A study on protein secondary structure phase transition based on an effective hydrogen bonding potential by Leong, Hon Wai

“…Following this success, assuming that the dihedral angles of each crank only folds into five distinct states, we derive the grand partition function of polypeptide chain. …”
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Attracting foreign direct investment in southeast Asia : the impact of risk perceptions and trade openness. by Oliveros Jurise Athena Pulgo.

“…Using a sample of 60 observations from five Southeast Asian countries, covering the period from 1996-2010, the study tested various political, financial and social variables that are predicted to affect FDI. …”
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Dry machining of inconel 718 by Leong, Ceng Yew

“…In this project, all these results were obtained and studied. Five different cutting inserts were chosen to perform turning on Inconel 718 without coolant using computer numerical control (CNC) cutting machine. …”
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Experience of overcoming the stereotype of masculinity in Singaporean elite level male gymnasts by Ilma Nur Jannah Fadzal

“…Semi-structured interviews were conducted with five Singaporean elite level male gymnasts from the Singapore Gymnastics Association and were transcribed verbatim before being analysed into raw themes, categories and general dimensions. …”
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Analysis of strategies in translating idiomatic expressions from English into Malay by Farah Syazana Suhaimi

“…From the data gathered, a total of 143 English idiomatic expressions were found in the novels. Five out of six translation strategies were present and translation by paraphrase was found to be the most frequently used idiomatic translation strategy.…”
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Southeast Asian maritime security in the age of terror : threats, opportunity, and charting the course forward by Bradford, John

“…At the beginning of 2005, Southeast Asian security cooperation is still regarded as inadequate to defend the region against maritime threats. however, structural, economic and normative factors are enabling greater cooperation in the post-9/11 "Age of Terror". this article opens with a brief outline of the history of Southeast Asian maritime security cooperation from 1990 to December 2004, and then discusses the various maritime threats faced by the region. It next describes five factors that are enabling greater maritime security cooperation in the Age of Terror. …”
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China in the Mekong River basin : the regional security implications of resource development on the Lancang Jiang by Goh, Evelyn

“…The Mekong River is a critical shared resource between China and five Southeast Asian countries, Myanmar, Laos, Thailand, Cambodia, and Vietnam. …”
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Relevancy rankings : pay for performance search engines in the hot seat by Goh, Dion Hoe-Lian, Ang, Rebecca P.

“…A study was conducted to compare the retrieval effectiveness of Overture (a PFP search engine) and Google (a traditional search engine) using a test suite of general knowledge questions. Forty-five queries based on a popular game show “Who Wants to be a Millionaire” were submitted to each of these search engines and the first 10 documents returned were analyzed using different relevancy criteria. …”
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The Global Multidimensional Poverty Index 2024: harmonised level estimates and their changes over time by Alkire, S, Kanagaratnam, U, Suppa, N

“…Six countries (Benin, Eswatini, Nigeria, Philippines, Tanzania, and Thailand) have results for four points in time, three countries (Ghana, Mexico and Peru) for five time periods and Nepal have trends for six time periods. …”

English medium instruction, EAP/ESP: exploring overlap and divergences in research aims by Macaro, E, Aizawa, I

“…As well as using raw data from a previous systematic review of EMI, we identified research questions published in five selected journals between 2017 and 2022: <i>Journal of English for Academic Purposes</i>, <i>English for Specific Purposes</i>, <i>International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism</i>, <i>Language and Education</i>, and <i>Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development</i> in order to identify the convergence and divergence in academic interest areas. …”

Highlights from Faraday Discussion 172: Carbon in electrochemistry, Sheffield, UK, July 2014 by Dyatkin, B, Ash, PA, Sharma, S

“…At the conference the authors present their work for five minutes each followed by extensive discussion of 20–25 minutes, which is practically a "live peer-review". …”

Technological transmission of knowledge in Neolithic northwestern China: mineralogical and chemical analyses of Yangshao and Majiayao painted ware by Spataro, M, Hein, A

“…Sixteen sherds come from the early Yangshao-period Banpo site in the Wei River Valley, east of Xi’an, 17 from the eponymous site of Majiayao and five from Waguanzui in the upper Yellow River region in eastern Gansu province. …”

3D object recognition using invariance by Zisserman, A, Forsyth, D, Mundy, J, Rothwell, C, Liu, J, Pillow, N

“…<p>The systems and concepts described in this paper document the evolution of the geometric invariance approach to object recognition over the last five years. Invariance overcomes one of the fundamental difficulties in recognising objects from images: that the appearance of an object depends on viewpoint. …”

Evolutionary shifts in the thermal biology of a subterranean mammal: the effect of habitat aridity by Merchant, H, Hart, D, Bennett, N, Janse van Vuuren, A, Freeman, M, McKechnie, A, Faulkes, C, Mordaunt, N, Portugal, SJ

“…This study examined the thermal physiological adaptations of common mole-rats (Cryptomys hottentotus hottentotus) across five populations along an aridity gradient, challenging the expectation that increased aridity would lead to reduced metabolic rate (MR), lower body temperatures (Tb), and broader thermoneutral zones (TNZ). …”

GROUP III permethylindenyl-phenoxy complexes for biorenewable polymer synthesis by Hayden, JA

“…Coordination complexes of 4-coodinate PHENI* scandium monomer adducts of <em>L</em>-lactide, ϵ-caprolactone, and ω-pentadecalactone are discussed.</p> <br> <p>Chapter Five details experimental procedure for all experiments in this thesis in addition to supplementary information.…”

Derivation of a rotation curve model based on time of events theory and its application on samples of several spiral galaxies by Azeez, Jazeel H., Fadhil, Sadeem Abbas, Zamri Zainal Abidin

“…The derived equation showed an excellent agreement with experimental results for five galaxies. The findings showed that the bulge plays a limited role for the galaxies with large extensions like IC 2574 and NGC 3198, where the dark matter in the halo region controls and determines the shape of the diagram of the rotation curves in these galaxies. …”
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Phenomenological study on the psychological well-being of tahfiz students by Adzim, Afa Fauzul, Abdul Rahman Ahmad Badayai, Syaidatun Nazirah Abu Zahrin

“…This research used a phenomenological qualitative method for thematic analysis. Participants were five hafiz students selected through snowball sampling. …”
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Strain differences in Blastocystis isolates as detected by a single set of polymerase chain reaction primers by Init, I., Mak, J.W., Lokman Hakim, S., Yong, H.S.

“…The amplification product revealed five types of pattern. All four isolates from Singapore yielded PCR products quite different from those of the local isolates. …”

Copper metabolism in the plaice, Pleuronectes platessa (L.) by Syed, M.Arif, Coombs, Thomas L.

“…Distribution in the various tissues of the metal and of five key copper-dependent enzymes: ceruloplasmin EC 1.16.3.1; Superoxide dismutase EC 1.15.11; tryptophan oxygenase EC 1.13.1.12; cytochrome oxidase EC 1.9.3.1 and monoamine oxidase EC 1.4.3.4 have been determined. …”
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Evaluating efficiency of nondestructive detection of flaws in concrete by Sutan, N. Mohamed, Jaafar, M.S.

“…Tests have been performed to assess feasibility of using the impact-echo method (IEM) and ultrasonic pulse velocity method (UPVM) in detecting flaws and evaluating their depths on the early stage of a concrete structure's service life. Five reinforced concrete (RC) slabs of grades 25, 30, 40, and 50 with fabricated voids at known locations were studied on the 3rd, 7th, 14th, and 28th day. …”