Detection and characterisation of a sixth Candida auris clade in Singapore: a genomic and phenotypic study by Suphavilai, Chayaporn, Ko, Karrie Kwan Ki, Lim, Kar Mun, Tan, Mei Gie, Boonsimma, Patipan, Chu, Joash Jun Keat, Goh, Sui Sin, Rajandran, Prevena, Lee, Lai Chee, Tan, Kwee Yuen, Bushra Binte Shaik Ismail, Aung, May Kyawt, Yang, Yong, Sim, Jean Xiang Ying, Venkatachalam, Indumathi, Cherng, Benjamin Pei Zhi, Spruijtenburg, Bram, Chan, Kian Sing, Oon, Lynette Lin Ean, Tan, Ai Ling, Tan, Yen Ee, Wijaya, Limin, Tan, Ban Hock, Ling, Moi Lin, Koh, Tse Hsien, Meis, Jacques F., Tsui, Clement Kin Ming, Nagarajan, Niranjan

“…We further implemented Bayesian logistic regression models to classify isolates into known clades and simulate the automatic detection of isolates belonging to novel clades as their WGS data became available. Findings: The three investigated isolates were separated by at least 37 000 SNPs (range 37 000–236 900) from all existing C auris clades. …”
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Cardiovascular magnetic resonance before invasive coronary angiography in suspected non-ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction by Shanmuganathan, M, Nikolaidou, C, Burrage, MK, Borlotti, A, Kotronias, R, Scarsini, R, Banerjee, A, Terentes-Printzios, D, Pitcher, A, Gara, E, Langrish, J, Lucking, A, Choudhury, R, Luigi De Maria, G, Banning, A, Oxford Acute Myocardial Infarction (OxAMI) Study Investigators, Piechnik, SK, Channon, KM, Ferreira, VM

“…</p> <br> <p><strong>Conclusions:</strong> In patients presenting with suspected NSTEMI, a CMR-first strategy identified MI in 67%, nonischemic pathologies in 18%, and normal findings in 11%. Accordingly, CMR has the potential to affect at least 50% of all patients by reclassifying their diagnosis or altering their potential management.…”

Global, regional, and national incidence and mortality burden of non-COVID-19 lower respiratory infections and aetiologies, 1990–2021: a systematic analysis from the Global Burden... by Bender, RG, Sirota, SB, Swetschinski, LR, Berkley, JA, Eyre, DW, McManigal, B, Pollard, AJ, Roberts, T, Runghien, T, Sartorius, B

“…From 1990 to 2019, the global all-age non-COVID-19 LRI mortality rate declined by 41·7% (35·9–46·9), from 56·5 deaths (51·3–61·9) to 32·9 deaths (29·9–35·4) per 100 000. …”

Financial constraints and propagation of shocks in production networks by Demir, B, Javorcik, B, Michalski, TK, Ors, E

“…We examine the propagation of a small unexpected supply shock through a production network and the role financial constraints play in its transmission. Using data on almost all Turkish supplier-customer links, we exploit the heterogeneous impact of an unexpected import-tax increase for identification. …”

Immunogenicity and safety of beta variant COVID-19 vaccine AZD2816 and AZD1222 (ChAdOx1 nCoV-19) as primary-series vaccination for previously unvaccinated adults in Brazil, South A... by Costa Clemens, SA, Jepson, B, Bhorat, QE, Ahmad, A, Akhund, T, Aley, PK, Bansal, H, Bibi, S, Kelly, EJ, Khan, M, Lambe, T, Lombaard, JJ, Matthews, S, Pipolo Milan, E, Olsson, U, Ramasamy, MN, Moura de Oliveira Paiva, MS, Seegobin, S, Shoemaker, K, Szylak, A, Villafana, T, Pollard, AJ, Green, JA

“…<p><b>Background</b></p> AZD2816 is a variant-adapted COVID-19 vaccine that expresses the full-length SARS-CoV-2 beta variant spike protein but is otherwise similar to AZD1222 (ChAdOx1 nCoV-19). …”

Why do firms pay dividends : lifecycle theory in the Asian context. by Chia, Li Yi., Chua, Mincong., Loke, Alvin Zhengqiang.

“…Profitability, growth opportunities, firm size and the earned equity mix all influence the likelihood of paying dividends. …”
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Evaluating the rediscovery process as a treatment programme for a range of substance use disorders by Parker, Phil

“…No effect on outcomes was seen in the different referral routes for all analysed measures, at all time points, with the exception of impulsivity at 1month and QOL at 3-month. …”
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Global, regional, and national burden of stroke and its risk factors, 1990–2021: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021 by Feigin, VL, Abate, MD, Abate, YH, Bandyopadhyay, S, Bennett, DA, Lacey, B, Newton, CRJ

“…We also calculated burden of stroke attributable to 23 risk factors and six risk clusters (air pollution, tobacco smoking, behavioural, dietary, environmental, and metabolic risks) at the global and regional levels (21 GBD regions and Socio-demographic Index [SDI] quintiles), using the standard GBD methodology. 95% uncertainty intervals (UIs) for each individual future estimate were derived from the 2·5th and 97·5th percentiles of distributions generated from propagating 500 draws through the multistage computational pipeline. <p><b>Findings</b></p> In 2021, stroke was the third most common GBD level 3 cause of death (7·3 million [95% UI 6·6–7·8] deaths; 10·7% [9·8–11·3] of all deaths) after ischaemic heart disease and COVID-19, and the fourth most common cause of DALYs (160·5 million [147·8–171·6] DALYs; 5·6% [5·0–6·1] of all DALYs). …”

