Lessons in ecology and conservation from a tropical forest fragment in Singapore by Lum, Shawn, Ngo, Kang Min

“…As might be expected, declines in plant, invertebrate, bird, and mammal diversity occurred not only historically but also across two surveys made about 20 years apart. In other ways Bukit Timah proved surprising. …”
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SERS-based substrate for biological sensing applications by Goh, Douglas Wenda

“…Surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy has emerged in recent years as one of the leading ideal optical techniques in analysing vibrational information from molecular bonds of molecules. …”
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Wavelength tuning of the soft-approached whispering gallery mode microlasers for display and sensing by Yang, Shancheng

“…Whispering gallery mode (WGM) microcavities and microlasers have attracted enormous research attentions in recent years due to the high quality factors, small mode volumes, enhanced light-matter interactions, and abundant applications in various fields such as optoelectronics, biological and chemical sensing, high-quality lasers, nonlinear studies, etc. …”
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Ocular blood flow measurements in healthy white subjects using laser speckle flowgraphy by Luft, Nikolaus, Wozniak, Piotr A., Aschinger, Gerold C., Fondi, Klemens, Bata, Ahmed M., Werkmeister, René M., Schmidl, Doreen, Witkowska, Katarzyna J., Bolz, Matthias, Garhöfer, Gerhard, Schmetterer, Leopold

“…Methods: This cross-sectional study included 80 eyes of 80 healthy, non-smoking white subjects of Western European descent between 19 and 79 years of age. A commercial LSFG instrument was applied to measure ocular blood flow at the optic nerve head (ONH) three successive times before and after pharmacological pupil dilation. …”
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Digging for literature on tailoring cultural offers with and for older people from ethnic minority groups: a scoping review by Tierney, S, Gorenberg, J, Santillo, M, Westlake, D, Wong, G, Husk, K, Vougioukalou, S, Baxter, R, Dawson, S, Roberts, N, Potter, C, Warburton, H, McDougall, B, Latchem, J, Mahtani, KR

“…</p> <p><strong>Methods:</strong> A scoping review was conducted to identify what existing literature, conducted in the United Kingdom, tells us about tailoring cultural offers for older people (aged 60+ years) from ethnic minority groups. Relevant literature was searched for on electronic databases, through Google, via a questionnaire to cultural organisations and by contacting the study's advisory group.…”

Neotropical mammal responses to megafires in the Brazilian Pantanal by Bardales, R, Boron, V, Viana, DFP, Sousa, LL, Droge, E, Porfirio, G, Jaramillo, M, Payan, E, Sillero-Zubiri, C, Hyde, M

“…Jaguar density remained stable across years (2.8 ± 1.3, 3.7 ± 1.3, 2.6 ± 0.85/100 km2), while ocelot density increased from 13.9 ± 3.2 to 16.1 ± 5.2/100 km2. …”

Time to speed up scientific deliveries in fibrotic interstitial lung disease: innovative clinical trial design to improve patient care by Kawano-Dourado, L, Kulkarni, T, Ryerson, CJ, Richards, DB

“…Despite a large increase in the number of clinical trials in the last 10 years, current regulatory-approved management approaches are limited to two therapies that prevent the progression of fibrosis. …”

A systematic review of transanal total mesorectal excision: is this the future of rectal cancer surgery? by Simillis, C, Hompes, R, Penna, M, Rasheed, S, Tekkis, PP

“…The mean age ranged from 43 to 80 years and the mean body mass index from 21.7 to 31.8 kg/m2. …”

Efgartigimod efficacy and safety in refractory myasthenia gravis: UK’s first real-world experience by Moniz Dionísio, J, Ambrose, P, Burke, G, Farrugia, ME, Garcia-Reitboeck, P, Hewamadduma, C, Hill, M, Howard, RS, Jacob, S, Kullmann, D, Leite, MI, Miller, J, Pinto, A, Pritchard, J, Riswick, T, Sathasivam, S, Thambirajah, N, Viegas, S, Norwood, F, Spillane, J

“…Most (75%) were female and most had a disease duration of over 10 years. The average MG-Activities of Daily Living (ADL) score at baseline was 11.2. …”

