Plateau by Png, Hui Min, Goh Timothy Wei Wen

“…Like any other person the family find it hard to concede the uprising situation. …”
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Echoes From the Stone Reframing Preservation in Syria Through Haurani Folklore by Alrifai, Hajar

“…Partially buried in the landscape of Hauran in southern Syria, my family’s 1500-year-old house, Alali—formerly a Byzantine church—further erodes with each passing year. …”
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Social support and subjective well-being among undergraduate students in School of Health Sciences Universiti Sains Malaysia by Arifin, Nur Shahidah

“…Majority of students have high level of social support 184 (%55.3), 140 (42%) recorded moderate social support meanwhile only 9 (2.7%) recorded low social support. The mean value for subjective well-being is (mean= 4.67, SD= 1.478). …”
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Archaeal proline dehydrogenase from Pyrobaculum aerophilum : sequence comparison. by Kik, Shian Chi.

“…U-96 and L-proline dehydrogenase from Pyrococcus horikoshii with root mean square deviation of 2.043 and 1.983 respectively. …”
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Unbiased metabolomics of volatile secondary metabolites in essential oils originated from Myrtaceae species by Manickavasagam, Ganapaty, San, Priscilla Wong Chie, Gorji, Sara Ghorbani, Sungthong, Bunleu, Yong, Yoke Keong, Fitzgerald, Melissa, Dewi, Firli Rahmah Primula, Lim, Vuanghao

“…In summary, despite belonging to the same Myrtaceae family, these oils can be well discriminated based on their respective species.…”
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Speech enhancement using auditory-based spectral amplitude estimators by Sekar Sathiya Narayanan.

“…In this project, a new family of Bayesian estimators has been proposed such that its cost function includes both a power law and a weighting factor. …”
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The present state of PST/PTB reconstruction: can we even write a fable in Proto-Lolo-Burmese? by Matisoff, James A.

“…How much can we really recover from the past history of languages? What do we mean when we claim to have "reconstructed a proto-language"? …”
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Topography of social touching depends on emotional bonds between humans by Suvilehto, JT, Glerean, E, Dunbar, RIM, Hari, R, Nummenmaa, L

“…Close acquaintances and family members were touched for more reasons than less familiar individuals. …”

Intersection between individual, household, environmental and system level factors in defining risk and resilience for children in Kenya’s ASAL: A qualitative study by Chongwo, EJ, Aoko, B, Kaniala, M, Esala, M, Magoma, P, Njoroge, E, Nyamanya, S, Marangu, J, Khamis, A, Ng’asike, J, Huizink, AC, Abubakar, A

“…Thematic approach was used to analyze the data, using NVIVO software. Results: The mean age of the participants was 44years (SD = 11 years). …”

GRAViTy-V2: a grounded viral taxonomy application by Mayne, R, Aiewsakun, P, Turner, D, Adriaenssens, E, Simmonds, P

“…Analysis times ranged from 1-506 min (median 3.59) on datasets with 17-1004 genomes and mean genome length of 3000–1 000 000 bases.…”

Healthcare alarm system by Ng, Xue Ting

“…With this rapidly aging population in Singapore, it also means that the number of elderly who are suffering from diseases will increase tremendously. …”
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Structural elucidation of estrus urinary lipocalin protein (EULP) and evaluating binding affinity with pheromones using molecular docking and fluorescence study by Rajesh, Durairaj, Muthukumar, Subramanian, Saibaba, Ganesan, Siva, Durairaj, Akbarsha, Mohammad Abdulkader, Gulyás, Balázs, Padmanabhan, Parasuraman, Archunan, Govindaraju

“…Members of lipocalin family (MLF) proteins have three structurally conserved motifs for delivery of hydrophobic molecules to the specific recognizer. …”
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Socio-demographic characteristics and clinical profile of suicide attempters attending the Emergency Department at a Tertiary Care Hospital in Oman: a retrospective study by Al Khatri, Mahmood, Al Huseini, Salim, Almaqbali, Mandhar, Cucchi, Angie, Al-Saadi, Alkhatib, Al Farsi, Abdulmunim, Jose, Sachin, Al-Sibani, Nasser, Al-Adawi, Samir

“…Result: 83.1% were Omanis and women constituted 69.5% of the sample with a mean age of 27 years. 40.9% of the sample had a history of psychiatric disorders. 30% were students, and 42% were unemployed. …”
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Biomarkers and cognition study, Singapore (BIOCIS): protocol, study design, and preliminary findings by Leow, Yi Jin, Wang, J. D. J., Vipin, Ashwati, Sandhu, Gurveen Kaur, Soo, See Ann, Kumar, Dilip, Mohammed, Adnan Azam, Zailan, Fatin Zahra, Lee, Faith Phemie Hui En, Ghildiyal, Smriti, Liew, Shan Yao, Dang, Chao, Tanoto, Pricilia, Tan, Isabelle Yu Zhen, Chong, Wayne Freeman Weien, Kandiah, Nagaendran

“…Results: Since commencement of recruitment in February 2022, 1148 participants have been enrolled, comprising 1012 Chinese, 62 Indian, and 35 Malay individuals. Mean age and education is 61.32 years and 14.34 years respectively with 39.8% males. 47.9 % of the cohort are employed and 32.06% have a family history of dementia. …”
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Youth's desistance from crime : lived experience of youths serving the probation order by Fook, Xing Hui

“…While the self has experienced the most significant change, changes within the family and peer group occurred less frequently among the 12 youths. …”
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Host susceptibility to Lernaea cyprinacea L. and its treatment in a large aquarium system by Shariff, M., Kabata, Z., Sommerville, Christina

“…Approximately 17% carried a mean of less than 10 parasites and 22% carried a mean of more than 10 parasites. …”

Paddling to the dyadic rhythm in post-stroke recovery: coping mechanisms among survivor-caregiver dyads in Singapore by Chan, Luo Ming

“…Methods: The present qualitative research adopted the social constructivist paradigm and a phenomenological approach. Meaning-oriented interviews were conducted at two time points, [T1] as baseline and [T2] three-month follow-up. …”
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Navigating an invisible labyrinth: the effect of involuntary bogus self-employment on female Greek-Cypriot educators’ job satisfaction and subjective well-being by Meletiadou, Eleni

“…Drawing on the work and family conflict theory, this study reports that female educators still resort to bogus self-employment as the only means to support their families. …”
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Resource allocation and performance analysis of multi-rate WiFi network by Neo, Jun Wei

“…In this report, detailed information of the IEEE 802.11 family will be discussed first, followed by the means of building and running a simulation program. …”
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Shinmi (親身): a distinctive Japanese medical virtue? by Ozeki-Hayashi, R, Wilkinson, D

“…In this paper, drawing a case study, we introduce the concept of Shinmi, used in Japan to describe a desirable approach to medical care. Shinmi means kind or cordial in Japanese. In the medical context, it refers to doctors treating patients with a degree of emotional closeness as if they were the doctors’ own family. …”