still limited and little is known about its health impacts on drug users. …”
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A preliminary path planning algorithm for the last-mile delivery by an unmanned aerial vehicle in urban town areas by Zhang, Mingcheng, Low, Kin Huat

“…The applications by means of drones or unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are increasing in areas from military to industry, commercial, and civil. …”
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A wearable circulator‐like circularly polarised antenna for full‐duplex wireless body area network applications by Thakur, Ajeet, Sharma, Ashwani, Garcia Zuazola, Ignacio Julio

“…A circulator‐like high gain, unidirectional, dual circularly polarised (DCP) wearable antenna with a low specific absorption rate of 0.088 W/kg for 5.8 GHz industrial, scientific, and medical (ISM) band (5.725 − 5.875 GHz) full‐duplex wireless body area network (WBAN) applications is proposed. The DCP full‐duplexing is achieved by a closed‐loop feedback structure between its orthogonal‐ports with enhanced axial ratio (AR) band-width and good impedance matching. …”
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Prioritising conservation areas in Southeast Asia: highlighting zoological biodiversity hotspots and assessing spatiotemporal patterns of the felids guild by Chiaverini, L

“…Additionally, by mapping the areas harbouring the highest numbers of terrestrial vertebrate, as well as the most suitable habitats for small felids, I provided a means for guiding prioritisation of conservation areas. …”

Suppression of mixed-phase areas in highly elongated BiFeO3 thin films on NdAlO3 substrates by Woo, Chang-Su, Lee, Jin Hong, Chu, Kanghyun, Jang, Byung-Kweon, Kim, Yong-Bae, Koo, Tae Yeong, Yang, Ping, Qi, Yajun, Chen, Zuhuang, Chen, Lang, Choi, Hong Chul, Shim, Ji Hoon, Yang, Chan-Ho

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Territorial Management of a Common Area by Some Villages in the Acquese Monferrato in the Light of Four Medieval Documents (with Critical Apparatus of the Analyzed Notarial Deeds) by Perono Cacciafoco, Francesco

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Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in blood serum of adults living in high and low-traffic volume areas in Malaysia: A comparative cross-sectional study by Al-Battawi, Samer, Latif, Mohd Talib, How, Vivien, Thilakavathy, Karuppiah, Abd Hamid, Haris Hafizal, Hameed, Sarah, Ho, Yu Bin

“…This study aims to compare PAH concentrations, distributions, correlations, and health risks in 202 blood serum samples drawn from residents living in high-traffic volume areas (Kuala Lumpur) and low-traffic volume areas (Hulu Langat) in Malaysia. …”
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A novel method for segmenting growth of cells in sheared endothelial culture reveals the secretion of an anti-inflammatory mediator by Ghim, Mean, Pang, Kuin T., Arshad, Mehwish, Wang, Xiaomeng, Weinberg, Peter D.

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邯郸城化进程实证分析及战略研究 = Practical analysis and strategy research to urbanization process of HanDan city by 乔朝英 Qiao, Chaoying

“…Urbanization is a objective rule of human being development, following on the economic development, the population all over the world have gradually moved from rural areas to urban zones, due to this, the 21St century is named the city’s century. …”
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Synergistic antibacterial action of lignin-squaraine hybrid photodynamic therapy: advancing towards effective treatment of antibiotic-resistant bacteria by Ferdinandus, Joo, Chaemin, Kai, Dan, Lee, Ken Chi-Lik

“…Antibacterial photodynamic therapy (aPDT) is emerging as an effective means of treating pathogenic bacteria, especially in light of the challenges posed by antibiotic resistance. …”
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Changing times and requirements : implications for LIS education by Chow, Anthony S., Shaw, Teresa L., Gwynn, David, Martensen, Dan, Howard, Margaret

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Open world object detection: a survey by Li, Yiming, Wang, Yi, Wang, Wenqian, Lin, Dan, Li, Bingbing, Yap, Kim-Hui

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Magnetoresistive sensor development roadmap (non-recording applications) by Zheng, Chao, Zhu, Ke, De Freitas, Susana Cardoso, Chang, Jen-Yuan, Davies, Joseph E., Eames, Peter, Freitas, Paulo P., Kazakova, Olga, Kim, Cheol Gi, Leung, Chi-Wah, Liou, Sy-Hwang, Ognev, Alexey, Piramanayagam, S. N., Ripka, Pavel, Samardak, Alexander, Shin, Kwang-Ho, Tong, Shi-Yuan, Tung, Mean-Jue, Wang, Shan X., Xue, Songsheng, Yin, Xiaolu, Pong, Philip W. T.

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Compressibility behavior of marine clay treated by combination of coal ash and cement by Pakir, F, Ismail, N A, Yunos, N Z M, Jamaludin, N, Talib, M K A, Dan, M F M, Madun, A

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Synthesis of porous, hollow metal MCO3 (M=Mn, Co, Ca) microstructures and adsorption properties thereof by Cai, Ren, Du, Yaping, Peng, Shengjie, Bi, Hengchang, Zhang, Wenyu, Yang, Dan, Chen, Jing, Lim, Tuti Mariana, Zhang, Hua, Cao, Y. Charles, Yan, Qingyu

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Fractional exhaled nitric oxide (FeNO) among school children in Java and Sumatra, Indonesia: associations with respiratory symptoms, house dust mite sensitization and the home envi... by Norbäck, Dan, Hashim, Jamal Hisham, Hashim, Zailina, Jalaludin, Juliana, Ismail, Rohaida, Wieslander, Gunilla, Wispriyono, Bambang, Sary, Lolita, Pratama, Satria, Sari, Meliana, Sisinta, Tiaraima, Putra, Hondli, Perdana, Agung Aji, Muhani, Nova, Lestari, Sri Maria Puji, Wulandari, Ririn, Nurmala, Eliza Eka

“…Exploratory linear mixed and logistic regression models were employed. Results: Geometric mean of FeNO was 17.8 ppb (GSD 2.09) and 139 students (36.6%) had elevated FeNO (>20 ppb). …”
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Innovative green building forms for sustainable community by Puah, Lesle Wei Jian.

“…The most vital factor contributing to urban heat island effect is the diminishing of greenery area and increased in concrete area which results in serious temperature difference between urban and rural area. …”
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Automated lesion segmentation and quantification for prediction of paradoxical worsening in patients with tubercular serpiginous-like choroiditis by Kalra, Gagan, Agarwal, Aniruddha, Marchese, Alessandro, Agrawal, Rupesh, Bansal, Reema, Gupta, Vishali

“…The PW + group had significantly higher mean lesion area (p = 0.0152), mean pixel intensity (p = 0.0181), and integrated pixel intensity (p < 0.0001) compared to the PW- group. …”
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Sparse machine learning methods for financial signal processing by Pucha Srinivasa Sai Chakravarthy

“…And research of portfolio theory was primarily driven as a mean – variance optimization problem where in mean mimicked the returns and variance the risk. …”
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