Market surveillance of porcine DNA detection in commercial food products in Sibu, Sarawak by Yong, S.P. A., Sajali, N., Desa, M. N. M., Koh, C. C., Sani, M., Wong, S. C., Lani, M. N., Wasoh, H., Abubakar, S.

“…The qPCR assay demonstrated presence of porcine DNA in two food samples which lacked product labelling, with mean Ct values ± SD of 19.05 ± 0.72 and 28.07 ± 1.67 as compared to the positive control (mean Ct values ± SD of 13.44 ± 0.37 to 14.78 ± 1.10). …”
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Polarization-insensitive self-collimation and beam splitter based on triangular-lattice annular photonic crystals by Jiang, Liyong., Wu, Hong., Li, Xiangyin.

“…Such a feature is quite beneficial in the formation of a flat equi-frequency contour for both polarizations at the same frequency, which means a polarization-insensitive self-collimation (PISC) effect. …”
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The Impact of Open Development Initiatives in Lower- and Middle Income Countries: A Review of the Literature by Bentley, Caitlin Maureen, Chib, Arul

“…We therefore question the normative value of open development as a means to transform power relations. However, we argue that a more concentrated vision within this field is needed to exploit the full potential of digitally enabled openness for development.…”
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Effects of noise exposure on occupational stress among palm oil mill workers in Malaysia by Roya, Latifi Naeini

“…Meanwhile, there is no significant different in PNE mean between workers from noisy and normal working area (t=- 1.742, p=0.083). …”
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Resource allocation and performance analysis of multi-rate WiFi network by Neo, Jun Wei

“…In this report, detailed information of the IEEE 802.11 family will be discussed first, followed by the means of building and running a simulation program. …”
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Role of scatter-hoarding rodents in the seed dispersal of large-seeded plants. by Low, Gerard Hongkai.

“…With the loss of these primary dispersers, large-seeded plants require other means of dispersal if they are to propagate and survive. …”
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Beyond symbolism: the roles of action planning and case-making in immigrant integration policymaking by Allen, WL, Broadhead, J

“…This limits empirical and theoretical understanding of how local efforts to implement potentially contentious policies arise, and through which means. In response, we examine how municipal actors in 12 cities and regions across the UK have devised and communicated policies on immigrant integration—an area that lacks national policy inputs yet is locally consequential—through the mechanism of “action planning.” …”

Artificial Intelligence and the US-China Balance of Power by Chang, Benjamin Angel

“…It finds that AI reduces the total “effective counterforce area” – the area the United States would have to destroy with nuclear weapons, to carry out a splendid first-strike – by one to two orders of magnitude. …”
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Influence of post-deposition annealing on interfacial properties between GaN and ZrO2 grown by atomic layer deposition by Ye, Gang, Wang, Hong, Ng, Serene Lay Geok, Ji, Rong, Arulkumaran, Subramaniam, Ng, Geok Ing, Li, Yang, Liu, Zhi Hong, Ang, Kian Siong

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Greater rate of weight loss predicts paediatric hospital admission in adolescent typical and atypical anorexia nervosa by Brennan, Cliona, Cini, Erica, Illingworth, Sarah, Chapman, Simon, Simic, Mima, Nicholls, Dasha, Chapman, Victoria, Simms, Conor, Hayes, Ellen, Fuller, Sarah, Orpwood, Jade, Tweedy, Nichola, Baksh, Tahmida, Astaire, Emma, Bhakta, Dee

“…Physical health parameters at assessment, including heart rate, blood pressure, temperature and rate of weight loss, were compared between adolescents who were admitted to a paediatric ward following assessment and those who were not admitted. The mean rate of weight loss prior to assessment was significantly higher, and mean energy intake significantly lower, in the admitted vs not admitted groups (1.2 vs 0.6kg/week, p < 0.001 and 565 kcal/day vs 857 kcal/day, p < 0.001), independent of degree of underweight. …”
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Laser lock-in thermography for residual stress characterization on metallic plate by Chong, Jun Jian

“…Mean stress can be increased by a tensile residual stress retained in the material. …”
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Multiple kernels for object detection by Vedaldi, A, Gulshan, V, Varma, M, Zisserman, A

“…Our contributions include (i) showing that a linear classifier can be evaluated with a complexity proportional to the number of sub-windows (independent of the sub-window area and descriptor dimension); (ii) a comparison of three efficient methods of proposing candidate regions (including the jumping window classifier of Chum and Zisserman (CVPR 2007) based on proposing windows from scale invariant features); and (Hi) introducing overlap-recall curves as a mean to compare and optimize the performance of the intermediate pipeline stages. …”

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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Ultra-thin bulk silicon thinning of advanced microprocessors & graphics processors fabricated in Sub-20 nm technology by Teo, Wee Siang

“…In anticipation of further advanced probing techniques necessitating sub-micron remaining silicon thicknesses, focused ion beam milling techniques were then explored as a means to further localise ultrathin silicon to the area of interest. …”
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Intelligent diagnostic feedback in virtual learning environment by Guo, Ruisheng

“…This research investigates the current key issues in the area of e-learning in higher education and focuses on how to provide automatic, effective and convenient online feedback to students in order to support students’ learning. …”
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Trapped photoelectrons during spacecraft charging in sunlight by Cahoy, K., Lai, S. T.

“…Differential charging of spacecraft surfaces can trap low-energy electrons by means of potential wells and barriers. The low-energy electrons are mostly photoelectrons and secondary electrons. …”
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Investigation on NOGA XP cardiac navigation system by Liu, Wei.

“…An advanced technology called NOGA XP system which can diagnose and treat some heart diseases in the means of cardiac mapping and injection is currently available in market. …”
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ORB-based optimal lost robot self-recovery by Soo, Danny Hong Kit

“…This report will explore the integration of a recently-developed descriptor, ORB (Oriented Fast and Rotated Brief), and the DBoW2 hierarchical tree structure to create an algorithm which guides a lost robot back to its programmed path through visual means. This report will start with a brief introduction about the lost robot problem, followed by a literature review on some of the existing work done on lost robot recovery and place recognition. …”
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Face recognition in color space by Zhao, Tiansi

“…This is a big challenge for face recognition is the unclear knowledge of the human beings recognizing method. This means researchers need to find the reliable and discriminative features from the amount of face features in the face image, which has been enhanced by tools provided by machine learning technology. …”
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The flexible urban grid: adaptation, expansion and evolution in Philadelphia's city block morphology by Ryan, Brent D., Wang, Elaine

“…Both expansions reduced 1683 block depths to permit additional east- west circulation and to increase developable block frontage. Mean block depths of 666 ft in the Penn grid were reduced to 383 ft in the adapted grid, to 328 ft (south) and 393 ft (north) in the unplanned expansion grid, and to 422 ft (south) and 534 ft (north) in the planned expansion grid. …”
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