Prevalence of complications in older adults after hip fracture surgery: a systematic review and meta-analysis by Goh, EL, Khatri, A, Costa, A, Ting, A, Steiner, K, Png, ME, Metcalfe, D, Cook, J, Costa, M

“…Studies were included if they reported prevalence data of complications in an unselected, consecutive population of older adults (aged ≥ 60 years) undergoing hip fracture surgery.</p> <br> <p><strong>Results:</strong> A total of 95 studies representing 2,521,300 patients were included. …”

“UPDATE: I’m pregnant!”: inferring global downloads and reasons for using menstrual tracking apps by Rampazzo, F, Raybould, A, Rampazzo, P, Barker, R, Leasure, D

“…<p><strong>Objective:</strong> The market for smartphone apps tracking menstrual cycles has expanded in recent years. These apps market themselves as empowering users to achieve their reproductive goals and maximise chance of pregnancy. …”

Learning moral values through cartoons for Malaysian preschool-aged children by Abdullah, Muhammad Alif Redzuan

“…A total of 20 preschool children (aged five to six years old) from an elementary school in Kuala Lumpur were selected. …”
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Lower limb torque prediction for sit-to-walk strategies using long short-term memory neural networks by Perera, Chamalka Kenneth, Gopalai, Alpha A., Gouwanda, Darwin, Ahmad, Siti A., Teh, Pei-Lee

“…As such, train and test STW data were obtained from 65 subjects across three age groups: young, middle-aged, and older adults (19-73 years). Model inputs were hip and knee angles with horizontal center of mass velocity, while windowing allowed the LSTMs to dynamically adapt to real-time changes in STW transitions. …”
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Psychometric properties of behavioural regulation in exercise questionnaire-4 in Chinese adolescents by Xu, Zhongliang, Shamsulariffin, Samsudin, Azhar, Yaacob, Xi, Mizhe

“…A total of 846 Chinese adolescents (389 males and 457 females, comprising 411 secondary school students and 435 high school students), aged 12-18, with a mean (x̅) age of 14.67 (±1.45) years, participated in this study. The C-BREQ-4 was tested for convergent, discriminant, structural and criterion validity, internal consistency reliability, and cross-gender and grade invariance. …”
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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

“…Results shows The middle age group of 41-50 years old, SPM holders, have less than 5ha of paddy field and earn RM3,500 monthly of paddy farmers who are the majority to join off-farm employment. …”
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The future of the timeshare industry : will the brands dominate? : A summary of the vacation ownership industry and an analysis of the advantages that the brands have over smaller... by Bornstein, Ethan S., 1973-

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From node embedding to community embedding on graphs by Cavallari, Sandro

“…In the last few years, graphs have become an instinctive representative tool to better study complex structures. …”
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Machine Learning For Dummies / by Mueller, John Paul, author 321669, Massaron, Luca, author 617095, John Wiley & Sons (Online service) 647106

“…Unlike most machine learning books, the fully updated 2nd Edition of Machine Learning For Dummies doesn't assume you have years of experience using programming languages such as Python (R source is also included in a downloadable form with comments and explanations), but lets you in on the ground floor, covering the entry-level materials that will get you up and running building models you need to perform practical tasks. …”
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Design, synthesis, structural characterization, cytotoxicity and computational studies of Usnic acid derivative as potential anti-breast cancer agent against MCF7 and T47D cell lin... by Roney, Miah, Wong, Kelvin Khai Voon, Uddin, Md. Nazim, Rullah, Kamal, Septama, Abdi Wira, Antika, Lucia Dwi, Mohd Fadhlizil Fasihi, Mohd Aluwi

“…Development of novel inhibitors is necessary to counteract the rising prevalence of breast cancer (BC) in women in recent years, as evidenced by the side-effect profiles of a few clinically approved inhibitors. …”
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Investigation of deep learning model for vehicle classification by Ahsiah, Ismail, Amelia Ritahani, Ismail, Adzreen Nulsyazwan, S. Nadzeer, Asmarani Ahmad Puzi, asmarani@iium.edu.my, Suryanti, Awang, Roziana, Ramli

“…The usage of automobiles in cities and metropolitan areas has increased drastically throughout the years and there is a need to monitor the flow of road traffic to improve the traffic congestion and safety. …”
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