Vulnerability of port of Singapore as a maritime hub due to impact of international trade affairs by Ng, Shi Chin

“…The report employs the Quality Function Deployment methodology through the House of Quality (QFD – HoQ) to identify the relationship between the International Trade Affairs and the services provided by Singapore as a maritime hub. …”
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Discovery of a small-molecule inhibitor of STAT3 by ligand-based pharmacophore screening by Leung, Ka-Ho, Liu, Li-Juan, Lin, Sheng, Lu, Lihua, Zhong, Hai-Jing, Susanti, Dewi, Rao, Weidong, Wang, Modi, Che, Weng Ian, Chan, Daniel Shiu-Hin, Leung, Chung-Hang, Chan, Philip Wai Hong, Ma, Dik-Lung

“…A pharmacophore model constructed from a training set of STAT3 inhibitors binding to the SH2 domain was used to screen an in-house database of compounds, from which azepine 1 emerged as a top candidate. …”
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High-performance reverse osmosis membranes fabricated on highly porous microstructured supports by Lee, Jaewoo, Wang, Rong, Bae, Tae-Hyun

“…Also, the HPμS support membranes successfully endowed an in-house RO membrane with the performance (water permeability of 4.68 L m−2 h−1 bar−1 and NaCl rejection of 98.3%) surpassing commercial RO membranes and thin-film nanocomposite membranes recently reported in the literature.…”
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Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and a supertyphoon: A quantitative study in Cebu, Philippines by Ylade, M, Adhikari, B, Crisostomo, MV, Daag, JV, Cuachin, AM, Lopez, MH, Macasero, A, Agrupis, KA, Deen, J

“…The majority of respondents (1853/2360; 70.5%) had moderate to severe impacts on their living conditions, disrupted by interruption in electricity, water supplies, and house damage. The COVID-19 pandemic and supertyphoon Odette had multi-faceted effects with immediate and long-term implications and greater impacts among poorer households. …”

Off-farm employment and spatial distribution of paddy farmers in integrated agricultural development area in north-west Selangor determined using GIS by Lokman, Eleanor Daniella

“…They usually get involved in agriculture activities including oil palm plantation, fisheries, fruits plantation, working with the government and doing own job.Spatially, the results indicated that most of the paddy farmers involved in off-farm job lives near to the town which in Kuala Selangor, as is less than ten (10) kilometres away from their house and paddy lot. The study shows that doing off-farm employment during their free time is an alternative strategy and has a potential to improve the income and well being of the paddy farmers and their family. …”
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Impact of teleconsultation on subsequent disease activity and flares in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus by Au Eong, Jonathan T. W., Lateef, Aisha, Liang, Shen, Lim, Sandy H. H., Tay, Sen Hee, Mak, Anselm, Cho, Jiacai

“…At each patient-visit, rheumatologists utilized phone/video teleconsultation or physical consultation at their discretion. …”
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Data collection and wireless communication in Internet of Things (IoT) using economic analysis and pricing models : a survey by Luong, Nguyen Cong, Hoang, Dinh Thai, Wang, Ping, Niyato, Dusit, Kim, Dong In, Han, Zhu

“…Besides, we survey a variety of pricing strategies in providing incentives for phone users in crowdsensing applications to contribute their sensing data. …”
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Study protocol for a pragmatic randomised controlled trial of comparing enhanced acceptance and commitment therapy plus (+) added to usual aftercare versus usual aftercare only, in... by Khan, I, Taylor, SJC, Robinson, C, Moschopoulou, E, McCrone, P, Bourke, L, Thaha, M, Bhui, K, Rosario, D, Ridge, D, Donovan, S, Korszun, A, Little, P, Morgan, A, Quentin, O, Roylance, R, White, P, Chalder, T

“…The intervention consists of up to eight sessions at weekly or fortnightly intervals using different modalities of delivery to suit individual needs, i.e. face-to-face sessions, over the phone or skype. Discussion: To date, there have been no robust trials reporting both clinical and cost-effectiveness of an ACT based intervention for people with low QoL after curative cancer treatment in the UK. …”

