Fine-scale population structure and widespread conservation of genetic effect sizes between human groups across traits by Hu, S, Ferreira, LAF, Shi, S, Hellenthal, G, Marchini, J, Lawson, DJ, Myers, SR

“…To estimate the similarity of genetic effect sizes between groups, we developed ANCHOR, which estimates changes in the predictive power of an existing PGS in distinct local ancestry segments. ANCHOR infers highly similar (estimated correlation 0.98 ± 0.07) effect sizes between UK Biobank participants of African and European ancestry for 47 of 53 quantitative phenotypes, suggesting that gene–environment and gene–gene interactions do not play major roles in poor cross-ancestry PGS transferability for these traits in the United Kingdom, and providing optimism that shared causal mutations operate similarly in different populations.…”

Instabilities in tidal turbine wakes by Smyth, ASM, Nishino, T, Young, AM

“…Unsteady inflow causes the turbine blades to shed vorticity of time-varying strength into the wake, which in turn leads to a spatial variation in wake vortex strength, such that the vorticity of adjacent returning wake segments can differ. This spatial variation triggers the instability of tip vortices, the characteristics of which are shown to be governed by the ’frequency ratio’ ω/ΩNB (where ω is harmonic inflow frequency, Ω is turbine rotational frequency and NB is the number of blades). …”

Antiretroviral therapy optimisation without genotype resistance testing : a perspective on treatment history based models by Prosperi, Mattia C. F., Sloot, Peter M. A., van de Vijver, David A. M. C., Rosen-Zvi, Michal, Altmann, André, Zazzi, Maurizio, Schülter, Eugen, Struck, Daniel, Di Giambenedetto, Simona, Kaiser, Rolf, Vandamme, Anne-Mieke, Sönnerborg, Anders

“…Sensitivity analyses, carried out on a data subset that included antiretroviral regimens commonly used in low to middle income countries, confirmed our findings. …”
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Shi'ism, politics, and identity in Bahrain by Tan, Feng Qin

“…A 'naive' view of identity sees it as straightforwardly and deterministically causative, but if so the 2011 Pearl Uprising in Bahrain appears a paradox - a primarily secular episode of political contestation in a country with a Shi'a majority, against a Sunni dominated regime, in a political realm with a Shi'a Islamist-dominated opposition. …”
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Optimization of transition maneuvers through aerodynamic vectoring by Maqsood, Adnan., Go, Tiauw Hiong.

“…The aerodynamics of the aircraft in pre- and post-stall regimes are obtained through wind-tunnel tests. The unsteady aerodynamic effects are incorporated in aerodynamic model to cater for rapid changes in the aircraft motion, which is modeled as three degree of freedom longitudinal dynamics. …”
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Mean-field approximation for networks with synchrony-driven adaptive coupling by Fennelly, N, Neff, A, Lambiotte, R, Keane, A, Byrne, A

“…We derive a mean-field approximation and assess its accuracy by comparing it to θ-neuron simulations across various stability regimes. The synchrony of the system is quantified using the Kuramoto order parameter. …”

Disciplining the state: virtue, violence, and state-making in modern China by Thornton, P

“…Thornton offers a historical reading of the state-making process as a contest between central and local regimes of bureaucratic and discursive practice.…”

Research on the influence of consumer Perceived Value on the purchase of new energy vehicles by Hu, Xiaofang, Raja Yusof, Raja Nerina, Dato Mansor, Zuraina

“…By analysing various carbon tax regimes domestically and abroad, this article employs a quantitative research methodology to explore the influence of consumer perceptions on customers’ purchase of new energy vehicles. …”
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Unearthing roots by Lim, Ling Ern

“…The installation consists of three main segments:The first is an interactive physical display of a range of selected herbs and common kitchen ingredients widely available and affordable in Singapore. …”
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Operational efficiency and productivity in container terminals part (II) : service quality and port pricing by Chan, Sek Yeong.

