Asia-Pacific university libraries on facebook : content analysis on posts and interactions by Somasundram, V., Seah, Frank Eng Kiat, Wong, Evelyn, Tan, Catherine, Sum, Hedren Wai Yuan

“…The majority (83%) of the interactions were expressed through post likes while the remaining were expressed through comments. …”
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Tournaments of financial analysts by Yin, Huifang, Zhang, Huai

“…Using data from 1991 to 2007, we find that interim losers are more likely to increase the boldness of their forecasts in the remainder of the tournament period than interim winners. …”
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Effects of various surface treatments on the storage life of guava (Psidium guajava L) at 10°C by Mohamed, Suhaila, Kyi, Khin Ma Ma, Yusof, Salmah

“…LDPE shrinkwrap was most effective in reducing weight loss and maintaining the firmness of guava (most likely indicating its effectiveness in alleviating water stress), followed by clingwrap packaging and 200 g litre−1 palm oil emulsion coating. …”

Synthetic, spectroscopic, biological and X-ray crystallographic structural studies on a novel pyridine-nitrogen-bridged dimeric nickel(II) complex of a pentadentate N3S2 ligand by Akbar Ali, Mohammad, Mirza, Aminul Huq, Butcher, Ray J., Tarafder, M.T.H.

“…The anticancer properties of these compounds were also evaluated against Human T-lymphoblastic leukaemia cell lines. The Schiff base exhibits marked cytotoxicity against these cells, but its nickel(II) complex is inactive.…”
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Characterisation of decellularised oesophagus in tissue engineering by Chia, Evelyn Sheng Nan.

“…Results from the cyclic loading test mostly showed that the decellularised samples did not vary from the fresh samples insignificantly, which indicated that the composition of the extracellular matrix of the decellularised samples were likely to be preserved. The slight variation between the samples was the also found to be most likely caused by the difference in hydration level. …”
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Novel nitric oxide donors for the dispersal and control of Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilms by Poh, Wee Han

“…Two purified proteins, DipA and RbdA, were not found to act as sensors of NO, and are likely to be involved in the dispersal process through other mechanisms. …”
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Agriculture and citadel in the Bronze Age Aegean: the view from western Anatolia by Maltas, T

“…This scenario of independent households engaged in extensive farming systems is likely to have created the potential for sustained high wealth inequality within settlements. …”

Empowering Teen Mental Fitness : A Guide for Managing Addiction, Eating Disorders, OCD, and Trauma / by Longe, Jacqueline L. editor 422209, Gale Group (Online service) 651863

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A mid-life health crisis : supplements for good health. by Toh, Hwee Ling.

“…An important finding is the challenges to their doctors’ opinions by seeking second opinions from friends and the Internet, as well as the link between gender and the propensity to consume health supplements, where men are more likely to reject supplements and women to consume them and encourage others to consume them regardless of their ethnicity.…”
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Perceptions of hip-hop dance. by Swee, Daren Jin Quan.

“…This was followed by a quantitative study in which the participants were given 5 sets of questions, assessing their perception of hip-hop, Singapore culture, U.S culture, their motivations behind dancing hip-hop, and the importance they attached to certain aspects of the dance. Hip-hop dance was likely to be perceived as similar to the Singapore culture as compared to the U.S culture. …”
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Mental accounting and its impact on outbound leisure traveler’s overspending Behavior. by Chu, Peng., Leng, Wei Yi., Song, Wanyi Celestine.

“…Lastly, outbound tourists who practise mental accounting are more likely to overspend as compared to those who do not.…”
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From captivity to courtship : the representation of romance in Samuel Richardson's Pamela and Disney's beauty and the beast by Siti Aishah Kasman

“…The story of the captive heroine found in the likes of Samuel Richardson’s Pamela endures time and underwent a relatively similar re-telling in Disney’s 1991 animated film, Beauty and the Beast. …”
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User interfaces for predicting, evaluating and visualizing protein complexes by Lai, Kwan Cheng

“…However currently it does not have an interface, thus a motivation to design a user-friendly interface for InteHC so that researchers can use the algorithm to generate candidate protein complexes for further investigation The interface will come with three components; the first component allows the user not only to be able select the data source(s) to be use but also change the weight value of each source to their liking. The second component will predict the protein complexes and output the result into a file set by the user. …”
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Seeing sounds around you : non-linguistic visual information and speech perception by Ho, Danyuan

“…Lack of perceptual salience and linguistic remoteness of the visual stimuli are postulated to be likely factors for the non-effect of the visual cues. …”
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Effects of peer pressure on endogenous goal setting and performance by Lim, Wee Meng, Chua, Shannen Qi Shan, Tan, Li Xuan

“…Secondly, we find that individuals whose rankings range from middle to the last place are most likely to be positively affected by peer pressure.…”
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Reverse mounting in birds by Villar, DA

“…We found evidence of reverse mounting in 42 species, across 11 orders and 21 families. This is likely to be a significant undercount of the number of species which exhibit reverse mounting. …”

Towards a consensus for dyslexia practice: findings of a Delphi study on assessment and identification by Snowling, M

“…This hypothesis-testing model requires assessors to investigate and weigh up the factors most likely to result in an accurate assessment before reaching conclusions, assigning terminology, and making recommendations for intervention and management.…”

Immunoregulatory mechanisms of vitamin D relevant to respiratory health and asthma by Mann, E, Chambers, ES, Pfeffer, PE, Hawrylowicz, C

“…Also discussed is the therapeutic potential for vitamin D, which is likely to be applicable to immune-mediated conditions beyond simply asthma.…”

Clinical metagenomics: ethical issues by Johnson, T, Jamrozik, E, Ramachandran, P, Johnson, S

“…In this paper, we present three use cases that draw on existing reports: one involving a patient in intensive care with encephalitis of unknown aetiology, another case with likely infection with drugresistant K. pneumoniae and an incidental finding of unknown relevance, and a final case situated in an unexplained outbreak of acute hepatitis in children, with severe outcomes due to co-infection. …”

Quasi-Biennial Oscillation by Wang, Y, Rao, J, Ju, Z, Osprey, SM

“…The QBO disruptions are likely to increase in a warmer climate background. …”