Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus colonisation : epidemiological and molecular characteristics in an acute-care tertiary hospital in Singapore by Htun, Htet Lin, Kyaw, Win Mar, de Sessions, Paola Flórez, Low, Louie, Hibberd, Martin Lloyd, Chow, Angela, Leo, Yee Sin

“…ST45 was >24 times more likely to be associated with perianal colonisation than in the nares, axillae and groin sites (aOR 24.20, 95% CI 1.45–403.26). …”
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Strategies to modulate Amorphous Oxide Semiconductor properties for low temperature transparent transistors by Kulkarni, Mohit Rameshchandra

“…Such surface modifications can achieve a change in the carrier concentration by change in work function or shifting- pinning of the Fermi level, or additional field generated due to dipoles created at the surface. …”
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Fabrication and characterization of graphene and carbon nanotube reinforced bioceramic nanocomposites by Hu, Huanlong

“…The reinforcing mechanism was due to the lubrication and pinning effects of rGO, which resulted in high resistance to penetration, elastic recovery capability, low-cycle fatigue resistance, and microcrack propagation inhibition properties. …”
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Do viewers of YouTube fitness content actually exercise? : Exploring fitness video viewing, exercise intention, and exercise behaviour in Singapore by Ang, Ci Xian

“…It was hypothesised that more physically active viewers were more likely to perform the exercises. An online survey was conducted, gathering 200 Singaporeans or permanent residents aged 21 years or older, with minimally one YouTube account, watched YouTube fitness content minimally once in the past six months, and without cognitive disabilities. …”
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Don't mind the cat: potential for intraguild interactions with lions does not affect spotted hyaena habitat selection by Periquet, S, Courbin, N, Banda, E, Loveridge, A, Macdonald, D, Revilla, E, Fritz, H, Valeix, M

“…As in other study sites, this likely arises because hyaenas select the same areas as lions. …”

Understanding the disease mechanisms of cerebellar ataxia through induced pluripotent stem cell models by Wong, M

“…Accumulating evidence has suggested that subtypes of autosomal dominant ataxias (SCAs) are likely to be caused by shared pathogenic pathways. …”

‘An unimaginable challenge’: a cross-cultural qualitative study of ethics and decision-making around tracheostomy ventilation in patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis by Ozeki-Hayashi, R, Wilkinson, D

“…US participants were likely to prioritize patient autonomy over other ethical principles, and Japanese participants were likely to limit patient autonomy indirectly. …”

Immune checkpoint blockade sensitivity and progression-free survival associates with baseline CD8+ T cell clone size and cytotoxicity by Watson, RA, Tong, O, Cooper, R, Taylor, CA, Sharma, PK, de Los Aires, AV, Mahé, EA, Ruffieux, H, Nassiri, I, Middleton, MR, Fairfax, BP

“…Cytotoxic CD8⁺ effector clones were more likely to persist following ICB and were more likely to correspond with public tumor-infiltrating lymphocyte clonotypes. …”

Extreme rainfall and landslides as a response to human-induced climate change: a case study at Baixada Santista, Brazil, 2020 by Couto de Souza, D, Crespo, NM, Vieira da Silva, D, Harada, LM, Parrode de Godoy, RM, Domingues, LM, Luiz, R, Bortolozo, CA, Metodiev, D, Magalhaes de Andrade, MR, Hartley, A, Cesario de Abreu, R, Li, S, Lott, F, Sparrow, S

“…In the scenario including both natural and human-induced factors the antecedent 60 day rainfall became 74% more likely, while the short-term trigger was 46% more likely. …”

Religious restrictions, country wealth, and religious violence : a global analysis by Tan, Malcolm Si-An

“…Utilising cross-national time-series analysis of data from 175 countries spanning 1991 – 2018, this study finds that countries which spend a larger share of their wealth to impose restrictions on minority, majority, or all religions are more likely to experience higher levels of religious hostilities and violence. …”
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Digital libraries and multi-disciplinary research skills by Thelwall, Mike

“…With the use of insights from cultural studies and the history and philosophy of science, it is argued that one likely outcome is a change in the acceptable standards for literature reviews, leading to changes in article contents to reflect a broader academic basis. …”
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Underrepresentation of Asia-focused articles in the top 10 economics journals by Ang, Roy Athanasius Tjin Shane, Teong, Xiu Yi, Tham, Weng Leon

“…This study highlights this fact and has found tenure to be a likely cause for the lack of Asia-focused articles. …”
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Subtle, natural and socially acceptable interaction techniques for ringterfaces : finger-ring shaped user interfaces by Pang, Natalie, Rissanen, Mikko J., Vu, Samantha, Fernando, Owen Noel Newton, Foo, Schubert

“…Through this analysis we show which kind of ringterfaces are likely to become general-purpose user interfaces and what factors drive their development toward commercial applications. …”
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Putting their best foot forward : emotional disclosure on Facebook by Qiu, Lin, Lin, Han, Tov, William, Leung, Angela K.-y.

“…We conducted two studies, and results from both self-report and observer rating show that individuals are more likely to express positive relative to negative emotions and present better emotional well-being on Facebook than in real life. …”
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Causal Machine Learning to Discover Biochemical Determinants of Physical Fitness by Nawaz, Hesham

“…Identifying the key pathways relevant to cardiorespiratory fitness is of great importance for both predicting exercise responsiveness and potentially finding which interventions are likely to affect it. While contemporary deep learning models have demonstrated great success in pattern recognition and generation for various data modalities, their ability to decipher the causal mechanisms underlying these patterns is limited. …”
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Motor insurance in Singapore : problems and prescriptions by Ang, Cheng Sim, Lim, Siew Hui, Teo, Clarissa Suan Hoon

“…It emphasizes that immediate action is needed to avoid the erosion of profits from the motor insurance market. Furthermore, likely effects of the current situation are studied and this report attempts to recommend possible solutions to the problems.…”
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Culture as a research bias factor in bilingual markets. by Lee, Kin Man., Ong, Randall Choon Poh.

“…This poses a growing dilemma concerning the language in which marketing communications should be framed, as it seems likely that the use of a language could form a trigger that places a message recipient in a certain frame of mind. …”
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Carbene-catalyzed enantioselective oxidative coupling of enals and di(hetero)arylmethanes by Chen, Qiao, Zhu, Tingshun, Majhi, Pankaj Kumar, Mou, Chengli, Chai, Huifang, Zhang, Jingjie, Zhuo, Shitian, Chi, Robin Yonggui

“…To date, it remains challenging to functionalize the diaryl methyl sp3 carbon–hydrogen bond directly in an enantioselective manner. This is likely due to the relatively inert nature of the carbon–hydrogen bond and the difficult enantiofacial discrimination of two sterically similar aryl substituents. …”
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Evolutionary and ecological insights from Cytinus: a plant within a plant by de Vega, C, Thorogood, CJ, Albaladejo, RG, Rakotonasolo, F, Hobbhahn, N, Martos, F, Burgoyne, PM, Johnson, SD

“…Owing to this cryptic life cycle, the genus is poorly understood and is likely to include several hitherto undescribed species, particularly in threatened forest habitat in Madagascar. …”

VI-VS: calibrated identification of feature dependencies in single-cell multiomics by Boyeau, Pierre, Bates, Stephen, Ergen, Can, Jordan, Michael I., Yosef, Nir

“…VI-VS is available as an open-source Python package, providing a robust solution to identify features more likely representing genuine causal relationships.…”
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