“…This paper shows the top 5 segments of “Importance”, “Satisfaction” and “Possible Improvements” in service quality according to the customers‟ demands of PSA Singapore Container Terminals by using Quality Attribute Ranking (QAR), which provides an evaluation of the priority levels of consumer requirement attributes. …”
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Banking behaviour of expatriate lecturers in Singapore. by Goh, Amy., Phua, Nai Hsin., Poh, Siok Peng.

“…The competitive banking environment today forces banking institutions to continuously seek out profitable market segments. With the regionalisation of the Singapore’s economy, the growing number of expatriates forms a ready market for these institutions. …”
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Investigation on the mechanism of amyloid beta peptides oligomerization and the process for its inhibition by Zhao, Li Na

“…We have chosen the full-length Abeta peptides as well as the most representative short segments of Abeta and employed the classical molecular dynamics and the sampling-enhanced replica exchange molecular dynamics simulations, to investigate the aggregation and atomic detailed interaction among Abeta, lipids, small molecules and macromolecules.…”
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Inference of homology by Blast visualization of influenza genome set by Tan, Jun Qiu

“…Studies have shown that this is a very pathogenic strain of human influenza whereby gene segments have persisted in new reassortant strains, threatening to cause great harm to public health. …”
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Biomechanics of Muay Thai : science behind the low kick by Zeng, Ezra Yueyi

“…The main motions involved in the execution of the low kick is the 3-dimensional rotations of the leg segments and the body. In Muay Thai, little attention is given to the kinematic, kinetic and the dynamic concepts and principles involved that form the techniques that are now used today. …”
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An investigation on the role of tarsal flexibility in insect walking by Tjuatja, Johan

“…Although there is a wealth of literature on various physical properties of insect leg, such as strength and inner structure, there seems to be a lack of knowledge on the functions or roles of the individual leg segments, such as the tarsus. While the tarsus has been long known to be flexible, there has currently been no study that explains what the purpose of this flexibility is in insect leg. …”
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A new method of N to C sequential ligation using thioacid capture ligation and native chemical ligation by Hou, Wen, Liu, Lei, Zhang, Xiaohong, Liu, Chuanfa

“…Herein, we developed an alternative method which could perform the sequential peptide ligation of several segments from N to C direction based on the combined use of thioacid capture ligation and native chemical ligation. …”
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Toward an Asian-based bodily movement database for emotional communication by Cheng, M, Tseng, C, Fujiwara, K, Higashiyama, S, Weng, A, Kitamura, Y

“…To address the obvious risk this bias poses to academic comprehension, we attempted to expand the current repertoire of human bodily emotions by recruiting Asian professional performers to wear whole-body suits with 57 retroreflective markers attached to major joints and body segments, and express seven basic emotions with whole-body movements in a motion-capture lab. …”

An observational study of the prevalence of metabolic syndrome in treatment-experienced people living with HIV in Singapore by Ang, Li Wei, Ng, Oon Tek, Boudville, Irving Charles, Leo, Yee Sin, Wong, Chen Seong

“…Background: While the use of combination antiretroviral therapy (cART) has conferred significant reduction in morbidity and mortality, there are growing concerns about the metabolic complications of antiretroviral regimens in HIV-infected patients. The aim of this study was to estimate the prevalence of metabolic syndrome (MetS) among people living with HIV (PLHIV) in Singapore. …”
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How does relative income affect mental health within a developing country? The case of Indonesia by Sng, Francesca Min, Haajar Binte Arman, Ng, Xiangqi

“…Through the analysis, policymakers can consider adopting more targeted awareness campaigns and tax regimes for wealth redistribution.…”
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A computational study of spin glasses and its spin coupling interactions by Wong, Yi Ren

“…These models may be differentiated from one another by the critical temperature and critical exponents measured or calculated from experiments and simulations which give rise to different universality classes in different regimes. We will explore in this thesis the critical phenomena of two separate new SG models − The Spin Glass Cellular Automata (SGCA) model and the Heterogeneous Spin Glass (HSG) model while reviewing other known SG models studied in literature. …”
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