Usability evaluation of web-based dietary application MyProteinGuideTM among caregivers of children with disorders of amino acid metabolism (AAMDs) by Ying, Lim Jing, Rajikan, Roslee, Ali, Mohamad Nazlena, Amit, Noh, Hamid, Haslina Abdul, Yin, Leong Huey, Mohamad, Maslina, Qi, Koh Bi

“…Suggestions to improve the application include to make it into a responsive web application or mobile application which are user-friendly to both mobile phone user. Conclusion: In conclusion, the usability results showed that MyProteinGuideTM had a good usability.…”
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Performance analysis of familiar elevation-dependent stochastic models with error variance compensation and posteriori unit weight in GPS/BDS precise point positioning by Liu, Peng, Ling, Keck Voon, Qin, Honglei

“…While its mean convergence time reduces by 10.0% and its convergence stability increases by 29.1%, compared with the worst stochastic model. The stochastic model using exponential function is the most suitable under the error variance compensation and posteriori unit weight in static PPP with GPS and BDS, compared with the other familiar elevation dependent stochastic models.…”
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Optimal selection of elevation-dependent stochastic models for real-time PPP with GPS/Galileo/BDS by Liu, Peng, Ling, Keck Voon, Qin, Honglei, Jiang, Xue, Lu, Jun

“…The mean convergence time reduces by 51.21% and 25.80%, and the stability of convergence increases by 33.78% and 7.29%, compared with the worst stochastic model in real-time static and simulated kinematic PPP. …”
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Development of an integrated scheduling model for handling equipment in automated port container terminals by Sadeghian, Syed Hamidreza

“…In addition, results proved that the modified meta-heuristic algorithm is able to find near optimal solutions and on average, the solutions found by the GA algorithm are only 0.2% worse than the optimal solutions and in the worst case in the test cases this difference is 2.3% which is acceptable. …”
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The Things You Can See Only When You Slow Down / by Sunim, Haemin, author 655915

AYAH SEBAGAI HERO, ANAK SEBAGAI SAHABAT : Melukis Keluarga Bahagia / by Ibnu al-Adim, author 655930, Muhammad Fateh Abdul Shukor, translator 655931

PARADOKS : FENOMENA FIZIK DAN REALITI SAINS FIKSYEN / by Muhammad Haziq Abd. Rahim, author 655419, Muhammad Ammirul Aiman Jamal, editor 655420

93 Teknik dan Adab Menguruskan Perbezaan Pendapat dalam Dakwah / by Mohamad Zulikifli Abdul Ghani, 1980-, author 655560, Najwa Fahima Shukri, editor 655547, Muhammad Najmi Mohamad Yusuf, editor 655561

40 Nasihat : Membahagiakan Ibu Bapa / by Ibnu Al-Jauzi, 1116-1201, author 349917, Nurul Amin Mustafa, translator 655603

MEDFuse: Multimodal EHR Data Fusion with Masked Lab-Test Modeling and Large Language Models by Thao, Phan Nguyen Minh, Dao, Cong-Tinh, Wu, Chenwei, Wang, Jian-Zhe, Liu, Shun, Ding, Jun-En, Restrepo, David, Liu, Feng, Hung, Fang-Ming, Peng, Wen-Chih

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Design and Projected Performance of a Flapping Foil AUV by Licht, Stephen, Polidoro, Victor, Flores, Melissa, Hover, Franz S., Triantafyllou, Michael S.

“…This goal was met by designing an independent self-contained module to house each foil, requiring only direct current power and a connection to the vehicle’s Ethernet local area network for operation. …”
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Customer knowledge management via social media : the case of Starbucks by Chua, Alton Yeow Kuan, Banerjee, Snehasish

“…Design/methodology/approach – The paper uses a combination of qualitative case study and netnography on Starbucks, an international coffee house chain. Data retrieved from varied sources such as newspapers, newswires, magazines, scholarly publications, books, and social media services were textually analyzed. …”
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