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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Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and a supertyphoon: A quantitative study in Cebu, Philippines by Ylade, M, Adhikari, B, Crisostomo, MV, Daag, JV, Cuachin, AM, Lopez, MH, Macasero, A, Agrupis, KA, Deen, J

“…Pandemics and natural disasters are recognized to cause major disruptions. The main objective of this study was to explore the impacts of COVID-19 and supertyphoon Odette in Cebu, Philippines. …”

Loneliness, self-efficacy, academic achievement, life satisfaction and depression among Iranian undergraduates at a Malaysian Private University by Molooki, Mahshid

“…The main objective of this study is to investigate the relationship between personal background, family background, loneliness, self-efficacy, academic achievement, life satisfaction and depression among Iranian undergraduates in Malaysia. …”
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Bibliometric insights into crisis management: A review of key literature by Almazyad, Tareq, Zakuan, Norhayati, Alrubaiee, Laith, Butt, Shamaila, Ashaari, Azmirul, Esmaeel, Raghed Ibrahim

“…The study used bibliometric indicators to analyze the publications and conducted co-authorship and co-occurrence analyses to identify the main research strengths and topics in crisis management. …”
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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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Sampling from convex sets with a cold start using multiscale decompositions by Narayanan, Hariharan, Rajaraman, Amit, Srivastava, Piyush

“…In this paper, we construct a family of Markov chains inspired by classical multiscale decompositions of subsets of R n into countably many axis-aligned cubes. …”
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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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Molecular detection, risk factor and public awareness of avian bornavirus from captive and non-captive birds in Peninsular Malaysia by Mohd Lutpi, Syamsiah

“…This disease is caused by avian bornavirus (ABV) which belongs to the family of Bornaviridae. ABV has been identified in psittacine and non-psittacine birds as well as waterfowls. …”
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Living wishes : a communication campaign encouraging Singapore residents aged 35 to 59 to initiate Advance Care Planning discussions with their elderly parents by Chong, Charlotte Wen Wei, Gouw, Emily Shu Hui, Lee, Phyllis Zhi Ning, Tan, Raelynn Zhi Xuan

“…The campaign was split into two main phases: it first focused on raising awareness and understanding of ACP among the TA. …”
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Relationship between personality traits, parental attachment, locus of control and acculturation with psychological well-being of Iranian adolescents in Malaysia by Mobarakeh, Mohammad Reza Vakili

“…However, very limited research has focused on the basic role of personality traits, parental attachment, locus of control and acculturation on psychological wellbeing particularly among the Iranian adolescents who live in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Therefore, the main aims of this study were to examine whether personality traits, parental attachment, and locus of control simultaneously predict adolescent psychological well-being. …”
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Enhanced Approach of Decision Making in Determining Contemporary Critical Preferential Factors and Location Decisions for Residential Project using MCDM Technique (S/O 13903) by Lamsali, Hendrik, Mad Lazim, Halim, Abdul Rahim, Mohd Kamarul Irwan, Osman, Wan Nadzri, Salleh, Mohamed Najib

“…The findings show that the most prioritized main criteria are financial factor followed by location and socio¬ cultural. …”
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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. …”

理学“内外观”的形成与体现及其对宋代女性的影响 = The formation and manifestation of the Confucian concept of "inner and outer" and its impact on women in the Song Dynasty... by 董琦 Dong, Qi

“…By observing family laws and epitaphs of women, we can outline the ideal norms of sexual behavior prescribed by Song scholars. …”
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Visual analytics Usiug artificial intelligence (image recognition for fauna species in Singapore : front-end development) by Goh, Jin Wei

“…This project is a full-stack mobile application development project, and it is divided into three stages, which are deep-learning model development, back-end development, and front-end development. The main objective of the project is to identify and classify fauna species in Singapore by performing fine-grained image classification on a mobile phone. …”
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Partially collaborative storage codes for distributed storage systems by Liu, Shiqiu

“…This setting has been generalized independently in [4, 5] to allow the simultaneous repair of several nodes failures thanks to node collaboration during the repair process, resulting in a better trade-off in terms of repair communication cost versus storage overhead than in the case of one failure repair at a time. The main contribution of this thesis is to introduce a family of storage codes that generalizes the framework of collaborative repairs, which subsumes the previously known constructions with either no collaboration (one failure at a time) or full collaboration (several failures at a time, involving all repair nodes in the collaboration as proposed in [4,5]). …”
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Android tablet game development for dementia patient - Games by Tong, Chee Tian

“…The games developed in this project will be added into the current PEAR system. There are 6 main categories of game in PEAR system; Speed, Memory, Attention, Flexibility, Problem Solving and Mind-eye Coordination. …”
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Gender equality or employment promotion? The politicization of parental leave policy in Finland by Nygard, Mikael, Nyby, Josefine, Kuisma, Mikko

“…The road towards this reform was not entirely uncontroversial, and one stumble stone was different interpretations of the meaning of gender equality. This article contributes to the literature by analysing how seven political parties in Finland politicized the idea of gender equality and leave quotas during the 2010s. …”
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