Does disability modify the association between poor mental health and violence victimisation over adolescence? Evidence from the CoVAC cohort study in Uganda by Carter, DJ, Pitcairn, CFM, Eldred, E, Knight, L, Nakuti, J, Mirembe, A, Atuhaire, L, Allen, E, Bhatia, A, Naker, D, Parkes, J, Devries, K

“…The relationships between early mental health difficulties and both mental health difficulties in later adolescence and past year violence are stronger in young people with functional difficulties. …”

SPP/LSP coupled hybrid mode directed multi-functional surface-enhanced Raman system by Du, Luping

“…Meanwhile, due to the extremely narrow linewidth of Raman peaks, the SPCE curve of SERS can also be employed for measuring the propagation length of SPPs and quantitatively characterizing the point spread function of an SPCE microscopy. Last but not least, as a promising application, the two-dimensional mapping of the strongly-dominant longitudinal field component of SPPs was realized based on the SERS imaging. …”
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Distributed multicasting algorithm for real time multimedia traffic by Quan, Huo Sheng.

“…In the past, very few network applications involved multiple users and none of them had QoS (Quality and Service) requirements. …”
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Protestant masculinities : a study of Christian men’s sensibilities. by Woo, Darren Hon Fai.

“…Past literature have shown that the presentation of Protestant and masculine selves are relatively straightforward when considered separately. …”
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Overcoming cultural barriers to capture a market by Dominic Michael Stoeckler, Kishan Golyan, Miao, Xin, Samir Mowla

“…China has gone through an amazing growth spurt over the past 30 years, and with a population of 1.3 billion people, it represents a vast potential market for businesses the world over. …”
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Effectiveness of a preventative multi-component training program for prospective memory performance among healthy older adults by Farzin, Azin

“…The training effects were also persistent after three months from the last intervention session.…”
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Filipino nursesʼ use of smartphones in clinical settings by Bautista, John Robert Razote

“…Results also showed that specific items reflecting the use of smartphones for communication purposes differed according to gender, age, hospital ownership, nursing area, number of patients handled in last shift, and presence of a hospital-provided mobile phone. …”
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Network steganography – an investigation of covert channels in network protocols by Tan, Soon Siang.

“…In particular, the program makes use of Jpcap, a Java library for capturing and sending network packets to create the customized TCP/IP packets used to transmit hidden information. The last part of the report explores the applications, detection and ethical concerns of Steganography. …”
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Mexico: positioning for a transformational upstream opening in 2015 by Sandrea, I, Taylor, R

“…Mexico’s proven base of resources is quite unique and within the top 10 on a world scale relative to other international emerging areas that have received high investment interest over the last five years, such as Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, and Morocco. …”

Responding to global competition : SIA as a case study by Ang, Juliana Hiok Lian

“…SIA was chosen for this study, as it is the only international carrier for Singapore, without domestic routes and has performed consistently well over the last 28 years.…”
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On the Complexity of Neural Computation in Superposition by Adler, Micah, Shavit, Nir

“…This implies that any “lottery ticket” sparse sub-network must have at least Ω(m′ log m′ ) parameters no matter what the initial dense network size. …”
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Robust parameter estimation for one-inflated positive Poisson Lindley distribution under the presence and absence of outliers with applications to crime data by Mohd Tajuddin, Razik Ridzuan, Mohd Safari, Muhammad Aslam, Ismail, Noriszura

“…Hence, several estimators: maximum likelihood, method of moments, ordinary least squares, weighted least squares, Cramér-Von Mises, modified Cramér-Von Mises (MCVM) and maximum product of spacing (MPS); for the parameters of the model are also proposed and investigated in terms of unbiasedness, consistency and joint efficiency under the presence and absence of outliers. …”
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Motor insurance : an analysis with comparison by Cheong, Siew Hong, Sim, Poh Joo, Tan, Chin Kwang

“…The rapid expansion of car ownership in Singapore in the last two decades, despite efforts by the government to curb car usage has led to a significant increase in the number of people killed or injured in automobile accidents.…”
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Samuel Johnson: Pembroke's angry young man by Mugglestone, L

“…This article re-examines the history of Samuel Johnson's links to Pembroke College in Oxford from his undergraduate years to his last visit shortly before his death.…”

A Short History of South East Asia / by Church, Peter, editor 435931

“…Founded upon a deeply perceptive observation of the late founding Prime Minister of Singapore Lee Kuan Yew, this book brings shape to the idea that 'to understand the present and to anticipate the future, one must know enough of the past, enough to have a sense of the history of a people.' …”

Estimating consumptive water use of rice in lowland paddy fields of Tanjung Karang, Malaysia by Abdullahi, Abubakar Sadiq

“…For the main season (August to February 2011) the mean evapotranspiration obtained were 5.1 mm/day, 6.0 mm/day and 5.1 mm/day for the initial, mid and last stages of the growing season, respectively. …”
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Perception, Representations, Image, Sound, Music : 14th International Symposium, CMMR 2019, Marseille, France, October 14-18, 2019, Revised Selected Papers / by CMMR (Symposium) (14th : 2019 : Marseille, France), organiser 643215, Kronland-Martinet, Richard, editor 643219, Ystad, Sølvi, editor 643220, Aramaki, Mitsuko, editor 643221

“…The fifth section concerns auditory perception and cognition, while the three following sections are related to sound design and sonic and musical interactions. The last section contains contributions that relate to Jean-Claude Risset's research.…”

Driving Miss Norma : AN INSPIRATIONAL STORY ABOUT WHAT REALLY MATTERS AT THE END OF LIFE / by Bauerschmidt, Tim, author 655967, Liddle,Ramie, author 655968

“…But instead of confining herself to a hospital bed for what could be her last stay, Miss Norma - newly widowed after nearly seven decades of marriage - rose to her full height of five feet and told the doctor, "I'm ninety years old. …”

Another decade of photoacoustic imaging by Das, Dhiman, Sharma, Arunima, Rajendran, Praveenbalaji, Pramanik, Manojit

“…Although the photoacoustic phenomenon was known more than a century back, only in the last two decades it has been widely researched and used for biomedical imaging applications. …”
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An algorithm for a dynamically reconstituting portfolio of U.S. equity mutual funds to outperform the S&P 500 by Anthony, Fernandes Victor

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