Global age-sex-specific mortality, life expectancy, and population estimates in 204 countries and territories and 811 subnational locations, 1950–2021, and the impact of the COVID-... by Schumacher, AE, Kyu, HH, Aali, A, Almidani, O, Bandyopadhyay, S, Basnyat, B, Maude, RJ, Bennett, D, Browne, AJ, Dolecek, C, Dunachie, SJ, Newton, CRJ, Rodriguez, JAB

“…Uncertainty intervals (UIs) were calculated for every metric using the 25th and 975th ordered values from a 1000-draw posterior distribution. <p><b>Findings</b></p> Global all-cause mortality followed two distinct patterns over the study period: age-standardised mortality rates declined between 1950 and 2019 (a 62·8% [95% UI 60·5–65·1] decline), and increased during the COVID-19 pandemic period (2020–21; 5·1% [0·9–9·6] increase). …”

Optimal gain sensing of quantum-limited phase-insensitive amplifiers by Nair, Ranjith, Tham, Guo Yao, Gu, Mile

“…Phase-insensitive optical amplifiers uniformly amplify each quadrature of an input field and are of both fundamental and technological importance. We find the quantum limit on the precision of estimating the gain of a quantum-limited phase-insensitive amplifier using a multimode probe that may also be entangled with an ancilla system. …”
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Meet. Choose. Love by Ang, Dylan Zixuan, Leong, Linette Jiaru, Poh, Olivia Kailing

“…Young people have more choices than ever, but despite that, still struggle to find true love. Through it all, the concept of choice has always been the essence of romantic love, and our project looks at how this is being expressed when it comes to dating.…”
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The role of translation in Singapore's economy : a study on Singapore's language policy by Wui, Swee Qin

“…Based on the choice of simplified Chinese, its target audience is believed to be China, the current rising power in the world. Based on all the findings, analysis is done and the results proved that the importance and economic value of translation are indeed abundant. …”
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Gamson going global? Cabinet proportionality in comparative perspective by Chaisty, P, Power, T

“…Using a sample of 1551 country-years of coalitional government in 97 countries from 1966 to 2019, and comparing all main constitutional formats (parliamentary, presidential, and semi-presidential), we find that Gamson’s Law does not travel well outside its context of origin. …”

A correlational study between creative thinking ability and the performance of open-ended science investigations for secondary two female students by Md. Shahrin K.S. Moorthy.

“…The study was conducted with only secondary two female students as the researcher intended to use the findings in his current assignment in an all-girls Independent school.…”
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The visual field of blackness : identity formation through the self and the other. by Yasyeera Abdul Rahim.

“…With no prior knowledge of the existence of light, the darkness of the hole becomes all that you have known. In the darkness, you attain a level of peace and solitude. …”
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A counterexample to the coarse Menger conjecture by Nguyen, T, Scott, A, Seymour, P

“…<p>Menger’s well-known theorem from 1927 characterizes when it is possible to find k vertex-disjoint paths between two sets of vertices in a graph G. …”

Altmetrics : factor analysis for assessing the popularity of research articles on Twitter by Pandian, Nandhini Devi Soundara, Veeramachaneni, Bhargavi, Na, Jin-Cheon, Boothaladinni, Rashmi Vishwanath

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On the robustness of average losses for partial-label learning by Lv, Jiaqi, Liu, Biao, Feng, Lei, Xu, Ning, Xu, Miao, An, Bo, Niu, Gang, Geng, Xin, Sugiyama, Masashi

“…In PLL, identification-based strategy (IBS) purifies each PL on the fly to select the (most likely) TL for training; average-based strategy (ABS) treats all candidate labels equally for training and let trained models be able to predict TL. …”
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Does the peer review mode make a difference? An exploratory look at undergraduates' performances and preferences in a writing course by Hsieh, Yi-Chin, Leong, Alvin Ping, Lin, Yu-Ju, Aryadoust, Vahid

“…Focus group discussions (FGDs) were administered to investigate students’ perceptions of the peer review modes, including their perceived usefulness of the feedback and the review processes. The findings show that the students’ writing performances significantly improved after the peer review session in all three peer review modes, with the anonymous CMPR and the blended mode showing stronger effectiveness as compared to the F2F mode. …”
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Oral and topical administration of a geranyl acetophenone attenuates DNCB-induced atopic dermatitis-like skin lesions in BALB/c mice by Mohd Kasim, Vivi Nur Khalieda, Lee, Yu Zhao, Bakrin, Ikmal Hisyam, Hussain, Mohd Khairi, Israf, Daud Ahmad, Shaari, Khozirah, Tan, Ji Wei, Lee, Ming Tatt, Tham, Chau Ling

“…There was a minor discrepancy between the two routes of administration, with orally treated tHGA showing significant reductions in Scoring of Atopic Dermatitis (SCORAD), tissue eosinophil infiltration, serum IgE and skin IL-4 levels with treatment of 40 and 80 mg/kg tHGA, whereas topically applied tHGA showed significant reductions in all dosages. These findings suggest that tHGA exhibited therapeutic potential for AD as both oral and topical treatment ameliorates AD-like symptoms in the murine model. © The Author(s) 2024.…”
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